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A loop of lies, an 8-foot height and endless stomach butterflies...It's the middle of senior year and Jessica Sanchez knows she's socially awkward; she's just never cared.Thrown in an embarrassing incident the day after she moves to Los Angeles from small-town Yountville, Jessica only wants one thing: to climb the popularity ladder that stands in an old man's backyard (the historical treasure of her new high school's popularity clique).Armed with a self-help book called How to Become Popular, cheap but daring store-bought outfits, and pretentious lies on her first day of school, Jessica catches the eye of the clique's well-off charming Italian boy. There's just one problem: Leonard Green, the cute guy from Jessica's high school in Yountville, walks in on her changing in the boys' bathroom, and even worse, he recognizes her-the big dent in her plan.Jessica gets tangled in an adventure of shenanigans and heart palpitations she wasn't expecting.𝐔𝐏𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃 4:00𝐏𝐌 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄…

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Kellie Hampton is heartbroken.Her long-term boyfriend recently broke up with her, her twin brother won't stop hooking up with the street's rebel and her parents are planning on a divorce. Moping around her snow-filled town is the only thing she does when she's not crying her eyes out.During one of her town roams, Kellie bumps into a stranger, and her barely-healed heart causes her to act on impulse. Kellie makes a huge mistake, one that will have her sending anonymous post-it notes everyday to someone who doesn't even live in her town.…

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Axel Matthews is more alive in his head than he is in real life. He is dyslexic, sickle-cell anemic, and can't help thinking the worst about himself.Simona Russell's body is way too eager in forming white blood cells, but she tries-barely, actually-to look past her disease and live for the future, hoping her talent in music will aid her escape from Ottawa to promising New York City.When Axel's father who lives in Ottawa makes him pay a visit for Christmas to "bond" (how everyone except him sees it), Axel meets Simona and the pair form an incomprehensible connection.Simona becomes Axel's reason to live, unleashing the funny expressive guy that makes her laugh out loud, and it is only with Axel that Simona forgets she's leukemic, but as Simona's future brightens, Axel's continues to dim.This story contains themes of hope, grief, suicidal thoughts and the search for meaning.𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐩: Best read under your covers at three am.…

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