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LGBTQ+-Romance zum Wegsuchten und zwischen den Zeilen lesen... Sei stolz und leuchte! Das ist Mahalias Motto. Deswegen will sie ihre Queerness mit einer Coming-Out-Party feiern. Doch für sich selbst einzustehen, kann eine große Herausforderung sein, vor allem wenn das Geld dafür fehlt und ihre Mutter (noch) nichts von ihrer Queerness weiß. Als sich Mahalia in das neue Mädchen - Siobhan - in ihrer Klasse verliebt, ist klar: Sie muss diese Party feiern und der Welt zeigen, wer sie ist.

Annabel Brown's first glimpse of the boy fated to change her life is on a soccer field near her home in the resort town of Seaview, Long Island. His name is Esteban Santiago, and he came to town as a member of a crew hired by Annabel's father, a widowed contractor. From the moment they see each other, Annabel and Esteban know they're meant to be together. They couldn't be more different. Annabel is a blue-eyed blonde from a wealthy family living a life of privilege and ease.

Love Bukowski is finally in London! Her term abroad at the London Academy of Drama and Music promises to be anything but average. After leaving Hadley Hall - as well as her dad, who’s got a new girlfriend, and her beloved Aunt Mable, who is fighting serious health issues - Love faces a new set of challenges across the pond: Voice lessons, keeping up with Arabella and her new friends, and falling for a Brit who is completely off limits.

Springtime blooms, but for Love Bukowski, life at home is chilly. After an incredible semester at the London Academy of Drama and Music, Love Bukowski is back at Hadley Hall. Unfortunately, it feels as though her fabulous British life (and boyfriend) are on hold. Love wants only to be at Aunt Mable’s side during her fight with breast cancer. But Love’s English boyfriend, Asher, suddenly doesn’t seem to want to talk to her, and her ex-boyfriend Jacob has popped back into her life. Love’s dad is struggling with the way she’s changed (i.e., grown up), and Aunt Mable has new information about Love’s mysterious mother.

Senior year of high school looms large for Love Bukowski after a tumultuous junior year of romance and heartbreak. But for now, Love is ready for summer break on Martha’s Vineyard. Running her Aunt Mable’s cafe with her best friend Arabella may not be glamorous, but it will at least be fun and perhaps just the refresher she needs after the crazy year she’s had. Plus, Mable’s created a treasure map of clues that will bring her closer to the truth about her family.

Little Little La Belle isn't redundant. She's a dwarf - a beautiful blond heiress who lives a pampered existence in the New York town named after her family. With her 18th birthday approaching, her parents want to marry Little Little off to the perfect man. Enter Sydney Cinnamon. Orphaned young, he went on to become one of America's most famous dwarfs. The pint-size TV performer could have his pick of any diminutive lady. But with Little Little, it's love at first sight.

The del Cisne girls have never just been sisters; they’re also rivals, Blanca as obedient and graceful as Roja is vicious and manipulative. They know that, because of a generations-old spell, their family is bound to a bevy of swans deep in the woods. They know that, one day, the swans will pull them into a dangerous game that will leave one of them a girl, and trap the other in the body of a swan.

They're from two different worlds.

He lives in the estate house, and she spends most of her time in the stables helping her father train horses. In fact, Savannah has always been much more comfortable around horses than boys. Especially boys like Jack Goodwin - cocky, popular, and completely out of her league. She knows the rules: no mixing between the staff and the Goodwin family. But Jack has no such boundaries. With her dream of becoming a jockey, Savannah isn't exactly one to follow the rules, either.

Parker Shelton pretty much has the perfect life. She's on her way to becoming valedictorian at Hundred Oaks High, she's made the all-star softball team, and she has plenty of friends. Then her mother's scandal rocks their small town and suddenly no one will talk to her. Now Parker wants a new life. So she quits softball. Drops twenty pounds. And she figures why kiss one guy when she can kiss three. Or four. Why limit herself to high school boys when the majorly cute new baseball coach seems especially flirty?

Kate has always been the good girl. Too good, according to some people at school - although they have no idea the guilty secret she carries. But this summer, everything is different. This summer she's a counselor at Cumberland Creek summer camp, and she wants to put the past behind her. This summer Matt is back as a counselor too. He's the first guy she ever kissed, and he's gone from geeky songwriter who loved The Hardy Boys to a buff lifeguard who loves to flirt - with her.

