In the tradition of Laura Esquivel's Like Water For Chocolate, The House of Impossible Loves is a novel set in twentieth-century Spain and France revolving around a family of cursed women.
An agonizing turbulence lies just beneath the surface of this skillfully wrought novel by the French phenom who caused a sensation with the publication of her novel Incest. Reaching back into a world before she was born, Christine Angot describes the inevitable encounter of two young people at a dance in the early 1950s: Rachel and Pierre, her mother and father. Their love is acute. It twists around Pierre's decisive judgments about class, nationalism, and beauty, and winds its way towards dissolution and Christine's own birth. Though it's Pierre whose ideas are most often voiced, it's Rachel who slowly comes into view, her determination and patience forming a radiant, enigmatic disposition. Equal parts subtle and suspenseful, An Impossible Love is an unwavering advance toward a brutal sequence of events that mars both Christine's and Rachel's lives. Angot the author carves Angot the narrator out of this corrosive element, exposing an unmendable rupture, and at the same time offering a portrait of a striking, ineradicable bond between mother and daughter.
Life teaches us what ‘love’ truly is And love gives definition to ‘life’ Aisha, a bit of a late bloomer, has to figure out what it means to be a woman and to be desired. Danish feels time is running out for him and he’s going to end up as a nobody, as opposed to his overachieving, determined younger brother. Life takes a strange turn when Danish, the confused idiot, is appointed as the student counsellor to Aisha. Between the two of them they have to figure out love, life, friendship—most of all, themselves. And it’s not proving to be . . . easy? Our Impossible Love presents, Life the way it is and Love the way it should be
Luka and Cheyenne. Brought together by danger. He holds the secret of what they are. She knows what she wants, but the stakes are forever. Danger is looking over their shoulders. Silky saves Ivory from sure death. Their world is perfect, but is there room for others in their lives? Say a sexy man with a few secrets of his own and who stays one step away from danger his whole life.
It’s her wedding day and it’ll be the happiest day of her life…won’t it? Amanda Dean would say she's an okay artist and a loyal friend, but what she’s best at is falling in love. A self-proclaimed bi disaster who has had her heart broken more times than she cares to count, Amanda can’t help opening herself up. As she gets ready on the day she's waited a lifetime for, memories of her past loves run through her mind, with one glaring red sign blinking above them—is this “the one”? Will it be: the fit water polo player, the fashionista, the dependable hedge fund manager, or the one where the timing was never quite right. Now, on the day of her wedding—a day where everything already seems to be going wrong—Mandy must decide if she’s willing to risk it all one last time or if she’ll escape while her whole heart is still intact. Equal parts heartwarming and bittersweet, The Seemingly Impossible Love Life of Amanda Dean expertly weaves the wonder and terror of falling in love into a beautifully crafted story about the joy that can be found when you’re willing to dust yourself off and try again.
19th century Russian writer Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin is primarily known abroad for his poetry, particularly his novel in verse "Eugene Onegin". Assembled here are three delightful samples of his prose - three tales of mischance, mayhem, intrigue, and, of course, true love. This collection includes the following works: - The Blizzard - Novel in Letters - The Lady Peasant
Amy Santos is a college student who dreams of love. She thought she found it with her best friend, Tommy, but the timing was wrong. But when she meets Jeffrey, he makes her feel things she never thought possible to feel... until he breaks her heart. Then, Tommy reappears back into her life. Amy may have found her true love but not without a few obstacles in her way...
Gripping True Story of War and Romance, Hope and Miracles When the odds are impossible, love goes to work. In this thrilling true-life story, readers follow the path of friendship that grows into a romance that spans continents and survives devastating hardship. Craig Keener, a respected white scholar, was cautious after a broken relationship. Médine, a well-educated African woman, met Craig through a campus ministry and the two became friends. Long after they parted for their respective worlds, Craig realized his love for her and began the arduous--and often supernatural--journey to be reunited. Médine faced terror and disease as a refugee in the war-torn Congo; Craig did not know most days if she was alive or dead. Their tender story of love beating the odds inspires readers to believe that God's own great love for each of us will always overcome.
DEDICATED TO ..... Who in life has found a dream and got up to be able to pursue it. He ran faster and faster not to let him escape, he stuck out his tongue and inspired for a long time to never stop, he knocked down obstacles that wanted to stop him, he doubled his efforts to reach the goal. And finally it arrives: it grabs it, molds it and gently imprisons it. He discovered love, his effort made him stronger and a smile lights up his face and opens his heart. And when he is in his possession of him, when he knows he is living it fully, he forgets to fight. He stops running, lets him escape, opens the bars of his heart that kept him for himself.