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How We Deal With Gravity by Ginger Scott Release Date: July 8, 2014 Age: New Adult, Adult Genre: Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Romance, Family Buy it: Amazon | Barnes and Noble The first week of sales will go to an Autism Organization in Arizona called Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center (SARRC) When her son Max was diagnosed with autism, Avery Abbot’s life changed forever. Her husband left, and her own dreams became a distant fantasy—always second to fighting never-ending battles to make sure Max was given opportunity, love and respect. Finding someone to fight along her side wasn’t even on her list, and she’d come to terms with the fact that she could never be her own priority again. But a familiar face walking into her life in the form of 25-year-old Mason Street had Avery’s heart waging a war within. Mason was a failure. When he left his hometown five years ago, he was never coming back—it was only a matter of time before his records hit the billboard charts. Women, ...

  There is No Light in Darkness (Darkness #1) by Claire Contreras ★★★★★ Release Date: January 10, 2013 Age: Mature New Adult, Adult, 17+ Genre: Contemporary Romance, Best Friends, Orphans, Family, Drama, Crime, Love, Suspense, Drama, Famous Format: ebook Source: Purchased Buy it: Amazon | Barnes and Noble   Currently only $.99!! A past hidden in darkness. Her present cloaked in secrets. The future holds the only truth that cannot be escaped. After the mysterious and violent death of her parents, Blake Brennan finds comfort with an unconventional family. As the dramatic loss of her parents continues to haunt her—and hinders her from reciprocating love that others give freely—Blake embarks on a harrowing journey in search for the truth. Living in a constant state of fear and need for control, vivid nightmares reveal details that lead to perilous situations. The past begins to collide with the present, and Blake must decide if the truth is worth losing the ones she loves. Can l...

My Life Next Door  by Huntley Fitzpatrick ★★★★☆ Release Date: June 14, 2012 Publisher: Dial Books Age: Young Adult Genre: Contemporary Romance, Family, Political, Love, Summer Format: Hardback Source: Purchased Buy it: Amazon |  Barnes and Noble A gorgeous debut about family, friendship, first romance, and how to be true to one person you love without betraying another "One thing my mother never knew, and would disapprove of most of all, was that I watched the Garretts. All the time.” The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not. Loud, numerous, messy, affectionate. And every day from her balcony perch, seventeen-year-old Samantha Reed wishes she was one of them . . . until one summer evening, Jase Garrett climbs her terrace and changes everything. As the two fall fiercely in love, Jase's family makes Samantha one of their own. Then in an instant, the bottom drops out of her world and she is suddenly faced with an impossible decision. Which perfect family will save her? Or i...

Dirty Little Secret by Jennifer Echols ★★★☆☆ Expected Release Date: July 16, 2013 Publisher: MTV Books Age: Mature YA, New Adult Genre: Contemporary Romance, Music, Drama, Family Format: ebook Source: Publisher via Edelweiss Preorder it: Amazon Bailey wasn’t always a wild child and the black sheep of her family. She used to play fiddle and tour the music circuit with her sister, Julie, who sang and played guitar. That ended when country music execs swooped in and signed Julie to a solo deal. Never mind that Julie and Bailey were a duet, or that Bailey was their songwriter. The music scouts wanted only Julie, and their parents were content to sit by and let her fulfill her dreams while Bailey’s were hushed away. Bailey has tried to numb the pain and disappointment over what could have been. And as Julie’s debut album is set to hit the charts, her parents get fed up with Bailey’s antics and ship her off to granddad’s house in Nashville. Playing fiddle in washed-up tribute groups at the ...

Left Drowning by Jessica Park ★★★★★ Expected Release Date: July 16, 2013 Publisher: Amazon Children's Publishing Age: New Adult, 17+ Genre: Contemporary Romance, Drama, Family, Friends, College, Death, Depression Format: ebook Source: Publisher via Netgalley Preorder it: Amazon What does it take to rise from life’s depths, swim against the current, and breathe? Weighted down by the loss of her parents, Blythe McGuire struggles to keep her head above water as she trudges through her last year at Matthews College. Then a chance meeting sends Blythe crashing into something she doesn’t expect—an undeniable attraction to a dark-haired senior named Chris Shepherd, whose past may be even more complicated than her own. As their relationship deepens, Chris pulls Blythe out of the stupor she’s been in since the night a fire took half her family. She begins to heal, and even, haltingly, to love this guy who helps her find new paths to pleasure and self-discovery. But as Blythe moves into cal...

Reason to Breathe (Barely Breathing #1) by Rebecca Donovan ★★★★★ Release Date: June 2012 Age: Mature YA Genre: Drama, Contemporary Romance, Abuse, Family, Friendship, Format: Paperback Source: Purchased Buy it: Amazon |  Barnes and Noble "No one tried to get involved with me, and I kept to myself. This was the place where everything was supposed to be safe and easy. How could Evan Mathews unravel my constant universe in just one day?" He knows there’s something more to the girl sitting in the back of the class the moment he sees her. She’s beautiful, intelligent, and athletic – but she slips quietly through the crowded halls, trying not to exist. Determined to get to know the elusive girl, Evan soon discovers… Emma Thomas is hiding a terrible a secret. Reason to Breathe is an electrifying page turner from start to finish, a unique tale of life-changing love, unspeakable cruelty, and one girl’s fragile grasp of hope. I am still in awe with this story. I love everything about...

