One family. Four summers. A whole lotta heartbreak. Warning: Do not read Invincible Summer while wearing eye makeup. If you choose to read this book in public, do so at your own risk. There has been a lot of talk about Invincible Summer’s cover. This book looks like a beach book full of romance from [...]

Tags: beach, brothers and sisters, deafness, divorce, family problems, grief, philosophy, sex, summer
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Scarlett March lives to hunt the Fenris–the werewolves that took her eye when she was defending her sister Rosie from a brutal attack. Armed with a razor-sharp hatchet and blood-red cloak, Scarlett is an expert at luring and slaying the wolves. She’s determined to protect other young girls from a grisly death, and her raging [...]

Tags: brothers and sisters, fairy tales, romance, werewolves
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A terrible secret. A terrible fate. When Brie’s sister, Faith, dies suddenly, Brie’s world falls apart. As she goes through the bizarre and devastating process of mourning the sister she never understood and barely even liked, everything in her life seems to spiral farther and farther off course. Her parents are a mess, her friends [...]

Tags: brothers and sisters, cults, death, family problems, friendship, grief, high schools, religion, romance, secrets
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I started reading Shadow Hills today, and once again I was struck by a sense of confusion about the number of books I have read or heard about lately involving dead siblings. Sonya Sones wrote a book called One of Those Books Where the Mother Dies, and I’m beginning to wonder when there will be [...]

Tags: brothers and sisters, death
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Savannah would be happy to spend the summer in her coastal Carolina town working at the library and lying in a hammock reading her beloved romance novels. But then she meets Jackson. Once they lock eyes, she’s convinced he’s the one—her true love, her soul mate, a boy different from all the rest. And at [...]

Tags: brothers and sisters, dating, family life, illness, interpersonal relations, romance, social classes
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