It has never been a love for Henry Page. Although he considers himself an incurable romantic, the slow-motion, heart-pounding, can’t-eat, can’t-sleep kind of love he has been hoping for just hasn’t appeared in the cards for him—at least not yet. Instead, he has been content to concentrate on his academic performance, admission to a respectable college, and finally taking over as editor of his school newspaper. On the third Tuesday of his senior year, Grace Town enters his first-period class, and he immediately realizes that everything is going to change.
Grace is not the ideal girl Henry had in mind; instead, she uses a cane to go around, dresses like a boy instead of a girl, and appears to take very few showers. But when Henry and Grace are both selected to edit the school newspaper, he finds himself caring for her very quickly. The fact that Grace is so shattered makes her even more attractive in Henry’s eyes, and he would do anything to assist her in putting the pieces back together. However, this isn’t your typical boy meets girl tale. Krystal Sutherland’s stunning debut is a striking reminder of the love-at-first-sight joy that is equal parts humor and heartache.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Just because a love ends doesn’t mean it wasn’t real.”
“People are perfect when all that’s left of them is memory.”
“We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy, Grace. Reading Harry Potter is what is right.”
“We were characters out of a movie. We were thoroughly alive. And we were absolutely beautiful.”
“Some people are born with an ear for music, some people are born with a talent for drawing, some people…have a built-in radar that tells them where a comma needs to go in a sentence.”
Welcome to The A-List, an original paperback novel that takes readers inside the seductive world of Hollywood glitterati. This book is wickedly humorous and risqué. Seventeen-year-old Upper East Side blueblood Anna (pronounced “Aaaanah”) Percy is her route to Beverly Hills, California, where she will spend the remainder of the academic year living with her divorced father while her mother visits friends in Europe. Anna overindulges in champagne while flying, and Rick Resnick, a record producer, advances on her. Ben Birnbaum, a Princeton student, steps in to save her and invites Anna to famed actor Jackson Sharpe’s wedding, where she meets the cast of wealthy and well-known individuals who will soon be her Beverly Hills High classmates. The page-turning action of this exciting new book is driven by the fast lives of Beverly Hill’s most stunning and glamorous residents.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Django: “Would you buy it if I told you that it’s always darkest before dawn? Or that there’s a light at the end of the tunnel? Course there’s always a possibility that it’s an oncoming train. But still.”
Mungo, a Protestant, and James, a Catholic, were both born under separate stars and raised in a Glasgow housing estate. If they are to be considered men at all, they should be bitter enemies. Nevertheless, despite all chances, they end up becoming best friends as they find refuge in the pigeon dovecote James erected for his prize racing pigeons. While Mungo struggles to keep his actual identity hidden from everyone around him, particularly from his big brother Hamish, a local gang boss with a brutal reputation to uphold, as they fall in love, they both dream of finding a place they belong.
Mungo will need to muster all of his inner strength and courage to try to return to a location of safety, a place where he and James could perhaps still have a future, when his mother has sent him on a fishing trip to a loch in Western Scotland several months later with two strange men whose intoxicated banter belies murky pasts.
Young Mungo is a compelling and illuminating tale about the limits of masculinity, the divisions of sectarianism, the violence faced by many queer people, and the perils of falling in love with someone too much. It does this by infusing the everyday world of its characters with rich lyricism and providing a full voice to people rarely addressed in the literary world.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Mungo pulled his finger off the rusted nail. “I’m glad you are fixed, James. You’ve worked hard to get better. You deserve it.” “I’m not fixed, Mungo. Ah’m just a liar.”
― Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
“There were rows of teeth marks on the windowsill, perfect little half-moons of anxiety.”
― Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
“The pictures aroused him. Sometimes – when Jodie was in bed, and Hamish was sleeping at Sammy-Jo’s – he would take his brother’s stiff magazine full of buttery soft women. He liked the spreads with men in them the best and so he folded the page, turned the women to the back, and gave them a little rest.”
― Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
“But how come Morrissey didnae think there was panic on the streets of Glasgow? There’s plenty of fuckin’ panics here.”
― Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
“Cheer up. I love you, Mungo Hamilton.”
― Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
Augum, 14, and his companions Bridget and Leera want to become warlocks. To make that goal a reality, however, will require bravery, selflessness, and an iron resolve in the face of a kingdom in complete anarchy.
A bloodthirsty tyrant named the Lord of the Legion has defeated the king in his pursuit of seven mythical relics, one of which belongs to Augum’s tutor, the fabled Anna Atticus Stone. A treachery forces Augum, his companions, and his mentor through a terrifying adventure that threatens to ruin them all—and alter the course of history—while he battles demons from a tragic childhood.
The first book in the epic fantasy adventure series The Arinthian Line, Arcane, follows three friends as they explore a long-abandoned castle, go through testing training, solve ancient mysteries, and discover that a bond created through tragedy may be the only thing that can keep them safe from a cunning foe.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“The crowd, who seemed to have enjoyed the pounding Augum took, grumbled in disappointment. “Best go on home to your pappy, boy,” the one-eyed man said at last.”
“sending parchment flying and forcing Augum”
“For some time, the only sounds were the clank and clatter of cutlery as the trio devoured almost everything—except the boiled broccoli, which nobody wanted to touch.”
