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Fallen
By: Lauren Kate
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Age Range: Teen
Rating: ★☆☆☆☆
Series: Fallen (#1)
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal
Summary: There’s something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori.

Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price’s attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia. He’s the one bright spot in a place where cell phones are forbidden, the other students are all screw-ups, and security cameras watch every move.

Even though Daniel wants nothing to do with Luce—and goes out of his way to make that very clear—she can’t let it go. Drawn to him like a moth to a flame, she has to find out what Daniel is so desperate to keep secret… even if it kills her.

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AUTHOR: Ameko Kaerudo, Yorifuji (illustrator)
RELEASED: December 31, 2024 by Titan Manga
SERIES: The Elegant Courtly Life of the Tea Witch (#1)
GENRE: Romance, Adventure, Fantasy
AGE RANGE: Teen
RATINGS: ★★☆☆☆
SYNOPSIS: Come and read a manga that’s a cosy and comforting as a nice warm cup of tea! At the royal court, the weakest mage is the tea witch, who uses their powers to make tea for the noble lords and ladies… but Remy has some incredible powers that will result in all kinds of courtly intrigue! The first volume in a heart-warming and cosy ongoing series, The Elegant Courtly Life of a Tea Witch tells the tale of Remy, a lowly tea witch using her magic to brew the finest cuppa for the noble lords and ladies. All she really wants is a quiet life creating gorgeous displays for shop windows… but she’s slowly drawn into a world of intrigue as her incredible powers of transformation make her the gossip of the court… and the object of affection for a naïve princess!

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AUTHOR: Tina Yamashina
RELEASED: November 7, 2023 by Vertical Comics
SERIES: Virgin Love (#1)
GENRE: Romance, Slice of Life
AGE RANGE: Adult
RATINGS: ★★★☆☆
SYNOPSIS: “Looking for love, but afraid you’ll never find it?”

Come Live at the Love House! Six strangers, one house, one shared love. What could go wrong?

Successful, well-liked, and beautiful, twenty-six-year-old working woman Shoko Shoji seems to have it all. But behind her picture-perfect exterior is a secret that haunts to her chagrin, Shoko is still a virgin. Tired of making excuses for her total lack of dating experience, she signs up to live in the Love House, an experimental program seeking to test if six young singles can find romance under one shared roof. But will this change of pace be enough to help Shoko ditch her v-card for good, or will the trauma of her first broken heart jinx her forever to a life without love?

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AUTHOR: Jean Meltzer
RELEASED: August 9, 2022 by Mira
GENRE: Romance, Contemporary
AGE RANGE: Adult
RATINGS: ★★☆☆☆
SYNOPSIS: From the author of The Matzah Ball comes a pitch-perfect romcom following a third-generation Jewish matchmaker who unwittingly finds her own search for love thrust into the spotlight...

The perfect Jewish husband should be:
* A doctor or lawyer (preferably a doctor)
* Baggage-free (no previous marriages, no children)
* And of course—he must be Jewish

As the creator and CEO of the popular Jewish dating app J-Mate, matchmaker Dara Rabinowitz knows the formula for lasting love—at least, for everyone else. When it comes to her own love life, she’s been idling indefinitely. Until her beloved bubbe shares Dara’s checklist for “The Perfect Jewish Husband” on national television and charming news anchor Chris Steadfast proposes they turn Dara’s search into must-see TV.

As a non-Jewish single dad, Chris doesn’t check any of Dara’s boxes. But her hunt for Mr. Perfect is the ratings boost his show desperately needs. If only Chris could ignore his own pesky attraction to Dara—a task much easier said than done when Dara starts questioning if “perfect on paper” can compete with how hard she’s falling for Chris…

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AUTHOR: Jenn McKinlay
RELEASED: January 1, 1994 by Scholastic, Inc.
SERIES: Summer Reading (#2)
GENRE: Romance, Contemporary
AGE RANGE: Adult
RATINGS: ★★☆☆☆
SYNOPSIS: When a librarian moves to a quaint Irish village where her favorite novelist lives, the last thing she expects is to fall for the author’s prickly son… until their story becomes one for the books, from the New York Times bestselling author of Summer Reading .

Emily Allen, a librarian on Martha’s Vineyard, has always dreamed of a life of travel and adventure. So when her favorite author, Siobhan Riordan, offers her a job in the Emerald Isle, Emily jumps at the opportunity. After all, Siobhan’s novels got Em through some of the darkest days of her existence.

Helping Siobhan write the final book in her acclaimed series—after a ten-year hiatus due to a scorching case of writer’s block—is a dream come true for Emily. If only she didn’t have to deal with Siobhan’s son, Kieran Murphy. He manages Siobhan’s bookstore, and the grouchy bookworm clearly doesn’t want Em around.

When Siobhan’s health takes a bad turn, she’s more determined than ever to finish her novel, while Kieran tries every trick in the book to get his mother to rest. Thrown into the role of peacemaker, Emily begins to see that Kieran's heart is in the right place. Torn between helping Siobhan find closure with her series and her own growing feelings for the mercurial Irishman, Emily will have to decide if she’s truly ready to turn a new page and figure out what lies in the next chapter.

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AUTHOR: Io Sakisaka
RELEASED: November 14, 2023 by VIZ Media LLC
SERIES: サクラ、サク。 [Sakura, Saku.] (#1)
GENRE: Contemporary, Slice of Life, Romance
AGE RANGE: Teen
RATINGS: ★★★★☆
SYNOPSIS: A mysterious boy comes to Saku Fujigaya’s rescue when she falls ill on a train, but he leaves before she can thank him. After this experience, Saku never ignores strangers in need of help to emulate the boy who helped her.

Saku Fujigaya would like to thank the boy who helped her, but all she has is a note signed “Ryosuke Sakura.” She discovers that a boy at her high school, Haruki Sakura, has an older brother named Ryosuke. She asks Haruki to deliver her thank-you letter to Ryosuke, but why does he refuse?

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Entries tagged with genre: romance

[Book Review] Fallen

The Elegant Courtly Life of the Tea Witch Vol. 1

Virgin Love 1

[Book Review] Mr. Perfect on Paper

[Book Review] Love at First Book

[Manga Review] Sakura, Saku, Vol. 1

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