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From play dates on the playground to sneaking into movie theatres, Dani and Alec were inseparable as kids. Until Dani moved away. Years later, Dani is back in Minnesota, and exited to reconnect with the nerdy and comforting Alec. But teenage Alec is NOTHING like the boy she remembers. He's the hockey STAR in a town where hockey players are worshipped as gods – and he loves it. When one thing leads to another and Dani and Alec find themselves thrown together and playing the role of boyfriend and girlfriend, “complicated” becomes an understatement.

Getting the girl was easy, but can Alex and Molly keep each other when they’re both keeping secrets? Find out in this cosy festive companion novella to the tiktok sensation She Gets the Girl from bestselling authors Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick.

It’s been a year since his best friend, Sam, died. Even though Oliver knows he won’t get a response, he can’t stop texting Sam’s number, especially as the anniversary of his death approaches. Then one day he accidentally hits the call button, and someone picks up. The voice on the other end isn’t Sam. Sam’s number was reassigned and a stranger has been receiving Oliver’s private and vulnerable messages for months. But Ben, a college student in Seattle, won’t remain a stranger for long. When they finally meet in person, their spark is undeniable.

For Alex and Molly, the last three years have felt like Christmas every day. So what better way to celebrate winter break of their senior year than a romantic getaway in a town right out of a Christmas card? Aside from sampling all the holiday cheer Barnwich has to offer, Alex and Molly have an important mission this weekend: to help their friend Cora get her crush to fall for her. But in between ice skating, snowball fights, and matchmaking schemes, it becomes obvious that Alex and Molly have another mission this weekend.

Stella Chen’s life ground to a halt when her brother unexpectedly passed away a year ago. Raised together by their grandmother for years in the Chinese countryside before rejoining their parents in the United States, his absence destroys the connective tissue in her family. With another jarring move her senior year, from rural Illinois to unfamiliar surroundings in San Diego, she is left alone and adrift in her family’s suffocating silence and the void of unanswered questions her brother left behind.

When seventeen-year-old Sebastian agrees to come to New Gault to care for his absent and abusive mother after her cancer diagnosis, he is not prepared for the strange new community that awaits him or the distressing state he finds his mother in. He tries to help, but despite being ill, her tongue is as sharp as ever, finding all Sebas’s tender places. But he promised his Abuela he'd try to make this work.

Die Studentin Lilli Straka hat dem Geschäft ihrer Gaunerfamilie den Rücken gekehrt. Doch als ihre Schwester bei einem wichtigen Beutezug ausfällt, springt Lilli für sie ein und wird auf einer High-Society-Gala ausgerechnet von Kommilitone Moritz Berlau auf frischer Tat ertappt. Lilli sieht sich und ihre Familie bereits im Gefängnis, aber der smarte und attraktive Unternehmersohn garantiert ihr sein Schweigen. Im Gegenzug besteht er darauf, die Studentin näher kennenzulernen.

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.

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.

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.

Sadie Katz and Cleo Chapman have been rivals since birth. Literally. They entered the world competing to be the first baby born in the new year, and ever since Cleo beat out Sadie for that title, she has been nonchalantly beating Sadie at just about everything—and making it look easy. Now in the fall of their senior year, Sadie and Cleo are neck-and-neck for valedictorian. But then a string of increasingly serious pranks take over their high school, and all signs point to Sadie and Cleo as the perpetrators.

Sadie Morelli and Cason Tano were friends in middle school, before Sadie transferred to another school. When they meet at the local ice rink where Sadie waitresses and Cason’s hockey team plays, what was once friendship turns into something more. Given the intensity of the rivalry between their schools and friends, their budding relationship is a secret for them alone.

La vita di Ophelia è all'apparenza perfetta. Ex ballerina di danza classica, bellissima e ricca, è figlia dell'avvocato penalista più famoso di New York e frequenta l'ultimo anno alla St. George High School. Da quando tre anni prima la madre è venuta a mancare, però, la sofferenza che l'ha travolta è diventata quasi impossibile da sopportare. Ophelia si ritira in giornate di solitudine e indifferenza, entrando in una spirale di dipendenze e depressione in cui farsi del male sembra l'unico modo per sentire meno dolore.

Fall is a big deal in Briar Glen, a quaint and charming village in New England. That's when tourists from all over the country descend upon this picturesque town to see the babbling brooks and colorful leaves while sipping hot chocolate or pumpkin spice lattes.

Valeria Morales’ senior year is not off to a great start. Her twin brother Adrian isn’t talking to her, she’s realizing all of her friends were actually his friends, and now she's failing math. Enter Gage Magnussen. Gage isn’t looking to take on any tutoring gigs now that his standing as valedictorian is at risk after letting a catastrophic breakup distract him—not to mention his demanding parents expect Gage to coordinate their yearly charity auction alongside his cheating ex.

In the real world, Keegan Thomas is a gay, eighteen-year-old mythology nerd with undiagnosed chronic pain. But in the myth-inspired, online video game world of Pantheonic, he is the glorious and powerful K.Odyssia, slaying legions of enemies and completing quests for honor and glory along with his team, the Epic Hearts. Despite his closeness to his gamer friends—and the secret crush he has on his teammate, Alix—no one knows that he is struggling with the sudden onset of chronic pain in his lower back and fears it will hinder his ability to move to NYU in the fall.

Von ihrer Mutter jahrelang in Schach gehalten, zieht Anna zu ihrem Vater nach Berlin, wo ihr Leben nicht die gewünschte positive Wendung nimmt. Ihr neues Umfeld in der Großstadt überfordert sie zunehmend - bis sie auf Milan trifft, zu dessen unkonventioneller Art sie sich hingezogen fühlt. Zum ersten Mal seit langer Zeit kann Anna wieder vertrauen. Sie entscheidet sich für Milan und für die Gefahr - mit fatalen Folgen. Als die beiden sich nach jahrelanger Trennung wiederbegegnen, muss Anna sich die eine Frage stellen: Ist sie noch immer bereit, diesen Preis für die Liebe zu zahlen?

Taylor and Marianna were each other's whole world—best friends, running partners, practically sisters—until Marianna moved away and Taylor ghosted her. When the former best friends turned rivals end up on the same cross-country team three years later, everything is a competition and a reminder of old feelings, as well as blossoming new ones.

He’s off-limits. So why does it feel like he’s mine? Sebastian Novak has been off-limits since the moment I figured out what a crush was. He’s my brother’s best friend. Basically family. The guy who’s always around but never really mine. So when he kisses me at a party as a part of game, I know better than to believe it meant something. He’s already acting like it didn’t happen. And I’m doing everything I can to pretend I’m totally fine with that. But keeping a secret this big isn’t easy. Not when we’re suddenly spending more time together.

Ellis lo tiene todo planeado: va a pasar su último año de instituto preparando la solicitud para entrar en la Universidad de Columbia, donde quiere estudiar Periodismo para sentar las bases de un prometedor futuro profesional. Es por eso que sus padres no podían haber elegido peor momento para contarle que se van a separar y que tiene que marcharse de Nueva York para irse a vivir con su tía y con su prima a Bramble Falls, Connecticut, donde solía pasar los veranos.