Review: A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard

Steffi Brons is not the kind of girl most people notice. She suffered from selective mutism for years and tends to fade into the background. When Rhys Gold, a handsome deaf student with no idea how vocally silent she is, comes into her life Steffi has a way to communicate with him that doesn’t rely …

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(Review): Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven

Holding Up the Universe is the story of a boy who can’t recognise anyone and a girl who everyone knows by reputation. Jack Masselin suffers from undiagnosed prosopagnosia, a condition which causes him to be unable to identify anyone – even his own family. Trying not to give anyone an excuse to realise he’s different, …

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(The Bachelor in Novel form): Love Elimination by Sarah Gates

When one of the contestants drops out just before shooting begins for Love Elimination, the next hottest dating show, Anna finds herself in an interesting situation. Her producer sister needs the perfect girl next door for the show and is willing to offer Anna the one thing she needs – money to start up her …

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Happy People Read and Drink Coffee by Agnes Martin-Lugand

Life was good for Diane. She had a thriving literary cafe with a business partner she loved and a family she adored. But when her husband and daughter die tragically, a part of Diane died with them. After a year of closing herself up in her house and refusing to go back to her former life, …

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Book Review: First & Then by Emma Mills

First & Then is a story about Devon Tennyson – an only child about to start her senior year of high school and no plan at all for the future. She’s content having unrequited love for her best friend and coasting though school being remarkably unremarkable. But then her cousin Foster comes to live with her …

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Never Always Sometimes by Adi Alsaid

In an effort to avoid being just another cliche, Dave and Julia make a list before starting high school of ten things they will never do. They won’t be defined by where they eat lunch. You will never see either one of them at a drunken party and so on. Fast forward to senior year where …

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(Flowers from the Heart): The Flower Arrangement by Elle Griffin

Every since she was a little girl, Lara has believed in the healing power of flowers. Now as an adult Lara has her own florist shop and has the uncanny knack of knowing just which floral arrangement each of her customers needs even when they don’t know it themselves. The Flower Arrangement is a delightful …

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Book Review: Until the End by Abbi Glines

If you are a fan of Abbi Glines’ Sea Breeze series, Until the End is a book not to be missed. Starting with the story of how Sea Breeze favourites Trisha and Rock fell in love, Until the End goes on to conclude the series perfectly with epilogues from all the previous novels in the …

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(Denial: Not only a River): A Small Madness by Dianne Touchell

Rose is in love. She’s been dating Michael for months and when they decide to take their relationship to the next level (ie: sex), she feels right about it. Things heat up, birth control is forgotten about but that doesn’t matter because they are in love and girls don’t get pregnant their first time, do …

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(What Happened Next?): Where She Went by Gayle Forman

Adam and Mia seemed like the perfect couple in If I Stay. So what went wrong? Where She Went told from Adam’s point of view a few years after Mia opened her eyes at the end of the first book. She stayed – but not with him. Now Adam is a famous musician complete with paparazzi …

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