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"The Romance Local Girls: An Island Summer Novel by Jenny O&amp;#039;Connell You&amp;#039;ll love it if: You like sweet romances with relatable characters trying to find themselves \u2014 like Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen. The scoop: Martha&amp;#039;s Vineyard locals Kendra and Mona have been best friends their entire lives. That is, until Mona moves to Boston with her newly wealthy family. When Mona finally returns for the summer, she learns that everything has changed, especially Kendra&amp;#039;s relationship with her enigmatic twin brother, Henry. And Mona doesn&amp;#039;t like it. Kendra tries to win her friend back by finally solving the mystery that&amp;#039;s haunted Mona&amp;#039;s childhood, but will it be enough to close the rift between them? The Memoir Model: A Memoir by Cheryl Diamond You&amp;#039;ll love it if: You want the real skinny on the drama behind the runway \u2014 with a lot of snappy dialogue. The scoop: After being discovered at age 14, Cheryl Diamond moved to New York to conquer the fashion world. She was a fast learner, soon modeling for clients like Armani and L&amp;#039;Or\u00E9al. Model chronicles the thrilling highs and crushing lows of her career, from cattle calls and rude rejections to tight friendships with other models. After a traumatizing event with her agency almost ruins her dream, Cheryl discovers that making a comeback in the stressful world of fashion is not easy. The One That&amp;#039;ll Make You Think The Patron Saint of Butterflies by Cecilia Galante You&amp;#039;ll love it if: You want a book that deals with big issues, and has characters and situations that make you question your beliefs. The scoop: Agnes and Honey live at Mount Blessing, a fictitious religious commune just outside of Fairfield, Connecticut. They&amp;#039;re best friends, but they can&amp;#039;t seem to agree on their feelings about enigmatic leader Emmanuel, who insists that everyone under his control live by a rigid set of rules, complete with harsh punishments. When Agnes&amp;#039;s brother is critically hurt because of Emmanuel&amp;#039;s rules, the girls must leave and adjust to life on the outside. Will their friendship survive the change? The Graphic Novel The New York Four by Bryan Wood and Ryan Kelly You&amp;#039;ll love it if: You want a quick read with great illustrations and real-life situations. Even if you don&amp;#039;t usually read graphic novels, you&amp;#039;ll like this cool story. The scoop: When shy misfit Riley befriends an eclectic threesome of classmates at NYU and signs them all up for a PSAT study group, she has no idea how much she will be affected by these new friendships. Soon Riley breaks away from her overbearing professor parents and reconnects with her wild older sister, but a secret, obsessive romance threatens to tear everything she&amp;#039;s worked for apart. The Friendship Novels M+O 4EVR by Tonya Cherie Hegamin You&amp;#039;ll love them if: You&amp;#039;re a Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants fan or you enjoy finding books you just have to pass around to your BFFs. The scoop: Opal and Marianne have been close forever. They&amp;#039;re both outsiders in their small town, but when Marianne unexpectedly leaves Opal all alone, Opal&amp;#039;s world comes crashing down. In a story that&amp;#039;s both heartbreaking and inspiring, Opal has to rebuild her world with the help of her unconventional family and the legend of Hannah, a runaway slave whose story subtly mirrors Opal&amp;#039;s own. The Friendship Novels Footfree and Fancyloose by Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain The scoop: Footfree and Fancyloose is the sequel to Bass Ackwards and Belly Up. In the first book, the main characters decided to forgo college to follow their dreams for a year. Now they are six months into the year and, of course, things have gotten complicated. Kate, who put off the Ivy League to travel, is hard at work in Ethiopia, her adopted sister&amp;#039;s home country. Sophie is still trying to make it as an actress in Hollywood. Becca has finally fallen in love, and is just a little obsessed with her boyfriend, Stuart. And Harper is hard at work on her novel and trying to get over her crush on her high school English teacher. A fresh and funny novel; you&amp;#039;ll be sad to see their year draw to a close. The Politically Empowering Book Declare Yourself: Speak. Connect. Vote. 50 Celebrated Americans Tell You Why with an introduction by  America Ferrera  You&amp;#039;ll love it if: You want to change the world and get involved. The scoop: Fifty celebrities, including writers Meg Cabot and Maya Angelou, actress Hayden Panettiere, and singer Kat DeLuna, share inspiring essays about the political process. Some deal with first-time voting, others about why your vote matters, and a few about the importance of making your voice heard. With elections right around the corner, they make a compelling argument for getting informed about what you can do to change our country. There is even a time line of voting rights, a glossary of election-related terms, and a guide of cool organizations to join. The Cautionary