Rebekah Crane

For Clementine Haas, finding herself is more than a nice idea. Ever since she woke up in an Irish hospital with complete amnesia, self-discovery has become her mission. They tell her she's the lone survivor of a plane crash. They tell her she's lucky to be alive. But she doesn't feel lucky. She feels...lost. With the relentless Irish press bearing down on her, and a father she may not even recognize on his way from America to take her home, Clementine assumes a new identity and enlists a blue-eyed Irish stranger, Kieran O'Connell, to help her escape her forgotten life...and start a new one. Hiding out in the sleepy town of Waterville, Ireland, Clementine discovers there's an upside to a life that's fallen apart. But as her lies grow, so does her affection for Kieran, and the truth about her identity becomes harder and harder to reveal, forcing Clementine to decide: Can she leave her past behind for a new love she'll never forget?

The Upside of Falling Down

According to sixteen-year-old Zander Osborne, nowhere is an actual place--and she's just fine there. But her parents insist that she get out of her head--and her home state--and attend Camp Padua, a summer camp for at-risk teens. Zander does not fit in--or so she thinks. She has only one word for her fellow campers: crazy. In fact, the whole camp population exists somewhere between disaster and diagnosis. There's her cabinmate Cassie, a self-described manic-depressive-bipolar-anorexic. Grover Cleveland (yes, like the president), a cute but confrontational boy who expects to be schizophrenic someday, odds being what they are. And Bek, a charmingly confounding pathological liar. But amid group "share-apy" sessions and forbidden late-night outings, unlikely friendships form, and as the Michigan summer heats up, the four teens begin to reveal their tragic secrets. Zander finds herself inextricably drawn to Grover's earnest charms, and she begins to wonder if she could be happy. But first she must come completely unraveled to have any hope of putting herself back together again.

The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland

From the author of The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland comes a hilarious and heartbreaking novel about coming apart, getting it together--and moving on. It's just a two-hour drive... Pondering math problems is Esther Ainsworth's obsession. If only life's puzzles required logic. Her stepfather's solution? Avoidance. He's exiled the family to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, to erase a big secret from Esther's past. So much for the truth. Now for the consequences: an empty swimming pool, a water-sucking cactus outside her window, a goldfish rescued from a church festival, and Esther's thirst for something real. Step one: forget about her first love. Step two: make allies. Esther finds them in Jesús from the local coffee bar; a girl named Color who finds beauty in an abandoned video store; Beth, the church choir outcast; and Moss, a boy with alluring possibilities. Step three: confess her secret to those she hopes she can trust. Esther's new friends do more than just listen. They're taking Esther one step further. Together, they hit the road to face Esther's past head-on. It's a journey that will lead her to embrace her own truth--in all its glory, pain, and awesomeness.

The Infinite Pieces of Us

Convention doesn’t carry much weight in Alder Creek. It doesn’t in Amoris Westmore’s family either. Daughter of a massage therapist and a pothead artist, inheritor of her grandmother’s vinyl collection, and blissfully entering her senior year in high school, Amoris never wants to leave her progressive hometown. Why should she? Everything changes when Jamison Rush moves in next door. Jamison was Amoris’s first crush, and their last goodbye still stings. But Jamison stirs more than bittersweet memories. One of the few Black students in Alder Creek, Jamison sees Amoris’s idyllic town through different eyes. He encourages Amoris to look a little closer, too. When Jamison discovers a racist mural at Alder Creek High, Amoris’s worldview is turned upside down.

Only the Pretty Lies

From the writer who brought you the Irish romance The Upside of Falling Down comes a new novel about secrets, friendship, reinvention, and unexpected love in the Scottish Highlands. June Merriweather is on the run--from her own life. Her brother is dead, her parents are liars, and her college major is a joke. Apart from her best friend, Matt, June is desperate for reinvention. And a one-way ticket out of Cincinnati to the Scottish Highlands is a good place to start. With a backpack, an urn, and a secret, June begins again. She snags a job at a café and finds lodging at a quaint inn with a quirky cast of housemates. The only problem: the inn's infuriatingly perceptive (and sexy) owner, Lennox. He's suspicious of June. After all, no one comes to Scotland in the winter unless they're running from something. From rocky start to sizzling temptation, June's new world is exhilarating...and one detour away from disaster. With her past and her future both vying for attention, June can't begin to picture where her reimagined life is headed next. And falling in love with the last person she expected is only the beginning.

