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• My Best Friend's Exorcism

  a Novel

  Hendrix, Grady

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  Abby and Gretchen have been BFFs like, forever. But when the pair reach high school and Gretchen starts acting differently, Abby suspects the cause is something more sinister than growing pains... something downright demonic. My Best…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Paperback Crush

  the Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction

  Moss, Gabrielle

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  If you've got a plastic tub full of Sweet Valley High books in your parents' basement, then this book is for you. Paperback Crush explores the rise and golden age of teen fiction with a mixture of rosy nostalgia and incisive commentary.

• We Ride Upon Sticks

  a Novel

  Barry, Quan

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  The 1989 Danvers High School Falcons will do anything to make it to the field hockey finals, even if that means tapping into the dark history that made their Massechusetts town a hotbed for 17th century witch trials. A diverse, funny read…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Paper Girls. the Complete Story

  Vaughan, Brian K.

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  In the early hours of November 1, 1988, four paper girls stumble across a strange device, and all hell breaks loose -- from time travel to alien invasions and more. Great for fans of Lumberjanes or Doctor Who's zaniness.

• The Impossible Fortress

  a Novel

  Rekulak, Jason

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  Billy Marvin is a nerd, through and through. So is Mary Zelinsky, the brilliant young programmer who's going to help Billy design a game that will win them $4000 and a new IBM PC. That is, if Billy's loser friends and an ill-conceived…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ready Player One

  Cline, Ernest

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  Wade Watts' only escape from the grim reality of 2044 is OASIS, the virtual utopia created by trillionaire, programmer, and 80s buff James Halliday. Halliday has left behind an Easter egg in the game, promising wealth and fortune to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Life Moves Pretty Fast

  the Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies (and Why We Don't Learn Them From Movies Anymore)

  Freeman, Hadley

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  This humorous, engaging work of film criticism looks at the risk-taking classics of the 1980s and explains why they couldn't get made in today's world of bland megastudio blockbusters.

• One Word Kill

  Lawrence, Mark

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  In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he's dying. And it isn't even the strangest thing to happen to him that week. Not when a new girl, Mia, has just joined his weekly D&D game and reality is rapidly becoming…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Meddling Kids

  a Blyton Summer Detective Club Adventure : a Novel

  Cantero, Edgar, 1981-

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  Scooby Doo meets cosmic horror in this tale of former teen detectives returning to the scene of a case they got wrong. Great for fans of Stephen King's It or H. P. Lovecraft reimaginings.

• You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried

  the Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation

  Gora, Susannah

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  An in-depth look at the Brat Pack and the John Hughes movies that made them famous, including interviews with more than two dozen key actors of the time.