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C.B. Bates

CAL YOU OWE ME A CALCULATOR, JERKCal Mercer cleans out his dead lab partner’s drawer and keeps her hair tie. That night she’s in his mirror. Then she’s in his head. Then she’s in his face: her freckles, her voice, two inches of height gone in nine days. She has forty days to remember how she drowned. He has forty days to find out who’ll be left.

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C.B. Bates

A blue box opens in the corner of Nick Fedorko's eye.QUEST: PAINT ONE NAIL. REWARD: 1 MINOR WISH.Nick is nineteen, a lineman’s son from Johnstown, and he doesn’t paint his nails. But the box knows he did once, at six, and that nobody ever mentioned it again. He does it. The wish works. Every quest asks a little more, every night something changes him while he sleeps, and Rule One says no wish can undo it. What is it making him?

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C.B. Bates

For six days, a sixteen-year-old boy in Japan has heard a ringing nobody else can hear. It leads to a sealed cave in the hills where a dark cuff closes on his wrist. Now he can transform into magical girl who resembles a miko. Now she must fight monsters built out of bicycles, fish and ice keep, while all of Japan is cheering for a hero so small they call her Miko-chan!

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C.B. Bates

He died on launch night. His guild is still waiting for him to log in.Kumagai Tetsuo, forty-two, has been his online guild’s tank and quiet father figure for eight years. On launch night of the biggest MMO in Japan, he shoves a white-haired girl out of a truck’s path and wakes up as her: sixteen and chronically ill. His guild has already posted his memorial thread. So he makes a tiny healer and logs back in. They can never know it’s him. They’re starting to notice ...

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C.B. Bates

She runs cold. Her family doesn't.A quiet kid in Moose Jaw solos the hardest dungeon in his MMO, wishes he were the dragon girl he built, and wakes up with frost on the inside of the window and a tail. His mom asks one question: “What do you need?” Now Sylvie just has to survive grade twelve, a viral video, and the federal government.

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C.B. Bates

SAME BIRTHDAY. OPPOSITE WISHES.On the night they turn fourteen, ten minutes apart in Calgary, two kids who’ve never met make the same wish the other way round. The quiet kid everyone calls Nathan wishes to wake up as a girl. The new kid everyone calls Paige wishes to wake up as a boy. A week later they open their eyes in the same children’s hospital, in each other’s bodies, with the same unsigned card by each bed: One year. Then wish again, together: stay, or go back. Neither of th...

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C.B. Bates

Kim Dohyun had 410,000 won of textbook money from his mother’s pear farm, a limited banner with a 0.6 percent drop rate, and no self-control. By midnight on move-in day he’d spent it on 130 pulls of nothing. By morning he had purple hair down past his knees, a voice like a drama heroine’s, and the Phoenix Hamster he’d emptied his account for, from one free pull, on the first try.

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C.B. Bates

Lara Parker is a newly out trans girl and daughter of the missing S-class superhero Starguard. Her first weeks out at school go sideways when her physical transition starts happening on its own, with a side of superstrength. She can fly. She glows gold. She can break doorknobs. Her powers are suspiciously similar to her father’s. The problem: the first thing the Bureau teaches about superpowers is that “They cannot be inherited.”

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Jojo Moyes

One single mom. One chaotic family. One quirky stranger. One irresistible love story from the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and Someone Else's ShoesSuppose your life sucks. A lot. Your husband has done a vanishing act, your teenage stepson is being bullied, and your math whiz daughter has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that you can’t afford to pay for. That’s Jess’s life in a nutshell—until an unexpected knight...

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Molly Harper

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Half-Moon Hollow Series

A standalone novella introducing a new side of Half Moon Hollow—featuring a freewheeling courier and the stuffy vampire she has to transport.Miranda Puckett has failed at every job she’s ever had. Her mother just wants her to come home, join the family law firm, and settle down with Jason, the perfect lawyer boyfriend. But when Jason turns out to be a lying cheater, Miranda seizes on a job that gets her out of town: long-distance vampire transporta...

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Thalia Kalkipsakis

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Go Girl!

Another great title in the best-selling Go Girl series. Gemma loves gymnastics. But she has just had the worst class ever, and her coach isnt happy. Are Gemmas gym dreams over? Or will her clever plan keep her on the team?

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Jerry Spinelli

What is stargazer, skateboarder, chess champ, pepperoni pizza eater, older brother, sister hater, best friend, first kisser, science geek, control freak Will Tuppence so afraid of in this great big universe?Jerry Spinelli knows.