A stand-alone YA romance with lots of fluff, laugh out loud moments and a guaranteed HEA.Amber Coleman seems to have it all - popularity, beauty, and a promising ballet career - but there's one thing she's hiding: her dream of becoming an author. After her father's passing, she's put her focus on making her mother happy, no matter the cost to her. When a missed project threatens to ruin all she's worked for, she turns to the last person she wants to ask for help -Noah Rhodes. Noah has his own struggles, from dealing with his family's high standards to a crumbling reputation as student body president. He should be thinking about how to regain the school's approval. Instead, he agrees to tutor the girl he's been inexplicably drawn to from the first day they met.
As they work together, they begin to discover who they are under their facades and uncover a surprising connection. Noah understands her more than anyone ever has. Amber accepts him for who he is. It's a love story in the making. One that inspires Amber to write a story of her own. But with a looming ballet performance, parental expectations, and a mysterious adversary, will their newfound bond survive?It has dislike to love and he falls first tropes with cute and cozy vibes. Perfect for readers looking for:
Emotional, coming of age romance
Found family
A little heartbreak and lots of laughs
Abi has asked for 12 things this Christmas. Her list includes money, romance, and a promotion at work.What Abi did not ask for is a demotion, a sack and an international movie star who she is sure will never be interested in a real relationship.However, what Abi doesn & rsquo;t know is that she can control the requests but she can & rsquo;t control the manner in which the answers will come.What Abi will get is the most surprising Christmas she & rsquo;s ever had.A very Gidi Christmas is a standalone romance. Cutesy, Christmas-sy, and sometimes even hilarious, Tomilola Coco Adeyemo's new romance will make your insides warm and fuzzy and bring upon you the holiday feeling. If you're into that sort of thing.
Now a movie streaming on Netflix!A summer in Italy turns into a road trip across Tuscany in this sweeping New York Times bestseller filled with romance, mystery, and adventure.Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn & rsquo;t in the mood for Italy & rsquo;s famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She & rsquo;s only there because it was her mother & rsquo;s dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father isn & rsquo;t around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is get back home.But then Lina is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. Suddenly Lina & rsquo;s uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. A world that inspires Lina, along with the ever-so-charming Ren, to follow in her mother & rsquo;s footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept for far too long. It & rsquo;s a secret that will change everything Lina knew about her mother, her father & mdash;and even herself.People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more.Kirkus Reviews called Love & Gelato & ldquo;a sure bet for fans of romance fiction, & rdquo; while VOYA said readers & ldquo;will find it difficult to put this book down. & rdquo; Readers are about to discover a new place, a new romance, and a new talent.
*Shortlisted for the Diverse Book Awards*
'An astonishing debut, rich in both heartbreak and humour' Jendella Benson, author of Hope & Glory
Stunningly honest and bursting with wit, Someday Maybe is the story of grief and resilience that you won't be able to stop talking about
Here are three things you should know about my husband:
1. He was the great love of my life despite his penchant for going incommunicado
2. He was, as far as I and everyone else could tell, perfectly happy
3. On New Year & rsquo;s Eve, he killed himself
And here is one thing you should know about me:
1. I found him.
Bonus fact: No. I am not okay
After her husband's unexpected death, everyone around Eve & ndash; her friends, her stifling Nigerian-British family, her toxic mother-in-law & ndash; is pushing her to move on. But Eve isn't ready to face the future yet. No, she intends to take to her bed like a consumptive Victorian lady, ignoring her mother's earnest prayers and her sister's cajoling.
Instead, Eve begins looking back, combing through her memories in an attempt to understand where it all went wrong.
So begins this very unconventional love story.
