![]() ![]() While Vera is a pierced and tatted free spirit with a love for music and freedom, Mateo is a successful businessman from Madrid, all sharp suits and cocky Latino charm. ![]() Mateo Casalles is unlike anyone Vera has ever known, let alone anyone she’s usually attracted to. But while Vera expected to get a tan, meet new people and stuff herself with wine and paella, she never expected to fall in love. Instead of spending her summer interning for her astronomy major, she would fly to Spain where she’d spend a few weeks teaching conversational English to businessmen and women, all while enjoying free room and board at an isolated resort. ![]() To a restless dreamer like Vera Miles, it sounded like the experience of a lifetime. Until now.Because when they say you can’t choose who you fall in love with, boy ain’t that the f*#king truth. I’m single and can’t commit to anyone or anything. He’s married and has a five-year old daughter. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Her brain churns with images of the great novel she could and should be writing-what will eventually be Strangers on a Train- which would later be adapted into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. A drinker, a smoker, and a hater of life, Pat knows she can do better. ![]() Flung Out of Space opens with Pat begrudgingly writing low-brow comics. ![]() Veteran comics creators Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer have teamed up to tell this story through Highsmith's eyes-reimagining the events that inspired her to write the story that would become a foundational piece of queer literature. A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing that would inspire her queer classic, The Price of Salt Flung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hoover’s most famous novel, It Ends With Us, sold over 2.5 million copies in 2022, becoming a New York Times best seller. The issues presented in Hoover’s stories correlate directly with detailed descriptions of sex, body parts, and an overall glorification of real-time problems in her copy-and-paste Wattpad stories. ![]() ![]() Fifty-six percent of teenagers ages 11-16 have seen explicit content either in literature or online. ![]() Kids are not getting Hoover’s books from school but buying these books for themselves or having parents obliviously buy explicit content.Įxposure to sexually explicit media in early adolescence is directly related to risky and unsafe behavior in early adulthood (National Library of Medicine). Shelf after shelf at local stores contains hundreds of poorly written stories that emphasize our patriarchal society. While these subjects must be addressed and discussed, writing about them in smutty YA romance novels doesn’t build awareness. Unfortunately, these subjects are ultra-normalized in this day and age. Rape, miscarriage, abuse, toxic masculinity, and infidelity are all topics glorified by Colleen Hoover in her young adult (YA) novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch.You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() There is K., your typical easy-going and pensive Murakami narrator Sumire, a bohemian and obsessive writer who dresses in an oversized coat and heavy boots, dreams of emulating Jack Kerouac, and whom K. Their fatal flaws are not violent jealousy though, but a sort of insidious loneliness destined to prevent them ever really finding what they most crave. The plot revolves around a love triangle between three people who, like Othello, love not wisely but too well. Perhaps because it is about anticipation of, and longing for, love rather than love itself, it is also one of the most romantic books I have ever read. It is beautifully evocative yet difficult to define, a tale of unrequited love, unrealised ambition, and yearning, always yearning, for more. ![]() Sputnik Sweetheart is a novel of almosts, where liminal spaces overlap and longing can never quite be divorced from true love. This was where it all began, and where it all ended. ![]() The person she fell in love with happened to be 17 years older than Sumire. An intense love, a veritable tornado sweeping across the plains – flattening everything in its path, tossing things up in the air, ripping them to shreds, crushing them to bits…In short, a love of truly monumental proportions. ![]() “In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Those who dared to question the working of the heart risked their reputations and even their lives for disrespecting or challenging its sanctity. Jauhar also charts medics' understanding of the heart as a pump, noting that, historically, cultural fallacies limited progress. These provide a helpful refresher on the heart’s anatomy and physiology. ![]() His chapters (named to describe the heart’s function in lay terms, including 'dynamo', 'pipes' and 'wires') cleverly dissect the organ into its basic parts. ![]() Jauhar gives the backstory to eponyms (like Osler and Billroth), and shares his own clinical experiences to complement the theory. Heart will inevitably trigger memories of years spent in medical school laboratories and lecture theatres, as well as