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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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Review: The Help

The Help by Kathryn Stockett takes place in Jackson, Mississippi in 1692. The main focus of the book is to expose the injustice and discrimination that maids, or “the help,” have to deal with every day when they work for white women. The story is told from three different points of view. The first point of view comes from Skeeter, […]

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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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Review: A Game of Thrones

A Game of Thrones is a book that has a lot of different things going on at once. It takes place in a time where the warm years of summer are ending and a harsh, cold winter is coming. There are unknown creatures causing destruction outside the northern walls of the kingdom, and no one knows how to stop them. […]

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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 […]

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Explode Your Holds List with More Mystery and Thrillers!

Check out what’s new in Mysteries and Thrillers this month: A Drop of Night by Stefan Bachmann17 year old Anouk has been chosen to participate in an exclusive program, which includes an all-expense-paid trip to France and a chance to explore the hidden underground Palais du Papillon, or the Palace of the Butterfly. Along with four other bright and talented […]