The Hopeful Romantic
Author : Mary Ann Garcia
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 50,46 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 0578063387
The Hopeful Romantic
Author : Susan Colleen Browne
Publisher : Whitethorn Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 34,48 MB
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0981607799
Book Description
Escape to the cozy Irish village of Ballydara, where you'll discover the strength of family bonds, a warm community, and enduring love... In this heartfelt, deeply romantic novel, Kerry McCormack, a young Dublin wife and mother, longs to trade her office job for a simpler life. At 33, she has an outwardly successful marriage to steady, quiet Stephen. A devoted father to her son, he's had an abiding passion for her since the first time he saw her. Yet after a recent, shattering loss, Kerry and Stephen have grown apart. Immersed in his high-powered career to bury his grief, Stephen struggles with his secret fear that he'll never be the love of her life. And Kerry's lifelong dream to live in the country, and flee her predictable city routine, is only creating more tension between them. When Kerry gets the chance to visit a lovely little farm, she anticipates an idyllic country holiday. Instead, her marriage--and everything she knows about herself--is turned upside down. As the winter holidays approach, Kerry will risk everything to give her family a second chance—but can she and Stephen recapture the passion they once shared in time for Christmas? Susan Colleen Browne's Village of Ballydara series, set in a quaint little Irish village, features warmhearted, feel-good novels about love, friendship and family! “The Hopeful Romantic was a pleasure to read for its engaging characters, its authenticity, and its unforgettable moments…a poignant and sometimes humorous, old-fashioned romantic story.” —Chanticleer Reviews
Diary Entries of a Hopeful Romantic- A Healing Journey of Love
Author : Atika Greene
Publisher : Atika Greene
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Book Description
First Time Author, Atika Greene uses her words to heal her past traumas. "Diary Entries of a Hopeful Romantic- A Healing Journey of Love" is a reminder to always speak your truth.
The Hopeful Romantic
Author : Hannah Flowers
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 2020-07-04
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ISBN :
Book Description
a collection of autobiographical poems about love and loss, split into five chronological parts:1. the foolblissful ignorance and blind faith regarding love, hopeful crushes and the rose-tinted glasses of innocence.2. the loversan established relationship, a commitment, sacrificial and unwavering, if not ignorant, love. 3. the towerthe unforeseen destruction of a past commitment, the pain of yearning for what was.4. the deathacceptance that all things must come to an end, learning to let go. 5. the stara newfound confidence, faith that love is still out there, personal growth and reflection.
Romance By The Book
Author : Sarah Ready
Publisher : W. W. Crown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 2021-09-14
Category :
ISBN : 9781954007161
Book Description
Book-loving, librarian Jessie has loved Gavin Williams for practically her whole life. So when a psychic predicts that Gavin is Jessie's one fated soul mate, she's ecstatic. There's just one itty bitty little problem. Gavin's engaged to marry another woman. What's a book lover to do? Easy. Check out dozens of romance books, study the (totally realistic) way characters fall in love, and make a foolproof plan on how to win her soul mate (in one week). Meet cute? Check. Dance under the stars? Check. Kiss in the rain? Check. Romance books don't lie - it'll all go perfectly. Except, there's another problem. Gavin's twin brother: William Williams IV. Jessie has hated William for as long as she's loved his brother. William is grump to Jessie's sunshine, stand-offish to her extrovert, cold to her warm. And when William learns of Jessie's plan to derail his brother's engagement he swears that he'll do anything to stop her. But after William and Jessie (unwillingly) share a dance...a romantic dinner...a kiss...Jessie starts to wonder, is William actually her soul mate? Or is this just another one of his games? She's can't tell, because this romance definitely isn't going by the book. Romance by the Book is Book 3 in Sarah Ready's Soul Mates in Romeo Romance Series.
The Love Hypothesis
Author : Ali Hazelwood
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593336828
Book Description
The Instant New York Times Bestseller and TikTok Sensation! As seen on THE VIEW! A BuzzFeed Best Summer Read of 2021 When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees. That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor--and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford's reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive's career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding...six-pack abs. Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.
The Perils of Cyber-Dating
Author : Julie Spira
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Dating (Social customs)
ISBN : 9781600375699
Book Description
This romantic tell-all memoir spanning over 250 online dates, is filled with heartfelt, witty, and hilarious stories. Julie Spira, a pioneer in the Internet industry, became the first on her block to post an online dating profile. You'll follow her journey as she skillfully navigates the web, hoping to replace what she once thought was the love of her life with a new Internet mate.
