Erin Spencer
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"In 1950, Ingrid Bergman already a major star after movies like Casablanca and Joan of Arc has a baby out of wedlock with her Italian lover, film director Roberto Rossellini. Previously held up as an icon of purity, Bergman's fall shocked her legions of American fans. Growing up in Hollywood, Jessica Malloy watches as her PR executive father helps make Ingrid a star at Selznick Studio. Over years of fleeting interactions with the actress, Jesse comes...
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"Everyone out in Devil's Lake, Michigan, knows the three Malloy sisters: perfect big sister Kit ; tomboy Tessa, who shares more with Kit than most people realize ; and Lilly, the baby of the family, determined to make her own mark. Yet as close as they are, there are certain things sisters don't tell one another. And one of them is keeping a secret that will turn their little world inside out. No one knows exactly what happened to Kitin in the woods...
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Carve the mark volume 2
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The lives of Cyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth were spoken by the oracles at their births. The fates are inescapable. Akos is in love with Cyra in spite of his fate. He knows he will die in service to Cyra's family. When Cyra's father, Lazmet Noavek-- a soulless tyrant, thought to be dead-- reclaims the Shotet throne, he ignites a barbaric war. Cyra and Akos are desperate to stop him at any cost-- and in the process they discover an unexpected fate.
4) Felix Yz
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Thirteen-year-old Felix Yz chronicles the final month before an experimental procedure meant to separate him from the fourth-dimensional creature, Zyx, with whom he was accidentally fused as a young child.
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2022 Caudill Award Nominees
Explore, Discover, S'more! for Kids
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Unhappy about being sent to the same summer camp after their fathers start dating, Bett and Avery, two girls, age eleven, eventually begin scheming to get the couple back together after a break-up. Told entirely through letters, emails and text messages.
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When Nova, Lovett High School's first black homecoming queen, is murdered the night of her coronation, her best friend, Duchess, finds an unlikely ally in her search for the killer--her prime suspect, Tinsley, the white rival nominee for queen.
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Award winning German author Mechthild Gläser presents The Forgotten Book - her first YA audiobook published in English. This whimsical story unfolds in the quaint atmosphere of an ivy-clad boarding school, where books are magical objects and Jane Austen reigns supreme. Emma is used to things going her way. Her father is headmaster of her prestigious boarding school, her friends take her advice as gospel, and she's convinced that a relationship with...
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Aurora cycle volume 1
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English
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2021 Summer Top Picks for High Schoolers
OBD YA SciFi - YOUTH
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YA Science Fiction
OBD YA SciFi - YOUTH
Staff Picks August 2022
YA Science Fiction
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Told in separate voices, eighteen-year-old Tyler Jones, top graduate of Aurora Academy, and a group of misfits and troublemakers embark on their first mission with Auri, a stowaway from the distant past.
After rescuing a girl who was trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries from interdimensional space, eighteen-year-old Aurora Academy graduate Tyler Jones is swept up in an interstellar war millions of years in the making.
9) Obsidio
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Illuminae files volume 3
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Kady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refugees on the container ship, Mao. With the jump station destroyed and their resources scarce, the only option is to return to Kerenza--but who knows what they'll find seven months after the invasion?