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Forever YA May & June 2021 |
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Adult Books for Young Adult Readers
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Circe
by Madeline Miller
A highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning The Song of Achilles follows the banished witch daughter of Titans as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals.
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong
A letter from a son to a mother who cannot read reveals the impact of the Vietnam War on their family history and provides a view into parts of the son's life that his mother has never known.
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The Female Persuasion
by Meg Wolitzer
A shy college freshman finds her perspectives transformed by a mentor activist at the center of the women's movement who challenges her to discover herself in ways that take her far from the traditional life she envisioned at the side of her boyfriend.
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Sea Prayer
by Khaled Hosseini
The #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Kite Runner presents an evocatively illustrated tribute to the tragic human realities of today's refugee crisis in the form of a father's letter to his young son on the eve of a dangerous journey.
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An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
by Hank Green
The first to document the appearance of the Carls, giant robot-like statues popping up around the world, April May finds herself at the center of an intense international media spotlight that puts her relationships, identity and safety at risk
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The Girl With the Louding Voice
by Abi Daré
Adunni, a 14-year-old Nigerian girl who longs for an education, must find a way for her voice to be heard loud and clear in a world where she and other girls like her are taught to believe, through words and deeds, that they are nothing.
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The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
by Thi Bui
The author describes her experiences as a young Vietnamese immigrant, highlighting her family's move from their war-torn home to the United States in graphic novel format
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
by Austin Channing Brown
The author shares her experiences of growing up black, Christian, and female in white America, exploring the country's racial divide at all levels of society and how overcoming apathy and focusing on God's work in the world can heal persistent divisions.
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
by Stephen Brusatte
The "resident paleontologist" for BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs presents a narrative scientific history of the dinosaur eras that examines their origins, habitats, extinction and living legacy, chronicling nearly 200 million years of their evolution from small shadow dwellers through the emergences of prehistoric ancestors that became more than 10,000 modern bird species.
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Young Adult Books for Adult Readers: New Releases
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Firekeeper's Daughter
by Angeline Boulley
Treated like an outsider in both her hometown and on the Ojibwe reservation, a half-Native American science geek and star hockey player places her dreams on hold in the wake of a family tragedy.
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Down Comes the Night
by Allison Saft
A talented but disgraced Queen’s Guard healer becomes snowed in at the estate of a reclusive lord before discovering that her patient, a servant with a mysterious illness, is a sworn enemy of the kingdom.
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She's Too Pretty to Burn
by Wendy Heard
A provocative but uninspired photographer and her best friend, a passionate performance artist, endure a brutal summer marked by an all-consuming relationship, a fire, two murders and three suspicious drownings.
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Perfect on Paper
by S. Gonzales
Navigating a complicated love life in spite of the spot-on advice she gives her classmates, a bisexual anonymous relationship columnist is blackmailed by an attractive and popular classmate to help the latter win back his ex.
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Sing Me Forgotten
by Jessica S. Olson
A reimagining of The Phantom of the Opera finds a young woman, born with the supernatural ability to manipulate memories through song, fighting against an outside world that fears her and threatens the man she loves.
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The Bright & The Pale
by Jessica Rubinkowski
A fantasy debut inspired by Russian folklore follows the experiences of a survivor from a community under a magical deep-freeze curse who joins the Thieves Guild before leading a perilous expedition to rescue her loved ones.
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