Download or read book How They Met and Other Stories written by David Levithan and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes a confection from David Levithan that is sure to have fans of Boy Meets Boy eager to devour it. Here are 18 stories, all about love, all kinds of love. From the aching for the one you pine for, to standing up and speaking up for the one you love, to pure joy and happiness, these love stories run the gamut of that emotion that at some point has turned every one of us inside out and upside down. What is love? With this original story collection, David Levithan proves that love is a many splendored thing, a varied, complicated, addictive, wonderful thing.
Download or read book How We Met written by Huma Qureshi and published by Elliott & Thompson. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can't choose who you fall in love with, they say. If only it were that simple. Growing up in Walsall in the 1990s, Huma straddled two worlds - school and teenage crushes in one, and the expectations and unwritten rules of her family's south Asian social circle in the other. Reconciling the two was sometimes a tightrope act, but she managed it. Until it came to marriage.
Download or read book How We Met written by Miriam Sokol and published by Prima Lifestyles. This book was released on 1999 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How We Met" is a collection of true love stories recounting the unique and magical ways that couples have come together. This book also addresses spiritual themes in the familiar context of romantic stories.
Download or read book The Last Time They Met written by Anita Shreve and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2001-04-10 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the last time Linda and Thomas meet, at a charmless hotel in a distant city, to the moment, thirty-five years earlier, when a chance encounter on a rocky beach binds them fatefully together, this hypnotically compelling novel unfolds a tale of intense passion, drama, and suspense. The Last Time They Met is a singularly ambitious and accomplished work by one of today's most widely celebrated novelists.
Download or read book How We Met written by Katy Regan and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are some people you can’t imagine life without.
Download or read book How They Met written by Allan G. Hunter and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-11-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Staniforth is being harassed by a former colleague he once counseled, Miriam. What starts as an embarrassing annoyance for a man in an upwardly mobile neighborhood - hang up phone calls at all hours, his answering machine clogged with love messages - adds stress to his already tense marriage. For Bill's wife Holly has her own discontentments as she struggles to find meaning in work that is often uninspiring. Working at a struggling feminist publication that can barely afford to pay her she finds she's doing more busy work than she wants, and far less writing than she'd like. In her frustration she wants someone or something to blame. She decides that Miriam must have been Bill's lover, and that's why she can't leave him alone. With Bill too preoccupied to give her the attention she needs Holly pours out her woes a neighbor. A sympathetic ear becomes something more insidious, and soon the flirtation becomes an affair. Miriam, busy spying on Bill, discovers this and decides that the only way she can liberate Bill from his marriage is by blackmailing his wife. Miriam spends more and more time stalking Bill and doing New Age Druid rituals to bring him to her until her ex-husband, incensed by her neglect of their children, argues with her and strikes her. She recoils, hits her head on a door frame, and later that evening slips into a coma. The police are called in and they consider it attempted murder. They search Miriam's apartment, find the photographs she was using in her blackmail attempt, and Bill is arrested as a suspect. In jail, abandoned by wife and friends, and able to hire a decent lawyer only at the cost of bankrupting himself, Bill is forced to reasses every aspect of his life. Fighting off a rape attempt by two fellow inmates, Bill is reduced to thinking only about his day to day survival. When Miriam recovers consciousness Bill's innocence is established and he is released. He returns to his empty house. Holly has left him, he's lost his job, and he has to sell the house to pay his legal costs. His next door neighbor, Sue, takes him in. This is when he begins to learn personally about healing, about compassion, and about love. Miriam comes to claim Bill, believing they were lovers in a previous incarnation. When he refuses her she makes a final bid to win him. In the middle of the night she uses a Druid fire ceremony to release him from his other attachments, placing candles and oil lamps all around the house. The breeze blows over several lamps and the flames get out of hand. Bill awakes to find the house on fire. He manages to get everyone out of the house but is badly burned. Miriam is confined to an asylum, and Bill recovers to marry Sue.
