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Explode Your Holds With Even More Realistic Fiction!

We have even more realistic fiction for you to check out this summer: Ask Me How I Got Here by Christine HeppermannAddie has always been running–until she gets pregnant and makes a choice. Without Annette by Jane B. MasonJosie Little and her girlfriend Annette Anderson have traveled halfway across the country to attend Brookwood Academy, a prestigious boarding school in […]

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Explode Your Holds List with New Nonfiction!

See what’s new in nonfiction: Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings (CD audio, read by the author)Teen activist and trailblazer Jazz Jennings–named one of “The 25 most influential teens” of the year by Time–shares her very public transgender journey, as she inspires people to accept the differences in others while they embrace their own truths.

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Explode Your Holds List with New Continuing Series!

Check out what’s new with our continuing series: Lois Lane: Double Down by Gwenda Bond (Sequel to Lois Lane: Fallout)Lois Lane has settled into life in Metropolis High, with new friends and a challenging job as a junior reporter–but after a visit to the “Suicide Slum” in search of a human interest story, she finds herself and her online more-than-friend […]

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Explode Your Holds List with More New Romance!

Are you ready for some more new summer romance reads? Suffer Love by Ashley Herring BlakeHadley St. Clair’s life changed the day she came home to a front door covered in slips of paper, each of them revealing the ugly truth about her father. Now as her family falls apart in the wake of his year-long affair, Hadley wants everyone–her […]

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Explode Your Holds List with New Mystery and Thrillers!

See what’s new in Mystery and Thrillers: Twenty Questions for Gloria by Martyn BedfordGloria is a bored teenaged girl who meets a mysterious new boy, Uman Padeem, who is confident and charismatic–everything Gloria wishes to be–but when they disappear together for fifteen days she learns he is not all he seems, and soon truths about him and his secrets are […]

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Explode Your Holds List with More Speculative Fiction!

We have some more new speculative fiction for you to enjoy this summer: Places No One Knows by Brenna YovanoffWaverly Camdenmar, an overachiever in every way, seems perfect, yet perfection is exhausting. She has not slept in days and then one night she falls asleep and walks into someone else’s life. She dream visits a boy she could never be with […]

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Explode Your Holds List with More Realistic Fiction!

We have even more new realistic fiction for you to read this summer: A Hundred Hours of Night by Anna WoltzNew York steals Emilia’s heart at first sight — even though absolutely nothing goes to plan. She didn’t plan to end up homeless on a stranger’s doorstep. She didn’t plan to make friends with Seth, Abby, and Jim. And she could […]

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Explode Your Holds List with New Summer Romance!

Looking for some stories about love, heartbreak, and romance this summer? We have some great new books for you: Love, Lies and Spies by Cindy AnsteyIn the early 1800s, when her father sends her to London for a season, eighteen-year-old Juliana Telford, who prefers researching ladybugs to marriage, meets handsome Spencer Northam, a spy posing as a young gentleman of leisure.

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Explode Your Holds List with More Speculative Fiction!

See what’s new in Speculative Fiction: Dreamology by Lucy KeatingExperiencing dreams about her soulmate all of her life, Alice meets the real boy, Max, when she moves to a new school and finds that their real relationship is more complicated than their dream one.  A Fierce and Subtle Poison by Samantha MabrySpending the summer with his hotel-developer father in Puerto […]

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Explode Your Holds List with Realistic Fiction!

Check out our new Realistic Fiction titles: Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here by Anna BreslawWhen Scarlett’s beloved TV show is canceled and her longtime crush, Gideon, is sucked out of her orbit and into the dark and distant world of Populars, Scarlett turns to the fanfic message boards for comfort. This time, though, her subjects aren’t the swoon-worthy stars of […]