Author : Melody Beattie
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 33,85 MB
Release : 1995-04-28
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0062510789
The timeless, magical story of one woman's return to life and love when she thought she had lost it all.
Author : Corneau Guy
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 2000-02-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780805063974
In the tradition of Thomas Moore, Jungian analyst and lecturer Guy Corneau delivers a hopeful message that will help us move beyond the gender wars to a new era of personal fulfillment. With engaging anecdotes and mythical references, he instructs us to look into ourselves and create our own guiding principles. He then suggests how we can achieve our aspirations through meaningful relationships with those who challenge us to test and fulfill them.
Author : Jacqueline Wilson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1407045636
Fourteen-year-old Prue and her sister Grace have been educated at home by their controlling, super-strict father all their lives. Forced to wear Mum's odd hand-made garments and forbidden from reading teenage magazines, they know they're very different to 'normal' girls - but when Dad has a stroke and ends up in hospital, unable to move or speak, Prue suddenly discovers what it's like to have a little freedom. Sent to a real school for the first time, Prue struggles to fit in. The only person she can talk to is her kindly, young - and handsome - art teacher, Rax. They quickly bond, and Prue feels more and more drawn to him. As her feelings grow stronger, she begins to realise that he might feel the same way about her. But nothing could ever happen between them - could it?
Author : Cathy Maxwell
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 37,11 MB
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062896873
New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwell’s delicious Logical Man’s Guide to Dangerous Women series continues with this provocative romance between a reprobate earl and a sensible spinster who agree to marry under scandalous circumstances. Perfect for fans of Sophie Jordan and Sabrina Jeffries. Lesson #1: A man, even titled and handsome, cannot be careless forever. The Earl of Marsden—better known as Mars to all—has lived his life by his own rules…until he is presented with a very big problem in a very tiny package—a baby girl, his daughter cast off by his ex-mistress. Mars won’t let his child be cast adrift, except he doesn’t know the first thing about babies. Panicking, he turns to a woman for help. Not just any woman, but Clarissa Taylor, village spinster, matron-in-training, and Mars’s greatest critic. Still, who better to tend a motherless child than a woman who was abandoned as a babe herself? Lesson #2: Life always plays the upper hand—especially when it comes to love. Clarissa desperately wishes to not to be beholden to anyone. She has spent a lifetime being pitied by the village. Her plan is simple—to use what the intolerable earl will pay her to become her own woman. It all sounds so straightforward until the threat of scandal sends her and the one man she can’t abide toward . . . marriage? Mars and Clarissa are about to learn the greatest lesson of all—that sparks always fly when the iron is hot.
Author : Elizabeth Chakrabarty
Publisher : Black Spot Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1911648233
'One of the most gripping and powerful books I've ever read; I feel so represented as a queer, brown woman.' — Nikita Gill An innovative hybrid of auto-fiction, crime fiction and critical race memoir, this multi-layered yet compulsively readable novel is inspired by the author´s real and extended experience of serious racial harassment, as well as exploring her search for justice and for love“/P> **Shortlisted for the Polari Prize 2022** **Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2022** Tesya has reasons to feel hopeful after leaving her last job, where she was subjected to a series of anonymous hate crimes. Now she is back home in London to start a new lecturing position, and has begun an exciting, if tumultuous, love affair with the enigmatic Holly. But this idyllic new start quickly sours. Tesya finds herself victimized again at work by an unknown assailant, who subjects her to an insidious, sustained race hate crime. As her paranoia mounts, Tesya finds herself yearning for the most elemental of desires: love, acceptance, and sanctuary. Her assailant, meanwhile, is recording his manifesto and plotting his next steps. Inspired by the author's personal experiences of hate crime and bookended with essays which contextualize the story within a lifetime of microaggressions, Lessons in Love and Other Crimes is a heartbreaking, hopeful, and compulsively readable novel about the most quotidian of crimes. 'A story you won't be able to get out of your head.' — Cosmopolitan
Author : Karl Pillemer, Ph.D.
