Close to Me
Close to Me

Author: Amanda Reynolds

Publisher: Quercus

Published: 2017-12-05

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1681440431

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Jo Harding can't remember the last year of her life. And her husband wants to keep it that way. "An immersive tale that's fueled by anxiety and dread." --Kirkus Reviews "As good as it gets." --New York Journal of Books "A perfect fit for fans of Judy Mercer and Nicci French." --Booklist When Jo falls down the stairs at home, she wakes up in the hospital with partial amnesia. In fact, she finds that she's lost an entire year of memories, and she can't remember anything that happened the night she fell. Her husband and her two children assure her that everything's fine, but Jo's family seems to have gone through a lot of dramatic changes in the past year, and she can't let go of the suspicion that there's more they're not telling her. As she pieces together the details of the past twelve months, it becomes more and more clear that her family wants her to stay in the dark--but why? Jo begins to wonder if she hasn't been as good a wife and mother as she might have hoped . . .

Close to Me
Close to Me

Author: Monica Murphy

Publisher: Em Publishing

Published: 2024-05-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781945522413

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A sexy, enemies to lovers sports romance by New York Times bestselling author, Monica Murphy Asher Davis is many things to me. My first crush. My first kiss. And most importantly, the boy who's broken my heart more times than I can ever count. Yet there is something about the brooding bad boy that I can't resist. We're those people you see in high school who avoid eye contact with each other in the hallway, even though we know where the other is at all times. We're miserable when we're forced to work together in class, our gazes full of hatred. And we are also that couple you gossip about when they win homecoming prince and princess their sophomore year... The irony is not lost on me because I'm so far from being his princess. I'm the girl he toys with when he's bored. And he's definitely not my prince, no matter how badly I want him to be. The back and forth is what kills me the most. I'm equally torn between wanting to run to him and away from him, and he knows it. Finally it's our senior year and we're months away from never having to see each other again when disaster strikes-and brings us closer together. All it takes is one heated touch, and I'm burning for Ash. Hotter than I ever have. But will that burn turn into a devastating fire we can't come back from? Or can we actually make it work this time? Close to Me is book one in the standalone Callahans series.

Don't Stand So Close to Me
Don't Stand So Close to Me

Author: Eric Walters

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2020-06-02

Total Pages: 71

ISBN-13: 1459827899

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Key Selling Points In Don't Stand So Close to Me an eighth grader and her friends adjust to life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The book is set in real time during a worldwide historical event and, while it examines the harsh realities of a global pandemic, it ultimately shares a message of coming together and having hope. The book was produced in less than one month, an unprecedented publishing event; it was written and released during the same pandemic it is set in. A portion of the sales will be donated to Lakeside HOPE House in the author's hometown of Guelph, Ontario. HOPE House offers immediate relief and ongoing support to those in need as well as programs and community projects that challenge the stigmas surrounding poverty. With increasing financial insecurity for many due to COVID-19, their work is now more important than ever.

Stay Close to Me
Stay Close to Me

Author: Helen Warner

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-01-31

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1471127206

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**Perfect for fans of Lucy Diamond and Carole Matthews, Stay Close To Me is the ideal book to curl up with this autumn** Amy has a charmed life. One of shopping and lunching while the nanny looks after the children. But when her husband's business collapses, her world is thrown into disarray and, for the first time, Amy's family is relying on her to be strong. Kate has always lived a very different life to her sister, but she wouldn’t have it any other way. Until she meets enigmatic Jack. Suddenly her life is thrown into a new light and, feeling increasingly estranged from her husband Miles, Kate begins to wonder whether Jack may be what she’s been looking for all along. Jennifer worries that her two daughters may never be as happy as she was with her late husband, Michael. But even her marriage wasn't perfect and, when Jennifer makes contact with someone from her past, truths emerge that she has spent a lifetime trying to forget. From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Stay Close To Me is a thought-provoking novel about family, love and learning how to recognise what in life matters the most. Praise for Helen Warner: 'As bubbly as a glass of wedding Champagne' Cosmopolitan 'Great good fun' Woman & Home 'The kind of book holidays were made for' Red 'Heartbreaking, funny, warm and witty' Cosmopolitan ‘Great feel-good quality’ Fiona Walker ‘A ridiculously romantic story’ heat ‘Helen Warner paints a complex picture of friends and lovers’ Star ‘Brilliantly readable, escapist fun’ Weight Watchers Magazine

Too Close to Me
Too Close to Me

Author: Dave Pelzer

Publisher: Rosetta Books

Published: 2014-08-22

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0795343310

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The #1 New York Times–bestselling author and child abuse survivor reveals the challenges that he still faces as an adult, as a husband, and as a father. In the blockbuster autobiography A Child Called “It”, Dave Pelzer shared the story of his childhood—one of the most dramatic and extreme stories of child abuse ever prosecuted in the state of California. As a child, Pelzer was beaten, starved, and abused both emotionally and physically by his alcoholic and mentally unstable mother. As a man, Pelzer went on to have love, happiness, a fulfilling career, and a family of his own. To many, Pelzer seemed to have found his happy ending. But for a child abuse survivor, living a normal adult life carries challenges and complications above and beyond those faced by most people. This book, the fifth in Pelzer’s nonfiction series, provides an honest and courageous look at the difficulties inherent in marriage, parenthood, work, and life from the perspective of someone who survived horrific physical and emotional terrors as a child—and who seeks to meet the responsibilities and complications of adult life with love, strength, and an open heart.