“In order to advance in your studies, you must learn the art of suffering. That is how you grow and develop fortitude. You must harden yourselves as it only gets more difficult.”
“The fact you survived the strike of raw lightning was additional proof.”
2013 saw the release of Kevin Brooks’ young adult book The Bunker Diary. The Bunker Diary tells the tale of Linus Weems, a young man who is kidnapped and held captive in an enigmatic bunker. 2014 Carnegie Medal for Children’s Literature winner for the novel.
People are actually fairly simple creatures with basic requirements. food, drink, light, room, and privacy. Maybe just a little bit of dignity. some degree of freedom What happens if all of it is simply taken away?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Tip for the day: never eat a bible when you’re starving to death.”
“A dictionary contains all the books ever written, and all the books that will ever be written.”
“This is what I know
it doesn’t hurt anymore
this is”
“Jenny dies in my arms.
Goes to sleep, and doesn’t wake up.
My tears taste of blood.”
Nick, Valerie Leftman’s boyfriend, started shooting in the cafeteria of their school five months ago. Valerie accidentally rescued the life of a student when she was shot while attempting to stop him, but she was charged with the shootings due to the list she contributed to making. She and Nick’s list of things and people they detested. the list from which he chose his victims.
As Val returns to school to finish her senior year after spending the summer alone, she is forced to face her guilt. In order to move on with her life and make atonement for the tragedy that occurred, Val must confront the memory of the lover she still loves as well as her complicated relationships with her family, former friends, and the girl whose life she saved.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Just like there’s always time for pain, there’s always time for healing.”
“Life isn’t fair. A fair’s a place where you eat corn dogs and ride the ferris wheel.”
“Sometimes even stuff you expect to happen can still hurt”
“Because who you are is supposed to be the easiest question in the world to answer, right?”
“We all got to be winners sometimes. But what he didn’t understand was that we all had to be losers, too. Because you can’t have one without the other.”
In Crank, Ellen Hopkins describes Kristina, a character is based on her child, and the “monster,” the dangerously addictive substance crystal meth, or “crank,” in a volatile and frequently unsettling relationship. When Kristina goes to see her notably absent and unsuccessful father, she is first exposed to the drug. There is only Bree, Kristina Georgia Snow learns when under the spell of the monster: “there is no perfect daughter, no smart high school student, no Kristina Georgia Snow.” Bree will do everything that Kristina, a decent girl, won’t do, even catching the eye of risky boys who can supply her with a continuous supply of crank.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I hate this feeling. Like I’m here, but I’m not. Like someone cares. But they don’t. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.”
“Taking no chances means wasting your dreams..”
“You were a summer gift, one I’ll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I’ll never really see. You’re the best thing that will ever happen to me.”
“you come home, and everyone talks at once and everyone asks questions, but no one waits for the answers. Instead, they talk about themselves, what they’ve been up to, and what they’re going to do next as if you’re a photo on the wall. And then they talk to one another, forgetting you’ve just flown in, forgetting you’re in the backseat, forgetting they’ve already said it all.”
“The problem with resolutions is they’re only as solid as the person making them.”
Panic began in Carp, a dead-end village of 12,000 people in the middle of nowhere, as so many things begin: because it was summer and there was nothing else to do. Heather never expected to compete in Panic, a legendary game played by graduating students in which the stakes are high and the payoff even higher. She’d never considered herself as courageous, as someone who would strive to be seen. But once she finds something and someone to fight for, she will realize she is stronger than she ever imagined.
Panic has never frightened Dodge. He’s confident that his secret will fuel him and also get him all the way through it. But he doesn’t realize he’s not the only one harboring a secret. Everyone has a stake in the game. The game will offer new alliances, surprising disclosures, and the chance of first love for each of them—as well as the realization that sometimes the very things we dread are the exact things we need the most.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. She supposed if you could predict or foresee everything that was going to happen, you’d lose the motivation to go through it all. The promise was always in the possibility.”
“She thought all you needed to do – all any of them needed – was to get out. But maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow.”
“when you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just when you’re happy and it’s easy.”
“No one had ever told her this basic fact: not everyone got to be loved.”
“The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win.”
Bryn, a fifteen-year-old werewolf pack Alpha, adopted her when a rogue wolf savagely murdered her parents right in front of her eyes, knowing only about pack life and the harsh social structure that governs it. That doesn’t mean she’s not willing to breach a few rules.
But when she discovers Chase, a new kid trapped in a cage in her guardian’s basement, and witnesses him transform into a wolf before her eyes, the awful memories of her parents’ murders return. Bryn gets preoccupied with obtaining her questions answered, and Chase is the only one who can help her.
But, in her quest for the truth, will Bryn go too far beyond the pack’s boundaries, forcing her to abandon her friends, family, and the reputation she’s built?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“There are bad people in the world: Murderers and psychopaths and telemarketers who won’t take no for an answer.”
“I was outnumbered, unarmed, weak, and screwed. In that order.”
“Lake, could you please stop sweet-talking the weapons? It’s kind of freaking me out.”
“There wasn’t an in-between for me. I lived at extremes. And maybe I’d die at them too.”
“Aren’t you supposed to be taking my order?’ I asked.
‘Bite me. And then you can tell me what’s wrong.”
