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The Secret Sky: A Novel of Forbidden Love in Afghanistan

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Like No Other

Una LaMarche · 347 pages

Though their relationship is strictly forbidden, Devorah and Jax arrange secret meetings and risk everything to be together. But how far can they possibly go? Just how much are they willing to give up? Devorah has never challenged her strict Hasidic upbringing, and Jaxon has never been comfortable around girls, but when they meet by chance, everything changes. The plot contains mild profanity and

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Ronit Jamil

Pamela L. Laskin · 183 pages

Pamela L. Laskins beautiful and lyrical novel in verse delivers a fresh and captivating retelling of Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet that transports the star-crossed lovers to the modern-day Israel-Palestine conflict. Ronit, an Israeli girl, lives on one side of the fence. Jamil, a Palestinian boy, lives on the other side. Only miles apart but separated by generations of conflict & much more than ju

Forbidden LoveCultural IdentityReligious IdentityYoung Adult
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Belonging

Karen Ann Hopkins · 408 pages

When she falls in love with Amish boy Noah and joins his community, Rose ignores skepticism about her decision and struggles to prove herself throughout a trial period during which she and Noah are forcibly separated.

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Serpent & Dove

Shelby Mahurin · 513 pages

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Pir-e-Kamil: The Perfect Mentor

Umera Ahmed · 448 pages

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The Forty Rules of Love

Elif Shafak, lyf shfq · 354 pages

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A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini · 416 pages

After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an

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Perfect Chemistry

Simone Elkeles · 384 pages

When wealthy, seemingly perfect Brittany and Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, develop a relationship after Alex discovers that Brittany is not exactly who she seems to be, they must face the disapproval of their schoolmates--and others.

Cultural IdentityForbidden LoveYoung AdultMultiple POV
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Incantation

Alice Hoffman · 168 pages

Estrella is a Marrano: During the time of the Spanish Inquisition, she is one of a community of Spanish Jews living double lives as Catholics. And she is living in a house of secrets, raised by a family who practices underground the ancient and mysterious way of wisdom known as kabbalah. When Estrella discovers her family's true identity--and her family's secrets are made public--she confronts a w

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The Thorn Birds

Colleen McCullough · 573 pages

The Thorn Birds is a 1977 best-selling novel by Australian author Colleen McCullough. Set primarily on Drogheda – a fictional sheep station in the Australian Outback named after Drogheda, Ireland – the story focuses on the Cleary family and spans the years 1915 to 1969.

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In a Perfect World

Trish Doller · 304 pages

When her mother has the chance to establish an eye clinic for the poor in Cairo, Egypt, seventeen-year-old Caroline reluctantly gives up her plans for a summer spent with her best friend and boyfriend and instead moves to Cairo, where she encounters a culture and city that enchant her and a charming boy who challenges her thoughts on love, faith, and privilege.

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The Weight of Feathers

Anna-Marie McLemore · 314 pages

Lace Paloma and Cluck Corbeau, from feuding families of traveling performers, fall in love.

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From Sand and Ash

Amy Harmon · 383 pages

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Beautiful Darkness

Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl · 507 pages

Together Ethan and Lena can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. And now that Ethan's eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there's no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town's tangled history and finds himself caught up in th

Forbidden LoveMultiple POVYoung AdultTragic
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All the Rivers

Dorit Rabinyan · 276 pages

"A controversial, award-winning story about the passionate but untenable affair between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man, from one of Israel's most acclaimed novelists. When Liat meets Hilmi on a blustery autumn afternoon in Greenwich Village, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. Charismatic and handsome, Hilmi is a talented young artist from Palestine. Liat, an aspiring translation s

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Ali and Nino

Kurban Said · 237 pages

The story of the love of Ali, a Muslim from a traditional Tatar family and Nino, daughter of a Georgian Christian family and how their different cultures try to keep them apart in pre-WWI Baku, Azerbaijan.

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Dreams of Gods & Monsters

Laini Taylor · 624 pages

From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera, and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.

Forbidden LoveYoung AdultMultiple POVTragic
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No Shame, No Fear

Ann Turnbull · 304 pages

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Children of Blood and Bone

Tomi Adeyemi · 560 pages

Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie's Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope.

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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Victor Hugo · 443 pages

In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda after she repels the advances of the cruel archdeacon Don Claude Frollo.

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She Wore Red Trainers

Na'ima B. Robert · 261 pages

When Ali first meets Amirah, he notices everything about her - her hijab, her long eyelashes and her red trainers - in the time it takes to have one look, before lowering his gaze. And, although Ali is still coming to terms with the loss of his mother and exploring his identity as a Muslim, and although Amirah has sworn never to get married, they can't stop thinking about each other. Can Ali and A

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Villette

Charlotte Bronte

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Through the Ever Night

Veronica Rossi · 352 pages

Forbidden LoveYoung AdultCultural IdentityMultiple POV
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Twilight / Life and Death

Stephenie Meyer · 387 pages

Collects the novel in which Bella, moving in with her father, meets a boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not human, and a full-length reimagining of the original story. "Celebrate the tenth anniversary of Twilight with this special double-feature book! This new edition pairs the classic love story with Stephenie Meyer's bold and surprising

Forbidden LoveYoung AdultMultiple POVRomance

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