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• Renegade Girls

  a Queer Tale of Romance and Rabble-rousing

  Neus, Nora

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  Renegade Girls follows seventeen-year-old Nell Nelson, an undercover reporter, as she works to expose the plight of young factory workers in nineteenth-century New York City with the help of her love interest, early street-photographer Alice Austen.

• The Queen's Spade

  Raughley, Sarah

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  Inspired by the true story of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Queen Victoria's African goddaughter, The Queen's Spade is a lush and riveting historical thriller for fans of This Ravenous Fate, A Dowry of Blood and Grave Mercy .

• Where the Heart Should Be

  Crossan, Sarah

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  During the Great Irish Famine, sixteen-year-old scullery maid Nell falls in love with the wealthy landlord's nephew.

• Under the Same Stars

  Bray, Libba

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  In 1940s Germany, Sophie is excited to discover a message waiting for her in the Bridegroom's Oak from a mysterious suitor. Meanwhile, her best friend, Hanna, is sending messages too--but not to find love. As World War II unfolds in their small town…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Age 16

  Fung, Rosena

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  Award-winning creator of "Living With Viola", Rosena Fung pulls from her own family history in her YA debut to give us an emotional and poignant story about how every generation is affected by those that came before, and affect those that come after.

• The Brightwood Code

  Hesse, Monica

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  A cryptic message forces eighteen-year-old American Edda to investigate what secrets followed her across the ocean, even as she tries to make sense of her time as a telephone operator on the French front lines of World War I.

• Bridge Across the Sky

  Ng, Freeman

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  Tai Go and his family have crossed an ocean wider than a thousand rivers, joining countless other Chinese immigrants in search of a better life in the United States. Instead, they're met with hostility and racism. Empowered by the Chinese Exclusion…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Artifice

  Cameron, Sharon, 1970-

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  Isa de Smit grew up in her parents' art gallery in Amsterdam, but in the middle of the war she survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis while trying to help her friend, Truus, smuggle Jewish babies to safety- but in 1943 it is hard to know…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Davenports

  Marquis, Krystal

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  The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in 1910 Chicago, and the two daughters, Olivia and Helen, are finding their way and finding love- even where they are not supposed to.

• The Voice Upstairs

  Weymouth, Laura E.

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  With the ability to see when a person's spirit leaves their body, Wilhelmina Price takes a job at her lifelong friend Edison's family estate to investigate a maid's death.

• The Last Saxon King

  Varga, Andrew, 1969-

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  When sixteen-year-old Dan Renfrew accidentally transports himself to England in the year 1066, he learns he is a time jumper, descended from a long line of secret heroes who protect the present by traveling to the past to fix breaks and glitches in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Blood Years

  Arnold, Elana K.

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  Based on the author's grandmother's true experiences during the Holocaust in Romania, this harrowing story follows Rieke Teitler as she must decide whether holding on to her life might mean letting go of everything that has ever mattered to her.

• Immortality

  a Love Story

  Schwartz, Dana

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  When Hazel becomes the personal physician to Princess Charlotte, the sickly granddaughter of King George III, she is dragged into the glamor and romance of the British court, but she soon realizes malicious forces are at work in the monarchy, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Foul Heart Huntsman

  Gong, Chloe

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  In 1932 Shanghai, exposed national spy Rosalind Lang must rescue fellow spy, Orion, whose memories of Rosalind were wiped, and find a cure to a dangerous chemical weapon before it lands in the hand of foreign invaders.

• Stateless

  Wein, Elizabeth

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  Stella North is one of twelve young pilots competing in a 1937 air race meant to promote peace in Europe, but when one of her competitors is sabotaged, Stella races to determine who is capable of murder, and who might be the next victim.

• Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh

  Lippincott, Rachael

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  When disheartened Pittsburgh teen Audrey transports back to 1812 England, she expects to find love as a Regency romance heroine, but surprisingly sparks fly when she meets Lucy Sinclair.

• Stolen by Night

  Watkins, Steve, 1954-

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  Despite her youth and her conservative father, Nicolette becomes involved with the French Resistance, until one day she is taken from the streets of Paris, submerged in the Nazi camps, brutalized, but determined to survive and bear witness to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Charming Young Man

  Schrefer, Eliot, 1978-

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  They say Léon Delafosse will be France's next great pianist. But despite his being the youngest student ever accepted into the prestigious Paris Conservatory, there's no way an impoverished musician can make his way in 1890s Paris without an outside…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Alchemy of Moonlight

  Ferraro, David

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  Hiding as a servant in Count Montoni's mansion while tending to this family who all suffer a strange affliction on the full moon, Emile finds himself torn between two very different men as he fights for the love he deserves and his own survival.

• The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

  White, Andrew Joseph

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  Hiding as a servant in Count Montoni's mansion while tending to this family who all suffer a strange affliction on the full moon, Emile finds himself torn between two very different men as he fights for the love he deserves and his own survival.