Private Lessons
By: Cynthia Salaysay
3.44
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
In a standout debut for the #MeToo era, a young pianist devotes herself to her art — and to the dem…
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1. Ice
By: Sarah Beth Durst
3.71
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
When Cassie was a little girl, her grandmother told her a fairy tale about her mother, who made a d… read more
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"Whether he loved her or not didn't change how she felt about him. She loved him independent and regardless of whether he loved her."-Sarah Beth Durst, Ice
"She had a hundred reasons: because Bear had carved a statue of her in the center of the topiary garden, because she could always make him laugh, because he'd let her return to the station, because he…"-Sarah Beth Durst, Ice
2. Escaping from Houdini (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #3)
By: Kerri Maniscalco
3.94
Format: 416 pages, ebook
Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her partner-in-crime-investigation, Thomas Cresswell, are en route to New… read more
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"Please,’"-Kerri Maniscalco, Escaping from Houdini (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #3)
"Such sharp words,"-Kerri Maniscalco, Escaping from Houdini (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #3)
"I don’t believe it,"-Kerri Maniscalco, Escaping from Houdini (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #3)
"Normal is overrated."-Kerri Maniscalco, Escaping from Houdini (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #3)
3. Last Night at the Telegraph Club
By: Malinda Lo
4.22
Format: 409 pages, Hardcover
A story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the Red Scare. “That book. It w… read more
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- romance
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- contemporary
"How am I supposed to know?"-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club
"As if summer had bloomed inside the club and wrapped her in its lazy heat"-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club
"She didn't understand the shrinking feeling inside her, as if she shouldn't be caught looking at those girls."-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club
"A few of them were already engaged to be married. When had everything changed? She felt as if it had been very sudden"-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club
4. In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
By: Michelle Burford , Diane Guerrero
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The star of Orange is the New Blackand Jane the Virginpresents her personal story of the real pligh… read more
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5. Inside Out & Back Again
By: Thanhhà Lại
3.92
Format: 594 pages, Hardcover
For all the ten years of her life, Ha has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of… read more
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6. Elsewhere
By: Gabrielle Zevin
3.60
Format: None pages,
Welcome to Elsewhere.It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. It's quiet and peace… read more
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7. Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
By: L.M. Montgomery
4.17
Format: 227 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780553213188 Anne's own true love, Gilbert Blythe, … read more
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"…but youth yearned to youth."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
"We belong to the race that knows Joseph"-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
"Death grows friendlier as we grow older."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
"It takes all kinds of people to make a world."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
8. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
By: Shane Hawk
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more
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9. Diavola
By: Jennifer Marie Thorne
3.95
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more
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10. Plain Bad Heroines
By: Emily M. Danforth
3.65
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Our story begins in 1902, at The Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable stu… read more
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"Eleanor Faderman knew many books. But never before had she read a book that seemed to know her."-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines
"She was a person like this: full of opinion and firm standing, she planted her flag in more topics than you could quite believe she could actually care about."-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines
"I like it so much better when nobody expects anything from me and then I surprise them by delivering anything at all." "That bar’s so low you’re gonna stub your toe on it."-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines
"So many things felt so routinely disappointing to her that it seemed a shame to waste this evening on that mild unhappiness, one that she could admit to herself possibly wasn't deserved."-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines
11. When No One Is Watching
By: Alyssa Cole
3.49
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Rear Window meets Get Out in this gripping thriller from a critically acclaimed and New York Times … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"They can break, but they can't erase. They can build but they can't bury us."-Alyssa Cole, When No One Is Watching
"People bury the parts of history they don't like, pave it over like African cemeteries beneath Manhattan skyscrapers."-Alyssa Cole, When No One Is Watching
"Our kiss is like two drowning people searching for a life preserver, finding each other instead, and deciding that roaring waves aren't so bad if you can fuck in the lulls between them."-Alyssa Cole, When No One Is Watching
"It's the last sorry that breaks me. He's said a few times, but this one finally sinks in. I've gotten so used to apologizing for being too weak to carry my own burdens — I don't know if anyone's ever…"-Alyssa Cole, When No One Is Watching
12. Persephone (Into Shadow, #2)
By: Lev Grossman
3.02
Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition
A teenage nobody crosses a line that will change her life forever in this short coming-of-age story… read more
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13. What Kind of Girl
By: Alyssa B. Sheinmel
3.75
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
"Both timely and timeless, a powerful exploration of abuse in its many forms, as well as the streng… read more
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- feminism
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- contemporary
- abuse
"Maybe I have to stop trying to be one thing or another. Maybe I need to accept the ways I contradict myself. Maybe that's what it is to be human."-Alyssa B. Sheinmel, What Kind of Girl
14. From Below
By: Darcy Coates
4.02
Format: 469 pages, Paperback
No light. No air. No escape. Hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface, a graveyard waits... … read more
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"The human mind couldn't cope with looking at nothing for very long and, in sufficient darkness, quickly began to create its own images of what it thought belonged there."-Darcy Coates, From Below
"Humans were never intended to reach the depths they were seeking. The only way they had was through a century of trial and error, of pushing the limits, of countless deaths in search of a way down. C…"-Darcy Coates, From Below
15. The Candles Are Burning (Into Shadow, #6)
By: Veronica G. Henry
3.43
Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition
Amid the modern trappings of 1950s Savannah, an ancient evil threatens a young widow and her daught… read more
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16. Sisters Under the Rising Sun
By: Heather Morris
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz… read more
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17. The Silence Between Us
By: Alison Gervais
3.86
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
Deaf teen Maya moves across the country and must attend a hearing school for the first time. As if … read more
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18. Out of the Mirror, Darkness (Into Shadow, #7)
By: Garth Nix
3.31
Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition
A cynical “fixer” for a silent-film studio must confront the shadows behind the bright lights in th… read more
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19. Murder and Mamon (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #4)
By: Mia P. Manansala
3.70
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
When murder mars the grand opening for Lila Macapagal’s aunties’ new laundromat, she will have to a… read more
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"This town could use a force for good." Jae smiled down at me. "At least it has us."-Mia P. Manansala, Murder and Mamon (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #4)
"I took a huge bite of a silvana, savoring the contrasting crunchy, chewy, and creamy textures, letting the sweet richness of the buttercream melt in my mouth to give me courage."-Mia P. Manansala, Murder and Mamon (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #4)
"Nabila hesitated, but then Longganisa sat on Nabila's foot and looked up at her as if to say, You sure you don't want to be our friend? Even if you weren't a dog person (do those exist?), there was n…"-Mia P. Manansala, Murder and Mamon (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #4)
"An old client brought me a bottle of Vinho Verde, so I thought I'd try making a green sangria. Perfect for spring, isn't it?" The pitcher was full of honeydew, green apple, green grapes, lime, basil,…"-Mia P. Manansala, Murder and Mamon (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #4)
20. Little Bang
By: Kelly McCaughrain
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A bittersweet Northern Irish romance that takes a new look at teen pregnancy, the magic and mess of… read more
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21. Private Lessons
By: Cynthia Salaysay
3.44
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
In a standout debut for the #MeToo era, a young pianist devotes herself to her art — and to the dem… read more
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- music
- young adult contemporary
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- feminism
- realistic fiction
- young adult
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- contemporary
- abuse
