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Remember Us This Way by Sheridan Anne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNoah Ryan was my whole life. From start to end, it was always him.He taught me pain, patience, forgiveness, and the impact of the footprints I will leave in the sands of time. But most of all, he taught me what it meant to truly give my heart to another. It was short-lived and intense—a soul-shattering type of love—but it was mine, and I clung to it right until the end.Noah Ryan was my salvation... -
Difficult by R.L. Mathewson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSurviving high school was going to be hard enough, but surviving telling the one girl that he couldn’t live without how he felt was going to be one of the most difficult things that Sebastian Bradford was ever going to do.From New York Times and USA Today’s bestselling author R.L...Categorized as:
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Perfect Someday by Lauren Runow
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI knew, someday, I’d have the life of my dreams.I just wasn’t prepared to lose him in return.Growing up in small-town Mason Creek, it's hard for a girl to dream big. Since my mom was barely making ends meet, I knew moving away for college wasn’t in the cards. What I didn’t know was how singing a Miranda Lambert song while unpacking a box would change my life forever ..Categorized as:
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Out of Ruins by Michele G. Miller
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Guilt. A painful, lonely feeling. It seeps into your pores slowly as you go through life day by day. Like a disease, it blackens your heart with thoughts and memories of what you did, or in my case, what you didn’t do.” Surviving the storm was only the beginning for Jules. Surviving the guilt? That is something only love can help her overcome... -
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Cry For Me by R. Sullins
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPaigeLonerOutcastCharity caseOrphanI was all those things.Years after my parents died, I was still being bullied, and it was all led by my cousins.They hated me for years as children, and moving into their house didn't make them change their minds about me.I was counting down the days until I could finally get away from every single person in this town... -
810 Destiny Dr. by Tracy Lorraine
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe’s the one all the girls want.The talented musician. The football player. He’s also my best friend. My ride or die. The one who knows all my secrets. Well, all but one. Only, he doesn’t see me the way he does all the other girls at Cherry Falls High. It’s like I’m invisible to him. Just one of the guys. But I want more... -
Wicked Chemistry by R.L. Kenderson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI didn’t know I’d risk everything to be with him.I thought he was the assistant football coach.I thought I would protect my teaching career from anything.I thought I could stay away from him.I thought wrong.Wicked Chemistry deals with a student-teacher relationship. All individuals are over eighteen and consenting adults... -
Varsity Rulebreaker by Ginger Scott
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHollis Taylor is allowed to break the rules. She’s coach’s little girl. And she’s good. If that means she gets to bump one of the guys for the starting catcher’s job on the Public High baseball team, then the others on the squad better suck it up and deal. But breaking rules has taken Cannon Jennings far in life...Categorized as:
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Dear McKinnon by Danielle Keil
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEveryone knows what it means to have a teal envelope taped to their locker on the first day of the month. Everyone except new girl McKinnon Gregory.The envelope is the start of a monthly tradition called the Secret Admirers, and something McKinnon never thought she'd see. To her surprise-- and everyone else's-- the teal envelope is taped to her locker on March first... -
My Second Chance by Natasha L. Black
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSecrets always have a way of coming back to bite you,And I’m about to get bit big time…Graham was the star pitcher of our high school team,I was the theater nerd I never thought he’d notice.Until one day he did, and it changed my life forever.Fast forward five years and he sees me in the stands,He gives me one hot night and a heck of a secret to keep... -
Reach for Tomorrow by Lurlene McDaniel
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKatie O'Roark is thrilled to learn that Jenny House is being rebuilt. After the fire last year, Katie thought she could never return to the camp, where she spent the summers with teens like her who faced medical odds stacked against them. But thanks to Richard Holloway's efforts, Katie and her longtime friends Lacey and Chelsea will work as counselors once again... -
Unchained: The Dorms by J.L. Weil
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAinsleyGrayson Edwards is my best friend’s brother and so off-limits. There are a hundred reasons why we don’t make sense.Not my type.Moody AF.Popular.He’s bad.During the day, it all seems so clear, but at night…my dreams paint a different picture.He’s so damn serious, and I don’t care about anything except getting out of Elmwood until I get an unsettling text... -
Silent Treatment by Jackie Williams
