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  • The Serpent King
    The Serpent King
    Jeff Zentner
    Paperback: 06/06/2017
     
    A touching debut chronicles the coming-of-age of three high school seniors, misfits and best friends in a ...
  • If I Was Your Girl
    If I Was Your Girl
    Meredith Russo
    Paperback: 05/02/2017
     
    A new kind of big-hearted novel about being seen for who you really are.
  • A List of Cages
    A List of Cages
    Robin Roe
    Hardcover: 01/10/2017
     
    First-time novelist Robin Roe relied on life experience when writing this exquisite, gripping story featuring ...
  • Saving Hamlet
    Saving Hamlet
    Molly Booth
    Hardcover: 11/01/2016
     
    A teenager working on her high school's production of Hamlet and falls through the stage trap door, into the ...
  • Not If I See You First
    Not If I See You First
    Eric Lindstrom
    Paperback: 11/01/2016
     
    The Rules

    Don't deceive me. Ever. Especially using my blindness. Especially in public.

    Don't help me ...
  • More Happy Than Not
    More Happy Than Not
    Adam Silvera
    Paperback: 04/26/2016
     
    Adam Silvera's extraordinary debut confronts race, class, and sexuality during one charged near-future summer ...
  • The Tyrant's Daughter
    The Tyrant's Daughter
    J.C. Carleson
    Paperback: 07/28/2015
     
    From a former CIA officer comes the riveting account of a royal Middle Eastern family exiled to the American ...

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