Kelsie Stelting
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"It makes you feel all the feels. And it lets you know that it's okay to feel it all." -Cookie O'Gorman, The Art of Taking Chances ForewordIn love, you have to leap to feel the rush. From first kisses to second chances and celebrity encounters, this collection of young adult contemporary romance short stories has it all. A forbidden game of truth or dare turns into summer love, a chemistry lab explosion leads to fireworks, a last-minute to-do list...
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Someone's out to get me. I just don't know who.
It's been the craziest year of my life, and celebrating graduation with Jon just makes it all feel real. Like maybe I can have my happily ever after.
But then Grandma hands me a graduation card. And there's no address on it. No signature. Just six words from a complete stranger that turn my life upside down.
I'm supposed to be getting ready for college. Dealing with moving away from my friends after...
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Emerson's first Pride Celebration is full of joy, love, and enough drama to last a lifetime.
Ever since coming out, Xi's parents have been her biggest cheerleaders, pushing her to join the Emerson Pride Association and making the community a better place for people like her. Now, she's got the huge responsibility of planning Emerson Academy's first ever inclusive prom to take place after the town's very first pride parade, even though she's never...
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What do you do when you've lost everything you hoped for?
Volleyball was my way out. So now, instead of trying to get away from my small town, I'm just trying to escape the pain.
I don't know how, but I went from never-been-kissed to kissing two guys in a week. Somehow I got the attention of the sweet guy with a sunshine smile and Kellum freaking Watts.
Who is this girl who's taken over my body and suddenly gets the guy?
And now I have to make...
5) Loving Skye
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My junior year was a failure of epic proportions.
Like, they need to create a new grading scale for how badly it went.
Now I only have one year left of high school to plan for my future and hopefully have a little fun while doing it.
But life has other plans in the form of a surprise visit from my sister.
After months of silence, her news changes everything.
I knew how much I was willing to sacrifice to get out of this town. But now I have to...
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How much money does it take to buy a broken heart?
There are three things I hate: rich people, boys, and Kai Rush. Kai happens to be all three.
He and his dad have all the money in the world from the game app they created, and what do they do with it? They buy private helicopters and flaunt their brand new Teslas. Never mind that people like my mom and I work multiple jobs just to keep our crappy apartment and pay for back medical bills because...
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I don't want to be another statistic.
After everything I've been through, I'm more focused than ever on healing myself and living the kind of life I want. But with my dad up for parole and Jon's athletic career over with a single injury, my dreams are turning into a nightmare.
I have so many questions. How can I heal when everything around me seems so broken? How can I live my life when the person who hurt me might walk free?
And the hardest question...
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The one thing my parents can't shelter me from is my heart.
I nearly died the summer of my eighth grade year, and ever since then, my parents have done everything they could to keep me healthy. Now I'm a senior, and instead of feeling safe, I'm suffocating.
When my parents take my twin sisters out of town for an audition, I have my chance to show them that I'm responsible. That I can go to college on my own and start a life outside of their organic...
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High school was supposed to be the best time of my life, until it wasn't.
With a dysfunctional family, a mean girl out to get my spot on the volleyball team, and no chance of my quarterback crush noticing me, high school is shaping up to be my worst nightmare instead.
Now the mean girl is turning my friends and coach against me. My parents are more controlling than ever. And then I blow out my knee during a game, ruining my chance at a scholarship,...
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The strongest bodybuilder in Emerson isn't a match for my focus.
Emerson Dance is one of the most prestigious dance companies in the country. And I got kicked off the team right before nationals because my curves don't "fit." Not their idea of a perfect dancer's body and definitely not their costume.
I'm going to enter the competition on my own and show them that every body is a dancer's body. It will mean practicing in the gym with the bodybuilders,...
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Curvy girls deserve happily ever afters too.
I'm a big girl, "plus-sized," whatever. I'm sick of hearing about it, especially since my doctor diagnosed me with PCOS. So when Mean Girl Merritt shot her mouth off about how fat people should just lose weight, I couldn't take it anymore.
And now I've got a huge problem. To prove curvy girls like me can get happily-ever-afters too, I have to get our school's quarterback, Beckett Langley, to take me to...
12) Chasing Skye
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I have to get out of here.
I'm drowning in this small town, in my parents' tiny house filled with big rules and even bigger anger. And there's only one thing that can get me out.
Volleyball.
But Shelby's out to take everything I've worked for away from me over a stupid grudge.
She won't stop at sabotaging my volleyball position. No, she's out for blood. That means she'll attack me everywhere it counts. Volleyball, weightlifting, my friendships,...
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Ryker is the top of the Emerson Academy food chain, and he uses his power to remind everyone of just how powerless they are.
Until now.
When I see him picking on the most innocent girl in school for her weight, I snap. Ignoring him is no longer enough. No, my friends and I are going to make him pay.
He's going to go down as the hottest mess Emerson Academy has ever seen, and I'm going to be the one lighting the flame.
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An arranged marriage and a bad boy who breaks all of the rules...
My father's been planning my wedding day for longer than I have. Since I turned seventeen, he's sent me on date after date with people from the film industry-producers, directors, actors... I've dated-and turned down-them all.
But Ryde Alexander is the worst. He's vapid, self-obsessed, and it doesn't help that his sister is evil in a pair of Louboutin heels. Too bad he's the one my...
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Catch up with the original Curvy Girl Club as adults in this full-length story told from alternating points of view!
Life has a way of pulling friends in different directions. Not all of them are good.
Five friends found each other senior year of high school, but things have changed since then. From cross-country moves to demanding school and work schedules, keeping a friendship going is harder than any of them anticipated.
But when the beloved...
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It was all fake dating and games until my heart got involved....
I wanted to have the best summer ever. To have my first kiss and finally get my brother's best friend to notice me.
So I talked my best friend Carson into helping.
He'd do anything for me, and I'd do the same for him. But somewhere between fake dating and pretending to fall in love with him, I fell for real.
And it was the dumbest thing I've ever done.
In the last four books of...
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It's the first day at my new school and I already have a wide load sticker on my back.
But this is still better than life was before. Before I was taken away from my parents. Before I moved in with my grandma.
Before I met Jon Scoller.
He's cute, he lives down the street, but the guy asks way too many questions. Questions about a past I'd rather forget.
And I am not his type. He needs to be with a cheerleader. A perfect girl. Someone who doesn't...
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Abi hasn't had an easy life. In fact, the opposite. And when she has to move in with her Grandma midway through her senior year, she thinks it's just getting worse. Little does she know a boy down the street and a rag tag group of friends are about to turn her world - and her heart - upside down.
19) Dear Adam
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What happens when the bad boy takes over the school advice column?
The last thing Emerick should be doing is giving anyone advice. His dad's in prison. His mom's buried under credit card debt. And he's one step from failing. After everything his mom's been through, she can't take another disappointment. So when the guidance counselor gives him a choice, anonymously write the school's advice column or drop out, what choice does he really have?
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I gave him three rules. Three impossible rules.
I don't want you to know my real name.
We're never going to meet in person.
You don't get to be my prince charming.
When I woke up in the hospital, fatherless and blind, falling in love was my last priority. No, I had to figure out how to live again. And deal with my heinous aunt. Plus her two daughters, aka the 'terrible two'.
But then I got my first letter from Jett.
He shouldn't want anything...