Download or read book The Year of Our Love written by Caterina Bonvicini and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Sally Rooney’s Normal People An extraordinary story of friendship and love across class lines, this rich, evocative novel traces the history of modern Italy, from 1975 to 2013, through the fate of one couple. Valerio and Olivia grow up together in the Morganti family’s opulent villa in Bologna, inseparable friends even though they come from vastly different worlds: Olivia, the Morgantis’ daughter, is the heir to a large industrial fortune, while Valerio is the son of their gardener and maid. Largely sheltered from the dangers rampant in the unstable Italy of the 1970s, the two share their first innocent kiss at five years old, which heralds the start of a decades-long relationship. From Valerio having to move to a poor neighborhood in Rome and Olivia making her entrance in high society, life tries to separate them at every turn, but without success, so strong is the bond between them. Year after year they meet only for a few moments, which feel like they’re eternal, and their friendship turns into something more intense, and scary. They take different paths: Olivia travels the world looking for herself, while Valerio devotes himself to a prestigious career that doesn’t satisfy him, in a country that is quickly losing its identity in the political crises of the Berlusconi era. Still, they keep meeting again and again at crossroads in life.
Download or read book Our Year in Love and Parties written by Karen Hattrup and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this poignant, funny, and romantic novel, four nights of epic partying will see two teens through their highest highs and lowest lows over the course of one unforgettable year. Perfect for fans of Gayle Forman and Mary H.K. Choi! Tucker knows that some relationships take work. With his best friend, Bobby, and his mom, everything is simple, steady. His dad, on the other hand, seems to only show up when he wants to bring Tucker down. Then there’s Erika Green, who comes back into his life, stirring up old feelings. A small part of him knows he shouldn’t get too attached during senior year. But a bigger part doesn’t want her to disappear again. Erika from before the video loved to shock people. Now, she just wants to hole up in her quiet college life and leave the past where it belongs—in a dumpster fire. But then she reconnects with Tucker Campanelli. Erika can’t explain what it is about him. There’s just this undeniable connection between them, and she really doesn’t want to lose that feeling. Not yet.
Download or read book A Year Of Love written by Lisa Brearley and published by Ultimate World Publishing 2023. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we marry, we always hope it is forever. However, for many of us, this is not the case. So, what if you find yourself in a marriage that is not your destiny? What happens next? Often, you are left wondering who you are, questioning where you are going and what the future has in store for you. Yet you know in your heart, you must move on. In 2021, Lisa Brearley found herself in this position, and her marriage of 26 years came to an end. With a strong desire to start living her life on her terms, she embarked on a journey of personal discovery and self-love that would completely transform her world. In her must-read memoir A Year of Love: Taking Risks Big and Small, Finding My Soulmate to Win It All she recounts the joys, challenges and adventure she experienced throughout the 12 months that followed her decision to end her first marriage and choose a life of liberty. After many years of devoting herself to her children and family, like many women, Lisa had lost a sense of who she truly was. A conversation with a friend sparked her interest in personal development, and after attending a 3-day course, she realized that it’s never too late to start making life changes that can expand and alter your future. With an open mind and a willingness to seek and embrace new experiences, Lisa started to live her life more fully, taking risks she would never have dreamed of before. She relished the opportunity to make decisions that would positively impact her life, and began to feel her emotions more deeply than she had ever imagined was possible. Following her new-found path and embracing the power of risk taking led her to a week-long personal development retreat. It was here that, unexpectedly, destiny stepped in and changed the trajectory of her life once more, as she found her soul mate and fell in love. Throughout this inspiring and deeply personal book, Lisa shares an honest account of a life transformed. As you follow her year-long journey of self-love and self-discovery, you too can discover your inner strength and rediscover your long-forgotten passions. Lisa has written this book for those who deserve a change in their life. For those who know that love, care and respect are possible. That anything is possible when you have someone who believes in you and are willing to take a risk. From a place of feeling unworthy and stuck, where change seemed impossible, Lisa is now on a wonderfully fulfilling life journey that is full of adventure, happiness and positive relationships. When you come to realize and accept that our time on this earth is limited, like Lisa, you can find the inner strength to choose a life of love and liberty. This inspiring book will give you the belief in yourself and motivation you need to take the first step in your own journey, where you uncover your true life purpose and destiny.
Download or read book Fall in Love for Life written by Barbara "Cutie" Cooper and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relationship Advice.
