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Sofia by luc1agabi
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Sofia Steven is the new senior girl at a high school where people all know each other. She befriends a boy who's outgoing sunshine spirit mirrors hers, drawing them both to each other. She navigates the new school, maintaining her everyday upbeat attitude, her friendships growing, and relationships with others blossoming.
This is me trying by Anonypistachio
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~rewriting~ Grace has been in the system since she was 4, she is 15 now, and life has not always been easy for her. That is until the sweetest person she has ever met, happens to take a walk in the park across her most difficult home, and helps her through a panic attack. Will their paths ever cross again? #3 in fostersystem
The Year That Changed Me by lifeoflel
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Jessie has loved Warren since she was sixteen. Eight years. One flat. Too many apologies. And a version of herself that got smaller every year. She finally leaves. New city. New job. New people who don't know who she used to be. Then Warren's mum gets diagnosed with terminal cancer. Now he's calling at midnight. Saying he misses her. Saying he's changed. Saying he still loves her. And Jessie? She's not heartless. She's just not sure she loves him the same way anymore. Because there's also Max. A grounded pilot with secrets, grief he doesn't talk about, and a way of looking at her like she isn't something to manage. He doesn't need fixing. He doesn't need saving. He just sees her. But healing isn't linear. Grief blurs lines. History has weight. And sometimes you kiss someone you thought you'd outgrown. This is the year Jessie stops shrinking. The year she chooses herself. The year she realises love should feel steady... not like survival. The year that changed her.
ALL THE QUITE THINGS by Diany012
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Rain cannot exist without a gray sky, and the gray sky lives only for the rain. Asher Greyson and Ameia Marlowe are bound by an arranged marriage, a fate sealed in their childhood by their influential families. Asher, a brilliant medical student, rejects this imposed destiny. To him, Ameia is nothing more than a "perfect" girl-a polished product of the golden world he despises. In reality, Ameia's docility is a mask. Adopted at the age of seven, she carries the scars of a violent and cold past. While she accepted this union out of loyalty to those who "saved" her, she secretly longs for one thing: to be seen and loved for who she truly is. Caught between rejection, silent wounds, and family duty, their relationship is a storm of unspoken truths and rising emotional tension. But if love were to bloom between them, it wouldn't be a matter of fate or debt-it would be a choice.
Healing in Pieces by mariexxxx
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These mini stories explore the darkness we all face. But each story carries a truth: healing is possible, and light always returns. ( 🚩)Author note : This collection contains stories about mental health, toxic relationships, heartbreak, and other intense emotions. Reader discretion is advised.
The forest that doesn't forget Draft 2 by TiarraLove77
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When Nova was just five, her parents an enchanting fairy queen and a powerful warlock vanished without a trace, leaving her in the care of her father's sister, Aunt Sage, one of the most powerful witches in existence. Now seventeen, Nova has grown up surrounded by magic, secrets, and a past no one dares to speak of. The boy next door, Silas, hides his own truth...he's a warlock, too, and the one person who makes Nova's guarded heart feel alive. But their love could awaken dangers neither of them are ready to face. On the night of her eighteenth birthday, Nova is pulled by an unseen force to her parents' long-abandoned home a place frozen in time since the day they disappeared. There, her hidden magic bursts free, revealing a destiny written in starlight and shadow. Nova isn't just another witch. She's a fairy heir to a forgotten crown and the key to restoring what was lost. With Aunt Sage's wisdom, Rowan's loyalty, Celeste's guidance, Nova must learn to control her awakening power before the forest and everything inside it remembers what it's owed.
Persuasion (1818) by JaneAusten
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More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but poor and with no particular family connections to recommend him. Sir Walter, Anne's fatuous, snobbish father and her equally self-involved older sister Elizabeth were dissatisfied with her choice, maintaining that he was no match for an Elliot of Kellynch Hall, the family estate. Her older friend and mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of Anne's late mother, persuaded her to break the engagement. Now 27 and still unmarried, Anne re-encounters her former love when his sister and brother-in-law, the Crofts, take out a lease on Kellynch. Wentworth is now a captain and wealthy from maritime victories in the Napoleonic wars. However, he has not forgiven Anne for rejecting him. While publicly declaring that he is ready to marry any suitable young woman who catches his fancy, he privately resolves that he is ready to become attached to any appealing young woman except for Anne Elliot.
Wuthering Heights (1847) by EmilyBronte
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Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.
Sense and Sensibility (1811) by JaneAusten
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Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak.
Pride and Prejudice (1813) by JaneAusten
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The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.