Author : Katey Lovell
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 2016-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008236259
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Author : Heather Hepler
Publisher : Speak
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 15,46 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0142423866
Wary of romance following her mother's second divorce and resisting her friends' attempts to fix her up with the hottest guy in school, Piper's life is complicated when she receives a series of valentines from a secret admirer.
Author : Kate Folk
Publisher : Random House
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593231465
A thrilling new voice in fiction injects the absurd into the everyday to present a startling vision of modern life, “[as] if Kafka and Camus and Bradbury were penning episodes of Black Mirror” (Chang-Rae Lee, author of My Year Abroad). “Stories so sharp and ingenious you may cut yourself on them while reading.”—Kelly Link, author of Get In Trouble With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Kate Folk’s debut collection is perfectly pitched to the madness of our current moment. A medical ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the setting of a perilous love triangle. A curtain of void obliterates the globe at a steady pace, forcing Earth’s remaining inhabitants to decide with whom they want to spend eternity. A man fleeing personal scandal enters a codependent relationship with a house that requires a particularly demanding level of care. And in the title story, originally published in The New Yorker, a woman in San Francisco uses dating apps to find a partner despite the threat posed by “blots,” preternaturally handsome artificial men dispatched by Russian hackers to steal data. Meanwhile, in a poignant companion piece, a woman and a blot forge a genuine, albeit doomed, connection. Prescient and wildly imaginative, Out There depicts an uncanny landscape that holds a mirror to our subconscious fears and desires. Each story beats with its own fierce heart, and together they herald an exciting new arrival in the tradition of speculative literary fiction.
Author : Nam Le
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 13,85 MB
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1742535798
A young Vietnamese-Australian named Nam, in his final year at the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop, is trying to find his voice on the page. When his father, a man with a painful past, comes to visit, Nam's writing and sense of self are both deeply changed. Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice is a deeply moving story of identity, family and the wellsprings of creativity, from Nam Le's multi-award-winning collection The Boat. 'A tight and densely emotional journey that sucked me in and contained as much power as the lengthy title.' Killings, the Kill Your Darlings blog
Author : Kate Chopin
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 41,32 MB
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1443435198
Mrs. Louise Mallard, afflicted with a heart condition, reflects on the death of her husband from the safety of her locked room. Originally published in Vogue magazine, “The Story of an Hour” was retitled as “The Dream of an Hour,” when it was published amid much controversy under its new title a year later in St. Louis Life. “The Story of an Hour” was adapted to film in The Joy That Kills by director Tina Rathbone, which was part of a PBS anthology called American Playhouse. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
Author : Michelle Love
Publisher : Blessings For All SC
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1648086365
Romance Short Stories: Alpha Billionaire's Nightclub is a collection of three short stories steaming with an international cast of beautiful people, stunning locations, dark storylines, and hot, hot sensual romance! These are the stories that you will read inside: Forced Intimacy: A Forbidden Sitter Short Story A mission I was sure not to come back from had me making deals I’d never made before… Being a Marine, I was no stranger to danger. This mission though… Well, it was a pretty much a one-way ticket. I needed someone to help me make it through the week before I was sent to certain doom. I never expected to find her. Not such a perfect girl. Our bodies didn’t act like we were the strangers we were to each other. Right from the start, she succumbed to me in a way I never imagined. I took the memory of her sweet body with me as I left her that day. Would I ever get to see her again? The Virgin’s Veil: A Masked Indulgence Short Story A loud scream woke me up in the middle of the night. I sat bolt upright in bed and only then did I realize it was me who was screaming. Shaking my head to clear the cobwebs from my mind, I closed my mouth and looked at Brooke’s side of the bed. It was still empty. I was still alone. Swank: A Her Dark Melody Short Story The big night had finally arrived. It was New Year’s Eve and August Harlow, Nixon Slaughter, and Gannon Forester stood outside their nightclub’s main entrance, waiting for the women they’d fallen in love with. Each of them wore tuxedos, all three looking like the ultra-wealthy and handsome men they were.
Author : Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0804172706
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Author : Elizabeth Scott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 37,48 MB
Release : 2009-03-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 143916391X
I wonder what it would be like to do high school things. To go out on the weekends. To kiss a guy. To have a normal life. A real one. Everyone thinks their parents are embarrassing, but Hannah knows she's got them all beat. Her dad made a fortune showcasing photos of pretty girls and his party lifestyle all over the Internet, and her mom was once one of her dad's girlfriends and is now the star of her own website. After getting the wrong kind of attention for way too long, Hannah has mastered the art of staying under the radar...and that's just how she likes it. Of course, that doesn't help her get noticed by her crush. Hannah's sure that gorgeous, sensitive Josh is her soul mate. But trying to get him to notice her; wondering why she suddenly can't stop thinking about another guy, Finn; and dealing with her parents make Hannah feel like she's going crazy. Yet she's determined to make things work out the way she wants -- only what she wants may not be what she needs.... Once again, Elizabeth Scott has created a world so painfully funny and a cast of characters so heartbreakingly real that you'll love being a part of it from unexpected start to triumphant finish.
Author : Michelle Love
Publisher : Blessings For All SC
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 40,85 MB
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1648086373
Enjoy this bad-boy billionaire romance collection at a terrific discount. Romance Short Stories: Billionaire's Island of Love is a collection of three short stories steaming with an international cast of beautiful people, stunning locations, dark storylines, and hot, hot sensual romance! These are the stories that you will read inside: 1 - Training Camilla: The Dom's Hostess Extra He taunted me from the moment we met—how was I supposed to know what his plans for me were … Sure, I was a novice, a newbie to the dark world of sin and seduction. But I needed money, and my friend told me my virginity could be sold for a phenomenal price. One week of being one rich man’s sensual slave and I would be set for life. Or would I be broken for life … 2 - Saving Camilla: A Tragic Secrets Extra As rich as I was, I’d never felt wealthier than when I found love … How she took my heart by storm made no sense to me, but she did it. Her body did things to mine that seemed impossible. I couldn’t get enough of her. But someone else wanted what was mine. When I found her gone, I felt myself die a little. I had to get her back before he ruined my angel or did something even worse to her than just that … 3 - Cherry’s Little Secret: The Billionaire's Maid Extra My marriage had merely been okay, then our fifth anniversary came along and it all changed… He’d never done that to me before. I had no idea it could feel so good. His hands moved in ways I didn’t know they could, and they ignited a flame in me that refused to burn out. And I had kindled the same in him thankfully. We’d never had a hunger for each other before, but thing can always change I suppose... Keywords: billionaire, bad boy, love books, love stories, new adult, holiday, sweet romance, romantic novels, sexually romantic books, guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers, happily ever after.
Author : Michelle Love
Publisher : Blessings For All SC
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 31,43 MB
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1648086543
Enjoy this bad-boy billionaire romance novel at a terrific discount. It was the trip that was meant to reconnect us, not take us to Hell and back… I had a hunger for my wife and found what I thought was the best place to appease that hunger. Right from the moment we arrived at the secluded cabin, the passion hit us both. Shackles and chains, cuffs and whips, we were ready for one hell of a hot weekend. Her body seemed to be on fire for me. I was going to bend her so far, she’d nearly break for me. But then things began to happen. Things neither of us knew were possible. One weekend of passion turned into a nightmare that wouldn’t seem to end… Keywords: billionaire, bad boy, love books, marriage mistake, love stories, new adult, sweet romance, romantic novels, sexually romantic books, guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers, happily ever after.
