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Crank Trilogy by Ellen Hopkins
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe heart-wrenching bestselling Crank trilogy shows that addiction is never just one person’s problem. Crank Kristina is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. Then she meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ride turns into a struggle for her mind, her soul—her life. Glass Crank. Glass. Ice. Crystal... -
![Looking for Alaska / An Abundance of Katherines / Paper Towns / The Fault in Our Stars by John Green]()
Looking for Alaska / An Abundance of Katherines / Paper Towns / The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFour critically acclaimed, award-winning modern classics from #1 New York Times-bestselling author John GreenThis John Green deluxe box set includes Printz Award–winning Looking for Alaska, Printz Honor book An Abundance of Katherines, Edgar Award–winning Paper Towns, and #1 New York Times–bestselling The Fault in Our Stars... -
![Love on the Line 2 by Kirsten Fullmer]()
Love on the Line 2 by Kirsten Fullmer
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn part two of this extraordinary love story set in the hot, humid, summer of the wide-open mid-west, egos and emotions collide. Andy and Rooster find their romance in peril when job-related stress, injuries, and extraordinary weather conditions interfere with their relationship, both at work and at home... -
![Rost by Jakub Małecki]()
Rost by Jakub Małecki
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratings2002 sterben die Eltern des siebenjährigen Szymek auf ihrem Rückweg in das kleine Dorf Cholny bei einem Autounfall. Sein Leben vor diesem Ereignis kippt in eine ihm scheinbar unerreichbare Vergangenheit...Categorized as:
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![True Biz by Sara Nović]()
True Biz by Sara Nović
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsTRUE BIZ (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talkTrue biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies...Categorized as:
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![Los nombres propios by Marta Jiménez Serrano]()
Los nombres propios by Marta Jiménez Serrano
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratings¿Quién es Belaundia Fu? Es la mejor amiga de Marta a los siete años: la amiga invisible que, en esos momentos en que las cosas no salen como había planeado y ni siquiera la abuela es capaz de consolarla, se sienta con ella y espera hasta que se le pase... -
![The Dishwasher by Stéphane Larue]()
The Dishwasher by Stéphane Larue
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt’s winter in Montreal, 2002, when a graphic design student’s gambling addiction starts to drag him under... -
![Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession, John Hopkins]()
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession, John Hopkins
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLeonard and Hungry Paul are two friends who see the world differently. They use humour, board games and silence to steer their way through the maelstrom that is the 21st century.‘The figure in Munch’s painting isn’t actually screaming!’ Hungry Paul said. ‘Really, are you sure?’ Replied Leonard. ‘Absolutely. That’s the whole thing. The figure is actually closing his ears to block outa scream...Categorized as:
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Frankie by Graham Norton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrankie Howe has lived a long life, her small flat is crammed full of art, furniture - and memories. Damian, her young carer, listens as she gradually tells him parts of her story - a story that takes us into a progressive, daring world of New York artists on the brink of fame, aspiring writers and larger-than-life characters...Categorized as:
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![The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue]()
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhere would I start, and how would it even make sense? How could you understand the year in Shandon Street unless you were there, with us, living it?Rachel Murray is twenty-one years old, platonically infatuated with her housemate James, and less-than-platonically infatuated with her enigmatic, married English professor Dr Byrne... -
![On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Rosen and His 43Lb Anxiety by Michael Kroft]()
On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Rosen and His 43Lb Anxiety by Michael Kroft
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOnce an amusing extrovert with a reputation as a prankster, Mr. Rosen is entering his retirement years as a stoic thirty-year converted introvert who has no interest in people, despises change, and is more than content to have his wife navigate his life... -
![The Son-in-Law by Charity Norman]()
The Son-in-Law by Charity Norman
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOn a sharp winter's morning, a man turns his back on prison. Joseph Scott has served his term. He's lost almost everything: his career as a teacher, his wife, the future he'd envisaged. All he has left are his three children but he is not allowed anywhere near them.This is the story of Joseph, who killed his wife, Zoe. Of their three children who witnessed the event... -
![Cómplices by Taibo]()
Cómplices by Taibo
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJulián ha luchado contra el aburrimiento de todas las maneras posibles. Desde que le diagnosticaron hepatitis, ha recreado en su cabeza conversaciones imaginarias entre ostras que no tienen nada que hacer, ha buscado formas fantasiosas en las manchas de la pared, ha lanzado mocos al aire. Pero es feliz porque no tiene que ir a la escuela... -
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the truth about fragile things by Regina Sirois
