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Amor e Outras Palavras
By Christina Lauren. 2018
Um reencontro fruto do acaso vai desenterrar sentimentos há muito guardados a sete chaves, neste romance inesquecível de Christina Lauren.…
De quantas palavras precisa uma história de amor? A rotina de Macy é ambiciosa, embora a sua vida amorosa tenha esmorecido. Trabalha como pediatra, está a planear casar-se com um homem financeiramente estável, mantém uma vida discreta e o coração guardado a sete chaves.Quando um acaso a faz reencontrar Elliot — o primeiro e único amor da sua vida —, a cuidadosa bolha que tem vindo a construir começa a dissolver-se. Em tempos, ele tinha sido o mundo dela, mas tudo se esfumara numa única noite. Na adolescência, Elliot e Macy transformaram uma grande amizade em algo muito mais forte, passando fins de semana e verões a devorar livros, a partilhar palavras favoritas e a confidenciar um ao outro as suas agruras e conquistas. Em adultos, tornaram-se completos estranhos, até se reencontrarem por mera casualidade.Embora as suas memórias estejam obscurecidas pela agonia do que aconteceu naquela noite há tantos anos, Elliot acabará por compreender o silêncio de Macy e ambos tentarão ultrapassar esse passado para conseguir recuperar a confiança um no outro.
O Desertor
By Abdulrazak Gurnah. 2005
PRÉMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA 2021 Um dos romances mais representativos de Abdulrazak Gurnah, que reconfirma o seu talento de narrador…
e de cronista de uma África ainda desconhecida. Ao romper de mais uma manhã, Hassanali está a caminho da mesquita quando um forasteiro branco, vindo do deserto, desaba a seus pés. Hassanali decide ajudar aquele homem — um explorador e orientalista inglês de nome Martin Pearce — levando-o depois para casa de um oficial, seu conterrâneo. Quando Pearce regressa para agradecer a Hassanali por lhe ter salvado a vida, também conhece a irmã dele, Rehana, com quem viverá uma história de amor proibido. Décadas depois, numa Zanzibar em vésperas da turbulenta independência do poder colonial europeu, Jamila, a neta de Rehana, viverá com Amin uma história de amor em tudo semelhante, que desafiará a família, a moral e as convençõesda sociedade. Obra representativa do talento de Abdulrazak Gurnah, O Desertor evoca o complexo ambiente social, religioso e cultural da África Oriental na época colonial através de duas histórias de amor, separadas pelo tempo, mas unidas pelo seu desfecho, evidenciando o intricado mosaico de uma África ainda desconhecida. «Uma proeza admirável… uma profunda investigação sobre a natureza do amor, da raça e do império.» San Francisco Chronicle «[Gurnah] é um escritor no máximo da sua forma, com um forte sentido da narrativa, um olho clínico para as dinâmicas familiares e uma total compreensão da psicologia corrosiva do colonialismo.» The Seattle Times«Gurnah é um contador de histórias exímio.» Financial Times
Avalon: A novel
By Nell Zink. 2022
A profound and singular story about a young woman searching for her place in the world, from one of America&’s…
most original voices—the irresistible story of one teenager&’s reckoning with society at large and her search for a personal utopia.Bran&’s Southern California upbringing is anything but traditional. After her mother joins a Buddhist colony, Bran is raised by her &“common-law stepfather&” on Bourdon Farms—a plant nursery that doubles as a cover for a biker gang. She spends her days tending plants, slogging through high school, and imagining what life could be if she had been born to a different family. And then she meets Peter, a beautiful, troubled, and charming train wreck of a college student from the East Coast, who launches his teaching career by initiating her into the world of literature and aesthetics. As the two begin a volatile and ostensibly doomed long-distance relationship, Bran searches for meaning in her own surroundings—attending disastrous dance recitals, house-sitting for strangers, and writing scripts for student films. She knows how to survive, but her happiness depends on learning to call the shots. Exceedingly rich, ecstatically dark, and delivered with masterful humor, Avalon is a poignant portrait of a young woman who, against all odds, is determined to find her place in the world and find clarity in its remote corners.
Part of Your World (A Twisted Tale)
By Liz Braswell. 2018
The 5th installment in the New York Times best-selling A Twisted Tale series asks: What if Ariel had never defeated…
Ursula? <p><p>It's been five years since the infamous sea witch defeated the little mermaid…and took King Triton's life in the process. Ariel is now the voiceless queen of Atlantica, while Ursula runs Prince Eric's kingdom on land. But when Ariel discovers that her father might still be alive, she finds herself returning to a world—and a prince—she never imagined she would see again.
