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Nimona
by Noelle Stevenson
A shapeshifting sidekick helps a villainous knight take on a powerful kingdom.
The graphic novel debut from rising star ND Stevenson, based on his beloved and critically acclaimed web comic, which Slate awarded its Cartoonist Studio Prize, calling it "a deadpan epic." Nemeses! ... (Goodreads)
Annie on My Mind
by Nancy Garden
A tender story of two teenage girls falling in love and finding their place in the world.
Liza Winthrop first meets Annie Kenyon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a rainy day. The two become fast friends, although they come from different backgrounds and have differing levels of ... (Wikipedia)
Annihilation
by Jeff VanderMeer
A team of four women venture into a mysterious, surreal landscape in search of answers.
A team of four women cross the border into an uninhabited area known as "Area X", an unspecified coastal location that has been closed to the public for three decades. The group consists of a ... (Wikipedia)
Milkman
by Anna Burns
A young woman navigates the dangerous political and social landscape of Northern Ireland during the Troubles.
In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about ... (Goodreads)
The Passion
by Jeanette Winterson
A story of love, loss, and enduring passion between two people across time and space.
Jeanette Winterson’s novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in world literature. The Passion is perhaps her most highly acclaimed work, a modern classic that confirms ... (Goodreads)
Authority
by Jeff VanderMeer
A biologist explores an eerie, surreal wilderness in search of the truth behind a mysterious government project.
John "Control" Rodriguez takes over as the new director of the Southern Reach, a government agency formed to manage a coastal region named Area X. The public is led to believe that the region ... (Wikipedia)
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
by Jeanette Winterson
A young girl's journey of self-discovery, navigating the boundaries between religion, sexuality and identity.
Alternate cover edition for 9780802135162 This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a ... (Goodreads)
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
by Ottessa Moshfegh
A young woman's year-long experiment with prescription drugs to escape her life and numb her emotions.
The unnamed narrator, a slender and beautiful blonde from a wealthy WASP family, is a recent graduate of Columbia University , where she majored in art history . During her senior year in college, ... (Wikipedia)
Abaddon's Gate
by James S.A. Corey
A crew of space explorers venture through an alien structure in search of a new home.
Abaddon's Gate is the third book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series. For generations, the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt - was humanity's great frontier. Until now. ... (Goodreads)
Pumpkinheads
by Rainbow Rowell
Two seasonal best friends, Deja and Josiah, work their last shift at a pumpkin patch, embarking on a night of adventure and self-discovery.
In Pumpkinheads, beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell and Eisner Award–winning artist Faith Erin Hicks have teamed up to create this tender and hilarious story about two ... (Goodreads)
Galatea
by Madeline Miller
A retelling of the Pygmalion myth, exploring the relationship between a sculptor and his creation brought to life.
In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece – the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen – the gift of life. Now his wife, Galatea is ... (Barnes & Noble)
My Policeman
by Bethan Roberts
A love triangle between a schoolteacher, a museum curator, and a policeman in 1950s Brighton.
The novel is set in Brighton in 1957. , Tom, a policeman, is gay. , Marion, a schoolteacher, falls in love with him nonetheless. So does Patrick, a museum curator. Because of the social constraints ... (Wikipedia)
The Loneliest Girl in the Universe
by Lauren James
Romy is the only surviving crew member on a spaceship destined for a new planet, until she receives a message from Earth that changes everything.
Now in paperback, this surprising and gripping sci-fi thriller with a killer twist that Entertainment Weekly called “compulsively unpredictable” will have readers hanging on until its shocking ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Stone Sky
by N.K. Jemisin
A climactic finale to a trilogy, featuring a powerful woman's journey to save her world from destruction.
Following the events of, The Obelisk Gate, , the former inhabitants of Castrima-under are moving north after damage by rival comm Rennanis has compromised the mechanisms of the geode and made it ... (Wikipedia)
Only Ever Yours
by Louise O'Neill
In a dystopian world, girls are bred for men's pleasure. Freida and Isabel are friends, until the final ceremony approaches.
In a world in which baby girls are no longer born naturally, women are bred in schools, trained in the arts of pleasing men until they are ready for the outside world. At graduation, the most highly ... (Goodreads)
Outcast
by Michelle Paver
A young boy is abandoned on a desolate island and must survive alone, facing the harsh realities of nature and his own fears.
