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Your Letter by Hyeon A. Cho
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsSori is a special young girl - kind, caring and principled well beyond her years. Unfortunately, these are NOT the personality traits generally celebrated in middle school – especially Sori’s, where she’s bullied mercilessly for defending the defenseless until she herself becomes a target... -
Dengeki Daisy, Vol. 2 by Kyousuke Motomi
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsTeru, siswi SMA miskin yang harus menjalani hari-harinya sebagai pembantu Kurosaki, pengurus sekolah yang agak preman. Tapi sebenarnya Kurosaki adalah Daisy, sosok misterius yang telah menjadi penopang hidup Teru yang sebatang kara. Teru yang tidak mengetahui kebenaran itu, perlahan mulai menyukai Kurosaki... -
電撃デイジー 6 by Kyousuke Motomi, 最富 キョウスケ
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 35 ratings“No matter what happens, I’ll protect you.”Teru, a poor and kind girl, recently lost her older brother, her only remaining relative. Before he died he gave her a cell phone connecting her to a person he said would support her if ever he were unable to. As time passes she is cheered on by text messages sent from this enigmatic person, known only as DAISY... -
Dengeki Daisy, Vol. 3 by Kyousuke Motomi
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsHubungan Teru dan Kurosaki belakangan ini semakin dekat. Saat pergi liburan, Teru membelikan Daisy sebuah kotak musik sebagai oleh-oleh. Dan kotak musik itu akhirnya sampai ke tangan Daisy... alias Kurosaki. Tidak disangka kotak musik itulah yang membongkar semuanya... -
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電撃デイジー5 by Kyousuke Motomi, 最富 キョウスケ
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 35 ratings泣けて笑えてキュン♥となる!! 激売れラブストーリー!! 「何があっても君を守ってあげる――」 天涯孤独な照(てる)の携帯に届く、謎の人“DAISY(デイジー)”からのメール。彼の正体は実は……!?... -
Dengeki Daisy, Vol. 4 by Kyousuke Motomi
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsTeru, a poor and kind girl, recently lost her older brother, her only remaining relative. Before he died, he gave her a cell phone connecting her to a person he said would support her if ever he were unable to. As time passes she is cheered on by text messages sent from this enigmatic person, known only as DAISY... -
Dengeki Daisy, Vol. 07 by Kyousuke Motomi
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsA New York Times’ bestseller with a romantic storyline that is unique, funny and touching.After orphan Teru Kurebayashi loses her beloved older brother, she finds solace in the messages she exchanges with DAISY, an enigmatic figure who can only be reached through the cell phone her brother left her... -
Dengeki Daisy 09 by Kyousuke Motomi
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsReads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T+.Can a mysterious DAISY protect her?After orphan Teru Kurebayashi loses her beloved older brother, she finds solace in the messages she exchanges with DAISY, an enigmatic figure who can only be reached through the cell phone her brother left her... -
Dengeki Daisy, Vol. 08 by Kyousuke Motomi
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsA New York Times’ bestseller with a romantic storyline that is unique, funny and touching.After orphan Teru Kurebayashi loses her beloved older brother, she finds solace in the messages she exchanges with DAISY, an enigmatic figure who can only be reached through the cell phone her brother left her... -
Dengeki Daisy, Vol. 02 by Kyousuke Motomi
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsReads R to L (Japanese Style), for T+ audiences. When Teru’s home gets burglarized, she ends up staying at Kurosaki’s apartment... -
Dengeki Daisy, Vol. 04 by Kyousuke Motomi
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAfter orphan Teru Kurebayashi loses her beloved older brother, she finds solace in the messages she exchanges with DAISY, an enigmatic figure who can only be reached through the cell phone her brother left her... -
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Dengeki Daisy, Vol. 16 by Kyousuke Motomi
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsA huge explosion goes off on the uninhabited island that Kurosaki, Teru and Akira are on! What is the fate of these three, and what does their future hold? The Dengeki Daisy series comes to a conclusion, followed by bonus material, two special chapters, and the author’s debut manga, “No-Good...Categorized as:
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My Love Mix-Up!, Vol. 2 by Wataru Hinekure
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsAoki has a crush on Ida, a boy in his class... -
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Dengeki Daisy, Vol. 1 by Kyousuke Motomi
