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- The Shots You Take, by Rachel Reid
- Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here, by Jonathan Blitzer
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- She’s a Lamb, by Meredith Hambrock
- Exit Zero, by Helene Marie Bertino
- Oathbound, by Tracy Deonn
- The River Has Roots, by Amal El-Mohtar
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- The Listeners, by Maggie Stiefvater (June 3)
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- Ride With Me, by Simone Soltani (May 20)
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- A Curse Carved in Bone, by Danielle L. Jensen (May 13)
- Bury Your Bones in the Midnight Soil, by V.E. Schwab (June 10)
- The View From Lake Como, by Adriana Trigiani (July 8)
- I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays, by Maris Kreizman (July 1)
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- My Friends, by Fredrick Backman (May 6)
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