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Paper Towns & Looking for Alaska These two stunning novels capture that intoxicating feeling of being utterly captivated by someone—and what happens when reality doesn't match our idealized versions of people we love. In Paper Towns, Q embarks on an obsessive mystery chase after his enigmatic crush vanishes, forcing him to question everything he thought he knew about her and himself. Looking for Alaska follows Miles as he arrives at boarding school desperate for meaning and finds it in the form of a magnetic, complicated girl who changes everything about how he sees the world. Both stories brilliantly explore how our fantasies about people can blind us to who they actually are, all while delivering that gut-punching emotional honesty John Green is known for—the kind that stays with you long after you finish reading.
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