The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay

The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay
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Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 0702235512
ISBN-13 : 9780702235511
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay by : Rebecca Sparrow

17-year-old Rachel Hills is about to be faced with her worst nightmare, the most popular boy in school is coming to live with her family for the term. The strain of looking good at breakfast, and her embarrassing childhood photos is too much. But a mysterious secret from her past will make the year one that Rachel will never forget.

The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay

The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay
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Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 9780702252297
ISBN-13 : 0702252298
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay by : Rebecca Sparrow

Bubble skirts. Transvision Vamp. Corkscrew perms. ‘21 Jump Street’. It's 1989 and Rachel Hill is the girl most likely to succeed. And the girl most likely to have everything under control ... that is, until her father invites the moody Nick McGowan to live with them. With the help of her best friend Zoe, Rachel battens down the hatches in preparation for Nick McGowan to move into her old bedroom and into her life. Nick immediately labels Rachel as uptight. With bad taste in music. Rachel immediately labels Nick a no-hoper. With a bad attitude. But it's a secret from Nick's past that will draw them together and make the year Nick McGowan came to stay one that Rachel will never forget. From the bestselling author of The Girl Most Likely.

Find Your Tribe (and 9 Other Things I Wish I'd Known in High School)

Find Your Tribe (and 9 Other Things I Wish I'd Known in High School)
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Publisher : University of Queensland Press
Total Pages : 112
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ISBN-10 : 9780702252556
ISBN-13 : 0702252557
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Find Your Tribe (and 9 Other Things I Wish I'd Known in High School) by : Rebecca Sparrow

Everybody knows that high school can be tough, especially when your best friend behaves like your worst enemy, the person you have a crush on fails to notice you exist, and your athletic skills come in for universal derision. Bestselling author Rebecca Sparrow explains how to get through it all with the help of Ruby Rose, Wil Anderson, and other celebrities. Together they explain how bouncing back, trusting your instincts, and finding your tribe can make all the difference. This is an indispensable guide for adolescents for surviving—and enjoying—their teen years.

The Girl Most Likely

The Girl Most Likely
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Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 0702233455
ISBN-13 : 9780702233456
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis The Girl Most Likely by : Rebecca Sparrow

When you were 17, what did you think your life would be like when you hit 27? At 17, Rachel Hill was the girl most likely to succeed. At 27, with an Honours degree and a career as a travel writer, she thinks that marriage is the only thing missing from this perfect trifecta. Her American boyfriend is smart and gorgeous, just the guy everyone thought she'd find. But one rash decision changes everything. Suddenly Rachel finds herself living back at home in her childhood bedroom, nannying a surly six-year-old and watching Mary Tyler Moore re-runs. Her friends worry she's having a 'quarter-life' crisis - but the real story is far more bizarre. As she confronts her idea of perfection, she finds that happiness is living the life you want to live, rather than the one you're expected to.

It's Not You, It's Me

It's Not You, It's Me
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Publisher : Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : 9780385736961
ISBN-13 : 0385736967
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis It's Not You, It's Me by : Kerry Cohen Hoffmann

Follows sixteen-year-old Zoe through the first thirty-one days after Henry, her boyfriend of six months, breaks up with her, as she moves from being obsessed with getting back together to finding herself again.

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
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Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : 9780375890765
ISBN-13 : 0375890769
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by : Rachel Cohn

The New York Times bestselling he-said/she-said rock n’ roll romance that inspired the motion picture starring Michael Cera (Juno, Arrested Development) and Kat Dennings (Thor, TV’s 2 Broke Girls)! "I know this is going to sound strange, but would you mind being my girlfriend for the next five minutes?" Nick frequents New York's indie rock scene nursing a broken heart. Norah is questioning all of her assumptions about the world. They have nothing in common except for their taste in music, until a chance encounter leads to an all-night quest to find a legendary band's secret show and ends up becoming a first date that could change both their lives. Co-written by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, co-author of WILL GRAYSON, WILL GRAYSON with John Green (THE FAULT IN OUR STARS), NICK & NORAH’S INFINITE PLAYLIST is a sexy, funny roller coaster of a story that reminds you how you can never be sure where the night will take you…

Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon

Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon
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Publisher : SCB Distributors
Total Pages : 310
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ISBN-10 : 9781909394131
ISBN-13 : 1909394130
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon by : David McGowan

The very strange but nevertheless true story of the dark underbelly of a 1960s hippie utopia. Laurel Canyon in the 1960s and early 1970s was a magical place where a dizzying array of musical artists congregated to create much of the music that provided the soundtrack to those turbulent times. Members of bands like the Byrds, the Doors, Buffalo Springfield, the Monkees, the Beach Boys, the Turtles, the Eagles, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Steppenwolf, CSN, Three Dog Night and Love, along with such singer/songwriters as Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, James Taylor and Carole King, lived together and jammed together in the bucolic community nestled in the Hollywood Hills. But there was a dark side to that scene as well. Many didn’t make it out alive, and many of those deaths remain shrouded in mystery to this day. Far more integrated into the scene than most would like to admit was a guy by the name of Charles Manson, along with his murderous entourage. Also floating about the periphery were various political operatives, up-and-coming politicians and intelligence personnel – the same sort of people who gave birth to many of the rock stars populating the canyon. And all the canyon’s colorful characters – rock stars, hippies, murderers and politicos – happily coexisted alongside a covert military installation.

M Or F?

M Or F?
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 1595140913
ISBN-13 : 9781595140913
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis M Or F? by : Lisa Papademetriou

"Cyrano de Bergerac" meets "Will and Grace" in a comic double love match overthe Internet.

Unrequited

Unrequited
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 186
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ISBN-10 : 9781460709405
ISBN-13 : 1460709403
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Unrequited by : Emma Grey

'It's the literary equivalent of eating Tim Tams in your PJs on a Sunday afternoon. I loved this book' - Rebecca Sparrow, author of The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay Seventeen-year-old Kat Hartland loathes Unrequited, theworld's biggest boy band. She's 100 per cent immune to 'perfect' singer AngusMarsden and his unfailingly predictable lyrics. Show her the anti-fan club ... she wants to be itspresident! Just give her a proper musician. Or maybe the seriouslyhot med student who rescued her on the train. Ideal formal partner, right? Ideal everything ... But when Kat comes face to face with Angus Marsdenhimself, things start to get complicated. Throw in a deranged female singer, an enraged fandom,final exams, a part in a musical and a mum who just doesn't get it.

Dark Water

Dark Water
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Publisher : Ember
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9780375843303
ISBN-13 : 0375843302
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Dark Water by : Laura McNeal

A National Book Award Finalist A Kirkus Reviews Best Books for Teens Fifteen-year-old Pearl DeWitt lives in Fallbrook, California, where it's sunny 340 days of the year, and where her uncle owns a grove of 900 avocado trees. Uncle Hoyt hires migrant workers regularly, but Pearl doesn't pay much attention to them...until Amiel. From the moment she sees him, Pearl is drawn to this boy who keeps to himself, fears being caught by la migra, and is mysteriously unable to talk. Then the wildfires strike.