Ages 18+
The main character doesn’t remember who she is, let alone her first name. She arrives at the train station and realizes her bag has been stolen – so she doesn’t have I.D. to help her. She does remember where she lives, however. She goes to her home, only to find a couple living there who say that it’s their home, and don’t recognize her either. Will she ever figure out who she is? This thriller gripped me from the first page to the last.
Grades 9 – 12
Carmen Aguilar is upset because she has to spend her summer doing an unpaid internship where she has to get all dressed up in the Miami heat and perform for her cousin’s quinceanera. What’s more, her dance partner is her ex, someone who she never wanted to have to see or interact with again after their breakup. In order to find her “happily ever after,” she has to learn to leave the past in the past.
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Ages 18+
Olive is very close to her best friends, but when they start to marry and have kids, she feels less connected to them. What’s more, she’s decided she has no desire to have children of her own one day. She’s absolutely sure of it. Fast paced and moving, I would recommend Gannon’s debut novel to all my friends.
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Ages 18+
Milla is invited to a reunion with 4 of her friends in the French Alps with a cryptic message, but she’s intrigued. She hasn’t seen them for 10 years and is excited to reconnect. They’ll be missing their friend Saskia, however, who disappeared all those years ago. Will they ever find out what happened to her? This is a gripping debut that’s not to be missed!
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Ages 18+
Emily is a psychologist at NYU, helping college students. She’s married and desperately wants a child with her husband Ezra. She also has a past – she was once in a band with her boyfriend Rob, and she is haunted by the fact that her present very closely mirrors her past. Then she hears a song on the radio about the woman who got away – and the melody is very familiar to her. She wonders – who is she really meant to be?
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Grades 9 – 12
In the same vein as This Is My Brain In Love by I.W. Gregorio, this story is a Vietnamese Romeo and Juliet. Bao and Linh’s families have competing restaurants and are enemies, but the two of them are friends – and are starting to become more. Can their families handle it or will everything fall apart?
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Grades 9 – 12
There are three mother-daughter pairs in this story, and they daughters are all competing to be accepted to the same college – the famous Stanford University – except Stanford has just informed the school that it will only be accepting one more student from their private high school. The race is on for each of the three girls to submit the best essays and grades with their application and beat each other out for that coveted spot. May the best girl win…
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Grades 9 – 12
The novel follows sixteen-year-old Ana who has just moved from Argentina for her junior year in high school. She’s a bright girl, but the language barrier proves to be difficult for her. She meets Americans at school, as well as other foreign students like herself in her ESL class, and begins to find her way. The author includes “#” symbols to indicate when English is spoken and Ana doesn’t understand what’s being said. This is brilliant, and gives the reader a real feel for what it’s like to not know what’s going on, and understand Ana on a different level.
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Ages 18+
Cassie and Alex are mother and daughter, respectively. They participate in a mother-daughter science experiment where Alex receives Cassie’s memories from when she was in her early twenties. However, Cassie can’t remember specific details of when she was pregnant with Alex at that time. Alex slowly receives the memories overtime, and the experience isn’t what either woman expected.
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Grades 4 – 6
The second book in the Amina’s Voice series begins as Amina is finishing her trip to Pakistan, and she’s excited to share her experiences with her friends once she returns back home. They don’t seem interested, however, and when she does a school project on Malala Yousafzai, her classmates focus on the negative parts of the story instead of seeing Pakistan for the beauty of it that is in Amina’s eyes.
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