Author: Callie West
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0307832104
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Amy Wyse has everything—except love. She doesn’t want a boyfriend to get in the way of her dreams of college and a swimming scholarship, goals toward which she’s worked hard. But then she’s swept off her feet by Chris Shepherd, an irresistible senior from the swim team. Suddenly Amy has romance and a promising future. Or does she? As she spends more and more time with Chris, her grades plummet and her swimming deteriorates. Amy thought she could have it all—but will she be left with nothing instead?
Author: Gwendoline Riley
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681376911
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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A raw and engrossing portrait of familial and marital dysfunction by “one of Britain’s most original young writers” (The Observer). Neve is a writer in her mid-thirties married to an older man, Edwyn. For now they are in a place of relative peace, but their past battles have left scars. As Neve recalls the decisions that led her to this marriage, she tells of other loves and other debts, from her bullying father and her self-involved mother to a musician who played her and a series of lonely flights from place to place. Drawing the reader into the battleground of her relationship, Neve spins a story of helplessness and hostility, an ongoing conflict in which both husband and wife have played a part. But is this, nonetheless, also a story of love?
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: jimmy patterson
ISBN: 0316315362
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 297
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In this New York Times bestseller, two high school students leave their hometown on the West Coast to go on an impulsive cross-country road trip in this moving romance about friendship and the power of love. Axi Moore is a "good girl": She studies hard, stays out of the spotlight, and doesn't tell anyone that she wants to run away from it all. The only person she can tell is her best friend, Robinson-and she's madly in love with him. When Axi impulsively invites Robinson to come with her on an unplanned cross-country road trip, she breaks the rules for the first time in her life. But the adventure quickly turns from carefree to out-of-control . . .
Author: Sahar Khalifeh
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1649030886
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377
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A deeply poetic account of love and resistance through a young girl’s eyes by acclaimed writer, Sahar Khalifeh, called "the Virginia Woolf of Palestinian literature” (Börsenblatt) Nidal, after many decades of restless exile, returns to her family home in Nablus, where she had lived with her grandmother before the 1948 Nakba that scattered her family across the globe. She was a young girl when the popular resistance began and, through the bloodshed and bitter struggle, Nidal fell in love with freedom fighter Rabie. He was her first and only real love—him and all that he represented: Palestine in its youth, the resistance fighters in the hills, the nation as embodied in her family home and in the land. Many years later, Nidal and Rabie meet, and he encourages her to read her uncle Amin’s memoirs. She immerses herself in the details of her family and national past and discovers the secret history of her absent mother. Filled with emotional urgency and political immediacy, Sahar Khalifeh spins an epic tale reaching from the final days of the British Mandate to today with clear-eyed realism and great imagination.
Author: Ian McEwan
Publisher: Rosetta Books
ISBN: 0795301898
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Somerset Maugham Award winner: Dark early fiction by the author of Nutshell—“A splendid magician of fear” (The Village Voice Literary Supplement). Taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric, the stories here show us how murder can arise out of boredom, perversity from adolescent curiosity—and how sheer evil can become the solution to unbearable loneliness. These short fiction pieces from the early career of the New York Times–bestselling and Man Booker Prize–winning author of Atonement and On Chesil Beach are claustrophobic tales of childhood, twisted psychology, and disjointed family life as terrifying as anything by Stephen King—and finely crafted with a lyricism and an intensity that compels us to confront our secret kinship with what repels us. “A powerful talent that is both weird and wonderful.” —The Boston Sunday Globe “Ian McEwan’s fictional world combin[es] the bleak, dreamlike quality of de Chirico’s city-scapes with the strange eroticism of canvases by Balthus. Menace lies crouched between the lines of his neat, angular prose, and weird, grisly things occur in his books with nearly casual aplomb.” —The New York Times
Author: Liz Isaacson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781953506313
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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She broke up with him a decade ago. He's back in town after finishing a degree at MIT, ready to start his job at the family company. Can Hunter and Molly find their way through their pasts to build a future together?On his first Sunday back in Ivory Peaks after finishing his technology degree at MIT, Hunter Hammond comes face-to-face with Molly Benson. He's just lost track of his little brother, but the old flame he's harbored for Molly since she ended their high school relationship a decade ago is rekindled instantly.Molly Benson, after succumbing to parental pressure and wanting to explore other options for a boyfriend, did break-up with Hunter back in high school. She's never forgotten him though, even when she married another man. Now that she's divorced, she carries emotional scars and personal feelings of unworthiness from a marriage she should've never agreed to.Hunter's kissed a lot of girls since his teenage relationship with Molly, just like his uncle once advised him to do. He inherited his two billion from his father when he turned 21, earned a degree in bioinfotronics from MIT, founded an organization to help injured military personnel and police officers, and fell in love with another woman-all while wearing his cowboy hat in Cambridge. Their paths diverged, and when Hunter finishes up his work with his foundation, he returns to Ivory Peaks to start working in the labs at HMC, the family company.Through it all, his heart has never recovered the piece he gave to Molly all those years ago... Can his first love be the one that becomes forever?
