I See London, I See France by Sarah Mlynowski

e-ARC, 336 pages Release Date: July 11, 2017 Published by: HarperTeen Read from: July 2-4, 2017 I See London, I see France, #1 Source: TxLA 2017 For fans of:  Adventure, Contemporary, Romance, Road Trippin, Realistic Fiction, Rom Coms, YA I see London, I see France I see Sydney’s underpants.      Nineteen-year-old Sydney has the perfect summer mapped out….

Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley

ARC, 267 pages Release Date: June 6, 2017 Published by: Alfred A.Knopf Books for Young Readers Read from: June 23-24, 2017 Stand-alone Source: Publisher For fans of:  Contemporary, Romance, Stand-alones, Sparkly Covers, Grief, Realistic Fiction, YA      Love lives between the lines.     Years ago, Rachel had a crush on Henry Jones. The day before she moved away,…

The Unlikelies by Carrie Firestone

ARC, 318 pages Release Date: June 6, 2017 Published by: Henry Holt & Co. Read from: June 17-20, 2017 Stand-alone Source: TxLA 2017 For fans of:  Action, Contemporary, Romance, Stand-alones, YA      One good deed will change everything.     Sadie is not excited for the summer before her senior year. It will be her first without her college-bound best…

Bad Romance by Heather Demetrios

ARC, 354 pages Release Date: June 13, 2017 Published by: Henry Holt & Co. Read from: June 11-17, 2017 Stand-alone Source: TxLA 2017 For fans of: Romance, Realistic Fiction, Contemporary, Dark, New Adult, Sparkly Covers, DEAR      Grace wants out. Out of her house, where her stepfather wields fear like a weapon and her mother makes her scrub imaginary dirt…

Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy

ARC, 3391 pages Release Date: May 9, 2017 Published by: Balzer + Bray Read from: June 1- 4, 2017 Stand-alone Source: TxLA  For fans of: Contemporary, Romance, Realistic Fiction, Coming of Age, LGBTQ- Bisexual, Own Voices, YA      Ramona was only five years old when Hurricane Katrina changed her life forever.     Since then, it’s been Ramona and her family…

The Idea of You by Robinne Lee

e-ARC, 384 pages Release Date: June 13, 2017 Published by: St. Martin’s Griffin Stand-alone Source: Publisher For fans of: Contemporary, Romance, Realistic Fiction, Adult, Take Me Away After Dark      When Solène Marchand, the thirty-nine-year-old owner of a prestigious art gallery in Los Angeles, takes her daughter, Isabelle, to meet her favorite boy band, she does so reluctantly…

When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

ARC, 374 pages Release Date: May 30, 2017  Published by: Simon Pulse Read from: May 21-May 26, 2017 Dimple & Rishi, #1 Source: TxLA  For fans of: Contemporary,Romance, DEAR, Realistic Fiction, Stand-alones, YA, LOL, Diversity, Own Voices, Realistic Fiction, Multiple POVs, Sparkly Covers      A laugh-out-loud, heartfelt YA romantic comedy, told in alternating perspectives, about two Indian-American teens whose…

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