Download or read book We Met in December written by Rosie Curtis and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare to fall head over heels. The perfect book for fans of Josie Silver, This Time Next Year, and anyone who ever fell in love with the wrong person... ‘Gorgeously festive and romantic’ Rosie Walsh, bestselling author of The Man Who Didn’t Call
Download or read book The Day We Met written by Roxie Cooper and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'With overtones of One Day, this hugely readable novel is by turns fun, painfully honest and oh-so emotional' Fabulous Magazine 'An unforgettable will-they-won't-they love story that will make your heart sing' Isabelle Broom Stephanie and Jamie are meant to be. The problem is they're both with other people... ________________________________ Stephanie doesn’t believe in fate, true love or living happily ever after. She’s content enough being engaged to Matt. But then she meets Jamie, who understands her more than anyone else ever has. Jamie is happily married to his childhood sweetheart Helen and believes in everything Stephanie doesn’t. So why does he have such a strong connection with Stephanie? When Stephanie and Jamie meet one fateful weekend in 2006 it will change everything... Ten years. Two people. One epic love story. The Day We Met is an immensely moving and heart-warming epic love story perfect for fans of Josie Silver's One Day in December and Zoë Folbigg's The Note. ________________________________ WHAT AUTHORS ARE SAYING 'A beautifully written love story with characters you can't help but take to your heart. The Day We Met is destined to be a classic' Lisa Hall 'This book made me laugh, made me cry and is packed with poignancy, humour, insight and honesty' Katie Marsh 'A must read-epic love story that will have you rooting for the characters from the moment they meet. Both heartbreaking and uplifting, be prepared for an emotional rollercoaster' Anna Bell 'A love story I won't forget for a long time. This book touched me deeply and made me believe, more than ever, in the power of true love' Cressida McLaughlin ________________________________ WHAT READERS ARE SAYING 'A beautiful, unique romance which proves that true love exists' - Kaisha 'One of the most compelling reads of the year' - Sara 'Definitely a book for fans of Josie Silver's One Day in December. A wonderful yet heartbreaking book and one hell of a love story' - Abby 'An amazing epic love story. I just didn't want it to end' - Rachel's Random Reads 'I experienced every emotion you feel in a relationship and became so emotionally invested in the characters. I absolutely loved this' - Kelly 'A beautifully written story - incredibly moving and emotional' - Jeannie
Download or read book For Better written by Tara Parker-Pope and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the New York Times' most popular journalists presents groundbreaking scientific news about marriage. And, surprise: It's good news. We've all heard the statistic: Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce. It's enough to make many couples give up when the going gets rough, thinking that's what everybody else does. But what if it weren't true? What if, in fact, it's not only possible but often easier than you think to save a seemingly troubled relationship? These are the questions Tara Parker-Pope asked herself after her own divorce. An investigative journalist on the health and wellness beat, she turned to some of the top biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and other scientists for the facts about marriage and divorce. Those facts were more positive and provocative than she'd ever expected, and For Better offers page after page of astonishing, eye-opening good news. Parker-Pope presents the science behind why some marriages work and others don't; the biology behind why some spouses cheat and others remain faithful; the best diagnostic tools created by the most cutting-edge psychologists to assess the probability of success in getting married, staying married, or remarrying. There are questionnaires to uncover potentially damaging hidden attitudes toward spouses. There are tools to show the impact of routine, fresh activity and how small adjustments can make a huge difference. Tara Parker- Pope's genius is for exploring the science behind the big issues that affect our lives every day and translating that science into advice that we can use-every day. For Better is the definitive guide to the most profound relationship of our lives.
