Heartbreak and HappinessFirst loves to lost loves, and everything in between. |
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 | April Lindner |
| Jane |
| In this contemporary retelling of “Jane Eyre,“ an orphaned nanny becomes entranced with her magnetic and brooding employer, a rock star with a torturous secret from his past. |
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 | Daniel Handler |
| Why We Broke Up |
| Min and Ed are breaking up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. A box full of every item collected over the course of their giddy, intimate, heartbreaking relationship. |
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 | Deb Caletti |
| Stay |
| Clara’s relationship with Christian is intense from the start, and like nothing she’s ever experienced before. But what starts as devotion quickly becomes obsession. |
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 | E. Lockhart |
| The Boyfriend List: (15 guys, 11 shrink appointments, 4 ceramic frogs and me, Ruby Oliver) |
| A Seattle fifteen-year-old explains some of the reasons for her recent panic attacks, including breaking up with her boyfriend, losing all her girlfriends, and so much more. |
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 | Eric Luper |
| Seth Baumgartner’s Love Manifesto |
| After his girlfriend breaks up with him and he sees his father out with another woman, high school senior Seth Baumgartner launches a podcast in which he explores the mysteries of love. |
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 | Jennifer E. Smith |
| The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight |
| Hadley and Oliver fall in love on the flight from New York to London, but after a cinematic kiss they lose track of each other at the airport until fate brings them back together. |
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 | Jenny Han |
| We’ll always have summer |
| The summer after her first year of college, Isobel “Belly“ Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved. |
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 | Jerry Spinelli |
| Stargirl |
| In this story about the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever. |
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 | John Green |
| The Fault in Our Stars |
| Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life. |
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 | M.E. Rabb |
| Cures for Heartbreak |
| As she navigates adolescence, ninth-grader Mia must deal with her mother’s recent death and her father’s illness while she searches for friendship and love in the world around her. |
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 | Pete Hautman |
| The Big Crunch |
| This is a love story for people not particularly biased toward romance. But it is romantic, in the same way that truth can be romantic and uncertainty can be the biggest certainty of all. |
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 | Sarah Dessen |
| Along for the Ride |
| When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, all the trauma of her parents’ divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and dating. |
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