Grades 9-12
This sweet YA romance also deals with tough topics such as eating disorders and cheating. Evie fleas to London to visit her dad when a video of her telling off her cheating ex-boyfriend goes viral. She promised herself that she’d swore off guys, but quickly meets and falls for Aiden, a kind, funny, busker whose music she kind of loves. Don’t miss the latest YA romance from Elizabeth Eulberg!
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Ages 18+
Theodora Scott is on her way to her fiancé Connor Dalton’s wealthy family’s retreat in the woods, Idlewood. It was a whirlwind romance, and the two were engaged within six months of dating.
The thing is, Theo has been getting threatening texts on her phone from an unknown number, warning her to stay away from Connor Dalton. But why? She chooses to ignore them. What she can’t ignore? The snowy footprints she sees outside the cabin window, or the strange sense of familiarity she has that she’s been to Idlewood before. The clincher? She finds a photo of herself as a child, taken right here, at Idlewood.
Theo has almost no memories of herself as a small child, but after seeing the photo, she begins to remember, and piece things together. Things she’s sure she’d rather forget.
Marshall takes readers on a chilling, wild ride, as family secrets unfold in a way they’ll never imagine possible.
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Ages 18+
Maddy Banks is a perfectly normal 19-year-old girl who is enjoying her life as a NYU college student. Although, of course she’s stressed out, between having to balance her heavy course-load, her friends, and the recent breakup with her boyfriend. But that’s normal, right?
It all seems to be, until she feels unbelievably low. So low that she goes to the school clinic and is prescribed an anti-depressant. It makes her feel better. So much better in fact, that she feels incredible, a high she’s never felt before. This leads her to do some dangerous stuff that all culminates in the diagnosis of bipolar disorder. As Maddy begins to navigate her “new normal,” author Genova takes readers on the highs and lows of the world of bipolar depression in a a very real, but gentle way.
I appreciated the honesty shown of how Maddy deals with life after her diagnosis, and related a lot to it as well, after having been dealing with with my own mental health issues since I was about Maddy’s age. Lisa Genova is in a lane of her own. Five well-deserved stars!
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Grades 9 – 12
Sydney Ciara Warren is excited to start her first year of college, even though her high school bestie will be attending a different university. She knows she’ll have to make new friends, but she’s hoping her interest in writing and fashion will ultimately help her with that, even if she has no idea what she wants to do with her life just yet. Sydney Ciara finds comfort in blogging about her life, and meets someone online who calls themself “X,” quickly catching feelings. This story is told through blog posts, tweets, emails and more, and I love a good multimedia novel!
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Ages 18+
Dr. Richmond Dougherty is a pediatric surgeon who has recently fallen down the stairs to his death…or was he pushed? His neighbors are accusing his second wife, Mrs. Addison Daugherty. She is young and a suddenly very widow, as their marriage only lasted a little over 3 months.
Wife number one is Kathryn, Richmond’s high school sweetheart, with whom he had two children. So, the question is: who done it’?
Giving off The Last Mrs. Parrish vibes, this novel was easy to go down and one I won’t soon forget!
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Ages 18+
Classical music prodigy Curtis Wilson has it all figured out after making it out of inner city DC. He’s worked his way through Juilliard and is now performing a solo with the New York Philharmonic on his beloved cello.
However, his father, Zippy, and Zippy’s long time girlfriend Larissa, who has been a mother figure to Curtis since he was small, have other ideas. Zippy is a midlevel drug dealer and gets into it with the drug kingpin, leaving the whole family no choice but to enter witness protection and to upend their entire lives. Curtis is determined to get them out of this mess, but can he do it before it’s too late? I finished Slocumb’s 600 page novel in 3 days because it was so propulsive and I couldn’t put it down. I’ll read anything he writes!
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Ages 18+
Evans’ latest Christmas romance follows Leigh Beth Stilton, a woman who is single by choice, and who has never liked the holidays. She grew up in an unstable home, and escaped an abusive marriage, and has had enough.
She doesn’t care about Christmas, but she does care about her favorite author, J.D. Harper, a man whose books spoke to her long ago when she happened upon one of them in a bookstore years ago. Now she finally has a chance to attend one of his signings and meet him in person.
Richard Paul Evans’ books tug at your heartstrings, and this one is no different. I absolutely adored this book!
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Ages 18+
The most recent book in the Alex Cross series, The House of Cross follows Alex as he hunts down a serial killer after America’s best attorneys. During his investigation, however, Alex’s wife Bree and his best friend Sampson go missing, and up the anti significantly. Will he solve his case and be able to save his wife and friend?
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Grades 9-12
This sapphic holiday romance follows teen actor Arden James and her former best friend Caroline Beckett as they find their way back to each other for a purely business relationship.
Arden is up for a huge role with a picky director who wants to prove that she’s a small-town girl, and Caroline will do anything to beef up her would-be journalist portfolio to get into Columbia. So, the two agree to a fake-dating scenario, where Caroline gets to write the article about Arden for Cosmo Magazine. Win-win, right?
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Ages 18+
Tanner Hughes is about to embark on his next tour as an army ranger, but stops in Asheboro, North Carolina first, where he meets Kaitlyn Cooper. Kaitlyn is a doctor and a single mom to a teen girl and a young boy.
Meanwhile, Kaitlyn’s 83-year-old neighbor Jasper lives alone with only his dog for company.
Sparks takes readers on a journey that intertwines these character’s lives in a way that we won’t soon forget.
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Michelle’s Bookish Life 