Young Countess Meliara promises her dying father in a chilly, rundown tower room that she and her brother will protect their people from the king’s escalating greed. They enter a war for which they are ill-prepared because of this pledge, a battle that risks the lives and homes of the very people they are attempting to defend.
But in comparison to what happens when a brutal battle is over and a precarious peace is in place, war is uncomplicated. Meliara is called to the palace even though she wishes to leave politics and the throne behind. She quickly learns that there, everyone is intertwined in intrigue, including friends and foes, in the ballrooms and drawing rooms.
Meliara must learn a whole new method of fighting if she is to survive—with wit, words, and covert alliances. At least in war, she knew who she could rely on. She can no longer put her trust in anyone. The Crown Duel Firebird edition combines the hardback copies of Crown Duel and Court Duel—and includes a previously unpublished novella by Sherwood Smith!
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.”
“Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.”
“One doesn’t lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.”
“If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, and how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there’d be more happy people.”
“The more one has, the less one desires.”
Jude and Noah, her identical twin, are initially inseparable. Although daredevil Jude uses red-red lipstick, cliff dives, and does all the talking for the two of them, Noah continuously draws and is falling in love with the charming boy next door.
Years later, they seldom communicate at all. The twins have both undergone severe changes as a result of something, but Jude also meets a strange new mentor and an alluring, enticing boy. Noah will relate to the early years, while Jude will discuss the later years. They both only know half the story, but if they can just get back together, they might be able to change the course of the planet. You’ll be left speechless, inconsolable, and laughing—often all at once—after finishing this dazzling, award-winning book by the celebrated author of The Sky Is Everywhere.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
“Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you’ve been in before – you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall, the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.”
“I gave up practically the whole world for you,” I tell him, walking through the front door of my own love story. “The sun, stars, ocean, trees, everything, I gave it all up for you.”
“I didn’t know you could get buried in your own silence.”
“When people fall in love, they burst into flames.”
Dante and Aristotle’s Meetings of Discover the Secrets of the Universe I’ll Give You the Sun is a thrilling and heartfelt book that follows the development of two teenage boys’ friendship through the letters they exchange.
As part of a weekly pen buddy assignment, Adam “Kurl” Kurlansky and Jonathan Hopkirk are paired up in English class and assigned to write letters to one another. Each letter the two exchange marks the start of a friendship that will eventually blossom into love. But Jonathan and Kurl fight to resolve their differences and maintain their relationship—and each other—amid bigotry, bullying, and tragic family secrets. Fans of Jandy Nelson, Nina LaCour, and David Levithan will adore this uncommon and exceptional novel, which celebrates love and life with captivating characters and beautiful language.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Adam,” my brother said, “let’s not be the type of people who are afraid to live because we might die.”
“You undid me, Kurl, in more ways than one.”
“We’re all bending over backward to get you to crack a smile, because when you smile it feels like the sun coming out.”
“How is anybody supposed to hide happiness like this?”
“Maybe it is always like this. We are granted these tiny windows of time, these small pockets of space, where nothing else intrudes. Maybe that’s all we can ever hope to get, together. And maybe, just maybe, it will be enough.”
In the book, The Outsiders, Ponyboy Curtis, a 14-year-old boy, contends with right and wrong in a society where he feels like an outsider. Ponyboy believes that there are two sorts of individuals in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for “social”) is a wealthy someone who can get away with practically anything. A greaser, on the other hand, is continually on the go and must watch his back.
Ponyboy has always been proud of his greaser status, even if it means fighting toe-to-toe with a group of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers. The difficulties and friendships that Ponyboy and his crew face as greasers are highlighted throughout the narrative. It’s a novel that’s simple to absorb no matter who the reader is since it’s written from the perspective of a 14-year-old boy. It’s a coming-of-age narrative that deals with friendship, adversity, and overcoming obstacles.
Subject Six-Eight-Four, also known as “Jane Doe,” has been imprisoned and subjected to experiments for two years, six months, fourteen days, eleven hours, and sixteen minutes without saying a word. Jane learns the truth about Lengard’s enigmatic “program” as her resolve starts to fray due to the influence of her new, unexpectedly compassionate, assessor, and she also learns that her own secret is at the center of an evil scheme. and one incorrect action or utterance has the power to alter history.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Words demand respect. They are beautiful; they are terrible. They are a gift and a curse. I will never forget what they can do.”
“Words are too precious to throw around carelessly. I don’t need to have a supernatural power over them to know that. I’ve seen it. Words demand respect. They are beautiful; they are terrible. They are a gift and a curse. I will never forget what they can do. Because words have cost me everything.”
Valerie Leftman’s boyfriend, Nick, shot into their school cafeteria five months ago. Valerie accidentally saved the life of a student when she was shot while trying to stop him, but the list she helped make led to her being charged with the shootings. a list of the things and people Nick and she detested. He chose his targets from this list.
As Val returns to school to finish her senior year after spending the summer alone, she is forced to face her guilt. In order to move on with her life and make atonement for the tragedy that occurred, Val must confront the memory of the lover she still loves as well as her complicated relationships with her family, former friends, and the girl whose life she saved.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Just like there’s always time for pain, there’s always time for healing.”
“Life isn’t fair. A fair’s a place where you eat corn dogs and ride the ferris wheel.”
“Sometimes even stuff you expect to happen can still hurt”
“Because who you are is supposed to be the easiest question in the world answer, right?”
