In the Event of Love

In the Event of Love
Author: Courtney Kae
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2022-08-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1472290232

Goodreads Summer Romance Reading Recommendation Buzzfeed's Most Anticipated LGBTQ Romances of 2022 'Exactly the slow-burn, second-chance, friends-to-lovers romance I was craving' ALI HAZELWOOD 'The perfect holiday romance! . . . Move over, Stars Hollow. I'm moving to Fern Falls!' LACIE WALDON 'The holiday romance of my dreams! The sweetness of a Hallmark holiday movie, set in a town that rivals Schitt's Creek, with plenty of steamy scenes to heat things up!' FALON BALLARD 'Wintry perfection, a cozy flannel blanket of a book that wraps its reader in the warmest hug' RACHEL LYNN SOLOMON Offering a steamy, queer spin on the feel-good tropes Hallmark movie, this sweet, funny #OwnVoices rom-com is perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and Alexandria Bellefleur! 'Who doesn't love a proper steamy holiday romance?!? Full of whimsical settings, humorous, cute, sexy and full of typical romance tropes' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ reader review 'A great second chance romance that has all the best parts of a Hallmark movie, lovely characters and sweet and spicy scenes that will warm your heart' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ reader review 'You have slow-burn, second-chance, friends-to-lovers romance and it's set in the holidays! . . . I loved the main characters, they're fun, genuine and a little spicy' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ reader review 'If you too love all things Christmas, don't miss this book' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ reader review ......................................... Morgan Ross can plan world-class events, but she didn't plan on returning to the hometown that broke her heart seven years ago - and re-discovering the girl of her dreams . . . With her career as a Los Angeles event planner imploding after a tabloid blowup, Morgan Ross isn't headed home for the holidays so much as in strategic retreat. Breathtaking mountain vistas, quirky townsfolk, and charming small businesses aside, her hometown of Fern Falls is built of one heartbreak on top of another . . . Take her one-time best friend turned crush, Rachel Reed. The memory of their perfect, doomed first kiss is still fresh as new-fallen snow. Way fresher than the freezing mud Morgan ends up sprawled in on her very first day back, only to be hauled out via Rachel's sexy new lumberjane muscles acquired from running her family tree farm. When Morgan discovers that the Reeds' struggling tree farm is the only thing standing between Fern Falls and corporate greed destroying the whole town's livelihood, she decides she can put heartbreak aside to save the farm by planning her best fundraiser yet. She has all the inspiration for a spectacular event: delicious vanilla lattes, acoustic guitars under majestic pines, a cozy barn surrounded by brilliant stars. But she and Rachel will ABSOLUTELY NOT have a heartwarming holiday happy ending. That would be as unprofessional as it is unlikely. Right? ......................................... 'Sparkles with humour and charm' SONIA HARTL 'Will make your heart soar' ANNETTE CHRISTIE 'Reads like a Hallmark Christmas movie . . . Cozy, comforting, and surprisingly steamy - this is the queer Christmas story we deserve!' ALISON COCHRUN 'The feel-good, queer, second-chance holiday romance we've all been waiting for' ANITA KELLY 'Kae's sparkling voice wraps you up like a warm blanket' AVA WILDER 'Ultra cozy, heart-meltingly sweet, and full of warm wit' ROSIE DANAN 'With its charming small town, snowy mountaintop kisses, and dreamy lesbian lumberjane, In the Event of Love is perfect for the holidays!' HELEN HOANG

Half in Love with Death

Half in Love with Death
Author: Emily Ross
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2015-11-06
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1440589046

It's the era of peace and love in the 1960s, but nothing is peaceful in Caroline's life. Since her beautiful older sister disappeared, fifteen-year-old Caroline might as well have disappeared too. She's invisible to her parents, who can't stop blaming each other. The police keep following up on leads even Caroline knows are foolish. The only one who seems to care about her is Tony, her sister's older boyfriend, who soothes Caroline's desperate heart every time he turns his magical blue eyes on her. Tony is convinced that the answer to Jess's disappearance is in California, the land of endless summer, among the street culture of runaways and flower children. Come with me, Tony says to Caroline, and we'll find her together. Tony is so loving, and all he cares about is bringing Jess home. And so Caroline follows, and closes a door behind her that may never open again, in a heartfelt thriller that never lets up.

