Synopses & Reviews
**A Publishers Weekly Best Book of Summer 2014** **A Summer 2014 Indie Next List Pick**
**A 2014 Junior Library Guild Selection**
**A Los Angeles Times Summer Reading Guide Selection**
**An Entertainment Weekly YA Novel to Watch Out For**
Fate brought them together. Will life tear them apart?
Devorah is a consummate good girl who has never challenged the ways of her strict Hasidic upbringing.
Jaxon is a fun-loving, book-smart nerd who has never been comfortable around girls (unless you count his four younger sisters).
They've spent their entire lives in Brooklyn, on opposite sides of the same street. Their paths never crossed . . . until one day, they did.
When a hurricane strikes the Northeast, the pair becomes stranded in an elevator together, where fate leaves them no choice but to make an otherwise risky connection.
Though their relation is strictly forbidden, Devorah and Jax arrange secret meetings and risk everything to be together. But how far can they go? Just how much are they willing to give up?
In the timeless tradition of West Side Story and Crossing Delancey, this thoroughly modern take on romance will inspire laughter, tears, and the belief that love can happen when and where you least expect it.
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Advance Praise for
Like No Other by Una LaMarche
"This story is ‘bittersweet in every good way. I couldnt stop thinking about it, and about the good hearts and thoughtful minds of the hero and heroine. Romantic and true...you wont be able to stop thinking about this book. A perfect depiction of love and loss." -Huntley Fitzpatrick, author of My Life Next Door and What I Thought Was True
"A heartbreaking story about finding your first true love -- that is also a heart-filling story about finding your own truth." -Nancy Werlin, Edgar Award Winner and National Book Award Finalist
"Like No Other is a powerful and not-put-downable story of forbidden love. Una LaMarche has created two brave teenagers who readers will root for to the very last page." -Carolyn Mackler, bestselling author of Tangled and co-author of The Future of Us
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A 2014 Junior Library Guild Selection
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"Elkeles pens plenty of tasteful, hot scenes . . . that keep the pages turning." —Kirkus Reviews on Perfect Chemistry "Smoldering doesn't quite do justice to the romantic banter." —School Library Journal on Perfect Chemistry "Teens with a taste for romance will eat this up like ice cream on a hot day." —Bulletin for the Center of Childrens Books on Perfect Chemistry "Elkeles once again delivers a steamy page-turner bound to make teens swoon." —School Library Journal on Rules of Attraction "Engaging characters, two of whom share a love that cannot be denied, along with more than a few humorous moments." —VOYA on Rules of Attraction "Fans of the series and other females will gobble up this exciting, suspenseful novel." —VOYA on Chain Reaction
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Praise for
Like No Other:
“[T]he dire consequences that threaten this clandestine romance make the novel read like a thriller…Readers will fall for these two love-struck teenagers as easily as they fall for each other.”
-Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
“One of the most poignant and star-crossed love stories since The Fault in Our Stars.”
-Entertainment Weekly
"Electrifying…surprisingly seductive. LaMarche expertly conjures up what high-stakes infatuation feels like."
-The New York Times Book Review
"...[a] refreshing tale of forbidden love."
-People Magazine
"Una LaMarche tells a truly complex urban story worth telling: An Orthodox Jewish girl and West Indian dork fall in love in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and beat the odds of conservative values trying to keep them apart."
-Vogue.com
"You root for Devorah and Jaxon because you remember you were once like them. From our first love or our first rebellion, they are a way for us to relive those strange and exciting days."
-The Boston Herald
"...romantic and wonderful and heartbreaking..."
--Slate.com
“Like No Other is a moving, coming-of-age story that will have even adults remembering the burning intensity and insecurities of their first love.”
-VOYA
“LaMarche alternates between the two perspectives, prefacing each chapter with a date and time stamp, underlining how time expands and contracts in odd ways when one is in love. [Devorah and Jaxons] time together is forbidden and precious, making each moment simultaneously infinite and too short. Fans of Rainbow Rowells Eleanor and Park…will enjoy this story of surprising love.”
-School Library Journal
"...readers will be fascinated by this peek into a different world, empathetic with the couples feelings and buoyed by the hopeful ending."
-Booklist
"[Devorah's" struggle between tradition and modernity, filial duty and personal fulfillment, is complicated and realistic...This leads to a conclusion that, while bittersweet, is still hopeful."
-Horn Book
"Devorahs narration is eye-opening, especially for young women who have always taken the rules, spoken and unspoken, of their communities for granted."
