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Girls like Reya Samuels always come from Prince George’s County. Reya is rich and she’s not afraid to show it—she wears designer clothes, drives a custom pink Audi, and lives in a neighborhood tucked behind a fancy cast iron gate. She works hard, but she can get anything she wants with a snap. Sommer Watkins is from Seat Pleasant, where the cast iron gates are significantly smaller—and attached to the windows, where most folks are still trying to make ends meet. Every day for Sommer is a hustle, working at her dad’s bookstore.

Archana Dhawan wants a boy-free zone this semester abroad. Fresh off a breakup, she’s headed to Rajasthan, India—her parents’ homeland—determined to find herself and thrive at her dream art museum internship. No drama. No distractions. Alas, the universe is trying to tempt her. On day one, she meets the hottest boy on the train. Soon after, she runs into him again at work. Not only is the museum tied to a palace, but the cute guy, Shiv, is a royal gardener!

Dakarai (Kai) Barbier was supposed to be at CYPHR’s sold-out show with his best friends. Instead, he finds himself going solo, reeling from the news that they’ve decided to accelerate the next chapter of their lives, leaving him alone the summer after high school graduation. Meanwhile, Elias Davis has just been sent from New York City to North Carolina to live with his uncle after a last-straw fistfight.

Durante la festa di fine anno accademico a Maple Hills, Russ Callaghan e Aurora Roberts prendono parte a un gioco alcolico che li porta a trascorrere insieme una notte di passione. Ma al mattino Aurora scappa via prima ancora che Russ abbia la possibilità di chiederle il nome completo. Nessuno dei due poteva immaginare che presto si sarebbero incontrati di nuovo al campo estivo, dove entrambi hanno deciso di prestare servizio sperando di sfuggire alle loro complicate vite domestiche. Russ non vuole affrontare le ripercussioni della dipendenza dal gioco d'azzardo del padre.

Fifteen-year-old Fancy Augustine is a Haitian American girl with simple desires. She’d like to trade in her floppy, oversize boobs for cute, perky ones. She’d love a boyfriend. And she’s desperate for an invite to the biggest event of the school year: Imani Park’s birthday party. When Fancy learns her BFF, Tilly, has received a coveted invite and has a secret boyfriend, she is (understandably) devastated and wholeheartedly determined to do whatever it takes to get her own happily ever after.

Sin embargo, así era. Lukas Alba, el chico gracioso, irresponsable y algo gamberro, de pronto, se encontraba solo con una niña de pocos meses a su cargo. Estaba aterrorizado. Pero cada vez que enterraba la cara en el cuello de Mía y aspiraba profundamente descubría que su hija olía a vainilla, a galletas, a pan recién hecho, a algodón de azúcar… a bebé. Y sabía que daría la vida por ella. Alexia no lo había tenido nada fácil hasta el momento. Necesitaba dinero y ese trabajo de niñera podía ser su salvación. Lo conseguiría, aunque tuviera que mentir.

Arden isn’t excited about moving. Los Angeles was an easy place to fit in and find a supportive queer community. But Winifred, Michigan? That sounds like a much more difficult place to exist. Pasadena, California, is the perfect city for Gabe’s reinvention. Everyone knew everything about him in small-town S elby, Illinois. Gabe, who wants to be out and proud, can’t wait to relocate. When Arden and Gabe randomly meet in the lobby of a motel in Nebraska, it feels like fate.

Jude quiere pasar desapercibido. A él solo le interesa dibujar comics, jugar a Dragones y Mazmorras con sus amigos, trabajar en la tienda de discos de sus padres y que en el instituto no se las hagan pasar canutas. Hasta que un día descubre que, inexplicablemente, tiene una sobrenatural racha de buena suerte. De pronto, todo lo que Jude siempre ha querido parece estar a su alcance. Sus cómics van a ser publicados. Al ayudar a su amigo con una canción, esta se convierte en la finalista de un concurso.

Ana Maria Ybarra dreams of becoming a world-famous pastry chef, but dreams have a cost. Her family can barely keep the family business running, let alone pay for culinary school. Ana Maria helps out at the family bakery, Café Y Mas, whenever she can, but they are struggling while the rival Cuban bakery across the street, Morales Bakery, is doing better than ever.

Giulia tem a vida planejada nos mínimos detalhes. Com objetivos ambiciosos, como ser a melhor aluna da turma de Engenharia Aeroespacial da UFMG e conquistar uma bolsa de estudos para uma pós-graduação nos Estados Unidos, não sobra muito tempo para diversão.

Riley Thomas is feeling stuck—she’s moved from California to Nebraska, she’s on a weeklong Oregon Trail family bonding excursion, and her luggage is lost. There’s no one her age on the trip except a tall, dark and irksome cowboy who wrongly assumes she has zero ability to handle the great outdoors. She can’t wait for this misery to end—even though going “home” isn’t even possible anymore.

After a very public breakup during which her ex, Caleb, tells her she is both (a) boring and (b) stuck in her ways, Savannah Moore decides that going with her mom on her company cruise to Alaska presents the perfect opportunity to show people how fun she is. It won’t be easy, though. Her longtime nemesis, Tanner Woods, is also on the ship. His family and Savannah's are friends, and Tanner knows her better than she’d like to admit.

If Taylor Blake’s life were a TV show, the cast of characters would be very, very small. However, all that is about to change! Because now Taylor is in Year Nine and she gets to be a host for the French Exchange program. There’s going to be cool parties and sophisticated conversation and … well, Taylor’s first kiss! It’s called French kissing because they invented it, didn’t they? She might even meet the love of her life! So even though things have been dull and rubbish for practically Taylor’s whole life, in seven days everything will be very different.

Gegensätze ziehen sich an! Fake-Date oder große Liebe – wer weiß das schon so genau? Jamie Westenberg und Bea Wilmot haben rein gar nichts gemeinsam außer den traumatischen Erinnerungen an ihre erste Begegnung. Doch als die Menschen, die ihnen am nächsten stehen, versuchen Amor zu spielen und sie zu einem Date überreden, wird den beiden klar, dass sie noch eine Gemeinsamkeit haben: ein unbestreitbares Bedürfnis nach Rache. Bald steht ihr Plan fest: Sie wollen ein falsches Date vortäuschen und ihre Freunde davon überzeugen, dass sie total verliebt sind.

Pyper Lewis has all the answers to all the questions, just ask anyone. She knows exactly how to make this the most amazing senior year of all time for herself, and her friends. There's only one problem. It has four ugly letters and causes her very worst memories. Prom.

The Princess Diaries meets reality television in a story about fame (the kind you definitely didn’t ask for), first love (the kind you didn’t even know you wanted), and most importantly, family (the kind you can’t live without).

Cuando Chloe Miller recibió su carta de no admisión, la arrugó con rabia. Oliver Miller, su mellizo, había obtenido la plaza que codiciaban los dos. Ella estaba convencida de que el único mérito de su hermano era su entrepierna. El patriarcado la había eliminado, y estaba dispuesta a demostrar que se equivocaban. Lo único que necesitaba era convencer a Oliver para intercambiar sus papeles durante el máster que iban a cursar en España, puesto que solo quedaba una plaza para un estudiante internacional, e iba a ser suya a toda costa.

It was already a weird Friday. My class is stuck on an eerily remote island for our senior trip, I’m pretty sure Mr. D (“call me Max”) is hiding something from us, my ex–best friend turned nemesis keeps stealing my candy, and tonight’s plan for my boyfriend and me to finally lose our virginity to each other is going hellishly. I mean, ceviche is delicious, don’t get me wrong. But a dish made from a supposedly immortal octopus should really come with a warning label.