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For Mona's upcoming sixteenth birthday, there's only one thing she really wants: to get it over with. But with her family coming to visit her and her older sister for winter break, all she can do is listen to their suggestions and hope time passes quickly. The only problem is time seems to be at a complete standstill since Mona won't be celebrating her birthday with her twin brother for the first time in her life.The next best thing? Deflect the conversations and hope for the best. Mona's been doing exactly that for the last few months. What're a couple more weeks until her birthday passes? But when she meets Nathan and Clara, she finds that a couple of weeks of deflecting conversations and hoping for the best isn't going to cut it. Not with them, and not with herself either.…

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Briar Chiem has only ever had choices in her life. Her parents made sure of that, and she knows for a fact it has everything to do with her terrible, hypocritical grandfather. At least that's what her dad's bestselling book series makes him out to be anyway. And when they visit him for the summer to make amends, she sees for herself what he's really like and the choices set before her. Idris Laxamana has some choices to make, too: get lost in The Quiet Nights series or listen to his family tell him he's a disappointment. The choice is obvious, but when he meets Briar, he's not so sure anymore. And the more they read her father's series, the more they start to realize just how closely their choices and the subsequent outcomes can parallel art.…

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Another year, another three letters to write and never send.Since freshman year, Adeline Stargate has made it a tradition to write letters to each of her three friends telling them what she hated the most about them that school year. After her junior year, she decides this is a tradition that needs to end and is set on burning all nine letters at the end-of-the-year bonfire. But when one of her friends happens to find one of the letters and reads it, her plans - and friendships - are ruined.Or at least changed.Jax Inkrose, an old childhood friend, decides to turn this into a night to reconnect and share secrets. For each letter Adeline reads to him, he'll share his own secret. Nine secrets for nine letters. Seems fair. But as the night goes on, Adeline realizes there are some secrets she's even hidden from herself and isn't too sure that she wants Jax to know about them. Or herself for that matter.…

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Adeline Stargate is more than happy to immerse herself in her senior year of high school with her new group of friends and her childhood-best-friend-turned-boyfriend, Jax Inkrose. No more toxic friends. No more gaslighting. No more manipulation. And no more hate letters.At least not with her current friends.When Adeline's former "friends" decide they don't want her out of their lives quite yet, she finds herself spiraling into the emotional turmoil of the past three years. Jax wants nothing more than to make all Adeline's problems go away, but when the problems become more intense and Adeline falls back on bad habits, he's forced to think about what a true friend would do. More importantly, he's forced to come to terms with whether he's a true friend himself.…

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The world is complicated and people even more so. Everything in the present and future is nothing but intimidating and unpredictable, and Ashlyn Artwell doesn't know any other way to navigate modern life than to consume every piece of history she can find. If history can repeat, personalities can, too, right?History might help Ashlyn, but not everyone finds her historical obsession endearing. Especially not her soon-to-be step-brother, Marcus Halloway. Ashlyn figures the best she can do is avoid Marcus and keep referencing history to her heart's content. But all that changes when she ends up tutoring August Nightspade, Marcus' best friend.The more time she spends with August, the more the present doesn't seem all that scary. But that doesn't stop Ashlyn from clinging onto history when she doesn't trust herself to make her own personal history. And the more she clings to history, the more she realizes the difference between past and present.…