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DASH & LILY’S BOOK OF DARES

“I’ve left some clues for you. If you want them, turn the page. If you don’t, put the book back on the shelf, please.” So begins the latest whirlwind romance from the New York Times bestselling authors of Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Lily has left a red notebook full of challenges on a favorite bookstore shelf, waiting for just the right guy to come along and accept its dares. But is Dash that right guy? Or are Dash and Lily only destined to trade dares, dreams, and desires in the notebook they pass back and forth at locations across New York? Could their in-person selves possibly... 

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NAOMI & ELY’S NO KISS LIST

Naomi <3 Ely. And she’s kinda in love with him. Ely <3 Naomi. But he prefers to be in love with boys. Naomi and Ely have been inseparable since childhood – partially because they’ve grown up across the hall from each other in the same Manhattan apartment building, and also because they’re best friends. Soul mates. Or are they? Just to be safe, they’ve created a NO KISS LIST – their list of people who are absolutely off-kissing limits for both of them. The NO KISS LIST protects their friendship and ensures that nothing will rock the foundation of Naomi and... 

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NICK & NORAH’S INFINITE PLAYLIST

It all starts when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes. He only needs five minutes to avoid his ex-girlfriend, who’s just walked in to his band’s show. With a new guy. And then, with one kiss, Nick and Norah are off on an adventure set against the backdrop of New York City – and smack in the middle of all the joy, anxiety, confusion, and excitement of a first date. This he said/she said romance told by YA stars Rachel Cohn and David Levithan is a sexy, funny roller coaster of a story about one date over one very long night, with two teenagers, both recovering from... 

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VERY LEFREAK

Very LeFreak has a problem: she’s a crazed technology addict. Very can’t get enough of her iPhone, laptop, IMs, text messages, whatever. If there’s a chance the incoming message, call, text, or photo might be from her super-secret online crush, she’s going to answer, no matter what. Nothing is too important: sleep, friends in mid-conversation, class, a meeting with the dean about academic probation. Soon enough, though, this obsession costs Very everything and everyone. Can she learn to block out the noise so she can finally hear her heart? From acclaimed author Rachel Cohn... 

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YOU KNOW WHERE TO FIND ME

First cousins Laura and Miles grew up like sisters. Miles thought of Laura as the golden one – smart, beautiful, rich, and popular, while Miles considered herself the unwanted one – an unattractive, underachieving outcast. Laura’s suicide shatters Miles, leaving her feeling completely alone, and setting Miles on a dangerous, downward spiral. But in the strength Miles finds in herself and in those she didn’t believe cared about her, she is able to rebuild her life in unexpected ways. Rachel Cohn’s emotionally powerful new novel views serious issues such as depression,... 

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POP PRINCESS

When fifteen-year-old Wonder Blake is plucked from her job at the Dairy Queen and given the chance to become a teen idol, it seems like a dream come true – even if it wasn’t her dream, but her older sister Lucky’s. Lucky was on her way to becoming a pop star when she died, and Wonder and her family are still trying to recover from their loss. Offered a recording contract, Wonder jumps at the chance to escape from a dead-end town, her fractured family, and worst of all, high school. Suddenly she has it all: a hot new look, a chart-busting hit single, a tour opening up for superstar... 

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THE STEPS

Annabel has a bazillion step- and half-siblings that she could do without. What she really wants is for her father to return to her and her mother. There is that problem of his new wife and children in Australia… but Annabel is sure that during her vacation in Sydney, she can convince him to come home. When she sees how happy he actually is, though, Annabel begins to consider whether she can share her father without losing him entirely.  

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CUPCAKE

When Cyd Charisse moves from San Francisco to start a new life in New York City, she leaves behind her family – and her true love, Shrimp. She wants to find a cool job, the city’s best caffeination and most perfect cupcake, and a hot new love. But the reality of CC’s new lift hits some unexpected obstacles, including a broken leg that renders her immobile; the joy and aggravation of sharing an apartment with a roommate who’s also an older brother; and a tasty selection of guys – none of whom measure up to Shrimp. Then, just when CC starts to get her new life on track,... 