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDancing for a new boy band should be a teenager’s dream come true, but success comes at a price.Driven by jealousy, Jennifer’s spiteful attack almost ends Carrie’s fabulous new dancing career, but luckily the strong hands and caring heart of the gorgeous Daniel Lewis, are there to pick up the pieces... -
The Revised Life of Ellie Sweet by Stephanie Morrill
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEllie Sweet is a lot of things—good girl, novelist, silent adorer of the new boy at school, Palmer. But when “outcast” gets added to the list, she decides it’s time to take reality into her own hands … and tweak it as needed. In the pages of her book, she’s Lady Gabrielle, favorite of the medieval Italian court... -
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The Slope Rules by Melanie Hooyenga
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFifteen-year old Cally accepted her fate as one of the guys, so when she meets Blake, a hot snowboarder who sees her for more than her aerials on the slopes, she falls fast and hard. But their romance can only last as long as vacation. Or so she thinks... -
You Can't Catch Me by Cassie Mae, Becca Ann
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy body suuuucks. After lounging around on my butt all summer (okay, so maybe that was my bad), this body decided to become something completely foreign. So now I’m trying to make the track team and I feel like I’m a baby learning to walk again. A couple pounds wouldn’t have been so bad. Work those off, run like a mad woman, no problem, yeah? But no... -
Dare You to Chase the Soccer Player by Lacy Andersen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA little dare never hurt anybody...It seems like all a girl needs these days is a little mascara and concealer blended over her acne scars to make her mark on the world – especially if she wants to become a famous makeup artist. I’m only a junior in high school, but I’ve got major goals... -
You Walked In by Tia Louise
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn opposites-attract, sports-romance novella Daisy’s just trying to finish high school. Scout’s just trying to escape. Neither is looking for love, until… (The TWIST OF FATE Prequel story readers demanded..Categorized as:
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Dare You to Resist the Bull Rider by Lacy Andersen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA little dare never hurt anybody...My sophomore year at Rock Valley High was a total downer. Joining the wrong crowd and nearly getting drowned aren’t exactly things I want to write about on my college admission essays.But my best friend, Hunter, is moving back home from spending a year on his grandpa’s ranch...Categorized as:
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Caffeine: A Young Adult Romance by Livia Halteh
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAspen Haste struggles with things most teenagers have no problem dealing with. As a sixteen-year-old girl with crippling anxiety and currently on medication, her only solace is the same order she asks in Café de Fleur. This helps somewhat, but she still has to deal with the perils of teenage life, as well as her insomnia from the medication.Well . . -
Rebels Don’t Fall for Tomboys by Emma Dalton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEvery tomboy deserves to score the guy of her dreams.Bailey:I’m the Tomboy. I’ve dreamed of playing quarterback since I was a kid. No one on the football team wants me around, though, and I need to prove to them that I belong.Zane Hastings is the only guy who welcomes me. But when he plays me like a fool, I don’t want anything to do with him... -
Don't Taunt Me by Kai Juniper
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBrook saved me.Tamed the monster within me.But my past brought it back.It knocked on my door and everything fell apart.I thought I was stronger than that.But I'm not. Not yet. Not even with Brook's love.My past taunts me.It fuels my rage.If I can't get control of it, I'll lose it all.Everything I've worked for.I won't let that happen.I've come too far to go back... -
Dare You to Fall for the Catcher by Lacy Andersen
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA little dare never hurt anybody...Running is my life. It’s one of the few things I’m good at and I dominate on the track. But my take-no-prisoners reputation doesn’t scare everyone. There’s still one boy who’s not afraid to get under my skin...Jayden Paul. Catcher of the varsity baseball team. Hottie of the year. And the thorn in my side ever since we kissed in sixth grade (on a silly dare!)...Categorized as:
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Dare You to Date the Point Guard by Lacy Andersen
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA little dare never hurt anybody...My whole life's been about following in my parents' footsteps: ace school and then get into med school. And that means that my dream to become a world-famous artist isn’t part of the plan. Neither is the game of spin-the-bottle that leads me to the second most humiliating moment of my life with Mason Finnick... -
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The Offer by Becca Steele
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne offer. A few fake dates. What could possibly go wrong?All I have to do is pose as the girlfriend of London Hawks player Jake Savage. The bad boy of rugby, he has a reputation both on and off the pitch.Neither of us are interested in a relationship, so our arrangement is perfect. We just have to go on a few dates and pretend to be into each other while we’re photographed for the tabloids... -