Kurt Seyt and Shura
By Nermin Bezmen. 2017
An instant best seller since its debut in 1992, this book is a classic of contemporary Turkish literature, a sweeping…
romantic drama set around the time as the splendor of Imperial Russia is obliterated in the wake of the Great War. <p><p>The author tells the story of two star-crossed lovers fleeing the wave of devastation wreaked by the Bolshevik Revolution—and does so with great sensitivity: one half of this couple who sought refuge in the capital of the dying Ottoman Empire was her grandfather. <p><p>Translated into 12 languages, the novel inspired a sumptuous TV series that continues to enchant millions of viewers across the world. With the publication of this novel in the United States, English-speaking fans will now be able to read the true story of this great love affair, which triumphed over so much adversity yet failed to overcome human fallibility. <p><p>Kurt Seyt: The son of a wealthy Crimean nobleman, is a dashing first lieutenant in the Imperial Life Guard. Injured on the Carpathian front and later sought by the Bolsheviks, he makes a daring escape across the Black Sea. Too proud to accept payment for the boatful of arms he hands over to the Nationalists, he faces years of struggle to make a new life in the Turkish Republic rising from the embers of the dying Ottoman Empire. All he has is his dignity and love. <p><p>Shura: An innocent sixteen-year-old beauty enchanted by Tchaikovsky’s music and Moscow’s glittering lights, falls in love with Seyt. A potential victim of the Bolsheviks due to her family’s wealth and social standing, she is determined to follow her heart and accompanies Seyt on his perilous flight over the Black Sea. <p><p>Their love is the only solace to their crushing homesickness for a land and family they will never see again, two lovers among hundreds of thousands of White Russian émigrés trying to eke out a living in occupied Istanbul.
The Slowworm's Song
By Andrew Miller. 2022
By the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, a profound and tender tale of guilt, a search for atonement and the…
hard, uncertain work of loving.'The writing is near perfect. But the novel's excellence goes far beyond this . . . You read [it] . . . with your pulse racing, all your senses awake' Guardian'A beautiful, lambent, timely novel' - Sarah HallAn ex-soldier and recovering alcoholic living quietly in Somerset, Stephen Rose has just begun to form a bond with the daughter he barely knows when he receives a summons - to an inquiry into an incident during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It is the return of what Stephen hoped he had outdistanced. Above all, to testify would jeopardise the fragile relationship with his daughter. And if he loses her, he loses everything. Instead, he decides to write her an account of his life; a confession, a defence, a love letter. Also a means of buying time. But time is running out, and the day comes when he must face again what happened in that faraway summer of 1982.
First Among Sequels: Thursday Next Book 5 (Thursday Next #5)
By Jasper Fforde. 2007
The fifth book in the phenomenally successful Thursday Next series, from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde. 'Ingenious - I'll…
watch Jasper Fforde nervously' Terry Pratchett on The Eyre AffairFourteen years after she pegged out at 1988 SuperHoop, Thursday Next is grappling with a recalcitrant new apprentice, the death of Sherlock Holmes and the inexplicable departure of comedy from the once-hilarious Thomas Hardy novels.Her idle sixteen-year-old would rather sleep all day than save the world from imminent destruction, the government has a dangerously high stupidity surplues, and the Stiltonista Cheese Mafia are causing trouble for Thursday in her hometown of Swindon. Then things begin to get bad. As Reality Book Shows look set to transplant Reality TV Shows and Goliath invent a trans-fictional tourist coach, Thursday must once again have her wits about her as she travels to the very limits of acceptable narrative possibilities to rescue the reading experience from almost certain destruction . . .
