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<\/a>by Sona Charaipotra<\/p>\nBlack Swan meets Pretty Little Liars in this soapy, drama-packed novel featuring diverse characters who will do anything to be the prima at their elite ballet school.<\/em><\/p>\n From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Belles, Dhonielle Clayton, and the author of the highly anticipated Symptoms of a Heartbreak, Sona Charaipotra.<\/em><\/p>\n Gigi, Bette, and June, three top students at an exclusive Manhattan ballet school, have seen their fair share of drama. Free-spirited new girl Gigi just wants to dance\u2014but the very act might kill her. Privileged New Yorker Bette’s desire to escape the shadow of her ballet-star sister brings out a dangerous edge in her. And perfectionist June needs to land a lead role this year or her controlling mother will put an end to her dancing dreams forever.<\/em><\/p>\n When every dancer is both friend and foe, the girls will sacrifice, manipulate, and backstab to be the best of the best.<\/em><\/p>\n This book is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n ______________________________________________<\/p>\n A hitched ride home in a snow storm turns sinister when one of the passengers is plotting for the ride to end in disaster.<\/em><\/p>\n When Mira flies home to spend Christmas with her mother in Pittsburgh, a record-breaking blizzard results in a cancelled layover. Desperate to get to her grief-ridden mother in the wake of a family death, Mira hitches a ride with a group of friendly college kids who were on her initial flight.<\/em><\/p>\n As the drive progresses and weather conditions become more treacherous, Mira realizes that the four other passengers she’s stuck in the car with don’t actually know one another.<\/em><\/p>\n Soon, they’re not just dealing with heavy snowfall and ice-slick roads, but the fact that somebody will stop at nothing to ensure their trip ends in a deadly disaster.<\/em><\/p>\n This book is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n _______________________________________<\/p>\n Jamal\u2019s best friend, Q, doesn\u2019t know he\u2019s about to die . . . again.<\/em><\/p>\n He also doesn\u2019t know that Jamal tried to save his life, rescuing him from drowning only to watch Q die later in the hospital. Even more complicated, Jamal and Q haven\u2019t been best friends in two years\u2014not since Jamal\u2019s parents died in a car accident, leaving him and his sister to carry on without them. Grief swallowed Jamal whole, and he blamed Q for causing the accident.<\/em><\/p>\n But what if Jamal could have a second chance? An impossible chance that would grant him the opportunity to say goodbye to his best friend? A new health-care technology allows Q to be reanimated\u2014brought back to life like the old Q again. But there\u2019s a catch: Q will only reanimate for a short time before he dies . . . forever.<\/em><\/p>\n Jamal is determined to make things right with Q, but grief is hard to shake. And he can\u2019t tell Q why he\u2019s suddenly trying to be friends with him again. Because Q has no idea that he died, and Q\u2019s mom is not about to let anyone ruin the miracle by telling him. How can Jamal fix his friendship with Q if he can\u2019t tell him the truth?<\/em><\/p>\n _______________________________________<\/p>\n Chinelo, or Nelo as her best friend Kate calls her, is all about her neighborhood Ginger East. She loves its chill vibe, ride-or-die sense of community, and her memories of growing up there. Ginger East isn’t what it used to be, though. After a deadly incident at the local arcade, all her closest friends moved away, except for Kate. But as long as they have each other, Nelo’s good.<\/em><\/p>\n Only, Kate’s parents’ corner store is vandalized, leaving Nelo shaken to her core. The police and the media are quick to point fingers, and soon more of the outside world descends on Ginger East with promises to “fix” it. Suddenly, Nelo finds herself in the middle of a drama unfolding on a national scale.<\/em><\/p>\n Worse yet, Kate is acting strange. She’s pushing Nelo away at the exact moment they need each other most. Nelo’s entire world is morphing into something she hates, and she must figure out how to get things back on track or risk losing everything\u2060\u2014and everyone\u2060\u2014she loves.<\/em><\/p>\n ____________________________________<\/p>\n Welcome to Amontillado, Ohio, where your last name is worth more than money, and secrets can be kept\u2026 for a price.<\/em><\/p>\n Tress Montor knows that her family used to mean something\u2014until she didn\u2019t have a family anymore. When her parents disappeared seven years ago while driving her best friend home, Tress lost everything. She might still be a Montor, but the entire town shuns her now that she lives with her drunken, one-eyed grandfather at what locals refer to as the \u201cWhite Trash Zoo,\u201d \u2013 a wild animal attraction featuring a zebra, a chimpanzee, and a panther, among other things.