A tragic, hilarious YA romance about a girl with the ability to glimpse a relationship’s final kiss the moment their lips touch, who finds herself spending the days before the apocalypse with the one boy whose end she can’t bear to see, for fans of John Green and Dustin Thao.
KISS ME LIKE THE LAST TIME
by Darianne Schramm
Disney, Fall 2027
(via Park, Fine & Brower)
If there’s one thing Sloane Silver can count on, it’s that the future will always kiss and tell. The moment her lips first touch someone else’s, a glimpse of their final kiss plays out in her mind. That doesn’t bother Sloane, who’s here for a good time, not a long time, and prefers the uncomplicated boys to the complicated ones. So when Page Hazelton—sad-eyed, beautiful, and complicated—tells her the world is headed for nuclear apocalypse in a handful of weeks, Sloane would love nothing more than to dismiss him.
Except, none of Sloane’s kisses indicate a future beyond Page’s apocalyptic deadline. The end of the world just might be real. . .unfortunately, as real as her growing attraction to him.
As the time to the supposed end ticks down, Sloane and Page resolve to tackle an end-of-the-world bucket list together. Somewhere in between breaking into community swimming pools for late-night swims and daring to try wasabi-flavored ice cream, though, is the secret Page has been keeping about their pasts, which are more connected than Sloane ever realized. And deciding whether or not to kiss him will change everything about Sloane’s future. . .including how much of one she has.
Darianne Schramm grew up in Gainesville, Florida listening to the sounds of the woods and the music of Tom Petty. When she’s not writing stories about grief, love, and characters who are slightly nihilistic, you can find her eating the darkest possible chocolate and playing overly aggressive games of Scrabble. She is currently getting her PhD in New Zealand where she lives with her husband, daughter, and goldendoodle.
ONE (IMMUNE) SYSTEM TO RULE THE WORLD introduces readers to the most powerful, hyperintelligent system in your own body: the immune system. Rather than an an academic introduction or an attempt to compress decades of research and millions of peer reviewed articles, this book provides frameworks of thinking about the immune system: how the it functions inside of us and what happens when it goes wrong. In these pages you will find historical missteps, accidental discoveries, and the sheer tour-de-force of scientists, to provide both context and color for how the understanding of this ancient system has developed and where it’s going from here.
In a now-or-never moment, Stephanie Plum made the decision of a lifetime. But some lifetimes are shorter than others and Stephanie will be lucky if she makes it to the end of the week.
In the rural town of Bone Creek, Emma Pierce has devoted her life to caring for the wind-battered trees of the rugged Washington coast, feeling more grounded one hundred feet up than with both feet planted firmly on land.
All her life, it’s just been sixteen-year-old Skylar and her rockstar dad against the world. But this year, a horrible accident cuts the summer short and upends her life.