I’m a former Wall Street Journal reporter who went on to write non-fiction books as well as drama TV. I also co-founded a nonprofit, Hope in a Suitcase, which provides clothing and comfort items to kids entering the foster care system in Los Angeles. When I’m not writing, I’m fangirling at a soccer game, nagging my kids to do their dishes, or burning the dessert.
Keep Your Frenemies Close takes place over a weekend community service/extra school credit trip Callie is required to take in order to boost her history grade.
To complicate things, she's thrown together with Talya, her boyfriend’s ex, and the last person she wants to bond with over a weekend. The bright spot is a new guy, Austin, who flirts with them both and stirs up even more trouble between the two. Callie and Talya reveal secrets to each other, find common ground, become confidantes, and see value in the work they're doing—until Austin complicates everything.
This book had me at the outset with an old, magical manuscript that stirs up the otherworldly beings and binds a witch and a vampire together—I love that witches get their due here! Descended from a long line of witches, Diana Bishop is the only one who can break the spell, despite her resistance to the task. Harkness made her writing debut with this book, and it has all the magic, strong female characters, and beautiful prose to keep me enthralled. Great show too!
In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont.
I’d follow John Green down any literary road he paves with his wonderful characters and heart-tugging emotions. Oh, Pudge, and his quirky, sexy boarding schoolmate, Alaska—this couple is sweet, tender, raw, lovely. I won’t ruin the plot but let’s just say that once Alaska draws Pudge into “the great perhaps,” his life is changed forever. This one gets special love because it’s been banned by some libraries—I’m stubborn like that. Great mini-series as well.
The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and The Fault in Our Stars
Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist • A New York Times Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller • NPR’s Top Ten Best-Ever Teen Novels • TIME magazine’s 100 Best Young Adult Novels of All Time • A PBS Great American Read Selection • Millions of copies sold!
First drink. First prank. First friend. First love.
Last words.
Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words—and tired of his safe life…
There’s a reason why this book (and the other 2 in the series) is still a must-read classic, and it’s Anne (who always reminds people of the E at the end of her name). At age eleven, she’s taken in by siblings who were hoping for a boy to help on their fram, but in short order, Anne bewitches the entire town with her spirit, her imagination, and her misadventures. I love that she charges through life with exuberance and her sights on college, only to turn down a scholarship so she can stay in Avonlea when a tragedy befalls her adoptive family. Anne is the kind of character who inspires young women, so it’s no surprise she inspired an excellent Canadian TV series, Anne with an E.
Anne of Green Gables is the classic children's book by L M Montgomery, the inspiration for the Netflix Original series Anne with an E. Watch it now!
Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are in for a big surprise. They are waiting for an orphan boy to help with the work at Green Gables - but a skinny, red-haired girl turns up instead. Feisty and full of spirit, Anne Shirley charms her way into the Cuthberts' affection with her vivid imagination and constant chatter. It's not long before Anne finds herself in trouble, but soon it becomes impossible for the Cuthberts to…
Asher’s book takes on heavy themes of suicide, bullying, and mental health in such a magnetic way that the book is impossible to put down, impossible to forget. After Hannah Baker’s death, her friends are left with a series of tapes detailing the role each played in her decision to end her life. Yes, it’s heavy, but I like it for its examining of suicide and toxic friendships on a deeper level with questions about agency and blame. The TV series was equally stunning.
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Featuring cover art from the Netflix original series, with exclusive interviews and photos inside! "Eerie, beautiful, and devastating." --Chicago Tribune "A stealthy hit with staying power. . . . thriller-like pacing." --The New York Times "Thirteen Reasons Why will leave you with chills long after you have finished reading." --Amber Gibson, NPR's "All Things Considered"
You can't stop the future. You can't rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play. Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his…
This book stirred up all my Breakfast Club feels with a little Agatha Christie on the side. It’s a mystery revolving around five high schoolers locked in detention, one murder, and a whole host of secrets. McManus is a master of plot twists and great characters with secrets that keep on coming. The best part is that a clever reader can solve the mystery and feel like an ace detective.
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Five students go to detention. Only four leave alive.
Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule.
Sports star Cooper only knows what he's doing in the baseball diamond.
Bad boy Nate is one misstep away from a life of crime.
Prom queen Addy is holding together the cracks in her perfect life.
And outsider Simon, creator of the notorious gossip app at Bayview High, won't ever talk about any of them again.…
Charley Byrne isn’t really living. She hunkers down in her apartment above the bookstore she manages, until quirky activist Xander Wallace lures her out of social exile with the prospect of friendship and romance. Charley joins Xander’s circle of diverse friends and thrives, even leaving her comfort zone to join protests in a city struggling with social justice ills.
But the new friendships bring back-to-back betrayals that threaten the bookstore—Charley’s haven—and propel her into a dangerous depression, in a stark reminder that friendship has the power to destroy as well as save lives. Can her friends save the store? And Charley?
"A beautifully crafted story of friendship and self-discovery set amidst the harsh realities of today's world. Superb!" -Eileen O'Finlan, author of Erin's Children
Charley Byrne isn't really living. At age 29, she hunkers down in her apartment above the bookstore she manages, afraid of a 7-year curse. Then quirky activist Xander Wallace lures her out of social exile with the prospect of friendship and romance. Charley joins Xander's circle of friends diverse in their heritage, race, gender and sexual orientation. She thrives, even leaving her comfort zone to join protests in a city struggling with social justice ills.
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