The End of Our Story
The End of Our Story

Author: Meg Haston

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2017-04-04

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0062335790

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Every love story has a breaking point... From the author of Paperweight comes the star-crossed romance of two high school friends in a tale rife with deeply buried secrets and shocking revelations. BEFORE: Bridge and Wil have been entangled in each other’s lives for years. Under the white-hot Florida sun, they went from kids daring each other to swim past the breakers to teenagers stealing kisses between classes. But when Bridge betrayed Wil during their junior year, she shattered his heart and their relationship along with it. AFTER: When Wil’s family suffers a violent loss, and Bridge rushes back to Wil’s side. As they struggle to heal old wounds and start falling for each other all over again, Bridge and Wil discover just how much has changed in the past year. Though they once knew each other’s every secret, they aren’t the same people they used to be. Bridge can’t imagine life without Wil, but sometimes love isn’t enough. Can they find their way back to each other, or will this be the end of their story?

The Day of the Duchess
The Day of the Duchess

Author: Sarah MacLean

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2017-06-27

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0062379461

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The third book in Sarah MacLean's witty and romantic Scandal & Scoundrel series featuring a ravishing heroine and the man, desperately in love, who now has to make amends. The one woman he will never forget… Malcolm Bevingstoke, Duke of Haven, has lived the last three years in self-imposed solitude, paying the price for a mistake he can never reverse and a love he lost forever. The dukedom does not wait, however, and Haven requires an heir, which means he must find himself a wife by summer’s end. There is only one problem—he already has one. The one man she will never forgive… After years in exile, Seraphina, Duchess of Haven, returns to London with a single goal—to reclaim the life she left and find happiness, unencumbered by the man who broke her heart. Haven offers her a deal; Sera can have her freedom, just as soon as she finds her replacement…which requires her to spend the summer in close quarters with the husband she does not want, but somehow cannot resist. A love that neither can deny… The duke has a single summer to woo his wife and convince her that, despite their broken past, he can give her forever, making every day the Day of the Duchess.

Romantic Cocktails
Romantic Cocktails

Author: Clair McLafferty

Publisher: Whalen Book Works

Published: 2019-01-28

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1732512612

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Romantic Cocktails is a bewitching collection of over 100 classic and craft cocktail recipes, perfect for winning hearts—and mending broken ones, too! Inside the plush red foil cover of Romantic Cocktails you will find the secret to mixing up more than 100 cocktails for couples, crushes, and star-crossed lovers. Chapters include Vintage Romance (classic cocktails from the good old days); Pretty Drinks (visually stunning, gem-colored concoctions); Love Potions (cocktails packed with aphrodisiacs); Zero-Proof Cocktails (booze-free elixirs); Drinks for Two (what’s more romantic than sharing a glass); Modern Craft Cocktails (exclusive drink recipes contributed by craft bartenders from San Francisco to Hong Kong); and a bonus chapter on Irresistible Bar Snacks, From-Scratch Ingredients, & Garnishes (cheese boards, chocolate-dipped everything, spirit infusions, and more). The drinks are as fun and charming as they are intoxicating, with names including: The Afternoon Delight, a little sweet, a little naughty Boozy Milkshake for Two, two straws please Between the Sheets, a romantic variation on the classic Sidecar cocktail The Vesper Martini, synonymous with sophistication The Goodnight Kiss, the perfect nightcap for a night you don’t want to end Simple step-by-step instructions and gorgeous full-color photographs make every drink recipe easy and truly swoon-worthy. Author and bartender Clair McLafferty offers insider tips and tricks for everything from sizing up recipes for a party to fixing a drink that didn’t turn out quite right. Sidebars show how to master details like floating flowers, muddling herbs, and garnishing drinks with amazing bitters art. And throughout the book, readers will find drinks-relatedromantic quotations and toasts from the likes of Shakespeare, Louisa May Alcott, and James Baldwin. Whether you are looking for a romantic gift or a reliably excellent cocktail book for your home bar, Romantic Cocktails will knock your socks off!