Author: Ali Parker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Love isn't for the black sheep of the family. Believe me. I'm him.Roses. Chocolates. Love notes.Bullshit. Until it isn't.Never in a million years did I expect to fall in love.Let alone with her. My favorite childhood enemy.This girl used to make my blood boil just by walking in the room.Now she does other things to me with nothing more than a look.And it's making me want more than the tense passion we keep doing nothing about.I'll break down her walls and show her a side of me she's never seen. One that will steal her breath and hold her heart hostage.It's my first time to entertain the idea of forever, but she leaves me no choice.And no matter how hard she resists, this girl?She's mine. All mine.
Author: Mya Grey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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By bestselling author Mya Grey - sexy, funny holiday romance - " A Billionaire's First Love" tells a story of the first love for a sexy Spanish Billionaire Heir - as enemies to lovers. An irresistible page-turner for those that enjoy the action and adventure of an explosive friendship turned loving and passionate romance. A Billionaire's First Love A Mya Grey's short story packed with travel, mixed martial arts, and contemporary romance. "Tap if you don't want to get hurt!" he hears as he opens his eyes to see her beautiful face close to his as he lay flat on his back on the mat. The last thing he remembered was his face between her thighs as she cut off his circulation. Alonzo's ego was crushed, totally crippled for the very first time--by a woman! "Do you even know who I am?" he said to her. Sure, he thought. She's a purple belt in Jiu-Jitsu...but I'm Alonzo, the only rightful heir of the Ortega family. A Spanish billionaire with more power than she can fathom. But he didn't tell her that. Camila doesn't give a damn about his gorgeous body or his self-absorbed attitude. And that drives him crazy. Now he's obsessed. Not to sleep with her. But to beat her on the mat and show her who the boss. But in the midst of his determination, they begin to form a friendship. Unlike any other woman Alonzo has encountered, Camila does not flirt with him. She pays for her own drinks and would rather teach yoga than party all night. She is blunt and speaks her mind. She is wild but level-headed, confident, and strong. She is everything he is not. But everything he needs Warning: This book is intended for mature readers only. Interview with the author Question - So, what makes A Billionaire's First Love special? Answer - There is a mix of things, I enjoy reading contemporary, action & adventure, satire and mostly enemies to lovers fiction. A Billionaire's First Love- book 1 is set in BALI. My story brings you away and escapes to a different world. This story will bring you to the exotic island of Bali, this is a perfect place to be in love, to see things in different perspectives. to heal and to be reborn again. Overall this book is a breath of fresh air for those who are a little tired of alpha men and submissive women. A book that will bring a hot couple together through jiujitsu, yoga, traveling and most of all being truthful. Question: How did you come up with the idea? As I finished my Jiujitsu class one day, the idea of a martial art romance just appeared, I love women's fictions and romance but can't stand wimpy female prognosis. So creating Camila was perfect for me. A Billionaire's First love is about two imperfect people from entirely different backgrounds and cultures finding strength and empowerment to become better. Question: - How many sequels are you planning for this Series Answer: Initially, I wanted to write a 5 series story, but I think a trilogy will be perfect. Question: As a new author what is your challenge? Answer: Getting more people to read and review my story! *Laugh Question What is book 2 going to be like? Answer: It is going to be sweet and it is going to be good, I will leave a nice surprise for my readers.
Author: Ivan Turgenev
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 1782276025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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From the most romantic of the Russian greats, an enthralling selection of short stories and novellas Ivan Turgenev was able to contain the narrative sweep of a novel in a single short story. His tales evoke the joy and painful tubulence of first love, the grandiose flights of youthful imagination, and the wistful reflections of maturity. Tugenev brought his characters vividly to life, rendering their complex interior lives, whether nobleman or serf, in writing charged with a profound social conscience. This collection, in a lyrical new translation by Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Maya Slater, places Turgenev's great novella First Love alongside a selection of his classic stories. From the evocative rural scenes of 'Bezhin Meadown' and 'The Rattling!' to the pathos and profundity of 'The District Doctor' and 'Biryuk', these are miniature epics brimming with humanity. Ivan Turgenev was born to an aristocratic family in 1818. He wrote plays, poetry, short stories and novels. A liberal who found himself frequently at odds with tsarist rule, he lived for much of his life in Western Europe, where he became friends with writers such as Gustave Flaubert and Henry James. His most famous novel Fathers and Sons was poorly received by many Russian critics. It is now regarded as one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.
Author: Deo Brata Dutta
Publisher: Booksclinic Publishing
ISBN: 9391046711
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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"TEXT TO BE PRINTED ON THE BACK PAGE OF THE NOVEL Shri Deo Brata Dutta graduated (math) in Science college Raipur C.G. in 1973 He worked in State Forest Department for 2 years, then joined Postal Department and worked for 6 years. He joined State bank of India in July 1980 and retired on 31.08.2014. He passed CAIIB Part-I, in May 1992. After retirement, Shri Dutta settled at Raipur, C.G. permanently. Now, he is busy in writing. His next novel, “My second love story” is in progress. Hobby:- Study of books and watching you-tube videos related to current national and international issues, history and religious matters, fact-checking in goggle. "
