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Told in dual timelines - half of the chapters moving forward in time and half moving backward - We Used to Be Friends explores the most traumatic breakup of all: that of childhood besties. At the start of their senior year in high school, James (a girl with a boy's name) and Kat are inseparable, but by graduation, they're no longer friends. James prepares to head off to college as she reflects on the dissolution of her friendship with Kat while, in alternating chapters, Kat thinks about being newly in love with her first girlfriend and having a future that feels wide open.

Jackie Howard returns to the Walter ranch after a summer in New York. She needed space—and got it. But she doesn't know where things stand with her and Cole Walter after that goodbye kiss. Over the summer, she stopped texting him. She never stopped thinking about him. Still, with Cole living off in town to work at Tony's garage before he heads off to college, Jackie thinks it'll be easy to avoid him—only to find that when she sees him face to face at last, it's, well . . . impossible to resist him.

Quinn Norton is starting over at a new high school and hopes that joining a D&D game will be the trick to making friends. The plan sounds even better when she’s invited into a group that includes Logan Weber, the cute and charming guy she met on her first day of class. But this isn’t your average D&D campaign—this group livestreams their games and enforces strict rules: no phones allowed, and no dating other group members.

Play dirty, play to win. Josh Flynn is the king of the bare-knuckle gypsy fighters. His reputation is unblemished, his fist a deadly weapon. Claire Milo has always loved Josh. They were destined to be together from the day they met. Two gypsy lovers with their whole lives ahead of them. If only Josh would find a different way of earning a living instead of knocking the living daylights out of another man in the boxing ring.

Eden: Josh Evans and I have been best friends forever. He knows all my secrets, and I know all of his. So when he randomly asks me to help him lose his virginity, I sort of flip out. That's a question that sends your mind to places you've seriously never considered before. Like, you know. Having sex. With your best friend. Except Josh doesn't want to have sex with me-he wants me to help him find a girl. A nice girl who's funny and smart and cute. Except he already knows a girl just like that....

For a few beautiful months, Wes and girl-next-door Liz were together. But right as the two were about to set off to UCLA together, tragedy struck and their relationship ended. Flash forward and Wes and Liz find themselves in college, together. In a healthier place now, Wes knows he broke Liz’s heart, but is determined to make her fall back in love with him. And he has a foolproof plan to win her back with the rom-com worthy big gestures she loves. Only … Liz will have none of it. Wes has to scheme like a rom-com hero to figure out how to see her.

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Vor zwei Monaten hatte Mats einen One-Night-Stand, der ihm nicht mehr aus dem Kopf geht. Er glaubt, Nele nie wiederzusehen, doch dann meldet sie sich aus dem Nichts. Etwas scheint sie zu belasten und so schlägt er ihr spontan einen Trip in das Ferienhaus seiner Eltern auf einer Schäreninsel vor. Dort entdeckt Nele gemeinsam mit Mats Stück für Stück ihre Liebe fürs Tanzen wieder - und schnell schlagen ihre Herzen im selben Rhythmus.

Der zweite Teil der emotionalen Small-Town-Romance-Serie von Bestseller-Autorin Laura Pavlov Willkommen zurück in Magnolia Falls ! Hier lebt River, der stets übellaunige Anwalt mit der schwierigen Vergangenheit. Diese zeigt sich äußerlich nur noch in seinen vielen Tattoos. Ansonsten führt er ein ruhiges, bescheidenes und zurückgezogenes, aber glückliches Leben. Ab und zu hat er One-Night-Stands, aber er will sich auf keinen Fall auf eine feste Beziehung einlassen.

Kelly Campbell ist die Eine. Das Mädchen, für das ich der Erste sein will – und wenn es nach mir geht, auch der Letzte. Bevor wir überhaupt Pläne für eine gemeinsame Zukunft schmieden können, wird unsere Beziehung auf die härteste aller Proben gestellt, und ich spüre, wie sie mir mehr und mehr entgleitet.

