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The gilded blade
Barnes, Jennifer Lynn, author.
All games must come to an end... From Texas to Prague to London and beyond, the Hawthorne family, the players from the Grandest Game, and allies old and new are drawn into a web of centuries-old secrets and mind-bending puzzles. Every clue pulls them deeper; every answer demands a price. To survive, they must unravel the mysteries that bind them together... but some truths are deadly. In this series-shattering conclusion, everyone is a player, long-held secrets are unveiled, precious threads are unraveled, and impossible mysteries are solved. In the grandest of games, there is so much to win — money, love, power, revenge — but there is also everything to lose. ....
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Blue Beach
Parsons, Karyn, 1968- author.
Fifteen-year-old Blue Collins's parents own the only Black beach in Santa Monica in 1929. She loves spending time there with her handsome friend Ben Clark. It's a quiet spot where they can be alone and where Ben's darker skin won't be judged by onlookers--or Blue's own family. During a sunset rendezvous after a summer parade, the pair discovers the body of Dottie Whitehouse, a white debutante. Blue Beach is already threatened by local white property owners. Now their whole community could be at risk. In their panic, Blue and Ben move Dottie's body into the waters of a nearby white beach. Dottie's body washes ashore, and it isn't long before all eyes are on Ben. Everyone saw how Dottie teased him and how they shared smiles. And their history goes deeper than Blue ever realized. But to save Ben from the outraged white townspeople, she'll need to do whatever she can to dig up the truth and prove his innocence. Ben isn't the only one whose life depends on it.....
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Rainsong
Riesen, Lila, author.
In a small coastal town haunted by unsolved disappearances, seventeen-year-old Zayn, gifted with a secret ability to heal, finds herself in the middle of a generations-old feud as she unravels a deadly mystery before she becomes the next victim... Mendocino is not the quaint coastal California town Zayn Pereira imagined. It's shrouded in a fog that never lets up. Posters of a missing teen girl are plastered everywhere, and just offshore is an island called Rainsong, rumored to be haunted. At her new school, everyone is tense and suspicious of each other. So when charismastic Ollie takes Zayn under her wing, it's a relief -- but is her charm hiding something? People assume brooding Tiago, the missing girl's ex-boyfriend, is responsible for her disappearance... but Zayn can't keep her eyes off him. Is he really who everyone says he is? Besides, Zayn has a secret of her own. And when Tiago is struck by a car one night, she is forced to reveal it to save him. In doing so, Zayn discovers her connection to a generations-old feud that still rages today. Can she break herself from the grip of Mendocino's past tragedy? Or will she become the next girl on the missing poster?....
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Together we see
Tison, Ari, author.
How far would you go to protect your land? To protect your family? Told in multiple points of view, Together We See follows seventeen-year-old Ulá Dominguez, a Bribri-American teenager, searching for the truth behind her land-activist father's mysterious death on their Native territory in Costa Rica. Ulá and her brother, Kabék, uncover secrets and corruption as they face off against illegal loggers, kidnappers, settlers, and the local government in the hunt for clues. Their only allies are a few family friends and relatives still living in Bribri, as well as a young journalist, who may be in danger himself. But as details of their father's death emerge, long-held trust is broken. And in this sinister web of deception, no one is safe. Inspired by real-world missing, dead, and attacked Indigenous activists, award-winning author Ari Tison writes her first novel in prose and pushes the envelope yet again by pulling together a propulsive story full of grief, environmental justice, and the fight for retribution.....
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The bad boyfriend curse
Heron, Farah, author.
Seventeen-year-old Meera Noorani has spent her whole life playing it safe. Raised by her single mom, she’s had to — especially in love. After all, it has been proven, generation after generation, that all Noorani women are cursed to have partners who ruin their lives. And though she tried her best to avoid it, Meera’s fate comes a-calling, and within the span of a week, she’s broken up with, arrested, and then shipped to small-town Canada, where she’ll be completing her community service under the watchful eye of her mom and her new stepdad. Meera’s spent her whole life being good, and this is the thanks she gets? If she can pose a threat to Mom’s perfect new life, though, maybe she can get back to the city. And there’s no better way to do that than date one of her fellow teen delinquents. Noah has got the piercings, tattoos, and rumors to prove that he’s the town’s most infamous bad boy… but when the bad boy isn't actually bad, what’s a girl meant to do?....
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No one leaves the manor
McWilliams, Kelly, author.
