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Stories about Love and Romantic Relationships
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The book of Pearl
by Timothée de Fombelle
Trapped in a Parisian marshmallow shop on the eve of World War II, a youth who anticipates great romance in the fairy-tale homeworld from which he originates struggles to find the elements of his own story before his memory and love are lost forever. By the author of A Prince Without a Kingdom.
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Duels & deception
by Cindy Anstey
In 1800s London, a young heiress and her lawyer are caught up in a kidnapping plot to steal her fortune, but as their investigation delves deeper and their affections for each other grow, Lydia starts to wonder what she truly wants
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Flannery
by Lisa Moore
"Sixteen-year-old Flannery Malone has it bad. She's been in love with Tyrone O'Rourke since the days she still believed in Santa Claus. But Tyrone has grown from a dorky kid into an outlaw graffiti artist, the rebel-with-a-cause of Flannery's dreams, literally too cool for school. Which is a problem, since he and Flannery are partners for the entrepreneurship class that she needs to graduate. And Tyrone's vanishing act may have darker causes than she realizes. Tyrone isn't Flannery's only problem. Her mother, Miranda, can't pay the heating bills, let alone buy Flannery's biology book. Her little brother, Felix, is careening out of control. And her best-friend-since-forever, Amber, has fallen for a guy who is making her forget all about the things she's always cared most about -- Flannery included -- leading Amber down a dark and dangerous path of her own. When Flannery decides to make a love potion for her entrepreneurship project, rumors that it actually works go viral, and she suddenly has a hot commodity on her hands. But a series of shattering events makes her realize that real-life love is far more potent -- and potentially damaging -- than any fairy-tale prescription"
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Wild Lily
by K. M Peyton
A scruffy, confident, no-nonsense girl comes of age and falls head-over-heels in love with a rich, spoiled boy against a backdrop of new transportation technologies of the 1920s. By the award-winning author of the Flambards series.
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Be true to me
by Adele Griffin
Smitten with a boy who prefers her to her glamorous older sister, Jean, an insecure, wealthy girl spending the summer of 1976 on Fire Island, finds herself ruthlessly competing against an underprivileged rival for the boy's affections. By the author of The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone.
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Once and for all : a novel
by Sarah Dessen
Gaining considerable experience while working for her cynical mother's successful wedding-planner business throughout her high school years, Louna holds her own wary beliefs about love before charming playboy Ambrose joins the company and dares her to date while he attempts a long-term relationship with one woman.
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Galgorithm
by Aaron Karo
Working as an underground matchmaker for his hapless classmates, Shane struggles with his own broken heart and hangs out with his best friend, Jennifer, before deciding to apply his own advice to find true love before graduation. By the author of Lexapros and Cons.
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City love
by Susane Colasanti
A story told from the alternating viewpoints of three very different girls living together in NYC follows their struggles to find the balance between their dreams, their pasts and their complicated hearts.
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An enchantment of ravens
by Margaret Rogerson
A superbly skilled portrait artist who includes among her patrons the sinister, immortal fair folk who covet her talents, Isobel makes the terrible mistake of revealing an autumn faerie prince's sorrow in his portrait, a choice that strands them both in a hostile land where they risk their lives to pursue forbidden feelings for each other. A first novel.
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All we have left
by Wendy Mills
In interweaving stories of sixteen-year-olds, modern-day Jesse tries to cope with the ramifications of her brother's death on 9/11, while in 2001, Alia, a Muslim, gets trapped in one of the Twin Towers and meets a boy who changes everything for her as flames rage around them
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Meant to be
by Lauren Morrill
During an educational trip to London, away from her friends and the boy she thinks she is fated to love, Massachusetts high school junior Julia Lichtenstein is paired with her nemesis, Jason, and begins seeing many things differently.
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Optimists die first
by Susin Nielsen-Fernlund
Growing paranoid and shutting herself off from the world after a family tragedy, 16-year-old Petula is forced to attend an art therapy class where a school newcomer with a prosthetic arm becomes her partner in a hilarious project. By the award-winning author of We Are All Made of Molecules.
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I believe in a thing called love
by Maurene Goo
A high achieving Korean-American student whose botched attempts at romance have made her a laughingstock decides to conquer her insecurities when the most attractive boy she has ever met walks into her life. By the author of Since You Asked.
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Fan art
by Sarah Tregay
Unexpectedly falling in love with his best friend at the end of senior year, Jamie unsuccessfully hides his affections from the giggling girls in his art class who work as matchmakers to bring the couple together. By the author of Love and Leftovers.
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Eleanor & Park
by Rainbow Rowell
A first young adult novel by the author of Attachments follows the year-long, star-crossed romance between two 1980s high school misfits whose intelligence tells them that first loves almost never last but whose feelings prevent them from remaining as practical.
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Anna and the French kiss
by Stephanie Perkins
When Anna's father sends her to an American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets a boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want something more
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The forbidden wish
by Jessica Khoury
A fantasy romance inspired by the classic Tales of the Arabian Nights features teen female genie Zahra, who is forced to disguise her true identity when she's found in a world where magic is forbidden and where her chance for freedom is challenged by her love for her master.
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Doon
by Carey Corp
Embarking on a summer adventure in Scotland, best friends Veronica and Mackenna find romance and danger when they are transported to the kingdom of Doon, a hidden village that appears once every 100 years. Inspired by the musical Brigadoon
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The kiss of deception
by Mary Pearson
A debut entry in a new trilogy by the author of the Jenna Fox Chronicles introduces Princess Lia, who flees an unwanted marriage and expectations about her supernatural legacy only to be pursued by her jilted fiancé and a ruthless assassin.
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Grave mercy
by Robin LaFevers
Escaping a brutal arranged marriage into the sanctuary of a convent of assassin nuns who serve ancient gods, 17-year-old Ismae learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts and a violent destiny that requires her to destroy the lives of others at the high court of Brittany.
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