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Kaum hat die 16-jährige Belly das Herz ihres ewigen Schwarms Conrad erobert, fällt ein Schatten auf die junge Beziehung. Conrads Mutter Susannah stirbt. Der Schicksalsschlag trennt die Verliebten: Conrad zieht sich zurück, und Belly fühlt sich vernachlässigt; die Beziehung zerbricht. Conrad hat nicht nur mit dem Verlust seiner Mutter zu kämpfen, sein Vater will das geliebte Strandhaus tatsächlich verkaufen. Mit vereinten Kräften gelingt es, den Vater der Jungs zu überreden, das Haus nicht zu verkaufen.

There’s no one Kelsie Miller hates more than Eric Mulvaney Ortiz—the homecoming king, captain of the football team, and academic archrival in her hyper-competitive prep school. But after Kelsie’s best friend, Brianna, moves across the country and stops speaking to her, she’ll do anything, even talk to Eric, to find out why.

John Paul Reyes wants to escape the worst truths in his life—other people's pity since his dad died, and everyone else's expectations about what he should do with his life now that he's graduated high school. When he arrives at the Majestic Mountain resort with his Tita Abrigo's wealthy family, he sees a way to escape—he can be JP Abrigo, rich and set, and he can lie his way to feeling fine.

Autumn Povitsky is a high-achieving, booked and busy, straight-A nightmare. She’s currently having a crisis of self—she needs a fake ID ASAP—but because she’s a total square, she has no idea where to get one. Enter buzzcut hottie Tara Esposito. She’s a rule breaker and party crasher of the highest degree, and if anyone knows where to get a fake, it’s her. But Tara has hung up her James Dean leather jacket for the night. If she doesn’t finish this godforsaken essay that’s already weeks late, she can kiss her upcoming graduation goodbye.

Luke Dawson and Harper Braedon could have been friends. They trade shifts at the same diner, share classes at school, and are driven by their greatest passions: hockey for Dawson and jewelry-making for Harper. But some things aren't meant to be. Dawson thinks Harper is stuck-up, too good for anything resembling school spirit. Harper thinks Dawson is a self-centered jock, a perfect fit for a hockey team that seems to absorb all the budget away from the arts departments.

Mia Yoon has a plan for everything. Get a full ride to her dream film school in Los Angeles, behind her mom’s back, and escape her middle-of-nowhere hometown—check. Produce her own dating show starring other people and their crushes—check. But everything goes off the rails when she has to enlist the help of her own secret crush, Noah Jang, a boy she’d rather hate.

When seventeen-year-old Nina Riley gets saved by a super cute Knight-in-Faded-Khakis just as she lands in an embarrassingly sticky situation during the most disastrous hike known to man, she wasn't exactly looking for a meet cute. She really just needed some peace and quiet from her complicated family. Unfortunately, he disappears before she can properly thank him or get his number. All she has is his name (Ian Nguyen) and a navy jacket with a dog keychain, a gym card, and laundromat receipt. But a meet cute is a meet cute.

Alex Clarademont-Díaz, el hijo millennial de la presidenta de los Estados Unidos, es un tesoro para el marketing de la Casa Blanca: atractivo, carismático e inteligente. Lo que nadie sabe es que no soporta al príncipe Henry, el hijo de la reina de Inglaterra. Así que, cuando la prensa sensacionalista se hace con una fotografía que refleja un altercado entre Alex y Henry, las relaciones entre Estados Unidos y el Reino Unido se enfrían.

It isn't that Scarlett Landry doesn't believe in love, her parents' relationship is perfect, after all. It's just that she doesn't think she should be forced to celebrate it. Forced to listen to terrible poetry and watch Valentine's Day roses being distributed to everyone around her at school. If there is a relationship status that deserves its own holiday, it's single-hood. So, she enlists the help of her best friend, Jack Bowman, to throw a party for all the lonely hearts of their high school. She's known Jack for years. He's fun and nerdy and smart and will make the perfect cohost.

A veces el amor no es suficiente para mantener con vida una relación. ¿Qué pasa cuando el final comienza a anunciarse como una tormenta gélida que no da tregua?

