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Blood like magic

2021
After failing to come into her powers, sixteen-year-old Voya--a Black witch living in near-future Toronto--is forced to choose between losing her family's magic forever, a heritage steeped in centuries of blood and survival, or murdering her first love, a boy who is supposedly her genetic match.

The ones we're meant to find

2021
In a near future when life is harsh outside of Earth's last unpolluted place, Cee tries to leave an abandoned island while her sister, STEM prodigy Kasey, seeks escape from the science and home she once trusted.

Astronaut Academy

2021
When Hakata Soy returns to the Astronaut Academy for spring semester, he discovers that someone is literally stealing the hearts of students.

Long distance

After moving to Seattle, Vega's dads send her to the very strange Camp Best Friend, where she discovers that one can make new friends without forgetting old ones.
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Return of ZomBert

2021
"ZomBert is back in book two of a wry new mystery series by award-winning creators Kara LaReau and Ryan Andrews. A stray cat who escaped the YummCo Laboratories on the outskirts of Lambert, Bert has now been officially adopted by nine-year-old Mellie Gore. He spends his days dozing in Mellie's room and his nights hunting...and devouring fresh prey. Bert's health and memory have returned, and his newfound strength and smarts are off the charts. Mellie, meanwhile, is busy working odd jobs to fund her cat's visit to the vet, convinced that Bert can win the Best Pet contest at the upcoming YummCo-sponsored Harvest Festival. But is Bert really the best pet in Lambert--or just the weirdest? And could he be plotting revenge? Clever illustrated fare for fans of Bunnicula and other humorous forays into the macabre"--Provided by the publisher.
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The biker bandits

2021
Bob is uneasy about training new mail carrier Marcelle, although it should be an easy day, but soon they are making detours, picking up a hitchhiker, and facing bandits on battered spacial motorbikes.
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Star wars

the prequel trilogy
2005
Contains the complete texts of the three novels in the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy, including "The Phantom Menace," "Attack of the Clones," and "Revenge of the Sith;" detailing Anakin Skywalker's transformation into Darth Vader.

Sanity & Tallulah

When most of the adults on space station Wilnick come down with the flu, Sanity and Tallulah are tasked with delivering turbopumps to another station, but when they take a shortcut they accidentally end up on the other side of the blockade.

Brave new world

with the essay "Brave new world revisited"
2010
Bernard Marx becomes a citizen in an utopian World-State where babies are born in laboratories, there is no violence, all citizens take drugs for depression, and contentment overrides the free will of the populace, and presents the social climate in 1958, and the threats against personal freedoms that seemed to be precursers to the novel's empty civilization.

City of shattered light

Seventeen-year-old Asa flees her domineering father to prevent her sister's mind from being reprogrammed, but she must ally with a smuggler named Riven to outwit a bounty hunter, a criminal syndicate, and a monster lurking in the city's circuits.

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