Julie Buxbaum

Everything about Jessie is wrong. At least, that’s what it feels like during her first week of junior year at her new ultra-intimidating prep school in Los Angeles. Just when she’s thinking about hightailing it back to Chicago, she gets an email from a person calling themselves Somebody/Nobody (SN for short), offering to help her navigate the wilds of Wood Valley High School. Is it an elaborate hoax? Or can she rely on SN for some much-needed help? It’s been barely two years since her mother’s death, and because her father eloped with a woman he met online, Jessie has been forced to move across the country to live with her stepmonster and her pretentious teenage son. In a leap of faith—or an act of complete desperation—Jessie begins to rely on SN, and SN quickly becomes her lifeline and closest ally. Jessie can’t help wanting to meet SN in person. But are some mysteries better left unsolved?

Sometimes looking to the past helps you find your future. Abbi Hope Goldstein is like every other teenager, with a few smallish exceptions: her famous alter ego, Baby Hope, is the subject of internet memes, she has asthma, and sometimes people spontaneously burst into tears when they recognize her. Abbi has lived almost her entire life in the shadow of the terrorist attacks of September 11. On that fateful day, she was captured in what became an iconic photograph: in the picture, Abbi (aka "Baby Hope") wears a birthday crown and grasps a red balloon; just behind her, the South Tower of the World Trade Center is collapsing. Now, fifteen years later, Abbi is desperate for anonymity and decides to spend the summer before her seventeenth birthday incognito as a counselor at Knights Day Camp two towns away. She's psyched for eight weeks in the company of four-year-olds, none of whom have ever heard of Baby Hope. Too bad Noah Stern, whose own world was irrevocably shattered on that terrible day, has a similar summer plan. Noah believes his meeting Baby Hope is fate. Abbi is sure it's a disaster. Soon, though, the two team up to ask difficult questions about the history behind the Baby Hope photo. But is either of them ready to hear the answers?

It's good to be Chloe Wynn Berringer. She's headed off to the college of her dreams. She's going to prom with the boy she's had a crush on since middle school. Her best friend always has her back, and her mom, a B-list Hollywood celebrity, may finally be on her way to the B+ list. It's good to be Chloe Wynn Berringer--at least, it was, until the FBI came knocking on her front door, guns at the ready, and her future went up in smoke. Now her mother is under arrest in a massive college admissions bribery scandal. Chloe, too, might be facing charges, and even time behind bars. The public is furious, the press is rabid, and the US attorney is out for blood. As she loses everything she's long taken for granted, Chloe must reckon not only with the truth of what happened, but also with the examination of her own guilt. Why did her parents think the only way for her to succeed was to cheat for her? What did she know, and when did she know it? And perhaps most importantly, what does it mean to be complicit?

It was a year on fire. They fell in love. Someone was bound to get burned. The Spark: Just days before the start of junior year for twins Arch and Immie and their best friend, Paige, a spontaneous kiss shakes the very foundation of their friendship. But some ties run too deep to be broken by accidental betrayal. The Fuel: Enter Rohan, new to Wood Valley High by way of London, who walks into school on the first day completely overwhelmed by his sudden move halfway around the world. When Paige calls dibs on him—he’s too cute to ignore—Immie is in no position to argue, certainly not after taking the fall for the disloyal kiss. Too bad for Immie that Ro feels like the best kind of familiar. The Kindling: Former lab partners Arch and Jackson, Paige’s ex-boyfriend, have never considered themselves more than friends. But sometimes feelings can grow like wildfire. The Flames: When the girls’ bathroom at Wood Valley is set ablaze, no one doubts it’s arson. But in this bastion of privilege, who’d be angry enough to want to burn down the school? Answer: pretty much everyone. Year on Fire explores the blinding power of the lies we tell others and those we tell ourselves, the tight grip of family secrets, the magic of first love, and the grounding beauty of friendship. What secrets will people keep—or reveal—to protect those they love? This novel, set against the frightening backdrop of an encroaching fire season, sparks reflection about friendship, the allure of romantic love, and loyalty to family. Can a single kiss change everything?

The New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things and What to Say Next delivers a poignant and hopeful novel about resilience and reinvention, first love and lifelong friendship, the legacies of loss, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. Sometimes looking to the past helps you find your future. Abbi Hope Goldstein is like every other teenager, with a few smallish exceptions: her famous alter ego, Baby Hope, is the subject of internet memes, she has asthma, and sometimes people spontaneously burst into tears when they recognize her. Abbi has lived almost her entire life in the shadow of the terrorist attacks of September 11. On that fateful day, she was captured in what became an iconic photograph: in the picture, Abbi (aka "Baby Hope") wears a birthday crown and grasps a red balloon; just behind her, the South Tower of the World Trade Center is collapsing. Now, fifteen years later, Abbi is desperate for anonymity and decides to spend the summer before her seventeenth birthday incognito as a counselor at Knights Day Camp two towns away. She's psyched for eight weeks in the company of four-year-olds, none of whom have ever heard of Baby Hope. Too bad Noah Stern, whose own world was irrevocably shattered on that terrible day, has a similar summer plan. Noah believes his meeting Baby Hope is fate. Abbi is sure it's a disaster. Soon, though, the two team up to ask difficult questions about the history behind the Baby Hope photo. But is either of them ready to hear the answers?