Love Is Powerful

Love Is Powerful
Author: Heather Dean Brewer
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2024-12-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 153624063X

“A powerful and timely book that promotes love, equality, activism, and fighting for change for a better future.” —Brightly Mari raised her sign for everyone to see. Even though she was small and the crowd was very big, and she didn’t think anyone would hear, she called out her message. Mari is getting ready to make a sign with crayon as the streets below her fill up with people. “What are we making, Mama?” she asks. “A message for the world,” Mama says. “How will the whole world hear?” Mari wonders. “They’ll hear,” says Mama, “because love is powerful.” Inspired by a girl who participated in the January 2017 Women’s March in New York City, Heather Dean Brewer’s simple and uplifting story, delightfully illustrated by LeUyen Pham, is a reminder of what young people can do to promote change and equality at a time when our country is divided by politics, race, gender, and religion.

The Course of Love

The Course of Love
Author: Alain de Botton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-06-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1501134434

“An engrossing tale [that] provides plenty of food for thought” (People, Best New Books pick), this playful, wise, and profoundly moving second novel from the internationally bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life tracks the beautifully complicated arc of a romantic partnership. We all know the headiness and excitement of the early days of love. But what comes after? In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children—but no long-term relationship is as simple as “happily ever after.” The Course of Love explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence. We see, along with Rabih and Kirsten, the first flush of infatuation, the effortlessness of falling into romantic love, and the course of life thereafter. Interwoven with their story and its challenges is an overlay of philosophy—an annotation and a guide to what we are reading. As The New York Times says, “The Course of Love is a return to the form that made Mr. de Botton’s name in the mid-1990s….love is the subject best suited to his obsessive aphorizing, and in this novel he again shows off his ability to pin our hopes, methods, and insecurities to the page.” This is a Romantic novel in the true sense, one interested in exploring how love can survive and thrive in the long term. The result is a sensory experience—fictional, philosophical, psychological—that urges us to identify deeply with these characters and to reflect on his and her own experiences in love. Fresh, visceral, and utterly compelling, The Course of Love is a provocative and life-affirming novel for everyone who believes in love. “There’s no writer alive like de Botton, and his latest ambitious undertaking is as enlightening and humanizing as his previous works” (Chicago Tribune).

In Love

In Love
Author: Amy Bloom
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2022-03-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0593243943

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful memoir of a love that leads two people to find a courageous way to part—and a woman’s struggle to go forward in the face of loss—that “enriches the reader’s life with urgency and gratitude” (The Washington Post) “A pleasure to read . . . Rarely has a memoir about death been so full of life. . . . Bloom has a talent for mixing the prosaic and profound, the slapstick and the serious.”—USA Today ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR Amy Bloom began to notice changes in her husband, Brian: He retired early from a new job he loved; he withdrew from close friendships; he talked mostly about the past. Suddenly, it seemed there was a glass wall between them, and their long walks and talks stopped. Their world was altered forever when an MRI confirmed what they could no longer ignore: Brian had Alzheimer’s disease. Forced to confront the truth of the diagnosis and its impact on the future he had envisioned, Brian was determined to die on his feet, not live on his knees. Supporting each other in their last journey together, Brian and Amy made the unimaginably difficult and painful decision to go to Dignitas, an organization based in Switzerland that empowers a person to end their own life with dignity and peace. In this heartbreaking and surprising memoir, Bloom sheds light on a part of life we so often shy away from discussing—its ending. Written in Bloom’s captivating, insightful voice and with her trademark wit and candor, In Love is an unforgettable portrait of a beautiful marriage, and a boundary-defying love.

Igniting Furious Love

Igniting Furious Love
Author: Darren Wilson
Publisher: Destiny Image Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780768440690

Worldwide Fury! Up close and personal--these stories bring God's supernatural love and protection closer to "real life" than you may have thought possible. Igniting Furious Love is an eclectic spiritual partnering of nine on-fire-for-God believers who "turn everything upside down in the church to be...

Thinking About Love

Thinking About Love
Author: Diane Enns
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2015-11-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0271076186

Does love command an ineffability that remains inaccessible to the philosopher? Thinking About Love considers the nature and experience of love through the writing of well-known Continental philosophers such as Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Derrida, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Evolving forms of social organization, rapid developments in the field of psychology, and novel variations on relationships demand new approaches to and ways of talking about love. Rather than offering prescriptive claims, this volume explores how one might think about the concept philosophically, without attempting to resolve or alleviate its ambiguities, paradoxes, and limitations. The essays focus on the contradictions and limits of love, manifested in such phenomena as trust, abuse, grief, death, violence, politics, and desire. An erudite examination of the many facets of love, this book fills a lacuna in the philosophy of this richly complicated topic. Along with the editors, the contributors are Sophie Bourgault, John Caruana, Christina M. Gschwandtner, Marguerite La Caze, Alphonso Lingis, Christian Lotz, Todd May, Dawne McCance, Dorothea Olkowski, Felix Ó Murchadha, Fiona Utley, and Mélanie Walton.