Descubre a Lilly Lucas, la autora de novela romántica juvenil que arrasa en Alemania con más de 1.000.000 de lectores. Lena, una joven de Berlín, nunca se imaginó que su año como au pair en Estados Unidos, tras dejar aparcados sus estudios el primer año de universidad, empezaría de ese modo: en lugar de una ciudad cosmopolita y de ritmo frenético, aterriza en el minúsculo pueblo de Green Valley, en plenas Montañas Rocosas.

Olivia Rivera odia la Navidad. Y a Noah Merry. Noah Merry odia que Olivia sea tan testaruda, orgullosa y rencorosa. Y también odia que ella se empeñe en hacerle la vida difícil sin importarle que sea su jefe. Nora y Nicholas, abuelos de Noah y dueños del hotel Merry, están hartos de la tensión que reina entre sus empleados, así que esta Navidad tienen una misión: conseguir que sus trabajadores se unan y descubran que, en realidad, no se odian tanto como creen.

Senior year was supposed to be perfect—Friday night games, late-night talks, and planning the future with Maiken Maxwell, the boy who already owns my heart. But one night changes everything. A party meant to celebrate our last summer together spirals out of control, leaving me grounded and my relationship with Maiken hanging by a thread.

Maiken Maxwell isn’t just the star of the basketball team. He’s the boy who makes my heart race with every smile, every kiss, every whispered word that I’m his. But dating him also paints a target on my back, and Tessa—the queen of mean—isn’t about to let me forget it. Now she’s challenged me to a showdown on the ice, and the whole school is watching. If I fall, I risk losing more than my pride. And with rumors that Maiken’s family might move away, I can’t shake the fear that our fragile first love could slip through my fingers.

Reid Rousseau was always a winner. Now, he's a former state champion runner with an injury no one can know about and a college scholarship on the line. Clara Suarez's legacy can't be failure. A year out of high school and aimless, she has one last shot at getting into her dream film school shooting a Legacy Weekend video interviewing her former classmates-including her ex, Reid-about their explosive senior year and the scandal that capped it off.

Seventeen-year-old Jamie Taher-Foster has big plans for senior year. She's made a list of things and places in Toronto she and her boyfriend of three years, Ben Cameron, need to check off before graduating. And the biggest plan of all: a very special night for the two of them at the upcoming Winter Formal. But then Ben arrives back home after a summer away with an unthinkable announcement: he wants to break up. And when Jamie discovers him with Olivia Chen the next day, she is determined to get him back.

Couture gowns, press parties, international travel. Rachel Kim is at the top of her game. Girls Forever is now the number one K-pop group in the world, and her fame skyrockets after her viral airport styling attracts the attention of fashion’s biggest names. Her life’s a swirl of technicolour glamour and adoring fans. Rachel can’t imagine shining any brighter. The only thing that’s missing is love—but Rachel’s determined to follow the rules. In her world, falling in love can cost you everything.

In this clever YA rom-com debut perfect for fans of Kasie West and Ashley Poston, a teen obsessed with 19th-century literature tries to cull advice on life and love from her favorite classic heroines to disastrous results - especially when she falls for the school's resident Lothario.

Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn't there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in France that no one knew existed. An apartment that has been locked for more than 70 years. Alice is determined to find out why the apartment was abandoned and why her grandmother never once mentioned the family she left behind when she moved to America after World War II. With the help of Paul, a charming Parisian student, she sets out to uncover the truth.

Immer schon gab es nur zwei Jungs, die Bellys Herz erobern konnten: Conrad und Jeremiah. In diesem Sommer muss Belly eine Entscheidung treffen und sich über ihre Gefühle endgültig klar werden. Seit zwei Jahren ist sie mit Jeremiah zusammen, als er ihr plötzlich einen Heiratsantrag macht. Belly stürzt sich überglücklich in die Hochzeitsvorbereitungen. Doch ihre Eltern halten die Hochzeit für völlig verfrüht, und nach einem Streit mit ihrer Mutter bricht Belly zu dem Ort auf, an dem sie so viele glückliche Sommer verbracht hat. Dort trifft sie Conrad, der ihr seine Liebe gesteht.