Rachel Lynn Solomon

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

A wedding harpist disillusioned with love and a hopeless romantic cater-waiter flirt and fight their way through a summer of weddings in this effervescent romantic comedy from the acclaimed author of Today Tonight Tomorrow. Quinn Berkowitz and Tarek Mansour’s families have been in business together for years: Quinn’s parents are wedding planners, and Tarek’s own a catering company. At the end of last summer, Quinn confessed her crush on him in the form of a rambling email—and then he left for college without a response. Quinn has been dreading seeing him again almost as much as she dreads another summer playing the harp for her parents’ weddings. When he shows up at the first wedding of the summer, looking cuter than ever after a year apart, they clash immediately. Tarek’s always loved the grand gestures in weddings—the flashier, the better—while Quinn can’t see them as anything but fake. Even as they can’t seem to have one civil conversation, Quinn’s thrown together with Tarek wedding after wedding, from performing a daring cake rescue to filling in for a missing bridesmaid and groomsman. Quinn can’t deny her feelings for him are still there, especially after she learns the truth about his silence, opens up about her own fears, and begins learning the art of harp-making from an enigmatic teacher. Maybe love isn’t the enemy after all—and maybe allowing herself to fall is the most honest thing Quinn’s ever done.

We Can't Keep Meeting Like This

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Ohio

Ella is nearly invisible at Willing School, but while seriously crushing on her French tutor--the very visible Alex Bainbridge--her French lessons suddenly become even more interesting. By the author of Falling in Love with English Boys. Original.

The Fine Art of Truth or Dare

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Nora Roberts

This book has some very minor lines in the spine as shown in the picture. Otherwise it is in excellent condition.

Wisconsin

Unfinished Business and Local Hero

The thrill of first loves, the hope of second chances… With these two classic stories #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Nora Roberts evokes love's most beautiful melodies. Unfinished Business Vanessa Sexton used to know what she wanted…glamour, fame and applause. At sixteen, answers were simple and dreams were cheap. But at twenty-eight nothing is easy. Not even going home. She misses her mother, but she can't even say the word mom. She wants peace and space to figure out the future, but rational thought is impossible when she's around Brady Tucker, her first love—her only love. Everyone wants a piece of her, but how can Vanessa give herself away when she's not even sure who she is anymore? Local Hero Hester Wallace is proud of her independence. She only needs one man in her life—her nine-year-old son, Radley. But when Rad starts idolizing their neighbor Mitch Dempsey, Hester begins to wonder if she's been cheating her son out of a male role model he desperately needs. Hester would do anything for Rad, but inviting Mitch into their lives is dangerous. Because she might start to rely on Mitch—on his comfort, on his humor, on his passion. Or worse, she might fall in love with him.

Perfect Harmony

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Mississippi

A Shelter Bay Novel 

The Homecoming 

Michigan

When Mallory discovers that her boyfriend, Jeremy, is cheating on her with an online girlfriend, she swears off boys. She also swears off modern technology. Inspired by a list of goals her grandmother made in 1962, Mallory decides to "go vintage" and return to a simpler time (when boyfriends couldn't cheat on you online). She sets out to complete grandma's list: run for pep club secretary, host a dinner party, sew a homecoming dress, find a steady, do something dangerous. But the list is trickier than it looks. And obviously finding a steady is out . . . no matter how good Oliver (Jeremy's cousin) smells. But with the help of her sister, she'll get it done. Somehow.

Going Vintage

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Debbie Mason

Maryland

A Highland Falls Novel

USA Today bestselling author Debbie Mason delivers a touching romance where one woman gets a second chance with her first love.



True love deserves a second chance.



For family and marriage therapist Brianna MacLeod, moving back home to Highland Falls after a disastrous divorce feels downright embarrassing. Bri blames herself for missing the red flags in her relationship and worries she's no longer qualified to do the job she loves. But helping others is second nature to Bri, and she soon finds herself counseling her roommate and her neighbor's daughter. Bri just wasn't expecting them to reunite her with her first love . . .



Caleb Scott knows his failed marriage has been tough on his stepdaughter, so he's grateful she's found someone to confide in . . . even if it's Bri MacLeod. Seeing Bri brings up feelings he'd thought were long buried. He knows it's not the right time for either of them to be rekindling a relationship, but being with Bri feels right--like coming home. He'll just have to convince her that risking her heart again might give them exactly what they both need . . . a second chance.

