The Consequences of Love
The Consequences of Love

Author: Gavanndra Hodge

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2020-05-14

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1405943238

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The must-read memoir about the dazzling days and dark nights of a Chelsea childhood . . . 'Brilliant and moving' The Times 'Dazzling' Evening Standard 'Beautifully written' Marian Keyes 'Unflinchingly honest Sunday Times 'Superbly written' Guardian 'A triumph' i _______ Her father was a hairdresser to the rich and famous - he was also their drug dealer. Her mother was an alcoholic fashion model. Her days and nights were non-stop parties - she spent them taking care of her little sister and putting out naked flames. And when her sister dies aged nine, Gavanndra is left alone with her grief. Growing up in the dazzling days and dark nights of her parents' social lives, surviving means fitting into their dysfunctional world, while stopping the family from falling apart . . . _________ 'A redemptive tale of an emotional reckoning' i 'This story will stay with you long after you put the book down' Emma Gannon 'There are scenes that will reduce you to tears, but there's also humour, forgiveness and uplifting optimism. By the end of this dazzling debut you just want to give her a huge cheer for coming through' Evening Standard 'A masterful writer with a gift for storytelling' i

The Unpredictable Consequences of Love
The Unpredictable Consequences of Love

Author: Jill Mansell

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2014-01-30

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 0755355997

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Jill Mansell's bestseller THE UNPREDICTABLE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE is an unforgettable tale of sunny days on the beach, Cornwall in the summer and secrets about to be revealed. Perfect for readers of Lucy Diamond and Veronica Henry. In the idyllic seaside town of St Carys, Sophie is putting the past firmly behind her. When Josh arrives in St Carys to run the family hotel, he can't understand why Sophie has zero interest in letting any man into her life. He also can't understand how he's been duped into employing Sophie's impulsive friend Tula, whose crush on him is decidedly unrequited. St Carys has more than its fair share of characters, including the charming but utterly feckless surfer Riley Bryant, who has a massive crush on Tula. Riley's aunt is superstar author Marguerite Marshall. And Marguerite has designs on Josh's grandfather...who in turn still adores his glamorous ex-wife, Dot... Just how many secrets can one seaside town keep? What readers are saying about The Unpredictable Consequences of Love: 'The way in which the various stories played out - with all their twists and turns, laughs and real sadness - against the vividly drawn Cornish setting made for quite engrossing reading' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'Wonderfully witty, highly compelling and absolutely impossible to resist' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'So much love is flowing in this little seaside town and each of the characters are loveable and entertaining. The perfect read with no flaws and had me hooked from start to finish' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars

The Possibility of Love
The Possibility of Love

Author: Kathleen O'Dwyer

Publisher: Kathleen O'Dwyer

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1443801186

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The Possibility of Love is an exploration of a concept close to the human heart. Grounded in the ordinary, everyday experiences of human living, the book provides an exploration of the diverse obstacles to the experience of love, the consequences of loveâ (TM)s absence, and the unquenchable desire for love which propels, influences and ultimately motivates much of human behaviour. The Possibility of Love poses the question: is love actually possible between human beings, or is it an ideal, a fantasy, an illusion, or a comforting aspiration which enables a palliative denial and distortion of the reality of human being? This expansive question is approached through an interdisciplinary analysis. The author addresses the question of loveâ (TM)s possibility as it is explored in a selection of literature from the disciplines of philosophy, psychoanalysis and poetry. The interdisciplinary nature of the study is based on the assertion of an interconnection between the three disciplines, and that this interconnection enables a unique and insightful exploration of the question of loveâ (TM)s possibility. Thus, the question is explored from diverse view-points, and also from different time-frames; convergences and divergences are noted and discussed, and conclusions are drawn from the ensuing findings. The book is essentially a philosophical analysis of an emotion that significantly impacts on human experience. It attests to the gradually increasing acknowledgement of the power of emotional experience in the search for knowledge, wisdom and truth. Thus, it is a uniquely honest exploration of human nature in contemporary times.