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 53 ratings"Apapun yang terjadi, aku akan selalu melindungimu."Itu bunyi email yang dikirimkan sosok misterius bernama Daisy untuk Teru. Setelah kematian kakaknya, hanya email dari Daisy-lah yang menjadi pelipur hati Teru. Karena suatu kejadian, ia terpaksa harus bekerja dengan Kurosaki, pengurus sekolah yang agak preman... -
Megumi & Tsugumi, Vol. 2 by Mitsuru Si
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA tough-guy omega who believes he can control his heats through sheer willpower meets his match when he faces off with an alpha unlike any he’s ever encountered before!Tsugumi is an omega whose sole goal in life is to beat up any alpha who crosses his path... -
Emily Climbs by L.M. Montgomery
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsIn the second volume of the celebrated Emily trilogy, Lucy Maud Montgomery traces the often stormy course of Emily Starr's life as she moves from the world of childhood into that of school and adolescence.Emily Climbs unsentimentally reveals the world of the young as it really is -- with its great moments of unalloyed wonder and joy, as well as its cruelty and suffering... -
When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsAn explosive new novel brimming with love, secrets, and enchantment The Fall siblings live in hot Northern California wine country, where the sun pours out of the sky, and the devil winds blow so hard they whip the sense right out of your head. Years ago, the Fall kids’ father mysteriously disappeared, cracking the family into pieces... -
A Sky Painted Gold by Laura Wood
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe Great Gatsby meets I Capture the Castle in this gorgeously dreamy coming-of-age romance perfect for fans of A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue .It is the summer of 1929. Lou Trevelyan is a small-town girl with big dreams of becoming a writer. Then she meets the Cardew the bubbly Caitlin and her handsome, enigmatic brother, Robert...Categorized as:
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Classroom of the Elite Vol. 1 by Syougo Kinugasa
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe cutthroat school drama light novels that inspired an anime!Students of the prestigious Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School are given remarkable freedom—if they can win, barter, or save enough points to work their way up the ranks! Ayanokoji Kiyotaka has landed at the bottom in the scorned Class D, where he meets Horikita Suzune, who’s determined to rise up the ladder to Class A... -
The Case Files of Jeweler Richard Vol. 2 by Nanako Tsujimura, Utako Yukihiro
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThis highly acclaimed mystery tale about a young man teaming up with a handsome jewelry appraiser inspired a popular anime--and a manga adaptation (also from Seven Seas)!When Seigi Nakata rescued a handsome young jewelry appraiser from a group of drunken assailants, he got more than he bargained for! The appraiser is Richard Ranasinghe de Vulpian, a brilliant and mysterious British jewelry expert... -
Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsMurder most fowl? In this sardonic and campy YA thriller, an anxious, introverted nonbinary teen birder somehow finds themself solving a murder mystery with their neighbor/fellow anime lover, all while falling for a cute girl from their birding group . . . and trying not to get murdered... -
The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
Long retired, Sherlock Holmes quietly pursues his study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. He never imagines he would encounter anyone whose intellect matched his own, much less an audacious teenage girl with a penchant for detection. Miss Mary Russell becomes Holmes's pupil and quickly hones her talent for deduction, disguises and danger...Categorized as:
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Christie, Agatha - The ABC Murders by Christie Agatha
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 67 ratingsWhen Alice Asher is murdered in Andover, Hercule Poirot is already looking into the clues. Alphabetically speaking, it's one letter down, twenty-five to go.There's a serial killer on the loose. His macabre calling card is to leave the ABC Railway Guide beside each victim's body... -
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The Case Files of Jeweler Richard Vol. 4 by Nanako Tsujimura
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING JEWELERRichard suddenly closes Jewelry etranger and vanishes, leaving Seigi stunned and alone. Acting on information from Saul, Seigi makes his way to England in pursuit of his wayward boss... -
The Heartbeats of Wing Jones by Katherine Webber
