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    "title": "Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything",
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    "description": "Sixteen-year-old Bianca Torre is an avid birder undergoing a gender identity crisis and grappling with an ever-growing list of fears. Some, like Fear #6: Initiating Conversation, keep them constrained, forcing them to watch birds from the telescope in their bedroom. And, occasionally, their neighbors. When their gaze wanders from the birds to one particular window across the street, Bianca witnesses a creepy plague-masked murderer take their neighbor\u2019s life. Worse, the death is ruled a suicide, forcing Bianca to make a choice\u2014succumb to their long list of fears (including #3: Murder and #55: Breaking into a Dead Guy\u2019s Apartment) or investigate what happened.\n\nBianca enlists the help of their friend Anderson Coleman, but the two have more knowledge of anime than true crime. As Bianca and Anderson dig deeper into the murder with a little help from Bianca\u2019s crush and fellow birding aficionado, Elaine Yee (#13: Beautiful People, #11: Parents Discovering They\u2019re A Raging Lesbian), the trio uncovers a conspiracy much larger\u2014and weirder\u2014than imagined. But when the killer catches wind of the investigation, Bianca\u2019s #1 fear of public speaking doesn\u2019t sound so bad compared to the threat of being silenced for good.\n\nIn this absurdist, bizarrely comical YA thriller that is at turns a deceptively deep exploration of anxiety and identity, perhaps the real murder investigation is the friends we make along the way.",
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