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SHRIMP

The long-awaited sequel to Gingerbread! Now that Cyd Charisse has returned home from her summer in New York City, she’s got a new mission: to reclaim her true love, Shrimp, the hottest pint-size artist-surfer in San Francisco. Yes, he broke up with her before she left San Francisco — but Cyd has grown up over the summer, and she doesn’t plan to let Shrimp get away that easily this time around. Besides her relationship with Shrimp, Cyd is attempting to keep the new peace at home with her mother, who is bugging her about college applications — even though Cyd’s idea... 

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GINGERBREAD

After being kicked out of a fancy New England boarding school, Cyd Charisse is back home in San Francisco with her parents, Sid and Nancy, in a household that drives her crazy. Lucky for Cyd, she’s always had Gingerbread, her childhood rag doll and confidante. After Cyd tests her parents’ permissiveness, she is grounded in Alcatraz (as Cyd calls her room). But when her incarceration proves too painful for the whole family, Cyd’s parents decide to send her to New York to meet her biological father and his family, whom Cyd has always longed to know. Summer in the city is not what... 

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Greetings and salutations,

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New book news!  Coming this October 2012, the first in a 4-book YA sci-fi/fantasy series for Disney-Hyperion, called Beta.

In a world constructed to absolute perfection, imperfection is difficult to understand—and impossible to hide.

Elysia is a clone, created in a laboratory, born as a sixteen year old girl, an empty vessel with no life experience to draw from. She is a Beta, an experimental model of teenaged clone. She was replicated from another teenage girl, who had to die in order for Elysia to be created.

Elysia’s purpose is to serve the inhabitants of Demesne, an island paradise for the wealthiest people on earth. Everything about Demesne is bioengineered for perfection. Even the air there induces a strange, euphoric high that only the island’s workers—soulless clones like Elysia—are immune to.

At first, Elysia’s new life on this island paradise is idyllic and pampered. But she soon sees that Demesne’s human residents, the most privileged people in the world who should want for nothing, yearn. And, she comes to realize that beneath its flawless exterior, there is an undercurrent of discontent amongst Demesne’s worker clones. She knows she is soulless and cannot feel and should not care—so why are overpowering sensations clouding Elysia’s mind?

If anyone discovers that Elysia isn’t the unfeeling clone she must pretend to be, she will suffer a fate too terrible to imagine. When Elysia’s one chance at happiness is ripped away from her with breathtaking cruelty, emotions she’s always had but never understood are unleashed. As rage, terror, and desire threaten to overwhelm her, Elysia must find the will to survive.

Here’s a recent blog interview I did about the book should you be so interested.  I’m super excited for this new venture and can’t wait to share these books with you.

Meanwhile, my latest collaboration with Mr. Levithan, Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares, is now available in paperback. It’s a Christmas-themed book written in dual narrations.   Some nice coverage of the book here:  NY Daily News, USA Today and The Huffington Post.  And, potentially exciting movie news!

Movie Trailers – Movies Blog

Additionally, my latest solo book, Very LeFreak, is now available in paperback.  It’s about a college girl whose addiction to technology gets her sent to rehab.  It’s a very dear book to me and I hope you enjoy it!  Check out the book trailer:

Books I’m excited about include Patricia McCormick‘s forthcoming Never Fall Down, which is seriously amazing, and Megan McCafferty‘s Thumped, the follow-up to her brilliant Bumped, and Melina Marchetta‘s latest fantasy Froi of the Exiles (I super fangirl her writing).  What I’m obsessing over right now:  Paulie Gee’s pizza, the Hunger Games movie and books, Revenge, and hoping you will like Beta!

Happy reading, as always, and thanks for stopping by!

Cheers,

Rachel

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