Romance, Love and True Friendships

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I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

Chloe Green is so close to winning. She’s spent the four years since her moms moved her from Southern California to Alabama for high school dodging gossipy classmates and the puritanical administration of Willowgrove Christain Academy. The goal that’s kept her going: winning valedictorian. Her only rival: prom queen Shara Wheeler, the principal’s perfect progeny. But a month before graduation, Shara kisses Chloe and vanishes. On a furious hunt for answers, Chloe discovers she’s not the only one Shara kissed . There’s also Smith, Shara’s longtime quarterback sweetheart, and Rory, Shara’s bad-boy neighbor with a crush. The three have nothing in common except Shara and the annonyingly cryptic notes she left behind, but together they must untangle Shara’s trail of clues to find her.

A Great and Terrible Beauty Cover A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

16-year-old Gemma is tired of living in India and argues with her mother over her desire to be sent to London to an exclusive boarding school. Two months later her mother is dead and Gemma is enrolled at Spence, a girl’s academy which turns out to be far different from her imaginings. Gemma is shunned by the powerful clique at the school and even her own dumpy roommate Ann ignores her. Worse still are the visions that haunt Gemma – the first one was where she saw her own mothers death! Then there’s Kartik, the handsome young man that has followed her from India to warn her not to follow her visions. Life’s turned upside down for Gemma as she tries to find a way to break into the clique, discover a way to cope with the visions and last, but not least, a way to deal with Kartik.

Ziggy Stardust & Me by James Brandon

1973. The Watergate hearings are in full swing. The Vietnam War is still raging. And homosexuality is still officially considered a mental illness. Jonathan Collins, a bullied, anxious, asthmatic kid, is alone aside from an alcoholic father and his sympathetic neighbor and friend Starla. In his imagination his hero, David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, and dead relatives guide him through the rough terrain of his life. In this alternate reality Jonathan can be a completely normal boy– not a boy who likes other boys. Then he meets Web. who is everything Jonathan wishes he could be: fearless, fearsome and, most importantly, not ashamed of being gay.

10507293 The Selection by Kiera Cass

For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon. But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn’t want. Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks. Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she’s made for herself — and realizes that the life she’s always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined.

The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake

Inspired loosely by Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, teenaged Violet is shipped off to Maine after her brother’s hospitalization, where she searches for the lost shipwreck that her great-great grandmother survived and for answers about her family’s long struggle with mental illness, all while falling in love.

How to Break a Heart by Kiera Stewart

Thirteen-year-old Mabry Collins gets advice from her friend Thad about how to break a heart after a humiliating breakup.

Timeless by Alexandra Monir

Forced to live with her wealthy, estranged grandparents in New York City after her mother dies, sixteen-year-old Michele retreats to her room where she finds a diary that transports her back to 1910–with life-changing consequences.

Forgotten by P. C. Cast

Before he was freed by Neferet, Kalona was imprisoned within the earth for centuries because of the Darkness in his heart. But what happened to the Other World’s Kalona? It’s as though he’s been forgotten, or maybe he never existed at all … In the present, Other Neferet may have left her House of Night, but she has far from given up her goal of immortality and world domination. As she operates in secret to gain access to Old Magick, the new High Priestess, Anastasia Lankford, works toward peace and acceptance for the vampyres of the Other World.

Love at First Like by Hannah Orenstein

Eliza Roth and her sister Sophie co-own a jewelry shop in Brooklyn. After learning of an ex’s engagement, Eliza accidentally posts a photo of herself wearing a diamond ring to her Instagram account. Eliza learns that her personal life is good for business, and now she has a choice: continue the ruse or clear up the misunderstanding. All she needs is a fake fiancé. Fellow entrepreneur Blake seems like the perfect match on paper, and shows promise in real life. As Eliza’s lies start to spiral out of control, she can either stay engaged online or fall in love in real life.

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