Romance

What are the chances that the only two girls in my life I've ever loved . . . I've lost? It's killing me piece by piece every single day.' Dean Holder has spent the last thirteen years obsessing over the moment that charged his life forever . . . the day his best friend was taken from him.

يستقصي هذا الكتاب تعقيدَ الحُبِّ وبحثَ الإنسان عن الحقيقة والمعنى من خلال الحيوات المتداخلة لشخصيات تاريخية عديدة عبر أربعة قرون، بدءًا بيوهانس كپلر عالم الفلك الذي اكتشف قوانين حركة الكواكب، وانتهاءً بريتشل كارسن عالمة الأحياء البحرية والكاتبة التي ألهمت مواطنيها إقامة حركة الحفاظ على البيئة.

ويمتد بينهما جمعٌ من الفنَّانين والكُتَّاب والعلماء -معظمهم نساء- الذين نشأت مساهماتهم العامة من علاقاتهم الخاصة التي لا تقبل التصنيف وغالبًا ما كانت محزنة، لتغيِّر الطريقة التي بها نفهم الكون ونَخْبُره ونقدِّره. بينهم ماريا متشل عالمة الفلك التي مهَّدت للنساء طريق العلوم، وهارييت

هوسمر النَّحَّاتة التي فعلت الشيء نفسه في الفن، ومارغرت فُلَر الصِّحافية والناقدة الأدبية التي أشعلت الحركة النسوية، والشاعرة إمِلي دِكنْسن. من هذه الحيوات تنبثق أسئلة أكبر عن معيار الحياة الجيدة وما الذي يعنيه أن يترك المرء أثرًا إصلاحيًّا دائمًا في عالم ناقص: هل يكفي الإنجاز والقبول لنيل السعادة؟ هل تكفي العبقرية؟ هل يكفي الحب؟ وتتخلَّل ثنايا السَّرد مجموعةٌ من الشخصيات الثانوية -رالف والدو إمرسن، تشارلز داروِن، إلزابث بارِت براوننغ، هرمَن ملڤل، فردرِك دوغلَس، ناثانيَل هوثورن، والت ويتمَن- ونسيجٌ من الموضوعات يشمل الموسيقى، والنِّسوية، وتاريخ العلوم، والدين، وكيف حفَّز تقاطعُ علم الفلك والشعر والفلسفة المتعالية حركةَ الحفاظ على البيئة.

Sam is lonely and bored, watching the sheep on the mountain. One day he makes up a story: “Come quickly! A wolf is attacking the sheep!” The villagers come running, but of course there’s no wolf. Then, when a wolf really does attack, who will believe Sam? With fun activities after the story, and online audio in British and American English.

Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim's parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself. With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas with a father she barely knows. Beyah's plan is to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seamlessly, but her new neighbor Samson throws a wrench in that plan. Samson and Beyah have nothing in common on the surface. She comes from a life of poverty and neglect; he comes from a family of wealth and privilege. But one thing they do have in common is that they're both drawn to sad things. Which means they're drawn to each other. With an almost immediate connection too intense for them to continue denying, Beyah and Samson agree to stay in the shallow end of a summer fling. What Beyah doesn't realize is that a rip current is coming, and it's about to drag her heart out to sea.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, comes a breath taking novel about modern marriage, the depth of family ties, and the year that one remarkable heroine spends exploring both. When Lauren and Ryan's marriage reaches the breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year apart, and only one they cannot contact each other. Aside from that, anything goes. Lauren embarks on a journey of self-discovery, quickly finding that her friends and family have their own ideas about the meaning of marriage. These influences, as well as her own healing process and the challenges of living apart from Ryan, begin to change Lauren's ideas about monogamy and marriage. She starts to When you can have romance without

When Warren has the opportunity to live with a female roommate, he instantly agrees. It could be an exciting change. Or maybe not. Especially when that roommate is the cold and seemingly calculating Bridgette. Tensions run high and tempers flare as the two can hardly stand to be in the same room together. But Warren has a theory about Bridgette: anyone who can hate with that much passion should also have the capability to love with that much passion. And he wants to be the one to test this theory. Will Bridgette find it in herself to warm her heart to Warren and finally learn to love? Maybe. Maybe not.

What if Aladdin had never found the lamp? Aladdin is a Street Rat. Like most, he’s just trying to survive another day in impoverished Agrabah. Jasmine is a princess, one who is about to enter into an arranged marriage. All she wants is to escape her fate, to see what lies beyond the palace walls. But everything changes when the sultan’s trusted adviser, Jafar, suddenly rises to power. With the help of an ancient lamp, Jafar attempts to break the laws of magic and gain control over love and death. Soon Aladdin and the deposed princess Jasmine must unite the people of Agrabah in rebellion to stop the power-mad ruler threatening to tear the kingdom apart. This isn’t the story you already know. This is a story about power. About revolutionaries. About love. And about one moment changing everything.

A novel of terrible first impressions, hilarious second chances, and the joy in finding your perfect match.

The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs.

Powerful, brilliant, and ambitious, Dominic Davenport clawed his way up from nothing to become the King of Wall Street.