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In case I go missing
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Seventeen-year-old Fenny Allen has been Sarah Vincenty's sidekick for as long as she can remember. Over the years, Sarah has built a reputation in their small town as an amateur detective and a vigilante who has dispensed her own form of justice. Now Sarah is missing. The police have written her off as yet another teen runaway, but Fenny is convinced there's foul play. And when she discovers a binder Sarah left behind, entitled In Case I Go Missing, Fenny realizes that Sarah disappeared while investigating her biggest case yet. With Sarah gone, it's up to Fenny and her other best friend, Sam, to finish her investigation. As they piece together the clues, they find themselves up against a decades-old mystery that links to the town's dark history. The more the pair uncover, the clearer it becomes that those involved will go to great lengths to keep their secrets.
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Book
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YA FIC Swa
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The last best quest ever
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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. And Aven, determined to finally outshine her. Together with a ragtag crew of unlikely questers with big dreams, questionable skills, and a knack for trouble, they set off for the last quest.
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Book
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YA FIC Luk
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Rani Deshpande takes the wheel
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Nineteen-year-old Rani Deshpande is on a mission to reinvent herself the summer before transferring to her new university. After freshman year, Rani can’t help but feel like she’s playing catch up. So she’s crafted a packed summer to get back on track: a dream internship, adventures with her hometown best friend, and regular driving lessons so that she can finally lose her passenger princess reputation. Unfortunately, that means learning from her aggravating family friend (and childhood crush), Kush Khanna. Kush and Rani grew up together, but they couldn’t be less alike. Within their close-knit Desi community, Kush is the beloved model son. Rani is more the black sheep. So when their mothers first force the pair to drive together, the arrangement feels like a recipe for disaster.
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Book
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YA FIC Ava
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Stops along the way
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Iris doesn't trust the odds. Not when she has a 1 in 4 chance of inheriting the same vision diagnosis as her sister, Amelia. When Iris travels to the east coast to help Amelia drive her things back from college, the last person she expects to run into on campus is Declan, her board game club rival, but he's also there to drive his brother home for summer break. This results in the four of them caravaning together to Nebraska. Iris and Declan are used to competing with dice and cards across a table, but the romantic feelings unfolding as they drive across the map are a total surprise. The odds of falling in love on the road seem low, especially amid car troubles and sister drama. Can Iris look past probability and embrace the unexpected?
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Book
Call Number:
YA FIC Sor
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Goldenborn
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Akoma Addo has one rule: don't get too close to the supernatural. Ever since a blazing orb of light left her father in a coma, she's buried herself in her secret job investigating magical crimes in San Francisco's AfricaTown, just enough to keep her grief at bay. But when a body turns up in a pool of molten gold and ash, Akoma's pulled into something much bigger, and far more dangerous. At the center of it all is Anansi, the trickster god of stories, who makes her an impossible offer: help him catch a killer and awaken the ancestral magic buried deep in her blood. In return, he'll give her a chance to bring her father back. To take the deal, Akoma will have to lie to everyone she loves and embrace the very power she's spent years trying to deny. And as her connection grows with Xander, the new guy in town with secrets of his own, Akoma must decide who she can trust -- especially when she's no longer sure she can even trust herself.
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Book
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YA FIC Lie
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Hear ye mortals
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In 1976 Rosario, Argentina, brothers Daniel and Adrián Aguirre share a passion for music and a bond as best friends. However, under the authoritarian military government, artists and musicians are considered enemies of the state, even if they're just teenagers playing at home. When one of their songs unexpectedly gains popularity on the radio, Daniel and Adrián, along with their band Río Babel--comprised of children of immigrants from Spain, Palestine, and Germany--face a daunting choice.
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Book
Call Number:
YA FIC Men
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They want us dead : a novel
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Seventeen-year-old Sam Tombs hopes to get more eyes on the videos they make to raise awareness of crimes against LGBTQ+ teens. A true crime content creator event seems like the perfect opportunity to grow their channel--until the group becomes stranded at an eerie Victorian mansion, and one of them is killed in the night. Sam's alibi, and the only person they can trust, happens to be their mean, dorky internet nemesis Dylan. But the two must now put aside their rivalry and use their investigative skills to figure out who among the remaining teens is the killer, before their own deaths become tomorrow's trending content.