Download or read book How They Met written by Allen Lee Byram and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allen Lee Byram grew up in Virginia. He received a BA in computer science from Strayer University, an AAS in business management from Lord Fairfax Community College. Before college, he worked for himself as Allen the handyman. Then he landed a job with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In 1999, he started working for FEMA as a computer/network specialist. Working in the tech lab was the main part of his job, and the other part of his job was to travel where a disaster occurred. The disaster could be a flood, hurricane, or tornado. He would travel to these disasters with a special trained staff to do the work. While working with the victims of the storms, he heard many sad stories. He would try to change the conversation to something of a more positive side by asking them how they met. In 2004, he met his wife, Vicki, through an online dating service. As they began to correspond to each other, he realized she also likes to travel. At this time, Vicki was traveling with a couple of her coworkers to the Dominican Republic. When she returned, they met over dinner, and he told her that he was getting ready to go on a cruise to the Bahamas. She went with him. During their travels, they met so many different people, and he would always ask them how they met. This is what inspired him to write this book. 2
Download or read book How I Met My Monster written by Amanda Noll and published by Flashlight Press. This book was released on 2019-11-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night, when Ethan reaches under his bed for a toy truck, he finds this note instead: "Monsters! Meet here for final test." Ethan is sure his parents are trying to trick him into staying under the covers, until he sees five colorful sets of eyes blinking at him from beneath the bed. Soon, a colorful parade of quirky, squeaky little monsters compete to become Ethan's monster. But only the little green monster, Gabe, has the perfect blend of stomach-rumbling and snorting needed to get Ethan into bed and keep him there so he falls asleep—which as everyone knows, is the real reason for monsters under beds. With its perfect balance of giggles and shivers, this silly-spooky prequel to the award-winning I Need My Monster and Hey, That's MY Monster! will keep young readers entertained.
Download or read book How They Met And What Happened Next written by Irene Vartanoff and published by Irene Vartanoff. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Fish Out of Water It's culture clash when suburban Maryland widow Lauren Nash attends a house party in the West Virginia mountains to please her daughter, Wendy, and get a break from the stress of a pending lawsuit plus an in-law’s weird demand for a family heirloom. Wendy’s almost-engagement to Brandon Rawlings won’t become official until his mother approves of Wendy and her family—and his mom quickly makes her disapproval clear. So does her brother, Gary Murphy, who challenges Lauren in a hostile manner over politically charged topics. Lauren can’t flee soon enough, but a sudden snowstorm traps them all on the mountain, upending her relationship with Gary and Wendy’s with Brandon. As Lauren and Gary grow closer, Wendy and Brandon grow apart. Once the snowy roads are cleared and everyone goes home to their normal lives and problems, will new relationships blossom or wither? Shocking family secrets, a missing heirloom, culture clash, and a hike in a life-threatening snowstorm combine to make one wintry December memorable. --- Readers of Cleaning Her House will meet old friends in this story, the second in the timeline of stand-alone novels set in the extended Washington, DC, metropolitan area. Life Is Too Short is the third in the timeline.
Download or read book From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler written by E.L. Konigsburg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in a deluxe keepsake edition! A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) Run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with E. L. Konigsburg’s beloved classic and Newbery Medal–winning novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would go in comfort-she would live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She saved her money, and she invited her brother Jamie to go, mostly because be was a miser and would have money. Claudia was a good organizer and Jamie bad some ideas, too; so the two took up residence at the museum right on schedule. But once the fun of settling in was over, Claudia had two unexpected problems: She felt just the same, and she wanted to feel different; and she found a statue at the Museum so beautiful she could not go home until she bad discovered its maker, a question that baffled the experts, too. The former owner of the statue was Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Without her—well, without her, Claudia might never have found a way to go home.
