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Spotlight on YA Romance "The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love" - Hubert H. Humphrey
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The night we said yes
by Lauren Gibaldi
Unexpectedly falling in love with Matt during a wild and reckless night after resolving to put a painful breakup behind her and focus on graduating from high school, Ella is heartbroken when Matt leaves town and wonders what to do when he returns a year later wanting to relive the night that brought them together.
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The year we fell apart
by Emily Martin
Embarking on a summer filled with regrets after a year marked by reckless mistakes that ended her relationship with her best friend, Harper reunites with Declan over shared histories and struggles to redefine their bond.
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The only thing worse than me is you
by Lily Anderson
A first novel inspired by Much Ado About Nothing finds pop culture fangirl Trixie aspiring to defeat Ben, her rival at school, who she is forced to spend time with when their best friends start dating.
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Romeo & what's her name
by Shani Petroff
Accepting the role of a Juliet understudy so that she can spend time with the cast's adorable Romeo, Emily ignores memorizing lines in favor of other activities and is caught unprepared when the leading lady lands in the hospital right before the performance.
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The leaving season
by Cat Jordan
Spending a year without her beloved boyfriend, who plans to spend the year doing volunteer work before returning to marry her, Middie is shattered by a devastating tragedy that causes her to bond her with her boyfriend's slacker best friend.
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Summer of supernovas
by Darcy Woods
Discovering a planetary alignment that will not recur for a decade, zodiac-obsessed teen Wilamena is forced to tackle her astrological fears about romantic relationships while falling in love with a sensitive guitar player from the wrong side of the astrology chart.
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History is all you left me
by Adam Silvera
Having lost his first boyfriend in a terrible accident, Griffin, a youth with OCD, forges a friendship with his lost love's ex-boyfriend, Jackson, who exhibits suspicious signs of guilt.
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A walk in the sun
by Michelle Zink
Setting aside her dreams for the future when a tragedy traps her on her family's farm, Rose unexpectedly falls for farmhand Bodhi, whose longing for freedom and plans to leave at the end of the summer are challenged by their romance.
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Words in deep blue
by Cath Crowley
Returning to the city and bookstore of her youth, years after tucking a love letter to her crush, Henry, within the pages of his favorite book, Rachel embarks on a revelatory correspondence with Henry as she works alongside him at the bookstore and finds herself falling in love with him all over again.
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Spark
by Holly Schindler
Learning about a tragic love story that unfolded on the stage of a run-down theater many years earlier, Quin aspires to rewrite the story for her drama class and discovers that the theater is being renovated and that two of her classmates are reliving the story.
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The one memory of Flora Banks
by Emily Barr
A girl with no short-term memory experiences a miraculous connection in her fractured mind upon kissing a certain boy and embarks on a remarkable, against-all-odds journey to reunite with him on the other side of the world as part of an effort to reclaim her life.
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Whisper to me
by Nick Lake
Writing a letter to a heartbroken boy to explain why she pushed him away, Cassie asks for his forgiveness while reflecting on her father's anger over their relationship, the reasons for her occasional disappearances and the traumatic long-ago night that she does not want to remember.
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Just like the movies
by Kelly Fiore
Popular Marijke Monti and overachiever Lily Spencer form a plan to act out grand gestures from romantic movies in hopes of getting the guys of their dreams.
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My life next door
by Huntley Fitzpatrick
Longing to be a member of the boisterously affectionate Garrett family, 17-year-old Samantha Reed falls fiercely in love with Jase Garrett and experiences a blissful summer that is shattered by a devastating event and a wrenching choice.
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We'll always have summer : a summer novel
by Jenny Han
Two years after committing herself to Jeremiah at Conrad's urging, college student Belly struggles with the realization that the relationship is not as happy as she hoped it would be and is forced to reconsider her feelings in the wake of a terrible act. By the author of Shug.
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All these things I've done
by Gabrielle Zevin
In a near future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband, 16-year-old Anya Balanchine finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight as heir apparent to an important New York City crime family. By the author of Elsewhere.
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And then things fall apart
by Arlaina Tibensky
Devastated by her parents' decision to split up, pressured by her boyfriend to have sex, and saddled with a case of chicken pox, fifteen-year-old Keek finds consolation in her beloved, well-worn copy of Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar."
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So Shelly
by Ty Roth
When their mutual friend Shelly is drowned in a sailing accident, high school junior John Keats and his volatile classmate Gordon Byron decide to steal Shelly's ashes and, in a romantic gesture, return them to the small Lake Erie island where her body washed up, but the journey proves more revealing and emotionally complicated than either of them had anticipated.
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Jesse's girl
by Miranda Kenneally
Impulsively remarking on Career Day that she wants to be a pop star when she grows up, Maya is partnered with a famous teen music artist, Jesse, whose career has prevented him from making friends.
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Things we know by heart
by Jessi Kirby
A year after losing her boyfriend, Trent, in an unexpected accident, Quinn Sullivan secretly tracks down the recipient of his donated heart in an attempt to heal, but ends up falling for him.
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