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La temporada de béisbol ha comenzado y Zachary Wilson, en su último año de instituto, está en la cúspide de su vida. El béisbol es su pasión y su billete hacia un futuro prometedor. Sin embargo, un desgarro muscular durante un partido lo deja fuera de juego por meses, sumiéndolo en una oscuridad abrumadora. En medio de su desesperación, encuentra un rayo de luz en una situación inesperada: la misteriosa paciente Sunny Smith en el hospital. Intrigado, comienza a visitarla regularmente, compartiendo con ella sus pensamientos más profundos y oscuros.

In the rodeo town of Pendleton, Oregon, 17-year-old Maura lives with her sister and single father, Mike. When her father’s diabetes threatens to take his foot, Maura is left to care for her younger sister while Mike spends his final steps hunting in the Blue Mountains. Meanwhile, Maura's teenage neighbor, Alex, is spending the summer babysitting his alcoholic grandfather and fending off a hardcore crush on her. Though nothing about their summer has been easy, it becomes far more challenging when Mike’s return date comes and goes with no sign of him.

Mom and I just needed a place to start over. Somewhere to move on from the past that haunts us. Smoky Hills, Tennessee, seemed to be exactly what we needed. Here, I could be invisible. That is, until quarterback Liam Bronson decides I’m important. Even though there are plenty of girls who would love his attention, he doesn’t seem to care. The way he stares at me is like I’m the only one that matters, even in a room full of people. Like he chose me. Then I discover his secret. The animal that lives inside of him. He tells me to leave. That it’s not safe for a human.

There are many ways the world could end. A fire. A catastrophic flood. A super eruption that spews lakes of lava. Ellis Kimball has made note of all possible scenarios, and she is prepared for each one. What she doesn’t expect is meeting Hannah Marks in her therapist’s waiting room. Hannah calls their meeting fate. After all, Ellis is scared about the end of the world; Hannah knows when it’s going to happen.

Kate ships tons of fictional couples, but IRL her OTP is her and Mick, the hot quarterback she's crushed on since, like, forever. With only one semester left of senior year, it's now or never if she wants to land him in time for prom. Since she's flirtationally challenged, she enlists Cooper Callihan, the guy who turned popular seemingly overnight but who used to be a good friend.

All Anna Xu wants to do as she starts freshman year at the local prestigious Brookings University is keep up her stellar academic performance, break out of her shell, be more social...and investigate the unsolved on-campus murder of her former babysitter six years ago. And if that wasn't difficult enough, it seems that Chris Lu, whose family are the Xu's business rivals, is attending Brookings too.

Parigi 2024, Olimpiadi: le gare per cui le ragazze della nazionale di pallavolo femminile hanno lavorato, faticato e sofferto una vita sono finalmente arrivate. Aidy è decisa a conquistare l'oro per la sua squadra, anche perché questo è il suo ultimo anno. A settembre toglierà la maglia e dovrà scegliere se studiare per diventare allenatrice o seguire quel sogno che nasconde in fondo al cuore e che non ha confessato a nessuno, legato alla scrittura e ai libri.

Mila's back in Nashville, two years since the fallout with Blake and on a mission to put the past behind her. Goodbye family drama, Hollywood crises...and Blake. Enter reality—Blake is home too, with a brand-new girlfriend in tow. Luckily Mila's family ranch serves as a distraction, but even there, tensions are sparked when she meets the hot new stable hand. It's impossible to forget what happened between her and Blake, and their buried feelings erupt to the surface. Can they try one last time, or has it been too long since they were on the same path?

Phoebe Townsend is a rule follower...or so everyone thinks. She’s an A student who writes for her small-town school newspaper. But what no one knows is that Phoebe is also Pom—the anonymous teen who’s rewriting sex education on her blog and social media.

Fifteen-year-old Mari Pujols believes that the baby she's carrying will finally mean she'll have a family member who will love her deeply and won't ever leave her-not like her mama, who took off when she was eight; or her papi, who's in jail; or her abuela, who wants as little to do with her as possible. But when doctors discover a potentially fatal heart defect in the fetus, Mari faces choices she never could have imagined.

