Beautiful Friendship

Sylvie is a lover of words and a collector of stories, only she has lost her own. She has no words for that night at the lighthouse when their lives changed forever. What happened to cleave her apart from her best friend and soul mate, Kase? Sylvie yearns to rekindle their deep connection, so when Kase invites her to the wild Tasmanian coast to celebrate her 40th birthday, she accepts - despite the ghosts she must face. Through an inscription in an old book, Sylvie and Kase discover their mothers have a history, hidden from their daughters.

In 1940 Edmund Wilson was the undisputed big dog of American letters. Vladimir Nabokov was a near-penniless Russian exile seeking asylum in the States. Wilson became a mentor to Nabokov, introducing him to every editor of note, assigning to him book reviews for the New Republic, engineering a Guggenheim. Their intimate friendship blossomed over a shared interest in all things Russian, ruffled a bit by political disagreements. But then came Lolita, and suddenly Nabokov was the big (and very rich) dog.

A holiday on a Greek island? Yes, please. Offered the chance to flee dismal London for some peace, quiet and sun, Kate Barrington leaves her editor job and sets off with alacrity. She’s never heard of the island of Sifnos, but reckons if celebrity actor Marcia Gold has a holiday house there it must be okay. And it is – stunning views, great food, and the gorgeous next-door neighbour Theo Laskaris, aka Tim Firth, popular crime writer. However, things turn sour. Kate learns that, back in London, Marcia hasn’t turned up for rehearsals for her current play, and seems to have totally ...

Malcolm Polstead, un joven adolescente de once años, y su daimonion Asta viven con sus padres muy cerca de Oxford. Al otro lado del río Támesis (en el que Malcolm navega habitualmente utilizando su amada canoa, un bote con el nombre de La Bella Salvaje) está la abadía de Godstow, habitada por las monjas de la región. Malcolm descubrirá que ellas tienen un huésped muy especial, una niña con el nombre de Lyra Belacqua....

This beautifully written account of a woman's unique relationship with an exceptional dog is called Please Let Me Tell You About My Moose. It's a heartwarming memoir that serves as a reminder that real friendship is indispensable, there is a reason for everything, and genuine love never dies.

When your namesake is Pablo Neruda - the greatest love poet of all time - finding "the one" should be easy. After all, 16-year-old aspiring artist Neruda Diaz has been in love many times before. So it's only a matter of time before someone loves him back. But as Neruda begins to fall faster and harder than ever before, he is blindsided by the complicated nature of love - and art - in more ways than one.

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.

After wasting away in a mental institution for a year and a half, Ariana Osgood is finally back where she belongs. She has a new look, a new name, and a new life---all thanks to her former friend Briana Leigh Covington. Now enrolled as a junior at the exclusive Atherton-Pryce boarding school just outside of Washington, D.C., Ariana sleeps in Frette sheets, flirts with the captain of the crew team, and gossips with the most beautiful girls on campus. She killed to get back her life of privilege. How far will she go?

Florence Saint Claire is a loner. Albert Flowers is a social butterfly. Good friends who think they know each other. But, somewhere between who they are and who people think they are, lies The Best Kind of Beautiful. Award-winning journalist and author Frances Whiting brings her renowned warmth and empathy to this witty and gentle story about bringing out the best in each other.

Faculty wife Emily Stockwell Turner is beautiful, rich, and principled. However, five years in a marriage devoid of passion is enough to propel Emmy, despite her principles, into an affair with silver-tongued Will Thomas, a self-confessed libertine. The shocking, unforeseen consequences of their affair shatter Emmy's most cherished delusions about friendship, romance, and the ties that bind.

Beautiful Lies: Romance Therapy (Amanda Series Book 2) is a follow up to "Come Back to Me" (Amanda Series Book One). How he risked his life to save his young wife Amanda and ended in the fifth world of mother shark in the ocean. Mother shark last visit was like a royal bridal train, glamorous with her royal escort guards, all watching out for any intruder or impostor. Something unusual happened as the guards on instruction stopped short some few meters from OM's shark hunter's cage. The mother shark sentimentally or romantically approached the cage with these sea creatures watching as ...