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Book
Call Number:
YA FIC Mon
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The saw mouth
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When Cedar was a child, fragmented, tortured souls woke up in the world's most complex machines, destroying them and pushing technology back decades. A fall. The Fall, some said, and they called it Autumn. Ten years later, following a family tragedy, Cedar moves to the nowhere town of Sawblade Lake only to find something hunting them. A long, bent shadow that reeks like rot and has the mouth of a deep crevice. It's after Cedar, and it's willing to go to any lengths to break them, including preying on Cedar's new queer family. The closer it circles, the more it seems to weave through Cedar's whole life. It might stretch back to their mother's gruesome, inexplicable death, to the murk of their missing family, to the house they grew up in. Back and back and back to the first day of Autumn. Cedar thought they understood how their world had changed, but they're far from dredging the bottom.
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Book
Call Number:
YA FIC Ple
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The heirs
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Octavius the Maestro. Fola the Brain. Bilal the Olympian. Perdita the Artist. Romeo the Failure. These are the five heirs of the illustrious billionaire Leontes Button. Adopted and viciously trained with their father's infamous "Button Method" to prove his hypothesis for creating prodigies, the Button siblings have had no choice but to be brilliant according to their father's impossibly high standards. When he is murdered at his annual Prodigy Ball, all who attended the ball are required to stay in the Button Manor while the police investigate. But the officers have their work cut out for them; each of the Button siblings has something to hide. But The Heirs aren't the only ones with secrets. After all, Leontes Button was especially good at making enemies.
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Book
Call Number:
YA FIC Abi
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I am not a vampire (anymore)
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"My goals for senior year were simple: find a prom dress I don't hate, and spend as much time as possible with my boyfriend, Max, and best friend, Sarita. Maybe try not to flunk history class. My plans did NOT include: babysitting a newborn vampire, who also happens to be Max's buddy, Ezra, and fighting off my ex-boyfriend. And generally worrying about death and blood and mayhem. Turning human was supposed to mean finally getting a second chance at a normal life. But ever since moving to Florida, nothing has been normal. What's worse is I actually made friends here. And when my dark past threatens to take it all away... well, being mortal totally sucks."
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Book
Call Number:
YA FIC Mil
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How to lose yourself completely
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Ever since Sean's death, Case's anxiety has been spiraling. Sean wasn't just his older brother, he was also Case's best friend. When his parents suggest "adventure therapy," Case is desperate enough to agree. But after he boards the bus, he sees the one person he's been trying to avoid: Diana, Sean's girlfriend. Once they set off, there is the expected cringey singing and forced sharing. Then their counselor mysteriously disappears, the trip suddenly turns into a journey of survival. This group of kids, with nothing in common but their prescriptions and lack of social skills, will have to band together to make it back home. In the process, they will change each other's lives forever.
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Book
Call Number:
YA FIC Bog
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Blue Beach
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Fifteen-year-old Blue Collins's parents own the only Black beach in Santa Monica in 1929, and she loves spending time there with her friend Ben Clark. It's a spot where they can be alone and where Ben's darker skin won't be judged by onlookers, or Blue's own family. When the pair discover the body of Dottie Whitehouse, a white debutante, Blue knows it's trouble. Blue Beach is already threatened by local white property owners, and now their whole community could be in danger. In a panic, Blue and Ben move Dottie's body into the waters of a nearby white beach. When 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. 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. And Ben's isn't the only life that depends on it.
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Book
Call Number:
YA FIC Par
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Cursed ever after
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Risa Porto is a Bad Thing who was born on a Bad Day and is cursed with Bad Luck. After years of taking the blame for every calamity, mishap, and minor inconvenience that befalls the townspeople of Barrow, Risa longs to escape her village. And on her seventeenth birthday, her wish is granted. Sort of. Risa owes a witch a favor, and it comes in the form of a quest: she must escort Prince Javi (the youngest, handsomest, and least significant of the kingdom’s princes through the dark and deadly Bosque to his wedding. This measly errand quickly spirals into a struggle with greedy assassins, a murderous cult, a vicious tyrant, and Risa’s own curse. Most unfortunate of all, Risa is not immune to Javi’s charms.
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Book
Call Number:
YA FIC Nar
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We could be anyone
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Lola and Lisandro are actors during Hollywood's Golden Age, but you won't see them on any silver screen. Instead, these siblings use their talents to scam the rich and famous out of their ill-begotten cash. Lola plays the tragic ghost who haunts the mansions of the wealthy, and Lisandro plays the brave spiritualist who will help her soul find peace. The siblings have their sights set on their next target: The Coterie, the opulent estate of newspaper tycoon, Bixby Fairfax, and his famous mistress, Blythe Bell. A score this big will allow them to move anywhere. But this job requires them to do something they've never done before: switch roles. And strange things keep happening at The Coterie, things that Lola and Lisandro can't explain. As they are drawn deeper into The Coterie's gleaming façade and tensions rise between brother and sister, one question looms over them: will they be able to pull thi off, or will this be their last performance?
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Book
Call Number:
YA FIC McL