Close to Me & Closer--
Close to Me & Closer--

Author: Alice Notley

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13:

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Poetry. Alice Notley's two books collected here, CLOSE TO ME & CLOSER... and DESAMERE, are works that are wholly their art, meaning they occur as their language shape measure. She's invented a measure. The text is a rich current crossing, as at the moment of imagining, into being in death and in an expanded life. Notley transgresses conventional contemporary categories of genre; rather than genre, the form of the writing is the mind's inner sense and motion. "Alice Notley is, I think, the most challenging and engaging of our contemporary radical female poets...infused with uncommon verbal originality, intelligence and joyous playfullness, full of heart, intensity and wonder, provocatively addressing forever unsolved questions of form and identity, life and death, imagination and gender, Notley's poems are unsettling and inspiring"--the San Francisco Chronicle. Other Alice Notley titles available from SPD include ALMA, OR THE DEAD WOMEN; FROM THE BEGINNING; and WALTZING MATILDA.

Hold Me Closer
Hold Me Closer

Author: David Levithan

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015-03-17

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0698191684

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TIME Magazine’s Top Ten Children’s Books of 2015 "Tiny Cooper stole our hearts." —Entertainment Weekly Especially for those of us who ordinarily feel ignored, a spotlight is a circle of magic, with the strength to draw us from the darkness of our everyday lives. Watch out, ex-boyfriends, and get out of the way, homophobic coaches. Tiny Cooper has something to say—and he’s going to say it in song. Filled with honesty, humor, and “big, lively, belty” musical numbers, Hold Me Closer is the no-holds-barred (and many-bars-held) entirety of the beloved musical first introduced in Will Grayson, Will Grayson, the award-winning bestseller by John Green and David Levithan. Tiny Cooper is finally taking center stage . . . and the world will never be the same again. “Tiny will have readers falling out of their chairs laughing. . . . It's big. It's gay. It's outrageous and hilarious.” —Kirkus Reviews ★"Levithan has turned in another star turn with a book that is witty, wise, and well worthy of an encore." —Booklist, starred review ★"Tiny’s passion for composing a big, beautiful life and a big, beautiful show overflows in thisthoroughly magical book.” —BCCB, starred review ★"Tiny Cooper . . . gets his own star turn." —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Pull Me Close
Pull Me Close

Author: Sidney Halston

Publisher: Loveswept

Published: 2016-10-25

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0399593896

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Welcome to Panic, a sultry Miami nightclub where bodies and hearts move to a beat that doesn’t stop at sunrise—the setting for “a magnificent story full of deep emotion” (Sawyer Bennett). Katherine: I thought I could enjoy a night out like a normal person. I thought I could handle the flashing lights, the pulsing music, the crowded dance floor. I couldn’t have been more wrong. After having an anxiety attack and passing out during my sister’s engagement party at Panic, I wake up in the arms of the hottest guy I’ve ever seen. Nick Moreno’s no gentleman. But he might just be the man I need to help me take control of my life. Nick: When I hear there’s some random girl passed out in the back room of my family’s South Beach nightclub, I’m pissed. My dad’s already behind bars and we can’t afford any more bad press. But after giving her a lift—literally—back to her apartment, I stop seeing Katherine Wilson as some random girl. She’s gorgeous, vulnerable, and braver than she knows. And when we kiss, all I want to do is pull her close and promise that she’ll always be safe in my arms. No cheating. No cliffhangers. And no dress code. Don’t miss Sidney Halston’s Panic series: PULL ME CLOSE | MAKE ME STAY | KISS ME BACK | WHAT ABOUT US And look for all of her hard-hitting MMA romances: AGAINST THE CAGE | FULL CONTACT | BELOW THE BELT | LAID OUT | FIGHTING DIRTY | STACKED UP Praise for Pull Me Close “Pull Me Close is a heart-gripping story about one of the most beautiful things in the world: the power of love.”—New York Times bestselling author Aurora Rose Reynolds “Pull Me Close is a magnificent story full of deep emotion that will get you straight in the feels. Sidney Halston nailed it with this one.”—New York Times bestselling author Sawyer Bennett “An intriguing tale of anxiety and depression so authentic that readers will feel as if they are in the story with the characters. The plot is fresh and tackles a fascinating topic. The relationship between the main characters is very intense and consuming. . . . A great read!”—RT Book Reviews “I loved it! . . . You’ll be hooked, and falling in love, giggling, panicking, fanning yourself, and stressing out big time. . . . So good!”—Maryse’s Book Blog Includes an excerpt from another Loveswept title.

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer

Author: Lish McBride

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

Published: 2010-10-12

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1429941103

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Sam leads a pretty normal life. He may not have the most exciting job in the world, but he's doing all right—until a fast food prank brings him to the attention of Douglas, a creepy guy with an intense violent streak. Turns out Douglas is a necromancer who raises the dead for cash and sees potential in Sam. Then Sam discovers he's a necromancer too, but with strangely latent powers. And his worst nightmare wants to join forces . . . or else. With only a week to figure things out, Sam needs all the help he can get. Luckily he lives in Seattle, which has nearly as many paranormal types as it does coffee places. But even with newfound friends, will Sam be able to save his skin? Hold Me Closer, Necromancer is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Always Near Me
Always Near Me

Author: Susie Poole

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2014-02-15

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 1433683350

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Helps children understand God's omnipresence.