Forever Julia

Winner of the McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award! Selected for the Best Books For Kids & Teens 2015 Six months ago, Julia's life was perfect. Then her dad died. Now she lives with her grieving mother and sick grandmother in a puny apartment above their bookstore. After a dark bout of depression, Julia is fragile, and mourns both her father and her old life. But she has one thing to be happy about: Jeremy, the most popular boy at school, has chosen her. Jeremy's love for Julia is passionate, even obsessive. As she grows closer to Jeremy, Julia pushes her disapproving friends and family away. But Jeremy only becomes more controlling and Julia has to decide what lines cannot be crossed. In Candidates, a university graduate takes a summer intern job on Parliament Hill. In Famous last meals, two couple re-enact the final repasts of famous people. The woman in the vineyard is a story about literary jealousy and its dangers