“We all got to be winners sometimes. But what he didn’t understand was that we all had to be losers, too. Because you can’t have one without the other.”
Lena Duchannes is unlike anybody Gatlin, a little town in the South, has ever seen. She is attempting to hide her power as well as a curse that has followed her family for many centuries. But a secret can never truly remain concealed, not even in the overgrown gardens, dark bogs, or crumbling cemeteries of the forsaken South.
Dreams about a stunning woman he has never met plague Ethan Wate, who has been counting down the days until he can leave Gatlin. Ethan is strangely drawn to Lena and determined to figure out their connection when she moves into the oldest and most notorious plantation in the area. In a place where there are no secrets, one may upend everything.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.”
“You’re so full of crap, you could pass for a toilet.”
“I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I’ll never love you any less than I do, right this second.”
“Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.”
“Teenagers. Everything is so apocalyptic.”
Marcus, also known as “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he assumes he already has an understanding of how the system functions and how to manipulate it. He has little issue outsmarting the intrusive but cumbersome surveillance devices at his high school because he is quick, smart, and knowledgeable about the ways of the networked world.
However, when he and his pals are trapped in the fallout of a significant terrorist strike on San Francisco, their entire life is turned upside down. Marcus and his group are caught by the Department of Homeland Security at the wrong time and place and taken to a hidden prison where they are brutally questioned for days. His wounded best friend Darryl does not emerge when the DHS finally releases them. Every resident is considered like a possible terrorist in the city, which has evolved into a police state. There is only one thing left for him to do since no one will believe his story: “M1k3y” will overthrow the DHS on his own.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.”
“If you stare at someone long enough, they’ll eventually look back at you.”
“I can’t go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.”
“Skipping school isn’t a crime. It’s an infraction. They’re totally different.”
“Abnormal is so common, it’s practically normal.”
Welcome to the Upper East Side of New York City, where my friends and I reside, attend school, play, and occasionally sleep together. S has returned from boarding school, and if we don’t watch out, she’ll win over our teachers, fit into the dress we couldn’t, steal our lovers, and generally wreck our lives. I’ll be keeping a close eye.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life.”
“Just because we can’t be together doesn’t mean I don’t love you”
“Oh, don’t be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!”
“No matter the truth, people see what they want to see..”
“I don’t eat chicken abortions!”
Both boys, two mysteries. Outsider David Piper has always been. His parents believe that he is gay. He is considered a freak by the school bully. The only people who are truly aware of David’s true desires are his two closest buddies.
Leo Denton wants nothing more than to blend in on his first day at his new school. Getting noticed by the most attractive girl in year eleven is not at all what they had in mind. In the midst of a conflict, Leo defends David, and an odd relationship develops. But chaos is about to break out. Because secrets don’t seem to stay hidden for very long at Eden Park School…
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I am fourteen and time is running out.”
“I’ve been looking for the wrong man.”
“I’m dying. I’ve got to be. There’s no other explanation. My head is throbbing and my throat feels like it’s lined with razor blades.”
“My stomach does a flip-flop.”
“For someone so convinced that life isn’t fair, she plays an awful lot of bingo.”
At a New Year’s Eve celebration, Katherine and Michael first meet. They become attracted to one another and eventually fall in love. They then have their first kiss after deciding their love is eternal. It’s the start of a committed, exclusive relationship with a clear future in mind. Up until Michael and Katherine’s parents urge that they put their relationship to the test by spending the summer apart… The target audience for Forever is older than it is for Judy Blume’s previous children’s books. Because of its strong sexual nature, it sparked a firestorm of debate when it was initially released.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“That’s not a bad word…hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn’t.”
“Like my mother said, you can’t go back to holding hands”
“I love you, Michael Wagner.”
“Forever?” he asked.
“Forever,” I said.”
“Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?”
“It’s strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart–even when I’m sure I will.”
When Cameron Post’s parents unexpectedly passed away in a car accident, her startling initial reaction is a relief. Relief that they will never find out that she kissed a girl hours before. Cam is soon compelled to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly antiquated grandma after feeling temporarily relieved. She is aware that her life will change drastically moving forward. Cam learns to fit in and, as her grandmother may say, “leave well enough alone” to survive in Miles City, Montana.
Coley Taylor then settles in the area. A stunning pickup driver, Coley is the ideal cowgirl, and her boyfriend is the perfect match. She and Cam develop a close bond that is both unexpected and intense, with the potential for more. Cam is confronted with the price of hiding her true self, even if she’s not exactly sure who that is, just as ultrareligious Aunt Ruth takes extraordinary action to “fix” her niece. At the time, Cam is just starting to think that’s a real possibility. A brilliant and fascinating literary debut, The Miseducation of Cameron Post is about coming to terms with who you are and finding the confidence to live your life as you see fit.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Maybe I still haven’t become me. I don’t know how you tell for sure when you finally have.”
“I just liked girls because I couldn’t help not to.”
“In the embrace’s release I caught the scent again. Unmistakable. Marijuana. These homos were high as kites.”
“You can’t catch somebody doing something when they’re not hiding.”
“How could I pretend to be a victim when I was so willing to sin?”
