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All You Need Is Love
Emily Franklin
Synopsis: Having returned from a study-abroad program in London to be with her aunt who has breast cancer, seventeen-year-old Love struggles to decide what to do next with her life while also experiencing some tensions with her father.
Publication Date: 09/05/06
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
The Unrivalled Spangles
Karen Wallace
Synopsis: Always dreaming of getting out of their father's circus and living normal lives, performers Ellen and Lucy Spangle bide their time and do the work required of them, but when Ellen meets an English gentleman, her hopes for real love is renewed until a disaster strikes and she is forced back into the family business.
Publication Date: 09/05/06
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
The Queen Geek Social Club
Synopsis: If you're somebody like Shelby Chappelle, a smart, witty, pretty geek army of one, you can't just put a poster up at school and advertise for somebody to be your best friend. But now freakishly tall Becca Gallagher has moved to town, with her dragon tattoo and wild ideas. Suddenly Shelby's madscientist father and their robot, Euphoria, seem normal. They become best friends instantly. But Becca wants to shake things up at school and look for "others of our kind"...and decides to form the Queen Geek Social Club.

The thing is, this guy Fletcher Berkowitz keeps nosing around, asking lots of questions about the Club. He's cute, and interesting, and possibly likes Shelby. Therefore, she must torture him. One good thing about being a loner: no one can break your heart.

Publication Date: 09/05/06
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Powers
Deborah Lynn Jacobs
Synopsis: I let him take my hand. The cold blue flame in his eyes held me, seared me. "Do you feel it?" he asked. "It's a warm tingle, isn't it? In your hands, moving up your arms, like a current."
"No." My hands tingled with warmth. It moved up my arms like a current.
When Gwen and Adrian meet, they unlock each other's latent psychic powers. It's too bad they can't stand each other, don't trust each other, and do everything they can to manipulate each other. Will they use their power to save lives? Or will it destroy them both? Written in alternating voices, this is a compelling, suspenseful novel about power in all its forms--psychic, physical, sexual, romantic.
Publication Date: 09/05/06
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Good Girls
Laura Ruby
Synopsis:

Some people would say this is the story of a photograph. How it was taken, and what happened to me after the whole world saw it.

And it is.

But it's also the story of a lot of other things. A boy so beautiful he's like a punch to the throat. Best friends—the outrageous old ones and the out-of-the-blue new. It's about fishnets and eyebrow rings and a chick named Hamlet. Kick lines at lumberyards and conga lines at the prom. Crying in cars and gazing at stars. Mistakes, misunderstandings, and misconceptions. Good girls, bad boys, and everyone in between.

This is a story about love.

So look at the picture all you want.

I am so much more than what you see.

Publication Date: 09/01/06
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
New Moon
Stephenie Meyer
Synopsis: Shoot, I muttered when the paper sliced my finger; I pulled it out to examine the damage. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut.It all happened very quickly then.Edward threw himself at me, flinging me back across the table...I tumbled down to the floor by the piano, with my arms thrown out instinctively to catch my fall, into the jagged shards of glass. I felt the searing, stinging pain that ran from my wrist to the crease inside my elbow. Dazed and disoriented, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm-into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires.Legions of readers entranced by Twilight are hungry for more and they won't be disappointed. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. The "star-crossed" lovers theme continues as Bella and Edward find themselves facing new obstacles, including a devastating separation, the mysterious appearance of dangerous wolves roaming the forest in Forks, a terrifying threat of revenge from a female vampire and a deliciously sinister encounter with Italy's reigning royal family of vampires, the Volturi. Passionate, riveting, and full of surprising twists and turns, this vampire love saga is well on its way to literary immortality.
Publication Date: 08/21/06
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
The Unresolved
T. K. Welsh
Synopsis: In 1904 New York City, the spirit of a deceased German American teenage girl searches for the person responsible for the General Slocum steamboat fire that claimed her life and the lives of more than one thousand other passengers.
Publication Date: 08/17/06
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Just In Case
Meg Rosoff
Synopsis: Justin Case is convinced fate has in for him.
And he's right.

After finding his younger brother teetering on the edge of his balcony, fifteen-year-old David Case realizes the fragility of life and senses impending doom. Without looking back, he changes his name to Justin and assumes a new identity, new clothing and new friends, and dares to fall in love with the seductive Agnes Day. With his imaginary dog Boy in tow, Justin struggles to fit into his new role and above all, to survive in a world where tragedy is around every corner. He's got to be prepared, just in case.
Publication Date: 08/08/06
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Major Crush
Jennifer Echols
Synopsis: When Virginia Sauter is forced to share the title of drum major with arrogant Drew Morrow, their constant bickering and heated competition turns to sizzling romance, but explosive rumors threaten the marching band's success.
Publication Date: 08/01/06
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Laguna Cove
Alyson Noël
Synopsis: In Alyson Noël's Laguna Cove, moving to sunny Southern Cal feels like punishment to 17-year-old Anne. The hippie-ish school is different from her old one on the East Coast, and the social scene is all about hanging out at the beach and surfing. And then there's Ellie: beautiful, competitive queen of the social scene who takes an instant disliking to Anne. So when Chris--one of Ellie's oldest friends and, oh yeah, the most gorgeous guy in school--reaches out to Anne and offers to teach her how to surf, sparks fly...in more ways than one ...
Publication Date: 07/25/06
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Tales of a Hollywood Gossip Queen
Synopsis: While on a short trip to Hollywood, California, Jessie renews her acquaintance with a handsome movie star and unexpectedly lands an internship at a new entertainment magazine.
Publication Date: 06/27/06
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Synopsis:

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick

“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie Smith

One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to initial audiences’ rejection of its strong black female protagonist—Hurston’s classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature.

Publication Date: 05/30/06
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Pucker
Melanie Gideon
Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Thomas Quicksilver, an outsider who was disfigured by a childhood fire, has a chance to be magically healed and made beautiful, but only at a terrible price.
Publication Date: 05/18/06
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Bass Ackwards and Belly Up
Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft
Synopsis: Instead of following the traditional college route after graduation, four best friends--Harper, Sophie, Kate, and Becca--decide to follow their dreams as they each embark on a year-long adventure filled with hope, tears, laughter, romance, and self-discovery. 50,000 first printing.
Publication Date: 05/10/06
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Only In Your Dreams
Cecily von Ziegesar
Synopsis: Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where the girls are dazzling, the guys are gorgeous, and the summer heat is the perfect excuse to throw a fabulous roof-deck pool party. As if we need a reason! It's our last summer together before heading off to college, and things are sizzling - no, it's not just the weather. Despite that steamy kiss on graduation night, Blair, Serena, and Nate have gone their separate ways...though not for long. Blair is off to London with her English Lord boyfriend, Serena's about to become a movie star - as if she wasn't a star already! - and Nate's rolling up his well-worn khakis and heading to the Hamptons. Back in New York, Dan and Vanessa are rekindling their love. Fiery! Watch out, this summer is going to be hotter than ever.
Publication Date: 05/10/06
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Specials
Rodrigo Corral, Scott Westerfeld
Synopsis: When she is turned into a super-modelesque super-fighting machine, Tally, a former ugly, is ordered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid in a carefully engineered world of perfection where she refuses to play by the rules.
Publication Date: 05/09/06
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance

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