romance fiction

"Takeo Goda is a giant guy with a giant heart. Too bad the girls don't want him! (They want his good-looking best friend, Sunakawa.) Used to being on the sidelines, Takeo simply stands tall and accepts his fate. But one day when he saves a girl named Yamato from a harasser on the train, his (love!) life suddenly takes an incredible turn! Now that they've been dating for just over six months, Takeo and Yamato finally have their first kiss! Meanwhile, Takeo's mom goes into labor, and something happens that makes her realize how much Takeo's grown...is Takeo ready to be a big brother?"--Back cover.

A 28-year-old recluse with a unique allergy to physical contact with other people is forced to reenter the world after her mother's death, finding friendship with a 10-year-old troubled boy and love with his adoptive father.

"When Natalie McCullough-Schwartz finds out that her crush, Sebastian Delacroix--a smoking-hot musician who went to her high school--is back in Philly to play a show with his band, the Young Lungs, she takes it as a sign to make contact. Again. 'Again' because they shared that moment in the pool party in June. It was fleeting, but now that he's back, Nattie wants to see if there was ever anything there. Then she hears the song. The Young Lungs' new single is 'Natalie'--an ode to a girl Nattie can't believe could be her but secretly wishes is. Then there are her confusing feelings for her good friend Zach, which could just be a side effect of being the only two straight kids in the school's gay-straight alliance."--Dust jacket.

"Ren Miller has died aged seventeen and yet her consciousness lives on, inhabiting her memorial bench by the River Thames in London. Ren longs to be reunited with her boyfriend Gabe, but soon discovers why he has failed to visit. Devastated, she must learn to break through and talk to the living so she can reveal the truth about her untimely end"--OCLC.

Coy learns that leaning on his best friend, Monroe, a girl obsessed with eighties culture, is helping him cope with his mom's stint in rehab, but when Monroe contracts a mysterious illness, Coy has to learn how to not give up on his friend and family.

"Katherine and Matthew are destined to be born again and again. Each time their presence changes history for the better, and each time, they fall hopelessly in love, only to be tragically separated. How many times can you lose the person you love? For Matthew and Katherine it is again and again, over and over, century after century. But why do they keep coming back? How many times must they die to save the world? What else must they achieve before they can be left to live and love in peace? Maybe the next together will be different."--OCLC.

"Heather has graduated from college and is traveling around Europe with her two best friends. She's left school responsibility behind and adult responsibility is looming, but this is her one, one last summer to be free"--Provided by publisher.

"In middle school, everyone was a Fever Dream fan. Now, a few weeks after her high school graduation, Grace Thomas sometimes feels like the only one who never moved on. She can't imagine what she'd do without the community of online fans that share her obsession. Or what her IRL friends would say if they ever found out about it. Then, one summer night, the unthinkable happens: Grace meets her idol, Jes. What starts out as an elusive glimpse of Fever Dream's world turns into an unlikely romance, and leads her to confront dark, complex truths about herself and the realities of stardom"--Amazon.com.

Told in two voices, Jean, a rich girl, and Fritz, an outsider, compete for the affection of handsome newcomer Gil during the summer of 1976 at an exclusive Fire Island enclave, and discover their competition has higher stakes than either can imagine.

Seventeen-year-old Jessa Gray has become very good at hiding her anxieties, but when a severe accident leaves her with a brain injury and noticeable scars, Jessa's efforts to convince the world that she is okay finally crumble.