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsWing Jones, like everyone else in her town, has worshipped her older brother, Marcus, for as long as she can remember. Good-looking, popular, and the star of the football team, Marcus is everything his sister is not, and Wing is all too aware of this.Until the night when everything changes. Marcus, drunk at the wheel after a party, kills two people and barely survives himself... -
Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer... -
Lover Birds by Leanne Egan
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsA modern-day Queer retelling of Pride and Prejudice, a contemporary, inclusive, LGBT romance set in Liverpool.This is the story of Darci Williams and Eloise Byrne...Categorized as:
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Undercover Princess by Connie Glynn
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWhen fairy tale obsessed Lottie Pumpkin starts at the infamous Rosewood Hall, she is not expecting to share a room with the Crown Princess of Maradova, Ellie Wolf. Due to a series of lies and coincidences, 14-year-old Lottie finds herself pretending to be the princess so that Ellie can live a more normal teenage life... -
Not Your Idol, Vol. 1 by Aoi Makino
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsAfter that day, she stopped being a girl.In the wake of an assault, Nina Kamiyama, a former idol in the group Pure Club, shuns her femininity and starts dressing as a boy. At high school she keeps to herself, but fellow student Hikaru Horiuchi realizes who she is. What secrets is she keeping? The shocking drama starts... -
Kiss Him, Not Me Vol. 11 by Junko
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt's Kae, coming to you from a crazy situation! After running into my childhood friend, Mistuboshi, at a voice actor event, I was excited to introduce him to everyone. But something wasn't right about Mitsuboshi, and now he's tricked me and separated me from the group! .. -
The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe Larkin family isn't just lucky—they persevere. At least that's what Violet and her younger brother, Sam, were always told. When the Lyric sank off the coast of Maine, their great-great-great-grandmother didn't drown like the rest of the passengers. No, Fidelia swam to shore, fell in love, and founded Lyric, Maine, the town Violet and Sam returned to every summer... -
Unbelievable by Sara Shepard
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 59 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling series The fourth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars. Four pretty little liars’ charmed lives have turned into living nightmares. Emily’s been shipped off to Iowa to live with her überconservative cousins. Aria’s boyfriend is behind bars—because of her... -
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Prince of the Palisades by Julian Winters
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsYoung Royals meets Red, White, and Royal Blue in this heart-pumping romance by award-winning author Julian Winters!When roguish Prince Jadon of Îles de la Rêverie is left in America to clean up his image after a horribly public break-up gone viral, romance is not on the table. Carefully planned photo ops with puppies? Yes. Scheduled appearances with the Santa Monica elite Absolutely...Categorized as:
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Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 84 ratingsIn an unnamed South American country, a world-renowned soprano sings at a birthday party in honor of a visiting Japanese industrial titan. Alas, in the opening sequence, a ragtag band of 18 terrorists enters the vice-presidential mansion through the air conditioning ducts. Their quarry is the president, who has unfortunately stayed home to watch a favorite soap opera... -
Glow by Megan E. Bryant
Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2017 SelectionLydia is thrilled to join the working girls in the factory, where they paint luminous watch dials for the soldiers fighting in World War I. In the future, these girls will be known as the tragic Radium Girls: factory workers not only poisoned by the glowing paint, but who also had to fight against men who knew of the paint's deadly effect...Categorized as:
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Icon and Inferno by Marie Lu
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSpies meet romance meet popstars in this thrilling follow up to Stars and Smoke by bestselling author Marie Lu.A year has passed since superstar Winter and secret agent Sydney Cossette went undercover - on a dangerous mission to bring down the baddest man in London... -
Puppy Love by Tsuchida Haru
