Topical/Coming of Age

  • F.A.R.T.: Top Secret! No Kids Allowed!

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    When a young teen discovers a top-secret parenting manual, it’s kids versus grown-ups in this kooky, illustrated middle grade thriller with nonstop, seat-of-your-pants action that will delight fans of[more below]

    • Series: The F.A.R.T. Diaries #1
    • Author: Bakalian, Peter
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: May 03 2022
    • ISBN10: 1534436197
    • Language: English
  • The Last Queen: A Novel of Courage and Resistance

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    WINNER of the 2022 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN AWARD for BEST FICTION OF THE YEAR!

    LONGLISTED for 2022 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD!

    She rose from commoner to become the last reigning queen of I

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    • Author: Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: May 10 2022
    • ISBN10: 0063161877
    • Language: English
  • Mendel

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    Imagine the mid 1980’s, last day of school, summer break. A teen rushes to meet his mother, who is being released from the hospital after cancer surgery. When the teen arrives, he finds out his mother

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    • Author: Bester, Damone
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: April 26 2022
    • ISBN10: 1611883261
    • Language: English
  • The Empress

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    “Sumptuous . . . Nothing in this story disappoints.” –Publishers Weekly
    “A fresh, fast-paced take on a legendary woman.” –Evie Dunmore, USA Today bestselling author of Bringing Down the Duke

    As seen o

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    • Author: Griffis, Gigi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: September 27 2022
    • ISBN10: 1638930163
    • Language: English
  • Blubber

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    What happens when teasing goes too far? This classic middle grade novel from Judy Blume addresses the timeless topic of bullying and has a fresh new look.

    “Blubber is a good name for her,” the note fr

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    • Author: Blume, Judy
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: April 29 2014
    • ISBN10: 1481414402
    • Language: English
  • The Incorrigible Optimists Club

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    Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini–amateur photographer and compulsive reader–is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the … [more below]

    • Author: Guenassia, Jean-Michel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 640
    • Publish Date: April 01 2017
    • ISBN10: 1848875428
    • Language: English
  • Scouts

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    Stranger Things meets The Goonies in this suspenseful yet heartwarming adventure story about a group of friends who set out to find a crashed meteor…but find mystery and danger instead as their clos[more below]

    • Author: Greenland, Shannon
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: August 18 2020
    • ISBN10: 0316704121
    • Language: English
  • Crossing the Stream

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    Ato hasn’t visited his grandmother’s house since he was seven. He’s heard the rumors that she’s a witch, and his mother has told him he must never sit on the old couch on her porch. Now here he is, on

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    • Author: Baitie, Elizabeth-Irene
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: June 07 2022
    • ISBN10: 1324030399
    • Language: English
  • Junie

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    Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

    A riveting exploration of the complexity within mother-daughter relationships and the dynamic vitality of Vancouver’s former Hogan’s Alley neighb

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    • Author: Knight, Chelene
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 334
    • Publish Date: September 13 2022
    • ISBN10: 1771667680
    • Language: English
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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    A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is Neil Gaiman’s first new novel for adults since his #1 New York Times

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    • Author: Gaiman, Neil
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: June 18 2013
    • ISBN10: 0062255657
    • Language: English
  • Walking on Fire

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    Greece. Politics. Love. Danger. Reeling from a failed marriage and spurred on by a burgeoning sense of feminism, twenty-five-year-old Kate accepts a position as a speech therapist in a center for chil… [more below]

    • Author: Crawley, Kathryn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: June 13 2023
    • ISBN10: 1647424380
    • Language: English
  • Hunt for Eden’s Star

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    Discover the story of an intrepid, globe-trotting teen and a motley group of friends in a world where choices have epic consequences.

    In this new coming-of-age YA fantasy novel full of action-packed ad… [more below]

    • Author: Williams, D. J.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: April 04 2023
    • ISBN10: 1496462661
    • Language: English
  • A Complicated Kindness

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    This “darkly funny and provocative” coming-of-age novel balances grief and hope in the voice of a witty teenage girl whose Canadian family is shattered by fundamentalist Christianity (O, The Oprah Mag[more below]

    • Author: Toews, Miriam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: January 22 2019
    • ISBN10: 1640091416
    • Language: English
  • The Thousandth Floor

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    New York Times bestseller

    This edition includes never-before-seen deleted scenes, fan-favorite graphics, and a sneak peek to the next book in the series, The Dazzling Heights

    New York City as you’ve n

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    • Series: Thousandth Floor #1
    • Author: McGee, Katharine
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: June 06 2017
    • ISBN10: 0062418602
    • Language: English
  • The Good Luck Sister: A Wildstone Novella

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    This summer, romance blooms again in Wildstone

    After a difficult few years, Tilly Adams is ready for life to start going right. Though she has a case of first-day nerves teaching art at the local com

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    • Series: Wildstone
    • Author: Shalvis, Jill
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: May 01 2018
    • ISBN10: 0062463616
    • Language: English
  • The Beautiful and Damned

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    Twenty-five-year-old Anthony Patch appears to have it all: a Harvard education, an apartment in New York City, memberships at all of the best clubs, and a generous trust fund to draw from. Sure, his g… [more below]

    • Series: Signature Classics
    • Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: September 12 2023
    • ISBN10: 1435172272
    • Language: English
  • Ignite the Sun

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    Once upon a time, there was something called the sun … In a kingdom ruled by a witch, the sun is just part of a legend about Light-filled days of old. But now Siria Nightingale is headed to the hear

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    • Author: Howard, Hanna
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: August 18 2020
    • ISBN10: 0310769736
    • Language: English
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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    Mark Twain’s adventurous story of boyhood is now available in an unabridged paperback edition for today’s young readers.
    Whether he’s tricking others into doing his work or running away with Hucklebe… [more below]

    • Series: Children’s Signature Classics
    • Author: Twain, Mark
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 264
    • Publish Date: May 02 2023
    • ISBN10: 1454950013
    • Language: English
  • Small Animals Caught in Traps

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    For readers of Kristin Hannah’s The Great Alone and David Vann’s Legend of a Suicide, C. B. Bernard’s debut novel shows a father and a daughter fighting toward hope through a traumatic past.

    In the tow

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    • Author: Bernard, C. B.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 0
    • Publish Date: April 04 2023
    • ISBN10: 9.7982E+12
    • Language: English
  • Beasts of the Earth

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    James Wade, whose first two novels were praised as “rhapsodic” and “haunting,” delivers his most powerful work to date–a chilling parable about the impossible demands of hate and love, trauma and goo

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    • Author: Wade, James
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 309
    • Publish Date: October 11 2022
    • ISBN10: 1665024089
    • Language: English
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