-BCCB
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Awards and Nominations:
**A Publishers Weekly Best Book of Summer 2014**
**A Summer 2014 Indie Next List Pick**
**A 2014 Junior Library Guild Selection**
**a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults 2015 nominee**
**A Los Angeles Times Summer Reading Guide Selection**
**An Entertainment Weekly YA Novel to Watch Out For**
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“
Like No Other is a bold and passionate portrayal of the bond that can bridge any gap or surmount any barrier, that universal fire that flickers beneath each of our distinct and sometimes misunderstood identities. The relationship between Devorah and Jaxon is emblematic of the warmth and curiosity that exists in its most pure form in the hearts of young people, a compassion that if nurtured and embraced has the power to transcend the ubiquitous pressure of externally wrought perspectives.” -
Deborah Feldman, author of
Exodus and the
New York Times bestseller,
Unorthodox
"This story is ‘bittersweet in every good way. I couldnt stop thinking about it, and about the good hearts and thoughtful minds of the hero and heroine. Romantic and true...you wont be able to stop thinking about this book. A perfect depiction of love and loss." -Huntley Fitzpatrick, author of My Life Next Door and What I Thought Was True
"A heartbreaking story about finding your first true love -- that is also a heart-filling story about finding your own truth." -Nancy Werlin, Edgar Award Winner and National Book Award Finalist
"Like No Other is a powerful and not-put-downable story of forbidden love. Una LaMarche has created two brave teenagers who readers will root for to the very last page." -Carolyn Mackler, bestselling author of Tangled and co-author of The Future of Us
“Like No Other will make you believe in the transforming power of first love.” -Melissa Walker, author of Violet on the Runway, Violet by Design and Violet in Private
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"Gray and Dylan are compelling characters who will appeal to readers in search of a good love story set on the brink of the post-high-school world."--School Library Journal
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"A magnetic love story! I couldn't put it down! I want the second book now!" --Katie McGarry, author of Dare You To
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"An irresistible bad boy, an independent girl, and a century-old family feud add up to a compulsive page turner readers will love."-- Eileen Cook, author of The Almost Truth
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"Gritty and suspenseful, this teen debut blazes with the emotions of all-consuming first love. Readers will fall for the dangerously charming Mickey Rhodale and empathize with Victoria Whitfield as their star-crossed love grows." --Heather Davis, RITA-nominated author of
The ClearingReview
With a fast-paced plot set in Kentucky horse country, heart-pounding suspense, and an oh-so-hot hero, Lucy Connors'
The Lonesome Young is sure to be a huge hit! --Jennifer Echols, author of
Dirty Little SecretReview
Restless, romantic, and riveting! A hot new voice in YA contemporary fiction. I didn't want it to end. --Mari Mancusi, Award winning author of
Scorched and the Blood Coven Vampire series.
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I love Mickey and Victoria in this modern day Romeo and Juliet tale. Their love is fierce and you can't help but hope it will triumph when everything and everyone is against them. --Kassy Tayler, author of
Ashes Of TwilightSynopsis
A fresh, urban twist on the classic tale of star-crossed lovers. When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created “perfect” life is about to unravel before her eyes. Shes forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, and he is about to threaten everything she's worked so hard for—her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend, and the secret that her home life is anything but perfect. Alex is a bad boy and he knows it. So when he makes a bet with his friends to lure Brittany into his life, he thinks nothing of it. But soon Alex realizes Brittany is a real person with real problems, and suddenly the bet he made in arrogance turns into something much more. In a passionate story about looking beneath the surface, Simone Elkeles breaks through the stereotypes and barriers that threaten to keep Brittany and Alex apart.
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A heartbreaking urban romance from award-winning author Paul Griffin
Fifteen-year-olds Cece and Mack didn't expect to fall in love. She's a sensitive A student; he's a high school dropout. But soon they're spending every moment together, bonding over a rescued dog, telling their secrets, making plans for the future. Everything is perfect. Until Mack makes a horrible mistake, and suddenly the future they'd planned becomes impossible. In this stark new reality, both of them must find hope in the memories of what they had, to survive when the person they love can't stay.
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Get swept away in the first book of the sensational romantic drama that is Romeo and Juliet meets Justified. WHAT HAPPENS when the teenage heirs of two bitterly FEUDING FAMILIES cant stay away from each other?
The Rhodales and the Whitfields have been sworn enemies for close on a hundred years, with a whole slew of adulterous affairs, financial backstabbing, and blackmailing thats escalated the rivalry to its current state of tense ceasefire.
ITS TIME TO LIGHT THE FUSE . . .
And now a meth lab explosion in rural Whitfield County is set to reignite the feud more viciously than ever before. Especially when the toxic fire that results throws together two unlikely spectatorsproper good girl Victoria Whitfield, exiled from boarding school after her fathers real estate business melts down in disgrace, and town motorcycle rebel Mickey Rhodale, too late as always to thwart his older brothers dangerous drug deals.
Victoria and Mickey are about to find out the most passionate romances are the forbidden ones.
. . . ON A POWDER KEG FULL OF PENT-UP DESIRE, risk-taking daredevilry, and the desperate actions that erupt when a generation of teens inherits nothing but hate.
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Simone Elkeles' New York Times best-selling series—a unique urban twist on the classic star-crossed lovers story—is now repackaged with a fresh new cover.
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When dark and stormy Gray meets light and lively Dylan, they fall easily into love. But love takes work--and sometimes having to say you're sorry.
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Like his name, Gray is dark and stormy. Dylan, a girl always searching for what's next, seemingly unable to settle down, is the exact opposite: full of light and life. On the outside, they seem like an unlikely couple. But looks can be deceiving and besides, opposites attract.
What starts as friendship, turns into admiration, respect and caring, until finally these two lone souls find they are truly in love with each other.
But staying in love is not as easy as falling in love. If Dylan and Gray want their love to last, they're going to have to work at it. And learn that sometimes love means having to say you're sorry.
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About the Author
SIMONE ELKELES is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Perfect Chemistry series, Leaving Paradise series, and How to Ruin series. All three books in the Perfect Chemistry series have been YALSA Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers, and the Illinois Association of Teachers of English named Simone 2008 Author of the Year. Simone's funny way of looking at the world shines through in novels that are bursting with sarcastic wit, edgy characters, and exhilarating drama. You can find her at www.simoneelkeles.com.