TWELVE DARK HOURS

Awards & Accolades Likes 51 Our Verdict GET IT New York Times Bestseller by John Green ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 10, 2012 Green seamlessly bridges the gap between the present and the existential, and readers will need more than one box of tissues... Awards & Accolades Likes 51 Our Verdict GET IT New York Times Bestseller He’s in remission from the osteosarcoma that took one of his legs. She’s fighting the brown fluid in her lungs caused by tumors. Both know that their time is limited. Sparks fly when Hazel Grace Lancaster spies Augustus “Gus” Waters checking her out across the room in a group-therapy session for teens living with cancer. He’s a gorgeous, confident, intelligent amputee who always loses video games because he tries to save everyone. She’s smart, snarky and 16; she goes to community college and jokingly calls Peter Van Houten, the author of her favorite book, An Imperial Affliction, her only friend besides her parents. He asks her over, and they swap novels. He agrees to read the Van Houten and she agrees to read his—based on his favorite bloodbath-filled video game. The two become connected at the hip, and what follows is a smartly crafted intellectual explosion o...