Madame Burova: the new novel from the author of The Keeper of Lost Things
By Ruth Hogan. 2021
'The 'Queen of Uplit' returns brilliantly to form with this gloriously good-natured novel.' DAILY MAIL 'Supremely upliftng ...an absolute gem'…
- MIKE GAYLE 'Stunning, immersive and absolutely wonderful' - ANNIE LYONS 'Woke up early to finish this breathtakingly beautiful story ... absolutely wonderful' - CELIA ANDERSON 'Blooming with wonderful, vibrant and charismatic characters' PRIMAMadame Burova - Tarot Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant is retiring and leaving her booth on the Brighton seafront after fifty years.Imelda Burova has spent a lifetime keeping other people's secrets and her silence has come at a price. She has seen the lovers and the liars, the angels and the devils, the dreamers and the fools. Her cards had unmasked them all and her cards never lied. But Madame Burova is weary of other people's lives, their ghosts from the past and other people's secrets, she needs rest and a little piece of life for herself. Before that, however, she has to fulfill a promise made a long time ago. She holds two brown envelopes in her hand, and she has to deliver them.In London, it is time for another woman to make a fresh start. Billie has lost her university job, her marriage, and her place in the world when she discovers something that leaves her very identity in question. Determined to find answers, she must follow a trail which might just lead right to Madame Burova's door.In a story spanning over fifty years, Ruth Hogan conjures a magical world of 1970s holiday camps and seaside entertainers, eccentrics, heroes and villains, the lost and the found. Young people, with their lives before them, make choices which echo down the years. And a wall of death rider is part of a love story which will last through time.
Nora Foge ao Guião
By Annabel Monaghan. 2022
Uma mulher que conseguiu libertar-se de uma relação tóxica e reconstruir a sua vida permite-se agora sonhar com uma história…
de amor digna de Hollywood. SELEÇÃO DOS MELHORES DO ANO PARA AMAZON, WASHINGTON POST, USA TODAY, COSMOPOLITAN, BUZZFEED, BOOK RIOT E SHE READS A história da vida de NORA está prestes a ser rescrita…Nora Hamilton conhece a fórmula do amor melhor do que ninguém, ou não fosse ela uma argumentista de filmes românticos com finais felizes. Mas, quando o marido a deixa, ela transforma o seu casamento desastroso no melhor guião da sua vida e vende-o para uma adaptação cinematográfica. O local escolhido para as filmagens não podia ser mais real — a sua própria casa centenária — mas o elenco é de sonho, com Leo Vance, em tempos eleito o Homem Mais Sexy do Mundo, a desempenhar o papel principal. E é ele quem faz a Nora a mais inusitada proposta: Leo está disposto a pagar uma fortuna por dia a Nora para passar uma semana de férias na sua casa. Parece o acordo ideal. Ele está necessitado de alguma paz de espírito na sua vida; ela precisa do dinheiro para fazer face às despesas. Só que estes sete dias tanto podem passar num instante como transformar-se numa eternidade, dependendo do que vier a acontecer. Sete dias são tempo suficiente para alguém se apaixonar. Ou ficar de coração partido. «Encantador, divertido, revigorante e completamente cativante.» Elin Hilderbrand, autora bestseller internacional «Um romance que capta na perfeição a apreensão e entusiasmo do enamoramento misturado com as complicações da vida.» Washington Post «Inteligente, fresco e romântico, cheio de humor e ternura.» Beth O’Leary, autora de Apartamento Partilha-se
Viajantes da Noite
By Armando Lucas Correa. 2023
Quatro gerações de mulheres vivem a guerra e a esperança, do nazismo à revolução cubana, até, por fim, à queda…
do Muro de Berlim. BERLIM, 1931: Ally Keller, uma jovem poeta, está sozinha quando dá à luz Lilith, uma bebé mestiça. Após anos de tensão no país, os nazis chegam finalmente ao poder, e Ally sabe que tem de manter a sua bebé nas sombras para a proteger da crença mortífera na pureza ariana. Conforme Lilith cresce, torna-se cada vez mais difícil resguardá-la, pelo que Ally se vê obrigada a enviar a filha para longe. HAVANA, 1958: Agora adulta, Lilith tem poucas lembranças da mãe ou da infância na Alemanha. Ao lado de Martin, um piloto com fortes laços ao governo de Fulgencio Batista, tem toda a sua vida pela frente. Mas à medida que as chamas da revolução cubana irrompem, Lilith e Nadine, a filha recém-nascida, encontram-se subitamente numa encruzilhada aterrorizante: permanecer ou fugir do país.BERLIM, 1988: Como cientista na Alemanha, Nadine dedica-se a garantir a dignidade dos restos mortais de todos aqueles que foram assassinados pelos nazis. No entanto, passou a vida inteira a fugir à verdadeira história da sua família. Será a sua filha, Luna, quem a irá convencer a descobrir o porquê das escolhas feitas pela mãe e pela avó. E será Luna quem, no final, terá de lidar com uma traição tão chocante que poderá alterar tudo aquilo que achava saber sobre o passado da família. SOBRE O LIVRO:«Uma saga familiar comovente que explora o legado da guerra e da revolução.» Booklist «Impressionante. Os leitores irão adorar esta viagem emocionante e terminar o romance com uma bem-vinda sensação de catarse.» Kirkus Reviews «Uma história multigeracional espantosa