April 2024 list by K. Pearson
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An Unlikely Proposition
by Rosalyn Eves
Seventeen-year-old widow Eleanor devises a plan to survive the Season and keep her fortune intact, while Thalia, after a disastrous first season, struggles to be taken seriously as a female writer but instead finds herself smitten with a man from her past.
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Breathing Underwater
by Abbey Lee Nash
Competitive swimmer Tess Cooper grapples with the upheaval of her carefully planned future following an epilepsy diagnosis, and works to get back in the pool despite her doctor's advice or her distracting feelings for the new guy.
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Cancelled
by Farrah Penn
High school senior Brynn Whittaker faces a school-wide scandal when a viral video wrongly implicates her, prompting her and her friends to confront the school's misogynistic culture, while Brynn grapples with the decision to expose the true culprit.
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Clever Creatures of the Night
by Samantha Mabry
When Case arrives at her best friend Drea's isolated West Texas home and finds her missing, she embarks on a search for clues about Drea's disappearance while facing the unsettling, cult-like and possibly murderous behavior of Drea's roommates.
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Hamlet Is Not Ok
by R. A. Spratt
Selby hates homework. She would rather watch TV--anything to escape the tedium of school, her parents' bookshop and small-town busybodies. So Selby didn't plan to read Hamlet. She certainly never planned to meet him. This novel transports Selby, and the reader, into the cold and crime-ridden play itself. Here she meets Hamlet--heavy with grief, the young prince is overthinking and over everything. Selby can relate. But unlike Hamlet, Selby isn't afraid of making decisions.
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Gut Reaction
by Kirby Larson
Starting a new school after the loss of her father, Tess Medina assembles a ragtag team to taste-test her baked goods in preparation for a junior baking competition but is forced to confront everything she's been desperately trying to hide.
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The Hedgewitch of Foxhall
by Anna Bright
In need of power beyond her wildest dreams to get back what she's lost, hedgewitch Ffion agrees to help Prince Taliesin while secretly striking a bargain with his brother Dafydd, and soon the fate of Wales depends on their quest and so might the fate of her heart.
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In the Orbit of You
by Ashley Schumacher
When a school-wide personality test reunites Nova with Sam and reveals they are each other's top matches. They begin to remember why they were such close friends all those years before and why a romantic relationship between them would never work out, or so they think.
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Infinity Kings
by Adam Silvera
This electrifying conclusion to the Infinity Cycle finds Emil, the Infinity Son, and Brighton, the Infinity Reaper, facing off in an epic battle that threatens to destroy them both and everyone they love.
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Kyra, Just For Today
by Sara Zarr
At the start of seventh grade, Kyra believes her alcoholic mother, who has been sober for five years, has relapsed and with no one to count on, not even her best friend, she starts to question whether being just enough is not enough at all.
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The Lightning Circle
by Vikki Van Sickle
After having her heart broken, seventeen-year-old Nora Nichols decides to escape her hometown and take a summer job as an arts and crafts counsellor at an all-girls' camp in the mountains of West Virginia. There, she meets girls and women from all walks of life with their own heartaches and triumphs. Immersed in this new camp experience, trying to form bonds with her fellow counselors while learning to be a trusted adviser for her campers, Nora distracts herself from her feelings, even during the intimate conversations around the nightly campfires. But when a letter from home comes bearing unexpected news, Nora finds inner strength in her devastation with the healing power of female friendship.
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Listen to This
by Jennifer Blecher
When her two best friends make the elite soccer team and she doesn't, Lily feels left behind until she forms an unexpected brand-new friendship with Will amidst secrets, rumors, shifting loyalties, overbearing parents and the emotional rollercoaster of being a tween.
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The Misdirection of Fault Lines
by Anna Gracia
During one week at the elite Bastille Invitational tennis tournament, three teen girl: Alice, on her own for the first time, Violetta, a social medial influencer and coach's pet; and Leylah, ready for a life of professional tennis, compete for a shot at their dreams.
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The Other Lola
by Ripley Jones
In this thrilling sequel to Missing Clarissa, Cam and Blair, who are still struggling with the aftermath of their first mystery, agree to help high school freshman Mattie prove the girl claiming to be her sister Lola, who mysteriously disappeared five years ago, is an imposter.
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Otherworldly
by F. T. Lukens
When she comes to the rescue of Knox, who needs to make a deal with a human who can tether him to this realm, natural-born skeptic Ellery strikes a bargain to help her family, but the growing connection between them might just change everything.
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The Revenant Games
by Margie Fuston
Competing in the Revenant Games, held by the warring vampire and witch kingdoms, to get her dead sister back and save her dying best friend, 17-year-old Bly must make an impossible choice when the vampire she captures stirs a passion within her she hasn't felt in ages.
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Royal Scandal
by Aimâee Carter
When an attempt is made on her life, Evan Bright, Britain's favorite media villain who has been exposed as the King's illegitimate daughter, must uncover a murderer inside the palace walls who won't stop until she's dead.
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Sister Sabotage
by Colleen Oakes
Drawn together by their love of reading, their hatred of after-school activities and the fact they're clearly their parents' second-favorite children, Santana and Casey work together to become their parents' favorite children by undermining their love-hoarding siblings.
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The Summer She Went Missing
by Chelsea Ichaso
One year after her best friend, Audrey, went missing, Paige enters a world far darker than she ever could've imagined to find the truth after discovering a burner phone hidden in Audrey's old room that links her disappearance to that of another girl.
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Under This Red Rock
by Mindy McGinnis
After her brother's suicide, Neely works as a tour guide in the caverns where she meets beautiful, strong, confident Mila, but when a drug-fueled midnight staff party results in Mila's brutal murder, Neely must figure out who killed her, and face the possibility it might've been her.
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Walkin' the Dog
by Chris Lynch
After years of homeschooling, laid-back Louis hopes he can stay under the radar when he starts regular high school in the fall, but when a favor for a neighbor and his stinky canine companion unexpectedly turns into a bustling dog-walking business, Louis finds himself meeting an unprecedented number of new friends?—?both human and canine.
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The Wrong Way Home
by Kate O'Shaughnessy
When her mom sneaks them away from the Ranch, saying its leader is dangerous, Fern refuses to believe it and devises a plan to return to the off-the-grid, sustainable community in upstate N.Y. until she makes a discovery that causes her to question everything.
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Your Blood, My Bones
by Kelly Andrew
Wyatt Westlock has one plan for the farmhouse she's just inherited -- to burn it to the ground. But during her final walkthrough of her childhood home, she makes a shocking discovery in the basement -- Peter, the boy she once considered her best friend, strung up in chains and left for dead.
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