<\/em><\/p>\n Felicity Turnado has it all \u2013 looks, money, and a secret that she\u2019s kept hidden. She knows that one misstep could send her tumbling from the top of the social ladder, and she\u2019s worked hard to make everyone forget that she was with the Montors the night they disappeared. Felicity has buried what she knows so deeply that she can\u2019t even remember what it is\u2026 only that she can\u2019t look at Tress without having a panic attack.<\/em><\/p>\n But she\u2019ll have to.<\/em><\/p>\n Tress has a plan. A Halloween costume party at an abandoned house provides the ideal situation for Tress to pry the truth from Felicity \u2013 brick by brick \u2013 as she slowly seals her former best friend into a coal chute. With a drunken party above them, and a loose panther on the prowl, Tress will have her answers \u2013 or settle for revenge.<\/em><\/p>\n ___________________________________________<\/p>\n When Nala Robertson reluctantly agrees to attend an open mic night for her cousin-sister-friend Imani’s birthday, she finds herself falling in instant love with Tye Brown, the MC. He’s perfect, except… Tye is an activist and is spending the summer putting on events for the community when Nala would rather watch movies and try out the new seasonal flavors at the local creamery. In order to impress Tye, Nala tells a few tiny lies to have enough in common with him. As they spend more time together, sharing more of themselves, some of those lies get harder to keep up. As Nala falls deeper into keeping up her lies and into love, she’ll learn all the ways love is hard, and how self-love is revolutionary.<\/em><\/p>\n In\u00a0Love Is a Revolution, plus size girls are beautiful and get the attention of the hot guys, the popular girl clique is not shallow but has strong convictions and substance, and the ultimate love story is not only about romance but about how to show radical love to the people in your life, including to yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n __________________________________________<\/p>\n To her friends, high school senior Liza Yang is nearly perfect. Smart, kind, and pretty, she dreams big and never shies away from a challenge. But to her mom, Liza is anything but. Compared to her older sister Jeannie, Liza is stubborn, rebellious, and worst of all, determined to push back against all of Mrs. Yang’s traditional values, especially when it comes to dating.<\/em><\/p>\n The one thing mother and daughter do agree on is their love of baking. Mrs. Yang is the owner of Houston’s popular Yin & Yang Bakery. With college just around the corner, Liza agrees to help out at the bakery’s annual junior competition to prove to her mom that she’s more than her rebellious tendencies once and for all. But when Liza arrives on the first day of the bake-off, she realizes there’s a catch: all of the contestants are young Asian American men her mother has handpicked for Liza to date.<\/em><\/p>\n The bachelorette situation Liza has found herself in is made even worse when she happens to be grudgingly attracted to one of the contestants; the stoic, impenetrable, annoyingly hot James Wong. As she battles against her feelings for James, and for her mother’s approval, Liza begins to realize there’s no tried and true recipe for love.<\/em><\/p>\n _________________________________________<\/p>\n Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like she belongs.<\/em><\/p>\n But on the day of the ceremony, her blood runs gold, the color of impurity–and Deka knows she will face a consequence worse than death.<\/em><\/p>\n Then a mysterious woman comes to her with a choice: stay in the village and submit to her fate, or leave to fight for the emperor in an army of girls just like her. They are called alaki–near-immortals with rare gifts. And they are the only ones who can stop the empire’s greatest threat.<\/em><\/p>\n Knowing the dangers that lie ahead yet yearning for acceptance, Deka decides to leave the only life she’s ever known. But as she journeys to the capital to train for the biggest battle of her life, she will discover that the great walled city holds many surprises. Nothing and no one are quite what they seem to be–not even Deka herself.<\/em><\/p>\n __________________________________________<\/p>\n The year is 1926, and Shanghai hums to the tune of debauchery.<\/em><\/p>\n A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city helpless in the grip of chaos. At the heart of it all is eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, a former flapper who has returned to assume her role as the proud heir of the Scarlet Gang\u2014a network of criminals far above the law. Their only rivals in power are the White Flowers, who have fought the Scarlets for generations. And behind every move is their heir, Roma Montagov, Juliette\u2019s first love\u2026and first betrayal.<\/em><\/p>\n But when gangsters on both sides show signs of instability culminating in clawing their own throats out, the people start to whisper. Of a contagion, a madness. Of a monster in the shadows. As the deaths stack up, Juliette and Roma must set their guns\u2014and grudges\u2014aside and work together, for if they can\u2019t stop this mayhem, then there will be no city left for either to rule.