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Someone Else's Summer

Rachel Bateman · 320 pages

Friends to LoversYoung AdultContemporary FictionDeath of a Sibling
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The Marriage Mistake

Jennifer Probst · 368 pages

Carina Conte has had a crush on her brother Michael's best friend, Max Gray, since she was a teenager back home in Italy. Now she's earned her MBA and come to work at Michael's bakery empire. Max knows Carina is strictly off-limits, for the sake of his job and his friendship with Michael. But hot-blooded lust wins out at a conference when the two share a scorching one-night stand-- and are busted

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Dreaming in English

Laura Fitzgerald · 419 pages

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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:

Friends to LoversYoung AdultContemporary FictionDeath of a Sibling
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It's Not Summer Without You

Jenny Han · 288 pages

Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.

Friends to LoversYoung AdultContemporary FictionGrief and Mourning
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Tell Me Three Things

Julie Buxbaum · 336 pages

Friends to LoversYoung AdultContemporary FictionGrief and Mourning
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Purity

Jackson Pearce

Sixteen-year-old Shelby finds it difficult to balance her mother's dying request to live a life without restraint with her father's plans for his "little princess," which include attending a traditional father-daughter dance that culminates with a ceremonial vow to live "whole, pure lives."

Friends to LoversYoung AdultContemporary FictionGrief and Mourning
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The Selection

Kiera Cass · 336 pages

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 cast

Marriage of ConvenienceFriends to LoversYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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A Long Petal of the Sea

Isabel Allende · 325 pages

Marriage of ConvenienceImmigrationFemale Lead
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Twenty Boy Summer

Sarah Ockler

"Don't worry, Anna. I'll tell her, okay? Just let me think about the best way to do it.""Okay.""Promise me? Promise you won't say anything?""Don't worry." I laughed. "It's our secret, right?"According to her best friend Frankie, twenty days in Zanzibar Bay is the perfect opportunity to have a summer fling, and if they meet one boy ever day, there's a pretty good chance Anna will find her first su

Friends to LoversYoung AdultContemporary FictionGrief and Mourning
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Dark Water

Laura McNeal · 287 pages

Living in a cottage on her uncle's southern California avocado ranch since her parent's messy divorce, fifteen-year-old Pearl Dewitt meets and falls in love with an illegal migrant worker, and is trapped with him when wildfires approach his makeshift forest home.

ImmigrationYoung AdultContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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In Too Deep

Mandy Hubbard

Trying to make her best friend Nick jealous, high school senior Sam becomes involved in a terrible lie that spirals out of control.

Friends to LoversYoung AdultContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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Red Glass

Laura Resau · 288 pages

ONE NIGHT SOPHIE and her parents are called to a hospital where Pedro, 6-year-old Mexican boy, is recovering from dehydration. Crossing the border into Arizona with a group of Mexicans and a coyote, or guide, Pedro and his parents faced such harsh conditions that the boy is the only survivor. Pedro comes to live with Sophie, her parents, and Sophie's Aunt Dika, a refugee of the war in Bosnia. Soph

ImmigrationYoung AdultContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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First & Then

Emma Mills · 280 pages

Devon Tennyson wouldn't change a thing. She's happy silently crushing on best friend Cas and blissfully ignoring the future after high school. But the universe has other plans. It delivers Devon's cousin Foster, an unrepentant social outlier with a surprising talent, and the obnoxiously superior and maddeningly attractive jock Ezra right where she doesn't want them -- first into her gym class and

Friends to LoversYoung AdultContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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The Girl Next Door

Selene Castrovilla

As seventeen-year-old Sam desperately tries to help her best friend and neighbor Jesse through aggressive treatments for a rare and usually fatal form of cancer, they find themselves falling deeply in love.

Friends to LoversYoung AdultContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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Lucky Few

Kathryn Ormsbee · 384 pages

The life of homeschooler Stevie Hart gets all shook up when she meets a strange boy, Max, who survived a freak near-fatal accident and is now obsessed with death. He enlists her and her best friend, Sanger, to help him complete his absurd 23 Ways to Fake My Death Without Dying checklist. What starts off as fun begins spiraling downward when Stevie s diabetes sabotages her fumbling romance with M

Friends to LoversYoung AdultContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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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

Friends to LoversYoung AdultContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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You and Me and Him

Kris Dinnison · 288 pages

Maggie Bowers thinks she knows what to expect her junior year of high school--yeah, it would be nice if her mother didn't care so much about her weight, but at least she has Nash, her out-of-the-closet best friend and a cool afterschool job at the local record store. But when Tom moves to town at the start of the school year they have something unexpected in common--feelings for the same guy. Up u

Friends to LoversYoung AdultContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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Bang

Barry Lyga · 299 pages

Sebastian Cody did something horrible, something no one--not even Sebastian himself--can forgive. At the age of four, he accidentally shot and killed his infant sister with his father's gun. Now, ten years later, Sebastian has lived with the guilt and horror for his entire life. With his best friend away for the summer, Sebastian has only a new friend--Aneesa--to distract him from his darkest tho

Friends to LoversYoung AdultContemporary FictionDeath of a Sibling
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Fresh Off the Boat

Melissa de la Cruz · 243 pages

When her family emigrates from the Philippines to San Francisco, California, fourteen-year-old Vicenza Arambullo struggles to fit in at her exclusive, all-girl private school.

ImmigrationYoung AdultContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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Her Name in the Sky

Kelly Quindlen

Hannah has big plans for senior year: football games, Mardi Gras parties, and spring break on the beach with her tight-knit group of friends. No drama, no detours. Just a year to remember. Falling for another girl—her best friend, Baker—was not part of the plan. Hannah knows she should date Wally, the earnest, dependable boy her sister is always teasing her about. She should be happy when Cl

Friends to LoversYoung AdultContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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One Lonely Degree

C.K. Kelly Martin

Anything is possible. . . .Finn has always felt out of place, but suddenly her world is unraveling. It started with The Party. And Adam Porter. And the night in September that changed everything. The only person who knows about that night is Audrey--Finn's best friend, her witness to everything, and the one person Finn trusts implicitly. So when Finn's childhood friend Jersy moves back to town--re

Friends to LoversYoung AdultContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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Trafficked

Kim Purcell

Hannah is an ordinary teenager growing up in Moldova until her parents are killed in a terrorist bombing. While she’s still mourning the loss, she gets an offer that sounds too good to be true: a job as a nanny for a Russian family in Los Angeles. At first, it seems like her luck has finally turned around, but life with the Platonovs quickly spirals into a nightmare. Lillian, the mother, forces

ImmigrationYoung AdultContemporary FictionFemale Lead
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