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBryon died fifty years before his time. Charlotte grew up angry. I grew up scared. And Phillip- well, he never grew up. And now we are all bound together into one painful heap of humanity. Broken, but bound. And maybe it is only the fact that we are tangled in one terrible knot that will hold us together until we heal. This is unfortunately, and miraculously, my story...Categorized as:
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![Dear Marley by Danielle Keil]()
Dear Marley by Danielle Keil
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEveryone at Ryder High knows what it means to have a teal envelope taped to their locker on the first day of the month.For Marley “Sunny” Sorenshine, a Secret Admirer might be just what she needs to put her recent, very public, break up behind her.Her optimism is dimmed when she reads the first note—her admirer was tricked into participating. He didn’t choose Marley, a dart did...Categorized as:
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![Copperhead: A Novel by Alexi Zentner]()
Copperhead: A Novel by Alexi Zentner
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat do we do when the people we love hold beliefs that are fundamentally incompatible with who we are? All Jessup wants is to enjoy his senior year at Cortaca High and get a scholarship to attend college. It doesn’t seem impossible. He’s a standout varsity football player. A good student. He works at the local movie theater to help his mother make ends meet...Categorized as:
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![Misophonia by Dana Vowinckel]()
Misophonia by Dana Vowinckel
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPart coming-of-age tale, part family saga, an extraordinary debut novel set between Berlin, Chicago, and Jerusalem “about being Jewish and German, and all the awkwardness that entails” (The Guardian).It’s the hottest of summers in Chicago, and fifteen-year-old Margarita is spending her vacation as usual, under the not-so-watchful eyes of her aging maternal grandparents... -
![Barndommens gate by Tove Ditlevsen]()
Barndommens gate by Tove Ditlevsen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRomanen handler om ungjenta Esters oppvekst i en arbeiderfamilie i København, om hennes forhold til familien, omgivelsene og en gryende seksualitet. Romanen er sterkt selvbiografisk... -
![One on One by Tabitha King, Stephen King]()
One on One by Tabitha King, Stephen King
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA high school basketball star and a defiant outcast discover a profound love that sustains them through a triumphant but painful year... -
![Secret Lives of Mothers & Daughters by Anita Kushwaha]()
Secret Lives of Mothers & Daughters by Anita Kushwaha
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor readers of Shilpi Somaya Gowda’s "Secret Daughter" and Nancy Richler’s "The Imposter Bride", a breathtaking novel from Anita Kushwaha about the ties that bind mothers and daughters together and the secrets that tear them apartVeena, Mala and Nandini are three very different women with something in common...Categorized as:
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![The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak]()
The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOn a train filled with quietly sleeping passengers, a young man’s life is forever altered when he is miraculously seen by a blind man. In a quiet town an American teacher who has lost her Japanese lover to death begins to lose her own self. On a remote road amid fallow rice fields, four young friends carefully take their own lives—and in that moment they become almost as one...Categorized as:
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![Honey by Isabel Banta]()
Honey by Isabel Banta
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA coming-of-age story that follows the meteoric rise of singer Amber Young as she navigates fame in the late-1990s and early-2000s era of pop music superstardomIt is 1997, and Amber Young has received a life-changing call. It is a chance thousands of girls would die for: the opportunity to join girl group Cloud9 in Los Angeles and escape her small town...Categorized as:
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![How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer]()
How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn her dazzling first book Julie Orringer dives into the private world of childhood and immerses us in its fears and longings: the jealous friendships and the bitter sibling battles; the parents that row and the boys that won't dance with you. Then, in a voice that is equally tender and compassionate, she reminds us of those rare, exhilarating moments of victory...Categorized as:
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![I Am No One You Know by Joyce Carol Oates]()
I Am No One You Know by Joyce Carol Oates
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI Am No One You Know contains nineteen startling stories that bear witness to the remarkably varied lives of Americans of our time. In "Fire," a troubled young wife discovers a rare, radiant happiness in an adulterous relationship. In "Curly Red," a girl makes a decision to reveal a family secret, and changes her life irrevocably...Categorized as:
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![Before the Wind by Jim Lynch]()
Before the Wind by Jim Lynch
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFollowing The Highest Tide, Border Songs, and Truth Like the Sun, Jim Lynch now gives us a grand and idiosyncratic family saga that will stand alongside Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion.Joshua Johannssen has spent all of his life surrounded by sailboats. His grandfather designed them, his father built and raced them, his Einstein-obsessed mother knows why and how they work (or not)... -
![Milk Teeth by Jessica Andrews]()
Milk Teeth by Jessica Andrews
