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THE ABSTINENCE ONLY BOOK CLUB
Contemporary Young Adult
In a super-conservative small town where the church is the hub of social life, Summer’s sister comes home from her first year of college pregnant. Both of them end up ostracized, but it isn’t long before they realize the high school is full of curious teens. They start a “book club” to discuss sex under their parents’ and teachers’ noses, and discover that even though no one has all the answers, they find more together. Footloose meets Sex Education in an inclusive and informative contemporary YA.
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WELCOME PLAYER
Speculative Middle Grade Fiction
As Poppy plays a game developed by her recently dead grandmother, she works through her grief, makes unlikely friendships, and discovers that her new relationships have the unexpected ability to greatly alter the state of her world.
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THE WRETCHED CHILDREN OF THE AMAL ORPHANAGE
Speculative Middle Grade Fiction
Anisah fears she may be going mad at the Amal Orphanage--she has strange thoughts and memories of things that don’t exist: horseless carriages and talking boxes. She takes refuge from the endless bowls of gruel and back-breaking work in her friend Clemira’s fables and tales of the jinn, which act as a coded guide to the gossip, secrets, and tricks of the orphanage. But even the jinn couldn’t have played a trick as cunning as the one the cruel Madaam and Doctor overseeing them have...
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THE TIMEKEEPERS
Speculative Middle Grade Fiction
Whenever Ju gets the chance to talk about Chinese history, she does. The dates of each dynasty and why they ended? Easy. The Forbidden City? She has a model of it in her room. The Age of Invention? Oh, she could go on for hours. Su Song’s astronomical clock was powered by a steady flow of water! Unfortunately, she can’t seem to find many that share her passion except for her grandma.
That is, until the day of her 11th birthday when her grandmother reveals that she’s actually a timekeeper—one of the few to choose an ancient family timepiece at their zhaozhuo and be gifted the power to travel back in time. Using this newly discovered power, Ju is able to travel back to different points in Chinese history and go on missions that help the world in small ways. And she befriends a group of fellow timekeepers fascinated with history along the way!
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TRAINWRECK ASIAN
Contemporary New Adult
Toulane is a twenty-something year old fuck-up, doing odd jobs to make her own ends meet while living off of her cousin’s couch and smoking herself halfway to oblivion. She’ll never live up to her family’s high standards of what an Asian daughter is supposed to be, so why try? After an awry night of vaping a jungle juice of bong water, Toulane wakes up to find herself able to see and communicate with ghosts! Now with this new burden ability to commune with the deceased, Toulane finds herself at the mercy of pesky spirits who insist she help them move on, in the process somehow lucking herself into a semi-lucrative source of income that’s only partially a scam. goes here
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KINDA ALWAYS KNEW I'D BE YOUR EX-GIRLFRIEND
Contemporary Young Adult
Clara and Nick have been best friends since forever, so when he ropes her into joining him at the White Isles Arts Intensive—a summer-long, luxury getaway where the most talented teen artists can hone their skills and create a masterpiece for their college portfolios—she expects it to be two months of dealing with privileged trust fund babies. And judging from her first interaction with Lila Carter, daughter of the world-renowned gallerist Patricia Carter, she expects it to be just that. But then Nick falls in love with Lila, and Lila assumes Clara and Nick are exes, and Clara finds herself helplessly roped into getting her arch-enemy to fall in love with her best friend—ignoring the burgeoning feelings that seem to be brewing within her.
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ONLY MURDERS IN THE TRAIN
Campy Mystery New Adult
Daria Watson has always been obsessed with mystery. Chronically online on tumblr blogs, reddit forums, and every single podcast she can devour (and even taking on her own anonymous, enigmatic observer persona), mystery has been the center of her entire identity. So, unsurprising to her, she ends up on a train with 11 eccentric individuals, two dead bodies, and a murderer. With the help of a teen who insists they are the next Sherlock and a boomer who is done with everyone’s BS, maybe they can all find their killer before they kill each other.