Ten years ago, tragedy struck. It was a sky burst that endowed regular people with extraordinary abilities. The amazing populace began referring to them as Epics. Epics, however, are not man’s friends. Amazing gifts also brought the urge to govern. You must subdue man’s will in order to rule him. Nobody but the Reckoners engages in combat with the Epics. They are a clandestine gang of common people that spend their days researching Epics to identify their flaws before murdering them.
David wants in as well. He desires Steelheart, the supposedly unbeatable Epic. David’s father was slain by the Epic. David has been preparing and studying for years, just like the Reckoners, and he has what they require. Not a thing, but a sensation. He witnessed Steelheart’s bleeding. And he wants retribution.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don’t get up for a third.”
“Sometimes, son,” my father said, prying my fingers free, “you have to help the heroes along.”
“You can’t be so frightened of what might happen that you are unwilling to act.”
“I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
“Where there are villains, there will be heroes. Just wait. They will come.”
In this LGBTQ young adult romantic comedy, high school rivals fall in love—perfect for Becky Albertalli and Casey McQuiston fans. Scottie Zajac comes into a collision with her enemy, the stunningly attractive and brutally cruel Irene Abraham, after humiliatingly losing to her ex-girlfriend during their first game following their breakup. The girls are compelled to commute until Irene’s car is fixed, which only makes matters worse when their nosy, volunteer moms get involved.
The more time they spend together, the bumpier their already bumpy beginning becomes. But when a chance arises for Scottie to avenge her toxic ex (while also moving up the social scale at her school), she coaxes Irene into cooperating. A classic gay fake-dating scam, heartbreak, and antics. A brand-new, belly-laugh-inducing journey through the highs and lows of young romance is available from author Kelly Quindlen.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Because before you can worry about who’s in your passenger seat, you have to learn to drive yourself.”
“I remember feeling like I was both too much and not enough.”
“I hate you,” I say. Then I kiss her and kiss her and kiss her.”
“Our fingers brush and I feel the electricity on our skin, radiant enough to power this street full of lights”
“She lays her hand along my jaw and kisses me like she means it, and I am breathless and weightless and dizzy at the very fact of her. Lips and tongue and teeth, her hair and her skin and her perfume, and more than anything, her very essence, her fire and her flaws and that steely determination to be better, to always be better.”
Caitlin seems to have entered a semiconscious dreamland in which nothing is really real ever since she began seeing Rogerson Biscoe. Compared to everyone Caitlin has ever met, Rogerson is unique. He has an allure. He is captivating. He poses a threat. Caitlin forgets about her missing sister, her estranged mother, and her unfulfilling existence when she is with him. What transpires, though, when having Rogerson around causes more issues than having him away?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“If you didn’t love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.”
“I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn’t.”
“After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.”
“It’s so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.”
“I couldn’t tell her. I couldn’t tell anyone. As long as I didn’t say it aloud, it wasn’t real.”
Zera is a Heartless, a witch’s immortal, never-aging soldier. Zera longs for independence from the woods they hide in but is tied to the witch Nightsinger ever since she protected her from the bandits who killed her family. She submits to Nightsinger’s control, her heart in a jar, and does the witch’s bidding.
Up until Nightsinger offers Zera a Prince’s heart in return for her own, with the proviso that if the latter is found out, Nightsinger will have her heart destroyed rather than subject her to the torture of the nobles who despise witches.
Crown Prince Lucien d’Malvane despises the royal court as much as it adores him since all of his teachers are too terrified to chastise him and all of the girls are vying for his darkly attractive side. Nobody can oppose him until Lady Zera shows up. She’s clumsy, snarky, carefree, and after his blood. He rapidly moves toward her throat out of respect for the Prince. A girl who has nothing to lose and a male with everything start playing cat and mouse. The winner grabs the heart of the loser.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“If you fear the past, it becomes your future.”
“It’s not a question of whether or not the apple falls far from the tree, because of course it doesn’t.” Her eyes fix in the distance. “It’s whether or not the apple can grow taller than the tree.”
“Pain is bearable only when you know with absolute certainty it’ll end quickly.”
“Fate has never once shied away from the opportunity to take a massive shit on my life..”
“Being ignorant isn’t a crime, Crabby, it’s a curable ailment.”
Bianca Piper, age 17, is cynical, devoted, and far from thinking of herself as the prettiest among her pals. She is also far too intelligent to be seduced by sleazy school hunk and man-slut Wesley Rush. Bianca actually despises him. She also hurls her Coke in his face when he calls her “the Duff.”
Bianca, meanwhile, is in dire need of a diversion because things at home aren’t going so well right now. Wesley receives a kiss from her. Moreover, she enjoys it. Bianca engages in a closeted adversaries relationship with him out of a desire to flee. Till everything goes horribly wrong. It turns out that Wesley isn’t really a lousy listener and that his life is also fairly chaotic. Bianca suddenly realizes with utter horror that she is falling for the person she had thought she disliked the most.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“No matter where you go or what you do to distract yourself, reality catches up with you eventually.”
“You can lie to yourself if you want, but the reality is going to catch up with you. I’ll be waiting when it does… whether you like it or not.”
“Just when I think you might have a soul, you say shit like that.”
“I wanted to make sure you were fine…and that he was okay, too. You didn’t, like, stab the boy, did you? I mean, I totally disapprove of murdering hotties, but if you need help burying the body, you know I’ll bring the shovel.”
