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Deep work: rules for focused success in a distracted world
Cal Newport
Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively
demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated
information and produce better results in less time... professor Cal
Newport ... makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a
deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a
rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four 'rules' for
transforming your mind and habits to support this skill.
Sacred heart
Liz Suburbia
The children of Alexandria are just trying to live like normal teens, and Ben
Schiller is no exception. But her relationship with her best friend is
changing, her sister is hiding a dark secret, and tragedy looms. Also:
where are all the parents?
Fables: Arabian Nights (and days)
Bill Willingham, writer
The people of Fabletown prepare to defend themselves by forming
alliances with those who have not yet been conquered by the Adversary's
legions; however, a delegation from Arabian Homelands makes the task
more difficult.
Black Earth: the Holocaust as history and warning
Timothy Snyder
It comforts us to believe that the Holocaust was a unique event. But as
Timothy Snyder shows, we have missed basic lessons of the history of the
Holocaust, and some of our beliefs are frighteningly close to the ecological
panic that Hitler expressed in the 1920s. As ideological and environmental
challenges to the world order mount, our societies might be more
vulnerable than we would like to think.
Chasing butterflies
Amir Abrams
When sixteen-year-old piano prodigy Nia discovers her recently departed
father wasn't her biological dad, she becomes desperate for answers,
leading her to Omar, an ex-convict determined to win the love of his
daughter.
The problem with forever
Jennifer L. Armentrout
Growing up, Mallory "Mouse" Dodge learned that the best way to survive
was to say nothing. After she escaped her terrifying childhood and spent
years being homeschooled by loving adoptive parents, she is starting her
senior year at a public high school. The first day, she runs into Rider Stark,
the friend and protector from her childhood, and Mallory realizes that their
bond never really faded. But as Rider's life spirals out of control, Mallory
faces a choice between staying silent and speaking out--for the people she
loves, the life she wants and the truths that need to be heard.
The memory book
Lara Avery
When a rare genetic disorder steals away her memories and then her
health, teenaged Sammie records notes in a journal to her future self,
documenting moments great and small.
Mortal gods
Kendare Blake
In mid-thirteenth century Provence, Dolssa de Stigata is a fervently
religious girl who feels the call to preach, condemned by the Inquisition as
an "unnatural woman," and hunted by the Dominican Friar Lucien who
fears a resurgence of the Albigensian heresy; Botille is a matchmaker
trying to protect her sisters from being branded as gypsies or witches--but
when she finds the hunted Dolssa dying on a hillside, she feels compelled to protect her, a decision that may cost her everything.
Watched
Marina Budhos
Far from the "model teen," Naeem moves fast to outrun the eyes of his
hardworking Bangladeshi parents, their gossipy neighbors, and the other
forms of surveillance in his immigrant neighborhood in Queens, but when
his mistakes catch up with him and the police offer a dark deal, will Naeem
be a hero or a traitor?
Bones & all
Camille DeAngelis
Seventeen-year-old Amy Goodnight has long been the one who makes her
family of witches seem somewhat normal to others, but while spending a
summer with her sister caring for their aunt's farm, Amy becomes the
center of weirdness when she becomes tied to a powerful ghost.
Love letters to the dead
Ava Dellaira
When Laurel starts writing letters to dead people for a school assignment,
she begins to spill about her sister's mysterious death, her mother's
departure from the family, her new friends, and her first love.
Transcendent
Katelyn Detweiler
In the aftermath of a terrorist attack on Disney World, all eyes turn to a
teenage girl who may be the savior the world needs.
Playing for the Devil’s Fire
Phillippe Diederich
Thirteen-year-old Boli lives in a small pueblo near Mexico City, a landscape
destroyed by drug crime, and when his parents leave town and are not
heard from, Boli hopes to inspire a luchador to help him find them.
You and me and him
Kris Dinnison
Maggie Bowers thinks she knows what to expect her junior year of high
school, but when she and her out-of-the-closet best friend Nash have
feelings for the same boy she wonders if winning someone's heart means
losing her soul mate.
Remember yesterday
Becca Fitzpatrick
Sixteen-year-old Jessa Stone is the most valuable citizen in Eden City. Her
psychic abilities could lead to significant scientific discoveries--if only she'd
let TechRA study her. But after they kidnapped and experimented on her
as a child, cooperating with the scientists is the last thing Jessa would do.
But when she discovers the past isn't what she assumed, Jessa must join
forces with budding scientist Tanner Callahan to rectify a fatal mistake
made ten years ago. She'll do anything to change the past and save her
sister--even if it means aligning with the enemy she swore to defeat.
Front lines
Michael Grant
1942, World War II. The most terrible war in human history. Millions are
dead; millions more are still to die. The Nazis rampage across Europe and
eye far-off America. The green, untested American army is going up
against the greatest fighting force ever assembled--the armed forces of
Nazi Germany. But something has changed. A court decision makes
females subject to the draft and eligible for service. So in this World War
II, women and girls fight, too. As the fate of the world hangs in the
balance, three girls sign up to fight.