'A love story in retrospect, heartbreaking in its inevitablitiy but also shot through with moments of joy and humour.' Stylist
CHICAGO, SOMETIME & mdash;Two people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. After their meeting, those things do not change. Everything else, however, is slightly different. Both obsessive, eccentric personalities, Aldo Damiani and Charlotte Regan struggle to be without each other from the moment they meet. The truth & mdash;that he is a clinically depressed, anti-social theoretician and she is a manipulative liar with a history of self-sabotage & mdash;means the deeper they fall in love, the more troubling their reliance on each other becomes. An intimate study of time and space, ALONE WITH YOU IN THE ETHER is a fantasy writer's magicless glimpse into the nature of love, what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken.
You And Me On Vacation: The Ultimate Escapist Romance From The Sunday Times Bestselling Au
Two friends. Ten trips. Their last chance to fall in love...------'One of my favourite authors' Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us'A gorgeous romance' Beth O'Leary, The No-Show'Loveable characters, hilarious wit and steamy sexual chemistry' Laura Jane Williams, Our Stop*Also known as People We Meet On Vacation*12 YEARS AGO: Poppy and Alex meet. They hate each other, and are pretty confident they'll never speak again.11 YEARS AGO: They're forced to share a ride home from college and by the end of it a friendship is formed. And a pact: every year, one vacation together.10 YEARS AGO: Alex discovers his fear of flying on the way to Vancouver.Poppy holds his hand the whole way.7 YEARS AGO: They get far too drunk and narrowly avoid getting matching tattoos in New Orleans.2 YEARS AGO: It all goes wrong.THIS YEAR: Poppy asks Alex to join her on one last trip. A trip that will determine the rest of their lives.You and Me on Vacation is a New York Times bestselling love story for fans of When Harry Met Sally, One Day and Casey McQuiston. Get ready to travel the world, snort with laughter and - most of all - lose your heart to Poppy and Alex.
On the trip of a lifetime, Adam and Zayneb must find their way back to each other in this surprising and romantic sequel to the & ldquo;bighearted, wildly charming & rdquo; (Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author) Love from A to Z that & rsquo;s a & ldquo;contemplative exploration of faith, love, and the human condition & rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Adam and Zayneb. Perfectly matched. Painfully apart.Adam is in Doha, Qatar, making a map of the Hijra, a historic migration from Mecca to Medina, and worried about where his next paycheck will come from. Zayneb is in Chicago, where school and extracurricular stresses are piling on top of a terrible frenemy situation, making her miserable.Then a marvel occurs: Adam and Zayneb get the chance to spend Thanksgiving week on the Umrah, a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, in Saudi Arabia. Adam is thrilled; it & rsquo;s the reboot he needs and an opportunity to pray for a hijra in real life: to migrate to Zayneb in Chicago. Zayneb balks at the trip at first, having envisioned another kind of vacation, but then decides a spiritual reset is calling her name too. And they can & rsquo;t wait to see each other & mdash;surely, this is just what they both need.But the trip is nothing like what they expect, from the appearance of Adam & rsquo;s former love interest in their traveling group to the anxiety gripping Zayneb when she & rsquo;s supposed to be & ldquo;spiritual. & rdquo; As one wedge after another drives them apart while they make their way through rites in the holy city, Adam and Zayneb start to wonder: was their meeting just an oddity after all? Or can their love transcend everything else like the greatest marvels of the world?
An Instant New York Times BestsellerA #1 LibraryReads and Indie Next Pick!From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesis & mdash;with explosive results.Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee K & ouml;nigswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project & mdash;a literal dream come true after years scraping by on the crumbs of academia & mdash;Marie would accept without hesitation. Duh. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward. Sure, Levi is attractive in a tall, dark, and piercing-eyes kind of way. And sure, he caught her in his powerfully corded arms like a romance novel hero when she accidentally damseled in distress on her first day in the lab. But Levi made his feelings toward Bee very clear in grad school & mdash;archenemies work best employed in their own galaxies far, far away. Now, her equipment is missing, the staff is ignoring her, and Bee finds her floundering career in somewhat of a pickle. Perhaps it & rsquo;s her occipital cortex playing tricks on her, but Bee could swear she can see Levi softening into an ally, backing her plays, seconding her ideas & hellip;devouring her with those eyes. And the possibilities have all her neurons firing. But when it comes time to actually make a move and put her heart on the line, there & rsquo;s only one question that matters: What will Bee K & ouml;nigswasser do?
