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Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen ⢠2009
Jane Austenâs timeless classic that explores the intricate complexities of love, societal expectations, and the power of overcoming prejudiceânow in a beautiful clothbound hardcover edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.<br/><br/>When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip, and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.<br/><br/>Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Romance
Happy Place
Emily Henry ⢠2023
11 hours, 3 minutes<br/><br/>A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.<br/><br/>Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in collegeâthey go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, nowâfor reasons theyâre still not discussingâthey donât.<br/><br/>They broke up six months ago. And still havenât told their best friends.<br/><br/>Which is how they find themselves sharing the largest bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend groupâs yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blue week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most.<br/><br/>Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week theyâll all have together in this place. They canât stand to break their friendsâ hearts, and so theyâll play their parts. Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. Itâs a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one weekâŚin front of those who know you best?
Book Lovers
Emily Henry ⢠2022
An insightful, delightful, instant #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Funny Story. âOne of my favorite authors.ââColleen Hoover One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming... Nora Stephens' life is booksâsheâs read them allâand she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sistersâ trip awayâwith visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who sheâs convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that theyâve met many times and itâs never been cute. If Nora knows sheâs not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows heâs nobodyâs hero, but as they are thrown together again and againâin a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allowâwhat they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories theyâve written about themselves.
People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry ⢠2021
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Funny Story comes a sparkling novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. Sheâs a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apartâsheâs in New York City, and heâs in their small hometownâbut every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven't spoken since. Poppy has everything she should want, but sheâs stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation togetherâlay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees. Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?
Beach Read
Emily Henry ⢠2020
<b><b>FROM THE #1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF <i>FUNNY STORY</i>!<br><br>A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.<br><br>As featured in <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> â <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> â <i>Oprah Magazine</i> â Betches â Shondaland â Good Morning America â <i>The New York Post</i> â <i>Good Housekeeping</i> â CNN â and more!</b></b><br><br>Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. <br><br>Theyâre polar opposites. <br><br>In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block.<br><br>Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. Sheâll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and heâll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.
Funny Story
Emily Henry ⢠2024
A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.<br/><br/>Daphne always loved the way her fiancĂŠ Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling itâŚright up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.<br/><br/>Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a childrenâs librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petraâs ex, Miles Nowak.<br/><br/>Scruffy and chaoticâwith a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads âMiles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that sheâs either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?<br/><br/>But itâs all just for show, of course, because thereâs no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancĂŠâs new fiancĂŠeâs exâŚright?
