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Author: Lisa Schroeder
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1442443995
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVery good friends, her poetry notebooks, and a mysterious "ninja of nice" give 17-year-old Rae the strength to face her mother's neglect, her stepfather's increasing abuse, and a new boyfriend's obsessiveness.
Author: Mandy Len Catron
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2017-06-27
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1501137468
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A beautifully written and well-researched cultural criticism as well as an honest memoir” (Los Angeles Review of Books) from the author of the popular New York Times essay, “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This,” explores the romantic myths we create and explains how they limit our ability to achieve and sustain intimacy. What really makes love last? Does love ever work the way we say it does in movies and books and Facebook posts? Or does obsessing over those love stories hurt our real-life relationships? When her parents divorced after a twenty-eight year marriage and her own ten-year relationship ended, those were the questions that Mandy Len Catron wanted to answer. In a series of candid, vulnerable, and wise essays that takes a closer look at what it means to love someone, be loved, and how we present our love to the world, “Catron melds science and emotion beautifully into a thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation” (Bookpage). She delves back to 1944, when her grandparents met in a coal mining town in Appalachia, to her own dating life as a professor in Vancouver. She uses biologists’ research into dopamine triggers to ask whether the need to love is an innate human drive. She uses literary theory to show why we prefer certain kinds of love stories. She urges us to question the unwritten scripts we follow in relationships and looks into where those scripts come from. And she tells the story of how she decided to test an experiment that she’d read about—where the goal was to create intimacy between strangers using a list of thirty-six questions—and ended up in the surreal situation of having millions of people following her brand-new relationship. “Perfect fodder for the romantic and the cynic in all of us” (Booklist), How to Fall in Love with Anyone flips the script on love. “Clear-eyed and full of heart, it is mandatory reading for anyone coping with—or curious about—the challenges of contemporary courtship” (The Toronto Star).
Author: Fiona Vigo Marshall
Publisher: Fairlight Books
Published: 2019-03-07
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1912054256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShe bought a house where you can hear the sea, murmuring on the edge of consciousness... Bonnie, a traumatised concert pianist, finds refuge at the edge of England, in a cliff-top house haunted by memories and broken dreams. When Dominic, a road sweeper who is visited by neurological hauntings of his own, gives Bonnie a ring he finds on the street, elemental forces are unleashed that neither is able to control.
Author: William Leith
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-08-22
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1408847744
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Very funny. He writes in a sort of whimsical stream of consciousness ... even his more random disquisitions contain glorious nuggets' - Observer With his trademark darkly humorous mix of personal story and social commentary, Leith attempts to answer the question: is everything really as bad as it seems? 'You'll read this book in a weekend ... Leith is, after all, a very good writer: succinct except when he's repeating himself for effect; amusing except when he's predicting the end of the world; perceptive except when he's pretending he can't remember who actually sang Pink Floyd's Time, or which Dutch explorer discovered Easter Island ... Leith's brain is sharper than most, and he deftly weaves solipsistic woe into more pressing concerns about the housing market and the failure of Western capitalism. This is a potentially important book for our times' Andrew Collins, Mail on Sunday
Author: Erika Robuck
Publisher:
Published: 2009-01
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780982229804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe haunting words of an historian and former cane worker on the Caribbean island of Nevis launch Meghan Owen on her quest to unlock the secrets of an abandoned sugar plantation and its ghosts--Cover..
Author: Helen Gurley Brown
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2012-07-10
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1453255842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1962 blockbuster that took on “one of the most absurd (if universal) myths of our time: that every girl must be married” (The New York Times). Helen Gurley Brown, the iconic editor in chief of Cosmopolitan for thirty-two years, is considered one of the most influential figures of Second Wave feminism. Her first book sold millions of copies, became a cultural phenomenon, and ushered in a whole new way of thinking about work, men, and life. Feisty, fun, and totally frank, Sex and the Single Girl offers advice to unmarried women that is as relevant today as it was when it burst onto the scene in the 1960s. This spirited manifesto puts women—and what they want—first. It captures the exuberance, optimism, and independence that have influenced the lives of so many contemporary American women.
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2015-03-31
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0062362755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJennifer L. Armentrout (also known as J. Lynn), New York Times bestselling author of the Wait for You saga, delivers a new novel of first love, second chances, and scorching chemistry. Eleven months ago, bartender and weird-shirt-wearing extraordinaire Roxy and Officer Reece Anders had a one night stand. Well, kind of. She's been in love with him since she was fifteen, and he wishes that night they shared never happened. She's sworn him off forever, but the past and future collide, forcing her to rely on the one man who broke her heart not once, but twice. Her best friend since birth has been in a long-term care facility since he became a victim of a hate crime years ago, and the person who put him in there is out of prison and wanting to make amends with him and Roxy. She's not sure she has room for forgiveness in her and when she begins to receive frightening messages and is on the receiving end of escalating violence, she thinks she knows who is to blame. The man who already destroyed one life already. But Reece isn't convinced. The threats are too personal, and even if Roxy doesn't believe him, he's not willing to let anyone hurt her. Including himself. He's already messed up more than once when it comes to Roxy and he's not going to let history repeat itself.
Author: Audrey Blake
Publisher:
Published: 2007-08-01
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781434306098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWho doesn't desire to experience a perpetual abundant life? Of course, everyone does! But it would appear that relatively few attain and joyfully maintain it. Why is that? The author offers his heart-felt and scripturally supported reasons for missing out on the inherent blessings embodied in such a life. His greatest desire is for all people to live such an abundant life. It's the Life that Jesus came to provide. After all, he says, we really only have "Just one lifetime", to pursue it with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. Attain it, enjoy it, share it, and be eternally grateful for it. He encourages people of all faiths, or no faith at all, to come along with him on a scriptural journey to spiritual and relational intimacy with God. An incredible journey that he personally took himself, that culminates in an "everyday abundant life". Don't miss out on it. It is yours to experience. In addition, the author believes, a person's "thought life" plays an integral role in experiencing the abundant blessings of God from day to day. He contends, when our "thoughts and subsequent actions", are focused on ourselves, that is, an "I" mentality, not only will our thoughts RUN our life, they will RU "I" N our life. This is Pats' second book of timely encouragement. His first, "The Bottom Line", was a must read book for people of all ages and walks of life. Likewise, this is yet another. Read, heed, and enjoy a constant quickening life that it will bring, in this, your lifetime.
Author: Deirdre Purcell
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2003-12
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9781860591945
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hannah Blum
Publisher:
Published: 2019-12-16
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781675257944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the age of 20, Hannah Blum went from Prom Queen to a mental patient in the blink of an eye, but what she believed would be the end was only just the beginning. In her first book, The Truth About Broken: The Unfixed Version of Self-Love, Hannah Blum redefines what it means to love yourself and takes readers on an unforgettable journey towards embracing what makes them different. It's self-love from the perspective of someone living with a mental illness in a society that has labeled her and others as broken. A collection of captivating true stories that will never leave you after reading. Hannah features her quotes and poetry that have gained global attention across social media and online platforms in the book.This is not your typical self-love book. If you are struggling with loving yourself, regardless if you have a mental illness, this book is for you.