At Home on Marigold Lane

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#paperback #youngadultfiction #firstlove #mistakes 

Minnesota

After a reckless night, the one person Rain has spent her life protecting may be the only one who can save her Rain has taken care of Ethan all their lives. Before she even knew what autism meant, she was her twin brother's connection to the world around him. Each day with Ethan is unvarying and predictable, until one night when her world is turned upside down by a mistake she can't take back. As her new romance with her longtime crush and her carefully constructed life begin to unravel, Rain discovers that the fragile brother she's always protected has grown into a young man who no longer needs her. And, for the first time, she discovers just how much she needs him...

Rules of Rain

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

West Virginia

Starry Night 

Patti Callahan Henry

Mild wear on cover. See photos. Otherwise like new. 

Amy Reynolds is stunned when her first, great love suddenly reappears. A happily married mother of two, she wants nothing to do with him. But then-needing to know why he was ripped from her life without explanation-Amy becomes obsessed with the idea that maybe they really were meant to be together...

Losing the Moon

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Monica Wood

New York

From theacclaimedauthor ofWhen We Were the Kennedysand Any Bitter Thing, the incandescent story of a 104-year-old woman and the sweet, strangeyoung boyassigned to help her around the house a friendship that touches each member of the boy's unmoored family"

The One-In-a-Million Boy

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Kate Angell

Virginia

Will a first love get a second chance?


Zane Cates has fallen in love twice-once with flying, and once with Tori Rollins, the girl who stole his heart in high school. For a brief, shining moment, their future looked bright. Then the offer of a place at the Air Force Academy got between Zane and his beautiful young wife, and he found his marriage over as abruptly as a wave washing back to sea. After taking comfort in the wide open skies, he's ready to return to the sunlit beach town of Barefoot William-and the woman he never wanted to leave behind. Starting over with Tori is the plan-if only his stubborn ex will have him . . .

A vagabond childhood left Tori shy and withdrawn, but after her family arrived in the pretty resort town, she made the first real friend she ever had-Zane. Opening up to him was a risk she didn't regret taking, but she never looked back once she decided to end their brief marriage. Seeing him again now is a startling shock-and an irresistible temptation. Can she let him back into her life-and finally find joy in their love?
Praise for Kate Angell and her novels

"Grab a beach chair, sunscreen, and a Kate Angell book for a great summer read!"
-Roxanne St. Claire, New York Times bestselling author

"Fast-paced. Fun characters."
-Lori Foster, New York Times bestselling author

No Kissing under the Boardwalk

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Iowa

Set against the dreamlike landscape of Los Angeles, Juliana Romano's expressive debut is an absorbing and poignant story about first love, first loss, and the friends that carry us through it all.


Lima and Hailey have always been best friends- Lima shy and sensitive; Hailey funny and free-spirited. But now, Hailey is only interested in partying with the popular kids and pursuing Nate, her disinterested crush. As the two girls drift apart, Lima and Nate grow closer. And before Lima knows what she's feeling, she and Nate do something irreversible. Something that would hurt Hailey . . . if she knew it happened.

Lima thinks she's saving her friendship by lying, but she's only buying time. As the secrets stack up, Lima is forced to make a choice between her best friend forever, and the boy who was never meant to be hers.
Set against the dreamlike landscape of Los Angeles, Juliana Romano's expressive debut is an absorbing and poignant story about first love, first loss, and the friends that carry us through it all.


First There Was Forever

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The winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction traces the uneasy coming-of-age of thirteen-year-old Katie, the new misfit in her Missouri town, where she lives with her callous father. Reprint.

Joy School

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#hardcover #romance #movie #beach #firstlove #unforgettable 

Utah

Her teenage life turned upside-down by her parents' divorce and her father's relocation out of state, Ronnie Miller remains bitter three years later when her mother urges her to spend a summer with her father, a concert pianist who is quietly immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. By the best-selling author of The Lucky One. Movie tie-in.

