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The passion of Dolssa : a novel
by Julie Berry
Rescuing a mystic healer who is being violently pursued by a rogue monk in 13th-century Provensa, scrappy matchmaker Botille is challenged to protect the entire village against the monk's crusade to burn heretics. By the award-winning author of All the Truth That's in Me. Simultaneous eBook.
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Midnight without a moon
by Linda Williams Jackson
Living with her sharecropper grandparents on a white man's mid-20th-century cotton plantation, Rose Lee Carter joins local resistance activities in the wake of a black youth's murder by a white mob that has been unjustly acquitted. Simultaneous eBook. 15,000 first printing.
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Burn baby burn
by Meg Medina
Enduring the infamous New York summer of 1977 in the wake of arson fires, a massive blackout and the Son of Sam serial killings, 17-year-old Nora Lopez navigates the additional stresses of her family's limited finances, her father's absence and her brother's growing violence. By the award-winning author of Tía Isa Wants a Car.
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The beauty queen of Jerusalem
by Sarit Yishai-Levi
A sweeping novel—set against the Golden Age of Hollywood, the dark days of World War II and the swingin' 70s—follows generations of unforgettable women in Jerusalem as they forge their own paths through times of dramatic change.
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Almost autumn
by Marianne Kaurin
In 1942 Oslo, Norway, 15-year-old Ilse Stern is waiting to meet boy-next-door Hermann Rod for their first date, but unbeknownst to her, Hermann is working in the Resistance, helping Norwegian Jews flee the country to escape the Nazis, and as life becomes even more difficult, particularly for Jewish families like the Sterns, the choices made—to speak up or to look away, to stay or to flee—become more important by the hour. Simultaneous eBook.
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Loving vs. Virginia : a documentary novel of the landmark civil rights case
by Patricia Hruby Powell
A tale inspired by the landmark 1955 civil rights case follows the relationship between two young people who challenged period segregation, prejudice and injustice to pursue a relationship at the center of a Supreme Court case that legalized interracial marriage. By the award-winning author of Josephine. Simultaneous eBook.
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We are the ants
by Shaun David Hutchinson
Abducted by aliens periodically throughout his youth, Henry is informed by his erstwhile captors that they will end the world in 144 days unless he stops them by deciding that humanity is worth saving. By the author of The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley. Simultaneous eBook.
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Scythe
by Neal Shusterman
Forced to become trained killers in a disease-free world where people can only die if eliminated by professional assassins, teens Citra and Rowan reluctantly train under a master reaper who informs them that the one who successfully kills the other will become his apprentice. By the best-selling author of the Unwind dystology. Simultaneous eBook.
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Stars above : a lunar chronicles collection
by Marissa Meyer
An anthology of nine Lunar Chronicles stories features five that have never before been published and includes the stories of Cinder's arrival in New Beijing and Wolf's transformation into a killer, in a volume that is complemented by an excerpt from Meyer's new novel, Heartless. Simultaneous eBook.
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Saving Hamlet
by Molly Booth
Excitedly embarking on her sophomore year and her assistant stage manager duties for the drama club's production of Hamlet, Emma endures social drama before being transported back to the year 1601, where she is mistaken for a boy and put to work by the bard himself. 35,000 first printing.
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Vassa in the night
by Sarah Porter
Inspired by the Russian folktale classic "Vassilissa the Beautiful," a modern fairy tale finds a girl from a working-class section of a magical Brooklyn tapping the powers of her dead mother's protective doll to defend against the evil of a murderous owner of a local convenience store. Simultaneous eBook.
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