Meet me in the middle by Alex Light
Eden had her best friend Katie-she didn't need anyone else. But then there was Truman. Katie's older brother, the artist. The recluse. The boy with an innocent smile but dangerous eyes. Eden had never really known Truman-not until the night of Katie's accident. With Katie in the hospital and Truman fleeing from his grief without a word, Eden is left alone to grapple with her pain. But when Truman returns to the city, can Eden let him back into her life knowing that their first kiss is what tore their world apart?
These twisted bonds by Lexi Ryan
Brie finds herself caught between two princes and two destinies while the future of the fae realm hangs in the balance. After Abriella's sister was sold to the fae, she thought life couldn't get any worse. But when she suddenly finds herself caught in a web of lies of her own making-loving two princes and trusting neither-things is not quite as clear as she once thought. As civil war wages in the Court of Darkness, Brie finds herself unable to choose a side. How can she know where she stands when she doesn't even know herself anymore?
Violet made of thorns by Gina Chen
Violet is a prophet and a liar, influencing the royal court with her cleverly phrased-and not always true-divinations. Honesty is for suckers, like the oh-so- not charming Prince Cyrus, who plans to strip Violet of her official role once he's crowned at the end of the summer-unless Violet does something about it. But when the king asks her to falsely prophesy Cyrus's love story for an upcoming ball, Violet awakens a dreaded curse, one that will end in either damnation or salvation for the kingdom-all depending on the prince's choice of the future bride.
Wind Daughter by Joanna Ruth Meyer
In the dark, cold reaches of the north live a storyteller and his daughter. He told his daughter, Satu, many stories but the most important story he told her was his own. This storyteller was once the formidable North Wind, but he lost his power by trading it away in exchange for mortality--he loved her mother too much to live without her. The loss of his magic impacted more than just their family, however, and now the world is unraveling in the wake of this imbalance. To save the North, Satu embarks on a perilous journey to reclaim her father's magic, but she isn't the only one searching for it.
Vesper Vale is the daughter of revolutionaries. Failed revolutionaries. When her mother was caught by the queen's soldiers, they gave her a choice: death by the hangman's ax, or death by the Storm that surrounds the city and curses anyone it touches. She chose the Storm. And when the queen's soldiers--led by a paranoid prince--catch up to Vesper's father after twelve years on the run, Vesper will do whatever it takes to save him from sharing that fate.
A disaster in three acts by Kelsey Rodkey
Saine Sinclair knows a little something about what makes a story worth telling. Your childhood best friend refuses to kiss you during a pre-adolescent game of spin the bottle? Terrible, zero stars, would not replay that scene again. The same ex-friend becomes your new best friend's ex? Strangely compelling, unexpected twist, worth a hate-watch.
A high school senior navigates messy boys and messier relationships in this unflinchingly honest and much-needed look into the overlap of Asian American identity and teen sexuality. Good enough to line the shelves with a slew of third-place trophies and steal secret kisses from her AP Bio partner, Rhys. But not good enough to meet any of her Taiwanese mother's unrelenting expectations or to get Rhys to commit to anything beyond a well-timed joke.
What souls are made of: a Wuthering Heights remix by Tasha Suri
As they occasionally flee into the moors to escape judgment and share the half-remembered language of their unknown kin, Catherine and Heathcliff come to find solace in each other. But when Catherine's father dies and the household's treatment of Heathcliff only grows crueler, their relationship becomes strained and threatens to unravel. For how can they ever be together, when loving each other--and indeed, loving themselves--is as good as throwing themselves into poverty and death?
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