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When a guy named Martin Nathaniel Munroe II texts you, it should be obvious who you're talking to. Except there's two of them (it's a long story), and Haley thinks she's talking to the one she doesn't hate. A question about a class project rapidly evolves into an all-consuming conversation. Haley finds that Martin is actually willing to listen to her weird facts and unusual obsessions, and Martin feels like Haley is the first person to really see who he is. Haley and Martin might be too awkward to hang out in real life, but over text, they're becoming addicted to each other.

Swordsman, soldier, poet...and possessor of the biggest nose in all of France! Cyrano de Bergerac was all this and more, for behind his grotesque face beat the heart of a lover. And, being Cyrano, who could he fall in love with but the most beautiful woman in Paris?From this conflict of nose versus heart springs one of the most uproarious, tender, funny, painful, and action-packed stories of all time - a tale that has its roots in truth, for Cyrano de Bergerac really existed.

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue never sees them--until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks to her. His name is Gansey, a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble. But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can't entirely explain.

When a rumor that her uncle is squandering away the family fortune surfaces, Katharine Tulman is sent to his estate to have him committed to an asylum. But instead of a lunatic, Katharine discovers a genius inventor with his own set of childlike rules, who is employing a village of nine hundred people rescued from the workhouses of London.

Il primo e unico amore di Johnny Kavanagh è sempre stato il rugby finché un terribile infortunio non l'ha costretto ad abbandonare la sua amata maglia numero 13. Perso e alla disperata ricerca di conforto, l'unica cosa che desta il suo interesse è il mistero che avvolge Shannon, la ragazza di cui è irrimediabilmente innamorato. Sostenuto dalla sua migliore amica Gibsie, Johnny decide di addentrarsi sempre più nell'oscuro e complicato mondo di Shannon. Ma Shannon sa bene come celare i drammi della sua vita e i segreti della sua famiglia. Ha imparato a farlo anni fa.

Viola, generazione millennial, è una biologa napoletana e una testarda certificata, che tra le altre cose è anche disabile. I suoi genitori, iperprotettivi e terrorizzati che alla loro "piccolina" possa succedere qualcosa, non si sognano minimamente che possa avere una vita indipendente, figurarsi una relazione. Ma Viola un ragazzo ce l’ha, anche se da poco. L’ha conosciuto online, e lo sta frequentando di nascosto, grazie alla complicità della sua migliore amica, Federica, che le fa da copertura e racconta un sacco di bugie per coprirla.

Sofia Bennet ha sempre avuto un futuro chiaro davanti a sé, finché un segreto inaspettato non le cambia la vita per sempre. Cole Kandon, migliore amico di suo fratello e promessa mancata del football, ha passato anni a sacrificare i propri sogni per gli altri. Ora, però, è pronto a lottare per ciò che vuole davvero… anche se significa rischiare tutto. Tra segreti da custodire, sentimenti proibiti e il peso delle aspettative, Sofia e Cole si ritroveranno a vivere un amore capace di travolgerli.

When Becky Randle's mother dies, Becky is whisked from her trailer park home to New York. There she meets Tom Kelly, the world's top designer, who presents Becky with an impossible offer: He'll design three dresses to transform the very average Becky into the most beautiful woman who ever lived.

Natalie Drop tiene una vida tan caótica como adorable: hermanos que la molestan por su amor por los unicornios, una clase de matemáticas capaz de destruirle la autoestima, padres divorciados que intenta fingir que no le duelen y una habilidad casi sobrenatural para meterse en situaciones vergonzosas. Y luego está Shawn Price. Popular, guapo, aparentemente inalcanzable y demasiado ocupado mirando a Hannah Carson como para notar a la chica que se derrite cada vez que pasa cerca.

Toni is grieving the loss of her roadie father and needing to figure out where her life will go from here - and she's desperate to get back to loving music. Olivia is a hopeless romantic whose heart has just taken a beating (again) and is beginning to feel like she'll always be a square peg in a round hole - but the Farmland Music and Arts Festival is a chance to find a place where she fits.

Tycho Zeling is drifting through his life. Everything in it - school, friends, girls, plans for the future—just kind of...happens. Like a movie he presses play on but doesn't direct. So Tycho decides to break away from everything. He flies to America to spend his summer as a counselor at a summer camp, for international kids. It is there that Oliver walks in, another counselor, from Norway. And it is there that Tycho feels his life stop and begin again, finally, as his.  

Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs. The trick with found things, though, is how easily they can be lost. Friends can betray. Mothers can disappear. Visions can mislead. Certainties can unravel.

Questo libro l'ho scritto quando avevo 16 anni, lo dedico a mia madre. Forse, dopo un'attenta lettura, sarebbe stata molto fiera di me. Sicuramente si sarebbe lamentata per la poca luce e poi, avvicinandosi alla finestra, con il suo sguardo da scolaretta lo avrebbe letto tutto d'un fiato. Lo dedico a tutti quelli che come me non credono all'amore e che rimpiangono di non aver dimostrato a "qualcuno" i propri sentimenti, per il loro carattere irascibile. Lo dedico a tutte le ragazze che sono state con me. E a loro chiedo scusa se qualche episodio ricorderà momenti particolari passati insieme.

In the spirit of the author’s massively popular Twitter thread, Tucker Shaw’s When You Call My Name is a heartrending novel about two gay teens coming of age in New York City in 1990 at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Mary H. K. Choi. Film fanatic...

If you could steal things from dreams, what would you take? Ronan Lynch has secrets. Some he keeps from others. Some he keeps from himself. One secret: Ronan can bring things out of his dreams. And sometimes he's not the only one who wants those things. Ronan is one of the raven boys - a group of friends, practically brothers, searching for a dead king named Glendower, who they think is hidden somewhere in the hills by their elite private school, Aglionby Academy. The path to Glendower has long lived as an undercurrent beneath town.

The Gossip Girl series is the ultimate in glamour and cool - set in New York's glamorous Upper East Side, the narrative follows the thrills and spills (with Jimmy Choo shoes and shopping at Barneys mixed in along the way) of its richest and most beautiful teenage residents. Gossip Girl is the ultimate in sophistication, scandal and luxury.

Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Covey keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed and, suddenly, Lara Jean’s love life goes from imaginary to out of control.

Award-winning writer Patrick Ness’s bold and irreverent novel powerfully asks what if you weren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you were like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again.

A struggling teen discovers solace in technology that lets him view the erased memories of others. As he delves into the past of another boy harboring a dark secret, he embarks on a thrilling journey that uncovers a love he was forced to forget. From the author of Fruit Fly comes a coming-of-age...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places comes a compulsively readable novel about a teen girl determined to write her own story--sex, heartbreak, family dramas, and all. "A coming-of-age story that will make your heart ache." —PopSugar With high school coming to...