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 38,29 MB
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0698161300
From the author of the beloved 30 Lessons for Living Karl Pillemer’s 30 Lessons for Living first became a hit and then became a classic. Readers loved the sage advice and great stories from extraordinary older Americans who shared what they wish they had known when they were starting out. Now, Pillemer returns with lessons on one of the mosttalked- about parts of that book—love, relationships, and marriage. Based on the most detailed survey of longmarried people ever conducted, 30 Lessons for Loving shows the way to lifelong, fulfilling relationships. The author, an internationally renowned gerontologist at Cornell University, offers sage advice from the oldest and wisest Americans on everything from finding a partner, to deciding to commit, to growing old together. Along the way, the book answers questions like these: How do you know if the person you love is the right one? What are the secrets for improving communication and reducing conflict? What gets you through the major stresses of marriage, such as child-rearing, work, money issues, and inlaws? From interviews with 700 elders, 30 Lessons for Loving offers unique wisdom that will enrich anyone’s relationship life, from people searching for the right partner to those working to keep the spark alive after decades together. Filled with great stories, wise observations, and useful advice, 30 Lessons for Loving is destined to become another classic.
Author : Lisa Tawn Bergren
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0307730840
As Little Cub and Grampa Bear’s fishing adventure is interrupted by mischievous otters, the young polar bear begins to question why we must love others… even the seemingly unlovable. In answering her questions, Grampa Bear gives tender explanations that teach Little Cub about the different kinds of love that is shared between families, friends, and mamas and papas. Grampa explains that all these kinds of love come from God and that it is important to love others because… “Any time we show love, Little Cub, we’re sharing a bit of his love.” This sweet tale will warm the hearts of young children as they learn about all the different sorts of love, while the gentle explanations of each provide a valuable opportunity to encourage children to share with others a “God-sized love.”
Author : Suzanne Enoch
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061751936
A Regency romp about a young lady who vows revenge on the rakish lord who loved and left her, only to find herself unexpectedly caught in Cupid′s net along with the handsome viscount when her plan to love and leave him backfires.
Author : Zach Beach
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 2018-01-24
Category :
ISBN : 9781983940705
Both scientific and poetic, straightforward and deeply moving, The Seven Lessons of Love presents clear, accessible and universal truths of the heart to help us all better love ourselves, each other, and the world. The final culmination of a large body of research into the nature of love and successful relationships, Zach Beach's The Seven Lessons of Love turns "the great ineffable" into a deeply human value we can all understand, and more importantly, grow. Passionate, engaging, and informative, The Seven Lessons of Love will open your eyes up to a new world of possibility, connection and compassion. The world needs love now more than ever. Zach Beach's Heart Wisdom for Troubling Times is a timely gem of knowledge for today's challenging world.
Author : Julie Kay
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 27,77 MB
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1504312317
Everything you ever needed to know for you to be happier with yourself and your life has been right there in front of you all along. Your life and its circumstances have been trying to show you what youre missing every time your emotional buttons are pushed. If youve had enough of repeating the same old patterns time and time again, then The Lessons of Love and Life can take you on a deep inner journey through your unique spiritual profile to identify, heal, and change all that is keeping self-love and happiness from you. The Lessons of Love and Life is the ultimate self-transformational book to assist you in knowing and changing yourself from the inside out. Self-empowerment activist and spiritual profiler Julie Kay will take you on a spiritual journey to awaken you to your soul lessons and the hidden behaviors, emotional filters, and daily patterns that have been affecting your life and relationships. You will learn how to overcome any lack of self-love, learn how to consciously connect to your own spirit so you can become internally guided rather than externally motivated, and learn how to do the inner work necessary to find and execute your purpose in life. The Lessons of Love and Life is an easy-to-understand book for beginners yet full of wisdom for the more advanced souls. This is not a think positive and you will be happy type of book. It will deeply penetrate the surface of your being to help you reveal and eliminate all that has been negatively affecting your life. Are you ready for the ultimate inside job?