“He was sweet and charming and smart… but my feelings for Wesley were way beyond that. I’d skipped the crush kiddie pool and jumped right into the deep, shark-infested ocean of emotions. And, if you’ll forgive the dramatic metaphor, I was a lousy swimmer.”
Lara, a princess reared as a warrior in solitude, is motivated by two certainties. The first is that she is at odds with King Aren of the Bridge Kingdom. Additionally, she would be the one to take him to his knees, which is the second.
The Bridge Kingdom, the only passage through a storm-devastated planet, benefits itself and robs its competitors, including Lara’s home country. Lara is ready to use every measure necessary to overcome the fortress’s strong defenses when she is dispatched there as a bride under the pretense of peace. And its king’s defenses.
Lara starts to doubt if she is the hero or the villain as she penetrates her new residence and learns more about the conflict over the bridge. Lara must decide which kingdom she will save—and which kingdom she will destroy—as her feelings for Aren change from icy animosity to intense passion. The Bridge Kingdom is a passionate, bloody fantasy that is ideal for lovers of From Blood and Ash and A Court of Thorns and Roses.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Even if I’m a goddamned fool for it, there will never be anyone but you.”
“This man might be a hunter. But he was mistaken if he believed she was prey.”
“Alive isn’t living.”
“Aren’t we bold now that we believe we are untouchable.”
“She was so painfully beautiful, and even knowing that she’d used it against him didn’t lessen how powerfully he was drawn to her.”
This outstanding debut book tells the fascinating tale of a young lady who battles to regain her power in the wake of an assault, following in the footsteps of Speak. Eden had a knack for doing nice things. Who she was didn’t change when she started high school. Eden’s life, however, turns upside down the night her brother’s best friend rapes her.
Previously easy things have become complex. Eden now despises what and who she previously loved. What she previously believed to be true is now false. She realizes she needs to explain what occurred to someone, but she is unable to do it because nothing makes sense anymore. She decides to bury it instead. And she buries in the same manner as before.
This controversial debut novel, which is divided into four parts—freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years—reveals the profound wounds of trauma. But it also shows how resilient one young woman is as she faces the grief and agonizing pains of adolescence, her first love and first heartbreak, the shattered and rebuilt friendships, and the discovery of strength of survival she never realized she possessed deep within her heart.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“He’s not the hero and he’s not the enemy and he’s not a god. He’s just a boy. And I’m just a girl, a girl who needs to pick up her own pieces and put them back together herself.”
“I don’t know who I am right now. But I know who I’m not. And I like that.”
“All you have to do is act like you’re normal and okay, and people start treating you that way.”
“And I’m terrified he’ll see through the tough iceberg layer, and he’ll discover not a soft, sweet girl, but an ugly fucking disaster underneath.”
“. And I really wonder how people get to be normal like this. How they just seem to know what to say and do, automatically.”
Humanity has been living on spaceships thousands of miles above the radioactive surface of Earth ever since a horrific nuclear war. A perilous expedition to recolonize the planet is currently being sent by society’s disposable group of 100 juvenile offenders. They might have a second chance at life, or they might be on a suicide mission.
Although CLARKE was detained for treason, the recollection of what she actually did still terrifies her. The chancellor’s son WELLS traveled to this world in order to be with the girl he loves, but would she ever pardon him? BELLAMY, the reckless member of the sole sibling pair in the cosmos, forced his way onto the transportation pod to defend his sister.
GLASS eventually made it back into the ship, where she discovered that life is just as perilous as she had anticipated it to be on Earth. The hundred must struggle to survive as they are confronted with a hostile environment and plagued by secrets from their pasts. They may be the last hope for humanity even though they were never intended to be heroes.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“That was the thing about secrets-you had to carry them with you forever, no matter what the cost.”
“You need to let yourself be happy. Or else, what’s the point of anything?”
“He’d never known a girl who was so beautiful and intense at once.”
“He tasted like joy, and joy tasted better on Earth.”
“But Bellamy had been doing stupid things his whole life, and he had no intention of stopping now.”
Brie despises the Fae and won’t associate with them in any way, even if it means going hungry on the streets. But then when her sister is sent to the cruel ruler of the Unseelie court as payment for a debt, she will stop at nothing to win her back, even agreeing with him to capture three magical artifacts from the Seelie court.
Accessing the Seelie court without restriction is much easier said than done. Brie’s only option is to pretend to be Prince Ronan’s prospective bride, and she quickly starts to fall for him. She takes assistance from a group of misfit Unseelie characters with their own hidden goal since she refuses to let her heart get in the way. As Brie spends time with their enigmatic leader, Finn, she finds it difficult to resist his allure. Brie is forced to make a loyalty decision while being caught between two potentially hazardous courts. with her heart as well.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Where do you think legends begin, if not from truth?”
“I can’t even tell someone to have a good day without sounding like I secretly wish they’d die.”
“I am not a pretty thing to be manipulated. I am darkness.”
“May you always have a star to wish on, Abriella, and a reason to believe.”
“Abriella, every star in that sky shines for you”
Natasha: I’m a young woman who respects facts and science. No chance, no fate, or hopes that will never materialize. I’m absolutely not the type of girl who falls in love with a cute boy she meets on a busy New York City street. Not when my family’s deportation to Jamaica is just twelve hours away. It won’t be my tale to fall in love with him.