We love you, Charlie Freeman
Kaitlyn Greenidge
The Freeman family, Charles, Laurel, and their three daughters, move to
rural Massachusetts to participate in a research experiment, but the
family's isolation becomes the source of their undoing, and they soon learn
the history of this Institute's history of questionable studies.
The killer in me
Margot Harrison
A girl's unsettling connection with a serial killer leads her on a potentially
deadly manhunt.
Eden West
Pete Hautman
During an eventful year for the Christian cult where he has grown up,
seventeen-year-old Jacob finds his faith and devotion tested when he
meets new friends from the outside world and encounters temptations that
threaten his contentment.
What we saw
Aaron Hartzler
The story of a town torn apart by the events surrounding the rape of drunk
girl at a house party, from the perspective of the partygoers who
witnessed it.
Beyond the read
Ava Jae
When Kora and Eros are framed for the attempted assassination of her
betrothed, they flee. Their only chance of survival is to turn themselves in
to the high court, where revealing Eros' secret could mean a swift public
execution.
Devil and the Bluebird
Jennifer Mason-Black
Armed with her mother's guitar, a knapsack of cherished mementos, and a
pair of magical boots, Blue journeys west in search of her sister Cass, but
when the devil she met at the town's crossroads changes the terms of
their deal, Blue must reevaluate her understanding of good and evil.
How to hang a witch
Adriana Mather
Follows fifteen-year-old Samantha Mather, who has moved to Salem with
her stepmother 300 years after her family hanged witches there, to find
she is ostracized by the witch descendants at school, as she unravels the
lost secrets of the hangings and her family.
Every last word
Tamara Ireland Stone
Consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn
off, a girl coping with Purely-Obsessional OCD learns to accept herself and
take control of her life through her experiences in poetry club.
Out of darkness
Ashley Hope Pérez
Loosely based on a school explosion that took place in New London, Texas,
in 1937, this is the story of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and
Wash, who is black, and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and
the forces that destroy people.
Kill the boy band
Goldy Moldavsky
Four fan-girls of The Ruperts, sneak away to a hotel in Manhattan to see
their favorite boy band, but when one of them literally drags Rupert
Pierpont to their room and they tie him up, things get complicated--and
when Rupert is killed things go from bad to worse.
Vicarious
Paula Stokes
Working as a digital stunt girl for an elite sensory experience company
after escaping a dangerous past, Winter is devastated when her beloved
sister, Rose, is murdered, a crime Winter discovers to be more complicated
than originally believed.
The darkest corners
Kara Thomas
When her father dies, Tessa is pulled back to the small Pennsylvania town
where her life came apart when her father was sent to prison, her mother
went to pieces, and her beloved older sister ran away, and where her
testimony and that of her now-estranged friend Callie sent a serial killer to
death row--a serial killer who may be getting a new trial as long buried
secrets come to light.
The serpent king
Jeff Zentner
The son of a Pentecostal preacher faces his personal demons as he and his
two outcast friends try to make it through their senior year of high school
in rural Forrestville, Tennessee without letting the small-town culture
destroy their creative spirits and sense of self.
This is where the world ends
Amy Zhang
Micah and Janie have the perfect friendship--as long as no one finds out about it. But
then Janie goes missing and everything Micah thought he knew about his best friend
is colored with doubt.
Chilling adventures of Sabrina
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, young sorceress Sabrina Spellman
finds herself at a crossroads, forced to choose between an unearthly
destiny and her own mortal boyfriend, Harvey. But Madam Satan, a deadly
foe from her family's past, has arrived in Greendale, and she has her
sights set squarely on the young witch. Can Sabrina face the challenge, or
will her witching career--and high school life--end all too abruptly?
How to talk to girls at parties
Neil Gaiman
Enn is a fifteen-year-old boy who just doesn't understand girls, while his
friend Vic seems to have them all figured out. Both teenagers are in for
the shock of their young lives, however, when they crash a local party only
to discover that the girls there are far, far more than they appear!
Undocumented: a Dominican boy's odyssey from a homeless
shelter to the Ivy League
Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Dan-el Padilla Peralta discusses how he went from a young boy living in
the United States illegally to a successful student at Princeton.
Crooked kingdom
Leigh Bardugo
Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they
didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're
right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and badly weakened,
the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from
around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the
dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals and new enemies
emerge to challenge Kaz's cunning andtest the team's fragile loyalties. A
war will be waged on the city's dark and twisting streets--a battle for
revenge and redemption that will decide the fate of the Grisha world.
Exit, pursued by a bear
E.K. Johnston
At cheerleading camp, Hermione is drugged and raped, but she is not sure
whether it was one of her teammates or a boy on another team--and in
the aftermath she has to deal with the rumors in her small Ontario town,
the often awkward reaction of her classmates, the rejection of her
boyfriend, the discovery that her best friend, Polly, is gay, and above all
the need to remember what happened so that the guilty boy can be
brought to justice.
Gemina
Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
When the space station Heimdall is invaded, Hannah and Nik must work
together to defeat the enemy.