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New Releases: April 9, 2024

Young Adult Every Time You Hear That Song by Jenna Voris They say to never meet your idols. But they never said anything about upending your life for a quest designed by one. Seventeen-year-old aspiring journalist Darren Purchase has been a lifelong fan of country music legend Decklee Cassel, who’s as famous for her classic hits as she is for her partnership with songwriter Mickenlee Hooper. The…

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NEW YOUNG ADULT RELEASES! (APRIL 9TH, 2024)

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HAVE I MISSED ANY NEW YOUNG ADULT RELEASES? HAVE YOU ADDED ANY OF THESE BOOKS TO YOUR TBR? LET ME KNOW!

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NEW STANDALONES/FIRST IN A SERIES:

Teenage Dirtbags by James Acker

Canto Contigo by Jonny Garza Villa

The Darkness Rises by Stacy Stokes

The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray by Christine Calella

Right Here, Right Now by Shannon Dunlap

The Last Love Song by Kalie Holford

Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier

NEW SEQUELS:

Against the Darkness (In Every Generation #3) by Kendare Blake

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9 Exciting April 2024 Book Releases to Read Now

I cannot even explain how many absolutely incredible looking books are coming out this month! I guess a good place to start would be that I checked out 4 influencer ALCs from Libro.fm when my previous maximum was 2. There were simply too many good ones to pass up on! Even outside of those, the books coming out this month look delightful from start to finish and I’m sure many of the WTTN Best Of…

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📖 "The Last Love Song" by Katie Holford

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thanks to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC

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🦇 The Last Love Song Book Review 🦇

❓ #QOTD What's your favorite love song?❓ 🦇 After graduating, Mia Peters is given a letter from her late mother, country music star Tori Rose — the woman who left the small town of Sunset Cove to pursue her dream. That first letter sends her on a scavenger hunt across town to find more, each one like a puzzle piece, adding to the hazy image Mia has of the woman behind hit albums and fame. Each letter brings Mia closer to her mother, but further away from her best friend and sort-of-girlfriend Britt, who is leaving in a few days to pursue the same dream. Can Mia unravel her mother's past, face her present, and decide on a future outside of Sunset Cove? Or will the truth leave her disappointed and trapped in the small town her mother left behind?

💜 Kalie Holford does a stunning job at sparking vivacious life into Tori Rose through letters and journal entries. You experience the magnetism everyone in Sunset Cove once did, and understand why the entire town reveres her. Readers are bound to connect and empathize with both Tori and her daughter Mia in this dual POV/dual timeline story. Reading it, I was instantly tugged back to 2005, at the memory of reading Maureen Johnson's 13 Little Blue Envelopes. There's such exquisite balance between the past and present in this story, Tori's puzzle-pieced past simultaneously soothing Mia's concerns about leaving Sunset Cove while adding to them — a reminder that your choices and mistakes MUST be your own.

💜 That beautiful balance creates parallels between Mia's story and her mother's. We even see parallels between Mia and her unknown father. Both run away, fear being brave or taking a risk, and it holds them back from their true potential. Mia is so eager NOT to repeat her mother's history that she second-guesses herself constantly, afraid to make her own mistakes. Mia not only learns from her mother's journal entries, but also the lives she touched — proving the domino effect we can have on another person's lives. At the end, though...it's also a story about regret. We aren't our mistakes, but what we learn from them. It's a story about growth after the fact.

💜 "I will never regret chasing my dream. I regret the people I hurt. I regret the bridges I burned. I regret losing who I was in an attempt to find someone else in everyone else and within me."

💜 The lyrics from Mia's music AND her mothers add an extra layer to this story. For the record, I did cry (reading the story's literal Last Long Song), so if you're sappy like me, have tissues at the ready.

💙 Holford beautifully encapsulates that pivitol "coming-of-age" moment that empowers any YA story. The best friends to lovers aspect is messy, realistic, and pure; a series of stolen, secret kisses, failed relationships with others in between, the fear of either ruining or losing an unspoken love story. You'll root for Mia and Britt, cry at Mia's side, and feel full of hope by the end of it all. Also, Mia's grandmothers? They are everything.

🦇 This is a powerful, atmospheric debut that's bursting with heart and soul. Recommended for fans of Sadie, 13 Little Blue Envelopes, and Mama Mia. And, beyond a doubt, all you Swifties.

✨ The Vibes ✨ 🎵 Bisexual FMC 🎶 Sapphic Romance / Best Friends to Lovers 🎵 Lyrics 🎶 Mother/Daughter 🎵 Dual POV 🎶 Dual Timeline 🎵 Grief & Self-Discovery 🎶 Contemporary YA 🎵 Debut

🦇 Major thanks to the author @kalieholford and publisher @blackstonepublishing for providing an ARC of this book via Netgalley. 🥰 This does not affect my opinion regarding the book.