Daniel: I’ve always done well in school and been a decent kid, going to live up to my parents’ high standards. The poet, never. perhaps the dreamer. But the moment I see her, I put everything else aside. I feel like fate has something even more remarkable in store for both of us because of Natasha.
The Cosmos: Our entire existence has led up to this one moment. We have a zillion potential futures. Which one will actually happen?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.”
“Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself.”
“We are capable of big lives. A big history. Why settle? Why choose the practical thing, the mundane thing? We are born to dream and make the things we dream about.”
“Sometimes your world shakes so hard, it’s difficult to imagine that everyone else isn’t feeling it too.”
“The thing about falling is you don’t have any control on your way down.”
When I entered the academy, everything in my life was altered. There is nothing good about this environment or the other students here. Here I stand among gods or demons, a mere mortal. I’m still unsure of which of these battling factions I connect to if any. The only thing I am aware of that links them is their enmity for me.
Jaxon Vega is another. lethal vampire with dark secrets who hasn’t felt anything in a century. However, there’s something about him that draws me in; brokenness in him that somehow matches my own. This might result in us all passing away. Jaxon closed himself apart for a reason, after all. Now that a monster is supposed to be sleeping, I’m wondering whether I was purposely sent here as the bait.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“He turns me inside out with a look, destroys me with a kiss.”
“There’s not much to be afraid of when you’ve already lost everything that matters.”
“I can see something in his eyes. Something powerful and terrible and all-consuming.”
“Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence.”
“I want him to look at me like it physically hurts him not to be touching me.”
Samantha Kingston, a prominent senior in high school, believes that February 12—also known as “Cupid Day”—should be one big celebration filled with valentines, roses, and other perks of being at the top of the social scale. And so it goes until that night when she perishes in a horrific tragedy.
She still awakens the following morning, though. Sam actually experiences her death seven times before realizing that, by making even the smallest adjustments, she might have more influence than she ever thought possible. Now starring Kian Lawley, Halston Sage, and Zoey Deutch, Before I Fall is a big-budget movie. The book was added to many state reading lists and named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, Barnes & Noble, The Daily Beast, NPR, and Amazon.com.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“So many things become beautiful when you really look.”
“A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.”
“It’s funny, isn’t it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.”
“Sometimes I’m afraid to go to sleep because of what I’m leaving behind.”
“Here’s another thing to remember: hope keeps you alive. Even when you’re dead, it’s the only thing that keeps you alive.”
Tessa McCaide possesses a special knack for getting into mischief. But a girl with visions finds it hard to deny what she sees. Fortunately, Tessa and her family are fleeing California and going in the opposite direction of the country, providing her the ideal chance to shed her reputation as “Freaky Tessa.”
Tessa, however, is unaware that kissing the wrong person in her new Texas town could get her into much more trouble than she ever anticipated. like being compelled to attend the werewolf boarding school St. Ailbe’s Academy.
Tessa can’t help but feel a growing connection to the enigmatic Dastien Laurent, even if the inappropriate guy did unintentionally convert her into one of “them” and condemn her to visit the strangest high school ever. Tessa finds that male turmoil and her newly discovered canine instincts could just be the least of her issues when vampires assault St. Alibe’s and her visions reveal an adversary in their midst.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Do you believe in love at first sight? Or should I tackle you again?”
“I took another bite of my ice cream as the girl tried to stop the fight. Ice cream and a fight? Best mall trip ever.”
“There was really way too much hotness going on back there.”
“Can we please drop the whole ‘school starts tomorrow’ talk? I’d like to live in denial for a little while longer.”
“I’d do anything for you, Tessa. I know you don’t realize that now, but you will.”
Nic Stone joins industry heavyweights Jason Reynolds and Walter Dean Myers as she bravely tackles American race relations in this astonishing debut. Nic Stone is raw, compelling, and absolutely real.
Justyce McAllister is the best in his class and destined for the Ivy League, but the policeman who just handcuffed him doesn’t care about either of those things. And despite moving away from his dangerous area, he still has to deal with the derision of his old friends and the jeers of his brand-new classmates. Justyce seeks guidance from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s teachings. But do they still hold up today? To learn more, he starts a notebook for Dr. King.
There comes the day when Justyce and his closest friend Manny are driving with their windows down and their music turned up extremely loud, infuriating a white off-duty police officer who is standing next to them. Flying words. There are gunshots. In the crosshairs are Justyce and Manny. In the media backlash, Justyce is the target of criticism.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You ever consider that maybe you not supposed to ‘fit’? People who make history rarely do.”
“People often learn more from getting an undeserved pass than they would from being punished.”
“You can’t change how other people think and act, but you’re in full control of you.”
“But before you say something “isn’t fair,” you should consider your starting point versus someone else’s.”
“What do I do when my very identity is being mocked by people who refuse to admit there’s a problem?”
“You ever consider that maybe you not supposed to ‘fit’? People who make history rarely do.”
Emma Saylor’s mother passed away when she was ten years old, and she has very few memories of her. She does, however, recall the tales her mother told her about the large lake that seemed to go on forever, with its icy waters and moss-covered trees at its margins.
With just Emma and her father left, life is wonderful despite being rather predictable. Until Emma receives a surprise invitation to spend the summer with her mother’s family, which includes her grandmother and distant cousins she hasn’t seen since she was a young child.
