At the height of South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle, a boy must face life decisions that test what he believes—and call for no turning back. South Africa, 1976. Joshua lives with his mother in the maid’s room, in the backyard of their wealthy white employers’ house in the city by the sea. He doesn’t quite understand the events going on around him. But when he rescues a stranger and riots begin to sweep the country, Joshua has to face the world beneath—the world deep inside him—to make hear...
Red, White, & Royal Blue meets The West Wing in Jasper Sanchez’s electric and insightful #ownvoices YA debut, chronicling a transmasculine student’s foray into a no-holds-barred student body president election against the wishes of his politician father. Optics can make or break an election. Everything Mark knows about politics, he learned from his father, the Congressman who still pretends he has a daughter and not a son. Mark has promised to keep his past hidden and pretend to be the cis gu...
The McCall Initiative Episodes 1-3 (McCall Initiative, #1)
by Lisa Nowak
Ray Elias is a precocious but withdrawn sixteen-year-old growing up in an affluent suburb of New York in the early sixties. Numbed by the assassination of President Kennedy, Ray chances upon a TV documentary about the most recent presidential election and is drawn to the ebullient senator from Minnesota, Hubert Humphrey, who unsuccessfully challenged John Kennedy for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960. With the senator as his newfound hero, Ray fashions a mission for himself: make H...
A lone band of survivors fight back against a brutal army of invaders who have destroyed their country, murdering their family and friends. It's time for revenge, but they must face up to the reality that if they attack when the opportunity arises, the chances of survival are not high.
Eve Hamilton has finally realized true freedom, but then, just like that, it's wrenched from her grasp. And this time, the corridors of the dark underground city are even more dangerous than ever before. But her brief taste of freedom has left her with something useful, something powerful, something that terrifies the leaders of Compound Eleven. Now Eve has a monster inside. A monster that she'll need to learn to control, and fast, or she'll lose everything and everyone she holds dear. Startin...
White House Autumn (President's Daughter, #2)
by Ellen Emerson White
Kill Game (Fearless FBI, #1) (Fearless FBI (Prebound))
by Francine Pascal
The greatest weapon against a serial killer? A girl with no fear. Gaia Moore isn't like anyone else in the world. She's trained in ten different martial arts. She has a sharp mind, and an even sharper tongue. As a teenager she cut class to bust gang members and drug dealers on the streets of New York City. And now Gaia's been recruited to join the world's leading crime-fighting organization. At FBI training camp in Quantico, Gaia will become a part of an unparalleled team. She'll learn the st...
Tranimacies
Tranimacies is a neologism that pushes and pulls together transness and animality so as to better germinate unruly, wily, perverse relationships between them, and their spawn. Through tranimacies the book aims at rethinking the linking of liberation struggles amongst former colonized peoples and lands, minoritized genders and sexualities, racially marked persons and non-human animals, and does so in a variety of geopolitical and temporal sites. This rich compendium includes original scholarship...
Not everyone can use magic, but it has always been a part of the world, used to expand and enrich the lives of people everywhere. But magic is powerful, and power can be corrupted. When a dark power sweeps across the land, extinguishing magic wherever it is found, a small region in the mountain tops is caught up in the fray. Now it is up to Lilith, the newest resident of the Highlands, to travel the world, accompanied by a small group of misfits, and search for the ancient artifact which just...
The Time Travelers
by Steve Swatt, Susie Swatt, and Jeff Raimundo
Prepare for the jaw-dropping finale of Sabaa Tahir's beloved New York Times bestselling An Ember in the Ashes fantasy series, and discover: Who will survive the storm? Picking up just a few months after A Reaper at the Gates left off… The long-imprisoned jinn are on the attack, wreaking bloody havoc in villages and cities alike. But for the Nightbringer, vengeance on his human foes is just the beginning. At his side, Commandant Keris Veturia...
‘[A] phenomenal novel… Startling, well written… it’s a book that will stay with you long after it’s finished.’ Independent 'We’re alive. So let’s start living.' Two strangers Jack was sporty and outgoing. Alice was bookish and introverted. Their lives were on completely different paths. One life-changing tragedy That is before the day they were in the...
One Last Shot: Based on a True Story of Wartime Heroism
by Kip Wilson
Out of Shadows (Costa Book Award - Children's Book Award)
by Jason Wallace
'If I stood you in front of a man, pressed a gun into your palm and told you to squeeze the trigger, would you do it?' 'No, sir, no way!' 'What if I then told you we'd gone back in time and his name was Adolf Hitler? Would you do it then?' Zimbabwe, 1980s. The fighting has stopped, independence has been won and Robert Mugabe has come to power offering the end of the Old Way and promising hope for black Africans. For Robert Jacklin, it’s all new: new continent, new country, new school. And ver...