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Chemistry sizzles in this workplace rom-com set in the world of high school basketball as the author of Love & Other Disasters delivers a sapphic romance full of humor and heart.
When a smart-mouthed junior joins East Nashville High’s basketball team, Coach Julie Parker’s ready for the challenge. What she’s not prepared for is the teen’s new foster parent, a super-hot ex-WNBA baller and star of Julie’s fantasies. Julie knows the cool and confident Elle Cochrane is way out of her league. But despite being completely tongue-tied around her, somehow Julie persuades Elle to step in as her assistant coach.
Elle has not been on a court since her career-ending injury, but she can’t seem to resist Julie, who is just as adorable as her nervous babbling. Maybe because being around her makes Elle feel sparks for the first time in long while—which is why she offers to help when Julie reveals her lifelong insecurity about dating and how she wishes she could practice at it…like sports. As Elle helps Julie navigate dating life, lines grow increasingly blurred, and the two must decide whether they’ll stay on the sidelines—or finally take their shot.
A swoony, speculative and entirely electric YA debut with a humorous
and satirical take on the conventions of the superhero-verse, for fans
of Michelle Quach's Not Here To Be Liked and the Marvel Universe.
Seventeen-year-old Jenna Ray has just been saved by the world's newest
superhero, Blaze. And, in the eyes of the public, that means one thing:
Jenna Ray has been cast as the Love Interest.
No. Not happening. Not if Jenna has anything to say about it (even if
Blaze is actually quite sweet and cute).
But her plans to defy the HPA (the Heroics and Power Authority) and
turn down this new role are thwarted when the Villains begin to take an
interest in her and offer a life-changing proposition; become Blaze's
Love Interest, while avoiding catching feelings for him, to uncover the
HPA's secret plans and find her missing mum.
To make matters even more complicated, just as Jenna starts to embrace
her new-found career, she discovers she might be more on the side of
the superheroes than she ever imagined .
A fresh, irresistible rom-com from Emma Lord, Tweet Cute is about
the chances we take, the paths life can lead us on, and how love
can be found in the opposite place you expected. Meet Pepper, swim
team captain, chronic overachiever, and all-around perfectionist
and secretly running Big League Burger's massive Twitter account.
Enter Jack, class clown and constant thorn in Pepper's side. When
he isn't trying to duck out of his obscenely popular twin Ethan's
shadow, he's busy working in his family's deli and when Big League
Burger steals his grandma's iconic grilled cheese recipe, he'll do
whatever it takes to take them down, one tweet at a time. All's
fair in love and cheese - that is, until Pepper and Jack's spat
turns into a viral Twitter war. Little do they know, while they're
publicly duelling it out, they're also falling for each other on an
anonymous chat app Jack built. As their relationship deepens and
their online shenanigans escalate, even these two rivals can't
ignore they were destined for the most unexpected, awkward,
all-the-feels romance . . . 'Gossip Girl meets Mean Girls mixed
with To All The Boys I've Loved Before with a touch of You've Got
Mail. It's basically impossible not to like.' - Hypable
Ally arrives from England with her brothers to stay for a month in Africa - weeks of running wild on an unspoiled, untamed coast amid mangrove creeks, vast white sandy beaches, coral reefs and warm seas. But on their first walk through the forest to the beach, Ally is swamped by a sense of an unseen presence close to her - of being spoken to. The feeling increases as a local teenager, Leli enthusiastically sweeps her into the world of his village and their offshore island (Kisiri - the place of secrets). It's the beginning of a friendship that swiftly becomes an intense, overwhelming bond between them.
Kisiri is a place of local legend, protected and feared: village youngsters dare each other to go there. Village elders forbid it. Ally and Leli feel drawn to it, and land on its shores. At once Ally feels again that invisible presence, a whispered voice.
But fear can change things, divide people. The bond between Ally and Leli feels unbreakable. But suddenly everything, everyone, conspires to drive a wedge between them. She is, after all, an outsider - a visitor, no more. Only weeks away, she will leave for England, simply walk away, never to return, how can she possibly share, or help?
Ruth Ainsworth is a happy, confident teen living in
Massachusetts in 1947. She has a strong circle of friends and a
secure family, and she excels at her studies. She is full of
optimism for her senior year, mostly because she's dating Rex
Gardner, the star of the Hampden High School football team.
They start their last school year, and everything is going well
for Ruth-until Rex suddenly breaks up with her and begins dating a
junior cheerleader. Ruth is heartbroken, but she fights off the
pain by focusing on school and the girls' basketball team. When
Ruth meets Maurice Langlois, a French-speaking Canadian immigrant,
he helps her forget about Rex. As their love grows, however, they
realize they will soon be separated by hundreds of miles when they
leave for college. Their attempt to resolve problems related to
their separation gets even more complicated when Rex makes a
surprising reappearance in Ruth's life. Will Ruth and Maurice's
love for each other survive?