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across England, France and Spain.A girl grows up in the north of England amid scarcity, precarity and the toxic culture of heroin chic, believing that she needs to make herself smaller to claim presence in the world...Categorized as:
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![The Farther You Run by Davida Wills Hurwin]()
The Farther You Run by Davida Wills Hurwin
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis past May, Samantha lost her best friend, Juliana, to cancer. Now there is no one to share secrets, gossip, and dreams; no reason to go to dance class by herself. The way she sees it, there's only one thing to do: close that door, and try to move on. Then, in summer school, Samantha meets Mona, who has her own set of challenges. The two girls click right away...Categorized as:
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![Country Pursuits: Churchminister series 1 by Jo Carnegie]()
Country Pursuits: Churchminister series 1 by Jo Carnegie
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe gorgeous women of Churchminster know exactly what they want - a constant flow of champagne (on tap at the local pub) and the love of a good man. But faced with the likes of braying, beer-guzzling farmer Angus, foul-tempered Lord Fraser and suave banker Sebastian (devoted only to himself), their attentions are increasingly drawn to more attractive possibilities . . -
![Just Our Luck by Julia Walton]()
Just Our Luck by Julia Walton
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the author of Words on Bathroom Walls— now a major motion picture—comes a romance in the spirit of Dear Evan Hansen about overcoming anxiety—and about finding love and friendship in unlikely places.★ "A masterpiece" —Kirkus, starred review"Bad luck follows lies." That was the first rule for life that Leo's Greek grandmother, Yia Yia, gave him before she died...Categorized as:
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![Disappearing Home by Deborah Morgan]()
Disappearing Home by Deborah Morgan
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn unsentimental, beautifully written, Raymond Carver-esque tale of a childhood in jeopardyto face up once and for all to the twisted violence in her home and engineer a way out of this childhood to reach a place of safety and freedom... -
![The Big Wide Calm by Rich Marcello]()
The Big Wide Calm by Rich Marcello
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPaige is a rock star. The world just doesn't know it yet. She's got the charisma, the drive, and, of course, the mega-musical skills. All she needs is to make her debut album, one that will change the world, inspire revolutions--and make her galactically famous along the way... -
![Wildlight by Robyn Mundy]()
Wildlight by Robyn Mundy
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou spend your whole time on an island looking out to sea. Perhaps what you are facing is yourself.Sixteen-year-old Stephanie West has been dragged from Sydney to remote Maatsuyker Island off the coast of Tasmania by her parents, hoping to recapture a childhood idyll and come to terms with their grief over the death of Steph's twin brother...Categorized as:
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![Whiskey & Charlie by Annabel Smith]()
Whiskey & Charlie by Annabel Smith
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhiskey & Charlie is a captivating debut novel of brothers who have drifted apart and the accident that will determine their future, by an unforgettable new voice exploring the struggles and strengths of the sibling bond.Some twins communicate in a secret language all their own... -
![Exile by Jakob Ejersbo]()
Exile by Jakob Ejersbo
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor the vagabond pack of ex-pat Europeans, Indian Tanzanians and wealthy Africans at Moshi's International School, it's all about getting high, getting drunk and getting laid. Their parents - drug dealers, mercenaries and farmers gone to seed - are too dead inside to give a damn. Outwardly free but empty at heart, privileged but out of place, these kids are lost, trapped in a land without hope... -
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![Connemara by Nicolas Mathieu]()
Connemara by Nicolas Mathieu
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHélène a bientôt quarante ans. Elle est née dans une petite ville de l’Est de la France. Elle a fait de belles études, une carrière, deux filles et vit dans une maison d’architecte sur les hauteurs de Nancy. Elle a réalisé le programme des magazines et le rêve de son adolescence : se tirer, changer de milieu, réussir.Et pourtant le sentiment de gâchis est là, les années ont passé, tout a déçu...Categorized as:
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![Unboxed by Non Pratt]()
Unboxed by Non Pratt
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsUnboxed is about four teenagers who come together after several months apart. In previous years, they had put together a time capsule about their best summer with a friend who was dying. Now that their friend has passed, they reunite to open the box... -
![Junger Mann by Wolf Haas]()
Junger Mann by Wolf Haas
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Rückwärts durch die Beine betrachtet ist die Welt immer am interessantesten." Dieses Lebensmotto beschert dem jungen Mann von Kindesbeinen an viele Probleme. Probleme in Form von Unfällen. Das Gute an Unfällen: Trostschokolade. Das Schlechte an zu viel Schokolade: Übergewicht.Mit 13 beschließt er, den Blick doch noch nach vorne zu richten und macht eine interessante Entdeckung... -
![Kay's Lucky Coin Variety by Ann Y.K. Choi]()
Kay's Lucky Coin Variety by Ann Y.K. Choi
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA bittersweet coming-of-age debut novel set in the Korean community in Toronto in the 1980s.This haunting coming-of-age story, told through the eyes of a rebellious young girl, vividly captures the struggles of families caught between two cultures in the 1980s...Categorized as:
