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Age Range
16+
Release Date
February 01, 2022
THIRTY-TWO WOMEN. ONE ARENA. A BATTLE TO THE DEATH. After a long war, corporations have replaced countries. Sports are fought to the death. The most popular game is Last Valkyrie, a live tournament where women kill each other for marriage into a powerful family. For Nova, living in poverty...
Skate the Thief
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Beware of Spilling Ink Skate is a thief, trained and owned by the local crime syndicate, the Ink. When she tries to burgle a shut-in’s home, she gets caught by the owner—a powerful undead wizard. He makes a deal with her: “borrow” books from other wizards in return for...
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Author(s)
Age Range
14+
Release Date
March 01, 2021
Hunted by monsters. Wanted for questioning. Late for class. Four high-school friends suffer daily humiliation at the hands of three bullies. When the friends accidentally open a portal to another dimension, they unintentionally allow terrifying, other-worldly creatures to invade their small Arkansas town. Discovering that they are...
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Author(s)
Age Range
14+
Release Date
August 02, 2022
Falling in love. Evading the authorities. Chasing the rabbits. Now high school sophomores, the self-styled “Freaks” are back in class in quiet Quapaw City, Arkansas. They grapple with the ordinary challenges of everyday teen life: cliques, cars, and crushes. While everything appears normal on the surface, looks have rarely...
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Two thieves. One legendary treasure. Zero trust. Wincott is a washed-up burglar with a bad back, frozen toes, and a goblin kill count that’s making his life very complicated. When he flees into the long-abandoned mountain city of Roan—just ahead of a bloodthirsty goblin horde—he finds himself knocked out...
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In the year 2045, climate change is killing people. Fifteen-year old Lily Star must use her power over water to save her family and thousands of refugees from dying of thirst in the parched American West. Even though Lily’s a powerful Diviner, and can call water from Everspring, the...
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Author(s)
Genre(s)
Age Range
14+
Release Date
January 21, 2025
What if you discovered everything you’ve been taught is a lie? For most of her life, seventeen-year-old Espie Hernandez’s world revolved around the Branch of Thomas, a cult-like haven in what’s left of a war-ravaged America. Their ruler, Reverent Father, keeps them safe from the Others, those outside the...
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Co-Authors / Illustrators
- Julien Choy
Genre(s)
Age Range
13+
Release Date
January 21, 2025
There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. It is 1887 and a man has been murdered in an abandoned house. On his face is an expression of...
Castle Swimmer: Volume 2
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Author(s)
Age Range
14+
Release Date
June 03, 2025
Two mermen reject their destinies and embark on a raucous adventure as big and unpredictable as the ocean itself—and a romance that nobody could have predicted—in the stunning second installment of the hit Webtoon series Castle Swimmer. The sharks want Kappa dead, and time is running out...
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Author(s)
Co-Authors / Illustrators
- Anshika Khullar
Age Range
13+
Release Date
May 27, 2025
Activism. Art. Community care. Education. These are the hallmarks of the work done by the youth highlighted in this collection featuring LGBTQ+ leaders working to make our world more inclusive. Civil Rights activist Marian Wright Edelman once said, "You can't be what you can't see." ...
The Summer We Kissed at Blackbird
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Author(s)
Age Range
13+
Release Date
February 16, 2025
It was the best summer of her life, until the night that changed everything… LC Hart never thought being at Blackbird would make her life so complicated. It had always been the one place that didn’t make her feel anxious—until the summer she turned eighteen. ...
Of Earthly Delights
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Author(s)
Genre(s)
Age Range
14+
Release Date
May 13, 2025
Here is a contemporary YA gothic romance about a dark family secret, a lush, mysterious garden, and a love that never dies, from New York Times bestselling author Goldy Moldavsky. Aspiring artist Rose Pauly is not happy moving from her home in New York City right before...
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All seventeen-year-old Maggie Warshauer wants is to leave her stifled life in Filliyaw Creek behind and head to college. An outsider at school and uncertain of her own sexual identity, Maggie longs to start again somewhere new. Inspired by a long-dead biologist’s journals, scientific-minded Maggie spends her days sailing,...
Wandering Wild
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Bestselling author Lynette Noni turns her hand to contemporary romance in this swoony YA survival story, perfect for readers wanting a high stakes lost-in-the-wilderness adventure brimming with tension-filled romance. Zander Rune was the darling of Hollywood until he fell from glory and was labelled a problematic...
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Author(s)
Age Range
14+
Release Date
March 25, 2025
High school senior Decker Savage, burdened by his baby brother's death and dreading his parents' impending divorce, sees his mother with a scruffy stranger and follows him to a dark house. He hears shouts upstairs, a man hits the floor, and the culprit escapes. Decker follows the victim's ambulance....
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