What Girls Are Made Of
What Girls Are Made Of

Author: Elana K. Arnold

Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab ®

Published: 2017-04-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 151243437X

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A 2017 National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist When Nina Faye was fourteen, her mother told her there was no such thing as unconditional love. Nina believed her. Now she'll do anything for the boy she loves, to prove she's worthy of him. But when he breaks up with her, Nina is lost. What is she if not a girlfriend? What is she made of? Broken-hearted, Nina tries to figure out what the conditions of love are. "Finally, finally, a book that is fully girl, with all of the gore and grace of growing up female exposed." —Carrie Mesrobian, author of the William C. Morris finalist, Sex & Violence

The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Romantic Relationships
The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Romantic Relationships

Author: Todd Kennedy Shackelford

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023-02-28

Total Pages: 865

ISBN-13: 0197524710

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"Evolutionary social science is having a renaissance. This volume showcases the empirical and theoretical advancements produced by the evolutionary study of romantic relationships. The editors assembled an international collection of contributors to trace how evolved psychological mechanisms shape strategic computation and behavior across the lifespan of a romantic partnership. Each chapter provides an overview of historic and contemporary research on the psychological mechanisms and processes underlying initiation, maintenance, and dissolution of romantic relationships. Contributors discuss popular and cutting-edge methods for data analysis and theory development, critically analyse the state of evolutionary relationship science, and provide discerning recommendations for future research. The handbook integrates a broad range of topics (e.g., partner preference and selection, competition and conflict, jealousy and mate guarding, parenting, partner loss and divorce, and post-relationship affiliation) that are discussed alongside major sources of strategic variation in mating behavior, such as sex and gender diversity, developmental life history, neuroendocrine processes, technological advancement, and culture. Its content promises to enrich students' and established researchers' views on the current state of the discipline and should challenge a diverse cross-section of relationship scholars and clinicians to incorporate evolutionary theorizing into their professional work"--

Without Merit
Without Merit

Author: Colleen Hoover

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1501170635

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From Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Us, comes a moving and haunting novel of family, love, and the power of the truth. Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness. The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother’s former nurse, the little half-brother isn’t allowed to do or eat anything fun, and the eldest siblings are irritatingly perfect. Then, there’s Merit. Merit Voss collects trophies she hasn’t earned and secrets her family forces her to keep. While browsing the local antiques shop for her next trophy, she finds Sagan. His wit and unapologetic idealism disarm and spark renewed life into her—until she discovers that he’s completely unavailable. Merit retreats deeper into herself, watching her family from the sidelines, when she learns a secret that no trophy in the world can fix. Fed up with the lies, Merit decides to shatter the happy family illusion that she’s never been a part of before leaving them behind for good. When her escape plan fails, Merit is forced to deal with the staggering consequences of telling the truth and losing the one boy she loves. Poignant and powerful, Without Merit explores the layers of lies that tie a family together and the power of love and truth.

The Sociocultural Context of Romantic Relationships
The Sociocultural Context of Romantic Relationships

Author: Brian G. Ogolsky

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-11-02

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1009203991

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Embedded within the sociocultural context of romantic relationships are features such as race, culture, neighborhoods, the legal system, and governmental policy. Due to the inherent difficulties with studying large structures and systems, little work has been done at the macro level in relationship science. This volume spotlights the complex interplay between romantic relationships and these structural systems, including varied insights from experts in the field. In turn, more diverse and generalizable research programs on the social ecology of relationships can be developed, helping to facilitate advances in theory. Scholars and students of relationship science in psychology, sociology, communication, and family studies will benefit from these discussions. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Living as an Author in the Romantic Period
Living as an Author in the Romantic Period

Author: Matthew Sangster

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-01-27

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 303037047X

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This book explores how authors profited from their writings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, contending that the most tangible benefits were social, rather than financial or aesthetic. It examines authors’ interactions with publishers; the challenges of literary sociability; the vexed construction of enduring careers; the factors that prevented most aspiring writers (particularly the less privileged) from accruing significant rewards; the rhetorical professionalisation of periodicals; and the manners in which emerging paradigms and technologies catalysed a belated transformation in how literary writing was consumed and perceived.