Mostrando resultados por "Love object" en Todas las categorías

Nic is a 45-year-old trivia buff, amateur nail artist and fairy godmother to the neighbourhood's stray cats. She's also the owner of a decade's worth of daily newspapers, enough clothes and shoes to fill Big W three times over and a pen collection which, if laid end-to-end, would probably circle her house twice. The person she's closest to in the world is her beloved niece Lena, who she meets for lunch every Sunday. One day Nic fails to show up. When Lena travels to her aunt's house to see if Nic's all right, she gets the shock of her life.

Collected here for the first time are stories spanning five decades of writing by the "short story master" (Harold Bloom). As John Banville writes in his introduction to The Love Object, Edna O'Brien "is, simply, one of the finest writers of our time." The thirty-one stories collected in this...

When two history professors and best friends are forced to fake hate to protect their reputations, chaos ensues, in the next rollicking historical-fantasy rom-com from beloved author India Holton. Magical-antique experts Amelia Tarrant and Caleb Sterling have been best friends forever, although...

The day that changed Melody's life was like any other over the previous two years. She'd found she had a gift for writing, and her career as an author had almost healed the pain of losing her job. When the Secret Service rang her bell, everything changed. Something was nearing Saturn…and it was slowing down. Had she been right about the object?

One August day, months after her marriage abruptly ended, a heart-shaped baking tin fell at Bee Wilson’s feet: the same one she had used to bake her wedding cake twenty-three years prior. This discovery struck a wave of emotions that propelled her search for others who have attached magical and personal properties to the objects in their kitchens.

Eda thought she had everything under control. She had just earned her degree, finally stepping into the future she had fought so hard for. Independence. Success. A life on her own terms. What she didn’t plan for… was Serkan Bolat. Brilliant, infuriating, and impossible to ignore, Serkan has always played by his own rules. So when he walks into her graduation celebration, brings tradition with him, and drops to one knee without warning, Eda is left with a choice she never expected to make. Say no—and risk losing him. Or say yes—and step into a future she never agreed to. But before ...

This is a completely revamped, updated 2024 version of The Limerent Mind! When I started this project, I knew I was committing to producing something that would render you completely immune to limerence... the most brutal form of unrequited love. As a neuroscientist who used to suffer horrifically from the condition but is now completely free, I want nothing more than for all of you to achieve the same. If you heed the advice in this book and commit to your own expansion, I can guarantee that you will never fall for a limerent object (LO) again. Limerence is possibly the most tenacious, ...

It's Lorcan's and my anniversary and I'm determined to make it a night to remember. That might not sound like such a big deal, but I'm a witch, which means I haven't been trained in the art of romance. In fact, a few years ago, I wouldn't have even considered being in a relationship with a man, let alone married to one. While I might like to put all my focus on planning the ultimate night out, something wicked this way comes in Haven Hollow. Seems someone is randomly cursing objects in town. While I'm certainly not the type to want to involve myself in such things, the case turns personal ...

A revealing investigation of the secret, tangled emotional relationships people have with things—drawing on cutting-edge findings from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and marketing. Books, baseball cards, ceramic figurines, art, iPhones, clothing, cars, music, dolls, furniture, and...

Bestselling author and acclaimed entertainer Steve Martin examines the glamour and the subterfuge of the fine art world in in this captivating satirical novel. "Extremely entertaining." —The New York Times Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the New York City art...

A meditation on how lives endure through the things they leave behind: letters never sent, portraits fading in their frames, and the quiet eloquence of remembrance. Letters and Objects: Essays on Memory, Objects, and the Margins of History In an age captivated by progress, the nineteenth century turned instead toward remembrance. Through its letters, keepsakes, and portraits, it sought to preserve the fragile substance of feeling, to rescue the self from silence. Letters and Objects opens The Library of Quiet Things, a series devoted to the moral imagination of history and to the tender ...

Brought to you by Penguin. FROM THE MASTERMIND BEHIND THE DANGEROUS DAMSELS SERIES COMES ANOTHER UTTERLY ADDICTIVE COSY ROMANTIC FANTASY SERVED BEST WITH A CUP OF TEA . When two history professors and best friends are forced to fake hate to protect their reputations, chaos ensues, in the next...

Winner of the André Simon Food Book Award Shortlisted for the Fortnum & Mason Food Book Award ‘Extraordinary’ TELEGRAPH ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Delightful' GUARDIAN 'Bee Wilson is one of my favourite writers and this may be her best book' CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN This strikingly original account from...

From the bestselling author of The Truth About Her comes Lonely Mouth, a delicious, clever, tender and vivid novel about the conflicted way women think about their bodies, their appetites, and themselves in the world. 'Maley is such a good writer ... witty, savage, unshowy, with a raw tenderness...

I was sent to kill her. I fell in love instead—Then the magic took her. Now the prophecy says I’m the only one who can bring her back. I was ordered to hunt her down. Instead, I found the other half of my soul. Allie was never meant to be mine. But the second I saw her, fate rewrote every rule I thought I knew. Then the magic took her. One flash of ancient power, and she was gone. Everyone says she’s lost for good. That chasing her ghost will only lead to madness. But I still feel her—in my blood, in my bones, in every breath I take. Darya says the prophecy still binds us. And to ...

Two best friends rewrite the rules of friendship, love and family…and change everything they thought they knew about motherhood Paris Kahn Fraser has it all—a successful career as an assistant district attorney, a beautiful home in New York City, and a handsome, passionate husband who chose...

Ana was the curious sort. Always looking for her next book, one that will take her on an adventure that she'd never be able to go on in her life. There's a new store in town, one that carries old relics. Ana finds a diary there and it kindles her desire to write. Little did she know what the diary had in store for her. Sophie, her best friend, and her boy-toy Jeremy, soon learn what evil is, as the diary takes on a life of its own and things start to happen to the people Ana writes about. While Ana gets sucked into the power of the diary, Sophie and Jeremy have to find a way to stop her new...

A haunted app. A cursed story. And an investigation that blurs the line between the living and the dead. When a young writer’s roommate dies under mysterious circumstances, Ellen and Monty Drew are called to investigate. The only clue? A strange writing app called Spectra, a program that seems to write its own stories… and make them come true. What begins as a case of supernatural possession soon unravels into something far darker -- a digital haunting that spreads like a virus. From the fog-drenched streets of Santa Monica to a forgotten cabin in Oregon, the Drews follow a trail of ...

Avery Langdon comes off as an ordinary, stubborn girl, but she has a dark secret she keeps from everyone: She moonlights as a vampire hunter. One night after a successful hunt, Avery meets a charming, good-looking man at a bar. Finally, she thinks her horrible luck with men might be turning around. That is until she realizes that he is one of the creatures she is destined to hate: a vampire. She comes to find that she can't slay someone who kills his own kind and drinks from blood bags, but can she ever trust him?

Brought to you by Penguin. Hugo Hunter was the most celebrated gay novelist of the 20th century. He published two masterpieces, securing his place alongside the dazzling literary greats of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and rubbing shoulders with everyone from Truman Capote to James Baldwin, Gore Vidal...