It's 1921, and Mrs. Caroline Reginald Kane, the last surviving descendant of a family of oil barons, has invited four young debutantes to visit her at Greystone Manor. There, they'll compete for the ultimate prize: to become heir to her unspeakably vast fortune. But only one girl can win. And the manor is watching. Dorothea is a thief, and the best liar in the American Northeast. Her mother vanished at Greystone years ago, and she's determined to find out why -- so long as no one uncovers her secrets first. Vaughn isn't crazy. She was born for this life -- and she won't let anyone come between her and the fortune she deserves. Birdie doesn't know why she's been invited, but she believes everything happens for a reason -- and that reason just might be divine. Elspeth is called 'pretty as a peach, dim as a doorknob.' But she sees things that the others can't: whispering birds, shifting doors, and a language that should never be spoken. And there's something else hidden behind these walls. Something sinister. It doesn't plan to let them leave alive.....
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You, me, and infinity
Caletti, Deb.
When Margaret sees Mars for the first time, it doesn't feel like love at first sight so much as future at first sight -- she just knows right away that he will loom large in her life. When her job delivering pizzas brings Margaret right to Mars's doorstep, she can't deny their connection, even as the anxious voice in her head warns her about everything that could go wrong. Soon they're giving in to fate as their romance deepens over stargazing and moments under the endless night sky, where Mars shares his passionate interest in the Voyager's Golden Record -- a time capsule of humanity preserved indefinitely in space. Together, they are absorbed by the unknowable questions we all face: How will we be remembered? What will we leave behind? And can anything truly be infinite? But even for someone who can't help but anticipate the worst, when the worst actually happens, Margaret is shattered. How can she move forward from tragedy when it feels like the world has stopped spinning? Somehow, she has to let go of the gravity of grief pulling her down and find her way back to the stars. But only if she can let the whole of the universe in -- all the beauty and all the pain.....
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Augusta Pine does not exist
Lloyd-Jones, Emily, author.
"I was fifteen when I became a murderer." After a hack gone tragically wrong, a teen girl is given an ultimatum: accept a harsh prison sentence or leave her old life behind and use her talents in the service of a covert government agency. Three years later, the newly named Augusta Pine has become a skilled wraith, one of the Identity Security Division's secret operatives. She has no home, no family. Her only friends are her coolly professional handler and a snarky AI spybot. So when Augusta is sent to Portland for an assignment, she seizes the chance to glimpse her beloved grandmother and rents the apartment next door. But what begins as nostalgic stalking quickly turns into a fight for survival. With her sharp wit, tech savvy -- and help from an unexpected ally -- Augusta must race against the clock to stay one step ahead of a band of deadly cyberterrorists.....
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In between days
Garrett, Camryn, author.
A stunning and uplifting contemporary YA about a young teen who explores her queerness and navigates her grief through an unlikely friendship with her deceased father's boyfriend... When her mother refuses entry to a stranger named Richard at her father's funeral, 17-year-old Mira Howard doesn't understand why. But snooping through her father's things reveals that Richard was her father's boyfriend—a boyfriend she never knew about. In fact, Mira never even knew for sure that her dad was gay. Hoping to feel more connected to her late father, Mira reaches out to Richard without telling her mom, who is still angry from the divorce. As Mira and Richard become closer, Mira gains more and more insight into the side of her father that she never got to see. Grieving that she never got to connect with her dad about their shared queerness, Mira asks that Richard teach her "how to be queer" while she navigates a new crush on her co-worker, which brings her out of her diary and into the real world. But as Mira grows more confident in herself, she finds it hard to keep her relationship with Richard a secret, questioning why her family never talked about her father's sexuality in the first place. Soon Mira has to decide if she wants to keep the peace or honor her father's memory by being her truest self. An epistolary novel told through diary entries, text messages, and book reviews, IN BETWEEN DAYS is a story about queerness, grief, and families—both ones we are born into and ones we create.....
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The last best quest ever
Lukens, F. T., author.
Seventeen-year-old Ellinore has the best questing record in the kingdom. Not even Aven—the infuriatingly charming royal who’s become her fiercest rival—can compete. But every one of Ellinore’s triumphs is a lie. The monsters she’s slain? Staged. The treasures she’s claimed? Planted. Tired of the charade, she shocks the realm by retiring during a royal feast. Her hopes for a quiet life vanish when her reckless twin brother, Zig, bets his life on her ability to retrieve the horn of the mythical Elder Beast—a creature no one believes is real. To save him, Ellinore must return to the spotlight for one final quest. She’s joined by Zig, eager to prove himself; Aven, determined to finally outshine her; and a ragtag crew of unlikely questers with big dreams, questionable skills, and a knack for trouble. As the stakes rise, Ellinore must decide who she really wants to be: the fraud the kingdom celebrates, the hero it needs, or someone entirely new.....
