Funny, Clean Romances

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• romance
• humor
• clean reads

Perfectly Dateless 
By Kristin Billerbeck
YA F BILLERBE Universa #1
Entering her senior year at St. James Christian Academy, Daisy has less than two hundred days to look stylish, develop social skills, find the right boy for the prom, and convince her parents to let her date.

Makeover 
By Shannon Guymon
ROMANCE GUYMON Alpine #1
When Sophie’s missionary, Blake, dumps her at the airport for a beautiful brunette he met in the mission field, Sophie vows to get over him fast! Getting back into the dating game is easy enough, but although her new dates are nice, Sophie isn’t so sure they can be trusted. And to top it all off, Blake appears to still lover her. But could she trust him again?

Rules of Engagement 
By Stephanie Fowers
ROMANCE FOWERS
Samantha Skyler is determined to find the right man, except the wrong man keeps getting in the way.

The Icing on the Cake 
By Elodia Strain
ROMANCE STRAIN
Annabelle, having recently been promoted at work, is also trying to deal with her best friend’s engagement and attractive Isaac. However, balancing everything turns out to be much more difficult than she anticipated.

Clean Period Romances

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• period romances
• clean reads
• gripping plots and engaging characters

The Girl in the Gatehouse 
By Julie Klassen
ROMANCE KLASSEN
Mariah takes refuge in her aunt's gatehouse following a brush with a scandal. After her aunt's death, Captain Bryant leases the estate and unknowingly becomes the inspiration for Mariah's novels. The Captain is kind and courageous...a perfect match for Mariah except that he insists he is marrying someone else. Characters are interesting and the plot is complete with romance, a bit of mystery and even a smidgen of adventure.

Chloe 
By Lyn Cote
F COTE
This coming of age novel set during World War I and the roaring twenties teaches Chloe about "real" love and family. Cote's ability to blend together accurate historical information and the story line, help make the characters believable. This is the 1st in the Women of Ivy Manor Series so if you like it there are 3 more.

Once Upon A Marigold 
By Jean Ferris
YA FERRIS
If you mix a little bit of fairy tale, a little bit of comedy, a prince raised by trolls who loves his princess from afar and throw in an evil villain, you will have Once Upon A Marigold. This charming book is on the same reading level as Princess Academy.

Action-Packed YA Titles

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• YA novels
• action
• adventure
• compelling stories
• Similar to Divergent, Girl with the Steel Corset, If I Stay, Uglies 

Shatter Me 
By Tahereh Mafi
YA F MAFI Shatter #1
Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, seventeen-year-old Juliette is freed on the condition that she use her horrific abilities in support of The Reestablishment, a postapocalyptic dictatorship, but Adam, the only person ever to show her affection, offers hope of a better future.

The Testing 
By Joelle Charbonneau
YA F CHARBONN Testing #1
Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.

The Sky is Everywhere 
By Jandy Nelson
YA F NELSON
In the months after her sister dies, seventeen-year-old Lennie falls into a love triangle and discovers the strength to follow her dream of becoming a musician.

Pawn 
By Aimee Carter
YA F CARTER Blackcoa #1
Escaping a life of marginalization and misery, Kitty Doe joins the most powerful family in the country, a choice that requires her to assume the identity of the Prime Minister's niece and stop a rebellion that ended her predecessor's life.

Great Books with Compelling Stories

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• creative worlds
• compelling characters
• compelling story
• read like Clive Cussler, J.K. Rowling, Brandon Sanderson

His Majesty's Dragon 
By Naomi Novic
SCI-FI NOVIC Temerair #1
Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain's defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons. When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes its precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Capt. Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain future-and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature. Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle. For as France's own dragon-borne forces rally to breach British soil in Bonaparte's boldest gambit, Laurence and Temeraire must soar into their own baptism of fire.

Nick of Time 
By Ted Bell
YA F BELL Nick Mci #1
With the help of Lord Hawke, whose children have been taken by the evil pirate Captain Billy Blood, young Nick McIver uses a time machine to rescue the two children as well as change the course of events in two time periods, the Napoleonic Wars and World War II. Ted Bell also has an adult series about Alexander Hawke which begins with the title Hawke.