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• Alone Out Here

  Redgate, Riley,

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  Space. When the president's daughter Leigh Chen ends up on the only ship escaping a dying earth, she and a group of teenagers must grapple with the challenges of what it will take to survive as the last remnants of humanity.

• Anna and the French Kiss

  Perkins, Stephanie

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  Set in Paris, France. Shipped off to boarding school for her senior year, Anna is at first reluctant to go but she soon falls in love with both the city and maybe a particular Parisian as well. First in a trilogy but may be read as a stand-alone.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daughter of Smoke & Bone

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  Prague. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grows dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war. Karou fills her sketchbooks with monsters that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Weight of Our Sky

  Hanna Alkaf,

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  Malaysia. On the evening of May 13th, 1969, racial tensions in Melati's home city of Kuala Lumpur boil over. The Chinese and Malays are at war, and Mel and her mother become separated by a city in flames. With a 24-hour curfew in place and all lines…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love From A to Z

  Ali, S. K.,

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  Qatar. When she gets suspended for confronting her teacher, who then begins investigating her activist friends, Zayneb heads to her aunt’s house in Doha, Qatar, for an early start to spring break. Feeling guilty for getting her friends in trouble,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Boxers & Saints

  Boxers

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  China. Graphic Novel. In China, 1898, bands of foreign missionaries and soldiers roam the countryside, bullying and robbing Chinese peasants. Little Bao has had enough. Harnessing the powers of ancient Chinese gods, he recruits an army of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Monsters

  Only a Monster

  Len, Vanessa,

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  London. It should have been the perfect summer. When Joan was sent to stay with her mother's eccentric family in London, she was determined to enjoy herself. But she soon discovers the truth: her family isn't just eccentric, they are monsters with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Patron Saints of Nothing

  Ribay, Randy,

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  Set in the Philippines. Jay Reguero travels to the Philippines to find the truth about his cousin and best friend Jun’s murder. Also available in eBook and Downloadable Audiobook.

• The Walled City

  Graudin, Ryan

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  Hong Kong. Dai is trying to escape a past that continues to haunt him. Mei Yee is trapped in a brothel and watches girls try & fail to escape while dreaming of her own way out. Jin is hiding in plain sight, a girl dressed as a boy, while she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Into Thin Air

  a Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

  Krakauer, Jon

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  Mount Everest. Nonfiction. This is one account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest. Krakauer was on a journalistic assignment to report on the growing commercialization of the mountain. After reaching the top, he was freezing and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dear Haiti, Love Alaine

  Moulite, Maika,

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  Haiti. After Alaine’s mom has a rather public meltdown and disappears back to her Haitian homeland, Alaine finds herself shipped off to Haiti as well after “the incident” at school. So, a semester with her Tati Estelle and her mother (and her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

  Kamkwamba, William, 1987-

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  Malawi. Memoir. When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. So, William began to explore science books in his village…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daughters of a Dead Empire

  O'Neil, Carolyn Tara,

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  Russia. In an alternate history set during the Russian Revolution, after Tsar Nicholas is executed, the poor are devouring the rich. Anna, a bourgeois gift, narrowly escapes the massacre of her entire family and, desperate to flee the Bolsheviks,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali

  Khan, Sabina, 1968-

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  Bangladesh. Rukhsana Ali is looking forward to going to Caltech and getting away from her conservative Muslim parents' expectation that she will marry, especially since Rukhsana is in love with her girlfriend Ariana. But when her parents catch her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Summer Bird Blue

  Bowman, Akemi Dawn

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  Hawaii. Rumi plans to spend her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea. When Lea dies in a car accident, her mother, dealing with her own grief, sends Rumi to live with her aunt in Hawaii. Struggling with the loss of her sister, abandoned…Read moreRead more of this annotation