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![Red Dog Farm: A Novel by Nathaniel Ian Miller]()
Red Dog Farm: A Novel by Nathaniel Ian Miller
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn atmospheric coming-of-age story about a young man's transformative year on his family’s struggling Icelandic cattle farm as he falls in love, discovers the purpose he’s been missing, and seeks to connect with his stoic father, who remains haunted by a tragic past...Categorized as:
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![The Toll Bridge by Aidan Chambers]()
The Toll Bridge by Aidan Chambers
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTo escape the pressures of suffocating parents and a possessive girlfriend, seventeen-year-old Piers takes a job as a keeper of a toll bridge and its cottage. There he befriends Adam, a charismatic wayfarer who shows up one day and refuses to leave. He also befriends a girl named Tess, and soon he and Tess find themselves strangely attracted to Adam and falling under his spell... -
![Magnus by Sylvie Germain]()
Magnus by Sylvie Germain
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA moving and enigmatic novel which deals with the Holocaust and a man's search for his own identity. Magnus pieces together the complex puzzle of his life, which turns out to be closer to a painting by Edward Munch than the romantic tale of family heroism and self-sacrifice on which he was nurtured by the woman he believed was his mother... -
![Shoveling Snow by Brett Sills]()
Shoveling Snow by Brett Sills
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBen and Caroline barely recognize each other any more. Their once solid relationship now broken and beaten by unfathomable events, leaving only a shell of past promise. When pressure cracks the last vestiges of their bond, Ben hastily leaves their Southern California home, pointing the car east to what he hopes is the edge of the Earth... -
![Rain Song by Antje Babendererde]()
Rain Song by Antje Babendererde
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDer Sturz von den Klippen am Cap Flattery hätte leicht tödlich ausgehen können. Doch Hanna überlebt - dank des Makah Indianers Greg. Hat der Vorfall etwas mit Hannas verzweifelter Suche nach ihrer großen Liebe Jim zu tun, der hier vor fünf Jahren spurlos verschwand? Gemeinsam mit Greg macht Hanna sich daran, den Dingen auf den Grund zu gehen... -
![Dear Zoe by Philip Beard]()
Dear Zoe by Philip Beard
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPhilip Beard’s stunning debut novel is fifteen-year-old Tess DeNunzio’s letter to her sister, Zoe, lost to a hit-and-run driver on a day when it seemed that nothing mattered but the tragedies playing out in New York and Washington...Categorized as:
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![Goats by Mark Jude Poirier]()
Goats by Mark Jude Poirier
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFourteen-year-old Ellis is getting ready to leave the Southwest for a boarding school in the East. This means leaving behind his mother, and the only real father figure he has ever known, Goat Man. Goat Man has done more for Ellis than giving him his first bong hit...Categorized as:
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![Life as a Poser by Beth Killian]()
Life as a Poser by Beth Killian
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA new cell with the right area code. A sky's-the-limit credit card. A chance at becoming a Hollywood It Girl. What else could Eva possibly want? Caught in the middle of senior year's juiciest scandal, Eva Cordes graduates early and moves to L.A. to live with her aunt -- the top talent agent for teens -- who plans to make her a star... -
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Futureproof by N. Frank Daniels
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo past. No future. Only now.Originally a self-publishing success launched on N. Frank Daniels's MySpace page, the novel Futureproof tells the story of Luke and his friends as they navigate Atlanta’s subculture of delinquents. In short order, the seemingly harmless high from his first cigarette sends Luke on a downward spiral that ends only after years of self-abuse...Categorized as:
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Parallel Parking by Natalie Standiford
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMeet sophomores Madison, Holly and Lina. When the Dating Game website that they create for class becomes a campus hit as a match-making service and a forum for students' views on love, sex and dating, the three friends hope it will help them take control of their love lives too...Holly, Lina and Mads have mapped out a plan to definitely get the guys of their dreams...Categorized as:
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Deadbeat by Amy Sparling
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen seventeen-year-old Jeremy’s girlfriend agrees to do the deed, life can't possibly get better. And then the condom breaks. He loves Elisa as much as a popular teenage athlete can love a girl, but he doesn't want to be a dad. Her parents want a marriage - his parents want an abortion, and Elisa and Jeremy's once-perfect relationship has been reduced to fights and drama... -
![Can't Stay Away by Francine Pascal]()
Can't Stay Away by Francine Pascal
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe twins are seniors! New faces, old friends, and Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, right in the middle of things.Elizabeth Wakefield jumps into senior year, ready to devote herself to the newspaper, homework and her writing. Trouble is, she can't stop thinking about Conner McDermott, a guy from El Carro high who is total bad news--and who hardly even notices her...Categorized as:
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