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October 25, 2024 · In: 18th

Woodward, Marie – Light in the Darkness

Father had promised to return in the spring… In the wake of tragedy, Jane and her little sister find themselves abandoned to the mercy of strangers on the vast, unforgiving…

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October 25, 2024 · In: 18th

Seethaler, Deborah – Tatum’s Story: Illegal Mess

After finally deciding to move on from her heartbreak from Baze, Tatum Mitchell was ready to move on with a new man. But after he whispers the three words she…

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October 25, 2024 · In: 18th

Vickers, E. B. – Where There’s Smoke

In this fast-paced thriller, eighteen-year-old Calli finds herself alone after the loss of her father—until a bruised and broken girl shows up on her property, forcing her to face the…

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October 24, 2024 · In: 18th

Larsen, Gina Lynn – Fun Fact: I Love You

In this friends-to-lovers romance, high school senior Nellie has her future all planned out—except for a disastrous first kiss, a hurtful prank, and the unexpected twist of falling in love…

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October 24, 2024 · In: 18th

Eves, Rosalyn – An Unlikely Proposition

Eleanor did not come to London to be proper and boring. After the death of her husband and a year of mourning, the seventeen-year-old wants nothing more than her independence and…

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October 24, 2024 · In: 18th

Hendricks, T. Scott – After the Manner of Happiness

The sun stops shining for A.J. Strickland the day his wife dies. It still comes up in the east and sets in the west, but his overcast heart never notices….

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October 11, 2024 · In: 18th

Bronley, T. J. – Which One of Us

Logan Ericsson hasn’t been himself since Shane Bartlett’s tragic accident. Between finding a note listing him and his friends as murder suspects and learning the police are investigating Shane’s death,…

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September 16, 2024 · In: 18th

Daley, Tracy – Cut Scenes and Impossible Things

Mama Mia meets Love and Gelato where a girl travels to Wales with a mom who doesn’t remember her while navigating old family drama, a budding romance with a boy she lied to,…

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September 4, 2024 · In: 18th

Carroll, Stacy Lynn – The Year I Was Almost Prom Queen

No one ever notices Emma, and that’s just the way she likes it. So when she gets nominated as Prom Queen, she thinks it must be someone’s idea of a…

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September 4, 2024 · In: 18th

Jakes, Annie – Blue Streetlights

Nineteen-year-old punk-rock drummer Fallon Rivera lives every day like it’s her last. Life is a blur of parties, loud music, and cheap alcohol until her parents cut her off. If…

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July 15, 2024 · In: 18th

Cox, Emily & Allen, Nicole – The Other Side of Together

Marcus and Mei Li can never be together… Marcus is the dream boy with an enviable future. Mei Li is the secretive girl with a dark destiny. All they hold…

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January 22, 2024 · In: 17th

Wright, Julie – Swimming in a Sea of Stars

A single kindness can save a life. Journal entry: Heading to school. I know what everyone will say. There goes the girl who tried to kill herself. Addison is no…

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November 8, 2023 · In: 17th

Jepson, Theric – Just Julie’s Fine

Meet Julie: To know her is to love her. The only bad things to have happened to her are too many good things. When she walks down the street, birds…

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October 25, 2023 · In: 17th

Cluff, Sara Jo – Veronica’s Bombastic Scheme

Veronica is fierce. Until her fierceness is stripped from her. Her dad-who-left-them-for-a-young-intern is renewing his vows with her mom. She doesn’t trust that he won’t leave them all over again, leaving…

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October 15, 2023 · In: 17th

Leavitt, Martine – Buffalo Flats

Seventeen-year-old Rebecca Leavitt has traveled by covered wagon from Utah to the Northwest Territories of Canada, where her father and brothers are now homesteading and establishing a new community with…

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October 10, 2023 · In: 17th

Garrett, Jared – Carry Your Heart*

Will Their Journey Bring Them Together?Mary and Josh are reunited as friends after her exchange to Japan. The year-long trip gave them both an opportunity to start healing from their…

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October 10, 2023 · In: 17th

Garrett, Jared – Worlds Apart

Maybe Escape Wasn’t Enough Josh and Mary have escaped from the cult and are discovering just how big the real world is. Josh is working and spending as much time…

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October 3, 2023 · In: 17th

Mickelson, Marcia – The Weight of Everything

It’s been six months since Sarah’s mom died. Three months since her dad fell apart. Sarah has left her fine arts boarding school to take care of her dad and…

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September 25, 2023 · In: 17th

Rigby, Randi – Derailed

She’s sworn off boys.He doesn’t have time for a girlfriend.The last thing they want is each other.DERAILED Halston Greene’s crushes are legendary. Epic. But once she’s made them hers—in a…