Lost and Found by Nicole Williams ★★★★★ Release Date: May 7, 2013 Age: Mature YA/ New Adult Genre: Contemporary Romance, Drama, Family, Love Format: eBook Source: AToMR Tours Buy it: Amazon | Barnes and Noble There’s complicated. And there’s Rowen Sterling. After numbing pain for the past five years with boys, alcohol, and all-around apathy, she finds herself on a Greyhound bus to nowhere Montana the summer after she graduates high school. Her mom agreed to front the bill to Rowen’s dream art school only if Rowen proves she can work hard and stay out of trouble at Willow Springs Ranch. Cooking breakfast at the crack of dawn for a couple dozen ranch hands and mucking out horse stalls are the last things in the world Rowen wants to spend her summer doing. Until Jesse Walker saunters into her life wearing a pair of painted-on jeans, a cowboy hat, and a grin that makes something in her chest she’d thought was frozen go boom-boom. Jesse’s like no one else, and certainly nothing like her....

Wait for You by J. Lynn ★★★★☆ Release Date: February 26, 2013 Age: New Adult, 17+ Genre: Contemporary Romance, College, Abuse, Realistic Fiction, Drama, Issues, Family Format: ebook Source: Purchased Buy it: Amazon | Barnes and Noble Some things are worth waiting for… Traveling thousands of miles from home to enter college is the only way nineteen-year-old Avery Morgansten can escape what happened at the Halloween party five years ago—an event that forever changed her life. All she needs to do is make it to her classes on time, make sure the bracelet on her left wrist stays in place, not draw any attention to herself, and maybe—please God—make a few friends, because surely that would be a nice change of pace. The one thing she didn’t need and never planned on was capturing the attention of the one guy who could shatter the precarious future she’s building for herself. Some things are worth experiencing… Cameron Hamilton is six feet and three inches of swoon-worthy hotness, complete w...

A Song for Julia  (Thompson Sisters) by Charles Sheehan-Miles ★★★★★ Release Date: December 5, 2012 Age: Mature New Adult/ Adult, 17+ Genre: Contemporary Romance, Drama, Suspense, Love, Family Format: ebook Source: AToMR Tours Buy it: Amazon | Barnes and Noble Everyone should have something to rebel against. Crank Wilson left his South Boston home at sixteen to start a punk band and burn out his rage at the world. Six years later, he’s still at odds with his father, a Boston cop, and doesn’t ever speak to his mother. The only relationship that really matters is with his younger brother, but watching out for Sean can be a full-time job. The one thing Crank wants in life is to be left the hell alone to write his music and drive his band to success. Julia Thompson left a secret behind in Beijing that exploded into scandal in Washington, DC, threatening her father's career and dominating her family's life. Now, in her senior year at Harvard, she's haunted by a voice from her pa...

Never Too Far (Too Far, #2) by Abbi 'rock star' Glines ★★★★★ Release Date: February 26, 2013 Age: Mature New Adult/ Adult Genre: Contemporary Romance, Love, Family Format: ebook Source: purchased Buy it: Amazon | Barnes and Noble He had held a secret that destroyed her world. Everything she had known was no longer true. Blaire couldn’t stop loving him but she knew she could never forgive him. Now, she was back home and learning to live again. Moving on with life… until something happened to send her world spinning once again. What do you do when the one person you can never trust again is the one that you need to trust so desperately? You lie, hide, avoid, and pray that your sins never find you out. Fallen Too Far, book 1, rocked my freaking socks all the way off! When I got to the end I cried, I really did, kind of a lot too. So this past weekend to gear up for Never Too Far I read book 1 again, to revisit those crazy emotions and get ready for what I knew was going to be a ...

Flat-Out Love by  Jessica Park ★★★★★ Release Date: April 11, 2011 Age: YA Genre: Contemporary Romance, Realistic Fiction, Family, College, Drama Format: paperback Source: Purchased Buy it: Amazon Flat-Out Love is a warm and witty novel of family love and dysfunction, deep heartache and raw vulnerability, with a bit of mystery and one whopping, knock-you-to-your-knees romance. Something is seriously off in the Watkins home. And Julie Seagle, college freshman, small-town Ohio transplant, and the newest resident of this Boston house, is determined to get to the bottom of it. When Julie's off-campus housing falls through, her mother's old college roommate, Erin Watkins, invites her to move in. The parents, Erin and Roger, are welcoming, but emotionally distant and academically driven to eccentric extremes. The middle child, Matt, is an MIT tech geek with a sweet side ... and the social skills of a spool of USB cable. The youngest, Celeste, is a frighteningly bright but freakishly ...

Fallen Too Far  by Abbi Glines ★★★★★ Release Date: December 14, 2012 Age: New Adult Genre: Contemporary Romance, Love, Family, Drama Format: ebook Source: Purchased Buy it: Amazon | Barnes and Noble To want what you’re not supposed to have… She is only nineteen. She is his new stepfather’s daughter. She is still naïve and innocent due to spending the last three years taking care of her sick mother. But for twenty-four year old Rush Finlay, she is the only thing that has ever been off limits. His famous father’s guilt money, his mother’s desperation to win his love, and his charm are the three reasons he has never been told no. Blaire Wynn left her small farmhouse in Alabama, after her mother passed away, to move in with her father and his new wife in their sprawling beach house along the Florida gulf coast. She isn’t prepared for the lifestyle change and she knows she’ll never fit into this world. Then there is her sexy stepbrother who her father leaves her with for the summer whi...