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The Same Backward as Forward
by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The two parts of this novel (one from Hannah's perspective and the other from Toby's perspective) are presented back-to-back and inverted (tãete-bãeche format).
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| Coldwire by Chloe GongThe alternative to a harrowing world of extreme weather and disease is NileCorp’s virtual reality service. Eirale and Lia, soldiers in NileCorp’s military, risk it all to expose injustice in their worlds, real and virtual. Fans of Marie Lu's Warcross and Marissa Meyer's Renegades will enjoy this action-packed cyberpunk trilogy opener.
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| A Time Traveler's History of Tomorrow by Kendall KulperAt the 1934 Chicago World’s Fair, Genevieve and Ash misuse their scientific powers and accidentally travel to 1893. If they return to their own time, will it even be the same? This inventive romp is a standalone story with companion novels Murder for the Modern Girl and A Starlet’s Secret to a Sensational Afterlife.
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| The House Saphir by Marissa MeyerArmand hires Mallory, who can talk to ghosts, to exorcise his ancestral estate. Mallory plans to swindle him out of his money, but instead she finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation, and Armand is a suspect. This creepy novel is a witty retelling of the Bluebeard myth.
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Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories
by Cynthia Leitich Smith, editor
Sandy June’s Legendary Frybread Drive-In is a food truck that appears wherever Indigenous people across North America need to meet. It provides the setting for the linked stories in this touching and magical anthology that takes readers from Hawai’i to Alaska to Manitoba and many liminal places in between.
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What Wakes the Bells
by Elle Tesch
In this gothic YA fantasy debut, when an ancient evil is awakened, a bell keeper must decide how far she's willing to go to save her sentient city--and which of her loved ones she's willing to kill to do it.
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| Salvación by Sandra ProudmanThe magical sal negra Lola’s mother uses to cure maladies draws travelers to their home, but it also attracts threats. That’s why Lola adopts the guise of Salvación, a masked vigilante protecting her people from colonizers and deadly magic. This swashbuckling tale takes inspiration from the character Zorro.
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The Last Bookstore on Earth
by Lily Braun-Arnold
Ever since acid rain storms decimated civilization, Liz has been sheltering alone in the bookstore where she used to work, occasionally trading supplies with visitors. Maeve, who needs a place to stay, shatters Liz’s solitude while also opening her to true human connection. Read-alikes: Rory Power's Wilder Girls; Joan He’s The Ones We’re Meant to Find.
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One step forward
by Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Set amid World War I, a historical fiction novel in verse follows Matilda's coming-of-age journey as she fights for suffrage and becomes the youngest American suffragist imprisoned for picketing the White House to demand women's right to vote.
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| A Language of Dragons by S.F. WilliamsonAfter accidentally fanning the flames between the government and the rebels, Vivian makes a bargain. She’ll exchange her knowledge of dragon languages for her parents’ freedom. This gripping historical fantasy, set in an alternate London in 1932, reimagines dilemmas code breakers faced during World War II.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 14 and up!
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Mary Riley Styles Public Library
120 N. Virginia Ave, Falls Church, Virginia 22046 703-248-5030 (TTY 711) www.mrspl.org
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