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West Side Story (812 West) – Contains both dramas in one book, but West Side Story tells the story of "star-crossed" lovers living in New York in modern times who experience the prejudice and hate which deprive them of the happiness they strive for.

Starcrossed (F Angelini) - When shy sixteen-year-old Helen starts having vivid dreams about three ancient, hideous women and suddenly tries to kill a new student at her Nantucket high school, she discovers that she is playing out some version of an old tale involving Helen of Troy, the Three Furies, and a mythic battle.

Pride and Prejudice (F Austen) - n early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters. Includes commentary on literary and historical context as well as allusion and language

The Red Queen (F Aveyard) - In a world divided by blood--those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities--seventeen-year-old Mare, a Red, discovers she has an ability of her own. To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. But Mare risks everything and uses her new position to help the Scarlet Guard--a growing Red rebellion--even as her heart tugs her in an impossible direction.

Crossing Ebenezer’s Creek (F Bolden) - Freed from slavery, Mariah and her young brother Zeke join Sherman's march through Georgia, where Mariah meets a free black named Caleb and dares to imagine the possibility of true love, but hope can come at a cost.

Naughts and Crosses (F Blackman) - Callum and Sephy played together as small children, and their love is forbidden, now he is a second class citizen, a member of the naughts, and she is a cross, a part of the ruling elite, but when Sephy and her mother are nearly caught in a terrorist bombing and Callum's father is the prime suspect, more than there love is tested.

Wuthring Heights (F Bronte) - Forced by a storm to spend the night at the home of the somber Heathcliff, Mr. Lockwood uncovers a tale of terror and hatred on the Yorkshire moors,

Jane Eyre (F Bronte) - When a penniless governess falls in love with the brooding master of Thornfield, she is unaware of the tragic events that will follow.

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Everafter (F Chandler) - Star-crossed lovers Ivy and Tristan struggle to clear Tristan's name when he is returned to Earth in the body of an accused murderer, a situation complicated by Tristan's endangering his own soul

Girl with a Pearl Earring (F Chevalier) - The life of sixteen-year-old Griet is transformed forever when she goes to work as a maid in the home of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, and catches the eye of the famous artist.

The Exiled Queen (F Chima) - Two teenagers, one fleeing from a forced marriage and the other from a dangerous family of wizards, cross paths and fall in love.

City of Ashes (F Clare) - Sixteen-year-old Clary continues trying to make sense of the swiftly changing events and relationships in her life as she becomes further involved with the Shadowhunters and their pursuit of demons and discovers some terrifying truths about her parents, her brother Jace, and her boyfriend Simon.

Endless Knight (F Cole) - "Evie has fully come into her powers as the tarot Empress. As one of twenty-two teens given powers following the apocalypse, she knows a war is brewing, and it's kill or be killed

The Hunger Games (F Collins) - Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.

Matched (F Condie) - Cassia has always had complete trust in the Society to make decisions for her, but when she is being paired with her ideal mate, a second face flashes on the screen, and Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility as she tries to decide which man she truly loves

Misguided Angel (F De La Cruz) - Schuyler, having fled to Florence with her forbidden love Jack, tries to protect the seven gates that guard earth from Lucifer, as the Blue Blood enclave weakens and she struggles with a decision that could determine the destiny of vampires.

Once and For All (F Dessen) - "Louna's years working at her mother's wedding planning business--as well as the tragic end of her first love--have shaped her cynical views on romance, but the arrival of serial-dater Ambrose may start to change Louna's mind and give her a second chance at love"

Romiette and Julio (F Draper) - Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, but are harassed by a gang whose members object to their interracial dating.

