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White Rose
Kip Wilson
“In a searing indictment of silent complicity, White
Rose shines a light on one remarkable young
woman’s insistence on the power of truth, no
matter the cost. A timely call to resistance.” – Joy
McCullough, author of Blood Water Paint
9781328594433 “White Rose is a resonant testament to courage.
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poetry, the story of their hopes is honored and
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Dark Tracks
Philippa Gregory, Fred van Deelen
Luca Vero is a member of the secret Order of Darkness,
tasked by his master to uncover the truth behind strange
happenings. Alongside Lady Isolde, her friend and
confidant, Ishraq, Luca’s manservant, Freize, and Brother
Peter, Luca travels miles across medieval Europe—seeking
out the signs of the end of days, judging the supernatural,
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Purple Hearts
Michael Grant
Courage, sacrifice, and fear have led Rio, Frangie, and
Rainy through the front-line battles in North Africa and
Sicily, and their missions are not over. These soldiers and
thousands of Allies must fight their deadliest battle
yet—for their country and their lives—as they descend
into the freezing water and onto the treacherous sands of
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None of these women are the same naive recruits they
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were when the war started. They are Silver Star
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Someday We Will Fly
Rachel Dewoskin
From the author of Blind, a heart-wrenching
coming-of-age story set during World War II in
Shanghai, one of the only places Jews without
visas could find refuge.
Warsaw, Poland. The year is 1940 and Lillia is fifteen
9780670014965 when her mother, Alenka, disappears and her father flees
$17.99 with Lillia and her younger sister, Naomi, to Shanghai, one
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There they struggle to make a life; they have no money,
there is little work, no decent place to live, a culture...
Lovely War
Julie Berry
Read the novel New York Times bestselling author
of The Alice Network Kate Quinn called “easily one
of the best novels I have read all year!” A
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perilous days of World Wars I and II, where gods
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pianist from London, a British would-be architect-turned-
soldier, a Harlem-born ragtime genius in the U.S. Army,
and a Belgian orphan with a gorgeo...
Crown of Feathers
Nicki Pau Preto
I had a sister, once…
In a world ruled by fierce warrior queens, a grand empire
was built upon the backs of Phoenix Riders—legendary
heroes who soared through the sky on wings of fire—until
a war between two sisters ripped it all apart.
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Sixteen years later, Veronyka is a war orphan who dreams
of becoming a Phoenix Rider from the stories of old. After
a shocking betrayal from her controlling sister, Veronyka
All Is Fair
Dee Garretson
When Lady Mina Tretheway receives a telegram at
boarding school, she doesn’t want to read it. In 1918, with
war raging, she dreads telegrams, knowing they never
bring good news.
At first she doesn’t understand the cryptic message. Then
9781250168696 she realizes it’s written in code, and the message leads
$17.99 her home to Hallington Manor. When Lord Andrew
Hardcover with dust Graham appears with a dashing young American, Lucas,
jacket Mina learns that the two of them must work together on
dangerous project for the war effort.
Thinking Mina is...
Mapping the Bones
Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen, the bestselling and award-winning
author of The Devil’s Arithmetic, returns to World
War II and the Holocaust with this timely and
necessary novel.
It’s 1942 in Poland, and the world is coming to pieces. At
9780399546679 least that’s how it seems to Chaim and Gittel, twins whose
$10.99 lives feel like a fairy tale torn apart, with evil witches,
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horizon. But in all darkness there is light, and the twins
find it through Chaim’s poetry and the love they h...
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Love, Hate and Other Filters
Samira Ahmed
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In this unforgettable debut novel, an Indian-
American Muslim teen copes with Islamophobia,
cultural divides among peers and parents, and a
reality she can neither explain nor escape.
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Seventeen-year-old Maya Aziz is torn between worlds.
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There’s the proper one her parents expect for their good
Indian daughter: attending a college close to their
suburban Chicago home and being paired off with an
older Muslim boy her mom deems “suitable.” And then
there is the world of her...