<\/em><\/p>\n ___________________________________<\/p>\n The Awakening of Malcolm X\u00a0is a powerful narrative account of the activist’s adolescent years in jail, written by his daughter Ilyasah Shabazz along with 2019 Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe award-winning author, Tiffany D. Jackson.<\/em><\/p>\n No one can be at peace until he has his freedom.<\/em><\/p>\n In Charlestown Prison, Malcolm Little struggles with the weight of his past. Plagued by nightmares, Malcolm drifts through days unsure of his future. Slowly, he befriends other prisoners and writes to his family. He reads all the books in the prison library, joins the debate team and the Nation of Islam. Malcolm grapples with race, politics, religion, and justice in the 1940s. And as his time in jail comes to an end, he begins to awaken — emerging from prison more than just Malcolm Little: Now, he is Malcolm X.<\/em><\/p>\n Here is an intimate look at Malcolm X’s young adult years. While this book chronologically follows\u00a0X: A Novel,\u00a0it can be read as a stand-alone historical novel that invites larger discussions on black power, prison reform, and civil rights.<\/em><\/p>\n This book is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n _________________________________________<\/p>\n In her small town, seventeen year-old Delia \u201cDee\u201d Skinner is known as the girl who wasn\u2019t taken. Ten years ago, she witnessed the abduction of her best friend, Sibby. And though she told the police everything she remembered, it wasn\u2019t enough. Sibby was never seen again. At night, Dee deals with her guilt by becoming someone else: the Seeker, the voice behind the popular true crime podcast Radio Silent, which features missing persons cases and works with online sleuths to solve them. Nobody knows Dee\u2019s the Seeker, and she plans to keep it that way. When another little girl goes missing, and the case is linked to Sibby\u2019s disappearance, Dee has a chance to get answers, with the help of her virtual detectives and the intriguing new girl at school. But how much is she willing to reveal about herself in order to uncover the truth? Dee\u2019s about to find out what\u2019s really at stake in unraveling the mystery of the little girls who vanished.<\/em><\/p>\n This book is also available in the following format:<\/p>\n _______________________________________<\/p>\n Anna Chiu has her hands pretty full looking after her brother and sister and helping out at her dad\u2019s restaurant, all while her mum stays in bed. Dad\u2019s new delivery boy, Rory, is a welcome distraction and even though she knows that things aren\u2019t right at home, she\u2019s starting to feel like she could just be a normal teen.<\/em><\/p>\n But when Mum finally gets out of bed, things go from bad to worse. And as Mum\u2019s condition worsens, Anna and her family question everything they understand about themselves and each other.<\/em><\/p>\n _________________________________________<\/p>\n ISN’T BEING HUMAN ENOUGH?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n When teen social activist and history buff Kezi Smith is killed under mysterious circumstances after attending a social justice rally, her devastated sister Happi and their family are left reeling in the aftermath. As Kezi becomes another immortalized victim in the fight against police brutality, Happi begins to question the idealized way her sister is remembered. Perfect. Angelic.<\/p>\n One of the good ones.<\/p>\n Even as the phrase rings wrong in her mind\u2014why are only certain people deemed worthy to be missed?\u2014Happi and her sister Genny embark on a journey to honor Kezi in their own way, using an heirloom copy of The Negro Motorist Green Book as their guide. But there’s a twist to Kezi’s story that no one could’ve ever expected\u2014one that will change everything all over again.<\/p>\n _________________________________________<\/p>\n International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of\u00a0The Hate U Give\u00a0in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n If there\u2019s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it\u2019s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad\u2019s in prison.<\/em><\/p>\n Life\u2019s not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav\u2019s got everything under control. Until, that is, Maverick finds out he\u2019s a father.<\/em><\/p>\n Suddenly he has a baby, Seven, who depends on him for everything. But it\u2019s not so easy to sling dope, finish school, and raise a child. So when he\u2019s offered the chance to go straight, he takes it. In a world where he\u2019s expected to amount to nothing, maybe Mav can prove he\u2019s different.<\/em><\/p>\n When King Lord blood runs through your veins, though, you can’t just walk away. Loyalty, revenge, and responsibility threaten to tear Mav apart, especially after the brutal murder of a loved one. He\u2019ll have to figure out for himself what it really means to be a man.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n This book is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n ____________________________________<\/p>\n When you look like us\u2014brown skin, brown eyes, black braids or fades\u2014people think you\u2019re trouble. No one looks twice at a missing black girl from the projects because she must\u2019ve brought whatever happened to her upon herself. I, Jay Murphy, can admit that, for a minute, I thought my sister, Nicole, got too caught up with her boyfriend\u2014a drug dealer\u2014and his friends.