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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* "Engaging from the first page."--VOYA, starred review
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"Like Smith's The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight (2012), this sweet novel has a premise worthy of the movies... [The] charming leads, smalltown backdrop, and absurdly romantic conceit will win hearts."--Publishers Weekly
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"Utterly convincing... a cast of vivid, sympathetic characters whose fate matters to readers and keeps them turning the pages."--Kirkus Reviews
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"The blend of celebrity glitz and small-town coziness gives this summer love story a pleasant frame, and it will leave readers wishing for more time with this endearing couple as the sun rises on their last morning together."--Booklist
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"Ellie and Graham sustain a sweet and genuine romance. Their chemistry is undeniable, and readers will wonder about their love story long after the last page."--School Library Journal
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"Undeniable chemistry...Ellie and Graham's connection, 'like the pull of a magnet, powerful and inevitable,' lingers on beyond their wistful but optimistic goodbye."--The Horn Book
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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**
Review
“
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
Synopsis
If fate sent you an email, would you answer?When teenage movie star Graham Larkin accidentally sends small town girl Ellie O'Neill an email about his pet pig, the two seventeen-year-olds strike up a witty and unforgettable correspondence, discussing everything under the sun, except for their names or backgrounds.
Then Graham finds out that Ellie's Maine hometown is the perfect location for his latest film, and he decides to take their relationship from online to in-person. But can a star as famous as Graham really start a relationship with an ordinary girl like Ellie? And why does Ellie want to avoid the media's spotlight at all costs?
Synopsis
The compelling companion title to the much-lauded Just One Day follows Willem's transformative journey toward self-discovery and true love, by the author of If I Stay.
Picking up where Just One Day ended, Just One Year tells Willem's side of the story. After spending an amazing day and night with Allyson in Paris that ends in separation, Willem and Allyson are both searching for one another. His story of their year of quiet longing and near misses is a perfect counterpoint to Allysons own as Willem undergoes a transformative journey, questioning his path, finding love, and ultimately, redefining himself.
* The complexity of Willems character, the twisting plot, and far-flung settings (including the Netherlands, Mexico, and India) create an alluring story that pushes beyond the realm of star-crossed romance.” Publishers Weekly starred review
As much a travelogue as it is a romance, this novel will appeal to fans of the movie Before Sunrise or Maureen Johnson's 13 Little Blue Envelopes (HarperCollins, 2005).”School Library Journal
As [Willem] becomes engaged personally and professionally, readers will find their interest quickening, right up to the satisfying denouement.”Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
Una LaMarche is a writer and journalist whose work appears regularly in the New York Observer and on the Huffington Post. She is the author of Five Summers, a young adult novel, and UNABROW, a collection of humorous essays based on some of her more questionable life choices. Una lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son. Find out more at unalamarche.com or follow her on Twitter @sassycurmudgeon