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Title: To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before #1) Author: Jenny Han Pages: 288 Genre: YA Publisher: Simon Schuster for Young Readers/Simon PulseCA Release Date: April 15, 2014 Buy: Amazon | Kobo | Chapters Indigo | B&N Read: May 3-4, 2014 Summary: ( Goodreads ) To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is the story of Lara Jean, who has never openly admitted her crushes, but instead wrote each boy a letter about how she felt, sealed it, and hid it in a box under her bed. But one day Lara Jean discovers that somehow her secret box of letters has been mailed, causing all her crushes from her past to confront her about the letters: her first kiss, the boy from summer camp, even her sister's ex-boyfriend, Josh. As she learns to deal with her past loves face to face, Lara Jean discovers that something good may come out of these letters after all. Review: Jenny Han never seizes to amaze me with her fantastic writing, romance scenes an...

Title: What I Thought Was True Author: Huntley Fitzpatrick Pages: 416 Publisher: Dial Books for Young Rivers Release Date: April 15, 2014 Summary: (Goodreads) From the author of My Life Next Door comes a swoony summertime romance full of expectation and regret, humor and hard questions. Gwen Castle's Biggest Mistake Ever, Cassidy Somers, is slumming it as a yard boy on her Nantucket-esque island this summer. He's a rich kid from across the bridge in Stony Bay, and she hails from a family of fishermen and housecleaners who keep the island's summer people happy. Gwen worries a life of cleaning houses will be her fate too, but just when it looks like she'll never escape her past—or the island—Gwen's dad gives her some shocking advice. Sparks fly and secret histories unspool as Gwen spends a gorgeous, restless summer struggling to resolve what she thought was true—about the place she lives, the people she loves, and even herself—with what really is. A...