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Heathers the Musical by Laurence O'Keefe, Kevin Murphy
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHeathers The Musical is the darkly delicious story of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy, beautiful teenage misfit who hustles her way into the most powerful and ruthless clique at Westerberg High: the Heathers. But before she can get comfortable atop the high school food chain, Veronica falls in love with the dangerously sexy new kid J.D... -
Hard Edit by Andrea Smith, Eva LeNoir
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's all fun and games until egos get hurt. After a year of a seemingly happily-ever-after, Troy Babilonia throws a curve ball that smacks Larson Blackburn right in the head. When Troy's debut novel, "Bridge to Lonely," threatens to overshadow Larson's own success, inviting a past shadow into the light of their present, the two alphas must learn to adjust... -
Love You by Stacy Finz
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSexy, smart, and exciting, the Garner brothers have made Glory Junction, California, the country’s top extreme sports town—but there’s no shortage of thrills wherever they go . . . Darcy Wallace may be an employee at Garner Adventure, but the kind of excitement she’s looking for is more of the indoor variety... -
Grave Talk by Nick Spalding
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTime is a healer, but it helps to have a friend.The last thing Alice expects to see at her husband’s graveside on his birthday is a giant, talking frog. On closer inspection, it’s a grown man dressed as Kermit... -
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Magnolia Blossoms by Rhonda R. Dennis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLife isn't easy--especially when you're the reclusive daughter of a melodramatic attorney openly mocked for his commercials, and a free-spirited mother who gives art lessons in the nude. Their over the top personalities make it easy for the sheltered and introverted Magnolia Berrybush to swim in a sea of anonymity--until the day she finally snaps... -
Stranger Things Have Happened: An Adrien English Write Your Own Damn Story (The Adrien English Mysteries) by Josh Lanyon, Catherine Dair
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWHO KILLED ROBERT HERSEY? Book store assistant and all around bad boy Robert Hersey has been murdered -- and you are the #1 suspect! To clear your name and get your life back, you must figure out who killed your best friend and first love. What happens next in the story all depends on the choices YOU make. How will the story end? It's all up to YOU... -
No One Wants That by Donna Schwartze
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA steamy enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy. A newly single woman who’s just looking for a good time. A chronic playboy who’s finally ready to settle down. KitThere are two things you should know about me up front. First, my boyfriend broke up with me a minute before I left on vacation. Second, I’m a huge fan of the rebound man. Huge fan...Categorized as:
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Definitely Better Now by Ava Robinson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA touching and deeply funny debut about starting over sober only to discover life’s biggest messes are still waiting right where you left them. The very last person anyone should worry about is Emma. Yes, hi, she’s an alcoholic. But she’s officially been sober for one entire year. That’s twelve months of better health...Categorized as:
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Not Playing Fair by Terri Osburn
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe universe is not playing fair.First, my new boss says changes are coming to our library that threaten the programs I run. Then a letter arrives from my mother—whom I haven’t seen in more than twenty years—saying who knows what because I’m refusing to open it. Last but not least, the man who dumped me eight months ago is telling people that I’m trying to get him back... -
Straight Boy by Jay Bell
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI love him. And I’m pretty sure he loves me back… even though he’s straight. When I first met Carter King, I knew he was something special. I imagined us being together, and we are, but only as friends. Best friends! I’m trying to be cool with that, even though I know he has secrets, and there have definitely been mixed signals. I don’t want a crush to ruin what we already have... -
You’re the One That I Want by Simon James Green
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFreddie has a reputation as a ‘nice guy’ – inoffensive, sweet, kind – and therefore completely un-dateable.As he starts sixth form, Freddie decides that this nice guy isn’t going to finish last any more. No more missing out on parties because he’s got to do his homework. No more saying no when he really wants to say yes... -
My Hot Friend by Sophie White
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLexi is on top of the worldThe podcast she co-hosts with her ride-or-die bestie is going stratospheric. But will all this fame and success cost them their friendship?Joanne's just had a babyBut her pals keep forgetting that she's no longer available for tequila-fuelled nights out. She loves her son and her boyfriend but the loneliness is killing her... -
Service: A Novel by Sarah Gilmartin