cujo ritmo, tenso, faz as páginas voarem. Os leitores irão fi car profundamente comovidos.» Publishers Weekly «Ler Armando Lucas Correa lembra-nos do verdadeiro valor dos pequenos, mas colossais pormenores que tornam a literatura algo maior. Um romance carregado de mistérios e diálogos comoventes que nos expõem ao que é ser pessoa.» Wendy Guerra,poetisa e romancista cubana «Oportuno e de leitura obrigatória.» People «Fascinante. Uma entrada brilhante nas almas, terrores, desalento, esforços e bravura de pessoas que foram descartadas… Agora, numa nova era de gente em perigo e à deriva nos mares do mundo, este magnífico romance - e as inesperadas e intrincadas tragédias das suas personagens poderosamente imaginadas - evidencia esta eterna injustiça.» Thomas Keneally, autor bestseller de A Lista de Schindler
Uma Espia Americana em Lisboa
By Madeline Martin. 2022
Um romance envolvente inspirado na história verdadeira de espiões bibliotecários a operar em Lisboa durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ava…
sempre achou que o seu emprego na Biblioteca do Congresso, em Washington, D. C., lhe traria uma existência pacata e rotineira. Mas uma inesperada proposta do exército norte-americano leva-a até Lisboa com uma missão: fazer-se passar por bibliotecária enquanto trabalha como espia, recolhendo informações secretas para os Estados Unidos.Enquanto isso, na França ocupada, Elaine começa a sua aprendizagem numa tipografia dirigida por membros da Resistência. Era um trabalho geralmente reservado aos homens, mas em tempo de guerra essas regras foram esquecidas. No entanto, ela sabe que os nazis estão atrás da imprensa e das suas gráficas para silenciá-los. À medida que a batalha na Europa se agrava, Ava e Elaine, separadas por milhares de quilómetros, começam a comunicar através de mensagens codificadas, publicadas em jornais, e descobrem a esperança em tempos de guerra. «O ambiente de Lyon e Lisboa durante a guerra irá maravilhar os fãs da espionagem decorrida durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial.» Booklist «Uma leitura verdadeiramente cativante.» Bookpage
The Virgin Cure: A Novel
By Ami McKay. 2012
Following in the footsteps of The Birth House, her powerful debut novel, The Virgin Cure secures Ami McKay's place as…
one of our most beguiling storytellers. (Not that it has to… that is pretty much taken care of!)"I am Moth, a girl from the lowest part of Chrystie Street, born to a slum-house mystic and the man who broke her heart." So begins The Virgin Cure, a novel set in the tenements of lower Manhattan in the year 1871. As a young child, Moth's father smiled, tipped his hat and walked away from his wife and daughter forever, and Moth has never stopped imagining that one day they may be reunited – despite knowing in her heart what he chose over them. Her hard mother is barely making a living with her fortune-telling, sometimes for well-heeled clients, yet Moth is all too aware of how she really pays the rent.Life would be so much better, Moth knows, if fortune had gone the other way - if only she'd had the luxury of a good family and some station in life. The young Moth spends her days wandering the streets of her own and better neighbourhoods, imagining what days are like for the wealthy women whose grand yet forbidding gardens she slips through when no one's looking. Yet every night Moth must return to the disease- and grief-ridden tenements she calls home.The summer Moth turns twelve, her mother puts a halt to her explorations by selling her boots to a local vendor, convinced that Moth was planning to run away. Wanting to make the most of her every asset, she also sells Moth to a wealthy woman as a servant, with no intention of ever seeing her again.These betrayals lead Moth to the wild, murky world of the Bowery, filled with house-thieves, pickpockets, beggars, sideshow freaks and prostitutes, but also a locale frequented by New York's social elite. Their patronage supports the shadowy undersphere, where businesses can flourish if they truly understand the importance of wealth and social standing - and of keeping secrets. In that world Moth meets Miss Everett, the owner of a brothel simply known as an "infant school." There Moth finds the orderly solace she has always wanted, and begins to imagine herself embarking upon a new path.Yet salvation does not come without its price: Miss Everett caters to gentlemen who pay dearly for companions who are "willing and clean," and the most desirable of them all are young virgins like Moth. That's not the worst of the situation, though. In a time and place where mysterious illnesses ravage those who haven't been cautious, no matter their social station, diseased men yearn for a "virgin cure" - thinking that deflowering a "fresh maid" can heal the incurable and tainted. Through the friendship of Dr. Sadie, a female physician who works to help young women like her, Moth learns to question and observe the world around her. Moth's new friends are falling prey to fates both expected and forced upon them, yet she knows the law will not protect her, and that polite society ignores her. Still she dreams of answering to no one but herself. There's a high price for such independence, though, and no one knows that better than a girl from Chrystie Street.
