My True Love Gave to Me edited by Stephanie Perkins

UK Hardcover, 355 pages Release Date: October 14, 2014 Published by: Macmillian’s Children’s Books Anthology Source: Bought For fans of: Romance, Contemporary, Chick-lit, Sparkly Covers, Diversity, GLBTQ, Christmas If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you’re going to fall in love…

Swoon Thursday: Fan Art Edition!

Swoon Thursday is a weekly event hosted by YA Bound.  Here’s what you do: From the book you’re currently reading, or one you just finished, tell me what made you swoon. What got your heart pounding, your skin tingling, and your stomach fluttering. Shout it out on twitter with the hashtag #YABound, post it here in…

Fan Art by Sarah Tregay

ARC, 355 pages Release Date: June 17, 2014 Published by: Katherine Tegen Books Stand-alone Source: Around the World ARC Tours For fans of: Contemporary, GLBTQ, Romance, Realistic Fiction, Sparkly Covers, YA When the picture tells the story…      Senior year is almost over, and Jamie Peterson has a big problem. Not college—that’s all set….

Great by Sara Benincasa

ARC, 263 pages Release Date: April 8, 2014 Published by: Balzer + Bray Stand-alone Source: Around the World ARC Tours For fans of: Retellings, Chick-lit, LGBTQ, Cntemporary      In Sara Benincasa’s contemporary retelling of The Great Gatsby, a teenage girl becomes entangled in the drama of a Hamptons social circle, only to be implicated…

Something Real by Heather Demetrios

Hardcover, 404 pages Release Date: February 4, 2014 Published by: Henry Holt & Co. (BYR) Stand-alone Source: Own For fans of: Contemporary, Hot Literary Guys, GLBTQ, Romance, Realistic Fiction, Sparkly Covers, YA      Seventeen-year-old Bonnie™ Baker has grown up on TV—she and her twelve siblings are the stars of one-time hit reality show Baker’s…

Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan

Nook Book, 208 pages Release Date: August 27, 2013 Published by: Knopf Books for Young Readers Stand-alone Source: Own For fans of: GLBTQ, Sparkly Covers, Contemporary Romance, Realistic Fiction, YA          New York Times bestselling author David Levithan tells the based-on-true-events story of Harry and Craig, two 17-year-olds who are about to take…

My Life After Now by Jessica Verdi

Nook Book, 219 pages Release Date: April 2, 2013 Published by: Sourcebooks Fire Stand-alone For fans of: Miranda Kenneally, Chick-lit, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, GLBT, Sparkly Covers Lucy just had the worst week ever. Seriously, mega bad. And suddenly, it’s all too much—she wants out. Out of her house, out of her head, out of her…

Crash by Lisa McMann

Hardcover, 233 pages Read: January 2013 Release Date: January 8, 2013 Published By: Simon Pulse Visions, #1 Source: Own For fans of: Nice Covers, GLBT, Supernatural, YA If what you see is what you get, Jules is in serious trouble. The suspenseful first of four books from the New York Timesbestselling author of the Wake trilogy.    …

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