Emma discovers there are really two very distinct communities in North Lake when she gets there. While her father spent summers in the more affluent Lake North resort, her mother was raised in the working-class community of North Lake. Emma begins to feel more and more like she is split into two as she spends more time there. She is Emma in her father’s eyes. But she is Saylor to her new family, as her mother always called her.
Then there is Roo, the young kid who was once her very best buddy. She can progressively piece together her past with the aid of Roo, who holds the secret to her family’s past. It’s difficult to resist being enchanted by North Lake, and Saylor discovers that she too is falling under Roo’s spell. Saylor feels as though a completely new world is being available to her. But which half of her will prevail when it’s time to return home?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Life is big and huge and scary. But you have to go and take your part of it. There’s a reason the saying is ‘Seize the day,’ not ‘Wait for it to come along at some point.”
“You can make your life, or life can make you. Was it really that simple of a choice?”
“There is always the rest of the story, right? Even if you don’t know right now what it is.”
“No matter where you are, home or the strangest of places, everyone wants to look like they know where they’re going.”
“To summer, and to us.”
Teenage deaf Maya must go to a hearing for the first time after moving across the nation. She finds it difficult to fit in with the hearing culture, which is made even more challenging by the fact that some of her classmates, like Beau Watson, make an effort to learn ASL. Nothing, not even an unforeseen romance, will stop Maya from achieving her goals as she looks ahead to the future and concentrates on her goals after graduation. However, when hearing and deaf individuals in her life ask her to explain some aspects of her deaf identity, Maya stands up and refuses to accept the notion that being deaf is a disadvantage.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Just because you didn’t understand something didn’t make it any less significant.”
American author John Green has published the young-adult book ‘Turtles All the Way Down’. On October 10, 2017, Dutton Books released the book. This is Green’s sixth book overall and fifth book written alone.
Everything starts with a billionaire on the run and the prospect of a monetary prize. A longstanding friendship, the warmth of an unanticipated reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara are all topics covered in Turtles All the Way Down. Aza Holmes, a young lady navigating daily life within the pace with the fast spiral of her own thoughts, is at the center of the story. With shattering, unwavering clarity, John Green tells Aza’s story in his eagerly anticipated comeback.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Your now is not your forever.”
“True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter.”
“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”
“I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.”
“What I love about science is that as you learn, you don’t really get answers. You just get better questions.”
A tale of first love, family, and fanfiction as a young adult. Cath appreciates Simon Snow. Okay, Simon Snow is well-liked by everyone. But Cath’s life is spent being a fan, and she excels at it. When she and her twin, Wren, were little children, they immersed themselves in the Simon Snow series, which helped them cope with their mother’s separation.
Reading. Rereading. Simon Snow’s fandom activities include participating in online forums, creating fanfiction, and dressing up as the characters at film premieres. Cath can’t let go, even though her sister has largely grown away from fandom. She is unwilling to. Wren has informed Cath that she does not want to share a room with her in college. Cath is utterly alone and out of her comfort zone. She has a snarky roommate with a charming, always-present boyfriend, a professor of fiction writer who believes that fanfiction is the end of civilization, a handsome classmate who is only interested in talking about words, and she can’t quit fretting about her loving, frail, and never truly alone dad.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.”
“To really be a nerd, she’d decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real ones.”
“Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I’m a complete disaster.”
“Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.”
“You give away nice like it doesn’t cost you anything.”
Swimmable is Dante. Not Ari. Dante is intelligent and confident. Ari struggles with language and experiences self-doubt. Poetry and art engross Dante. Ari finds himself daydreaming about his older brother, who is imprisoned. Dante has light skin. Ari has significantly darker features. Dante seems to be the final person to dismantle the barriers that Ari has put up for himself because of his unrestricted outlook on life.
However, against all chances, Ari and Dante form a unique link when they first meet. This bond will educate them on the most crucial lessons of their life and help them determine the kinds of people they want to be. But there are significant obstacles on their path, and Ari and Dante can only overcome them by having faith in one another and the strength of their friendship.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.”
“Words were different when they lived inside of you.”
“To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.”
“Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing.”
“We all fight our own private wars.”
So when the pilot of his little propeller-driven plane had a heart attack, Brian is en route to Canada to see his estranged father. With only his clothes and the hatchet his mother bought him as a present before leaving, Brian is left trapped in the isolated Canadian countryside after being compelled to crash-land the aircraft in a lake.
In addition to being upset about his mother’s secret and his parents’ probable divorce, Brian is now utterly alone and forlorn. Brian fights to gather food and construct a home for himself when he is exhausted, afraid, and hungry. Since he has no prior experience in the woods, he must develop a new awareness level and tolerance as he faces the trials of each day. Is it okay to drink the water? Are the fruits he discovers toxic?
A porcupine invasion unexpectedly teaches Brian how to create a fire, and a severe tornado teaches him how to salvage goods from the submerged planes are just two examples of how Brian gradually learns to use misfortune to his advantage. Most importantly, Brian gets over his feelings of self-pity as he musters the strength to survive.
This captivating novel, which tells a tale of survival and transformation, has piqued the interest of many readers in exploring the wilderness.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience – waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.”
“And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.”
“That’s all it took to solve problems – just sense.”
“He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forget about him. And he had to keep hoping.”
“Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination–except that it was all reality.”