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2) Swagger
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High school senior point guard Jonas Dolan is on the fast track to a basketball career until an unthinkable choice puts his future on the line.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother, and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets.
“A novel of shining integrity and humor, about the bravery and hard choices of what is called ordinary life.”—Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning author
Before there was Olive...
“A novel of shining integrity and humor, about the bravery and hard choices of what is called ordinary life.”—Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning author
Before there was Olive...
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"Professor Pi Suleman, a Black man from Memphis, has to endure a lot as an adjunct professor at the city's University Along the Nile, a hard-earned career that is crushing his spirit. At the same time, he's being blackmailed by another professor. When he meets Gemma Buckingham, who has just moved to Memphis from London, things begin looking up. But Pi's romance is interrupted when his absentee father, a celebrated author who had an extramarital affair...
6) Mortal fear
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When the woman with whom he has been having an online love affair is murdered by a serial killer specializing in female clients of EROS, an exclusive, erotic online service, Harper Cole devises a deadly plan to impersonate his dead lover online, hoping to lead the killer out into the open.
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Books Written in Verse- Youth and Teen
OBD National Poetry Month (April) - YOUTH
RPS Teen Novels in Verse
Young Adult Awards List 2023-24
OBD National Poetry Month (April) - YOUTH
RPS Teen Novels in Verse
Young Adult Awards List 2023-24
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A mixed-heritage dancer's coming of age within the African diaspora is shaped by abuse at the hands of a cousin, her mother's descent into addiction, and her father's efforts to create a Nigerian-inspired home in America.
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Committed to a mental hospital against her will for something she claims she did not do, Cassie O'Malley signs herself out against medical advice when she turns eighteen and tries to start over at college, until her estranged mother appears, throwing everything Cassie believes about herself into question.
9) Period 8
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Period 8 has always been a safe haven and high school senior Paulie "The Bomb" Baum a constant attendee, but as Paulie, Hannah, their friends, and a sympathetic teacher try to unravel the mystery of a missing classmate, the ultimate bully takes aim at the school.
11) Blinded
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In his latest masterwork of psychological suspense, the New York Times bestselling author of The Program, Warning Signs, and The Best Revenge peers into a troubled marriage to craft a shattering tale of secrecy, eroticism, betrayal, and murder.
Psychologist Alan Gregory is juggling his responsibilities as a father, a husband, and doctor when a beautiful woman walks into his office with an astounding admission. Gibbs...
Psychologist Alan Gregory is juggling his responsibilities as a father, a husband, and doctor when a beautiful woman walks into his office with an astounding admission. Gibbs...
12) Ever since
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"Seventeen-year-old Virginia makes bad choices. In fact, she's That Kind of Girl, according to the whispers. But as long as she has her tight group of best friends by her side, she's able to ignore the gossipers. Until she finds herself spending time with Rumi, Poppy's boyfriend. Breaking with tradition, she doesn't hook up with Rumi. Worse, she falls in love with him. While Virginia and Rumi's relationship grows in secret, she discovers that his...
13) Betrayal
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When her husband is convicted of a crime he didn't commit, Kate plots her revenge on the people responsible.
14) Hush
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After remembering the cause of her best friend Devory's suicide at age nine, Gittel is determined to raise awareness of sexual abuse in her Borough Park, New York, community, despite the rules of Chassidim that require her to be silent.
15) Falso testigo
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Leigh Collier ha trabajado duro para construir lo que parece una vida normal. Ella es una abogada defensora prometedora en un prestigioso bufete de abogados en Atlanta, haría cualquier cosa por su hija Maddy, de dieciséis años, y se las está arreglando para ser una madre exitosa en una pandemia después de una separación amistosa de su esposo Walter. ero la vida cotidiana de Leigh enmascara una infancia que nadie debería tener que soportar ......
16) The liar
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From the award-winning author of Waking Lions comes a novel about how one lie can change everything, when a teenaged girl's scream--and the false assumption that comes from it--radiates through a street, a neighborhood, and a city, and turns lives upside down.
17) Edge of darkness
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Child psychologist Meredith Fallon knows she shouldn't hold out hope for Adam Kimble. After a few unforgettable hours spent together, the seasoned homicide detective has spent the last year going out of his way to avoid her. But when Meredith is the target of a botched hit in downtown Cincinati, he explodes back itno her life. Adam can't unsee the horrors that come with his job: the victims he couldn't save; the monsters who still walk free. But he's...
18) A drop of venom
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Sixteen-year-old Manisha is no stranger to monsters--she's been running from them for years, from beasts who roam the jungle to the King's army, who forced her people, the naga, to scatter to the ends of the earth. You might think that the kingdom's famed holy temples atop the floating mountains, where Manisha is now a priestess, would be safe--but you would be wrong. Seventeen-year-old Pratyush is a famed slayer of monsters, one of the King's most...
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Kendra's first novel was a huge success, but now she's on a deadline and cannot write a thing. Her attention is consumed with a letter from an anonymous reader, who seems to know exactly how much Kendra's novel was based on past summers in Hidden Lake, MN. Cami Rainier was adopted from Korea by a famous novelist, and she and Kendra spent many magical summers imagining on the lake, until Cami's parents adopted a teenager named Tyler with a troubled...