From acclaimed author Malorie Blackman, Noughts & Crosses is the first novel in her incredible four part dystopian YA series. 'The most original book I've ever read' Benjamin Zephaniah Sephy and Callum have been friends since early childhood, and that's as far as it can go. They live in a society full of prejudice, racism, distrust and mounting terrorist violence. Despite the world being against them, a romance builds between the two friends. But this is a love story that will lead both of them into terrible danger... Voted as one of the UK's best-loved books, Malorie Blackman's Noughts & Crosses is a seminal piece of YA fiction; a true modern classic. 'Unforgettable' The Guardian
Inspired by the life of E.M. Forster and his relationship with his long-time companion Bob Buckingham and his wife, this is an exquisitely told, tragic tale of thwarted love
It is in 1950s' Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is smitten & mdash;determined her love will be enough for them both. A few years later in Brighton Museum Patrick meets Tom. Patrick is besotted with Tom and opens his eyes to a glamorous, sophisticated new world. Tom is their policeman, and in this age it is safer for him to marry Marion. The two lovers must share him, until one of them breaks and three lives are destroyed.
Opposites attract in this laugh-out-loud romantic comedy about a free-spirited lawyer who is determined to find the perfect match for the grumpy bachelor at her cousin's wedding. After a devastating break-up, celebrity-obsessed lawyer Zara Patel is determined never to open her heart again. She puts her energy into building her career and helping her friends find their happily-ever-afters. She's never faced a guest at the singles table she couldn & rsquo;t match, until she crosses paths with the sinfully sexy Jay Dayal. Former military security specialist Jay has no time for love. His life is about working hard, staying focused, and winning at all costs. When charismatic Zara crashes into his life, he's thrown into close contact with exactly the kind of chaos he wants to avoid. Worse, they're stuck together for the entire wedding season. So they make a deal. She'll find his special someone if he introduces her to his celebrity clients. But when their arrangement brings them together in ways they never expected, they realize that the perfect match might just be their own.
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY
GQ & bull; PopSugar & bull; NPR & bull; Huffington Post & bull; Electric Literature & bull; The New Yorker
CHOSEN AS A 2017 BEST SUMMER READ PICK BY
Publishers Weekly & bull; New York Magazine & bull; Buzzfeed & bull; Refinery29 & bull; Vulture & bull; Nylon
From the exciting and provocative writer of Tampa, a poignant, riotously funny story of how far some will go for love & mdash;and how far some will go to escape it.
Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane & mdash;his extremely lifelike sex doll & mdash;as her roommates. Life with Hazel & rsquo;s father is strained at best, but her only alternative seems even bleaker. She & rsquo;s just run out on her marriage to Byron Gogol, CEO and founder of Gogol Industries, a monolithic corporation hell-bent on making its products and technologies indispensable in daily life. For over a decade, Hazel put up with being veritably quarantined by Byron in the family compound, her every movement and vital sign tracked. But when he demands to wirelessly connect the two of them via brain chips in a first-ever human & ldquo;mind-meld, & rdquo; Hazel decides what was once merely irritating has become unbearable. The world she escapes into is a far cry from the dry and clinical bubble she & rsquo;s been living in, a world populated with a whole host of deviant oddballs.
As Hazel tries to carve out a new life for herself in this uncharted territory, Byron is using the most sophisticated tools at his disposal to find her and bring her home. His threats become more and more sinister, and Hazel is forced to take drastic measures in order to find a home of her own and free herself from Byron & rsquo;s virtual clutches once and for all. Perceptive and compulsively readable, Made for Love is at once an absurd, raunchy comedy and a dazzling, profound meditation marriage, monogamy, and family.