Summer Alone by Amy Sparling
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBecca's senior year of high school is approaching and she's tired of being the dorky best friend. Determined to reinvent herself with help from Bayleigh, she plans to spend the summer breaking out of her shell. When Bayleigh gets grounded and sent away for three months, Becca's plans come crashing down before they've even started. Now Becca is alone and can't even talk to Bayleigh on the phone... -
Shift by Ginger Scott
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDustin Bridges has always had two things he could count on—his fearless instincts behind the wheel and the support of his two best friends, Tommy and Hannah Judge.Dustin brought the speed.Tommy, the brains.And Hannah . . . she was the glue that held everyone together.Together, they were unstoppable... -
Teaching the Teacher's Pet by Sarah Sutton
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen the popular crowd at Brentwood High votes me Most Likely To: Marry A Math Book, I’m ready to put my ruler into the eye of any egotistical jock who comes near me.Including the idolized Bobcats football player, Connor Bray, when he asks me to tutor him... -
It's a Prank: A Sweet YA Romance by Lucy McConnell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Summer Snow is told she’s on the cut list for softball tryouts, she’s desperate to fix her swing. Her fear of being the only senior cut this year lands her at the local batting cages, bartering her time for free batting practice...Categorized as:
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The Kicker and the New Girl by Anne-Marie Meyer, Maggie Dallen
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe's just trying to survive. He never thought she would be the one who would understand. CoraWe're starting over. Mom and Dad think the best way for me to move on from the death of Ben is to move to Oakwood. There, we can spend time with Mom's late best friend's family and open a new bakery. And I'm okay with that...Categorized as:
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Forbidden Desire by Jordan Silver
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen my dad married her mom she was supposed to be no more than my new little sister, the daughter my dad always wanted. But things don't always go as planned. I didn't set out to fall for her, I was too busy enjoying my senior year of high school amd being the star quaterback and all that entails to want to settle for anyone... -
I Do by Elizabeth Chandler
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWeddings are the perfect place to fall in love... Jane is not looking forward to being the maid of honor in her cousin Stacy's wedding. To make matters worse, Adam, the biggest jerk at Tilson High, is going to be the best man! The last thing Jane wants to do is walk down the aisle with him. But the more Jane gets to know Adam, the more she realizes that he's actually a very cool guy... -
Accepted Fate by Charisse Spiers
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat do you do when everything you had planned out for yourself gets changed in one summer? Do you embrace the new or fight to keep things the same? For seventeen year old Kinzleigh everything was going just as she always planned. She had great friends, went to a school she loved, and always knew she was destined for greatness... -
Bad Boys Don’t Fall For Shy Girls by Emma Dalton
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEvery shy girl deserves to be heard.I’m the Shy Girl and I’m obsessed with romance. I dream of having a love story of my own, but guys at school don’t know I exist. Except for the bad boy who just came back from juvie.Zack Hastings gives off stay-away-from-me-vibes. It’s a little hard to do that when I’m stuck being his lab partner... -
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The Princess Diaries Collection by Meg Cabot
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe set of books is noted for containing many popular culture references, which include singers, movies, and fads in modern culture. Many critics have taken unkindly to this form of storytelling. In response, Cabot wrote an English teacher into the book Princess In Training who criticizes Mia's writing, telling her that it relies too much on "slick pop culture references... -
Don't Tempt Me by Kai Juniper
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsReleasing June 15th! The conclusion to the Broke & Bullied Series. She consumed my thoughts. Got under my skin. Made me feel something other than anger and hate.She tempted me.Made me think I could have more.And then it all came crashing down.I warned her this was my life.She didn’t believe me.Maybe now she finally will.I’m the son of a monster.It’s who I am and I can’t change it...Categorized as:
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Somewhere Between Life and Death by Lurlene McDaniel
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe celebration isn't supposed to end in tragedy. The night of their high-school drama group's cast party starts out as fun for sisters Amy and Erin. Their lives come crashing down when Amy takes the car to get more food and has a horrible accident. Erin and her family pray for Amy to awaken from her coma... -
