The Book of Vanished Names

In a city where books and individuality are banned, Majia is training to takeover her father's role as record keeper of the one sanctioned book. Except the secrets of the past will determine her future... and asking questions may be as deadly as keeping silent. A gripping and timely YA novel-in-verse by acclaimed poet Elisabet Velasquez. Majia lives in a closed-city, where life is safe, stable, and highly regulated. Citizens must shed their identities and forget the past. Books and all forms of media and culture are banned, including music, spices, art. The Only Book is the last remaining evidence of the personal: a record of The Remembered, citizens who led undisruptive lives. Those who step out of line risk being Vanished, swiftly disappearing, never to be seen or mentioned again. Majia is in training to succeed her father, the head record keeper--a responsibility she doesn't want. How can she hold others to standards she doesn't believe in... and rules she's secretly broken? She was never supposed to meet Max, who lives on the broken bridge. Their love was never supposed to take on a life of its own. Majia must follow the rules or risk losing the people most dear to her--and becoming a Vanished like her mother. But when she finds her mother's journals hidden in her father's office, Majia has the potential to rewrite her future--and the future of the Commonwealth.