August 2025 list by Angie R. |
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All For the Game
by Heather Buchta
Three Texan teenagers, star football player Finn, his girlfriend Megan, and his cousin Brit, uncover dark secrets about the school's football team and must choose between protecting their futures or exposing the dangerous truths
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Avatar Legends: City of Echoes
by Judy I. Lin
Sixteen-year-old Jin, a refugee in Ba Sing Se, navigates a dangerous underworld to save her best friend Susu from a brainwashing conspiracy run by the Earth King's enforcers
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The Bestowed: Touch of the Ethril
by C. Ryan Crockett
Ace–dirt broke and hungry–has never been so out of his element as he is trying to survive in the wilderness alone. When teaming up with Isaac and Vera becomes the only option, Ace is forced to decide what he is willing to give up. Can the three learn to trust each other enough to survive as Mortagnan and his men seek their capture?
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Bound by Stars
by E.L. Starling
When Weslie Fleet wins a golden ticket aboard the Boundless, humanity’s most opulent starliner, it’s a dream―and a danger. Raised in the dust-ridden ruins of Earth, she is thrust into the gleaming luxury of Mars’s elite, where every whispered word carries weight and every glance is a silent judgment. And none watch her closer than Jupiter, the golden boy of Mars’s high society, bound by duty, legacy, and a future he never chose.
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Codebreaker
by Jay Martel
Seventeen-year-old Mia Hayes' world shatters when her mother is killed and her father disappears, leaving behind a coded message that sends her and a rebellious hacker on a high-stakes race through D.C. to uncover government secrets and stop a devastating attack.
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Immortal Consequences
by I.V. Marie
Six students at Blackwood Academy, an enigmatic boarding school located at the edge of the afterlife, must compete for the once-in-eternity chance to change their fate--or risk remaining at Blackwood forever.
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The Mysterious Virginia Hall
by Claudia Friddell
Virginia Hall was an athletic, outdoorsy girl who dreamed of joining the foreign service and becoming an ambassador. Despite numerous setbacks, including losing her leg to gangrene after an accident, Virginia never wavered in her determination to serve her country. After the outbreak of World War II, a chance meeting on a train changed her life. Virginia joined the Allied Intelligence services as one of its first women agents, where she organized French resistance fighters, performed daring rescues, and provided the Allies with intelligence that was key for ousting the Nazis.
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The Raven Boys
by Maggie Stiefvater
Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger, and when she meets Gansey, one of the Raven Boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that he has talents of his own--and that together their talents are a dangerous mix.
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Soulmatch
by Rebecca Danzenbaker
In a world where past lives determine your future, a sharp-witted girl confronts a major twist of destiny, embroiling her in a high-stakes game of danger, corruption, and heartbreak.
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A Theory of Dreaming
by Ava Reid
Return to the immersive, haunting, and lush world of the bestselling A Study in Drowning as the aftermath of their first discovery pulls Effy and Preston into a new adventure with the promise of magic, romance, and stories that might be washed away-and may be safer that way.
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Very Dangerous Things
by Lauren Muänoz
At the Dr. James Everett School of Criminology, a murder mystery game goes wrong when the student playing the victim is actually murdered, and soon, junior Dulce Castillo sets out to find the culprit.
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We Won't All Survive
by Kate Alice Marshall
Two years after being hailed a hero for saving others during a shooting, Mercy Gray joins a survivalist reality show for a cash prize, but when contestants start turning up dead, she must uncover the truth and figure out who to trust before she is next.
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