May 2025 list by Angie R. |
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Captured
by Alvin Townley
Describes how Jeremiah Denton, an American aviator who was captured by enemy forces in 1965, developed a secret communication system with his fellow prisoners in a North Vietnamese POW camp to survive a long, brutal incarceration.
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Catch a Falling Star
by Kim A Culbertson
Frustrated by the disruptive production of a Hollywood film in her once-quiet California town, Carter Moon reluctantly accepts a high-paying job to pose as a disgraced former child actor's girlfriend to improve his image.
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To Catch a Pirate
by Jade Parker
When Annalisa Townsend seeks revenge on the pirates who stole her father's treasure a year before, one scallywag, James Sterling, who stole a kiss on their first meeting, threatens to now also steal her heart.
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Chaos King
by Kacen Callender
Ever since he rose up against his father and saved New Anglia from destruction, Ash has [had] nightmares every night, haunted by...his screaming dead mother. Ash is sure she's trying to warn him that the world is still in danger, and becomes determined to find a way to speak to her again. When Ash is captured by a radical group inspired by his father's legacy, he must decide if alchemist rights can be trusted in the hands of the Houses...or if [he] must follow the path his father laid for him and become the leader of an alchemist revolution.
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Fake Dating a Human 101
by Jennifer Kropf
Book Four of the High Court of the Coffee Bean series, a tale that follows a band of fairy assassins who enter the human world and try to live among them, hardly blending in at all.
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Four Weeks, Five People
by Jennifer Yu
Five teens who struggle with mental-health and social challenges bond over their respective difficulties and form unexpected connections in their efforts to prove that they are more than their problems.
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IIluminary
by Chawna Schroeder
Yosarai Patican dreams of becoming an illuminator in a country that values art above all else. A lofty goal that finally seems within reach when she earns a position at the prestigious Academy of the Seven Arts. Although Yosarai loathes to leave behind her quiet country life, she travels to the capital, determined to live up to her mother's fame as one of Indel's greatest artists.
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Murder Between Friends
by Liz Lawson
Told in three voices, Grace questions her eyewitness testimony that convicted Henry's brother in a murder trial, leaving former childhood friends Henry and Ally no choice but to join forces with her to prove Jake's innocence
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Scales of Ash & Smoke
by Emily Schneider
Seventeen-year-old Kaida, a human, has spent her entire life enslaved to the dragons who slaughtered half the human population a thousand years ago. She is forced to serve her ruthless Master, Eklos, until one deadly summer day when the Prince of Elysia saves her life.
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Watch Me
by Tahereh Mafi
Ten years since the fall of The Reestablishment, it is ready to make a devastating move, in a journey through a dystopian landscape where enemies-to-lovers has never felt more impossible.
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Wendy's Ever After
by Julie Wright
Wendy Darling embarks on a new journey where her past in Neverland collides with her future hopes for love, only to rediscover the adventure never truly ended.
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A Wizard of Earthsea
by Fred Fordham
Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth, he was the reckless Sparrowhawk, and in his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets, unleashing a terrible shadow on the world.
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