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10 best books like A la Carte (Tanita S. Davis): The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein, The Surface Breaks, Pulp, The Last Book Party, The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America's Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality, There's Something About Sweetie, The Tiger at Midnight, If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again, Saint Anything, The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited!

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
AuthorKiersten White
ISBN0525577947
Elizabeth Lavenza hasn't had a proper meal in weeks. Her thin arms are covered with bruises from her "caregiver," and she is on the verge of being thrown into the streets . . . until she is brought to the home of Victor Frankenstein, an unsmiling, solitary boy who has everything--except a friend.

Victor...
The Surface Breaks
AuthorLouise O'Neill
ISBN1407185535
Deep beneath the sea, off the cold Irish coast, Gaia is a young mermaid who dreams of freedom from her controlling father. On her first swim to the surface, she is drawn towards a human boy. She longs to join his carefree world, but how much will she have to sacrifice? What will it take for the little mermaid...
Pulp
AuthorRobin Talley
ISBN1488095272
In 1955, eighteen-year-old Janet Jones keeps the love she shares with her best friend Marie a secret. It’s not easy being gay in Washington, DC, in the age of McCarthyism, but when she discovers a series of books about women falling in love with other women, it awakens something in Janet. As she juggles...
The Last Book Party
AuthorKaren Dukess
ISBN1250225477
A propulsive tale of ambition and romance, set in the publishing world of 1980’s New York and the timeless beaches of Cape Cod.

In the summer of 1987, 25-year-old Eve Rosen is an aspiring writer languishing in a low-level assistant job, unable to shake the shadow of growing up with her brilliant...
The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America's Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality
AuthorAnna-Lisa Cox
ISBN1610398106
The story of America's forgotten black pioneers, who escaped slavery, settled the frontier, and proved that racial equality was possible even as the country headed toward civil war.

The American frontier is one of our most cherished and enduring national images. We think of the early settlers...
There's Something About Sweetie
AuthorSandhya Menon
Ashish Patel didn’t know love could be so…sucky. After he’s dumped by his ex-girlfriend, his mojo goes AWOL. Even worse, his parents are annoyingly, smugly confident they could find him a better match. So, in a moment of weakness, Ash challenges them to set him up.

The Patels insist that...
The Tiger at Midnight
AuthorSwati Teerdhala
ISBN0062869213
A broken bond. A dying land. A cat-and-mouse game that can only end in bloodshed.

Esha is a legend, but no one knows. It’s only in the shadows that she moonlights as the Viper, the rebels’ highly skilled assassin. She’s devoted her life to avenging what she lost in the royal coup, and now...
If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again
AuthorZen Cho
This pleasant novelette won the 2019 Hugo Award, and it’s free online. An imugi (a magical serpent that’s an earlier stage of a dragon, at least in this world’s mythology) wants nothing more than to become a full-fledged dragon and live in the heavens. Every thousand years the imugi, Byam, gets...
Saint Anything
AuthorSarah Dessen
ISBN0451474708
Peyton, Sydney's charismatic older brother, has always been the star of the family, receiving the lion's share of their parents' attention and—lately—concern. When Peyton's increasingly reckless behavior culminates in an accident, a drunk driving conviction, and a jail sentence, Sydney...
The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited!
AuthorClint McElroy
ISBN1250153719
In the second Adventure Zone graphic novel (adapted from the McElroy family's wildly popular D&D podcast), we rejoin hero-adjacent sort-of-comrades-in-arms Taako, Magnus, and Merle on a wild careen through a D&D railroad murder mystery. This installment has a little of everything: a...
I, Claudia
AuthorMary McCoy
ISBN1541530675
Disaffected amateur historian Claudia McCarthy never expected to be in charge of Imperial Day Academy, but by accident, design, or scheme, she is pulled into the tumultuous and high-profile world of the Senate and Honor Council. Suddenly, Claudia is wielding power over her fellow students that she...
Governess Gone Rogue
AuthorLaura Lee Guhrke
ISBN0062853708
Dear Lady Truelove...

My twin brother and I need a new mother, though Papa insists he'll never marry again. Must be nice, brainy, and fond of cats...

Lady Truelove may be London's most famous advice columnist, but James St. Clair, the Earl of Kenyon, knows his wild young sons need a tutor,...
The Starplace
AuthorVicki Grove
ISBN0698118685
It's the early 1960s and Frannie has never given much thought to the color of her skin -- until an African-American girl named Celeste moves to town. At first Frannie ignores Celeste, then the two girls are chosen to be in a special vocal ensemble and they find themselves becoming friends. But others are...
First Day on Earth
AuthorCecil Castellucci
ISBN0545060826
A startling, wonderful novel about the true meaning of being an alien in an equally alien world.

"We are specks. Pieces of dust in this universe. Big nothings.

"I know what I am."

Mal lives on the fringes of high school. Angry. Misunderstood. Yet loving the world -- or, at least,...
The Beast Player
AuthorNahoko Uehashi
ISBN1782691677
In epic YA fantasy about a girl with a special power to communicate with magical beasts and the warring kingdom only she can save.

Elin's family has an important responsibility: caring for the fearsome water serpents that form the core of their kingdom's army. So when some of the beasts mysteriously...
Smooth Operator
AuthorStuart Woods
ISBN0399185267
From #1 bestselling author Stuart Woods comes an extraordinary new series starring an old fan favorite: Teddy Fay.

When President Kate Lee calls Stone Barrington to Washington on an urgent matter, it’s soon clear that a potentially disastrous situation requires the kind of help more delicate...
Travellin' Shoes
AuthorV.M. Burns
ISBN1603816895
A house fire is extinguished to reveal the body of a choir director. The smell of gasoline points to murder.
Thomas Warrendale was employed by First Baptist Church, where Detective RJ Franklin Jr. is a parishioner. Recovering from a car accident, RJ is on leave from the police force in St. Joseph,...
Sweet Heat
AuthorZuri Day
The Blue-Collar Lover Series
 
They don’t wear suits, but the five Carter brothers work hard to earn a day’s pay—and keep the right woman satisfied . . .
 
No one turns out luscious pies and to-die-for cakes like Marvin Carter. Few outside of the family know about his baking skills,...
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