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Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

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About:      Eleanor is the new girl in town, and she's never felt more alone. All mismatched clothes, mad red hair and chaotic home life, she couldn't stick out more if she tried.     Then she takes the seat on the bus next to Park. Quiet, careful and - in Eleanor's eyes - impossibly cool, Park's worked out that flying under the radar is the best way to get by.     Slowly, steadily, through late-night conversations and an ever-growing stack of mix tapes, Eleanor and Park fall in love. They fall in love the way you do the first time, when you're 16, and you have nothing and everything to lose.     Set over the course of one school year in 1986,  Eleanor & Park  is funny, sad, shocking and true - an exquisite nostalgia trip for anyone who has never forgotten their first love. Genre : Young adult fiction, Fiction, Romance novel Famous Reviews: ·         Reminded me not just what it's like to be young and in love, but what it's like to

Beneath A Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan

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About:     Soon to be a major motion picture from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland.     Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the #1 Amazon Charts bestseller  Beneath a Scarlet Sky  is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man's incredible courage and resilience during one of history's darkest hours.     Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager--obsessed with music, food, and girls--but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior.     In an attempt to protect him, Pino's parents force him to enlist as a German soldier--a move they think will keep him out of combat. But after Pino is injured, he is recruited at the tender age of eighteen to become the personal driver for Adolf Hitler's left hand in Italy, General H

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

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ABOUT: #1  NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR MYSTERY/THRILLER     An addictive new novel of psychological suspense from the author of #1  New York Times  bestseller and global phenomenon  The Girl on the Train.      A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged.   Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from—a place to which she vowed she'd never return.       With the same propulsive writing and acute understanding of human instincts that captivated millions of readers around the world in her explosive debut thriller,  The Girl