The Jewel (F Ewing) - Violet, a poor girl from the outer city, finds forbidden romance and uncovers brutal secrets when, after three years of training, she is purchased by a royal family as a surrogate mother for royal children. The Forbidden Wish (F Khoury) - Forced to hid her true identity, Zahra, a teenage genie, finds her chance for freedom challenged by her love for her master, Aladdin. 3

Either the Beginning or the End (F Farish) - Sofie, sixteen, lives alone with her father, a Scottish fisherman, on New Hampshire's coast and is not prepared for the return of her pregnant mother, a Cambodian immigrant, or for the forbidden relationship she has begun with a young Army medic back from Afghanistan.

Romeo’s Ex: The Rosalind Story (F Fielder) - In a story based on the Shakespeare play, sixteen-year-old , who is studying to be a healer, becomes romantically entangled with the Montague family even as her beloved young cousin, Capulet, defies the family feud to secretly marry .

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (F Ford) - Henry Lee, a Chinese-American in Seattle, loses his wife to cancer and recalls his youth, when he and his Japanese-American friend, Keiko, spent time together during WWII--before Keiko and her family were interred at a camp--and deals with generational difficulties between himself and his father and college-age son

Just One Year (F Forman) - "After spending an amazing day and night with a nameless girl in Paris, Willem embarks on his own transformative journey to find her again

The Edge of Everything (F Giles) - Holded up in their missing neighbors' cabin in a Montana blizzard, seventeen-year-old Zoe and her little brother are rescued from an intruder by X, a bounty hunter sent from the Lowlands to claim the souls of evil men

The Princess Bride (F Goldman) - Westley, a farm boy, goes off to seek his fortune shortly after declaring his love for Buttercup, the most beautiful woman in the world, but their relationship is put to the test when his ship is captured by pirates and she is summoned to become the bride of the prince.

The Fault in Our Stars (F Green) - Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.

Hourglass (F Grey) - Star-crossed lovers Lucas and Bianca are on the run, pursued not only by Black Cross vampire hunters but also by the powerful vampires of Evernight, when Bianca learns that her destiny is tied to that of the wraiths

Book of a Thousand Days (F Hale) - Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year- old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.

A Little Something Different (F Hall) - The creative writing teacher, the local baristas, his best friend, her roommate, and the squirrel in the park all have one thing in common-they believe that Gabe and Lea should get together. They have a lot in common, but unfortunately, Lea is 4 reserved, Gabe is shy, and despite their mutual crush, it looks like they are never going to work things out

Juliet Immortal (F Jay) - For seven hundred years, the souls of have repeatedly inhabited the bodies of newly deceased people to battle to the death as sworn enemies, until they meet for the last time as two Southern California high school students.

Romeo Redeemed (F Jay) - In modern-day California Romeo is offered one last chance to redeem himself by switching sides and becoming an Ambassador--if he can prove himself worthy by making Juliet, as Ariel, love him in a reality with a different past than his own

The Iron Daughter (F Kagawa) - Meghan, half Summer faery princess and half human, is taken captive by the Winter faery queen, but while hostilities continue to grow between Winter and Summer, Meghan knows the real threat comes from the Iron fey that only she and her former boyfriend, the Winter prince, have seen

Son of the Mob (F Korman) - Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent

These Broken Stars (F Kaufman) - "Two star-crossed lovers must fight for survival when they crash land on a seemingly uninhabited planet

The Tragedy Paper (F Laban) - While preparing for the most dreaded assignment at the prestigious Irving School, the Tragedy Paper, Duncan gets wrapped up in the tragic tale of Tim Macbeth, a former student who had a clandestine relationship with the wrong girl, and his own ill-fated romance with Daisy.

Ronit and Jamil (F Laskin) - "A retelling of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" that transports the star-crossed lovers to the modern-day Israel-Palestine conflict"

A Tragic Kind of Wonderful (F Lindstrom) - A sixteen-year-old girl living with bipolar disorder learns to balance romance, friendship, and grief

The Opposite of Love (F Lynn) -Fifteen-year-old Rose and seventeen-year-old Chase find a common bond in their troubled relationships with their parents, but as Chase's family life improves, Rose's becomes worse, pulling the couple apart.

