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| Landscape With Invisible Hand by M.T. AndersonScience Fiction. The alien vuuv arrived with promises of peace and technological progress, but they wound up destroying Earth's economy, turning life into a hopeless grind for everyone but the ultra-rich. Now, teen artist Adam dreams of buying the vuvv's advanced medicine to treat his chronic illness, but his family can barely afford food. Desperate for cash, Adam and his girlfriend Chloe begin filming their wholesome, 1950s-style dates for the vuuv, who are obsessed with "classic" Earth culture. It's a profitable ploy, but can it survive the bitter collapse of Adam and Chloe's relationship? Sophisticated science fiction readers will relish this "elegant, biting, and hilarious social satire" (Booklist). |
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| Genuine Fraud by E. LockhartSuspense. When you first meet Jule West Williams, she's hiding out at a fancy Mexican resort after the suicide of her best friend, runaway heiress Imogen Sokoloff. You'll sense right away that there's significant history to this friendship…and also that Jule's account of it might not be reliable. As the book moves backwards through Jule's recent past, a portrait of a complex anti-heroine -- skilled at disguise, fiercely ambitious, definitely violent, and possibly deadly -- gradually comes into focus. Fans of the author's twisty We Were Liars will appreciate this equally suspenseful story of privilege, identity, and deception. |
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Release
by Patrick Ness
Struggling with his family's religious beliefs, an employer's ultimatum and his unrequited love for his ex, Adam struggles to move on with a best friend and a new relationship while trying to find the courage to stay true to himself. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Rest of Us Just Live Here and A Monster Calls.
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| They Both Die at the End by Adam SilveraScience Fiction. The countdown begins when you get a call from the Death-Cast service: you'll die within 24 hours. After Rufus and Mateo get their calls, they connect through the Last Friend app and decide to spend their final day together. Neither knows how he'll die, but neither wants to be alone -- and neither expects their last-minute friendship to grow into a genuine (if doomed) romance. If you loved the diverse characters, alternating voices, and single-day timeframe of Nicola Yoon's The Sun is Also a Star, you'll be riveted by this bittersweet, speculative story. |
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Spinning
by Tillie Walden
A graphic memoir recounts the years Walden spent competitively figure skating, before her developing love of art and first girlfriend causes her to question the insular world of figure skating
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Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Melinda Sordino finds herself an outcast at her high school for calling the cops on an end of summer party, and, although she finds comfort in her art class, she still holds a terrible secret. Jr Lib Guild. An ALA Quick Pick and Best Book for Young Adults.
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Th1rteen r3asons why : a novel
by Jay Asher
When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
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This song will save your life
by Leila Sales
Preparing to resign herself to life as a misfit after her latest attempt at popularity fails, a dangerously depressed Elise Dembowski is unexpectedly accepted into a group of musical friends who help her find her voice and a sense of purpose. By the author of Mostly Good Girls.
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A monster calls : a novel
by Patrick Ness
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill, but an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
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Eleanor & Park
by Rainbow Rowell
"Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try"
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