That Inevitable Victorian Thing
E.K. Johnston
Speculative fiction from the acclaimed author of
Exit, Pursued by a Bear for fans of The Glittering
Court series
Set in a near-future world where the British Empire never
fell and the United States never rose: Victoria-Margaret is
9781101994566 the crown princess of the empire, a direct descendant of
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Invictus
Ryan Graudin
A heart-stopping adventure defying time and
space that New York Times bestselling author
Marie Lu calls "an incredibly intricate, brilliantly
paced, masterfully written journey."
Time flies when you're plundering history.
9780316503082
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ancient Rome, Far's very existence defies the laws of
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The Devil's Thief
Lisa Maxwell
Hunt the Stones.
Beware the Thief.
Avenge the Past.
Esta’s parents were murdered. Her life was stolen. And
everything she knew about magic was a lie. She thought
9781481494458 the Book of Mysteries held the key to freeing the Mageus
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from the Order’s grasp, but the danger within its pages
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Now the Book’s furious power lives inside Harte. If he
can’t control it, it will rip apart the world to get its revenge,
and it will use Esta to do it.
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Among the Red Stars
Gwen C. Katz
World War II has erupted in Valka’s homeland of Russia,
and Valka is determined to help the effort. She’s a
pilot—and a good one—so she eagerly joins an all-female
bomber regiment.
Flying has always meant freedom and exhilaration for
Valka, but dropping bombs on German targets is
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something else entirely. The raids are dangerous, but as
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line in the face of treachery, she learns the true meaning
of bravery.
As the war intensifies and those ar...
An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason
Virginia Boecker
A Kirkus 2018 Best Book of the Year!
Shakespeare in Love meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith in
this witty and thrilling story of star-crossed
assassins in Elizabeth England, perfect for fans of
My Lady Jane and The Gentleman's Guide to Vice
9780316327343 and Virtue!
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Hardcover When Lady Katherine's father is killed for being an illegally
practicing Catholic, she discovers treason wasn't the only
secret he's been hiding: he was also involved in a murder
plot against the reigning Queen Elizabeth I. With nothing
left to lose, Katherin...
Bridge of Clay
Markus Zusak
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • THE WALL
STREET JOURNAL
The unforgettable, New York Times bestselling
family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller
9781984830159 who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE
$26.00 BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as
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“One of those monumental books that can draw
you across space and time into another family’s
experience in the most profound way.” —The
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
Mackenzi Lee
Felicity Montague is through with pretending she prefers
society parties to books about bonesetting—or that she’s
not smarter than most people she knows, or that she
cares about anything more than her dream of becoming a
doctor.
A year after an accidentally whirlwind tour of Europe,
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$18.99 which she spent evading highwaymen and pirates with
her brother Monty, Felicity has returned to England with
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two goals in mind—avoid the marriage proposal of Callum
Doyle, a lovestruck suitor from Edinburgh, and enrol...
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The War Outside
Monica Hesse
New from Monica Hesse, the bestselling and
award-winning author of Girl in the Blue Coat--an
"important" (New York Times Book Review),
"extraordinary" (Booklist, starred review) novel of
conviction, friendship, and betrayal
9780316316699 "A must-read for fans of historical fiction." --Ruta
$17.99 Sepetys, #1 New York Times bestselling author
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It's 1944, and World War II is raging across Europe and
the Pacific. The war seemed far away from Margot in Iowa
and Haruko in Colorado--until they were uprooted to
dusty Texas, ...
Dream Country
Shannon Gibney
The heartbreaking story of five generations of
young people from a single African-and-American
family pursuing an elusive dream of freedom.
“This novel is a remarkable achievement.”—Kelly Barnhill,
New York Times bestselling author and Newbery medalist
9780735231672
$17.99 “Beautifully epic.”—Ibi Zoboi, author American Street and
Hardcover National Book Award finalist
Dream Country begins in suburban Minneapolis at the
moment when seventeen-year-old Kollie Flomo begins to
crack under the strain of his life as a Liberian refugee....
