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"Quinn keeps lists of everything--from the days she's ugly cried, to "Things That I Would Never Admit Out Loud" and all the boys she'd like to kiss. Her lists keep her sane. By writing her fears on paper, she never has to face them in real life. That is, until her journal goes missing... Then an anonymous account posts one of her lists on Instagram for the whole school to see and blackmails her into facing seven of her greatest fears, or else her entire journal will go public. Desperate, she teams up with Carter Bennett--the last known person to have her journal--in a race against time to track down the blackmailer. Together, they journey through everything Quinn's been too afraid to face, and along the way, Quinn finds the courage to be honest, to live in the moment, and to fall in love"--Provided by publisher.

"Follows the experiences of a girl who learns about life and love while on a road trip to scatter her late grandmother's ashes in her favorite gardens"--OCLC.

Seventeen-year-old Carson Smith is bored of Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years--but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who has run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives.

At the start of their senior year, students at Atwater, an elite all-girls boarding school in New England, learn an alumna has accused a teacher of sexual misconduct two decades ago--and the teacher is still employed by the school. When the administration fails to handle the situation, the young women come together and discover the power of their own voices.

Teenage Giovanna's face was pretty as a child's, but now she has become a spiteful adolescent with often an ugly scowl. She does not know who she is anymore, so she sets out into the two halves of her city of Naples--the heights, where there is the appearance of refinement; and the depths and all its vanity and excess--in order to find herself, if she can.

Natsuki has never felt that she fits in with her neglectful family and modern Japanese society. As a child who is sexually abused by her teacher, her only friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut, who tells her he's an alien. On family vacations to her grandparents' home over the years, she falls in love with her cousin, Yuu, who also claims to be an alien. But after being caught having sex, they are torn apart. Years pass and Natsuki marries an asexual man, Tomoya, who she does not love but who shares her view of society as a factory. Natsuki, Tomoya, and Yuu eventually unite in their belief they are aliens with horrific results.

"A coming-of-age story about a girl with creative aspirations and the star swimmer who charms his way into her life, centering on themes of addiction, loss, and the tumultuousness of first love--and how to find strength when everything falls apart"--Provided by publisher.

After Rob's brother Adam is released from prison, Rob hopes that their family can go back to "normal." When Adam invites Rob to go on a road trip with him to check out a college, Rob is afraid that Adam is looking for an easy way to get what he wants instead of working for what he wants.

A graphic novel adaptation of Charlotte Bront?'s classic tale, in which an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her brooding employer, who has a terrible secret.

Susan Klintock joins the girls' soccer team to get close to the hot new coach, Mr. McMann, and discovers she actually likes soccer!.