With perfect pitch for the humor and heartbreak of everyday life, Julie Buxbaum has fashioned a heroine who will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has loved and lost and loved again.When successful twenty-nine-year-old Manhattan attorney Emily Haxby ends her happy relationship just as her boyfriend is on the verge of proposing, she can’t explain to even her closest friends why she did it. Somewhere beneath her sense of fun, her bravado, and her independent exterior, Emily knows that her breakup with Andrew has less to do with him and more to do with...her. “You’re your own worst enemy,” her best friend Jess tells her. “It’s like you get pleasure out of breaking your own heart.”As the holiday season looms and Emily contemplates whether she made a huge mistake, the rest of her world begins to she is assigned to a multimillion-dollar lawsuit where she must defend the very values she detests by a boss who can’t keep his hands to himself; her Grandpa Jack, a charming, feisty octogenarian and the person she cares most about in the world, is losing it, while her emotionally distant father has left her to cope with this alone; and underneath it all, fading memories of her deceased mother continue to remind her that love doesn’ t last forever.How this brave, original young heroine finally decides to take control of her life and face the fears that have long haunted her is the great achievement of Julie Buxbaum’s marvelous first novel. Written with the authority, grace, and wisdom of an author far beyond her years, The Opposite of Love heralds the debut of a remarkable talent in contemporary fiction.

A amizade consegue superar todas as diferenças... Kit é a rapariga mais gira da escola. David é um rapaz solitário, incapaz de interagir com os colegas. Ele sabe que é pouco provável que Kit alguma vez repare nele. Até ao dia em que Kit, cansada das conversas fúteis das amigas, decide almoçar na mesa de David. A química é imediata e os dois passam a partilhar o tempo das refeições. Fruto desta nova e inesperada amizade, David começa a aprender a relacionar-se com os outros, e Kit, ainda a recuperar da trágica e recente morte do pai, encontra o ombro de que precisava. Kit só conseguirá reaprender a viver se descobrir a causa do acidente do pai e, sabendo disso, David decide ajudá-la. Mas nenhum dos dois está preparado para o mistério que estão prestes a desvendar, e é aí que a sua amizade é posta à prova. ? será ela capaz de sobreviver à verdade? «Uma história doce, divertida e profundamente comovente? tudo ao mesmo tempo!» ? Nicola Yoon, autora n.º 1 do New York Times

David houdt van feiten, getallen en zijn notitieboekje. Zit al 622 dagen alleen tijdens de schoolpauze. Kit gaat voor het eerst weer naar school nadat haar vader is verongelukt. Sinds haar vaders dood, weet Kit niet meer hoe ze met haar vriendinnen moet praten. In de pauze gaat ze daarom naast David zitten in de hoop met rust gelaten te worden. Maar Davids vreemde directheid blijkt juist een verademing. Zo ontstaat een wonderlijke vriendschap. Als Kit en David samen 'Het ongeluk project' opstarten om meer te weten te komen over het auto-ongeluk van Kits vader, hebben ze geen idee wat dit teweeg brengt. Kan hun vriendschap de waarheid overleven?

Jessie is verhuisd en alles voelt verkeerd: haar nieuwe kakschool, haar nieuwe huis, haar nieuwe stiefmoeder en haar arrogante stiefbroer. En ze mist haar overleden moeder. Dan krijgt Jessie een mail van een jongen die zich Iemand-Niemand noemt. Ze mag alles aan hem vragen: welke meiden ze moet vermijden, wie haar vrienden zouden kunnen worden en waarom ze beter geen vega-burgers uit de kantine kan eten. Al snel wordt Iemand-Niemand Jessies reddingsboei. Maar wie op school is toch deze mysterieuze jongen?

Às vezes, tudo o que precisamos é de uma nova perspectiva para entendermos o mundo. Quando uma improvável amizade começa a surgir entre Kit Lowell, uma das meninas mais populares do ensino médio, e David Drucker, o garoto nerd e isolado, todos ficam surpresos... principalmente Kit e David. A garota está tendo dificuldades em lidar com a perda do pai após um acidente de carro, e acaba apreciando a honestidade contundente de David. Na verdade, parece que ele é o único capaz de ser objetivo sobre diversos assuntos, inclusive a morte, e ela acha isso estranhamente revigorante. David, que não tem muitos amigos e é vítima constante de bullying na escola, fica encantado com a atenção que recebe de Kit e natureza curiosa da nova amiga. Quando ela lhe pede ajuda para descobrir mais sobre o trágico acidente de seu pai, David topa na hora. Mas nenhum deles poderia prever o resultado dessa busca; nem sempre é fácil lidar com a verdade.