O QUE FAZER QUANDO VOCÊ VIRALIZA FALANDO MAL DA SUA FAMÍLIA NA INTERNET? É isso que Mayara precisa descobrir depois que um vídeo seu desabafando sai completamente do controle. Mas quem poderia culpá-la por reclamar de ter que dividir a casa com a nova namorada do pai e com o sobrinho dela, que, por acaso, também é o garoto mais irritante do universo? Agora, Mayara precisa encontrar a melhor forma de lidar com a situação. Por um lado, ela só quer voltar à vida de antes, quando sua maior preocupação era passar na faculdade dos seus sonhos.

No one loves musicals more than Riley Morris—her dream is to be a Broadway director. But when the spring show is canceled, Riley has to figure out a way to bring it back. Easier said than done—she’s stuck working at her dad’s game store. The place that means more to him than his family does. Riley can't waste time at a dead-end job when her entire future is resting on making a name for herself. So she convinces her co-worker Nathan Wheeler—the floppy-haired, glasses-wearing guy she barely knows from school—to help her. In exchange, she’ll help him make his gamer-girl crush jealous.

They knew the end was coming. They saw it 10 years back, when it was far enough away in space and time and meaning. The changes were gradual, and then sudden. For Mae and her friends, it means navigating a life where action and consequence are no longer related. Where the popular are both trophies and targets. And where petty grudges turn deadlier with each passing day. So, did Abi Manton jump off the cliff or was she pushed? Her death is just the beginning of the end.

The wait is over! John Green, the number one best-selling author of The Fault in Our Stars, is back. It all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way Down is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.

Theo Briggs just wants to be perfect. The perfect son. The perfect friend. The perfect boyfriend. But the harder he tries to keep up appearances, the more difficult juggling all of those expectations becomes. Where Theo usually turns to his faith for comfort, he now finds confusion and apathy.

Eden and Josh never had a fair shot at a healthy relationship. When they dated in high school, they each had their own problems getting in the way of the deep connection they felt toward one another. Unbeknownst to Josh, Eden was carrying the burden of a devastating sexual assault, while Josh was dealing with his own private struggle of having an alcoholic father.

At seven years old, Ella Sunbury and Max Manning were inseparable—until life scattered them in different directions, forcing Ella to abruptly leave town. A decade later, she returns for their senior year of high school, moving in across the street from her childhood best friend. But she's not the same girl Max once knew. She now lives in the shadow of her brother: a notorious felon on death row, convicted of a crime that shook the nation. Reeling from the fallout and shunned by her peers, all Ella wants is to fade into the background.

Die 18-jährige Quinn ist ihrem Traum, Journalistin zu werden, so nah wie noch nie. Sie hat nicht nur einen Ausbildungsplatz im berühmten Trinity Media House ergattert, sondern auch ein Zimmer in der schönsten WG Londons. Schnell wird ihr neuer Alltag jedoch zu einer echten Herausforderung: Quinn landet in der Redaktion eines Gossipmagazins, und ihre Chefin macht ihr von Anfang an das Leben schwer. Nachdem sie unbeabsichtigt eine Falschmeldung über Popstar Milo Bricks veröffentlicht und seine Fans gegen die Redaktion schießen, muss Quinn es wieder ausbaden.

High school senior Mayte has never been kissed, but it hardly matters. Her abuelita has cancer, her half sister with special needs has moved in, and college is off the table—family comes first. She keeps her problems to herself; why burden everyone she loves with more? Meanwhile, fellow senior Auggie is set on attending an elite creative writing program. But as the self-proclaimed most boring person alive, he can’t exactly write the next great American novel when he’s struggling to write a short story for college applications.

Finn has always loved Autumn. She's not just the girl next door or his mother's best friend's daughter, she is his everything. But she's not his girlfriend. That's Sylvie, and Finn would never hurt her, so there's no way Autumn could know how he truly feels. Jack, Finn's best friend, isn't so sure. He's seen Finn and Autumn together. How could she not know? And how is he supposed to support and protect Finn when heartache seems inevitable? Autumn surrounds herself with books and wants to write her own destiny—but one doesn't always get a new chapter and fate can be cruel to those in love.