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Rake coming-of-age van de auteur van Heartstopper Angels leven draait maar om één ding: The Ark, een pop-rockband die op het punt staat om door te breken. Fan van de groep zijn heeft Angel alles gebracht wat ze nodig had: haar beste vriendin Juliet, haar ambities en wie ze is als mens. Ook Jimmy heeft alles te danken aan The Ark. Spelen in de band met zijn beste vrienden was zijn grootste droom. Maar dromen zijn niet altijd wat ze lijken. Wanneer de paden van Angel en Jimmy elkaar onverwacht kruisen, ontdekken ze hoe vreemd en verrassend het leven kan zijn.

Galak dan cerewet. Setidaknya itu yang ada di pikiran Kavi saat pertama kali bertemu dengan Athala. Mereka teman satu angkatan di sekolah, namun tidak pernah sekalipun bertegur sapa. Hingga akhirnya, sebuah kecelakaan kecil membuat Kavi harus berurusan setiap hari dengan cewek galak itu. Meskipun Kavi terbilang ganteng, namun Athala tidak begitu saja tertarik karena hatinya masih terikat dengan mantannya, Reno. Apalagi, Kavi dikenal bandel dan tukang bolos.

Bagi Sheila, menyukai Aland adalah sesuatu yang mudah. kakak kelasnya itu populer dan tampan. Namun, menyukai Aland tentu membutuhkan tenaga ekstra. Karena Aland adalah pangeran sekolah yang menjadi idola seantero siswi SMA Pelita. Tetapi, ada kalanya Tuhan berkehendak lain. Lewat tingkah-tingkahnya yang super ceroboh, nyatanya berhasil membuat kisah mereka saling beririsan. Ada tali takdir yang diam-diam terjalin di antara keduanya. Di antara dua kisah dengan lara yang lebur dalam tawa yang sama.

Wulandari Safira sedang bingung. Di satu sisi, ada Kevin, sahabatnya sejak kecil. Sudah lama ia naksir Kevin diam-diam. Apalagi ia sudah mengenal Kevin seumur hidupnya. Maka, sudah sepantasnya Ndari senang saat Kevin akan ditunangkan dengannya.

Rashi merasa seakan diempaskan dari langit ke bumi. Deadly Score, judul Webtoon karyanya, akan diputus kontrak tayang hanya karena terdapat adegan berdarah-darah dan dianggap sadis. Editor naskahnya menyarankannya untuk tidak lagi menulis komik horor thriller dan berganti genre romance remaja.

Nach so vielen Jahren ist mein größter Wunsch in Erfüllung gegangen: Cat gehört endlich zu mir. Ich liebe sie mehr, als ich jemals für möglich gehalten hätte, aber wenn sie nicht aufhört, in der Vergangenheit herumzustochern, wird mein mühsam aufgebautes Kartenhaus in sich zusammenfallen. Sechs Jahre hat Noah geschwiegen und die Drohungen über sich ergehen lassen. Für die Wahrheit war er zu feige, zu schockiert. Doch jetzt ist Cat endlich wieder Teil seines Lebens und er würde alles tun, um sie nicht noch mal zu verlieren.

Lena fällt es schwer, in ihr normales Leben zurückzukehren. Wie soll sie Dante, den Jungen mit den verschiedenfarbigen Augen, vergessen? Doch bald schon hat sie weit größere Sorgen: Bei einem Schulausflug muss sie feststellen, dass ihr Verfolger noch lange nicht aufgegeben hat. In letzter Minute gelingt es Lena, den Chronometer, mit dem sie durch die Zeit reisen kann, ihrer Freundin Bobbie zuzustecken. Ein verhängnisvoller Fehler. Auf der Flucht stürzt Bobbie kopfüber in die Vergangenheit - und findet nicht wieder heraus. Lena bricht ihr Versprechen und geht zurück in die unsichtbare Stadt.