Close Enough to Touch: A Novel
By Colleen Oakley. 2017
A March 2017 Indie Next Pick From the author of Before I Go comes an evocative, poignant, and heartrending exploration…
of the power and possibilities of the human heart, perfect for fans of the emotional novels of Jojo Moyes and Jodi Picoult.Love has no boundaries... Jubilee Jenkins has a rare condition: she’s allergic to human touch. After a nearly fatal accident, she became reclusive, living in the confines of her home for nine years. But after her mother dies, Jubilee is forced to face the world—and the people in it—that she’s been hiding from. Jubilee finds safe haven at her local library where she gets a job. It’s there she meets Eric Keegan, a divorced man who recently moved to town with his brilliant, troubled, adopted son. Eric is struggling to figure out how to be the dad—and man—he wants so desperately to be. Jubilee is unlike anyone he has ever met, yet he can't understand why she keeps him at arm's length. So Eric sets out to convince Jubilee to open herself and her heart to everything life can offer, setting into motion the most unlikely love story of the year.
The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel
By Laura Dave. 2021
A gripping mystery about a woman who thinks she’s found the love of her life—until he disappears. <P><P>Before Owen Michaels…
disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. <P><P>As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true identity—and why he really disappeared. Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth. <P><P>But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realize they’re also building a new future—one neither of them could have anticipated. With its breakneck pacing, dizzying plot twists, and evocative family drama, The Last Thing He Told Me is a riveting mystery, certain to shock you with its final, heartbreaking turn. <P><P><b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>
The Other Mother: A Novel
By Rachel M. Harper. 2022
A page-turning generational saga about a young man's search for a parent he never knew, and a moving portrait of…
motherhood, race, and the truths we hide in the name of familyJenry Castillo is a musical prodigy, raised by a single mother in Miami. He arrives at Brown University on a scholarship—but also to learn more about his late father, Jasper Patterson, a famous ballet dancer who died tragically when Jenry was two. On his search, he meets his estranged grandfather, Winston Patterson, a legendary professor of African American history and a fixture at the Ivy League school, who explodes his world with one question: Why is Jenry so focused on Jasper, when it was Winston&’s daughter, Juliet, who was romantically involved with Jenry&’s mother? Juliet is the parent he should be looking for—his other mother. Revelation follows revelation as each member of Jenry&’s family steps forward to tell the story of his origin, uncovering a web of secrecy that binds this family together even as it keeps them apart. Moving seamlessly between the past and the present, The Other Mother is a daring, ambitious novel that celebrates the complexities of love and resilience—masterfully exploring the intersections of race, class, and sexuality; the role of biology in defining who belongs to whom; and the complicated truth of what it means to be a family.