Rose Asher believes in ghosts. She should, since she has one for a best friend: Logan, her annoying, Netflix-addicted brother, who is forever stuck at 15. But Rose is growing up, and when an old friend moves back to Laguna Canyon and appears in her drama class, things get complicated. Jamie Aldridge is charming, confident, and a painful reminder of the life Rose has been missing out on since her brother's death. She watches as Jamie easily rejoins their former friends - a group of magnificently silly theatre nerds - while avoiding her so intensely that it must be deliberate.

Dylan Shoenfield is the princess of L.A.'s posh Castle Heights High. She has the coolest boyfriend, the most popular friends, and a brand-new "it" bag that everyone covets. But when she accidentally tosses her bag into a fountain, this princess comes face-to-face with her own personal frog: self-professed film geek Josh Rosen.

When Astrid learns that her cancer has returned, she hears about a radical technology called cryopreservation that may allow her to have her body frozen until a future time when - and if - a cure is available. With her boyfriend, Mohit, and her best friend, Chloe, Astrid goes on a road trip in search of that possibility. To see if it’s real. To see if it’s worth it. For fear of missing out on everything.

Thea Galehouse has always known how to take care of herself. With a flighty club-owner mom and a standoffish, recovering-alcoholic dad, Thea has made her own way in her hometown of New York, attending the prestigious and competitive Stuyvesant High School. But one chat with Will, a handsome and witty senior, and she's a goner - completely hooked on him and unable to concentrate on anything else. Always worried that she loves Will more than he loves her, Thea is pleasantly surprised when their romance weathers his move to college and Will goes out of his way to involve her in his life. But then, Thea misses a period.

Luke spots Eve at his dad's funeral. She's hot - and she's the perfect distraction from his messed up family life. There's only one problem - she's got a boyfriend. Still, Luke's not going to give up that easily.

Jackson a tout pour être heureux. Une femme belle et intelligente, un job qui lui plaît, un appartement dans l'Upper East Side et deux meilleurs amis inséparables. Seulement, la vie a décidé que les choses ne devaient pas se passer aussi paisiblement. Il suffit d'être au mauvais endroit, au mauvais moment pour que tout bascule. Son existence calme et rassurante se transforme en cauchemar.

Han Minho no se encuentra en su mejor momento. Tiene que lidiar con las numerosas citas a ciegas que le prepara su hermana, sus dos mejores amigos se han mudado fuera de Incheon y, para colmo, el correo electrónico que envió a todo el personal de las aerolíneas en las que trabaja, proponiendo abrir un club de lectura para los empleados, no ha recibido una sola respuesta. Al menos, hasta ahora...Kaya Baudin acaba de instalarse en París, alejada de todo lo que conoce.

Die siebzehnjährige Julie hat ihre Zukunft perfekt geplant – endlich raus aus dem kleinen Ort, mit ihrem Freund Sam in die Stadt ziehen und studieren, den Sommer in Japan verbringen. Aber dann stirbt Sam. Und alles ist anders. Julie ist am Boden zerstört, geht nicht zur Beerdigung, wirft weg, was sie von Sam besitzt, und versucht ihn zu vergessen. Doch als sie eine Notiz von Sam in ihrem alten Jahrbuch liest, kommt alles wieder hoch. Nur um seine Stimme zu hören, ruft sie Sams Handynummer an. Und Sam hebt ab.

Diciotto. Un numero come un altro, ma quando si tratta di anni allora cambia tutto. Michele li ha appena compiuti ed è come se nella sua testa fosse scattato un interruttore, non per accendere una luce ma per spegnere la vita. Non esce più di casa, perde il lavoro, evita il suo migliore amico Andrea e tutto quello che lo circonda sembra aver perso importanza. Depressione, noia, delusione? Chissà, forse è solo alla ricerca di sé stesso.

Sissi ha sempre la battuta pronta, è sarcastica e cinica ma con i numeri è un vero disastro... E quindi è piuttosto impudente, impietosamente scarsa in matematica e perdutamente innamorata! Ma sfortunatamente, Constantin, il suo "ideale" principe azzurro, ha occhi solo per le ragazze più grandi e con più "esperienza" di lei. Davvero un peccato, perché quando a Sissi capita l'occasione di baciarlo, lei si rivela un vero disastro!