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We are mayhem

2024
Following her family's move to the Catskills, seventeen-year-old Birdie must overcome her desire to blend in so she can help her new friend Abigail Rose, the granddaughter of former professional wrestler Mad Mabel, take her family's male-dominated indie wrestling promotion in a new, more feminist direction.
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The color of a lie

2024
In 1955, Calvin's family relocates from Chicago to the all-white suburbs of Levittown, Pennsylvania, where they must pass for white to survive, but when Calvin begins to uncover dark secrets about the town and its inhabitants, he puts his family and their new home at risk.
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A second chance on earth

2024
"When sixteen-year-old Marcos travels to Cartagena, Colombia to scatter his late father's ashes, he strikes up a friendship with Camilo, a boy his age who works as a local taxi driver and shares Marcos' love for the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude"--Provided by publisher.

It waits in the forest

2024
Inspired by Caribbean folklore, eighteen-year-old Selena gets pulled into a string of mysterious murders on her island home.

Escaping Mr. Rochester

2024
"In this . . . Black queer romance reimagining of Charlotte Bront?'s classic novel, Jane Eyre, the new governess at Thornfield Hall discovers her cruel employer has locked away his wife as revenge for withholding her inheritance and, as his dark plan unfolds, must find a way to save this woman she's come to love"--Provided by publisher.
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A whole song and dance

2023
A freshman at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Nasrin is seemingly living her dream, except her parents think she is attending business school and it gets harder and harder to keep lying to them, especially after they surprise her in New York.
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Royal scandal

2024
"American girl turned monarchy nightmare, Evan Bright, has gotten used to the press about her but the media attention has only seemed to get worse. From desperate clickbait articles about her and the President's son to Royal Record headlines pitting her against Princess Maisie, it seems everyone is dying for Evan to return back to America for good. Meanwhile Evan is receiving mysterious threats about her real story being reveiled in a tell-all biography. When more information is leaked about Evan, she fears she will always be Britain's media villain. But the threats escalate when there is an attempted assassination with no suspects . . . and Evan believes the person is in the palace's walls. They say what doesn't kill you will make you stronger . . . but what if it's the royal family who wants you dead?"--Provided by publisher.
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Not your average Jo

2024
"Riley Jo is a teenager who knows what she wants. Born and raised in Bentonville, Arkansas, this Korean American girl has her sights set on being a musician. So when her parents are surprisingly cool about her attending the prestigious Los Angeles-based arts-focused boarding school her senior year of high school, she jumps at the chance. This is her moment to make her indie rock dreams a reality! Things at Carlmont Academy start out strong: She joins a band, and they set out to make plans to perform at the annual spring concert-with a chance to land a record contract. Another student, Xander, decides his school project will be a documentary about the band leading up to their first show. But not everything goes how Riley Jo imagined. She is soon sidelined when her other bandmates feel she is 'too Asian' to be their lead singer, and they choose her classmate Bodhi Collins for the role instead. Bodhi is rock music royalty, with a dad who is a famous music exec. And he's got the 'all-American rock star look.' Her classmates suggest she try making K-pop, but her heart is in indie rock. Riley Jo decides to take matters into her own hands and writes an original song to showcase her talent. But Bodhi takes the credit . . . and given his connections, the band lets him. Xander captures all of this in his film, which he leaks in order to show the truth behind the band. Riley Jo decides to sign up for the spring concert and perform on her own . . . but will she finally be able to take center stage?"--Provided by pubisher.

Song of freedom, song of dreams

a novel in verse
2024
"A . . . novel in verse that centers around a young pianist in East Germany trying to make sense of love, duty, and the pursuit of dreams during the unsettled months of protest that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall in the late 1980s"--Publisher.
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Just say yes

2024
When seventeen-year-old Jimena realizes she is undocumented, she decides the best path forward is to find an American to marry her.
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