Conversations on Love
Author : Natasha Lunn
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 27,80 MB
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0593296583
Book Description
An investigation of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with Lisa Taddeo, Esther Perel, Emily Nagoski, Kate Bowler, Alain de Botton, Stephen Grosz, Roxane Gay and others Journalist Natasha Lunn was almost 30 when she realized that there was no map for understanding love. While she was used to watching friends fall in and out of love, the older she got the more she had to acknowledge: her friends' relationship struggles could no longer be chalked up to youth, and the more she learned about her parents, grandparents, work colleagues, and mentors the clearer it became that age had not brought any of them any closer to understanding this elusive, transformative, consuming emotion. One night during the months she found this realization settling over her, she sat up in bed and jotted three words in a notebook: conversations on love. In that moment, Lunn understood that she didn't want advice about love, she wasn't looking for the answers, or evergreen wisdom but she craved candid, wide-ranging, sometimes uncomfortable conversations about the parts of love that often don't make it into our everyday discussions of marriage, sibling relationships, friendships, or mother/daughter bonds. Conversations on Love started as an experiment aimed at interviewing experts about what love meant to them, in all of it's messiness, and quickly blossomed into a newsletter that attracted thousands of subscribers and a prestigious range of interviewees. It turns out that Lunn wasn't the only person ready to talk more openly and expansively about love. Interweaving personal essays and revealing interviews with some of the most sough-after experts on love, journalist Natasha Lunn guides us through the paradoxical heart of three key questions about love--How do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it?--to deliver a book that is a solace, a beacon, a call to arms, a tool-kit. The real-life love stories in these pages will leave you hopeful and validated, while the insights from experts will transform the way you think about your relationships. Above all, Conversations on Love will remind you what love is: fragile, sturdy, mundane, beautiful, always worth fighting for.
A Hopeless Romantic
Author : Harriet Evans
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 12,55 MB
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1416571531
Book Description
From the bestselling author of Going Home, which Sophie Kinsella hailed as “fabulous,” comes a novel sure to touch and delight anyone who believes in love. Laura Foster is a hopeless romantic. Her friends know it, her parents know it—even Laura acknowledges she lives either with her head in the clouds or buried in a romance novel. It’s proved harmless enough, even if it hasn’t delivered her a real-life dashing hero yet. But when her latest relationship ends in a disaster that costs her friendships, her job, and nearly her sanity, Laura swears off men and hopeless romantic fantasies for good. With her life in tatters around her, Laura agrees to go on vacation with her parents. After a few days of visiting craft shops and touring the stately homes of England, Laura is ready to tear her hair out. And then, while visiting grand Chartley Hall, she crosses paths with Nick, the sexy, rugged estate manager. She finds she shares more than a sense of humor with him—in fact, she starts to think she could fall for him. But is Nick all he seems? Or has Laura got it wrong again? Will she open her heart only to have it broken again?
The Dead Romantics
Author : Ashley Poston
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,37 MB
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593336496
Book Description
A New York Times Notable Book of 2022! The New York Times Bestseller and Good Morning America Book Club Pick! "I LOVED this book! ...Funny, breathtaking, hopeful, and dreamy.”—Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis A disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own, has to find her way back home in this sparkling adult debut from national bestselling author Ashley Poston. Florence Day is the ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem—after a terrible breakup, she no longer believes in love. It’s as good as dead. When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man, won't give her an extension on her book deadline, Florence prepares to kiss her career goodbye. But then she gets a phone call she never wanted to receive, and she must return home for the first time in a decade to help her family bury her beloved father. For ten years, she's run from the town that never understood her, and even though she misses the sound of a warm Southern night and her eccentric, loving family and their funeral parlor, she can’t bring herself to stay. Even with her father gone, it feels like nothing in this town has changed. And she hates it. Until she finds a ghost standing at the funeral parlor’s front door, just as broad and infuriatingly handsome as ever, and he’s just as confused about why he’s there as she is. Romance is most certainly dead . . . but so is her new editor, and his unfinished business will have her second-guessing everything she’s ever known about love stories. "One of the Summer's Hottest Reads"—Entertainment Weekly