The Consequences of Love and Vengeance
The Consequences of Love and Vengeance

Author: N. E. Henderson

Publisher: N. E. Henderson

Published: 2023-10-23

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13: 1948539462

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It began with an interview that should have been mundane, and it ended with me becoming a foster mom and my boss demanding I uncover evidence to put a man behind bars—for life. I believed I was one of the good ones. Incorruptible. I certainly wasn’t a member of the Dirty Blue like others I knew. Then, I met Drago Acerbi. I soon realized nothing could have prepared me for the consequences of falling in love with the enemy—a dangerous criminal whom I'm supposed to lock up. Yet, I was the one keeping our relationship a secret. Drago knew that. He also knew I had a job to do. What he didn’t know was that the baby I was protecting was his son. At least, he didn’t until my superior discovered our forbidden love affair—and I lost everything. My career. The man I had fallen for. The baby I’d grown to love. A life I didn’t know I wanted. I’d soon learn I wasn’t the only one harboring a secret they wanted to keep hidden from the world. That’s when I found out exactly who Drago Acerbi really was, and it sent a chill down my spine. This book has it all. Scandal. Action-packed suspense and drama. A plot twist that’ll have your jaw dropping. Protective hero vibes. And a kidnapping. It’s detective romance with light mafia/organized crime.

Living with the Consequences of Love & Care
Living with the Consequences of Love & Care

Author: Eric Xaba

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2010-10-01

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 145358868X

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This is a story of a boy named Tray. Throughout his life he was always in danger, caused by two people pretending to be lovers. Every time people judge things by its own action, but sometimes their judgment become false. Especially in life there is nothing for ever the promises as well become unreal. That is how it went down in this family of Tray. He grew up while his parents were still together. Things began to turn up side down on the day his sister was born. Trays family was punished a lot by his actions. He started to join the wrong groups where they were participating in illegal stuff. But this was the only way he could help his mother. He thought it would be easy money, fast money. Tray was on the move, dealing illegal to get the money for his mother who was in a lot of trouble. Sometimes the innocent person becomes the guilty person because of someone elses fault. It caused a lot of sadness to both Tray and his mother when his father left his mother to go and stay with his new lover. His mothers life was on the line because of her sickness that developed so fast, and because of that she stressed a lot. Tray was caught and had to be send to prison. After he did his time he went through lots of challenges. Tray was attacked and left in a burning shelter which he barely escaped. The enemy attacked again and again with all sorts off weapons like bottles and stuff. The enemy always had a knew plan to get rid of Tray. Most of his days he spent in Hospital. Believing his father caused all of the accidents. Different attacks took place several times but Tray survived all of them. To be a victim keeps a person is not at peace and his health also gets hurt. But at the end his enemies would end up in prison. The people in prison do eventually learn a lesson. After they finished their sentence they also live a peaceful better life, they become clean honest people. This was the same for Trays enemies. This is how we must live with one another in Love and Peace and Care.

Consequences of Love
Consequences of Love

Author:

Publisher: Jeff Jenkins

Published:

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13:

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Annie had it all. A beautiful home, adorable toddler, and just happened to snag the promising son of most prominent family in their quaint little town in east Texas. Her life was perfect. Or so it seemed. Atlas was a man with a haunted past whose mundane life consisted of hard work, predictability, and solitude. And he had to reason to hope for a change. A chance encounter sparks an unlikely friendship and as their two worlds begin to collide, everything they thought they knew, comes into question. The carefully-crafted walls they've built, begin to crumble as they're faced with a past they've been trying to forget and a future they're afraid to hope for.

Shyness & Love
Shyness & Love

Author: Brian G. Gilmartin

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 2012-11-29

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 0761860606

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Shyness & Love covers the only major study conducted to date on social anxiety disorder as it is manifested in informal, unstructured, male/female dating and courtship situations. It focuses on the causes—both biomedical as well as situational—of “love-shyness” and the consequences for those afflicted with it. Gilmartin also discusses promising treatment modalities and what schools and communities can do to prevent severe love-shyness from developing in the first place. Shyness & Love examines the early family life as well as the peer group interactions of love-shy men. The book provides many statistical comparisons between the sampled love-shys and a comparison group of non-love-shy males of normal (but not superior) social self-confidence levels. These statistical comparisons allow for some informed speculations regarding the numerous interacting causes that underlie social phobia in informal, unstructured, heterosexual social situations. These statistical comparisons also provide the reader with some powerful suggestions regarding ways the American social structure (e.g., schools, family life, and communities) might be rearranged so that severe and intractable forms of love-shyness would never have an opportunity to develop in growing boys and teenagers in the first place. Since the publication of the first edition of this book, it has been determined that as many as forty percent of men afflicted with love-shyness are simultaneously comorbid for Asperger’s Syndrome, also known as high-functioning autism. As many as half of all love-shy males are comorbid for the “male lesbian syndrome,” sometimes also referred to as the “passive, non-competitive male syndrome.” This second edition contains a new foreword that presents the latest findings in love-shyness research. It is more concise than the original Shyness & Love, yet retains the most significant chapters.

