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Broken Beautiful Hearts

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A Song for Issy Bradley

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Look Again

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This is Going to Hurt

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What About Will

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For One More Day

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My Name Is Why

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Olivetti

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Mon mari

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Tell Me Lies

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Human Acts

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Extraordinary Means

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Things Fall Apart

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City of Thieves

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Twice in a Lifetime

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Infinite Bond

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Homegoing

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Nineteen Eighty-Four (Annotated)

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More Than Human

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Rising

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The Magician's Assistant

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Evenings and Weekends

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Jeannette Walls

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Band of Gold

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The Last Song

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The Island House

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O roteiro do amor

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I Will Always Write Back

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Even When You Lie to Me

Jessica Alcott

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Apples Never Fall

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Llechi

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Resisting Eviction

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If He Had Been with Me

Laura Nowlin

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A Sky Painted Gold

Laura Wood

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Repeat

Kylie Scott

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El Chingonario

María Montes de Oca

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Pure Colour

Sheila Heti

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Taming 7

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Code of Honor

Alan Gratz

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Malibu Rising

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Love and Other Words

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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

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Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

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The Forgotten Highlander

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Sofies Welt

Jostein Gaarder

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De jongen en de hond

Seishu Hase

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Como agua para chocolate

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The Seven Year Slip

Ashley Poston

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Love Songs in London – It's raining love

Tonia Krüger

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Winter in the Summer Garden

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A Little Life

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Paul Lynch

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The Calligrapher's Daughter

Eugenia Kim

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Des fleurs pour Algernon

Daniel Keyes

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Good Material

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Love From Venice

Gill Johnson

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The Green Mile

Stephen King

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Wat het hart verwoest

John Boyne

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Careless People

Sarah Wynn-Williams

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Expiration Dates

Rebecca Serle

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Wolf Bells

Leni Zumas

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The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

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The Poisonwood Bible

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Great Australian Working Dog Stories

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Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents

Octavia E. Butler

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Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

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My Grandmother's Secret

Laura Sweeney

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A razão do amor (Sucesso do TikTok)

Ali Hazelwood

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In Every Possible Way

Alicia Thompson

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The Dover Cafe on Trial

Ginny Bell

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Judith und Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell

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I'm Glad My Mom Died

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Safe Haven

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Every Other Weekend

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The Sea of Tranquility

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Isola: Reese's Book Club

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Dinah Jefferies

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Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

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Call Me by Your Name Ruf mich bei deinem Namen

André Aciman

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Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng

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Five Days at Memorial

Sheri Fink

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Secondhand Time

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Falling Like Leaves

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Migration and Mutation

Carole Birkan-Berz

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Autobiography of Red

Anne Carson

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The Five People You Meet In Heaven

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Supervolcano: Eruption

Harry Turtledove

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Into Thin Air

Jon Krakauer

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Shelterwood

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FUTU.RE

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The Game is the Memory

Tabea Widmann

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Missoula

Jon Krakauer

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Big Lies in a Small Town

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Anne of Green Gables

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A Thousand Splendid Suns

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The Kite Runner

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Flawless

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The Great Alone

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The Safekeep

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The Women

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Man's Search for Meaning

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The Hiding Girl: Emily Calby Book 1

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Fear of Missing Out

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The Last Letter

Rebecca Yarros

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Red Bird Danced

Dawn Quigley

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The Nightingale

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It Ends With Us

Colleen Hoover

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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Before We Grow Old

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Me Before You

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Tell Me Why

Archie Roach

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We Were Liars

E. Lockhart

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We'll Always Have Summer

Jenny Han

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All My Rage

Sabaa Tahir

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Say You Swear

Meagan Brandy

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Destroy This House

Amanda Uhle

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The lacuna

Barbara Kingsolver

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The long way home

Jeanne Whitmee

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Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

John Boyne

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Runs with Courage

Joan M. Wolf

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Strangers

Belle Burden

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Beautiful Boy

David Sheff

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Lille pige med svovlstikkerne

