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Welcome to Meadowlark, Long Island—expensive homes and good schools, ambition and loneliness. Meet Chase Ohara and Lia Vestiano: the driven overachiever and the impulsive wanderer, the future CEO and the free spirit. Best friends for years—weekend trips to Montauk, sleepovers on a yacht—and then, first love. True love. But when Lia disappears, Chase’s life turns into a series of grim snapshots. Anger. Grief. Running. Pink pills in an Altoids tin. A cheating ring at school. Heartbreak and lies. A catastrophic secret. And the shocking truth.

In Pauls Leben läuft alles schief: Er liebt ein Mädchen, das er nicht bekommen kann, ist Frontmann einer Rock-Band – obwohl er eigentlich gar nicht singen kann und mehr auf Electrobeats steht – und jedes Gespräch mit seinem Vater endet in Streit und mit Geschrei. Als er dann auch noch per Zufall erfährt, dass er nicht der biologische Sohn seiner Mutter ist, beginnt er sein bisheriges Leben und sein Umfeld in Frage zu stellen. Die Suche nach seiner leiblichen Mutter wird gleichzeitig zu einer Suche nach sich selbst.

All Anna Xu wants to do as she starts freshman year at the local prestigious Brookings University is keep up her stellar academic performance, break out of her shell, be more social...and investigate the unsolved on-campus murder of her former babysitter six years ago. And if that wasn't difficult enough, it seems that Chris Lu, whose family are the Xu's business rivals, is attending Brookings too.

Rockstar-Romance meets Haters to Lovers vor winterlicher Tokio-Kulisse. Zwei ausgebuchte Konzerte in einem riesigen Stadion in Tokio - für die 19-jährige Hailee könnte das den lang ersehnten Durchbruch als Musikerin bedeuten. Als Warmup-Act ist sie mit dem hypererfolgreichen Sänger Finn Wolfcraft unterwegs. Doch leider findet sie den unnahbaren Finn mit seinen hysterischen Fans absolut furchtbar. Und auch Finn ist nicht sonderlich angetan von Hailee, denn er reagiert höchst allergisch auf Menschen, die ihn als Sprungbrett für ihre Karriere nutzen wollen.

Singing is my life, but no agency will sign me because of my size. They want me to lose weight. Dress differently. Be someone other than my size 20 self. They want me to be like Jude Santiago with his perfectly fitted jeans and tight T-shirts and completely sell out. There’s no way I’m going down that path, and I tell him so publicly on my YouTube channel. But when it gets back to him, he has an agreement: go on tour with him and see for myself that he’s authentic. If I can’t, he won’t make another album.

Ryder Brooks is living the dream—he's famous, loved by millions of girls, and miserable. All he really wants is to write his own music, not Seconds to Juliet's sugary sweet pop. In order to do that, though, the "bad boy" of the band will have to play by the rules. And that includes behaving with his new—and super cute—tutor. Tutoring her favorite member of her favorite band? Mia Reyes is in fangirl heaven. Then it turns out Ryder is crude, arrogant, and a total jerk. And the worst part? She's roped into pretending to be his girlfriend so that no one finds out he's being tutored.

When Louise Wolfe’s first real boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. It’s her senior year, and she’d rather spend her time with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up with Joey Kairouz, the ambitious new photojournalist, and in no time the paper’s staff find themselves with a major story to cover: the school musical director’s inclusive approach to casting The Wizard of Oz has been provoking backlash in their mostly white, middle-class Kansas town.

The Rogues were back in my life in private, but I had to endure the public spectacle of those intolerable Roguettes reclaiming their social positions…and my boys. Even though I knew it was a ruse, anger coursed through me every time the queen bee touched my man. Not fearing any consequences, Charlotte and her cronies pushed me past my breaking point. I gave them a beating they won’t soon forget, but my satisfaction was short-lived. Jail had a way of sucking the pleasure right out of you. But not the determination.

Zahra Khan is basically Bangladeshi royalty—but being a princess doesn’t pay the bills in New Jersey. While Zahra plans to save money for college by working through the summer at a tea shop, her meddling mum is convinced that a “good match” in marriage will solve their family’s financial woes. Enter Harun Emon, the wealthy, devastatingly handsome and...aloof boy Zahra is set up with. As soon as they meet, Zahra and Harun both know it’s not going to work.

My parents forgot something when they ran…me. After scamming most of our town out of their life savings, my folks disappeared in the middle of the night. Forced to take me in, my estranged aunt and uncle shipped me off to Raven River Academy the first chance they got. In my town, the line between the haves and the have-nots is actually a 12-foot gate that keeps the unwanted where they belong. Nothing could unite the two factions until I set foot on campus. For the first time in our history, they all agree on one thing: I must pay for my father’s sins.

I’ve spent my whole life trying not to get bullied. For my frizzy hair. My freckles. The white patches on my Black skin or the gap in my teeth. Not to mention the extra hundred pounds I have on most of my classmates. So when my soldier pen pal wants to see a picture of me, I freak. I send him a picture of one of the it girls at school and move on. The odds of us meeting in person are less than zero, and for once in my life, I want to know what it feels like to be one of the beautiful girls. Someone a guy like him would be into.