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
Mackenzi Lee
Henry “Monty” Montague was born and bred to be a
gentleman, but he was never one to be tamed. The finest
boarding schools in England and the constant disapproval
of his father haven’t been able to curb any of his roguish
passions—not for gambling halls, late nights spent with a
bottle of spirits, or waking up in the arms of women or
9780062382818 men.
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But as Monty embarks on his grand tour of Europe, his
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quest for a life filled with pleasure and vice is in danger of
coming to an end. Not only does his father e...
Grace and Fury
Tracy Banghart
Bold, brutal, and beautiful--a must-read fantasy
full of fierce sisterhood, action, and political
intrigue for fans of The Selection series, Caraval,
and The Handmaid's Tale.
Serina Tessaro has been groomed her whole life to
9780316471411 become a Grace--someone to stand by the heir to the
$17.99 throne as a shining, subjugated example of the perfect
Hardcover woman. It's her chance to secure a better life for her
family, and to keep her headstrong and rebellious younger
sister, Nomi, out of trouble. But when Nomi catches the ...
LITTLE, BROWN BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
Pride
Ibi Zoboi
It is a truth universally acknowledged that when white
people move into a neighborhood that’s already been a
little bit broken and a little bit forgotten, the first thing they
want to do is clean it up.
Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and
pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be
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enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from
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becoming unrecognizable.
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When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the
street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenag...
The Red Ribbon
Lucy Adlington
Shining a light on a little-known aspect of the
Holocaust, Lucy Adlington weaves an
unforgettable story of strength, survival, and a
friendship that can endure anything.
Three weeks after being detained on her way home from
9781536201048 school, fourteen-year-old Ella finds herself in the Upper
$17.99 Tailoring Studio, a sewing workshop inside a Nazi
Hardcover concentration camp. There, two dozen skeletal women toil
over stolen sewing machines. They are the seamstresses
of Birchwood, stitching couture dresses for a perilous cl...
The Last Magician
Lisa Maxwell
Stop the Magician.
Steal the book.
Save the future.
In modern-day New York, magic is all but extinct. The
remaining few who have an affinity for magic—the
9781481432085 Mageus—live in the shadows, hiding who they are. Any
$12.99 Mageus who enters Manhattan becomes trapped by the
Trade Paperback Brink, a dark energy barrier that confines them to the
island. Crossing it means losing their power—and often
their lives.
Esta is a talented thief, and she's been raised to steal
Bright We Burn
Kiersten White
The tumultuous, edge-of-your-seat conclusion to
the New York Times bestselling AND I DARKEN
series—the epic saga that reads like HBO’s Game
of Thrones…if it were set in the Ottoman Empire.
Who will live? Who will die? And who will rule
triumphant?
9780553522396
$18.99 Haunted by the sacrifices he made in Constantinople,
Hardcover Radu is called back to the new capital. Mehmed is building
an empire, becoming the sultan his people need. But
Mehmed has a secret: as emperor, he is more powerful
than ever…and desperately lonely. Do...
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The Game of Hope
Sandra Gulland
For Napoleon’s stepdaughter, nothing is simple -
especially love.
Paris, 1798. Hortense de Beauharnais is engrossed in her
studies at a boarding school for aristocratic girls, most of
whom have suffered tragic losses during the tumultuous
9780425291016 days of the French Revolution. She loves to play and
$18.99 compose music, read and paint, and daydream about
Hardcover Christophe, her brother’s dashing fellow officer. But
Hortense is not an ordinary girl. Her beautiful, charming
mother, Josephine, has married Napoleon Bonapar...
Flame in the Mist
Renée Ahdieh
From #1 New York Times bestselling author
Renée Ahdieh comes a sweeping, action-packed
YA adventure set against the backdrop of Feudal
Japan where Mulan meets Throne of Glass.
The daughter of a prominent samurai, Mariko has long
9780147513878 known her place—she may be an accomplished
$10.99 alchemist, whose cunning rivals that of her brother
Trade Paperback Kenshin, but because she is not a boy, her future has
always been out of her hands. At just seventeen years
old, Mariko is promised to Minamoto Raiden, the son of
the emperor’s ...
