Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins

Hopeless romantic Isla has had a crush on introspective cartoonist Josh since their first year at the School of America in Paris. And after a chance encounter in Manhattan over the summer, romance might be closer than Isla imagined. But as they begin their senior year back in France, Isla and ( Read more... )

Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman

With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentences to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, ( Read more... )

Never Have I Ever: My Life (So Far) Without a Date by Katie Heaney

“I’ve been single for my entire life. Not one boyfriend. Not one short-term dating situation. Not one person whom I regularly hung out with and kissed on the face.”

So begins Katie Heaney’s memoir of her years spent looking for love, but never quite finding it. By age 25, ( Read more... )

Can’t believe the last time I did this was in April. Where did summer go??

What I'm Reading Now: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. It’s one of those reads that go by quickly when you pick it up…the trouble is actually picking it up. It’s a philosophical work masquerading as a novel, which I don’t quite know how to feel about yet.

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Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard

In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman-and never went home again.

Was it love at first sight? Or was it the way her knife slid effortlessly through her pave au poivre, the steak’s pink juices puddling into the buttery pepper sauce? ( Read more... )

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

When “Verity” is arrested by the Gestapo, she’s sure she doesn’t stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she’s living a spy’s worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution.

They’ll get the truth out of her. But it won’t ( Read more... )

The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness

George Duncan is an American living and working in London. At forty-eight, he is the owner of a small print shop, divorced, and lonelier than he realizes. But one night he is awoken by an astonishing sound-a terrific keening, coming from somewhere in his garden. When he investigates he finds a great white crane, a ( Read more... )

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home and is drawn to the farm where, when he was seven, he encountered a remarkable girl and her mother and grandmother. As he sits by the pond behind the ramshackle old house, the unremembered past comes flooding back-a past too strange, too frightening, ( Read more... )

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han

Lara Jean Keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her.

They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her, these are one she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved-five in all. When she writes, she can pour out her heart and soul and say all the things she would never say in ( Read more... )

The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet by Bernie Su and Kate Rorick

Twenty-four-year-old grad student Lizzie Bennet is saddled with student loans and still living at home with her two sisters-beautiful Jane and reckless Lydia. When she records her reflections on life for her thesis project and posts them on YouTube, she has no idea The Lizzie Bennet ( Read more... )