"If you're going to live, you might as well do painful, brave, and beautiful things."
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| Seven Black Diamonds by Melissa MarrLily Abernathy has a dangerous secret, and it's not the fact that her father is a crime lord. In a world where the faerie Queen of Blood and Rage seeks to destroy humanity, it's illegal for humans to have fae heritage. But with her father's protection, half-human, half-fae Lily has stayed safely hidden. That safety is shattered, however, when Lily discovers her violent birthright: she's the last of the Black Diamonds, a fae sleeper cell designed to take down the human world from the inside out. |
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| Burn Baby Burn by Meg MedinaSummer, New York City, 1977: disco music wafts from radios, arson is on the rise, and a serial killer called Son of Sam is murdering young couples. Amidst it all is 17-year-old Nora López, trying to hold on to both her family and her hopes for the future. Though money is painfully tight and her delinquent brother's abuse is becoming more frightening, Nora's summer still has potential: high school is over. |
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| Thanks for the Trouble by Tommy WallachFive years ago, Parker Santé stopped speaking. Since then, he's also stopped caring about most things, except for skipping school and writing in his journal. One day he meets Zelda, a silver-haired girl with a stack of cash, a plan to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, and an outrageous claim that she's 246 years old. |
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All the Bright Places
by Jennifer Niven
A movie adaptation is already underway for this deeply felt book about two teens who pull each other back from the brink -- literally, since they meet on the ledge of their high school clock tower. Instead of jumping, Violet (who's grieving her sister's recent death) and Finch (who's eccentric, impulsive, and self-destructive) form a surprising yet life-changing bond. Similar to Corey Ann Haydu's OCD Love Story or John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, All the Bright Places features an unforgettable couple and breathtaking emotional suspense…but no easy answers.
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| The Serpent King by Jeff ZentnerDillard Early Jr. shares a name with his snake-handling preacher father, and with Early Sr. disgraced and in jail, Dill faces bullying and judgment in his rural Tennessee hometown. Thankfully, Dill has his friends: quirky Lydia, whose popular blog might help her get to college, and kind-hearted Travis, who uses fantasy books as an escape from his father's abuse. Graduation looms for all three high school seniors, laden with the tantalizing hope of freedom…but also the heartbreak of separation. |
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All Fall Down: An Embassy Row Novel
by Ally Carter
Everyone says her mom's death was an accident, but 16-year-old Grace knows it was murder. Even after years of being called "crazy," Grace can't forget the scarred face of the man who shot her mother. Though she's hoping to start over in Adria, the European country where her grandfather is the U.S. ambassador, Grace has trouble fitting in among the teenage sons and daughters of the international elite. And after she spots a familiar, unforgettably scarred face, Grace's thirst for revenge is anything but diplomatic.
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| Kissing in America by Margo RabbYou can blame it all on poetry and romance novels. It's from reading those (to help soothe the ache of her beloved father's death) that Eva Roth gets her ideas about love -- ideas that lead to an unchaperoned cross-country road trip. After Eva's passionate relationship with understanding Will is cut short by his sudden move from New York to California, Eva and her friend Annie Kim concoct a scheme to travel across the country for a surprise reunion. |
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17 & Gone
by Nova Ren Suma
The missing girls are all different, except for two things: they all disappeared when they were 17, and they're all haunting Lauren Woodman. Lauren isn't sure why she's seeing visions of the girls, but she feels compelled to find out what happened to them. As she spirals deeper into obsession, and her own 17th birthday approaches, Lauren can't help but wonder: what if she's next?
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Ask the Passengers
by A.S. King
Astrid Jones is stuck. Between the narrow-minded, gossipy residents of her small town and her needy, kind of messed-up family, she doesn't know what to do with all of the love she has in her heart. So Astrid lies on her back on a picnic table, staring up at the sky, and sends her love to the passengers in airplanes flying overhead. She doesn't know whether it has any effect, but she has no idea when she'll figure out how to love just one special someone, either.
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Audrey, Wait!
by Robin Benway
Audrey Cuttler had no idea that dumping her boyfriend would make her famous. But when her erstwhile beau, Evan, poured his heartbreak into a song, it catapulted his band to the big-time -- and, being that the song was written about Audrey, it dragged her along for the ride. How will she ever get a second chance at love now?
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