💬 Quotes ❝ All my life I’ve collected pieces of Tori Rose like breadcrumbs, lyrics like talismans, stories like safety nets. ❞ ❝ "Really think about it without the fear and the lies and the telling yourself you can’t have it.” ❞ ❝ “You’re going to be a star, you know that, right?” She shakes her head. “Stars burn out. I want to be my own goddamn galaxy.” ❞ ❝ She’s the personification of a love song, and I can’t get her out of my head. ❞ ❝ The world raises girls to be competitors not constellations. ❞ ❝ We burst and we break. We are dichotomies and paradoxes and lies and happily never afters. We are an ending that wants to be a beginning and a beginning that never got to start quite right. We are everything and she is everything and only I know that I truly wish I could go with her. ❞

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Here are bisexual books out in April!

Books listed:

In Universes by Emet North Dear Bi Men: A Black Man's Perspective on Power, Consent, Breaking Down Binaries, and Combating Erasure by J.R. Yussuf Truly, Madly, Deeply by Alexandria Bellefleur Of Blood and Aether (Harbingers, #1) by Harper Hawthorne Saint-Seducing Gold (The Forge & Fracture Saga #2) by Brittany N. Williams Darker by Four (Darker by Four, #1) by June C.L. Tan Rough Trade by Katrina Carrasco The Last Love Song by Kalie Holford Moon Dust in My Hairnet by J.R. Creaden What Is Love? by Jen Comfort Finally Fitz by Marisa Kanter The Boyfriend Fix by Lee Pini Playing for Keeps by Jennifer Dugan She Came for Blood (Dreamers & Demons: Sapphic Monsters Book 3) by Darva Green Call Forth a Fox by Markelle Grabo I'm The Same by James Ungurait Something Kindred by Ciera Burch Calling of Light (Shamanborn, #3) by Lori M. Lee Off With Their Heads by Zoe Hana Mikuta Even If We're Broken by A.M. Weald Harley Quinn: Redemption (DC Icons Series Book 3) by Rachael Allen Rainbow Overalls by Maggie Fortuna Smile and Be a Villain by Yves Donlon Lights, Camera, Passion by Isabel Lucero Hearts Still Beating by Brooke Archer Aubrey McFadden Is Never Getting Married by Georgia Beers Court of Wanderers (Silver Under Nightfall, #2) by Rin Chupeco Good Mourning, Darling (Darling Disposition, #1) by Azalea Crowley All the Hype (Oak Haven Romance) by S. Bolanos The Devil to Pay by Katie Daysh Every Time You Hear That Song by Jenna Voris

You can find these books in this list on goodreads

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The Last Love Song by Kalie Holford

Pages: 250 Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Released: 9th of April 2024 After high school graduation, Mia Peters faces a summer full of painful goodbyes. Songwriting is her only solace. Everyone she knows is moving on, including Britt, her biggest supporter … and kind-of-sort-of girlfriend. Britt keeps pushing Mia to go bigger and do better than their small town, but Mia can’t imagine a life…

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Vitamin C Untuk Melawan Infeksi

Maka dari itu, Anda harus mengonsumsi vitamin C dosis tinggi saat Anda benar-benar memerangi infeksi seperti mengkonsumsi suplemen vitabumin. Ahli gizi Patrick Holford mengatakan Anda harus memulai serangan tepat di awal, dan mengatakan Anda harus mengambil 3.000mg ketika Anda pertama kali melihat gejala, diikuti oleh 3.000mg lebih lanjut pada interval empat jam sesudahnya, membuat asupan harian vitamin C harian Anda di suatu tempat antara 10.000mg dan 15.000mg. Sekali lagi, menurut Yayasan Vitamin C, 20-30.000 mg per hari saat terinfeksi dianjurkan.

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ALLURE @allure "Best of Beauty Workbook" shot at Dean Street Studios. Photography: Jacq Harriet @jacqharriet Fashion Editor/Stylist: Tess Herbert @tessherbert Hair Stylist: Rubi Jones @rubi_jones Makeup Artist: Kali Kennedy @kalikennedy Manicurist: Geraldine Holford @geraldineholford  Location: Dean Street Studios @deanstreetstudios #deanstreetstudios #allure #alluremagazine #newwork #beauty #beautiful #photography #photo #fashionphotography #editorial #photostudio #rooftop #setlife #fashion (at Dean Street Studios - Brooklyn) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5IfbG_AAQU/?igshid=1he3u3wiitodc

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Alana Zimmer by Zoey Grossman

Publication: PIBE Magazine. Photography: Zoey Grossman at Art Department. Styled by: Rachel Gilman. Hair: Linda Shalabi at See Management. Makeup: Kali Kennedy at Forward Artists. Nails: Geraldine Holford at LMC Worldwide. Prop Styling: Kaitlyn Du Ross Walker at Honey Artists. Model: Alana Zimmer at Women Management.

PIBE Magazine Winter 2017 Alana Zimmer by Zoey Grossman Publication: PIBE Magazine. Photography: Zoey Grossman at Art Department. Styled by: Rachel Gilman. Hair: Linda Shalabi at 

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"The Last Love Song" is an Ode to Growing Up Surrounded by Memories

Deciding what to do with your life is never easy, let along when you’ve just graduated high school and spent the last 18 years in a town dedicated to your long-deceased mother. That’s exactly the case for Mia Peters in Kalie Holford’s debut novel, The Last Love Song. Mia has been raised by her grandmothers for as long as she can remember, ever since her mother, Tori Rose, died shortly after she…

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