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Seventeen-year-old Jonah Daniels has lived in Verona Cove, California, his whole life, and only one thing has ever changed: His father used to be alive, and now he is not. With a mother lost in a deep bout of depression, Jonah and his five siblings struggle to keep up their home and the restaurant their dad left behind. But at the start of summer, a second change rolls in: Vivi Alexander, the new girl in town.

Brought to you by Penguin. The third book in The Kissing Booth series - based on the upcoming Netflix film!...

When a teen tries to get back at her ex-best friend for stealing her crush, she ends up unexpectedly rekindling their complicated friendship and discovers that it’s not just her pride on the line, it’s her heart too. Bring down the cheerleader. Just don’t fall in love with her. Meera...

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.

June arrive à Rome avec un secret enveloppé dans une boule de coton. Elle est là pour explorer la Ville éternelle, mais pas seulement : June veut écrire 28 lettres, une pour chaque année de sa vie. Ensuite, elle partira. Mais Rome a une façon bien à elle de la ramener à la vie. Une ado...

In a world where everyone knows the date they will die, Regan's job is to be the perfect girlfriend to rich boys with days to live. Her two rules: Don't fall in love. Don't have hope. So far, she's been able to follow them, but will the last client between her and a full-time "Juliet" contract...

The hotly anticipated second book from Joya Goffney, author of the 2021 YA romcom Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry. Monique lives a perfect life - a preacher's daughter and the girlfriend of the town's golden boy. But it's not that simple. She's torn between her parents who want the pure virginal...

Seventeen-year-old Evie Beckham has always been too occupied with her love of math and frequent battles with anxiety to want to date. Besides, she’s always found the idea of kissing to be kind of weird. But by senior year, thanks to therapy and her friends, she’s feeling braver than before. Maybe even brave enough to enter the national math and physics competition or flirt back with the new boy. Meanwhile, Evie’s best friend, Caleb Covic, has always been a little in love with her. So he’s horrified when he is forced to witness Evie’s meet-cute with the new guy. 

Harley Milano has dreamed of becoming a trapeze artist for as long as she can remember. With parents who run a famous circus in Las Vegas, she spends almost every night in the big top watching their lead aerialist perform, wishing with all her heart and soul that she would be up there herself one day. After a huge fight with her parents, who continue to insist she go to school instead, Harley leaves home, betrays her family, and joins the rival traveling circus Maison du Mystère. 

Told in dual timelines - half of the chapters moving forward in time and half moving backward - We Used to Be Friends explores the most traumatic breakup of all: that of childhood besties. At the start of their senior year in high school, James (a girl with a boy's name) and Kat are inseparable, but by graduation, they're no longer friends. James prepares to head off to college as she reflects on the dissolution of her friendship with Kat while, in alternating chapters, Kat thinks about being newly in love with her first girlfriend and having a future that feels wide open.

The fourth and final novel in the wildly popular #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, from the author of The Whole Thing Together and The Here and Now. With unraveled embroidery and fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back for one last, glorious summer...

Dana Fields's father never knew his parents. When Dana secretly does a DNA test for her dad, hoping to find him some distant relatives for his birthday, her entire world implodes. Instead of a few third cousins, Dana discovers a half-brother her age whose very existence means her parents' happy marriage is a lie. Dana's desire to know her half-brother, Brandon, and the extent of her dad's deception, clashes with her wish not to destroy her family.

Stella will do anything for her sick sister, Cara - even stand in line for an autographed Heartbreakers CD for four hours. She's totally winning best birthday gift this year. At least she met a cute boy with soft brown hair and gorgeous blue eyes while getting her caffeine fix. Too bad she'll never see him again. Except Stella's life has suddenly turned into a cheesy love song. Because Starbucks Boy is Oliver Perry, the lead singer for the Heartbreakers.

Taylor Swift é conhecida por suas letras cheias de confissões que fazem quem a escuta sentir que está lendo o próprio diário da cantora. Seu repertório aborda sentimentos e questões que atravessam a vida de todos nós em algum momento. Quem nunca ouviu uma música da loirinha e pensou “Ela me entende tanto!”?

A vida de Julian está um caos. Depois de um término traumático com um namorado que nem era tão legal assim, ele decide largar de vez o curso de Audiovisual e admitir para si mesmo que realmente não sabe o que quer para o futuro. Até que, incentivado pelos pais, surge uma ideia: e se ele viajasse para a Itália em um intercâmbio, acompanhado da irmã mais velha, para dar um tempo de tudo (e de todos)?

Universidad Varsity. La llegada de Max Wilson altera el equilibrio del campus desde el primer instante. Su atractivo despierta la curiosidad de todas, pero su frialdad, su violencia contenida y el miedo que provoca a su alrededor lo convierten en alguien tan fascinante como peligroso. Nadie quiere acercarse demasiado a él. Nadie, salvo Emily Brown. Emily intenta llevar una vida normal entre clases, amistades y la estricta protección de su hermano.

Hailey Campbell è arrivata alla Dartmouth University con un unico obiettivo: ricominciare. Vuole lasciarsi alle spalle una famiglia assente e, soprattutto, l'ombra di un passato che non smette di darle la caccia. Protetta da una corazza di cinismo e dal bancone del Red Ink, ha reso il suo cuore un territorio inaccessibile, convinta che l'amore sia semplicemente un altro modo per essere distrutti.

'Unlike anything you've ever read . . . a stunning poetic achievement' Kathleen Glasgow, author of Girl in Pieces One frigid winter morning, five people go for a swim in the pools. What happens there sends shock waves through the town-and changes their lives forever. From the #1 New York Times...

Set against long Texas summers filled with pinky promises and the bittersweet magic of growing up, The Things We Swore We’d Never Do, a new story from Jillian Dodd, is about losing your person and learning how to live a little louder in the silence they leave behind. Growing up one broken rule...

Bloomsbury presents Everything New Again by Renée Watson, read by Bahni Turpin and Ron Butler #1 New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal winning Renée Watson crafts a tender, romantic YA novel about beginnings and endings and new beginnings again. Bliss knows there’s more to life than...