Take a look at our new book picks for teens and young adults this August! Includes titles by Lila Hazell, A.F. Harrold, Allison Saft and more.
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72 Hours of You
Darianne Schramm
72 hours before someone dies, Sydney Hoffman sees a pink neon countdown clock over their head. Seeing death’s status updates in real time without being able to do anything has left Syd closed-off, cynical and alone.
Then she meets Peter Beckett. Outgoing, optimistic and annoyingly gorgeous, Peter convinces Syd to wander NYC, looking for pink clocks and helping strangers live their best final hours. As they grow closer, Syd starts to believe that maybe she can let go of the past and have a future instead.
Until the universe shows her the one clock she can’t ignore.
Nest of Tongues
Randy Ribay
As Filipino vampires known as manananggal, Lily and her brother Caleb understand the value of a secret. After all, to hide is to survive. To lie is to live. They’d never harm another person, but people only believe their worst fears around creatures of myth.
So, the siblings stay quiet. They follow their community’s rules. Until a monster hunter turns up and kills a fellow manananggal anyway. Until Caleb is marked as the hunter’s next prey. Suddenly, he and Lily realize there’s always been more at stake than the lives of their people. Because when doing everything ‘right’ is still a death sentence, what can they take as truth?
As the hunter nears, the siblings must decide if they’ll be driven from the only home they’ve ever known – or fight to protect a community that may already be lost.
Library or Lattes?
Lila Hazell
Willa lives in Oak Falls, a small town where the Fall months are full of red and gold leaves, pumpkin spice and bonfires. Willa loves it but deep down she has sometimes wondered if just maybe she might want more.
When she is left some money by a distant aunt, her small world is rocked. It’s a Sliding Doors moment. In alternating chapters see Willa live each version of her decision – and two different versions of falling in love.
On one hand, she has her eye on London and a travel-journalism course – but she needs to study for it, so has to start spending her weekends in the library, where Theo, a grumpy out-of-towner who thinks everything here is beneath him (and has an annoyingly handsome way of pushing his glasses up his nose) also hangs out.
Or she can take her time and stay in Oak Falls, working at the coffee shop while she decides exactly what the perfect round-the-world trip would be.
Immortal Game
Allison Saft
Ever since Shea Fury’s sister was stolen by the High King of the Fae, Shea has dreamed of crossing the Iron Veil and rescuing her. When an invitation to compete in a once-in-a-lifetime chess tournament in the Otherworld arrives on Shea’s doorstep, she learns the winner is granted one wish. Finally, Shea can win back her sister.
But dark magic lurks around every corner, and her cutthroat opponents are willing to bend the rules to make their own wishes come true. To make it to the final round – and to free her sister – Shea is forced to strike an alliance with her longtime rival – the sharply beautiful fae princess, Ciara of Bri Leith.
One wrong move, though, and it may cost her more than just the chances of seeing her sister again – or the new, unspeakable love growing in her heart.
Thorn
A.F. Harrold and Millie Chappie
Shouldn’t she be in her body? That was the first clue she had that something had gone sideways.
Thorn wakes up one morning hovering over her own body. Watching herself go about her days from a distance, she bounces around her past, present and future, gradually putting together the pieces of her life.
Through love and resistance, Thorn is faced with how she sees herself, and must figure out if the things that mattered before are what are really important.
Heartbreak Geeks
Anam Iqbal
Aliya and Kabir are rivals, willing to do whatever it takes to be top of the class. At their elite private school, Kabir is basically royalty. He prides himself on being loved by everyone, teachers included. Everyone except Aliya, the scholarship student. To her, he represents everything she hates. He’s rich, obnoxious and pokes fun at her at every chance he gets.
When forced to pair up during uni applications, their rivalry intensifies. Tensions build and they must confront their complicated history. Though they’d never admit it now, they were once so much more than enemies.
As they spend more time together, Aliya begins to let her guard down with him. Maybe she doesn’t really hate Kabir – and maybe he doesn’t hate her either? Or perhaps this is just another one of their games.
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