June, Reimagined

Despondent after her mother and sister leave their family, Wren Plumley befriends Wilder, a sickly housebound teen who moves in next door, and must confront the reasons behind her mother and sister's desertions.

Postcards for a Songbird

A teenage girl's mistake on a Boulder, Colorado road left a popular teen soccer player dead. Now the deceased is following the driver around and only her boyfriend and her therapist understand her and can keep her from heading further into a deep depression.

Aspen

Infinite Pieces of Us

Martina "Marty" Hart is really nice. At least, that's what people think. It's Marty's junior year at Minster High. Minster's a small town where making great grades, smiling pretty, helping old people, running the new-student Welcoming Committee, and putting up decorations for all the dances--including the totally awful Hot Shot fall hunting celebration--gets you ... what? Marty's not sure. Instead of dreaming about a sororities-and-frats future at nearby University of Michigan, she's restless, searching for a way out of the box her controlling mother and best frenemy Sarah have locked her in. When Lil--don't call her Lily --Hatfield transfers to Minster, Marty gets her chance. Lil's different. She smokes, wears black, listens to angry punk records, and lives in a weird trailer with her mother. Lil has secrets--secrets that make her a target for all the gossiping and online bullying Minster can muster. But so does Marty. And Marty sees something different in Lil. Something honest. Something real. Playing Nice is the achingly true story of a girl who's been following the rules for so long she's forgotten who she was when she started. It's about falling in love with the wrong people and not seeing the right ones, about the moments in life when you step out of line, take a chance ... and begin to break free.

Playing Nice

Ako sa zamilovať do blázna

Sejam bem-vindos ao acampamento Pádua. Um retiro de verão para adolescentes problemáticos. Mas não se tratam de problemas comuns, como não querer estudar, mentir ou colar na prova. Não! Estamos falando de problemas reais. Alguns deles tão grandes, tão sérios, que até um adulto desmoronaria sob o peso deles. No acampamento, Zander, uma garota enviada pelos pais contra a sua vontade, encontra uma série de adolescentes na mesma situação, e com três deles ela estabelece uma relação de amizade — Grover, Alex e Cassie. Todos os quatro são tão diferentes quanto as pessoas podem ser, mas têm algo em comum — eles estão quebrados por dentro. Em meio às sessões de grupo e, à medida em que o verão dá as caras, os quatro revelam seus trágicos segredos. Zander encontra-se atraída pelos encantos de Grover, e então começa a se perguntar, depois de muito tempo, se pode apostar em ser feliz novamente. Mas, antes, ela precisa lidar abertamente com seus problemas, para poder juntar seus pedaços e reconstruir sua vida Você pode pensar que se trata de uma história triste. E há partes duras sim, mas, Rebekah Crane consegue mostrar como na dificuldade podemos encontrar uma saída. Isso é uma das coisas que faz o livro completamente encantador, divertido e doce, capaz de deixar em você um grande sorriso no rosto.

CONTRA TODAS AS PROBABILIDADES DO AMOR

Secondo la sedicenne Zander Osborne, il “nulla” è un luogo che esiste davvero, e lei ci sta bene. Ma i suoi genitori insistono affinché esca dalla sua testa e cominci a frequentare il Camp Padua, un campo estivo per adolescenti problematici. Zander non si integra, o almeno così crede. Ha una sola parola per descrivere i suoi compagni: pazzi. C’è Cassie, sua compagna di stanza, che si autodefinisce maniaca depressiva anoressica bipolare; Grover Cleveland (sì, come il Presidente), un ragazzo bello ma aggressivo, che prima o poi si aspetta di diventare schizofrenico, vista la sua situazione. E poi c’è Bek, un affascinante e sconcertante bugiardo patologico. Ma tra le sessioni di condivisione terapeutica e le confessioni proibite a notte fonda, si stringono amicizie improbabili, e con l’avanzare dell’estate i quattro ragazzi cominciano a rivelare i propri tragici segreti. Zander si ritrova inevitabilmente attratta dal fascino ardente di Grover, e inizia a chiedersi se potrà essere felice. Ma per avere qualche speranza di rimettersi in sesto, prima dovrà aprirsi del tutto.

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