Zara loves love in all forms: 90s romcoms and romance novels and grand sweeping gestures. And she's desperate to have her own great love story. Crucially, a real one. So when her best friend Adnan begs her to pretend to date him to cover up his new top-secret relationship, Zara is hesitant. This isn't the kind of thing she had in mind. But there's something in it for Zara too: making her parents, who love Adnan, happy might just stop them arguing for a while. She may not be getting her own love story, but she could save theirs.

Meet Winter Young—rookie backup dancer turned global pop phenomenon. His star power has smashed records, selling out stadiums from LA to London. Now he’s bringing his swoonworthy assets to a whole new arena. Infamous criminal tycoon Eli Morrison has just one weakness—his daughter, Penelope. And Penelope has just one wish for her nineteenth birthday—a private concert with Winter Young. When covert ops organization The Panacea Group approaches Winter with this once-in-a-lifetime chance to infiltrate Morrison’s inner circle, Winter must use his fame, cunning, and charisma to pull it off.

Ramona Lambert is a typical shy, artistic sixteen-year-old. She has a best friend whom she’s known since they were in diapers, parents who love her, a love for cosplay, and a crush on the cute boy in her class. The only problem? Her best friend moved away, her parents don't quite understand her love of cosplay, and she is pretty sure her crush has no idea she exists. To escape her troubles, Ramona turns to cosplay and her original character, Rel, who gives her the confidence and freedom that she lacks in real life.

Marty has terrible luck and she knows exactly why. While working as a housekeeper at the ritzy Grand Palms hotel in Maui, Marty made it a habit to steal small items from the guests. What better way to stick it to the rich snobs they have to clean up after? Marty knows how to turn her luck around—she just has to return all of the items she stole. When Marty meets Will, a new guest who is staying for the summer, she does the one thing she always promised herself she'd never do—fall for an out-of-towner. But Will's different from the other guests. Maybe Marty's luck is turning around.

Kaum hat die 16-jährige Belly das Herz ihres ewigen Schwarms Conrad erobert, fällt ein Schatten auf die junge Beziehung. Conrads Mutter Susannah stirbt. Der Schicksalsschlag trennt die Verliebten: Conrad zieht sich zurück, und Belly fühlt sich vernachlässigt; die Beziehung zerbricht. Conrad hat nicht nur mit dem Verlust seiner Mutter zu kämpfen, sein Vater will das geliebte Strandhaus tatsächlich verkaufen. Mit vereinten Kräften gelingt es, den Vater der Jungs zu überreden, das Haus nicht zu verkaufen.

There are only two rules to becoming part of the Hemlock crew: You have to be single. You have to be invited. Karissa is definitely single, and now that she caught the eye of Jasper, she just might get the invite. Nothing about him is her type, except for the fact that he's drop-dead gorgeous and every sophomore girl’s dream boyfriend. Add in his killer personality and piercing blue eyes along with his blonde hair and a skateboard hanging from his bag and she just might reconsider—but dating him is a slippery slope that she's not sure she wants to walk.

Miles Carlisle is every teen girl's fantasy. His rugged good looks and exotic British accent have helped catapult his boy band, Seconds to Juliet, to super-stardom. But after two disastrous and very public breakups, Miles isn't interested in dating just any girl; he wants The One. And the only girl he's interested in won't even give him the time of day. As a kid, Aimee Bingham had a huge thing for Miles until he made fun of her for always tagging along. The prospect of going on tour with the childhood crush who broke her heart isn't exactly enticing. Except now Miles seems interested.

Dieses Jahr ist für Lia auf dem Landsitz ihrer Familie nichts mehr, wie es einmal war: Finn, der Neffe des Wildhüters, verdreht Lia den Kopf. Obwohl er sie mit seinen spöttischen Sprüchen herausfordert, verliebt sie sich Hals über Kopf in ihn. Doch wer ist dieser Junge wirklich, der mit einem wilden Fuchs Ball spielt und ihm Gedichte vorliest? Bald erreichen die Schatten der Vergangenheit die Wildnis von Badfearna. Sie bringen Dinge über Finn ans Licht, die keinen Zweifel lassen: Ein Mädchen wie Lia hat in seinem Leben keinen Platz.

Immer schon gab es nur zwei Jungs, die Bellys Herz erobern konnten: Conrad und Jeremiah. In diesem Sommer muss Belly eine Entscheidung treffen und sich über ihre Gefühle endgültig klar werden. Seit zwei Jahren ist sie mit Jeremiah zusammen, als er ihr plötzlich einen Heiratsantrag macht. Belly stürzt sich überglücklich in die Hochzeitsvorbereitungen. Doch ihre Eltern halten die Hochzeit für völlig verfrüht, und nach einem Streit mit ihrer Mutter bricht Belly zu dem Ort auf, an dem sie so viele glückliche Sommer verbracht hat. Dort trifft sie Conrad, der ihr seine Liebe gesteht.