Iris Oxtabee, who has Nonverbal Learning Disability, decides to prove love is simply chemistry by getting popular, newly-single Theo Grant to ask her to prom--complicating her friendship with Seth.
Iris Oxtabee has managed to navigate through her near-boring social life by reading everything from neuroscience journals to Wikipedia articles. Science has helped her fit the puzzle pieces into an understandable whole, and she’s sure there’s nothing it can’t explain. Love, for example - is just chemistry! Her best friend Seth believes love is one of life’s beautiful and chaotic mysteries, without need for explanation. But Iris being Iris, is hell bent on proving him wrong. She decides to test her theory on the popular and newly single Theo Grant, who doesn’t even know Iris exists. Armed with science and a plan, Iris is sure she can make him ask her to prom. With prom just two weeks away, Iris doesn’t have any time to waste. But will proving herself right cause her friendship with Seth—and the tantalizing possibility for something more—to become a failed experiment? PROM THEORY is a sassy romantic rollercoaster, that will melt your heart and give you goosebumps – all at once!
Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi, the Appellate Courts of Alabama and, Sept. 1928/Jan. 1929-Jan./Mar. 1941, the Courts of Appeal of Louisiana.
What if the perfect match is a perfect surprise? Honor Holland has just been unceremoniously rejected by her lifelong crush. And now – a mere three weeks later – Mr. Perfect is engaged to her best friend. But resilient, reliable Honor is going to pick herself up, dust herself off and get back out there...or she would if dating in Manningsport, New York, population 715, wasn't easier said than done. Charming, handsome British professor Tom Barlow just wants to do right by his unofficial stepson, Charlie, but his visa is about to expire. Now Tom must either get a green card or leave the States – and leave Charlie behind. In a moment of impulsiveness, Honor agrees to help Tom with a marriage of convenience – and make her ex jealous in the process. But juggling a fiancé, hiding out from her former best friend and managing her job at the family vineyard isn't easy. And as sparks start to fly between Honor and Tom, they might discover that their pretend relationship is far too perfect to be anything but true love... Higgins [offers] strong storytelling and a refreshing, sarcastic wit...thoroughly entertaining. –People Magazine
A sardonic portrayal of one white, middle-class Midwestern girl's coming-of-age, this novel takes a wry and prescient look at a range of experiences treated at the time as taboo or trivial.