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Sense and Second Degree Murder by Tirzah Price

Eilinor Dashwood finds her father, a private investigator, slumped over his desk from an apparent heart attack. But on closer inspection, she and her sister Marianne make a startling discovery: he was...

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Displacement by Kiku Hughes

While on a trip to San Francisco with her mother, Kiku Hughes begins to experience what she calls displacement. She is sent back in time and begins to witness her grandmother's life during WWII and the...

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Best Friends and Friends Forever by Shannon Hale

Shannon is now in sixth grade and finally has a friends group. But are they really her friends? It's a roller coaster of a year as she realizes that she really doesn't fit in with the "group" anymore....

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My Imaginary Mary by Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows

This title was provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Mary Wollstonecraft Goodwin dreams of being a famous author one day like her mother. Ada Byron wants to be a famous scientist....

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Set Me Free by Ann Clare LeZotte

In the sequel to the award winning Show Me a Sign, Mary Lambert is contacted by the maid, Nora, who helped her escape captivity. Nora now works at a large estate outside the city where a a young deaf...

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Sunny Makes a Splash by Jennifer L. Holm and Mathew Holm

In this fourth outing for Sunny, it's the summer of 1978, between seventh and eighth grades. Sunny is bored with all of her friends off visiting family or at camp. Not wanting to babysit her little...

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The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine

Jo, 27, is the oldest of twelve sisters. Several nights a week, they sneak out of their strict father's house in New York City and go dancing at a speakeasy known as the Kingfisher Club. After years of...

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Love in the Library by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and illustrated by Yas Imamura

This picture book is a fictionalized and shortened account of the author's grandparents who met at the Minidoka internment camp in Idaho. Her maternal grandmother, Tama, was the camp librarian. Every...

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Chain of Thorns by Cassandra Clare

The Shadowhunters of London are back as they fight Belial and Tatiana in 1903. When we last left them, Mathew and Cordelia had run off to Paris with Cordelia believing James was going back to Grace...

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A Lady’s Guide to Mischief and Mayhem by Manda Collins

Lady Katherine Bascomb runs a her late husband's newspaper and has become it's most notorious columnist by writing about - gasp - murder! When her reporting on a recent serial killer gets a man...

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