We find out at the start of the novel that in the previous book the Soul Eaters marked Torak with the Soul Eater symbol. This is discovered and Torak is set to be cast out from the clans, unless his ... (Wikipedia)
Mostly Dead Things
by Kristen Arnett
After her father's suicide, Jessa-Lynn Morton takes over the family taxidermy business and navigates love, loss, and grief.
One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to ... (Goodreads)
The Wicked Will Rise
by Danielle Paige
Dorothy must face the Wicked Witch of the West and her own inner demons to save Oz from destruction.
Amy Gumm continues her crusade against Dorothy Gale and Glinda after a failed assassination attempt. After escaping from a burning Emerald City, the flying monkeys Ollie and Maude use their newly ... (Wikipedia)
Soul Eater
by Michelle Paver
A boy and his wolf companion journey to the afterlife to save his father's soul from an evil spirit.
Wolf gets kidnapped by a group of strangers and Torak and Renn set out to find him in The Far North. During their journey, Torak spirit walkers in the form of a raven, and discovers that the Soul ... (Wikipedia)
The Mime Order
by Samantha Shannon
A young woman's quest to uncover a mysterious organization, and her own dark past.
Paige Mahoney has escaped the brutal prison camp of Sheol I, but her problems have only just begun: many of the survivors are missing and she is the most wanted person in London... As Scion turns its ... (Goodreads)
Skim
by Mariko Tamaki
A teenage girl discovers her identity and sexuality through the struggles of self-discovery and acceptance.
Skim is a "not slim" sixteen-year-old Japanese-Canadian who is a student at an all-girls Catholic school. She is known as a Goth , and practices Wicca . When popular girl Katie Matthews gets dumped ... (Wikipedia)
The Declaration
by Gemma Malley
In a future society where people can live forever, a young girl discovers the truth behind their immortality and fights for change.
"My name is Anna. It'll do." , Surplus Anna is nearly 15 years old and has lived in Grange Hall (a Surplus Hall) for most of her life. She was taken away from her parents at the age of two and now, ... (Wikipedia)
Milkweed
by Jerry Spinelli
A story of a Jewish orphan’s survival in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation.
He’s a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham. He’s a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He’s a boy who steals food for himself and the other orphans. He’s a ... (Goodreads)
Before We Were Strangers
by Renee Carlino
Childhood sweethearts reunite after 15 years, rekindling their love and uncovering secrets from the past.
From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years ... (Barnes & Noble)
Deadly Class, Volume 1: Reagan Youth
by Rick Remender
Marcus Lopez, a homeless teenager, is recruited into a secret school for assassins. He must navigate the dangerous world of high school while learning to kill.
It’s 1987. Marcus Lopez hates school. His grades suck. The jocks are hassling his friends. He can’t focus in class. But the jocks are the children of Joseph Stalin’s top assassin, the teachers are ... (Goodreads)
Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey
by Ngozi Ukazu
A charming graphic novel about a college freshman navigating life, love, and hockey.
Eric Bittle may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new ... (Barnes & Noble)
Today Will Be Different
by Maria Semple
A day in the life of a woman who tries to keep her promises to herself, but life keeps getting in the way.
A brilliant novel and instant New York Times bestseller from the author of, Where'd You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Incendiaries
by R.O. Kwon
A powerful story of love, faith, and loss. A young woman becomes involved in a cult and a bombing plot, while her boyfriend tries to save her.
Three people meet at Edwards University in Noxhurst, a fictional town in upstate New York: Phoebe Lin, the American daughter of two South Koreans, John Leal, a mysterious half-Korean Edwards drop-out ... (Wikipedia)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
A surreal journey of self-discovery, exploring the inner and outer worlds.
The first part, "The Thieving Magpie", begins with the narrator, Toru Okada, a low-key and unemployed lawyer's assistant, being tasked by his wife, Kumiko, to find their missing cat. Kumiko suggests ... (Wikipedia)
Sheets
by Brenna Thummler
A young girl navigates the challenges of running her family's laundromat while befriending a ghost who haunts the building.
"For days after reading Brenna Thummler's, Sheets, I have been wandering my neighborhood, haunted, enchanted, and in need of freshly pressed clothing." — Lemony Snicket Marjorie Glatt feels like a ... (Barnes & Noble)
