Take a look at our new book picks for teens and young adults this July! Includes titles by Cynthia Murphy, Alice Oseman, Jennifer Lynn Barnes and more.
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School Bus Graveyard, Vol. 1
Red
High school is a nightmare. Literally.
Ashlyn likes being a loner. She always has. But when a field trip to an old house takes a supernatural turn, she’s forced to team up with her classmates to face a sinister grinning phantom that’s invisible to everyone but them.
Thankfully, it can’t hurt them. All it does is wait. Watching. Smiling. Until midnight, that is, when the skies turn red and the world shifts into a waking nightmare. Here, the monster is deadly. And it’s not alone. To survive, they’ll have to work together to uncover the secret of the curse.
But with the odds stacked against them, how long can they last?
Local Gods
Melinda Salisbury
Shunned and living in an isolated wood, Sylvie comes across a scrawny, wasted monster named Illican: a local legend, a god made flesh.
With their destinies entwined, Sylvie sees an opportunity for redemption, but the woods are watching and nothing goes as planned…
Deliciously sinister, mesmerising YA folk horror at its best in this stunning new novel by Melinda Salisbury.
Paint Me Like Your Dead Girls
Cynthia Murphy
When aspiring crime journalist Fliss Keller uncovers a disturbing self-portrait of a man at an estate sale, her Art History professor dad buys it, despite how unsettled Fliss feels. The portrait has been lost for decades and completes a set of four existing paintings of women by the same artist already hanging in the town’s gallery.
That evening, the portrait falls to the floor, revealing paperwork inside the frame that suggests the artist was a serial killer and that the women depicted were his victims. Despite her alarm, Fliss vows to investigate and uncover the truth.
But when a series of gruesome murders rock the community, and some think the resurrection of the self-portrait has unleashed a curse, Fliss knows better than to believe them. There are shocking similarities between the poses of the modern-day murders and the painted women, and she’s sure there’s a copycat killer on the loose.
Heartstopper, Vol. 6
Alice Oseman
The final chapter in the bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel series about life, love, and everything that happens in between!
Everyone in school knows Nick and Charlie. Everyone knows they’re going to be together forever.
But Charlie’s busy with his bid to become head boy. And while Nick is preparing to leave for uni, he’s starting to wonder who he’ll be… without Charlie.
Contains discussions around mental health and eating disorders, underage drinking, and sexual references.
Merciful is the Dark
Sophie Clark
They say love conquers all…
But can love win in a war between demons and exorcists?
Or will it just tear them all apart?
An epic enemies-to-lovers romance about a demon hunter and a foot soldier thrown together in a centuries-old war… and their forbidden love that could change the course of history. Now, get ready to follow the characters everyone is talking about back to The Deathless God’s Rome.
The Gilded Blade
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
All games must come to an end.
In this series-shattering conclusion, everyone is a player, long-held secrets are unveiled, precious threads are unravelled, and impossible mysteries are solved.
In the grandest of games, there is so much to win – money, love, power, revenge – but there is also everything to lose.
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