Lizzie
Dawn Ius
Seventeen-year-old Lizzie Borden has never been kissed.
Polite but painfully shy, Lizzie prefers to stay in the kitchen,
where she can dream of becoming a chef and escape her
reality. With tyrannical parents who force her to work at
the family’s B&B and her blackout episodes—a medical
condition that has plagued her since her first menstrual
9781481490764 cycle—Lizzie longs for a life of freedom, the time and
$17.99 space to just figure out who she is and what she wants.
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Enter the effervescent, unpredictable Bridget ...
What the Night Sings
Vesper Stamper
A Morris Award Finalist
Longlisted for the National Book Award
For fans of The Book Thief and The Boy in the
Striped Pajamas comes a lushly illustrated novel
about a teen Holocaust survivor who must come
9781524700386 to terms with who she is and how to rebuild her
$19.99 life.
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“A tour de force. This powerful story of love, loss,
and survival is not to be missed.”—KRISTIN
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VIKING BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
Now I Rise
Kiersten White
The highly anticipated, mind-blowing New York
Times bestselling sequel to Kiersten White’s New
York Times bestseller, AND I DARKEN—the series
that reads like HBO’s Game of Thrones…if it were
set in the Ottoman Empire.
9780553522389 A SISTER FILLED WITH RAGE
$10.99 Lada Dracul has no allies. No crown. All she has is what
Trade Paperback she’s always had: herself. After failing to secure the
Wallachian throne, Lada is out to punish anyone who
dares cross her. She storms the countryside with her
men, but brute force isn’t getting Lada...
The Pearl Thief
Elizabeth Wein
Catalog Copy:
Before Verity . . . there was Julie.
When fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in
the hospital, she knows the lazy summer break she’d
imagined won’t be exactly what she anticipated. And once
9781484723708 she returns to her grandfather’s estate, a bit banged up
$9.99 but alive, she begins to realize that her injury might not
Paperback have been an accident. One of her family’s employees is
missing, and he disappeared on the very same day she
landed in the hospital.
Desperate to figure out what happen...
Orphan Monster Spy
Matt Killeen
Her name is Sarah. She’s blonde, blue-eyed, and
Jewish in 1939 Germany. And her act of resistance
is about to change the world.
After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, fifteen-year-old
Sarah meets a mysterious man with an ambiguous
9780451478733 accent, a suspiciously bare apartment, and a lockbox full
$18.99 of weapons. He’s part of the secret resistance against the
Hardcover Third Reich, and he needs Sarah to hide in plain sight at a
school for the daughters of top Nazi brass, posing as one
of them. If she can befriend the...
The Librarian of Auschwitz
Antonio Iturbe, Lilit Thwaites
Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by
the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and
father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting
to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish
leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight
precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak
9781627796187 past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the
$19.99 librarian of Auschwitz.
Hardcover with dust
jacket Out of one of the darkest chapters of human history
comes this extraordina...
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Blood for Blood
Ryan Graudin
"Wild and gorgeous, vivid and consuming. I loved
it! I can't wait for the sequel."--Laini Taylor, New
York Times bestselling author of the Daughter of
Smoke & Bone trilogy, on Wolf by Wolf
The action-packed, thrilling sequel to Ryan
9780316405164 Graudin's Wolf by Wolf.
$10.99
Paperback For the resistance in 1950s Germany, the war may be
over, but the fight has just begun.
Death camp survivor Yael, who has the power to skinshift,
is on the run: The world has just seen her shoot and kill
The Memory of Things: A Novel
Gae Polisner
On the morning of September 11, 2001, sixteen-year-old
Kyle Donohue watches the first twin tower come down
from the window of Stuyvesant High School. Moments
later, terrified and fleeing home to safety across the
Brooklyn Bridge, he stumbles across a girl perched in the
shadows, covered in ash, and wearing a pair of costume
9781250144423 wings. With his mother and sister in California and unable
$10.99 to reach his father, a NYC detective likely on his way to the
Trade Paperback disaster, Kyle makes the split-second decision to bri...