Tale Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity by Kerry Cohen You&amp;#039;ll love it if: You like honest, heartbreaking memoirs about addictions and the life lessons that come with them. The scoop: Kerry Cohen knows how confusing it is to look for love but settle for sex instead. In a beautifully written first-person story about her teenage sexual escapades, Kerry confronts her insecurities of desperately wanting to be loved. In her search for love, she allows sex to fill in as the next best thing. From attracting creepy older guys as a 13-year-old to cheating on a boyfriend she loved in college, she writes about the consequences that come from chasing a sex high with one boy after another. In this memoir, Kerry bares her soul in a very powerful way \u2014 many girls will relate. \u2014Reviewed by Fernanda Diaz The War Novel Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers You&amp;#039;ll love it if: You like true-to-life, deeply personal novels with life-or-death dramas. The scoop: When 18-year-old Robin &amp;quot;Birdy&amp;quot; Perry joins the army after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it isn&amp;#039;t to be a hero. Actually, he doesn&amp;#039;t really know why he joins. But once he gets there, he&amp;#039;s exposed to the very real challenges of serving in Iraq. He meets a cast of colorful folks, including quite a few people his own age, and learns that hero is a complicated word. The Advice Book Letters to a Young Sister: DeFINE Your Destiny by Hill Harper You&amp;#039;ll love it if: You want a guy&amp;#039;s point of view on dating, self-confidence, and more. The scoop: This spin on traditional self-help books is written in the form of a series of letters to an anonymous young woman, with Hill (CSI: NY and author of 2006&amp;#039;s Letters to a Young Brother) dispensing honest but still uplifting advice on everything from finances to relationships. He&amp;#039;s smart about it too: Between each of his letter-chapters are shorter &amp;quot;e-mails&amp;quot; and quotes that offer encouragement and advice from cool women like Zoe Saldana, Ruby Dee, Kirsten Dunst, and Michelle Obama. The Fashion Fiction Violet in Private by Melissa Walker You&amp;#039;ll love it if: You couldn&amp;#039;t put down the first two books in the series, Violet on the Runway and Violet by Design. The scoop: Now that supermodel Violet Greenfield has enrolled in Vassar after tasting international fame, she&amp;#039;s more than a little nervous that she&amp;#039;ll morph back into the shy wallflower that no one noticed in high school \u2014 or even worse, that she&amp;#039;s forgotten how to be a &amp;quot;normal girl.&amp;quot; How does she deal with the fact that she kissed her best friend, Roger, who happens to have a girlfriend, for instance? That&amp;#039;s a normal girl issue, right? The book gives an insider&amp;#039;s view on the modeling industry \u2014 you&amp;#039;ll love following Violet&amp;#039;s ups and downs. For Vampire Lovers Bitten to Death by Jennifer Rardin You&amp;#039;ll love it if: You&amp;#039;re a fan of books like Twilight or Blue Bloods, and don&amp;#039;t mind a little blood and gore. The scoop: In the fourth book in Rardin&amp;#039;s series about Jaz Parks, the heroine is still working as an &amp;quot;assistant assassin&amp;quot; for the CIA, helping to bring down supernatural bad guys with her attractive vampire boss, Vayl. But this might be her most complicated assignment yet: An international terrorist with extraordinary gifts threatens the world, and she is the only one who can stop him. The Insider&amp;#039;s Book Schooled by Anisha Lakhani You&amp;#039;ll love it if: You couldn&amp;#039;t put the Nanny Diaries down. The scoop: Set in Manhattan, this debut novel stars Anna Taggert, a first-year private-school teacher who meanders her way through designer-clad seventh-graders and million-dollar bar mitzvahs. Anna watches in wonder while her colleagues buy apartments on the Upper East Side and Chanel handbags. That is, until she discovers the best-kept secret in the exclusive world of Manhattan private schools: tutoring. All of a sudden, she can afford Chanel handbags too. But is writing students&amp;#039; book reports too high a price? In a world where people give &amp;quot;friendly gifts&amp;quot; to the school to the tune of millions of dollars, Anna tries hard to survive it all. Lakhani gives readers a front-row seat as she exposes the secret world of private-school tutoring like only an insider can. You won&amp;#039;t be able to put it down. \u2014Reviewed by Devin Tomb Coming Soon The Historical Novel Sovay by Celia Rees You&amp;#039;ll love it if: You adore high-spirited adventures starring fearless girls. The scoop: When she dresses as the mysterious Captain Blaze to get revenge on her pompous fianc\u00E9, Sovay is totally fearless. But scheming to rescue her freethinking father from the Paris guillotine in 1783 is much more of a struggle than pretending to be a man. Along the way, she befriends highway robbers, dashing military men, American scholars, and London prostitutes in the adventure of a lifetime. When it&amp;#039;s out: September 2008 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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