"When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of
survival." Five teenagers from different parts of the country.
Three girls. Two guys. Four straight. One gay. Some rich. Some
poor. Some from great families. Some with no one at all. All living
their lives as best they can, but all searching. What they don't
expect, though, is all that can happen when those powerful little
words "I love you" are said for all the wrong reasons. Five moving
stories remain separate at first, then interweave to tell a larger,
powerful story--a story about making choices, taking leaps of
faith, falling down, and growing up. A story about kids figuring
out what sex and love are about, at all costs, while asking
themselves, "Can I ever feel okay about myself?" A brilliant
achievement from New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins.
Tricks is a book that turns you on and repels you at the same time.
Just like so much of life.
An instant New York Times bestseller! An Indie Next Top 10 Pick A
Parents' Choice Silver Honor Winner "A funny, action-packed, and
sweet romance." -School Library Journal (starred review) "A
phenomenal read." -RT Book Reviews A skilled painter must stand up
to the ancient power of the faerie courts-even as she falls in love
with a faerie prince-in this gorgeous bestseller that's "an ideal
pick for fans of Holly Black, Maggie Stiefvater, and Laini Taylor"
(Publishers Weekly, starred review). Isobel is an artistic prodigy
with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal
creatures who cannot bake bread or put a pen to paper without
crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst,
and Isobel's paintings are highly prized. But when she receives her
first royal patron-Rook, the autumn prince-she makes a terrible
mistake. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes-a weakness that could
cost him his life. Furious, Rook spirits her away to his kingdom to
stand trial for her crime. But something is seriously wrong in his
world, and they are attacked from every side. With Isobel and Rook
depending on each other for survival, their alliance blossoms into
trust, then love-and that love violates the fair folks' ruthless
laws. Now both of their lives are forfeit, unless Isobel can use
her skill as an artist to fight the fairy courts. Because secretly,
her Craft represents a threat the fair folk have never faced in all
the millennia of their unchanging lives: for the first time, her
portraits have the power to make them feel.
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Fate
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J J Robson
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For readers of Schindler's List, The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas comes a heart-breaking story of the very best of humanity in the very worst of circumstances.
In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival - scratching numbers into his fellow victims' arms in indelible ink to create what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust. Waiting in line to be tattooed, terrified and shaking, was a young girl. For Lale - a dandy, a jack-the-lad, a bit of a chancer - it was love at first sight. And he was determined not only to survive himself, but to ensure this woman, Gita, did, too.
So begins one of the most life-affirming, courageous, unforgettable and human stories of the Holocaust: the true love story of the tattooist of Auschwitz.
I WAS JANE AUSTEN'S BEST FRIEND is the secret diary of Jenny
Cooper, Jane Austen's teenage friend and confidante. Their evenings
are a blur of beautiful dresses, balls, gossip and romance; their
days are spent writing about them - Jenny in her diary, Jane in her
first attempts at fiction. When Jenny falls utterly in love with a
handsome naval officer, obstacles stand in their way. Who better to
help her than Jane herself, who already considers herself an expert
in love and relationships?
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Wyatt's Angel
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Lindsey Sayre Thames; Illustrated by Edgar Mojica
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Witty, intelligent Elizabeth Bennet has no desire for a marriage of
convenience. And when she meets the handsome, wealthy Mr Darcy, her
opinion of him is quickly set: he is aloof, selfish and proud - the
last man in the world she would ever marry. Until their paths cross
again, and again, and the pair begin to realise that first
impressions can be flawed... But as Elizabeth and Darcy become
entangled in a dance through the strict hierarchies of society,
will there be space for true love to bloom? Bestselling and YA Book
Prize shortlisted author Laura Wood brings Elizabeth Bennet and Mr
Darcy's romance to life once more in a stunning and truly
accessible retelling of Austen's beloved classic.
Everyone needs a lucky break Layla Harrison, Aster Amirpour and
Tommy Phillips always dreamed of the ultimate celebrity lifestyle.
But Layla, Aster and Tommy never imagined it would come with a cost
- their involvement in the disappearance of Madison Brooks-a story
that's blinded the world like a starlet dazzled by paparazzi
flashbulbs, Now, Layla is receiving mysterious messages from an
anonymous source, Aster faces a looming murder trial and Tommy is
retracing his steps as the last person who Madison saw alive. You
can dig up dirt about celebrities that the tabloids miss if you
search long enough. But when Layla, Aster, Tommy team up with an
unsuspecting insider to unearth the truth, they will find that some
secrets are best kept in the grave
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