Aliens, sassy hedgehogs, and unexplained disappearances . . . Oh, my! When Sky Patel-Baum is sent to live with her mysterious uncle, she didn't imagine she'd end up here: Area 51. A top-secret military base with a bajillion rules and so classified not even the President knows its secrets. Also, it turns out the place is full of aliens. Lots and lots of aliens. But they prefer to be called Break Throughs, thank you very much. As Sky sets out to explore her extraordinary new home with her pizza-obsessed pet hedgehog Spike, she meets her otherworldly next-door neighbor Elvis and his fluffy pup, Pickles. But something mysterious is afoot in Area 51. Some of the Break Throughs have gone missing... at the exact same time Sky arrived. Where could they be? How can Sky and her uncle convince everyone they had nothing to do with the disappearance? And why does the macaroni and cheese at Area 51 Middle have eyeballs in it? New best friends Sky, Elvis, Spike, and Pickles try to crack the case, but the clock is ticking...

Sometimes a new perspective is all that is needed to make sense of the world. KIT: I don’t know why I decide not to sit with Annie and Violet at lunch. It feels like no one here gets what I’m going through. How could they? I don’t even understand. DAVID: In the 622 days I’ve attended Mapleview High, Kit Lowell is the first person to sit at my lunch table. I mean, I’ve never once sat with someone until now. “So your dad is dead,” I say to Kit, because this is a fact I’ve recently learned about her. When an unlikely friendship is sparked between relatively popular Kit Lowell and socially isolated David Drucker, everyone is surprised, most of all Kit and David. Kit appreciates David’s blunt honesty—in fact, she finds it bizarrely refreshing. David welcomes Kit’s attention and her inquisitive nature. When she asks for his help figuring out the how and why of her dad’s tragic car accident, David is all in. But neither of them can predict what they’ll find. Can their friendship survive the truth?

The complexities of a friendship. The unexplored doubts of a marriage. And the redemptive power of literature...Julie Buxbaum, the acclaimed author of The Opposite of Love, delivers a haunting, gloriously written novel about love, family, and the secrets we hide from each other—and ourselves.It happened on a tree-lined street in Notting Hill to a woman who seemed to have the perfect life. Ellie Lerner’s best friend, Lucy, was murdered in front of her young daughter. And, as best friends do, Ellie dropped everything—her marriage, her job, her life in the Boston suburbs—to travel to London and pick up the pieces of Lucy’s life. While Lucy’s husband, Greg, copes with his grief by retreating into himself, eight-year-old Sophie has simply stopped speaking.Desperate to help Sophie, Ellie turns to a book that gave her comfort as a child, The Secret Garden. As the two spend hours exploring the novel’s winding passageways, its story of hurt, magic, and healing blooms around them. But so, too, do Lucy’s secrets—some big, some small—secrets Lucy kept hidden, even from her best friend. Over a summer in London, as Ellie peels back the layers of her friend’s life, she’s forced to confront her own as well: the marriage she left behind, the loss she’d hoped to escape. And suddenly Ellie’s carefully constructed existence is spinning out of control in a chain of events that will transform her life—and those around her— forever. A novel that will resonate in the heart of anyone who’s had a best friend, a love lost, or a past full of regrets, After You proves once again the unique and compelling talent of Julie Buxbaum.

En bok for alle som har elsket, mistet og elsket igjen. Den fremgangsrike 29 år gamle advokaten Emily Haxby gjør det slutt med kjæresten idet han er på nippet til å fri. Men hun klarer ikke engang å forklare til sine nærmeste venner hvorfor hun gjorde det. Innerst inne vet hun at grunnen har mest med henne selv å gjøre. "Du er din egen verste fiende", sier bestevenninnen Jess til henne. "Det virker som om du finner glede i å knuse ditt eget hjerte." Sommerferien nærmer seg, og Emily funderer på om hun har gjort en stor feil. Samtidig møter hun andre utfordringer både på jobb og privat, og hun føler at livet hennes er i ferd med å rakne. Under alt dette lurer de falmende minnene om hennes avdøde mor og at kjærligheten ikke varer evig. Emily bestemmer seg tilslutt for å ta kontroll over livet sitt, og klarer å se det hun har fryktet mest i øynene. Boken er skrevet med autoritet, eleganse og visdom av en ung debutant - et stort talent innen moderne skjønnlitteratur.