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Freefall

Mindi Scott · 315 pages

A bass guitar player in a teen rock band deals with alcoholism, his best friend's death, and first love.

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I Was Here

Gayle Forman

Death of a FriendSuicide ContentSurvivor's GuiltEmotional
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Thirteen Reasons Why

Jay Asher · 288 pages

Clay Jenkins returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers 13 cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who committed suicide two weeks earlier.On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list.Through

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Looking for Alaska

John Green · 262 pages

Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Ala

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Falling into You

Jasinda Wilder · 368 pages

Death of a FriendMusicianEmotionalSeries Starter
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If There's No Tomorrow

Jennifer L. Armentrout · 376 pages

Lena Wise is always looking forward to tomorrow, especially at the start of her senior year. She's ready to pack in as much friend time as possible, to finish college applications and to maybe let her childhood best friend Sebastian know how she really feels about him. For Lena, the upcoming year is going to be epic--one of opportunities and chances. Until one choice, one moment, destroys everythi

Survivor's GuiltDeath of a FriendEmotionalYoung Adult
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The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

Michelle Hodkin · 464 pages

Seventeen-year-old Mara cannot remember the accident that took the lives of three of her friends but, after moving from Rhode Island to Florida, finding love with Noah, and more deaths, she realizes uncovering something buried in her memory might save her family and her future.

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Orange: The Complete Collection, Vol. 2

Ichigo Takano

This critically-lauded manga series will tug at your heartstrings with its central plot device about time travel and communication with a future self.

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The Sea of Tranquility

Katja Millay · 398 pages

I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk. Former piano prodigy Nastya Kashnikov wants two things:

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Ketchup Clouds

Annabel Pitcher · 261 pages

Zoe, a teenager in Bath, England, writes letters to a death-row inmate in Texas, hoping to find comfort in sharing her guilty secret over the death of a friend with someone who can never tell her family.

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Torn

Cat Clarke

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Reckless

S.C. Stephens

"When the band hits it big, Kiera and Kellan must ask themselves: Can their love for each other withstand the constant pressures of superstardom? The friendships they've formed, the new family they've found, and the history they've forged will all play a part in helping them navigate the turbulent waters of the band's exploding popularity. A greedy executive hell-bent on success, a declining pop s

MusicianDeath of a FriendEmotionalRomance
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The Story of Tom Brennan

J.C. Burke · 284 pages

Survivor's GuiltDeath of a FriendEmotionalYoung Adult
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The Lies About Truth

Courtney C. Stevens · 336 pages

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A Note of Madness

Tabitha Suzuma · 320 pages

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Unbreak My Heart

Melissa C. Walker · 231 pages

Taking the family sailboat on a summer-long trip excites everyone except sixteen-year-old Clementine, who feels stranded with her parents and younger sister and guilty over a falling-out with her best friend.

Survivor's GuiltDeath of a FriendEmotionalYoung Adult
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November Blues

Sharon M. Draper · 320 pages

A teenage boy’s death in a hazing accident has lasting effects on his pregnant girlfriend and his guilt ridden cousin, who gives up a promising music career to play football in his senior year of high school.

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Love Letters to the Dead

Ava Dellaira · 327 pages

When Laurel starts writing letters to dead people for a school assignment, she begins to spill about her sister's mysterious death, her mother's departure from the family, her new friends, and her first love.

Survivor's GuiltSuicide ContentEmotionalYoung Adult
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Shade

Jeri Smith-Ready · 309 pages

Death of a FriendMusicianSeries StarterYoung Adult
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Reminders of Him

Colleen Hoover · 417 pages

After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild. Everyone in her daughter’s life is determined to shut Kenna out, no matter how hard she works to prove herself. The only person who hasn’t closed the door on her comple

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Who I Kissed

Janet Gurtler · 314 pages

Samantha, having kissed Alex to make Zee jealous, becomes the school pariah and a media sensation after Alex dies shortly after they kissed. The plot contains profanity and sexual situations. Samantha didn't mean to hurt anyone. She was just trying to fit in... And she wanted to make Zee a little jealous after he completely ditched her for a prettier girl. So she kissed Alex. And then he died--ri

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All the Bright Places

Jennifer Niven · 408 pages

Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at s

Death of a FriendSuicide ContentEmotionalYoung Adult
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My Heart and Other Black Holes

Jasmine Warga · 320 pages

it's a debut young-adult novel by Jasmine Warga

Survivor's GuiltSuicide ContentEmotionalYoung Adult
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The Heartbreakers

Ali Novak · 333 pages

When her triplet sister Cara is diagnosed with leukemia, eighteen-year-old Stella puts her dreams on hold to move home and be with her family, but when she starts spending time with the lead singer of Cara's favorite band, will Stella resent him for taking her attention away from her sister--or will he help Stella find the courage to live her own life?

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