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Zac and Mia

A.J. Betts · 304 pages

The last person Zac expects in the room next door is a girl like Mia, angry and feisty with questionable taste in music. In the real world, he wouldn't-couldn't-be friends with her. In hospital different rules apply, and what begins as a knock on the wall leads to a note-then a friendship neither of them sees coming. You need courage to be in hospital; different courage to be back in the real w

Terminal IllnessYoung AdultMultiple POVEmotional
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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.

Terminal IllnessYoung AdultEmotionalFriends to Lovers
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The World We Found

Thrity Umrigar

Terminal IllnessDual TimelineEmotionalMultiple POV
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A Time for Dancing

Davida Wills Hurwin · 265 pages

Seventeen-year-old best friends Samantha and Juliana tell their stories in alternating chapters after Juliana is diagnosed with cancer.

Terminal IllnessYoung AdultMultiple POVEmotional
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The Last Summer of the Death Warriors

Francisco X. Stork · 344 pages

Terminal IllnessRevenge PlotYoung AdultEmotional
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Send Me a Sign

Tiffany Schmidt · 400 pages

Superstitious before being diagnosed with leukemia, high school senior Mia becomes irrationally dependent on horoscopes, good luck charms, and the like when her life shifts from cheerleading and parties to chemotherapy and platelets, while her parents obsess and lifelong friend Gyver worries.

Terminal IllnessYoung AdultEmotionalFriends to Lovers
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Life in a Fishbowl

Len Vlahos · 332 pages

Fifteen-year-old Jackie is determined to reclaim her family's privacy and dignity by ending a reality television program about her father's terminal brain tumor.

Terminal IllnessEmotionalYoung AdultMultiple POV
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The Amber Keeper

Freda Lightfoot · 369 pages

"Set against the backdrop of revolutionary Russia, The Amber Keeper is a sweeping tale of jealousy and revenge, reconciliation and forgiveness. English Lake District, 1960s: A young Abbie Myers returns home after learning of her mother's death. Estranged from her turbulent family for many years, Abbie is heartbroken to hear that they blame her for the tragedy. Determined to uncover her mother's pa

Revenge PlotDual TimelineEmotionalMultiple POV
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Vanishing Girls

Lauren Oliver · 343 pages

Dara and Nick used to be inseparable, but that was before the accident that left Dara's beautiful face scarred and the two sisters totally estranged. When Dara vanishes on her birthday, Nick thinks Dara is just playing around. But another girl, nine-year-old Madeline Snow, has vanished, too, and Nick becomes increasingly convinced that the two disappearances are linked. Now Nick has to find her si

Dual TimelineYoung AdultMultiple POVEmotional
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Crooked Kingdom

Leigh Bardugo · 560 pages

Crooked Kingdom is a fantasy novel written by Leigh Bardugo.The book is set in a world loosely inspired by 20th century Europe.Crooked Kingdom takes place days after the events of the first book, Six of Crows, finishes.The plot is told from the close third-person viewpoints of six different characters, plus a first and last chapter from two minor characters' points of view.

Revenge PlotYoung AdultEmotionalMultiple POV
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Tape

Steven Camden · 368 pages

Dual TimelineYoung AdultEmotionalMultiple POV
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The Alice Network

Kate Quinn · 503 pages

"It's 1947 and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive somewhere. So when Charlie's family banishes her to Europe to have her "little problem" take care of, Charl

Revenge PlotDual TimelineMultiple POVEmotional
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Queen of Shadows

Sarah J. Maas · 664 pages

Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she's at last returned to the empire-for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past... She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight. She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die just to see her

Revenge PlotEmotionalMultiple POVYoung Adult
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Three Amazing Things About You

Jill Mansell · 378 pages

Hallie doesn't have long to live. And to make things even more complicated, she's in love with a guy who's seriously out of bounds. She's never going to let him know, of course; she's just going to enjoy every remaining moment of her crush. She's also determined to spend her last months helping those who write into her Dear Rose column with problems of their own. Her doctors can't fix her, but may

Terminal IllnessMultiple POVEmotionalFemale Lead
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The Silver Kiss

Annette Curtis Klause · 224 pages

A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoë come to terms with her mother's terminal illness. Includes two accompanying short stories that reveal more of Simon's past and Zoë's future. A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoe come to terms with her mother's terminal illness.

Terminal IllnessYoung AdultEmotionalFemale Lead
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Fly Away

Kristin Hannah · 416 pages

A follow-up to "Firefly Lane" returns readers to the world of Tully, Kate, and Tully's mother, who explore their understandings about love, family, loss, and redemption while turning to each other in the hopes of salvaging their lives.

Terminal IllnessDual TimelineMultiple POVEmotional
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Girl Saves Boy

Steph Bowe

Terminal IllnessYoung AdultEmotionalMultiple POV
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First Love

James Patterson, Emily Raymond · 336 pages

Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.

Terminal IllnessYoung AdultEmotionalFemale Lead
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Just One Wish

Janette Rallison · 272 pages

Seventeen-year-old Annika Truman knows about the power of positive thinking. With a little brother who has cancer, it's all she ever hears about. And in order to help Jeremy, she will go to the ends of the earth (or at least as far as Hollywood) to help him believe he can survive his upcoming surgery. But Annika's plan to convince Jeremy that a magic genie will grant him any wish throws her a curv

Terminal IllnessYoung AdultEmotionalFemale Lead
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She Died Too Young

Lurlene McDaniel · 192 pages

Terminal IllnessYoung AdultEmotionalFemale Lead
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A Thousand Boy Kisses

Tillie Cole · 352 pages

One kiss lasts a moment. But a thousand kisses can last a lifetime. One boy. One girl. A bond that is forged in an instant and cherished for a decade. A bond that neither time nor distance can break. A bond that will last forever. Or so they believe. When seventeen-year-old Rune Kristiansen returns from his native Norway to the sleepy town of Blossom Grove, Georgia, where he befriended Poppy Litch

Terminal IllnessMultiple POVYoung AdultEmotional
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Invincible

Amy Reed

Terminal IllnessYoung AdultEmotionalFemale Lead
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P. S. I Love You

Barbara Conklin · 182 pages

Nothing makes a summer special like falling in love . . . When her father left after the divorce, Mariah lost her sense of family. Now she's lost her special summer, too. Instead of fulfilling her dream to become a writer, Mariah has to help her mother with a house-sitting job in very rich, very snobby Palm Springs. People with a lot of money make Mariah uncomfortable. Until she meets Paul S

Terminal IllnessEmotionalYoung AdultFemale Lead
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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.

Terminal IllnessYoung AdultEmotionalFriends to Lovers

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