Legend (F Lu) - In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy. In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters..

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A Court of Thorns and Roses (Maas) - "Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from stories, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, a High Lord of the faeries. As her feelings toward him transform from hostility to a firey , the threats against the faerie lands grow. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose Tamlin forever

Blood Promise (F Mead) - Just days before graduating from St. Vladimir's Academy, guardian- in-training Rose travels to Siberia to drive a stake into the heart of the boy she loves, the monstrous vampire Dimitri

The Glittering Court (F Mead) – For a select group of girls, the Glittering Court offers a shot at a life they've only ever dreamed of, one of luxury, glamour, and leisure. To high-born Adelaide, whose wealthy family is forcing her into a loveless marriage, the Glittering Court represents something else: the chance to chart her own destiny, and adventure in an unspoiled, prosperous new land across the sea. After a chance meeting with the dazzling Cedric Thorn, Adelaide poses as a servant to join the crop of impoverished girls he promises to transform into proper ladies. But her familiarity with upper class life comes with a price: she must hide her identity from her new friends, mysterious refugee Mira and fiery former laundress Tamsin, and most importantly, from Cedric himself-even though she's falling in love with him. Everything begins to crumble when Cedric discovers Adelaide's ruse, and she catches the eye of a powerful young governor, who wants her for a wife. She didn't leave the gilded cage of her old life behind just to become someone else's property. But nothing is as daunting-or as wonderful-as the potent, forbidden attraction simmering between Adelaide and Cedric. One that, if acted on, would make them both outcasts in a wild, dangerous, uncharted world, and possibly lead them to their deat

A Little Love Story (F Merullo) - Janet Rossi, beautiful aide to the governor of Massachusetts, suffers from an illness that threatens her future, and feels that starting a love affair with carpenter Jake Entwhistle would lead to nothing but heartache, but she soon learns love does not wait for the perfect time.

Cinder (F Meyer) - Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle.

Twilight (F Meyer) - Seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, where she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

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Gone with the Wind (F Mitchell) - Willful and pampered Scarlett O'Hara's strength of character carries her through the deprivations of the Civil War, but her infatuation with Ashley Wilkes keeps her from recognizing her true love until it is too late.

Me Before You (F Moyes) - "They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose--Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life--steady boyfriend, close family--who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident"

All the Bright Places (F Niven) - "Told in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, both teetering on the edge, it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of Indiana, and two teens' desperate desire to heal and save one another

Delirium (F Oliver) - Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.

Criss Cross (F Perkins) - Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.

Divergent (F Roth) - In a future , sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.

Insurgent (Roth) - Tris Prior survives the Erudite simulation attacks that occur during the time she expected to be celebrating her achievement of being ranked first among the initiate class of her chosen faction, Dauntless. Even though the Dauntless have been freed from Erudite mind control, a war develops and secrets emerge.

Eleanor and Park (F Rowell) - Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.

Extraordinary Means (F Schneider) - When he's sent to Latham House, a boarding school for sick teens, Lane thinks his life may as well be over. But when he meets Sadie and her friends - a group of eccentric troublemakers - he realises that maybe getting sick is just the beginning. That illness doesn't have to define you, and that falling in love is its own cure.

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The Raven Boys (F Stiefvater) - Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger, and when she meets Gansey, one of the Raven Boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that he has talents of his own--and that together their talents are a dangerous mix.

An Ember in the Ashes (F Tahir) - "Laia is a Scholar living under the iron- fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution"

Uglies (F Westerfeld) - Tally is faced with a difficult choice when her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the outside rather than submit to the forced operation that turns sixteen-year-old girls into gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a whole new side to the pretty world that she does not like.

Ethan Frome (F Wharton) - The tragic story of Ethan Frome, a New England farmer married to a hypochondriac and in love with his wife's lively cousin, Mattie.