It was complicated, it was also just the beginning. A decision. A simple choice. There is always that one moment in life where things could have been different. That one moment where you could have chosen a path that would lead you down a certain road. A different life. It was easier to pretend that we were still best friends, and that she was my girl and I was her boy. Pretending was better than knowing the truth... I. Ruined. Us. I had her. I lost her. I love her. All I did was complicate us. Standalone series. New Adult Contemporary Romance: Strong language and sexual content, not intended for readers under 18.** Views: 9
A moving portrait of a young woman's experience of life, love and the shifting tides of mental health in 1980s–era BerlinIn this beautifully written and moving novel, informed by many of the author's own experiences, a young mixed-race woman travels from Canada to Germany to start her life anew. Ruby Edwards, escaping a loving but at times overbearing family, throws herself into the shifting social and political sinews of 1980s-era West Berlin—a time of new music, punk rockers, travellers, racial tensions and a beating pulse of artistic energy. Here, Ruby finds love and new challenges, striving to discover the person she was meant to be. But the highs become too high and the lows too low, and Ruby finds herself plunged into the depths of mental illness. With courage and determination, Ruby again and again pulls herself back from the brink and revels in what matters most to her—her family, her community and her own individuality.... Views: 9
The Untold Story of the American Entrepreneur Who Helped Build the Atomic Bomb and Defeat the Nazis. Legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee Loomis gathered the most visionary scientific minds of the twentieth century — Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, and others — at his state-of-the-art laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York, in the late 1930s. He established a top-secret defense laboratory at MIT and personally bankrolled pioneering research into new, high-powered radar detection systems that helped defeat the German Air Force and U-boats. With Ernest Lawrence, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, he pushed Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fund research in nuclear fission, which led to the development of the atomic bomb. Jennet Conant, the granddaughter of James Bryant Conant, one of the leading scientific advisers of World War II, enjoyed unprecedented access to Loomis' papers, as well as to people... Views: 9
They say the best feeling in the world is to fall in love with your best friend. What they don't tell you is what if your best friend doesn't love you back, not in the way you need them to? Have you ever experienced the pain of loving someone who doesn't love you back?It's a pain Todd Dixon knows all too well. Todd has been in love with his childhood best friend for as long as he can remember but no matter how hard he tried, she was never going to love him the way he did her. He'd spent too long losing himself in sex and alcohol, but what are you supposed to do when you have a gaping hole in your heart that you never thought could be filled again? When it all became too much, he chose to distance himself from the one girl who has always been a constant in his life. Three years later, living in a new city, running a record label and bar, he must decide to move on or drown in the useless one night stands.Lily Spring knows nothing but the music that flows through her veins. After one night of betrayal and tragic endings, her entire life falls out from under her. The one dream she's carried her whole existence seems so far away. She finds herself living in a new state with a sister she barely knows and a dream that she MUST fulfill.Todd is everything Lily doesn't need. He's stubborn as hell, sexy as sin and his reputation is EPIC. The problem...he's her new boss and the ticket to what she's always wanted. When two fates collide and when passions burn high, will the fire die quickly or will it slow burn and become more than either knew possible.This is a story of hope, repentance and second chances. Are you ready? Views: 9
The fate of mankind has nothing to do with mankind...Born of an angel and a daimon, Diago Alvarez is a singular being in a country torn by a looming civil war and the spiritual struggle between the forces of angels and daimons. With allegiance to no one but his partner Miquel, he is content to simply live in Barcelona, caring only for the man he loves and the music he makes. Yet, neither side is satisfied to let him lead this domesticated life and, knowing they can't get to him directly, they do the one thing he's always feared.They go after Miquel.Now, in order to save his lover's life, he is forced by an angel to perform a gruesome task: feed a child to the daimon Moloch in exchange for a coin that will limit the extent of the world's next war. The mission is fraught with danger, the time he has to accomplish it is limited...and the child he is to sacrifice is the son Diago never knew existed.A lyrical tale in a world of music and magic, T.... Views: 9
Books like The Hunger Games, Books like Divergent, Books like The Maze Runner. Young adult, new adult, dystopian, science fiction, action adventure.
Long ago, the Red Fever transformed a world full of light and life into a primeval wasteland scattered with relics and decaying cities. In time, the scattered remains of humanity gathered into small, warring tribes.
For sixteen-year-old Kestrel Stoneheart, the ghosts of yesterday have little bearing on the future she has worked for her entire life: to join the elite warriors of her tribe and protect her people against all enemies.
But before she can stand beneath the Bone Tree and become a Red Hand, she must first survive the rite of the Kill.
What Kestrel doesn’t know is that the greatest danger lies hidden within her own tribe, a menace that threatens not only her life but the very existence of her people. Views: 9
Nadia and Sawyer are total opposites. The billionaire playboy is an irresponsible womanizer. She’s the serious, pragmatic sort, with her eyes firmly on achieving her dream of winning the America’s Cup. As the skipper of his yacht, she should refuse his outrageous suggestion to pose as his girlfriend during a visit to his family, but the money he offers means reaching her goals faster. She expects his family to hate her and disapprove of his choice, but they’re warm and welcoming. The deception proves too much for her conscience, and she has to end the ploy. Sawyer is all for that, but has an unorthodox suggestion for making their agreement work. What if they stop pretending and give in to the attraction simmering between them? Will their fake relationship unexpectedly turn to real love?
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