Dare You to Kiss the Quarterback by Lacy Andersen
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA little dare never hurt anybody...I’m ready to rock my senior year. So what if my parents are recently divorced, the captain of the cheerleading team hates me more than tan lines, or that I’ve been forced to wear the school’s smelly mascot costume? Those things I can handle... -
The Cell Phone Swap by DoNotMicrowave
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsKeeley accidentally swaps cell phones with a rivaling high school’s star quarterback. Unable to switch back until a week later, she must interact with the arrogant boy, passing along texts and voicemails. As she gets to know him better, she realizes there’s more to him than sexual innuendos and egotistical comments... -
Happenstance 2 by Jamie McGuire
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsErin Easter was now Erin Alderman, because Erin Alderman was dead. In the second installment of this USA Today bestselling series, follow protagonist Erin, a high school senior in tiny Blackwell, Oklahoma. After a terrible accident leaves two classmates dead, Erin learns that she was switched at birth... -
Summer in the City by Elizabeth Chandler
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAthletic Jamie isn't sure about spending the summer in the city with her romance–novel–writing mum. But when she meets irresistible Josh, Jamie realizes she could probably use all the romance advice she can get! Lacrosse camp 9 a.m.–noon (can't be late! "Coach" Josh will freak out) Basketball camp 1:00–4:00 (so many screaming kids. . -
Announcing Trouble by Amy Fellner Dominy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI may know everything there is to know about baseball, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it. Or like him. Garrett Reeves: sidelined player and the embodiment of everything I’ve learned to hate about baseball. He’s gorgeous, he’s cocky, he’s laser-focused on getting back in the game, no matter the cost.When he convinces me to call games alongside him, our chemistry heats up the booth... -
Perks of Dating You by Stephanie Street
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThere he is. Connor Sanders. All six feet four inches, broad shouldered, rock hard muscled, starting quarterback of him. As he walks toward me (well, not toward me, but in my direction), bright blue eyes smiling at all the beautiful popular girls dripping from his arms, my heart sinks down to my toes...Categorized as:
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Guys Do Not Do Secret Santa by Miranda Kenneally
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Catching Jordan short story (9 months before Catching Jordan... -
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Flirting with the Bad Boy by Michelle Pennington
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI knew better than to fall for him. There was a reason I had a no dating rule. It only leads to heartbreak.And no one had ever tempted me to break it—until Jason. I was close to giving in, to trusting him enough to be more than friends who stood a little too close and looked at each other a little too long. But then he started dating her... -
The Shy Girl and the Football Star by Julia Keanini
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA relationship between the nerdy, shy girl and the hot football star can work, right?The only thing worse than having to go to the same high school as my beautiful, cheer-captain sister, Charity? Finding out she's dating the boy next door I've had a crush on since I was three years old... -
Playing to Win by Stephanie Street
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen the boy next door becomes enemy #1. Tomboy Jordan Parks is used to dealing with guys who think they're better than her. On the ice or off, she always has to prove herself. If she wants to achieve her goal of playing hockey at the next level, she'll have to stay focused. That means sticking to Rule #1- never date a teammate. It's never been an issue. Until now... -
A Year In Europe by Rachel Hawthorne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMEET THE GIRLS of "A Year in Europe, "a collection of three interconnecting novels about the adventures of traveling abroad. Robin: Her junior year abroad in London takes a surprising turn when she falls for British hottie Kit. Dana: Paris is the City of Love, and Dana's on a mission to find a gorgeous French boyfriend. Carrie: She's crazy about Antonio, her Italian dream guy... -
The Last Field Party by Abbi Glines
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe seventh and final book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Field Party series—a Southern soap opera filled with football, cute boys, and pick-up trucks—from USA TODAY bestselling author Abbi Glines. Five years after the Lawton High football team last took the field, everyone is gathering for a special event back home in Alabama. But coming back together brings up memories from the past... -
The Quarterback and the Ballerina by Anne-Marie Meyer, Maggie Dallen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe thought he knew what he wanted. Turns out, all he wanted was her. Collette I’d kill to be the kind of dancer my mom wants me to be, but it’s just not in the cards. I’m sick of dieting. I'll never fit into the perfect ballerina mold and I’m tired of wishing that I could. I’m over it. I’m done trying...Categorized as:
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