The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino
The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino

Author: Russell Kilbourn

Publisher: Wallflower Press

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780231189927

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"Paolo Sorrentino, the director of Il Divo (2008) and The Great Beauty (2013) and the creator of the HBO series The Young Pope (2016) (and The New Pope (2019)), has in recent years emerged as one of the most popular figures in 21st century European filmmaking. Critics, however, remain sharply divided in their opinions of his films and what tradition his work can be placed in. Questions of what his stylistic relationship to Neorealism, the touchstone of virtually all Italian cinema, his local/national identity, and the posturing of his films vis a vis gender and a seemingly reactionary conceptualization of masculinity, his embracing or subverting of the role of art house "auteur," surround his films, with little consensus as to the answers. He is a confounding figure that seems to occupy contradictory roles in each of his films. In taking up the question of how best to contextualize Sorrentino's work, this book tracks his progressive departure from the localized world of Neapolitan and middlebrow "quality cinema" tropes in favor of a more expansive and transnational approach to filmmaking. Sorrentino's more recent work explicitly engages late-capitalist spaces and aesthetics and problematizes authorial interpretation, the idea of the "foreign" film, the supposed dichotomy between the "realist" ethos that has, in the past, dominated Italian cinema, and a "post-realist"/"post-modernist" emphasis on style. Critically, Kilbourn tracks two key themes through Sorretino's oeuvre: the idea of "impegno" - often translated as "commitment" and referring to the social activist aims of Neorealism - and the director's repeated attempts to create a distinctive kind of subjectivity. Though often thought to be mutually exclusive with the flamboyant and de-subjectivized style in much of contemporary art cinema, Sorrentino continues to find ways to merge these themes in his work"--

The Liability of Love
The Liability of Love

Author: Susan Schoenberger

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-07-20

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1647421314

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Margaret Carlyle is searching for an epic love as she heads to college in 1979 after the loss of her beloved mother to cancer. When a charismatic boy named Anders rapes her on their first date, she wants nothing more than to forget it ever happened. But as the years pass, each life decision she makes seems driven by what happened that night. When Anders becomes famous as an actor, Margaret can no longer ignore her past—and she must make choices that will affect everyone around her, most notably her husband, Douglas, and Fitz, the man who has loved her patiently since college. This deeply moving novel is a window into class and privilege, the mysteries of marriage, and the destructive power of secrets—and an examination of what happens when we try to bury the past, as well as the consequences of confronting it.

The Consequence of Falling
The Consequence of Falling

Author: Claire Contreras

Publisher: Claire Contreras

Published: 2019-01-12

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780998345529

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The list of things I hate is short. Not even my soon-to-be ex-husband is on that list. Nope. I save only the worst of the worst, the crème de la crème, the absolute I cannot even for this list . . .1. Black coffee2. Rude people3. Nathaniel BradleyWhich is why when my father informs me that he's making Nathaniel Bradley his new business partner, and in turn, my boss, I flip out. 1. He's an annoying know-it-all. 2. He calls me a spoiled princess every chance he gets. 3. He disapproves of everything I do.I go into this knowing I'll hate every second in his presence. Except the longer he's around, the more I find myself staring at his lips and remembering the one time they were on mine. I randomly find myself looking at his hands and wondering how they'd feel on my skin. I try to snap out of it, but I guess I'm not as smart as I thought I was. No matter how many times I remind myself of the times I've practically thrown myself at him and he's pushed me away, I keep falling little by little.I'd always heard that it was a bad idea to mix business with pleasure and if that's the case, this thing with Nathaniel has demise written all over it.