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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.

A volte la strada che più temi è quella che ti porterà a casa. Emily ha diciassette anni ed è felice della propria vita così com'è: genitori amorevoli, buoni amici e un'ottima scuola in un quartiere tranquillo. Certo, non può negare di essere curiosa riguardo al suo padre biologico, quello che ha preferito unirsi a un club di motociclisti – il Reign of Terror – piuttosto che essere genitore, anche se questo non significa che lei vorrebbe far parte di quel mondo. Quando però una timida visita si trasforma in una lunga vacanza estiva tra parenti che non sapeva di avere, una cosa le è chiara: niente è come sembra.

Dayana deixou o Rio de Janeiro para trás e está de mudança para Londres. Há pouco tempo, seu maior sonho era visitar o país da One Direction, sua banda preferida, mas agora ela tem certeza de que está vivendo um pesadelo. Depois de dez anos sem encontrar o pai, ela se vê obrigada a morar com o homem que a abandonou, a mulher dele e sua filha — a família perfeita que Dayana nunca teve. Tudo isso enquanto tenta lidar com o luto pela morte recente da mãe.

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.

When roguish Prince Jadon of Îles de la Rêverie is left in America to clean up his image after a horribly public break-up gone viral, romance is not on the table. Carefully planned photo ops with puppies? Yes. Scheduled appearances with the Santa Monica elite? Absolutely. Rendezvous with a pink-haired, film-obsessed hottie from the private school where he’s currently enrolled? Uhhhh . . .

Cuando el impulso es más fuerte que la razón y el corazón late fuerte y confundido, cuando la sangre corre por las venas y los amores se confunden con la pasión y el deseo, cuando las decisiones se toman desde la emoción y los errores se pagan con sufrimiento, solo queda intentar una vez más luchar por ese amor que te hace levantarte todos los días. Así le pasa a Adrián, un joven solitario que, por causas del destino, conoce a dos mujeres tan diferentes y atractivas que lo llevarán a tomar las decisiones más alocadas y a sufrir las consecuencias de sus resoluciones apasionadas.

Ruby est sous le choc : elle a été renvoyée de Maxton Hall. Pire : tout porte à croire que James est responsable de son renvoi. Après tout ce qu'ils ont traversé ensemble, Ruby n'arrive pas à y croire. Elle pensait connaître le vrai James : celui qui a des rêves, celui qui la fait rire et celui qui fait battre son cœur d'un simple regard. Tandis que Ruby s'efforce d'obtenir son diplôme, James risque une fois de plus de crouler sous les obligations familiales. Ils viennent de mondes différents… Sont-ils réellement faits l'un pour l'autre ?

Mia Callan is a seventeen-year-old girl from a suburb of Minneapolis. Mia's parents homeschool her, and she has a job as an ethical hacker and many clients. But something is wrong with Mia's life. She has an eating disorder, which her mom, Sara, tries to ignore. Mia loves running to leave her pain behind, at least for a while. Milo Chatham is also seventeen; he has epilepsy that ruins his life with horrible seizures and affects his family. Milo is severely depressed and even suicidal. He meets Mia at her home when he comes for a piano lesson with her dad, Seth.

Budding artist Dinah Zimmerman is recovering from a relationship with the boy next door who happens to be hounding her to get back together. When she visits the famous Carnivalesque one night, she meets Harvey—a smooth talker who asks her to dance. But their dance is interrupted when several of his exes bathe him in milkshakes and douse him with water balloons. Dinah has little interest in dating yet another bad boy. Nonetheless, her plans are derailed when Harvey offers her exactly what she needs-space from her ex.

Depuis plusieurs mois, Tara Purple fuit son passé pour échapper à des gens dangereux. Elle y parvient pendant une longue période, mais un soir, alors qu'elle se pensait enfin hors de danger, ils la retrouvent. Tara doit donc reprendre sa cavale afin d’échapper à un destin qu'elle sait d'avance tragique.

Je m’appelle Avril et j’ai 18 ans. Je suis née avec un trouble au cœur, un cœur défaillant qui aurait pu me tuer. J’ai été transplantée il y a bientôt deux ans ? Alors, tout a changé. Cette année, je vais fêter mon premier Noël dans les Alpes, chez mon père, dans ce corps que j’ai peur d’abîmer. Dans ce corps que j’ai besoin de réveiller... Je suis morte de trouille, mais les miracles sont faits pour qu’on y croie, pas vrai ? Et j’ai peut-être raison d’y croire, car à peine arrivée, je rencontre Augustin, et tout est chamboulé. Ma vie ne fait que commencer.

Aubrey Lane Arrington was given a choice and one week to decide—does she want to stay at Eastbrooke Academy or go to school in London? So much has happened since then that could affect her decision. Her former best friend, Branson, started a fight with her boyfriend, Prince Augie. And when the event is live-streamed and goes viral, it has the makings of an international scandal.

Fueled by rage and a thirst for revenge, Cassie no longer recognizes the person she has become. Determined to destroy Julian, no matter what the cost, Cassie pushes away the ones that love her most. Though she tries to deny it and fights against it, Devon's love may be the only thing that can bring her back from the brink of madness she is teetering on. Just when she's starting to come to terms with her grief, a startling revelation threatens to unravel everything she has always known.

10:00 p.m.: Lucky is the biggest K-pop star on the scene, and she's just performed her hit song 'Heartbeat' in Hong Kong to thousands of adoring fans. She's about to debut on The Tonight Show in America. But right now? She's in her fancy hotel, trying to fall asleep but dying for a hamburger. 11:00 p.m.: Jack is sneaking into a fancy hotel, on assignment for his tabloid job that he keeps secret from his parents. On his way out of the hotel, he runs into a girl wearing slippers, a girl who is single-mindedly determined to find a hamburger.

Seventeen-year-old Clary is set to inherit her family’s florist shop, La Rosa Blanca—one of the last remnants of the Cuban business district that once thrived in Los Angeles’s Echo Park neighborhood. Clary knows Echo Park is where she’ll leave a legacy, and nothing is more important to her than keeping the area’s unique history alive.

Mia knows what she’s talking about. Class schedules, significant others, existential life crises—you name it, she’s talked someone through it. The problem? No one actually takes her advice. So when her latest round of (very sensible!) guidance is ignored, resulting in a class flyer stapled to her best friend’s arm and her brother dating a girl he doesn’t have feelings for, Mia is done talking.

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.

Cada mañana, A despierta en el cuerpo y la vida de una persona diferente. Nunca hay aviso previo de dónde ocurrirá o quién será el elegido. Pero A ya se ha hecho a la idea de ello, incluso tiene una serie de normas que sigue para vivir: nunca involucrarse. Pasar desapercibido. No interferir. Todo está bien hasta la mañana en la que A se despierta en el cuerpo de Justin y conoce a la novia de este, Rihannon. A partir de ese momento, las normas a través de las cuales se ha guiado siempre dejan de tener sentido.

Haley Stevenson seems like she's got it all together: cheer captain, "Princess" of Juniper Falls, and voted Most Likely to Get Things Done. But below the surface, she's struggling with a less-than-stellar GPA and still reeling from the loss of her first love. Repeating her civics class during summer school is her chance to Get Things Done, not angst over boys. In fact, she's sworn them off completely until college.