I was brave. She was reckless. We were trouble. Best friends Caddy and Rosie are inseparable. Their differences have brought them closer, but as she turns 16 Caddy begins to wish she could be a bit more like Rosie - confident, funny and interesting. Then Suzanne comes into their lives - beautiful, damaged, exciting and mysterious - and things get a whole lot more complicated. As Suzanne's past is revealed and her present begins to unravel, Caddy begins to see how much fun a little trouble can be.

When Amy Ashton's world fell apart 11 years ago, she started a collection. Just a few keepsakes of happier times: some honeysuckle to remind herself of the boy she loved, a chipped china bird, an old terracotta pot.... Things that others might throw away, but to Amy, represent a life that could have been. Now her house is overflowing with the objects she loves - soon there'll be no room for Amy at all. But when a family move in next door, a chance discovery unearths a mystery, and Amy's carefully curated life begins to unravel.

Your Beautiful Heart explores issues that teen girls face every day: body image, self-worth, peer pressure, and much more. Whether you listen to the book on your own or with a group of friends, Lauren's personal message of love, faith, and value will show you what it means to be a girl who radiates with true beauty.

Mike Hanrahan, cook and teacher, songwriter and musician, takes us back stage and into the kitchens of a bohemian, international and surprisingly foodie group of Irish household names, including Ronnie Drew, Finbar Furey, Maura O’Connell, Leslie Dowdall, Pat Shortt, Eleanor Shanley and Sharon Shannon. Mike penned hit singles ‘Beautiful Affair’ and ‘Walk Away’ for Stockton’s Wing, from which a world of touring and behind-the-scenes escapades began.

Das wunderschöne Erstlesebuch für starke Mädchen. Du bist ein starkes Mädchen? Du bist zwischen 6-8 Jahre alt? Du hast bereits lesen gelernt? Du möchtest gern lesen üben? Du bekommst aber auch gern vorgelesen? Du magst spannende Geschichten? Dann wirst du mit unseren Erstlesegeschichten für starke Mädchen sehr viel Freude haben. Extra für Kinder gemacht: Bestens für Kinder geeignet, Kurzgeschichten, Fragerunde nach jeder Geschichte, Lehrreich und inspirierend.

For the bright young things of 1929, the beautiful days seem endless, filled with romance and heartbreak, adventure and intrigue, friendship and rivalry. After a month in New York, Cordelia Grey and Letty Larkspur are small-town girls no longer. They spend their afternoons with Astrid Donal at the Greys’ lush Long Island estate and their nights in Manhattan’s bustling metropolis. But Letty's not content to be a mere socialite. She is ready at last to chase her Broadway dreams - no matter the cost. Cordelia is still reeling from the death of her father at the hands of Thom Hale, the man she thought she loved....

Nick thought he had the life he always wanted until one night ruined it all. Ashamed and distraught, he hides away in the small town of Fairview. Still, he can't get the image of holding his best friend, Kelly, out of his mind. They had been friends for years, there is no way that she could have any feelings for him, or does she? Kelly only wants to have her best friend and partner back. They might have made a mistake by sleeping together but that shouldn't destroy what they have. She might secretly be in love with him but that doesn't mean she can't get past that. Or at least that's what ...

Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and laugh and bicker in this house. Today she is getting married in this house, with all her family in attendance. The wedding celebrations have brought fractured family together for the first time in years: there's Phoebe and her husband Michael, children in tow. The young and sensitive Rosie, with her new partner. Irene, Mary's ex-mother-in-law. Even Emma, Mary's eldest, is back for the wedding - despite being at odds with everyone else.

Fierce Fragile Hearts is the stunning companion novel to Sara Barnard's YA bestseller Beautiful Broken Things. It is about leaving the past behind, the friends who form your future and learning to find love in all its forms. Two years after a downward spiral took her as low as you can possibly go, Suzanne is starting again. Again. She's back in Brighton, the only place she felt she belonged, back with her best friends Caddy and Rosie. But they're about to leave for university.