Download or read book Out of Love written by Hazel Hayes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of E! News' 13 Books to Read This September | One of Bookish's Debuts to Read in the Second Half of 2021 | One of Medium's Best Releases Out Today “Hazel Hayes writes with such honesty and casual confidence and flowing dialogue, you feel you are overhearing it rather than reading it. The writing sparkles with wit and a poignant emotional reality. I love it.”—Matt Haig, bestselling author of The Midnight Library “A smart, touching, time-bending romance. Funny and affecting.”—David Nicholls, bestselling author of One Day and Sweet Sorrow For anyone who has loved and lost, and lived to tell the tale, this gorgeously written debut is a love story told in reverse, a modern novel with the heart of a classic: truthful, tragic, and ultimately full of hope. Out of Love begins at the end. A couple call it quits after nearly five years, and while holding a box of her ex-boyfriend’s belongings, the young woman wonders: How could they have spent so long together? When did they fall out of love? Were there good times before the bad? These are the questions we obsess over when a relationship ends, even when obsessing can do no good. But instead of moving forward through the emotional fallout of a break-up, Out of Love moves backward in time, weaving together an already unraveled tapestry, from tragic ending to magical first kiss. Each chapter jumps further into the past, mining their history for the days and details that might help us understand love; how it happens and why it sometimes falls apart. Readers of Normal People; Goodbye, Vitamin; and One Day will adore this bittersweet romance, a sparkling debut that you won’t want to miss.
Download or read book The One Year Love Language Minute Devotional written by Gary Chapman and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you and your loved one speaking the same language? He sends you flowers when what you really want is time to talk. She gives you a hug when what you really need is a home-cooked meal. The problem isn't love--it's your love language. Each one of us responds well to a different type of expression of love. This deluxe version of The One Year Love Language Minute Devotional is your daily guide for expressing heartfelt love to your mate in a way that he or she can appreciate it.
Download or read book Drowning in Stars written by Debra Anastasia and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **TOP 40 Amazon Bestseller**... he walked a tightrope five stories up just to hold my hand.Gaze: I moved into the building next to Pixie when I was eleven. She blew bubbles through my window. I shot my Nerf gun through hers. We both had secrets, but one of us was fated to get hurt. I wanted it to be me. Pixie: When I was afraid of the dark, he would shine a light in my window. We shared our popsicles and I taught him how to get a good swing on the playground. I never imagined I'd have to decide who got to live and who didn't. I chose him --and he could never know.She walked a tightrope five stories up just to save my life...
Download or read book My Love for You All Year Round written by Susan L. Roth and published by Dial. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two mice describe their love in terms of the special characteristics of each month of the year.
Download or read book A Year of Chasing Love written by Rosie Chambers and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One moment can change a lifetime... ‘A good bit of escapism fiction’ NetGalley reviewer
Download or read book A Year of Questions How to Slow Down and Fall in Love with Life written by Fiona Robyn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-07-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watching too much trashy television, trying to find something decent to eat in a motorway service station, feeling awkward at dinner parties, putting off the hoovering...is this what life is all about? These everyday ordinary things happen to us all. This book helps us to discover what we can learn from them. It encourages us to wonder why we hate our boss, and why we keep spending too much money. It invites us to look at the ball of string between our ears and start to untangle it. It nudges us into slowing down, paying more attention, waking up. As well as the hoovering, life is also about seeing a vase of yellow tulips lit up from behind, making creamy potatoes au gratin for your family, sitting by the sea and watching the waves twinkle. 'A Year of Questions' will help you to fall in love with your life all over again.
Download or read book The Anniversary Book written by Steve Palin and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To have and to hold from this day forward; for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part... Any couple who have stayed together happily over the years have much to celebrate. Steve Palin, author and artist of the bestselling book A Murmuration of Starlings, displays here which gifts, modern or traditional, mark which particular anniversary of 'staying together', from the romantic first to the romantic last... The symbols and themes of love are explained and beautifully illustrated - from flowers, gemstones, practical or luxurious gifts to large or small love tokens. In watercolours and words are the gifts you might like to give on your anniversary, for each passing year.
Download or read book All Day written by Liza Jessie Peterson and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALL DAY is a behind-the-bars, personal glimpse into the issue of mass incarceration via an unpredictable, insightful and ultimately hopeful reflection on teaching teens while they await sentencing. Told with equal parts raw honesty and unbridled compassion, ALL DAY recounts a year in Liza Jessie Peterson's classroom at Island Academy, the high school for inmates detained at New York City's Rikers Island. A poet and actress who had done occasional workshops at the correctional facility, Peterson was ill-prepared for a full-time stint teaching in the GED program for the incarcerated youths. For the first time faced with full days teaching the rambunctious, hyper, and fragile adolescent inmates, "Ms. P" comes to understand the essence of her predominantly Black and Latino students as she attempts not only to educate them, but to instill them with a sense of self-worth long stripped from their lives. "I have quite a spirited group of drama kings, court jesters, flyboy gangsters, tricksters, and wannabe pimps all in my charge, all up in my face, to educate," Peterson discovers. "Corralling this motley crew of bad-news bears to do any lesson is like running boot camp for hyperactive gremlins. I have to be consistent, alert, firm, witty, fearless, and demanding, and most important, I have to have strong command of the subject I'm teaching." Discipline is always a challenge, with the students spouting street-infused backtalk and often bouncing off the walls with pent-up testosterone. Peterson learns quickly that she must keep the upper hand-set the rules and enforce them with rigor, even when her sympathetic heart starts to waver. Despite their relentless bravura and antics-and in part because of it-Peterson becomes a fierce advocate for her students. She works to instill the young men, mostly black, with a sense of pride about their history and culture: from their African roots to Langston Hughes and Malcolm X. She encourages them to explore and express their true feelings by writing their own poems and essays. When the boys push her buttons (on an almost daily basis) she pushes back, demanding that they meet not only her expectations or the standards of the curriculum, but set expectations for themselves-something most of them have never before been asked to do. She witnesses some amazing successes as some of the boys come into their own under her tutelage. Peterson vividly captures the prison milieu and the exuberance of the kids who have been handed a raw deal by society and have become lost within the system. Her time in the classroom teaches her something, too-that these boys want to be rescued. They want normalcy and love and opportunity.
