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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 […]

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Explode Your Holds with Speculative Fiction!

Speculative fiction is a broad genre that includes fiction with supernatural, fantasy, magical realism, alternative history, or futuristic elements. Check out some of our new books! The Head of the Saint by Socorro Acioli Having arrived in Candeia, Brazil, starving and footsore, after walking sixteen days to fulfill his dying mother’s last wishes, young Samuel takes up residence in an […]

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Explode Your Holds List with Realistic Fiction!

Here’s what’s new in Realistic Fiction this month: The Haters by Jesse Andrews Inspired by the years he spent playing bass in a band himself, The Haters is Andrews’s road trip adventure about a trio of jazz-camp escapees who, against every realistic expectation, become a band. For Wes and his best friend, Corey, jazz camp turns out to be lame. […]

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Explode Your Hold List with Historical Fiction!

These new historical fiction books really make history come alive! Check them out: The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock In Alaska, 1970, being a teenager here isn’t like being a teenager anywhere else. Ruth has a secret that she can’t hide forever. Dora wonders if she can ever truly escape where she comes from, even when good luck […]

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Explode Your Hold List with Fantasy & Sci-Fi!

Check out our new Fantasy and Science Fiction titles: Guile by Constance Cooper Yonie Watereye lives in the bayou. The water there is full of guile, a power that changes people and objects. Yonie makes a living investigating objects affected by guile, but in fact it’s her talking cat, LaRue, who has the power to see guile. Yonie becomes aware […]

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Explode Your Hold List with Realistic Fiction!

Check out what is new in realistic fiction: The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle  Quinn Roberts is a sixteen-year-old smart aleck and Hollywood hopeful whose only worry used to be writing convincing dialogue for the movies he made with his sister Annabeth. Of course, that was all before–before Quinn stopped going to school, before his mom started sleeping on the sofa…and […]

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Explode Your YA Hold List – January

Check out these new books! Click on a book cover to go to our catalog where you can place them on hold. Passenger by Alexandra Bracken: A new series from the author of The Darkest Minds trilogy. This one has time-travel. In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves. Thrust into an unfamiliar world […]