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• Across So Many Seas

  Behar, Ruth, 1956-

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  This gorgeous historical novel tells the stories of four girls from different generations who are united over the span of 500 years through a love of music and poetry, along with a desire to find a home where all are welcome and accepted.

• Time and Time Again

  Greenfield, Chatham,

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  In this romantic comedy, two queer Jewish teens fall in love--again and again and again. With such a pesky time-loop, they begin to worry about a future that may never come.

• Trajectory

  Gordon, Cambria,

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  17-year-old Eleanor is a once-in-a-generation math whiz, and as WWII rages overseas, the U.S. Army tasks her with the ultimate challenge: fine-tune a top-secret weapon that could end the war.

• Past Present Future

  Solomon, Rachel Lynn,

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  The sequel to Today, Tonight, Tomorrow is just as swoony and tender as the first. Former rivals Rowan Roth and Neil McNair each struggle with the uncertainty of their new lives in their first year of college.

• Night Owls

  Vishny, A. R.,

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  Jewish sisters Clara and Molly work their historic movie theater by day and, as owl-shifting vampires, feed on men in secret at night. In this lush fantasy with a hunt of romance, they must enter New York's monstrous underworld to save their loved…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wide Awake Now

  Levithan, David,

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  In this reimagining of the 2004 novel Wide Awake, Jimmy and Duncan's story is rewritten in the real 2024 and explores the importance of standing up for what you believe in within today's political climate.

• The Judgment of Yoyo Gold

  Blum, Isaac,

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  Yoyo Gold has always played the role of the perfect Jewish daughter, but when she sees her best friend cast out of the community, she is left shocked and unmoored.

• Benji Zeb Is a Ravenous Werewolf

  Moulton, Deke,

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  Benji Zeb and his family are werewolves, and they work hard to hide it. But when Caleb (the school bully) reveals he’s a werewolf, too, Benji must put aside his feelings to help him stay safe and keep the secret.

• The Blood Years

  Arnold, Elana K.,

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  Inspired by the author's grandmother and her experience in Romania during the Holocaust, this novel that won a Sydney Taylor Award follows two sisters who struggle to balance the nuance that comes with survival.

• The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman

  Lowe, Mari,

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  Shaindy and her overachieving nieghbor Gayil have little to do with each other until Shaindy looks out of her window and sees Gayil holding up a mysterious sign: "Want to know a secret?"

• Going Bicoastal

  Adler, Dahlia,

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  In this romantic comedy that is told in alternating timelines, Natalya spends one summer in New York with her girl crush and the other in Los Angeles going for a guy she never saw coming.

• We Ship It

  Kay, Lauren,

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  This coming-of-age novel follows a high school senior battling intense family dysfunction, finding the possible love of her life, and dealing with the anxiety of past trauma--all while on a cruise with her parents.

• Wrath Becomes Her

  Polydoros, Aden,

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  Vera was created as an avenging golem as a way to kill Nazis, and although she is made for vengeance, she begins to wonder if there is more to her life than the anger that her creator wove within her.