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsInukai works at a company where he's exploited and unappreciated, but one day he stops at a pet shop and meets a gentle clerk named Hoshi. Playing with cute dogs and the soothing conversation with Hoshi makes Inukai decide to quit his job and change his life situation so he can have a dog of his own... -
Heist Royale by Kayvion Lewis
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe high-stakes sequel to Thieves' Gambit, for fans of Jennifer Lynn Barnes and Ally Carter.It's been six months since the end of the Gambit. Instead of winning an impossible wish, Ross has the threat of her family’s execution hanging over her head. Devroe, the only person Ross thought she could trust, could wish the Quests into oblivion at any time... -
And Both Were Young by Madeleine L'Engle
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsIn the late 1940s, Connecticut teenager Philippa "Flip" Hunter is sent to boarding school in Switzerland after recovering from a knee injury sustained in an automobile accident that also killed her mother...Categorized as:
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The Deceivers by Kristen Simmons, Soneela Nankani
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWelcome to Vale Hall, the school for aspiring con artists.When Brynn Hilder is recruited to Vale, it seems like the elite academy is her chance to start over, away from her mom's loser boyfriend and her rundown neighborhood... -
They Call Me Alexandra Gastone by T.A. Maclagan
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhen your life is a lie, how do you know what’s real?Alexandra Gastone has a simple plan: graduate high school, get into Princeton, work for the CIA, and serve her great nation. She was told the plan back when her name was Milena Rokva, back before the real Alexandra and her family were killed in a car crash... -
And Both Were Young by Madeleine L'Engle
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFlip doesn't think she'll ever fit in at the Swiss boarding school chosen by her father's girl friend. Besides being homesick for her father and Connecticut, she isn't sophisticated like the other girls, and discussions about boys leave her tongue-tied. Her happiest times are spent apart from the others, sketching or wandering in the mountains... -
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Star⇄Crossed!!, Vol. 2 by Junko
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsUltra-passionate fan Azusa Asahina and her favorite pop star, Chikashi Chida, are in an accident and switch bodies! Not knowing the cause of the switch, Azusa is a bit agitated... Chikashi's manager, Matsumoto, knows about the switching, and as a countermeasure, he has Chikashi transfer into Azusa's high school.. -
A Darker Mischief by Derek Milman
The Honeys meets The Secret History in a work of dark academia like no other -- a boarding school thriller about a queer teen from Mississippi who finds himself swept into a world of old money, privilege, and the secret society at the heart of it all.When Cal Ware wins a scholarship to an elite New England boarding school, he's thrilled to leave his past behind... -
Velvet Undercover by Teri Brown
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSamantha Donaldson’s family has always done its duty for the British Crown. In the midst of World War I, seventeen-year-old Sam follows in their footsteps, serving her country from the homefront as a Girl Guide and messenger for the intelligence organization MI5... -
Thunder on the Right by Mary Stewart
Jenny Silver's trip to the Pyrenees is intended to be more than a welcome holiday in a beautiful part of France. Perturbed by a letter from her cousin Gillian who has been like a sister to her, Jenny has come to Gavarnie in an attempt to discover why Gill has entered a convent. On arrival, however, she finds herself caught up in a mesh of intrigue...Categorized as:
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The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller
Winner of the 2017 Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book! Matt hasn’t eaten in days. His stomach stabs and twists inside, pleading for a meal, but Matt won’t give in. The hunger clears his mind, keeps him sharp—and he needs to be as sharp as possible if he’s going to find out just how Tariq and his band of high school bullies drove his sister, Maya, away...Categorized as:
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Nineteen Steps by Millie Bobby Brown
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsEmmy-nominated actress and producer MILLIE BOBBY BROWN's debut novel, Nineteen Steps, is a moving tale of love, longing, and loss, inspired by the true events of her family's experience during World War II.Love blooms in the darkest days…It’s 1942, and London remains under constant threat of enemy attack as the second world war rages on...
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