Download or read book If I Never Met You written by Mhairi McFarlane and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Mhairi McFarlane returns with another heartfelt romantic comedy perfect for fans of Josie Silver, Sophie Kinsella, or Sally Thorne. One of Shondaland's 5 Must-Read Books for March and a Best Romance of 2020 by Amazon, OprahMag, Insider, Buzzfeed, Bustle, Cosmo, PopSugar, and BookPage. If faking love is this easy... how do you know when it’s real? When her partner of over a decade suddenly ends things, Laurie is left reeling—not only because they work at the same law firm and she has to see him every day. Her once perfect life is in shambles and the thought of dating again in the age of Tinder is nothing short of horrifying. When news of her ex’s pregnant girlfriend hits the office grapevine, taking the humiliation lying down is not an option. Then a chance encounter in a broken-down elevator with the office playboy opens up a new possibility. Jamie Carter doesn’t believe in love, but he needs a respectable, steady girlfriend to impress their bosses. Laurie wants a hot new man to give the rumor mill something else to talk about. It’s the perfect proposition: a fauxmance played out on social media, with strategically staged photographs and a specific end date in mind. With the plan hatched, Laurie and Jamie begin to flaunt their new couple status, to the astonishment—and jealousy—of their friends and colleagues. But there’s a fine line between pretending to be in love and actually falling for your charming, handsome fake boyfriend...
Download or read book When We First Met written by Norma Fox Mazer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it possible that the one guy Jenny falls for is totally off limits? March isn’t usually Jenny’s month. For one thing, it’s too dark and gray. For another, her sister, Gail, died two years ago in March after being hit by a drunk driver, a blow her family hasn’t yet recovered from. But March is also when she first sees Rob. He’s new in school, and although Jenny doesn’t know who he is yet, she can’t look away when they pass each other in the halls. She knows there’s something between them, and he seems to know it too, until a chance conversation reveals something terrible: Rob’s mother was the driver who killed Gail. Even as Jenny tries to pull away from Rob, she’s secretly glad about his stubborn insistence that they be friends despite their pasts. If Jenny and Rob become friends—or more—is she betraying her family? Can she and Rob find a way to transcend the tragedies in both their pasts and hold on to each other?
Download or read book How We Met written by Michele A'Court and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stand-up comedian Michele A'Court rekindles the passion, with a brilliant collection of 'How We Met' stories. How We Met is based on a collection of 'How We Met' stories - those lovely stories couples love to tell (and we all love to hear) about how they got together. The author's theory: that these stories of how couples meet - the romantic, absurd, serendipitous, convoluted, scandalous, breath-taking moments of connection - help to weave their lives together. Partly as 'proof' that they were meant to begin this couple-journey, and also because in each retelling they go back to those first falling-in-love feelings and rekindle the passion. The theory is based on a hunch, which itself is based on nothingmore than the author's observations of watching couples as they talk. Michele then tests her thesis out on a neuroscientist and a psychologist, and by the end of the book, has some useful things to say not only about how great love starts,but how it stays great.
Download or read book The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met What Happened and How It Ended written by Grace Brooks Hill and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-09-17 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace Brooks Hill's 'The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies' is a captivating tale that follows the adventures of a group of young girls as they encounter the mysterious world of the Gypsies. The novel is written in a style that combines elements of juvenile fiction with a touch of mystery and adventure, making it an engaging read for readers of all ages. Hill's ability to create vibrant and relatable characters adds depth to the story, allowing readers to immerse themselves in the world she has created. Set within the literary context of early 20th-century children's literature, this book stands out for its unique blend of genres and its exploration of Gypsy culture through the eyes of curious young protagonists. Hill's descriptive writing style brings the Gypsy encampment to life, offering readers a glimpse into a world filled with intrigue and wonder. Grace Brooks Hill, a prolific author of children's literature, drew inspiration for this book from her own fascination with Gypsy culture and her desire to create an entertaining yet educational story for young readers. Her background in writing stories centered around young female characters shines through in 'The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies,' where themes of friendship, curiosity, and courage are woven seamlessly into the narrative. Readers who enjoy stories that combine mystery, adventure, and a hint of cultural exploration will find Hill's novel a delightful and thought-provoking read. From its engaging plot to its well-developed characters, 'The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies' is a book that will captivate readers from start to finish.