Hans Christian Andersen

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A Thousand Boy Kisses

Tillie Cole

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A Love Letter to Whiskey

Kandi Steiner

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LOVE IS A SHADOW

AVINASH PRADHAN

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The Only Things You Can Take

Stacy Claflin

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Sweet Heartbreak (Weybridge Academy)

Alexandra Moody

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Swimming in the Dark

Tomasz Jedrowski

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The light between oceans

M. L. Stedman

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The Light of All That Falls

James Islington

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Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls

Nina Renata Aron

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The Hospital

Brian Alexander

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Love You More Age Gap Lesbian Romance

Christine Waters

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The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Kim Edwards

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Fractured

Zarah Lynn

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A Child Called It

Dave Pelzer

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I Am Ozzy

Ozzy Osbourne

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All the Beautiful Things

Katrina Nannestad

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All the Bright Places

Jennifer Niven

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The Left and the Lucky

Willy Vlautin

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Bridge to Terabithia

Katherine Paterson

Cover of Stay with me

Stay with me

Ayòbámi Adébáyò

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Pizza Girl

Jean Kyoung Frazier

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The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

Cover of Can We Be Strangers Again?

Can We Be Strangers Again?

Shrijeet Shandilya

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Bastard Out of Carolina

Dorothy Allison

Cover of The Things We Cannot Say

The Things We Cannot Say

Kelly Rimmer

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Zoo Station

Christiane F.

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Waiting for White Horses

Nathan Jorgenson

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The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

Jennifer Lynch

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If Only I Had Told Her

Laura Nowlin

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Forbidden

Tabitha Suzuma

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You've Found Oliver

Dustin Thao

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A heartbreaking work of staggering genius

Dave Eggers

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One True Loves

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Cover of Psst-- I have something to tell you, mi amor

Psst-- I have something to tell you, mi amor

Ana Castillo

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The beauty that remains

Ashley Woodfolk

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Making toast

Roger Rosenblatt

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Pimped

Samantha Owens

Cover of Bought and Sold (Part 2 of 3)

Bought and Sold (Part 2 of 3)

Megan Stephens

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I Too Had a Love Story

Ravinder Singh

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Wild Swans

Jung Chang

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Ugly Love

Colleen Hoover

Cover of I'm Done But My Heart Still Whispers Your Name By Ankit Bhatt

I'm Done But My Heart Still Whispers Your Name By Ankit Bhatt

Ankit Bhatt

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The incest diary

Anonymous

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June First

Jennifer Hartmann

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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: National Book Award

Omar El Akkad

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Orphan Train

Christina Baker Kline

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History Is All You Left Me

Adam Silvera

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Save Me

Lisa Scottoline

Crank

Ellen Hopkins

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A Little Life

Yanagihara, Hanya

Babel

Kuang, R. F.

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Malagash

Comeau, Joey

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The Scarlet Ibis

Hurst, James

Pax

Pennypacker, Sara

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In Memoriam

Winn, Alice

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When We See You Again

Goldberg-Polin, Rachel

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Binding 13

Walsh, Chloe

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Grenade

Gratz, Alan

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The Crossover

Alexander, Kwame

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Did You Ever Have a Family

Clegg, Bill

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Dancing at the Pity Party

Feder, Tyler

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Never Let Me Go

Ishiguro, Kazuo

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The Song of Achilles

Miller, Madeline

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The Death House

Pinborough, Sarah

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Releasing 10

Walsh, Chloe

Room

Donoghue, Emma

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The Color of Silence

Shaw, Liane

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A Mark on My Soul

Greene, Jordon

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The Blood of Emmett Till

Timothy B. Tyson

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Flowers For Algernon

Keyes, Daniel

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The Hate U Give

Thomas, Angie

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They Both Die at the End

Silvera, Adam

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The Nightingale

Hannah, Kristin

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The Bone Sparrow

Fraillon, Zana

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The Way I Used to Be

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Girl in Pieces

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Where She Went

Forman, Gayle

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