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The Seven Year Slip
Ashley Poston · 2023
"A gorgeous love story from one of the finest romance writers out there." —Carley Fortune, New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After<br/><br/>A New York Public Library Best Book of 2023<br/><br/>A Most Anticipated Book by Entertainment Weekly ∙ Harper's Bazaar ∙ PopSugar ∙ Real Simple ∙ BookRiot ∙ and more!<br/><br/>An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate…only to discover he lives seven years in the past, in this witty and wise new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics.<br/><br/>Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it.<br/><br/>So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon. The last one is silly and obviously metaphorical, but her aunt always told her that you needed at least one big dream to keep going. And for the last year, that plan has gone off without a hitch. Mostly. The love part is hard because she doesn’t want to get too close to anyone—she isn’t sure her heart can take it.<br/><br/>And then she finds a strange man standing in the kitchen of her late aunt’s apartment. A man with kind eyes and a Southern drawl and a taste for lemon pies. The kind of man that, before it all, she would’ve fallen head-over-heels for. And she might again.<br/><br/>Except, he exists in the past. Seven years ago, to be exact. And she, quite literally, lives seven years in his future.<br/><br/>Her aunt always said the apartment was a pinch in time, a place where moments blended together like watercolors. And Clementine knows that if she lets her heart fall, she’ll be doomed.<br/><br/>After all, love is never a matter of time—but a matter of timing.
You’re Overthinking It: Find Lifelong Love By Being Your True Self
Sabrina Alexis Bendory · 2023
The Lonely Stories
David R. Garcia · 2022
A collection of essays about the joys and struggles of being alone by 22 literary writers including: Lev Grossman, Jhumpa Lahiri, Lena Dunham, Jesmyn Ward, Yiyun Li, and Anthony Doerr If you’re feeling lonely or if you’ve ever felt unseen, if you’re emboldened by solitude or secretly longing for it: Welcome to The Lonely Stories. This cathartic collection of essays illuminates an experience that so few of us openly discuss. Some stories are heartbreaking, such as Jesmyn Ward’s reckoning with the loss of her husband and Dina Nayeri’s reflection on immigrating to a foreign country. Others are witty, such as Lev Grossman’s rueful tale of heading to the woods or Anthony Doerr’s struggles with internet addiction. Still others celebrate the clarity of solitude, like Claire Dederer’s journey toward sobriety and Lidia Yuknavitch’s sensual look at desire. Thoughtful and affirming, The Lonely Stories reveals the complexities of an emotion we’ve all felt—reminding us that we're not alone. Contributors include: Megan Giddings Claire Dederer Imani Perry Jeffery Renard Allen Maggie Shipstead Emily Raboteau Lev Grossman Lena Dunham Yiyun Li Anthony Doerr Helena Fitzgerald Maile Meloy Aja Gabel Jean Kwok Amy Shearn Peter Ho Davies Maya Shanbhag Lang Jhumpa Lahiri Jesmyn Ward Lidia Yuknavitch Dina Nayeri Melissa Febos
Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney · 2017
NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • From the New York Times bestselling author of Normal People . . . “[A] cult-hit . . . [a] sharply realistic comedy of adultery and friendship.”—Entertainment Weekly<br/><br/>SALLY ROONEY NAMED TO THE TIME 100 NEXT LIST • WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK) YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD • ONE OF BUZZFEED’S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vogue, Slate • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Elle<br/><br/>Frances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, they meet a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into her world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman’s sophisticated home and handsome husband, Nick. But however amusing Frances and Nick’s flirtation seems at first, it begins to give way to a strange—and then painful—intimacy.<br/><br/>Written with gemlike precision and marked by a sly sense of humor, Conversations with Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth, and the messy edges of female friendship.<br/><br/>SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD<br/><br/>“Sharp, funny, thought-provoking . . . a really great portrait of two young women as they’re figuring out how to be adults.”—Celeste Ng, Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast<br/><br/>“The dialogue is superb, as are the insights about communicating in the age of electronic devices. Rooney has a magical ability to write scenes of such verisimilitude that even when little happens they’re suspenseful.”—Curtis Sittenfeld, The Week<br/><br/>“Rooney has the gift of imbuing everyday life with a sense of high stakes . . . a novel of delicious frictions.”—New York<br/><br/>“A writer of rare confidence, with a lucid, exacting style . . . One wonderful aspect of Rooney’s consistently wonderful novel is the fierce clarity with which she examines the self-delusion that so often festers alongside presumed self-knowledge. . . . But Rooney’s natural power is as a psychological portraitist. She is acute and sophisticated about the workings of innocence; the protagonist of this novel about growing up has no idea just how much of it she has left to do.”—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker<br/><br/>“This book. This book. I read it in one day. I hear I’m not alone.”—Sarah Jessica Parker (Instagram)
Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton · 2021
New York Times Bestseller<br/>"There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it.” —Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women<br/>“Dolly Alderton has always been a sparkling Roman candle of talent. She is funny, smart, and explosively engaged in the wonders and weirdness of the world. But what makes this memoir more than mere entertainment is the mature and sophisticated evolution that Alderton describes in these pages. It’s a beautifully told journey and a thoughtful, important book. I loved it.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and City of Girls<br/>The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, growing older, and learning to navigate friendships, jobs, loss, and love along the ride<br/>When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, finding a job, getting drunk, getting dumped, realizing that Ivan from the corner shop might just be the only reliable man in her life, and that absolutely no one can ever compare to her best girlfriends. Everything I Know About Love is about bad dates, good friends and—above all else— realizing that you are enough.<br/>Glittering with wit and insight, heart and humor, Dolly Alderton’s unforgettable debut weaves together personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, and other vignettes that will strike a chord of recognition with women of every age—making you want to pick up the phone and tell your best friends all about it. Like Bridget Jones’ Diary but all true, Everything I Know About Love is about the struggles of early adulthood in all its terrifying and hopeful uncertainty.
Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng · 2015
Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.<br/><br/>So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos.<br/><br/>A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.
A Gentle Reminder
Bianca Sparacino · 2021
This is your reminder – alone is not synonymous with not good enough.<br/>Alone is not a weakness, it is not something to be ashamed of. No, alone is a gift. It is a foundation, a steady ground within yourself that will be there whether or not you sleep beside the tired bones of another human being.<br/><br/>A gentle reminder, for the days you feel light in this world, and for the days in which the sun rises a little slower. A gentle reminder for when your heart is full of hope, and for when you are learning how to heal it. A gentle reminder for when you finally begin to trust in the goodness, and for when you need the kind of words that hug your broken pieces back together. A gentle reminder for when growth hangs heavy in the air, for when you need to tuck your strength into your bones just to make it to tomorrow. A gentle reminder for when you are balancing the messiness, and the beauty, of what it means to be human, when you are teaching yourself that it is okay to be both happy and sad, that you are real, not perfect. A gentle reminder for when you seek the words you needed when you were younger. A gentle reminder for when you need to hear that you deserve to be loved the way you love others. A gentle reminder for when you need to recognize that you are not your past, that you are not your faults. A gentle reminder for when you need to believe in staying soft, in continuing to be the kind of person who cares. A gentle reminder for when you need to believe in loving deeply in a world that sometimes fails to do so. A gentle reminder to keep going. A gentle reminder to hope.<br/><br/>A gentle reminder, for you.<br/><br/>Take what you need.
Coraline
Neil Gaiman
New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman’s modern classic, Coraline—also an Academy Award-nominated film<br/>"Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house...."<br/>When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.<br/>But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.<br/>Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.<br/>Neil Gaiman's Coraline is a can't-miss classic that enthralls readers age 8 to 12 but also adults who enjoy a perfect smart spooky read.
Uno siempre cambia al amor de su vida (por otro amor o por otra vida). Incluye capítulo nuevo. (Spanish Edition)
Amalia Andrade · 2019
Amalia deals with a broken heart… her own? With a positive, energetic approach, with hints of humor, she builds a completely interactive first aid kit, which comes in handy to face the lack of love through reflection, advice, recipes and tons of lists and clever ideas capable of transforming a negative experience into a liberating force. Changing does not mean giving something up, but rather promising something, says the author. Because if something is not working out, there will ALWAYS be a new love or a new life. Because when it comes to love, or the lack thereof, we are never alone. A manual to survive a broken heart and, above all, accept that it is OK to feel bad
The Spanish Love Deception
Elena Armas · 2021
A wedding. A trip to Spain. The most infuriating man. And three days of pretending. Or in other words, a plan that will never work.Catalina Martín, finally, not single. Her family is happy to announce that she will bring her American boyfriend to her sister's wedding. Everyone is invited to come and witness the most magical event of the year.That would certainly be tomorrow's headline in the local newspaper of the small Spanish town I came from. Or the epitaph on my tombstone, seeing the turn my life had taken in the span of a phone call.Four weeks wasn't a lot of time to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic-from NYC and all the way to Spain-for a wedding. Let alone, someone eager to play along my charade. But that didn't mean I was desperate enough to bring the 6'4 blue eyed pain in my ass standing before me.Aaron Blackford. The man whose main occupation was making my blood boil had just offered himself to be my date. Right after inserting his nose in my business, calling me delusional, and calling himself my best option. See? Outrageous. Aggravating. Blood boiling. And much to my total despair, also right. Which left me with a surly and extra large dilemma in my hands. Was it worth the suffering to bring my colleague and bane of my existence as my fake boyfriend to my sister's wedding? Or was I better off coming clean and facing the consequences of my panic induced lie?Like my abuela would say, que dios nos pille confesados.The Spanish Love Deception is an enemies-to-lovers, fake-dating, SLOW-BURN romance. Perfect for those looking for a steamy slow-burn with the sweetest Happily Ever After.
