Kirjahaku

Allie Jensen has harbored a secret crush on her best friend, Siobhan, since freshman year. When Siobhan dumps her long-term girlfriend, Marjon, on graduation night, Allie thinks it's a sign. Siobhan's headed to Boston for a summer program the next day, and Allie has thirteen hours to tell Siobhan how she really feels. It's bound to be a wild night that neither one of them will ever forget.

The stories in Tourism for Broken Hearts examine the toll travel takes on relationships. In "The Night Cat" a young tourist experiments with graffiti. Marriages are tested in "Second Honeymoon," "Circling the Drain," and "Dead End." "Tourism for Broken Hearts" mark the end of a relationship. "The Baths" and "Six Hours in Santorini," explore the sexuality of suburban soccer moms. Includes bonus story "Night Swimming."

Thirteen year-old Rory O'Leary is struggling with her dual identities of a middle school cheerleader and the middle daughter of the only Lutheran pastor in a Baptist town as well as her recent diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder. An unfortunate underwear incident and barf tsunami during the Reformation Sunday service leaves her a victim of bullying and blackmail from her former best friend, Laura.To complicate things further Rory must not only set up her older brother, Mark, with Laura as part of Laura's blackmail scheme, but she must also portray Santa Lucia and sing a solo at a special church service in December. The prospect of a repeat puke performance sends her anxiety into overdrive. Rory's mom believes that if she can't participate as Santa Lucia because of her anxiety, she should let cheerleading go. If Rory fails at setting Mark and Laura, Laura will show everyone the video of her puking (and underwear) in church which could jeopardize her place on the cheerleading squad as the video could break the team morality clause. Add in a difficult relationship with her mom, new feelings for her friend Will, confirmation service projects, and bad luck that seems to follow her around, Rory is destined to have quite a few fails before figuring things out.

Lexi Hamilton is bad at love, but great at dispensing advice with her Magic 8 ball on her call-in radio show. She's not the heartbreaker her classmates assume her to be. Ever since her mom died last spring, Lexi's been quelling her grief by kissing strangers at parties and slinging soft serve at the Dairy Kurl. Senior year should be cake as long as her aunt's cats don't kill her and she keeps her frenemy Erin Burton from stealing her radio show.When Oak Bluff High's administration decides to sell the radio station, Lexi and her friends fight back. Lexi forms a temporary truce with Erin to help save the station. The more time they spend together, the more Lexi thinks about kissing Erin and less about how irritating she is, especially after Erin helps Lexi navigate the awkward reappearance of Lexi's bio dad. If only the Magic 8 Ball could predict the fate of the station and of her heart.