Noah asks me a question the night of the party that has the potential to change everything between us. Will you marry me? It’s a question that will change our futures. A question that makes me think about the kind of life I want. About which boy I want. We’re all growing up. We’re all getting closer. And we all have big decisions to make. But with Olivia and Peter’s Halloween party around the corner, there’s bound to be drama. Will Mohammad finally work up the courage to ask Naomi to be his girlfriend?

If I can convince my cousin that I’m in love, he’ll give me the van early, and my escape plan is back on. Landon’s the perfect fake dating partner—he's voted Most Likely To: Never Get a Girlfriend by his friends, he doesn't talk back, and I’ll help him make the girl he likes jealous while he turns into my one-way ticket to freedom. And unlike anyone else in the popular crowd, he’s actually a little fun to be around.

Noelle and Elijah's friendship was built on unspoken rules. If the school's beauty queen and its hot, party-loving player were going to stay friends past puberty, the rules had always been clear. No flirting. No sexual tension. And absolutely no kissing. These rules keep them firmly in the friend zone—until one dare changes everything. Now suddenly Elijah's pissed when she shows up at his football game with another guy, and comes charging to her rescue when a date gets too handsy.

Adriana knows that if she can manage to keep her head down for the next seven months, she might be able to get through her sentence in the Compass juvenile detention center. Thankfully, she’s allowed to keep her journal, where she writes down her most private thoughts when her feelings get too big. Until the day she opens her journal and discovers that her thoughts are no longer so private. Someone has read her writings—and has written back. A boy who lives on the other side of the gender-divided detention center. A boy who sparks a fire in her to write back.

My best friend was now my deadliest enemy, the one person I'd hate beyond all measure for the rest of my life…Franny Barker's best friend, Alice, is the worst girlfriend in the world according to the many boys of Merrycliffe-on-Sea. She toys with them, then dumps them. But she'll never dump fashion-obsessed Franny. Nothing and no one can come between them. Until Alice, jealous of Franny's new college friends, sets her sights on Louis.

Auf Cimmeria herrscht der Ausnahmezustand! Hilflos müssen Allie und ihre Freunde mit ansehen, wie die Machtkämpfe die Internatsschüler zermürben und Nathaniels Einfluss immer stärker wird. Halt gibt Allie in dieser Zeit vor allem Sylvain, der seine Gefühle ihr gegenüber nicht länger verbergen kann. Nur was empfindet Allie wirklich?

Zwei gegen den Rest der Welt... Sie sind zwei völlig verschiedene Außenseiter: Eleanor ist dick, hat wirre rote Locken und trägt weite Herren-T-Shirts. Park ist gutaussehend, zurückhaltend, Halb-Koreaner. Nur notgedrungen macht er im Schulbus für sie den Platz neben sich frei, liest seine Comics oder hört Musik. Eleanor ist froh, nur ignoriert statt gemobbt zu werden. Sie kommt aus einer desolaten Familie, Park aus einer gutbürgerlichen.

Mix six teenaged girls and one '60s fashion icon (retired, of course) in an old Victorian-era boarding home. Add boys and dating, a little high-school angst, and throw in a Kate Spade bag or two ... and you've got The Carter House Girls, Melody Carlson's chick lit series for young adults! When her mom died, DJ had to move in with her grandmother, internationally famous '60s fashion model Katherine Carter....

Maddie doesn't believe in luck. She's all about hard work and planning ahead. But one night she buys a lottery ticket on a whim, and, to her astonishment, she wins! In a flash Maddie's life is unrecognizable. No more stressing about college scholarships - nope, now she's suddenly talking about renting a yacht and basking in the spotlight at school! But then rumors start flying, and random people begin asking her for loans. Suddenly Maddie finds that she isn't sure whom she can trust.

Benson Fisher escaped from Maxfield Academy's deadly rules and brutal gangs. The worst was over. Or so he thought. But now he's trapped on the other side of the wall, in a different kind of prison. A town filled with familiar faces. People from Maxfield who Benson had seen die. Friends he was afraid he had killed. They are all pawns in the school's twisted experiment, held captive and controlled by an unseen force.