Eleanor y Park
Rainbow Rowell · 2013
Para todos aquellos que quedaron fascinados por Las ventajas de ser un marginado.<br/>Una historia de amor entre dos outsiders lo bastante inteligentes como para saber que el primer amor nunca es para siempre, pero lo suficientemente valientes como para intentarlo.<br/>-Bono conoció a la que seríasu mujer en el instituto -dijo Park.<br/>-Sí, y también Jerry Lee Lewis -contestó Eleanor.<br/>-No estoy bromeando.<br/>-Pues deberías. Tenemos16 años -dijo Eleanor.<br/>-¿Y qué pasa con Romeo y Julieta?<br/>-Superficiales, confundidos y, posteriormente, muertos.<br/>-Te quiero, y no estoy bromeando -le dijo Park.<br/>-Pues deberías.<br/>Eleanor es nueva en el instituto; su vida familiar es un desastre;con su intenso pelo rojo, su extraña y poco conjuntada forma de vestir no podría llamar más la atención aunque se lo propusiese.<br/>Park es un chico mitad coreano; su vida familiar es tranquila; no es exactamente popular, pero con sus camisetas negras, sus cascos y sus libros ha conseguido ser invisible.<br/>Todo empieza cuando Park accede a que Eleanor se siente a su lado en el autobús del instituto el primer día de clase. Al principio ni siquiera se hablan, pero poco a poco comparten sus hobbies y empiezan una relación de amistad... para terminar enamorándose de la forma en que te enamoras la primera vez, cuando eres joven, y sientes que no tienes nada y todo que perder.<br/>Eleanor & Park ha sido galardonada con el GoodReads Choice Award 2013 en la categoría de literatura juvenil y con el Boston Globe Horn Book 2013 al mejor libro de ficción.<br/>Reseñas:<br/>«Tierna, emocionante, deliciosa, Eleanor & Park es una novela para paladear y disfrutar con pausa. Una historia inolvidable, bellísima y llena de sutilezas que muestra cómo el amor es capaz de todo, por muy hostil que sea el entorno. Porque cada vez que las manos de Eleanor y Park se rozan, con sorpresa y sensualidad recién descubierta, suena música.»<br/>Amy Lab, autora de Nunca digas nunca y Pero a tu lado<br/>«Divertida, esperanzadora, inspiradora, sexy y absolutamente emotiva; esta historia de amor cautivará a los lectores, y no solo a los jóvenes.»<br/>Kirkus Review<br/>«En este curioso y sorprendente acercamiento al amor entre dos outsiders, Rowell nos muestra la belleza de lo rasgado.»<br/>Stewart Lewis<br/>«Es un libro que te llega al corazón. Es fascinante. Una buena manera de llegar a muchos alumnos a todos el tema del bullying.»<br/>Javier Ruescas en Youtube<br/>En los blogs...<br/>«Una historia dulce, tierna, llena de matices, con muchos personajes secundariosa los que amarás y muy realista. Si quieres pasar una buena tarde con una buena lectura Eleanor y Park es tu novela.»<br/>Blog Mi sala de lectura
Anoche en las trincheras (Fuera de colección) (Spanish Edition)
Alberto Villarreal · 2018
Todo lo que fuimos (Spanish Edition)
Alberto Villarreal · 2018
Ocho lugares que me recuerdan a ti (Spanish Edition)
Alberto Villarreal · 2019
The Panic Years: Dates, Doubts, and the Mother of All Decisions
Nell Frizzell · 2021
It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover · 2024
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING BLAKE LIVELY AND JUSTIN BALDONI! From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and All Your Perfects, a “brave and heartbreaking novel that digs its claws into you and doesn’t let go, long after you’ve finished it” (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author) about a workaholic with a too-good-to-be-true romance who can’t stop thinking about her first love. Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life seems too good to be true. Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place. As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan—her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened. An honest, evocative, and tender novel, It Ends with Us is “a glorious and touching read, a forever keeper. The kind of book that gets handed down” (USA TODAY).
It Starts with Us
Colleen Hoover · 2022
Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas’s side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the “glorious and touching” (USA TODAY) #1 New York Times bestseller and major motion picture It Ends with Us.<br/><br/>Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date.<br/><br/>But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life—and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will hate being in his ex-wife and daughter’s life.<br/><br/>Switching between the perspectives of Lily and Atlas, It Starts with Us picks up right where the epilogue for the “gripping, pulse-pounding” (Sarah Pekkanen, author of Perfect Neighbors) bestselling phenomenon It Ends with Us left off. Revealing more about Atlas’s past and following Lily as she embraces a second chance at true love while navigating a jealous ex-husband, it proves that “no one delivers an emotional read like Colleen Hoover” (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author).
November 9: A Novel
Colleen Hoover · 2015
Beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us, It Ends with Us, and All Your Perfects returns with an unforgettable love story between a writer and his unexpected muse.<br/><br/>Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon’s last day in Los Angeles together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for his novel. Over time and amidst the various relationships and tribulations of their own separate lives, they continue to meet on the same date every year. Until one day Fallon becomes unsure if Ben has been telling her the truth or fabricating a perfect reality for the sake of the ultimate plot twist.<br/><br/>Can Ben’s relationship with Fallon—and simultaneously his novel—be considered a love story if it ends in heartbreak?