<\/em><\/p>\n But she\u2019s been gone too long now.<\/em><\/p>\n If I hadn\u2019t hung up on her that night, she\u2019d be spending time with our grandma. If I was a better brother, she\u2019d be finishing senior year instead of being another name on a missing persons list. It\u2019s time to step up and do what the Newport News police department won\u2019t.<\/em><\/p>\n Nic, I\u2019m bringing you home.<\/em><\/p>\n ___________________________________________<\/p>\n Milly, Aubrey, and Jonah Story are cousins, but they barely know each another, and they’ve never even met their grandmother. Rich and reclusive, she disinherited their parents before they were born. So when they each receive a letter inviting them to work at her island resort for the summer, they’re surprised… and curious.<\/em><\/p>\n Their parents are all clear on one point\u2014not going is not an option. This could be the opportunity to get back into Grandmother’s good graces. But when the cousins arrive on the island, it’s immediately clear that she has different plans for them. And the longer they stay, the more they realize how mysterious\u2014and dark\u2014their family’s past is.<\/em><\/p>\n The entire Story family has secrets. Whatever pulled them apart years ago isn’t over\u2014and this summer, the cousins will learn everything.<\/em><\/p>\n This book is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n ________________________________________<\/p>\n Kappa Rho Nu isn\u2019t your average sorority. Their parties are notorious. Their fundraisers are known for being Westerly College\u2019s most elaborate affairs. But beneath the veil of Greek life and prestige, the sisters of Kappu Rho Nu share a secret: they\u2019re a coven of witches. For Vivi Deveraux, being one of Kappa Rho Nu\u2019s Ravens means getting a chance to redefine herself. For Scarlett Winters, a bonafide Raven and daughter of a legacy Raven, pledge this year means living up to her mother\u2019s impossible expectations of becoming Kappa Rho Nu\u2019s next president. Scarlett knows she\u2019d be the perfect candidate \u2014 that is, if she didn\u2019t have one human-sized skeleton in her closet\u2026. 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<\/a>Five Total Strangers<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> by Natalie D. Richards<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Early Departures<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Justin A. Reynolds<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/like-home.jpg?resize=200%2C303&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Like Home<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Louise Onom\u00e9<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/initial-insult.jpg?resize=200%2C303&ssl=1\")
<\/a>The Initial Insult<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Mindy McGinnis<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/love-is-a-revolution.jpg?resize=200%2C303&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Love is a Revolution<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Renee Watson<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/a-taste-for-love.jpg?resize=200%2C304&ssl=1\")
<\/a>A Taste for Love<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Jennifer Yen<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/the-gilded-ones.jpg?resize=200%2C303&ssl=1\")
<\/a>The Gilded Ones<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Namina Forna<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/these-violent-delights.jpg?resize=200%2C302&ssl=1\")
<\/a>These Violent Delights<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>by Chloe Gong<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/awakening-of-malcolm-x.jpg?resize=200%2C310&ssl=1\")
<\/a>The Awakening of Malcolm X<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Ilyasah Shabazz with Tiffany D. Jackson<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>I Hope You’re Listening<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Tom Ryan<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Wai Chim<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/one-of-the-good-ones.jpg?resize=200%2C304&ssl=1\")
<\/a>One of the Good Ones<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/concrete-rose.jpg?resize=200%2C303&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Concrete Rose<\/strong><\/em> by Angie Thomas (The Hate U Give #0)<\/em><\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>When You Look Like Us<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Pamela N. Harris<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/the-cousins.jpg?resize=200%2C303&ssl=1\")
<\/a>The Cousins<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Karen M. McManus<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>The Ravens<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige (The Ravens #1)<\/em><\/p>\n