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August 17, 2023 · In: 17th

Richards, Teresa – Flippin’ Skaters

They say it’s best to be yourself. Debatable. Sixteen-year-old Aspen’s unruly red hair is the only thing wild about her, and she’s regularly overshadowed by both her roller-derby-star sister, and…

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August 16, 2023 · In: 17th

Matthews, Julie K. – Anna’s MVP

Making the varsity basketball team and being cool enough at school were Jake Steed’s only worries. All the guys talked about the draft, but the way he saw it, if…

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August 16, 2023 · In: 17th

Bateman, Rachel – Make the Fireflies Dance

Quincy Walker is a hopeless romantic, so when she’s kissed by a stranger in a dark theater, her rom-com obsessed imagination begins plotting the perfect movie-version ending to her senior…

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August 3, 2023 · In: 17th

Frost, K.M. – No Matter What

Mason’s life is far from perfect, but it turns out it can get worse. When his mom ends up in prison, he’s shipped off to the middle of nowhere. Apparently…

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July 27, 2023 · In: 17th

Daley, Tracy – The Wrong Side of the Setting Sun

Paige Stevenson is a survivor, caring for her sister since she was seven years old, blaming herself for her mother’s addictions. But all of her survival skills will be tested…

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July 12, 2023 · In: 17th

Eves, Rosalyn – An Improbable Season

When Thalia, Kalliope, and Charis set off to Regency London for their first Season, they each have clear goals―few of which include matrimony. Thalia means to make her mark among…

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June 18, 2023 · In: 17th

Cooper, Cori – Sage Advice

Pyper Lewis has all the answers to all the questions, just ask anyone. She knows exactly how to make this the most amazing senior year of all time for herself,…

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November 10, 2022 · In: 16th

James, Jenni – The Shattered Slipper

Could you walk a mile in Brooke’s shoes? High school senior Brooke Whitman has one goal–stay low and blend in until graduation. That’s it. If anyone knew what her home…

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November 1, 2022 · In: 16th

Oram, Kelly – The Starburst Effect

Lily Rosemont lives next door to the biggest jerk in high school. Noah Trask has bullied Lily for years, and now he’s ruined her senior year by making her a…

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October 27, 2022 · In: 16th

Ho, Joanna – The Silence That Binds Us

Maybelline Chen isn’t the Chinese Taiwanese American daughter her mother expects her to be. May prefers hoodies over dresses and wants to become a writer. When asked, her mom can’t…

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October 21, 2022 · In: 16th

Woodward, Marie – Between Here and Zion

The road to adulthood is as rocky as the trail heading west. Asenath Wilcox was only a baby when her family was expelled from Nauvoo by vicious mobs. Now she…

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October 12, 2022 · In: 16th

Moncur, Misty – The Way Across

Noel is skilled at shopping in the Antionum grand alley on market day. She knows where to find the prettiest dresses, the jingliest bangle bracelets, and the richest pigments to…

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October 3, 2022 · In: 16th

Varnell, Rebecca – Wendy’s Pirates

In 1817, Wendy Darling returns from London to her family in Devon, where she meets Captain James Hooke, a dashing naval officer who both infuriates and intrigues her. But Wendy…

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October 3, 2022 · In: 16th

Jean, Piper – Falling for Korea

America meets K-drama in this rollercoaster plot with a fresh take on romance and what it means to be family.When Sydney is sent to Seoul to live with a family…

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September 18, 2022 · In: 16th

Cluff, Sara Jo – Taylor’s Outrageous Vow

Taylor wants revenge.Not a new boyfriend. When Taylor gets dumped right after a magical prom, she enrolls her best friends, Daphne and Veronica, to create a Vow of Vengeance, a…

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September 18, 2022 · In: 16th

Adair, Nicole – Voted Most Likely

Josephine hates Aiden. Almost as much as she hates her horribly plumed marching band hat (and that’s saying something). But just as she must wear the hat, she must also…

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August 22, 2022 · In: 16th

Inouye Huey, Emily – Beneath the Wide Silk Sky

Sam Sakamoto doesn’t have space in her life for dreams. With the recent death of her mother, Sam’s focus is the farm, which her family will lose if they can’t…

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July 20, 2022 · In: 16th

Eaton, Pam – They Didn’t Know

How long can you pretend to be okay? And when do you start fighting for yourself?Over a year ago the life Victoria (Tori) Adams had vanished. The cheerleader, the happy…

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July 20, 2022 · In: 16th

Jakes, Annie – Chasing California

High school senior Drew Cox gave up on his parents long ago. With a mom who only wants him for the paycheck he brings home and a dad who abandoned…

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Book cover, sticky notes with the text "the words we keep"

July 14, 2022 · In: 16th

Stewart, Erin – The Words We Keep

It’s been three months since The Night on the Bathroom Floor–when Lily found her older sister Alice hurting herself. Ever since then, Lily has been desperately trying to keep things…

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