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NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “This book is every suspense lover’s dream and it kept me up  way  too late turning pages. . . . A novel with crazy twists and turns that will have you ditching your Friday night plans for more chapters.”—Reese Witherspoon A backpacking trip has deadly consequences in this   “eerie psychological thriller . . . with alluring locales, Hitchcockian tension, and possibly the best pair of female leads since Thelma and Louise” ( BookPage ),   from the bestselling author of  The Lost Night  and  The Herd . A  Marie Claire  Book Club Pick • Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year by  Oprah Daily, BuzzFeed, Reader’s Digest, Men’s Journal,  and  CrimeReads Emily is having the time of her life—she’s in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever. But on the last night of the tr...

  A feature adaption of the novel  We Were Never Here  is in the works at Netflix. The project comes from  Greg Berlanti  and Sarah Schechter’s Berlanti/Schechter Films and  Molly Sims ’ Something Happy Productions. The book from Andrea Bartz, which was recently picked as a title for Reese Witherspoon’s book club, follows two best friends, Emily and Kristen, who, according to the project’s synopsis, “take off to the mountains for their annual reunion trip. When Emily returns to their room one night to find an eerie scene, she’s reminded of horrifyingly similar events that occurred the year before. Back home, as Emily struggles to bury her trauma through new love and work, she’s forced to reckon with the truth about her closest friend.” Sims will produce alongside Berlanti, Schechter and Mike McGrath for Berlanti/Schechter, which has a first-look feature film deal with the streamer. Producers are currently searching for a writer and director for the project....

Synopsis:  Evie Thomas doesn’t believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss and is overcome with a vision of how their romance began . . . and how it will end. After all, even the greatest love stories end with a broken heart, eventually. As Evie tries to understand why this is happening, she finds herself at La Brea Dance studio, learning to waltz, fox-trot, and tango with a boy named X. X is everything that Evie is not: adventurous, passionate, daring. His philosophy is to say yes to everything–including entering a ballroom dance competition with a girl he’s only just met. Falling for X is definitely not what Evie had in mind. If her visions of heartbreak have taught her anything, it’s that no one escapes love unscathed. But as she and X dance around and toward each other, Evie is forced to question all she thought she knew about life and love. In the end, is love worth the risk? Q&A with Ni...

Where did the idea for  Instructions for Dancing   come from? NICOLA YOON:  My mom has been very sick since 2017. The  Everything, Everything  movie came out, my mom was in the hospital the night of the premiere, and she's been wildly sick up and down since then, so this book a little bit came out of that. The question I was trying to figure out was: You love people and you love them so intensely and we're going to lose them, and do you still want to take that chance? Do you still want to keep loving people, is it worth it? It's one of the questions I always ask myself. You can't help but loving people but what if you could? [ Laughs ] Would you choose to love anyway? What's the saying, it's better to have loved than lost than never to have loved at all. Well, I don't know about that. [ Laughs ] That's really where it comes from, and then I had this idea of: If a person can see the end of all relationships, what does it mean for their own?  So how does t...

Instructions For Dancing By Nicola Yoon Nicola Yoon’s third novel is an enticing blend of YA drama, romance and magic. It totally captivated me and I’m not particularly drawn to YA books. Evie Thomas doesn't believe in love anymore. Her parents have divorced following her Father’s affair. She feels disconnected from her Mother and younger sister because they act as is if nothing has happened. After a random meeting with a mysterious woman Evie discovers she suddenly has the power to see the outcome of romantic relationships all around her. Understandably rattled she sets out to unravel this newly acquired strange power. Her journey brings her to La Brea Dance Studio learning the Waltz,Fox Trot and Argentine Tango with a boy named X. He is the polar opposite of Evie; open to adventure, passion, saying yes to all of life’s opportunities and possibilities. Their growing involvement and love forces Evie to face all of her fears and her magical powers head on. I found this book captivat...