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Fans of Thirteen Reasons Why and All the Bright Places will laugh and cry as they read this heartbreaking and life-affirming novel about love after the most profound loss.Seventeen-year-old Tess Fowler has just dropped out of high school. She can barely function after learning of Jonah’s death. Jonah, the boy she’d traded banter with over texts and heartfelt e-mails. Jonah, the first boy she''d told she loved and the first boy to say it back. Jonah, the boy whose suicide she never saw coming. Tess continues to write to Jonah, as a way of processing her grief and confusion. But for now she finds solace in perhaps the unlikeliest of ways: by helping her father with his new alternative funeral business, where his biggest client is . . . a prized racehorse?As Tess’s involvement in her father’s business grows, both find comfort in the clients they serve and in each other. But love, loss, and life are so much more complicated than Tess ever thought. Especially after she receives a message that turns her life upside down.Funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, and wondrous, in the vein of Six Feet Under and I’ll Give You the Sun, Things I''m Seeing Without You is a beautiful examination of what it means to love someone, to lose someone, and to love again.

A smart and funny contemporary YA novel about 17-year-old Ethan who works at the crumbling Green Street Cinema and has to learn, along with his eccentric, dysfunctional work family, that fighting for the thing you love doesn''t always turn out like in the movies.The Green Street Cinema has always been a sanctuary for Ethan. Maybe it''s because movies help him make sense of real life, or maybe it''s because the cinema is the one place he can go to still feel close to his dad, a film professor who died three years ago. Either way, it''s a place worth fighting for, especially when developers threaten to tear it down to build a luxury condos.They say it''s structurally unsound and riddled with health code violations. They clearly don''t understand that the crumbling columns and even Brando, the giant rat with a taste for sour patch kids, are a part of the fabric of this place that holds together the misfits and the dreamers of the changing neighborhood the cinema house has served for so many years.Now it''s up to the employees of the Green Street Cinema--Sweet Lou the organist with a penchant for not-so-sweet language; Anjo the projectionist, nicknamed the Oracle for her opaque-but-always-true proclamations; Griffin and Lucas who work the concessions, if they work at all; and Ethan, known as "Wendy," the leader of these Lost Boys--to save the place they love.It''s going to take a movie miracle if the Green Street is going to have a happy ending. And when Raina, Ethan''s oldest friend (and possible soul mate?), comes back home from Hollywood where she''s been starring in B-movies about time-traveling cats, Ethan thinks that miracle just may have been delivered. But life and love aren''t always like the movies. And when the employees of the Green Street ask what happens in the end to the Lost Boys, Ethan has to share three words he''s not been ready to say: "they grow up."This Book Is Not Yet Rated is the story of growing up and letting go and learning that love can come in many different forms and from many different sources like the places that shape us, the people who raise us, the lovers who leave us, and even the heroic rodents who were once our mortal enemies.

A stunning story about a teenage boy grappling with grief who tries adventure therapy and changes his life forever, perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson and John Green'Raw, propulsive and unforgettable.' Josh Silver, bestselling author of HappyHeadCase's anxiety has been spiralling. His brother, Sean, was the only person who truly got him and now he's gone. So when his parents suggest adventure therapy, Case is desperate enough to agree. But as he boards the coach, he sees the one person he's been trying to avoid: Diana. Sean's girlfriend.Together, the group of strangers set off into the wilderness. While Case confronts his feelings for Diana, the disappearance of their guide soon turns the trip into a fight for survival.If they can find a way to make it back home, it will change their lives forever.'This novel of uncommon depth and astounding empathy will take you on a powerful and hopeful adventure into the human heart that will leave you breathless.' Abdi Nazemian, award-winning author of Like a Love Story

A stunning story about a teenage boy grappling with grief who tries adventure therapy and changes his life forever, perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson and John Green 'Raw, propulsive and unforgettable.' Josh Silver, bestselling author of HappyHead Case's anxiety has been spiralling. His brother, Sean, was the only person who truly got him and now he's gone. So when his parents suggest adventure therapy, Case is desperate enough to agree. But as he boards the coach, he sees the one person he's been trying to avoid: Diana. Sean's girlfriend. Together, the group of strangers set off into the wilderness. While Case confronts his feelings for Diana, the disappearance of their guide soon turns the trip into a fight for survival. If they can find a way to make it back home, it will change their lives forever. 'This novel of uncommon depth and astounding empathy will take you on a powerful and hopeful adventure into the human heart that will leave you breathless.' Abdi Nazemian, award-winning author of Like a Love Story