Jaya and Rasa: A Love Story by Sonia Patel In Hawaii, Jaya Mehta is a transgender outsider with depressive tendencies. The stunningly beautiful Rasa Santos thinks sex is her only power. Rasa meets Xander, who beats her, cuts her, and makes her prostitute herself. Will their love transcend and pull them forward or will they remain stuck, separate, in the chaos of their pasts?
Emergency Contact by Mary H. K. Choi After a chance encounter, Penny and Sam become each other’s emergency contacts and find themselves falling in love digitally, without the humiliating weirdness of having to see each other.
Always Forever Maybe by Anica Mrose Rissi A powerful YA debut, told with astonishing insight and wit, about the depths and boundaries of true friendship and obsessive teenage love–perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen, E. Lockhart, and Sara Zarr. When high school senior Betts meets Aiden at the candy store where she works, their connection is like a sugar rush […]
Rosie Girl by Julie Shepard After Rosie’s father dies, she is left with her abusive stepmother and turns to her best friend Mary for support, who helps her hire a private investigator when she determines that her biological mother is alive.
The Accidental Bad Girl by Maxine Kaplan Preparatory school senior Kendall finds more than her reputation in danger when her online identity is hacked, getting her involved with drug dealers, detectives, and others who are not who they appear to be.
Wild Bird by Wendelin Van Draanen When her behavior escalates out of control, fourteen-year-old Wren is taken away to a wilderness therapy camp where she is forced to develop new skills, including the courage to ask for help.
The Unfortunates by Kim Liggett Involved in a fatal accident, Grant Tavish is willing to face the consequences. But being a senator’s son means getting away with murder– despite the headlines of “affluenza”. During a cave excursion on the Appalachian trail Grant seizes the opportunity to take justice into his own hands by staging an accident and never coming back. When the cave system really collapses, he’s trapped miles beneath the surface […]
Scream All Night by Derek Milman Dario Heyward never wants to go back to Moldavia Studios, the iconic castle that served as the set, studio, and home to the cast and crew of dozens of cult classic B-horror movies. It’s been three years since Dario has even seen the place, after getting legally emancipated from his father, the infamous director […]
Girls Can’t Hit by T. S. Easton After not being allowed to take a boxing class at her school because she is a girl, Fleur deals with bullying and disapproval in her quest to set things right and ensure equal opportunity for all students.
Price of Duty by Todd Strasser A young man, injured and home from the war, is lauded as a hero. But he doesn’t feel very heroic in the face of all that he witnessed. Hailed as a hero, twenty-year-old Jake returns to his pro-military hometown and family injured physically and emotionally, unsure if he can return to active duty but uncomfortable with the alternative.
