Rebecca Podos
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"On her seventeenth birthday, Hannah Williams begins exhibiting impossible, temporary mutations--gills one day and horns the next--that are the consequences of a desperate bargain her mother made with a sheyd decades ago, and to break the family curse, Hannah and her brother track down their mother's estranged family and discover a legacy that traces back to the Golem of Prague."--
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"Ruby Chernyavsky has been told the stories since she was a child: The women in her family, once possessed of great magical abilities to remake lives and stave off death itself, were forced to flee their Russian home for America in order to escape the fearful men who sought to destroy them. Such has it always been, Ruby's been told, for powerful women. Today, these stories seem no more real to Ruby than folktales, except for the smallest bit of power...
4) Like Water
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English
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~Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for the best LGBT YA novel of 2017~
An unforgettable story of two girls navigating the unknowable waters of identity, millennial anxiety, and first love, from the acclaimed author of The Mystery of Hollow Places.
In Savannah Espinoza's small New Mexico hometown, kids either flee after graduation or they're trapped there forever. Vanni never planned to get stuck—but
...5) Furious
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Page Street Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Jojo should be on the fast track to her own successful racing career, but after her mother passes away in a racing accident, her father says it is out of the question. She is stuck working a summer job at her grandmother's auto shop. It is there she meets El Blum, who turns up at the shop with an adorable scowl, tough-girl vibe, and a mystery to solve. She has lost all contact wit her sister, Max, and is trying to find out what happened to her. Together,...