the patients you have met over the years. And Jauhar considers the two against a backdrop of personal stories 'of the heart'. Understandably, therefore, the book is a mix of science (including fascinating facts - heparin was discovered in the brains of salamanders, and "from birth until death, beats nearly three billion times") and philosophy ("if the heart bestows life and death, it also instigates metaphor"). The cardiologist chronicles medicine’s quest to understand how the heart works (and how to fix it when it is 'broken'), while considering how we "can most wisely live with - as well as by – our hearts". HEART is the story of what Sandeep Jauhar describes as the engine of life. ![]() Review by Dr Greg Dollman, medical adviser, MDDUS Oneworld Publications, paperback, £9.99, 2019 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this, her most daring and darkest novel, she takes us, with Lestat, into the mythical world that is most important to us-into the realms of our own theology. In the first four Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summoned up for us worlds that are fantastic and distant, making them as resonant, real, and immediate as our own. And finally, he must decide which, if either, he will serve. He must decide if he can believe in the Devil or in God. He is taken like the ancient prophets into the heavenly realm and is ushered into Purgatory. In the first four Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summoned up for us worlds that are. He is invited to be a witness at the Creation. He is snatched from the world itself by the mysterious Memnoch. He is snatched from the world itself by the mysterious Memnoch, who claims to be the Devil. While torn between his vampire passions and his overwhelming love for Dora, Lestat is confronted by the most dangerous of adversaries he has yet known. Through the whiteness Lestat is searching for Dora, the beautiful and charismatic daughter of a drug lord, the woman who arouses Lestat's tenderness as no mortal ever has. He is brought into direct confrontation with both God and the Devil, and into the land of Death. Rice, Anne Memnoch the Devil (The Vampire Chronicles, Book 5) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Presenting Her Royal Highness, Princess Delucia Cavelle.” The cheers were deafening as D.C. ![]() Alex’s attention was diverted when her best friend appeared at the top of the staircase and the room fell silent as everyone gazed upon their princess. She was beautiful, with her dark auburn hair, and her smile was even more calming than the king’s. His eyes were warm as he scanned the sea of cheering people and his smile made her feel relaxed despite the overwhelming atmosphere. King Aurileous was tall and intimidating, but even from where Alex stood she could tell he had a kind face with prominent laughter lines. “Introducing their Royal Majesties, King Aurileous and Queen Osmada Cavelle.” Alex watched from the corner of the palace’s grand ballroom, catching her first glimpse of D.C.’s parents as they descended the gold-lined staircase. ![]() ![]() Tricked by demons, and followed by the queen's soldiers, they must find the fabled Wizard's Heart in the frozen Winter Valley. In order to prevent magic, and the Zingari, from being wiped from the land, Sorann must become Javert's wife and leave everything behind that she once held dear. When Sorann's failed healer's magic test brings them together, they discover the prophecy governing the land is false. ![]() Javert is a member of the wandering tribe called the Zingari and their future king. The Prophecy of the Land Sorann is the queen's daughter and training to be an empathic healer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Only then can the heart be found and the evil of the world kept in its bounds. When he comes, his one true wife must carry within her a child of the old one who would be king. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Ruth is experimenting with a perpetually stoned boyfriend and a job at a health-food store, and trying to get over the shock of her father's death. Nevertheless, early on in this sprawling book it becomes clear that, after much flaky deliberation, Carrie will get a second chance with the man she's always loved. Dana also harrumphs Carrie's interest in helping Jess reproduce a miniature Noah's Ark to honor the request of dying Arkist religious cult member Eldon Pletcher. Problem is, Dana never approved of this once wild boy whose rough and rural upbringing reminds her too much of the verbally abusive country home she tried so hard to escape by marrying spineless academic George. ![]() When Carrie's unfeeling husband Stephen suddenly dies of a heart attack, she desperately wants to bounce back into the arms of divorced farmer Jess Deeping, her conveniently available high school sweetheart. ![]() Three generations of small-town Virginia women-troubled teen Ruth Van Allen, her equally insecure mother, Carrie Van Allen, and bossy grandmother Dana Danziger-struggle to overcome personal problems and self-absorption to grow closer as a family in Gaffney's sweepingly sentimental novel. ![]() |