Wild Orchids: A Novel
By Jude Deveraux. 2006
Straight from the heart of New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux comes a story of love, tragedy, and mystery…
in a small North Carolina town brimming with secrets. Have you ever lost someone who meant more to you than your own soul? Ford Newcombe has. For years, he loved his wife, Pat, more than anyone -- and anything -- in the world. She came into his life when he was just an inexperienced college student with big dreams of becoming a published author. With love and humor, she guided him down the path that would eventually lead him to more success than he ever dreamed possible. Since Pat's death six years ago, Ford has lived a life of solitude, barely able to put pen to paper, and rumors are flying that it was Pat who actually created the books the world so loved. If there's one thing that Ford needs it's inspiration, and it finally comes in the guise of Jackie Maxwell -- a smart, sassy university researcher with just enough attitude to match Ford's sharp intellect. But it's her intimate knowledge of the story of a young woman's friendship with the devil -- and what the townspeople did to her -- that persuades Ford to hire Jackie as his assistant and to move to Cole Creek, North Carolina, where the story is said to have taken place. They soon learn that even though the inhabitants of Cole Creek try to deny it, they are still plagued by the consequences of the otherworldly tale of passion and death. As Ford and Jackie work to unravel the truth, they discover a connection between their lives and the past, a connection that not only helps them solve a long-ago crime but offers the promise of new love. Loved by readers and critics alike for her "golden touch" (Publishers Weekly), Jude Deveraux has once again created a story that pulls at readers' heartstrings, titillates their imaginations, and uncovers a long-buried passion that far surpasses the boundary between life and death.
Take Me
By Bella Andre. 2005
An appetite for sensual pleasures must never be denied... Lily Ellis has curves -- soft, beautiful curves. The kind of…
voluptuous body she fears Travis Carson, the man she's always loved from afar, would never crave. But Lily is about to be proven wrong. Her adventure begins when the demure San Francisco interior decorator agrees to model a plus-size dress for her fashion designer sister. Watching this sensual beauty move down the runway, Travis can't believe it's the same Lily he's always known -- and always rejected. In a whirlwind of electric attraction, Lily is soon moaning Travis's name in his bed, not just in her wild fantasies. But Lily is all too aware that she's nothing like his past lovers. Determined to beat Travis at his own game by guarding her true feelings, Lily partners with him on a business deal that takes them all the way to Italy. In the seductive warmth of the Tuscan sun, Lily plays a game of desire with the hot-blooded Travis. Will she be burned by an all-consuming ecstasy or will Travis open his heart to the sexy, exciting, and lasting love she has to offer?
The Drafter (The Peri Reed Chronicles)
By Kim Harrison. 2015
In the first explosive book in the Peri Reed Chronicles, Kim Harrison, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the…
Hollows series, blazes a new frontier with an edge-of-your-seat thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end.Detroit 2030. Double-crossed by the person she loved and betrayed by the covert government organization that trained her to use her body as a weapon, Peri Reed is a renegade on the run. Don't forgive and never forget has always been Peri's creed. But her day job makes it difficult: she is a drafter, possessed of a rare, invaluable skill for altering time, yet destined to forget both the history she changed and the history she rewrote. When Peri discovers her name is on a list of corrupt operatives, she realizes that her own life has been manipulated by the agency. Her memory of the previous three years erased, she joins forces with a mysterious rogue soldier in a deadly race to piece together the truth about her fateful final task. Her motto has always been only to kill those who kill her first. But with nothing but intuition to guide her, will she have to break her own rule to survive?
Always Never Yours
By Emily Wibberley, Austin Siegemund-Broka. 2018
“An utterly charming story of love, family, heartbreak, and drama. I absolutely loved it!”—Morgan Matson, New York Times bestselling author…
of Since You’ve Been GoneMegan Harper is the girl before. All her exes find their one true love right after dating her. It's not a curse or anything, it's just the way things are. and Megan refuses to waste time feeling sorry for herself. Instead, she focuses on pursuing her next fling, directing theater, and fulfilling her dream school's acting requirement in the smallest role possible. But her plans quickly crumble when she's cast as none other than Juliet--yes, that Juliet--in her high school's production. It's a nightmare. No--a disaster. Megan's not an actress and she's certainly not a Juliet. Then she meets Owen Okita, an aspiring playwright who agrees to help Megan catch the eye of a sexy stagehand in exchange for help writing his new script. Between rehearsals and contending with her divided family, Megan begins to notice Owen--thoughtful, unconventional, and utterly unlike her exes, and wonders: shouldn't a girl get to play the lead in her own love story?
Contact (The Phoenix Files #2)
By Chris Morphew. 2010
Peter's life in the town of Phoenix had seemed pretty normal. Or it was until he found out the world…
was ending. Now he knows why Phoenix is in lockdown: the powerful Shackleton Co-operative is planning to exterminate humanity. Peter and his friends have only one plan for saving the world--get a warning to the outside before it's too late. But the Shackleton Co-operative will do whatever it takes to keep them quiet. And the clock is still ticking. There are 88 days until the end of the world.