September 2025 list by Angie R. |
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A Beautiful and Terrible Murder
by Claire Andrews
Irene Adler is no ordinary young lady. She's at the top of the ranks in the All Souls cohort, a competitive preparatory class reserved for Oxford's brightest minds. But her peers and professors don't know she's a lady at all. To them, she is Isaac Holland. Keeping up her disguise gets trickier when All Souls students start dying, one by one. Determined to find out who's responsible for the deaths, Irene—as Isaac—teams up with fellow classmate and roommate Sherlock Holmes to track down clues.
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Broken Alliance
by Lyndsay Ely
The Skibidi Toilet invasion struck without warning. By the time humanity understood the alien threat, the enemies had already swarmed across Earth, wiping out entire cities. The brave Cameramen have led the resistance, but they're losing ground fast – even with fresh recruits joining the fight. Without a miracle, Earth's last defenders won't hold out much longer.
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Climate of Chaos
by Cassandra Newbould
In the post-apocalyptic domed city of Seattle, disabled seventeen-year-old Fox must navigate a ruthless society where healthcare is currency in search of her younger sister, Rabbit.
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DeadEndia: The Watcher's Test
by Hamish Steele
When Barney gets a job at Dead End, a theme park haunted house, he discovers it is also a portal to hell, and must battle demonic party poopers with help from his best friend Norma and his talking dog Pugsley.
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Death in the Dark
by Bryce Moore
When multiple women are found murdered in their London homes during The Blitz, seventeen-year-old Mary Churchill vows to uncover the identity of the Blackout Ripper, even if it puts her own life at risk.
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Dream On
by Jennifer Hartmann
In order to help her parents financially, small-town dreamer Stevie agrees to a fake dating arrangement with Hollywood star Lex, giving their high school romance a second chance.
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I Hope This Finds You
by Ann Liang
Academic rivals Sadie and Julius fell in love in I Hope This Doesn't Find You when Sadie's email drafts were accidentally sent out. Now, their love story continues on a two-week trip to California. Sometimes, a relationship feels so special, it's hard to believe it can work out. Featuring chapters from both Sadie's and Julius's perspective, they'll have to decide if their love—and the lives they plan to build on the other side of the world—are too good to be true.
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K-Pop Confidential
by Stephan Lee
Hiding a secret passion for singing beneath a veneer of an obedient straight-A student, Candace enters a K-pop audition on a dare before plunging headfirst into the grueling world of training and rehearsals, before a fellow trainee and a hot boy-band star challenge a strict no-dating rule.
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Mistress of Bones
by Maria Z. Medina
Nineteen-year-old Azul, a necromancer seeking to resurrect her sister, becomes entangled in a world-ending plot involving gods, a deadly emissary, and a web of secrets that could reshape the world.
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The Nefarious Nights of Willowweep Manor
by Shaenon K. Garrity
Haley is summoned back to the Willowweep pocket universe to deal with a huge crisis: another pocket universe is collapsing, and the survivors are seeking refuge in Willowweep. Haley and her friends discover that the newcomers are from a mystery-themed universe complete with a blustery colonel, a sweet old spinster, and a butler. Haley begins to suspect that one of the newcomers is trying to eradicate Willowweep. One by one, all her friends disappear, and it's up to Haley to get to the bottom of this mind-boggling mystery.
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Once Upon a Name
by Susan Stradiotto, Alex Stubblefield
In this clean YA anthology, meet a goddess, a countess, and a wannabe sorceress. Join a wolf pack leader and a guardian frog sidekick. Search for victims with a hunter-turned-detective, and swoon over the sultana who must prove she's fit to rule. Cavort with demons, wraiths, and demigods. Lose your way in the Mist, then lose your soul to the Bone Marsh. Root for a genie's freedom. Hope for a witch to get her spell right. And yes, feel your heart flutter at unexpected romance.
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The Truth About Horses
by Christy Cashman
Following her mother's sudden death, fourteen-year-old Reese and her father lose one another, as well their family horse business, and go on separate, grief-stricken paths. Reese meets a selective mute and decides to trust a force beyond explanation to run the race her mother always knew she could.
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Twentieth Century
by Terry Deary
Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Twentieth Century, including who shocked the world by showing her knickers, how two monkeys and a dog became astronauts and why a posh London restaurant served stewed cat.
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When You Return
by Isabella Ayubi
Idalia is a Thultan Sentry who is always underestimated by her peers. She strives to be seen as their equal, as a solider worthy to fight alongside them. She instead is deemed expendable by her so-called "friends" and thrust into a dangerous mission that could result in the loss of life. A mission across the Gate. Erin is the Prince of the Gate. A villainous ruler of the kingdom that everyone fears and in turn, fears him. However, what will happen when it is revealed that Erin may not be the monster everyone claims him to be? Could it be possible that two people, both misunderstood and lost in the world, could find refuge in each other?
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