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Their will undone
Valldeperas, R. J., author.
When a maiden is selected to marry the emperor, her journey to the palace will see her fighting both a spark of magical power and her growing feelings for her broody escort in this romantic fantasy duology opener, inspired by a true story from the Inca empire... In Amaru, it is an honor to be chosen in the annual harvest and serve the gods'-favored emperor. Nina’s brother has already been chosen, but when the emperor’s men come a second time for her sister, Nina volunteers instead. She is taken to the acllahuasi, a gilded cage where women train to become servants or wives for the ruling class. It is there that a soldier comes to collect her, and Nina learns of her fate—to become a wife...to the emperor. As the emperor's trusted friend and soldier, Kasik is ordered to retrieve Nina and deliver her untouched. But the emperor’s betrothed is not as he expected. The distrust between Nina and Kasik is thicker than the trees surrounding them, and Kasik’s honor is put to the test when their path back to the capitol leads them into dangerous territory. Their lives and hearts are in peril as forbidden desires are unearthed, along with a stirring of dark magic in Nina that inexplicably ties her to the gods. What begins as a simple task becomes a tense journey that forces Nina and Kasik to confront where their true loyalties lie—with the emperor and the fate of their people, or with the desires of their own hearts.....
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Monarchs in the wild
Moya, Israel, author.
After witnessing the tragic death of a classmate, seventeen-year-old Cal desperately searches for a way out of his blink-and-you'll-miss-it rural town of La Sombra, California — before he, too, becomes a nobody-migrant statistic... In the summer of 1994, seventeen-year-old Cal "California" Garcia can't seem to escape the gossip and horrified looks of his fellow La Sombra residents. They judge him on nothing more than the long scar on his face, his beat up '68 Mustang, and always being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Cal constantly feels like he's been set up to fail. His father left his family after the tragic accident that gave him his scar. His mother spends all her time at church, enchanted by the words of a crooked pastor. And his new-old Mustang brings more trouble and chaos than it's worth. Everything about being in La Sombra tells him he is and always will be a nothing. But as his senior year is coming to an end, his life is turned drastically upside down. Out by the railroad tracks, Cal finds Nora, valedictorian Nora, fallen off a bridge. The monarch butterflies stitched onto her jeans are seared into his memory forever. Having found her body, Cal becomes a person of interest in Nora's suspicious death. As Cal tries to escape suspicion, an opportunity for a way out of La Sombra emerges from nowhere, and Cal is forced to choose his own fate. Will Cal finally decide who he is and where he wants to be? Or will he let circumstance choose for him and live his life as just another statistic in a farm-worker town?....
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Every reason to stay
Clarke, Lane, author.
Ever since she can remember, it's been just Skylar and her rock star dad against the world. But this year, a horrible accident cuts her summer short and upends her life. As Skylar grieves the loss of her dad, she discovers a huge secret: Her mother is still alive. Suddenly, Skylar is uprooted from her home and thrust into a family of strangers on the other side of the country. Furious with the woman who abandoned her, Skylar seeks comfort in baking and decides to enter a local competition with the dazzling prize of a trip to Paris. As she gains her footing in the contest and her new town, she befriends a girl who seems just as lost as she is and finds more than friendship with the frustratingly irresistible boy next door. But while baking her way to a brighter future, Skylar will uncover truths about the past in the last place she expected. Filled with heaps of emotion, a spoonful of hope, and an unexpected twist of fate, this is an unforgettable story about the real meaning of home.....
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Kingdom of waves
De la Cruz, Melissa, 1971- author.
Once upon a time, there was a shining kingdom floating on the sea... The kingdom of Ophir was one of the most powerful and beautiful places in the world. But after an invasion by the land of Lacon, it was lost to the waves. Now, the Ophir live as second-class citizens beneath Lacon’s golden palaces. When two bands of Ophir thieves―one led by Eban Sadreal and the other by Gineth Strong―go after the same treasure, a priceless relic, their worlds and hearts suddenly collide. For the relic releases an ancient magic that could restore the legacy of Ophir―a magic that could change the course of Eban and Gin’s lives forever. ....
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Shadow over the Pumpkin Queen
Shepherd, Megan, author.
"After several Halloween Town residents disappear, including Sally's beloved Jack Skellington, she embarks on a quest to Shadow Town to face a mysterious prince bent on revenge and save Halloween Town from utter destruction"-- Provided by publisher.....
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