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181) Spell bound
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Edison Rooker isn't sure what to expect when he enters the office of Antonia Hex, the powerful sorceress who runs a call center for magical emergencies. He doesn't have much experience with hexes or curses. Heck, he doesn't even have magic. But he does have a plan--to regain the access to the magical world he lost when his grandmother passed. Antonia is ... intimidating, but she gives him a job and a new name--Rook--both of which he's happy to accept....
182) Evocation
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The day David Aristarkhov's occultist father died, he bought himself an Audi, drank every drop of liquor in the house, and abandoned his life as a teen psychic prodigy. Now pushing thirty, David is a Boston attorney, moonlighting as a medium for a secret society. But when the Devil comes to collect on a deal David's ancestor made, he reluctantly reaches out to his ex-boyfriend Rhys for help. However, to get to Rhys, David will have to befriend Moira,...
183) Gay club!
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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With just four members in the school's LGBTQ+ Society, Barney has a predicted 75 percent of the vote. But he's met his match in Bronte: She gets the voting opened up to the entire student body, and the whole school starts paying attention. When the group faces an unexpected threat and big opportunity, can the club members put politics aside and stand united?
184) The breakup lists
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Dial Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Jackson Ghasnavi, a high school stage manager, has to face his complicated feelings about love when he catches himself falling for the same guy as his sister.
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Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Twelve-year-old Al, short for Alison, navigates an overprotective mother, growing apart from her best friend, and her first girl crush, all while her recent Crohn's diagnosis puts a knot in her stomach.
186) Rough trade
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Pub. Date
2024.
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"In this propulsive follow-up to The Best Bad Things, Alma Rosales (and her alter ego, Jack Camp) is back as a stevedore and part-time opium smuggler"--
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Joy Revolution
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Devin Báez is ready for a relaxing winter break at Lake Andreas -- until he runs into his next-door neighbors the Seo-Cookes, undefeated champions of the lake's annual Winter Games. When Julian Seo-Cooke finds himself in need of a fake boyfriend, Devin sees an opportunity to get behind enemy lines and snoop for proof that Julian and his family have been playing dirty for years.
188) Crash landing
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Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Jay Wong is spending the last days of summer 2010 trying to land a kickflip and begging for something to make her senior year different. Then she meets Ash Chan, confident, independent, and hell on a skateboard. But Ash is hiding her past. As things between Ash and Jay move from friendship to something more, Jay has to decide what it means to build a life on her own terms.
189) In the shallows
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Godwin Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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Fifteen-year-old Mara is heartbroken when her relationship with Nico, deemed toxic by friends, abruptly ends. When an amnesic Nico is found at sea, seemingly a new person, Mara is caught between a second chance at love and helping Nico recover her past.
190) Salt the water
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Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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A confrontation with a teacher and a family crisis force high school senior Cerulean Gene to drop out of twelfth grade and derails their dreams of moving cross-country and living off the grid.
191) Thirsty: a novel
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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In the summer before college, eighteen-year-old Blake Brenner works to join the exclusive Serena Society with her girlfriend, and turns to alcohol to cope with the pressure of pledging, as her pursuit of success begins to strain her relationships.
192) Heart of stone
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[Johannes T. Evans]
Pub. Date
[2020]
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1764, Birmingham. Coffey, immortal and ever-oscillating between periods of delighted focus upon his current passion project, is charming, witty, and seems utterly incapable of closing his mouth for more than a few moments; in contrast, Theophilus Essex is quiet and keenly focused, adopting an ever-flat affect, but as time goes on, he relaxes in his employer's presence. Craving resounding intimacy but with an ever aware of the polite boundaries for...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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Having recently moved both herself and her formidable perfume bottle collection into a tiny bungalow in Los Angeles, mid-list author Astrid Dahl finds herself back in the Zoom writer's group she cofounded, Sapphic Scribes, after an incident that leaves her and her career lightly canceled. But she temporarily forgets all that by throwing herself into a few sexy distractions, like Ivy, a grad student researching 1950s lesbian pulp who smells like metallic...
195) Lion's legacy
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Series
Tennessee Russo volume 1
Publisher
Union Square and Co
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Seventeen-year-old Tennessee Russo's life is imploding. His boyfriend has been cheating on him, and all his friends know about it. Then his father, a famous archaeologist and reality show celebrity whom he hasn't seen in two years, shows up unexpectedly and offers to take him on an adventure. The object of his father's latest quest, the Rings of the Sacred Band of Thebes, is too enticing to say no to. Finding artifacts related to the troop of ancient...
196) Charming young man
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Despite being the youngest student ever accepted into the prestigious Paris Conservatory, Léon Delafosse, an impoverished musician, can't make his way in 1890s Paris without an outside patron. Young gossip columnist Marcel Proust takes Léon under his wing, and the boys game their way through an extravagant new world. When the larger-than-life Count Robert de Montesquiou-Fézensac offers his patronage, Léon's dreams are made real. But the closer...
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Golden court volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Twins Calla and Briar have spent their entire lives hiding from the powerful sorceress who destroyed their kingdom and from the humans who don't know they are Wolves. Each twin has their own purpose in life: Briar's is to marry the prince of an ally pack and save the Golden Court. Calla's purpose is to remain a secret, her twin's shadow. No one knows who Calla truly is except for her childhood friend -- and sister's betrothed -- Prince Grae. But when...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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Seventeen-year-old Gem Echols hides their mental health challenges and mysterious dreams in the small town of Gracie, Georgia, but when a newcomer reveals a shocking claim of being reincarnated gods together, Gem's life takes a perilous turn as they embark on a deadly adventure, where their past and present collide.
199) Another first chance
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2024.
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Eighteen-year-old River Lang struggles after the death of his best friend and reluctantly joins a research study for struggling teens where he confronts his complex relationship with Dylan's ex, develops feelings for a charismatic jock, and uncovers unsettling truths about the study.