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Girls on the Line

by Mya Alexice

Jennie Liu’s "Girls on the Line" is a gut-wrenching story of sisterhood and perseverance. Early 2000s China, in the throes of family planning policies and massive industrialization, isn’t kind to orphaned girls like Luli and Yun, who... Read More

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What Momma Left Me

by Mya Alexice

A coming-of-age story inundated with grief, trauma, and uncertainty, Renée Watson’s "What Momma Left Me" is a heartbreaking and intense young adult novel. Thirteen-year-old Serenity finds herself in emotional turmoil as she tries to... Read More

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The Last 8

by Tia Smith

"The Last 8" is diverse and immersive science fiction. Clover Martinez may be a teenager, but she’s built like a soldier. Trained to fly by her air force grandfather, she’s the perfect candidate for surviving the apocalypse: clever,... Read More

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Roam

by Catherine Thureson

C.H. Armstrong’s compelling young adult novel "Roam" follows a homeless teenager as she and her family struggle to make a fresh start in a new town. Abby is hurt and angry. Her family has been forced out of their home in Nebraska.... Read More

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The Truth About Leaving

by Karen Rigby

In Natalie Blitt’s romance, "The Truth About Leaving", high school senior Lucy Green discovers that things seldom go as planned. Fresh on the heels of a breakup, Lucy meets Dov Meiri, a new Israeli student whose future as a conscript... Read More

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The Old You

by Angela McQuay

A woman with a hidden past finds out her husband’s secrets are much more sinister than her own in Louise Voss’s twisting thriller "The Old You". Lynn Waites hasn’t always been Lynn Waites. At one time, she was an undercover... Read More

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Thorn

by Letitia Montgomery-Rodgers

It is said that “the Huntress rides out when the sun is at its farthest and Winter has her jaws buried deep in the heart of the warm, green world,” but Rowan is skeptical about this—and everything else about village life. Her... Read More

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