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA “powerful and compelling” novel about power, consent, and complicity in our #MeToo era — for fans of Rebecca Makkai’s I Have Some Questions for You (Joseph O’Connor, author of My Father’s House)Tensions are at an all-time high in an upscale Dublin restaurant as its employees grapple with the fallout from a shocking scandal involving its head chefThe waitress, the chef, and the chef’s wife may... -
Almost Like Being in Love by Steve Kluger
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA high school jock and nerd fall in love senior year, only to part after an amazing summer of discovery to attend their respective colleges. They keep in touch at first, but then slowly drift apart.Flash forward twenty years.Travis and Craig both have great lives, careers, and loves. But something is missing .... Travis is the first to figure it out... -
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I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue, Nasim Pedrad
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratings12 hours, 3 minutes In this wildly funny and heartwarming office comedy, an admin worker accidentally gains access to her colleagues’ private emails and DMs and decides to use this intel to save her job—a laugh-till-you-cry debut novel you’ll be eager to share with your entire list of contacts, perfect for fans of Anxious People and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine...Categorized as:
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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin, 嘉布莉·麗文
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 72 ratingsOn the faded Island Books sign hanging over the porch of the Victorian cottage is the motto “No Man Is an Island; Every Book Is a World.” A. J. Fikry, the irascible owner, is about to discover just what that truly means.A. J. Fikry’s life is not at all what he expected it to be...Categorized as:
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Corsets and Quartets by Mercy DeSimone
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen real life challenges you to write your own story...Josie always dreamed of following in Jane Austen’s footsteps. Instead, she’s surrounded by snarky queens, sullen teens, and a retail job that’s sucking her dry. With her writing and professional career at a standstill, her best friend suggests that what she needs is new inspiration.. -
Love and Mistletoe by Zara Keane
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStand alone Christmas novella in the Ballybeg series of Irish romantic comedies. Love, laughter, and a Happily Ever After during the festive season! Kissed by Christmas, True Love by New Year Policeman Brian Glenn wants a promotion. Studying for a degree in criminology is the first step... -
Four for the Road by K.J. Reilly
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Perks of Being a Wallflower meets The End of the F***ing World in this dark young adult comedy about four unlikely friends dealing with the messy side of grief who embark on a road trip to Graceland.Asher Hunting wants revenge.Specifically, he wants revenge on the drunk driver who killed his mom and got off on a technicality... -
Noah Goes Nuclear by Simon James Green
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNoah Grimes is back, in a new, original short story!Noah is v excited: his class have been shipped off to a hotel in the Lake District to study a nearby Nuclear Power Station! On arrival, all Noah wants to do is settle in to his crisp hotel sheets and get proper rest, but his conniving secret half-brother Eric Smith has other plans... -
Wooing His Accidental Wife by J.B. Heller
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMarrying my nemesis was not part of my weekend plans... Yet here I am.Last week I woke up married to my baby sister’s best friend. I blame Alcohol. Lots and lots of alcohol and a ridiculous amount of readily available chapels in Vegas.But the catalyst behind our nuptials is of little consequence. It doesn’t change anything. Adley Jane Grander is my wife, and I’m not mad about it...Categorized as:
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Diamonds by Nash Summers
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMaps’ kingdom is crumbling before his eyes.His parents are forcing him to get a job, there’s a new kid at school who won’t stop staring at him, and his best friend is too busy thinking about girls to help Maps deal with his real problems.Worst of all,Maps is lost.And none of the roads on his map are leading to Lane... -
L'imprevedibile piano della scrittrice senza nome by Alice Basso
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDietro un ciuffo di capelli neri e vestiti altrettanto scuri, Vani nasconde un viso da ragazzina e una innata antipatia verso il resto del mondo. Eppure proprio la vita degli altri è il suo pane quotidiano. Perché Vani ha un dono speciale: coglie l'essenza di una persona da piccoli indizi e riesce a pensare e reagire come avrebbe fatto lei... -
Love and Leprechauns by Zara Keane
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTattooed in Tipperary, True Love in Ballybeg. Olivia Gant is determined to escape her abusive husband and build a new life. Only desperation drives her to rent business premises from Jonas O’Mahony, the man who tattooed her behind and broke her heart. Can she maintain a haughty distance? Jonas is a struggling single father... -
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The Perfect Bargain by Julia London
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAmerican lass seeks brawny Scot... As if being newly single isn’t brutal enough, Sloane Chatfield's friends are getting obnoxious about setting her up. When Sloane insists she's waiting for a certain sexy fictional Highlander to come along, her friends surprise her with a trip to Scotland to find her a new boyfriend. She’d rather have a root canal... -
