romance

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The bad boy & the tomboy

2020
Macy Anderson is a seventeen-year-old tomboy and captain of her school's soccer team. Sam Cahill is a rich bad boy with a British accent and cocky attitude. Macy tells herself she won't fall for his charm. But as the two get to know each other, and Macy starts uncovering Sam's secrets, she begins to realize keeping that promise to herself is going to be harder than she thought.

White Ivy

a novel
2020
A novel about a young immigrant woman's obsession with her privileged male classmate; and the lengths she'll go to win his love.

Find me

2019
Elio's father, Samuel, is on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami's plans and changes his life forever. Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.

The Odyssey

2014
The epic poem recounting the experiences of Odysseus during his return from the Trojan War.

Just don't mention it

2018
In alternating chapters, twelve-year-old Tyler Bruce copes with his father's abuse and, five years later, fights his attraction to his new stepsister, Eden, who sees behind his bad-boy facade.

Chasing Lucky

2020
Josie Saint-Martin has spent half her life with her single mother, moving from city to city. When they return to her historical New England hometown what she doesn t plan for is a run-in with the town bad boy, Lucky Karras. Determined to understand why Lucky was so quick to cover for her, Josie discovers that both of them have changed, And maybe, just maybe, he s not quite the brooding bad boy everyone thinks he is.

Nick & Norah's infinite playlist

Nick O'Leary, a member of a local rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and talks her into posing as his girlfriend in order to get rid of his ex-girlfriend.
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Dash & Lily's book of dares

Told in the alternating voices of Dash and Lily, two sixteen-year-olds carry on a wintry scavenger hunt at Christmas-time in New York, neither knowing quite what--or who--they will find.
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I'm With Cupid

When thirteen-year-olds Marcus, a supernatural matchmaker, and Lena Perris, a soul collector, kiss at a party on a dare, they soon realize their powers have swapped. Now logical-minded Lena finds herself with the love touch, and ultra-emotional Marcus has death at his fingertips--and setting things right has become a matter of love and death.

The library of lost things

2019
From the moment she first learned to read, literary genius Darcy Wells has spent most of her time living in the worlds of her books. There she can avoid the crushing reality of her mother's hoarding and pretend her life is simply ordinary. But when a new property manager becomes more active in the upkeep of their apartment complex, the only home Darcy has ever known outside of her books suddenly hangs in the balance. While Darcy is struggling to survive beneath the weight of her mother's compulsive shopping, Asher Fleet, a former teen pilot with an unexpectedly shattered future, walks into the bookstore where she works, and straight into her heart. For the first time in her life, Darcy can't seem to find the right words. Fairy tales are one thing, but real love makes her want to hide inside her carefully constructed ink-and-paper bomb shelter. Still, after spending her whole life keeping people out, something about Asher makes Darcy want to open up. But securing her own happily-ever-after will mean she'll need to stop hiding and start living her own truth; even if it's messy.
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