The Last Song

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Robyn Schneider

California

Robyn Schneider, author of Extraordinary Means and The Beginning of Everything, delivers a sharply funny, romantic girl-meets-boy novel with a twist: boy-also-meets-girl’s-ghost-brother. When one girl’s best friend is her dead brother’s ghost, romance can be tricky. Perfect for fans of John Green and Nicola Yoon. Rose Asher believes in ghosts. She should, since she has one for a best friend: Logan, her annoying, Netflix-addicted brother, who is forever stuck at fifteen. But Rose is growing up, and when an old friend moves back to Laguna Canyon and appears in her drama class, things get complicated. Jamie Aldridge is charming, confident, and a painful reminder of the life Rose has been missing out on since her brother’s death. She watches as Jamie easily rejoins their former friends—a group of magnificently silly theater nerds—while avoiding her so intensely that it must be deliberate. Yet when the two of them unexpectedly cross paths, Rose learns that Jamie has a secret of his own, one that changes everything. Rose finds herself drawn back into her old life—and to Jamie. But she quickly starts to suspect that he isn’t telling her the whole truth. All Rose knows is that it’s becoming harder to choose between the boy who makes her feel alive and the brother she isn’t ready to lose.

Invisible Ghosts

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James Patterson

Emily Raymond

Axi Moore is a "good girl": She studies hard, stays out of the spotlight, and doesn't tell anyone that what she really wants is to run away from it all. The only person she can tell is her best friend, Robinson--who she also happens to be madly in love with. When Axi impulsively invites Robinson to come with her on an unplanned cross-country road trip, she breaks the rules for the first time in her life. But the adventure quickly turns from carefree to out-of-control... A remarkably moving tale with its origins in James Patterson's own past, First Love is testament to the power of first love--and how it can change the rest of your life.

First Love

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Pennsylvania

Princess Leonie Kolburg, aged nineteen and heir to a faded European spaceship, enters the engagement season hoping only to save her family from financial ruin, but is soon falling for her first, rejected love.

The Stars We Steal

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Krystal Sutherland

"When high school senior Henry Page meets Grace Town, he finally experiences the ups and downs of first love"--

Our Chemical Hearts

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Kansas

Oregon

A Novel

Being consummate fans of the Simon Snow series helped Cath and her twin sister, Wren, cope as little girls whose mother left them, but now, as they start college but not as roommates, Cath fears she is unready to live without Wren holding her hand--and without her passion for Snow.

Fangirl

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#paperback #fiction #bookstofilm #classic #comingofage #firstlove #movie #writer 

Illinois

Movie Tie-In Edition

The 1934 journal of seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain reveals her perspective on six stormy months in the eccentric and poverty-stricken life of her family in a ruined Suffolk castle, ending with the revelation that Cassandra is deeply in love. Reissue. (A Samuel Goldwyn Films production, directed by Tim Fywell, starring Henry Thomas) (General Fiction)

I Capture the Castle

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#paperback #fiction #romance #chicklit #womensfiction #adultfiction #firstlove #secondchances #relationships #friendship 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Heart-Wrenching Story about First Loves and Second Chances

From the USA Today bestselling author of The Story of Us and Fisher's Light comes a new, standalone novel - a heartwrenching story about second chances that will make you fall in love all over again.

Five years. I would've stayed away longer if I hadn't received the letter. Not a day has gone by that I haven't thought about her, haven't missed her smile, haven't wished that things were different.
The last time I saw my two best friends, I vowed to not stand in the way of their happiness, even if that meant I couldn't be a part of their lives. Cameron James and her emerald-green eyes were too much of a temptation and I couldn't stay and watch them together. Cameron deserved better than me. She deserved him.
But now that I am back, things are different. I'm not going to stand by and watch the woman I've always loved slip away again. I'm done living my life with regrets and I'm ready to tell her the truth. And I'll do whatever it takes to show her that I always wished she was mine.

Wish You Were Mine

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Gae Polisner

Missouri

"Jack Kerouac is Dead to Me is an absolutely real, raw and emotional read, and it's a book that touched my heart with every page." - Katie McGarry, critically acclaimed author of Only a Breath Apart Fifteen-year-old JL Markham’s life used to be filled with carnival nights and hot summer days spent giggling with her forever best friend Aubrey about their families and boys. Together, they were unstoppable. But they aren’t the friends they once were. With JL’s father gone on long term business, and her mother struggling with her mental illness, JL takes solace in the tropical butterflies she raises, and in her new, older boyfriend, Max Gordon. Max may be rough on the outside, but he has the soul of a poet (something Aubrey will never understand). Only, Max is about to graduate, and he's going to hit the road - with or without JL. JL can't bear being left behind again. But what if devoting herself to Max not only means betraying her parents, but permanently losing the love of her best friend? What becomes of loyalty, when no one is loyal to you? Gae Polisner’s Jack Kerouac is Dead to Me is a story about the fragility of female friendship, of falling in love and wondering if you are ready for more, and of the glimmers of hope we find by taking stock in ourselves.

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