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Taylor Markham is now a senior at the Jellicoe School, and has been made leader of the boarders. She is responsible for keeping the upper hand in the territory wars with the townies, and the cadets who camp on the edge of the school's property over summer. She has to keep her students safe and the territories enforced and to deal with Jonah Griggs - the leader of the cadets and someone she'd rather forget. But what she needs to do, more than anything, is unravel the mystery of her past and find her mother.

I wanted to have the best summer ever. To have my first kiss and finally get my brother’s best friend to notice me. So I talked my best friend Carson into helping. He’d do anything for me, and I’d do the same for him. But somewhere between fake dating and pretending to fall in love with him, I fell for real.

An effervescent holiday rom-com following two boys stranded at an airport who fall in love over one magical, snowy night. ’Twas the flight before Christmas . . . Zach is heading home from his first semester at college with presents for his family, a voicemail from his ex, and about as much...

He broke her best friend's heart, so now Saachi plans to break his. May the best heartbreaker win . . . Saachi would do anything for her best friend. So when school bad boy Fahim breaks Mona's heart, Saachi is hellbent on getting revenge. It's time to put him in his place once and for all. And...

It's amazing how a few little words can change your life. It starts with a simple "I love you". It's made official with "I do". And becomes incredible with "I'm pregnant".

Part To All the Boys I've Loved Before, part Everything Leads to You, this queer rom-com puts a smart spin on all the YA tropes we can't get enough of. Film club nerd Cleo Ferrara’s senior year was like a storyboard waiting to be filmed. She knew the scenes, the players, and the eventual happy...

As the daughter of a successful Major League pitcher, Charlie Hastings has baseball in her blood. Unfortunately, being the only girl on her high school baseball team, Charlie has always been just one of the guys. When her best friend, and secret love of her life, asks another girl to the prom, Charlie is devastated. She’s tired of being overlooked by boys because she’s not like other girls. Suffering a massive identity crisis, she decides to hang up her cleats. But with only two weeks until the state championships, the Roosevelt High Ravens can’t afford to lose their star catcher.

DISCOVER YOUR BOOK OF THE SUMMER FROM TASHA GHOURI, LOVE ISLAND STAR AND DISABILITY CAMPAIGNER! The audiobook includes an exclusive Q&A at the end between Tasha Ghouri and Lizzie Huxley-Jones. Cassie needs a change. She's in a job she hates, dating a guy who couldn't care less about her, and...

Dixie only has one plan for her annual summer trip to the little Californian town of Cielo Springs – to finally tell her best friend Sawyer that she’s in love with him. But when she arrives, she realizes Sawyer has moved on (a fact made very apparent when she sees him kissing, um, someone else). Luckily Dixie’s family have each been gifted with a Rewind – a single opportunity to redo one moment from the last 365 days.

From widely acclaimed comedian and author Shappi Khorsandi comes a modern fable about the rise and fall of a beautiful, but vulnerable, young woman in a world obsessed with fame and fortune. Emma and her mother are down on their luck. After getting kicked out of their home by their landlord, they're taking turns sleeping on the sofa in her aunt's tiny flat - and desperately trying to come up with an escape plan. 

Zara and Adnan are just friends. Always have been, always will be. Even if they have to pretend to be girlfriend and boyfriend... Zara loves love in all forms: 90s romcoms and romance novels and grand sweeping gestures. And she's desperate to have her own great love story. Crucially, a real one...

May Falkner's past two years have been a craptastic road. When her father suddenly passes away, May needs to find a job to help out her mom and possibly find some laughter along the way. Working at the bookstore helps with that problem. It also leads her to cross paths with Nico Evitts, who begins as just a coworker, but becomes so much more. When life finally seems like it's almost normal again, reality steps in and pitches another curveball May's way, causing things to crack a bit. What May has to learn is, eventually, you just have to rip the bandage off.

Emma Saylor doesn’t remember a lot about her mother, who died when she was 10. But she does remember the stories her mom told her about the big lake that went on forever. Now it’s just Emma and her dad, and life is good, if a little predictable...until Emma is unexpectedly sent to spend the summer with her mother’s family - her grandmother and cousins she hasn’t seen since she was a little girl.

Ramona fell for Sam the moment she met him. It was like she had known him forever. He's one of the few constants in her life, and their friendship is just too important to risk for a kiss. Though she really wants to kiss him. Sam loves Ramona, but he would never expect her to feel the same way—she's too quirky and cool for someone like him. Still, they complement each other perfectly, both as best friends and as a band.

A Korean-American girl travels to Seoul in hopes of debuting in a girl group at the same K-pop company behind the most popular boy band on the planet in this romantic coming-of-age novel about chasing big dreams, for fans of Mary H. K. Choi and Jenny Han.

Abi hasn’t had an easy life. In fact, the opposite. And when she has to move in with her Grandma midway through her senior year, she thinks it’s just getting worse. Little does she know a boy down the street and a rag tag group of friends are about to turn her world - and her heart - upside down. Start listening to the series that will make you laugh, cry, and swoon today.

A világszerte nagy sikert aratott Jobb mint a filmeken folytatásában Wes és Liz az egymás iránti érzéseik, valamint az egyetemi lét nehézségei és bonyodalmai között őrlődnek. Wes pár csodás hónapig maga mellett tudhatja Lizt, azonban amikor megkezdenék első évüket a Kaliforniai Egyetemen, tragédia történik, végül pedig elválnak útjaik. Néhány hónap elteltével Wes és Liz ismét ugyanarra az egyetemre járnak. Wes tisztában van azzal, hogy összetörte Liz szívét, amikor szakítottak, de elhatározza, hogy visszahódítja a lányt, amihez bomba biztos terve is van.

Jesse Spark has a broken heart, and in a few short weeks he'll require major surgery to repair it – which means he only has a month to accomplish two almost-impossible tasks: 1. Shoot his epic zombie movie on a shoestring budget if he has any hope of getting into film school. 2. Fall in love before this surgery lands him with a huge scar – because how will anyone ever fancy him after that?

In this big-hearted young adult romance, a camp counselor embraces first love and self-acceptance as she finds her place in the Deaf community. “Proves love is a universal language.”—Kasie West, author of Sunkissed and The Fill-In Boyfriend “A beautifully nuanced representation of Deaf...

Feinde. Teamkameraden. Oder mehr? Parker Darling ist bereit: Jetzt, da seine Brüder ans College gehen, will er endlich Kapitän der Ransom Devils werden. Kenzie liebt Eishockey, doch ihr Vater verbietet ihr, bei den Devils zu spielen – obwohl sie das Zeug dazu hätte. Als die Devils jedoch Match um Match verlieren und ihr Torjäger verletzt wird, müssen Parker und Kenzie zusammenarbeiten, um das Team zum Erfolg zu führen.