Midnight at the Electric
Jodi Lynn Anderson
Kansas, 2065 Adri has been handpicked to live on Mars.
But weeks before Launch, she discovers the journal of a
girl who lived in her house over a hundred years ago, and
is immediately drawn into the mystery surrounding her
fate. While Adri knows she must focus on the mission
ahead, she becomes captivated by a life that’s been lost in
9780062393548 time…and how it might be inextricably tied to her own.
$17.99
Hardcover Oklahoma, 1934 Amidst the fear and uncertainty of the
Dust Bowl, Catherine longs for the immortality promised
...
Outrun the Moon
Stacey Lee
Critically acclaimed author Stacey Lee continues to
weave adventure and romance in a novel set
during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. For
fans of Ruta Sepetys, Libba Bray, Sherri L. Smith,
and Elizabeth Wein.
9780147516916 In San Francisco in 1906, a spot at St. Clare’s School is off
$10.99 limits for all but the wealthiest white girls. However,
Trade Paperback fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong knows that education is the
best way out of Chinatown’s squalor. Through a mix of
cunning and a little bribery, Mercy gains admittance. Then
a ...
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Alex and Eliza
Melissa de la Cruz
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Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys
The New York Times bestseller! All the Light We
Cannot See meets Titanic in this emotionally
wrought, masterful work of historical fiction from
award-winning and internationally bestselling
author Ruta Sepetys, in a gorgeous new
paperback package.
9780142423622
$10.99 It’s 1945 in East Prussia. World War II is drawing to a
Trade Paperback close as Russian forces overtake the Germans, and
thousands of refugees are on a frantic trek toward
freedom. Among the throngs of people seeking safety are
Joana, Emilia, and Florian: each one bor...
And I Darken
Kiersten White
The New York Times Bestseller!
“Absolutely riveting.” —Alexandra Bracken, #1 New
York Times bestselling author of The Darkest Minds
This vividly rendered novel reads like HBO’s Game of
9780553522341 Thrones . . . if it were set in the Ottoman Empire.
$10.99 Ambitious in scope and intimate in execution, the story’s
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deftly plotted narrative driven by fiercely passionate
characters and a fearsome heroine. Fans of Victoria
Aveyard’s THE RED QUEEN and Sabaa Tahir’...
Beck
Mal Peet, Meg Rosoff
From Carnegie Medal–winning author Mal Peet
comes a sweeping coming-of-age adventure, both
harrowing and life-affirming.
Born of a brief encounter between a Liverpool prostitute
and an African soldier in 1907, Beck finds himself
9780763678425 orphaned as a young boy and sent overseas to the
$17.99 Catholic Brothers in Canada. At age fifteen he is sent to
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in charge of his own destiny, Beck starts westward,
crossing the border into America and back, all while th...
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The Passion of Dolssa
Julie Berry
From the author of the award-winning All the
Truth That’s in Me comes a spellbindinding work of
historical fiction The New York Times calls
“magnificent.”
The year is 1241; the place, Provensa, what we now call
9780147512963 Provence, France. A land still reeling from the bloody
$10.99 Crusades waged there by the Catholic Church, now in
Trade Paperback power. Dolssa, a young gentlewoman from the city, is on
the run from a rogue monk who wants to burn her as a
heretic for her beliefs. Botille, a scrappy and charismatic
peasant, is a ...
Anna and the Swallow Man
Gavriel Savit
“[A] splendid debut novel. . . . This is masterly
storytelling.” —The New York Times
Set in Poland during the Second World War, Anna
and the Swallow Man is a stunning, literary, and
wholly original New York Times bestseller and
9780553522082 Publishers Weekly best book of the year perfect
$9.99 for readers of The Book Thief and All the Light We
Trade Paperback Cannot See.
Kraków, 1939. A million marching soldiers and a thousand
barking dogs. This is no place to grow up. Anna Lania is
just seven years old when the Germans take her ...
Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the
Landmark Civil Rights Case
Patricia Hruby Powell, Shadra Strickland
From acclaimed author Patricia Hruby Powell comes the
story of a landmark civil rights case, told in spare and
gorgeous verse. In 1955, in Caroline County, Virginia,
amidst segregation and prejudice, injustice and cruelty,
two teenagers fell in love. Their life together broke the law,
9781452125909 but their determination would change it. Richard and
$21.99 Mildred Loving were at the heart of a Supreme Court case
Hardcover that legalized marriage between races, and a story of the
devoted couple who faced discrimination, fough...
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Deluxe
Illustrated Edition)
John Boyne, Oliver Jeffers
The international bestseller that has touched millions of
readers around the world is now available in a deluxe
illustrated edition, featuring powerful illustrations by
acclaimed artist Oliver Jeffers.
9780399559310 Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one
$18.99 day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in
Hardcover crates. His father has received a promotion and the family
must move to a new house far, far away, where there is
no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence
stretches as far as ...
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The Rose & the Dagger
Renée Ahdieh
The #1 New York Times bestselling sequel to the
breathtaking debut The Wrath and the Dawn, a #1
New York Times bestseller in its own right.
In a land on the brink of war, Shahrzad has been torn
from the love of her husband Khalid, the Caliph of
9780147513861 Khorasan. She once believed him a monster, but his
$10.99 secrets revealed a man tormented by guilt and a powerful
Trade Paperback curse. Reunited with her family, who have taken refuge
with enemies of Khalid, and Tariq, her childhood
sweetheart, she should be happy. But Tariq n...
Silent
David Mellon
Adi is an outrider, rejected by both her British father’s and
Indian mother’s cultures, so she is no stranger to trouble.
But when a mysterious agitator called “Coal” kidnaps Adi’s
twin brothers, Adi has to rely on herself to find them. With
strength and cunning as fierce as any boy’s, she decides
to cut her hair and put on a military uniform to slip
9781507201688 unnoticed through the chaos of the early days of World
$17.99 War I. When Adi finds a pocket watch that could be the
Hardcover clue to her lost brothers, she must f...
Front Lines
Michael Grant
World War II, 1942. A court decision makes women
subject to the draft and eligible for service. The unproven
American army is going up against the greatest fighting
force ever assembled, the armed forces of Nazi Germany.
Three girls sign up to fight. Rio Richlin, Frangie Marr, and
9780062342164 Rainy Schulterman are average girls, girls with dreams
$9.99 and aspirations, at the start of their lives, at the start of
Paperback their loves. Each has her own reasons for volunteering:
Rio fights to honor her sister; Frangie needs ...
Wolf by Wolf: One girl?s mission to win a race
and kill Hitler
Ryan Graudin
"Wild and gorgeous, vivid and consuming. I loved it! I
can't wait for the sequel." --Laini Taylor, New York
Times bestselling author of the Daughter of Smoke
& Bone trilogy
9780316405089 Her story begins on a train.
$10.99
Paperback The year is 1956, and the Axis powers of the Third Reich
and Imperial Japan rule. To commemorate their Great
Victory, they host the Axis Tour: an annual motorcycle
race across their combined continents. The prize? An
audience with the highly reclusive Adolf Hitler at the
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Lucky Strikes
Louis Bayard
With her mama recently dead and her pa sight unseen
since birth, fourteen-year-old Amelia is suddenly in charge
of her younger brother and sister, and of the family gas
station. Harley Blevins, local king and emperor of
Standard Oil, is in hot pursuit to clinch his fuel monopoly.
To keep him at bay and her family out of foster care, Melia
9781627793902 must come up with a father, and fast. And so when a
$16.99 hobo rolls out of a passing truck, Melia grabs opportunity
Hardcover with dust by its beard. Can she hold off the hounds till s...
jacket
Traitor Angels
Anne Blankman
Six years have passed since England’s King Charles II
returned from exile to reclaim the throne, ushering in a
new era of stability for his subjects.
Except for Elizabeth Milton. The daughter of notorious
poet John Milton, Elizabeth has never known her place in
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The Diviners
Libba Bray
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