Love and Blarney by Zara Keane
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMarried in Manhattan… Ruairí MacCarthy abandoned his life in New York to deal with a family crisis in Ireland. Twelve months later, he’s traded his three-piece suits and Wall Street career for jeans and a job managing his family’s pub in Ballybeg. When his estranged wife bursts back into his life looking for reconciliation, Ruairí must decide if home is where the heart is... -
Girl Next Door - The Complete Series by C.C. Wood
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEnjoy the complete Girl Next Door series in one book! Friends With Benefits Natalie York is done with relationships. D-O-N-E. After her latest loverboy hits on her best friend, she's tired of playing games and having her heart broken. From now on, she's keeping things casual. When Nat meets her sexy new neighbor, Aidan Hart, she decides his offer to be friends with benefits is perfect... -
Nothing Special by Casey Cox
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey don't write romance novels about guys like me… Benji:Trust me, I know. Crafting swoon-worthy happily ever afters is literally my day job. Being a quirky introvert with an overactive imagination, underwhelming social skills, and a few pounds overweight, I'm no leading man. My best friend, though? He's total cover model, call the plumber because I just flooded my basement material... -
Toil & Trouble: A Know Not Why Halloween (Mis)adventure by Hannah Johnson
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's that Halloweeny time of year, and Howie, Arthur, Kristy, and Cora are on a mission to create the perfect haunted house event at the store in order to win over new customers.Turns out, it's not as easy as it sounds -- especially when you're trying to charm the town's most popular (and terrifying) arts 'n crafts blogger into writing your store a favorable review... -
Quelqu'un pour qui trembler by Gilles Legardinier
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLa seule chose qui compte, c'est d'avoir quelqu'un pour qui espérer mieux. L'essentiel, c'est d'avoir quelqu'un pour qui trembler. Pour soigner ceux que l'on oublie trop souvent, Thomas a vécu des années dans un village perdu en Inde. Lorsqu'il apprend que la femme qu'il a autrefois quittée a eu une fille de lui, ses certitudes vacillent... -
The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe characters of The Rotters’ Club—Jonathan Coe’s nostalgic, humorous evocation of adolescent life in the 1970s—have bartered their innocence for the vengeance of middle age in a story that is very much of the moment, charged with such issues as 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq...Categorized as:
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A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWell dressed and looked after, Wilmet is married to Rodney, a handsome army Major, working nine thirty to six at the Ministry. Wilmet's interest wanders to the nearby Anglo-Catholic church, where at last she can neglect her comfortable household in the company of three priests and engaging Piers Longridge who happens to be living with another man. Her limited life has its fragile "blessings...Categorized as:
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Crying Laughing by Lance Rubin
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA tragicomic story of bad dates, bad news, bad performances, and one girl's determination to find the funny in high school from the author of Denton Little's Deathdate .Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already she's hilarious.It might be a long wait, though. After bombing a stand-up set at her own bat mitzvah, Winnie has kept her jokes to herself... -
The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom the author of the world-wide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: 1988. Frank owns a music shop. It is jam-packed with records of every speed, size and genre. Classical, jazz, punk – as long as it’s vinyl he sells it. Day after day Frank finds his customers the music they need. Then into his life walks Ilse Brauchmann.Ilse asks Frank to teach her about music...Categorized as:
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How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater by Marc Acito
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA deliciously funny romp of a novel about one overly theatrical and sexually confused New Jersey teenager’s larcenous quest for his acting school tuition.It’s 1983 in Wallingford, New Jersey, a sleepy bedroom community outside of Manhattan. Seventeen-year-old Edward Zanni, a feckless Ferris Bueller–type, is Peter Panning his way through a carefree summer of magic and mischief... -
Soft in the Head by Marie-Sabine Roger
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA humorous, heartwarming story follows the intellectually dim-witted 45-year-old Germain as he meets and slowly gets to know 85-year-old Margueritte, who sits in the park every day watching the pigeons and reading. She speaks to him as an equal, something his friends rarely do, and reads to him, sparking in him a previously undiscovered interest in books and reading...Categorized as:
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When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsFor Zelda, a twenty-one-year-old Viking enthusiast who lives with her older brother, Gert, life is best lived with some basic rules:1. A smile means “thank you for doing something small that I liked." 2. Fist bumps and dabs = respect. 3. Strange people are not appreciated in her home. 4. Tomatoes must go in the middle of the sandwich and not get the bread wet. 5...Categorized as:
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Noah Could Never by Simon James Green
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNoah and Harry have gone from friends to boyfriends, but is Noah ready for the difference?It doesn't help that a group of French exchange students have descended on Little Fobbing - including sexy Pierre Victoire, who seems to have his eye on Harry... -
Meet The Sennas by Orizuka
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAku Daza Senna. Anak kedua dari tiga bersaudara. Yang artinya aku anak tengah …. Astaga. Aku menulis apa, sih? Oke, mari coba lagi. Aku Daza Senna. Aku tinggal bersama orang-orang yang sama sekali tak bisa disebut normal. Dan sialnya, orang-orang itu adalah keluargaku. Hmm, ini sudah lebih bagus... -
Who We Are Now by Lauryn Chamberlain
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFour friends. Fifteen years. Who We Are Now is a story of Sliding Doors moments, those seemingly small choices of early adulthood that determine the course of our lives.It is 2006 and Rachel, Clarissa, Dev, and Nate are best friends, seniors on the eve of their college graduation. Their whole lives are before them, at once full of promise and anxiety... -
Falling for You by Jill Mansell
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAs a teenager, Maddy Harvey was a bit of an ugly duckling, but thankfully she’s blossomed since then. But when she meets Kerr McKinnon one summer’s night and discovers, days later, who he really is, that’s when the real problems start... -
The Bette Davis Club by Jane Lotter
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe morning of her niece’s wedding, Margo Just drinks a double martini and contemplates the many mistakes she’s made in her fifty-odd years of life. Spending three decades in love with a wonderful but unattainable man is pretty high up on her list of missteps, as is a long line of unsuccessful love affairs accompanied by a seemingly endless supply of delicious cocktails... -
Absolutely Positively Not by David LaRochelle
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThere is one thing Steven knows for sure: He's absolutely, positively NOT gay.Steven's a 16-year-old boy with two obsessions: sex and getting his driving license. The problem is, Steven's not thinking girls when he's thinking sex... -
The Long, Hot Summer by Kathleen MacMahon
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNine Lives. Four Generations. One Family. The MacEntees are no ordinary family. Determined to be different from other people, they have carved out a place for themselves in Irish life by the sheer force of their personalities. But when a series of misfortunes befall them over the course of one long hot summer, even the MacEntees will struggle to make sense of who they are... -
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An Education by Nick Hornby
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author—the shooting script to his award-winning film, with an original Introduction and vivid stills from the movie. Jenny is a 16-year-old girl stifled by the tedium of adolescence; she can’t wait for her sophisticated adult life to begin...Categorized as:
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All About Mia by Lisa Williamson
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOne family, three sisters.GRACE, the oldest: straight-A student. AUDREY, the youngest: future Olympic swimming champion. And MIA, the mess in the middle. Mia is wild and daring, great with hair and selfies, and the undisputed leader of her friends – not attributes appreciated by her parents or teachers... -
P.S. You're the Worst by Chloe Seager
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn effervescent millennial coming-of-age novel about a woman who spirals after she pulls the death card during a tarot reading and writes cringe-worthy confessional letters to her closest friends and family in anticipation of her imminent demise…only she doesn’t die.Everyone knows the death card in a tarot reading isn’t a literal death sentence. Well, everyone except Becky.Becky is not doing well...Categorized as:
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Resolutions by Lucy Eden
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMike is my best friend. Mike is my best friend.My tall, gorgeous, and bearded best friend.We both share a love for music, Monty Python, dirty jokes and my grandmother’s homemade cookies. I also have a giant crush on Mike.And he has no idea.I tried to tell him at a New Year’s Eve party last year, but I lost my nerve, and he ended up with someone else...Categorized as:
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Girl, Barely 15: Flirting for England by Sue Limb
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJess Jordan is barely 15. Fred is her often-aggravating best guy friend; her father is a lonely bachelor; Flora is her gorgeous best friend, a constant liability; and Ben Jones is barely a twinkle in her eye. Into this innocent scene are dropped 30 or so helpless French exchange students... -
Freak Magnet by Andrew Auseon
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA novel about freaks, geeks, crushes, and friends—and how sometimes you can be all of them at once. Charlie is the freak. Gloria is the freak magnet. They're pretty much destined to meet. And when they do, sparks fly . . . for Charlie. Gloria, well, she just thinks he's like every other freak who feels compelled to talk to her, although a little better-looking than most...
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