Download or read book Poetry of Love written by N. N. Light and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I had been searching for love my whole life. It took the opening up of the world via technology for me to find my soulmate. Once I laid eyes on her, at the arrivals gate, I knew I was never going to let her go. The following is a collection of poems I wrote to my angel, from our first meeting up until our wedding day. I was working crazy hours as a chef and I had a long commute. I chose my commuting time to pen her a poem each day. These poems speak of our life, our challenges and our growth together...in every aspect they speak of our love. May this book give someone the courage to let their special someone know how much they care for them and how much they mean to them. Saying I love you is a gift you can give many times a day.
Download or read book Every New Year written by Katrina Jackson and published by Sea Port Press LLC. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ezra Posner was eighteen, he met Candace Garret and fell in love. When Candace met Ezra, she instantly knew he was the boy for her. In the middle of their first year at college, Candace and Ezra share a clumsy kiss that should have been the beginning of an epic love affair, but it's not. Instead, it begins a nearly two-decade journey of never quite getting the timing right for love. For almost every New Year's Eve after, Candace and Ezra stumble into one another's arms, but can’t manage to hold onto each other for more than a single night. They live with the expectant giddiness of being able to spend New Year's Eve with the person they love, always hoping that next year will be their year. Until eventually, their annual trysts ruin even the friendship that held them together. As 2019 ends, Candace and Ezra are both running away from their broken hearts. They board a plane hoping to finally move on from their relationship, only to run right into each other's arms. Every New Year is a friends-to-lovers romance that takes nearly twenty years to bloom. It's also the first in the Love At Last series, where happily ever afters might take some time to mature, but they're always worth the wait. Content Warnings: parental sickness (cancer, diabetes, hypertension)
Download or read book The History of Love A Novel written by Nicole Krauss and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-05-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE. A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But it wasn’t always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book…Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With virtuosic skill and soaring imaginative power, Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of "extraordinary depth and beauty" (Newsday).
Download or read book A Year In Love Steamy Friends to Lovers to Enemies Second Chance Office Romance written by Liz Gavin, USA Today Bestselling Author and published by Elessar Books LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Every minute of this story is filled with happy romance. I completely fell in love with these two characters who so deserved their happily-ever-after." Sleep Reader Reviewer. From a sinful Easter weekend in Las Vegas to a life-changing Valentine's celebration, this steamy romantic comedy takes you through a year in the love story of Steve and Natalie. Lies and secrets separated these high school sweethearts. But their passion for one another has never waned. Now they must work together on the same project to save their companies. How can they find their way back together when life keeps throwing them curve balls? One-click this today to find out how Natalie and Steve get their happily-ever-after. This HOT rom-com will have you curl your toes and split your side all the way to a hard-earned second chance at first love.
Download or read book A Year of Self Love written by Troy L. Love and published by Rockridge Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All you need is self love--daily inspiration for loving yourself year-round. Revolutionize your relationship with yourself. A Year of Self Love has 365 days of wisdom and inspiration to help guide you in your quest for self love. Achieve better self-esteem, more positive thinking, and greater appreciation of yourself with these easy, practical methods. Complete with daily mantras, affirmations, quotes, writing prompts, and other simple activities, A Year of Self Love helps you boost your self-image as you reflect on your life and work through your insecurities. This book includes: A path to self love--Discover myriad methods for loving yourself every day of the year--from mindfulness-based meditations, to writing exercises and beyond. Bite-sized bits of love--From taking yourself on a "date" to celebrating life's small victories, establishing a self love routine can be fun. Banish bad thoughts--Avoid self-doubt, low self-esteem, and negative thought patterns with the highly effective activities in this book. Meet the love of your life--in the mirror--with the daily motivation you need for your self love journey.