When Nala Robertson reluctantly agrees to attend an open mic night for her cousin-sister-friend Imani’s birthday, she finds herself falling in instant love with Tye Brown, the MC. He’s perfect, except Tye is an activist and is spending the summer putting on events for the community when Nala would rather watch movies and try out the new seasonal flavors at the local creamery. In order to impress Tye, Nala tells a few tiny lies to have enough in common with him.

Theo Briggs is a rule follower. He's a decent student in his junior year, an appeasing son, and a lifelong Christian, just trying to make it through high school unscathed. Caleb Raynard is a romantic. One of the few out-and-proud kids at Specter High School, Caleb's dating life has been hellish, to say the least—fraught with misread social cues and embarrassing situations—and Caleb is about ready to call the whole thing off. When Theo and Caleb meet in the basement of an old Catholic church that's rumored to be haunted, an instant and electric connection forms between them.

To get an audience, you have to give up something. A secret, a favor . . . something that hurts. Welcome to Thorne Point, where darkness rules. I enrolled at Thorne Point University to be closer to my brother. Now my world is falling apart. Ethan is missing. Every day I can't find him it plays on repeat. The search for answers turns up nothing and I'm running out of options. But there's a rumor on campus. And I'm desperate enough to seek out the Crows as my last resort. Wren Thorne's reputation precedes him, but I won't take no for an answer.

When Austin Keller's family moves across the country for his chance to play with the prestigious Frost Lake soccer team, he's ready to seize the opportunity. But on his first night out with the team, a dare to kiss the team captain's ex-girlfriend sets in motion a rivalry that threatens his future.

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.

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.

Never in her life has Harlow felt as low as she does now. Even a beating from her mother was easier to take then the humiliation she just suffered at the hands of the Summer's siblings. Unable to return home due to a promise made to her foster father, she has to stay on until her commitments have concluded. With her new friends Alex and Shane trying to convince her to stay, and her grandparents and father of the same mind, Harlow's heart is torn in two. But a mysterious phone call and a possible job opportunity may just swing the pendulum to one side.

Noah Hastings is everything I’m not. Our worlds never should have collided, but when my long-lost father reappears, my life is flipped upside down. It turns out he’s ridiculously wealthy, and without warning, he plucks me from my simple life and throws me into a world of excess.

Autumn and Finn used to be inseparable. But then something changed. Or they changed. Now, they do their best to ignore each other. Autumn has her boyfriend, Jamie, and her close-knit group of friends. And Finn has become that boy at school, the one everyone wants to be around. That still doesn't stop the way Autumn feels every time she and Finn cross paths, and the growing, nagging thought that maybe things could have been different. Maybe they should be together. But come August, things will change forever.

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.

Anahita is passionate, curious and determined. She is also an Iranian asylum seeker who is only allowed out of detention to attend school. On weekdays, during school hours, she can be a ‘regular Australian girl’. Jono needs the distraction of an infatuation. In the past year, his mum has walked out, he’s been dumped, and his sister has moved away. Lost and depressed, Jono feels as if he’s been left behind with his Vietnamese single father, Kenny.

Half-angel Trinity and her bonded gargoyle protector, Zayne, have been working with demons to stop the apocalypse while avoiding falling in love. The Harbinger is coming…but who or what is it? All of humankind may fall if Trinity and Zayne can’t win the race against time as sinister forces gather. As tensions rise, they must stay close together and patrol the DC streets at night, seeking signs of the Harbinger, an entity that is killing Wardens and demons with no seeming rhyme or reason.

One spring afternoon after school, Amber arrives home on her bike. It's just another perfectly normal day. But when Amber's mom sees her, she screams. Because Amber died seven years ago, hit by a car while on the very same bicycle she's inexplicably riding now. This return doesn't only impact Amber. Her sister, Melissa, now seven years older, must be a new kind of sibling to Amber. Amber's estranged parents are battling over her. And the changes ripple farther and farther out: Amber's friends, boyfriend, and even people she met only once have been deeply affected by her life and death.