The Last Time They Met

Author: Anita Shreve
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0759523088
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375

Book Description
From the last time Linda and Thomas meet, at a charmless hotel in a distant city, to the moment, thirty-five years earlier, when a chance encounter on a rocky beach binds them fatefully together, this hypnotically compelling novel unfolds a tale of intense passion, drama, and suspense. The Last Time They Met is a singularly ambitious and accomplished work by one of today's most widely celebrated novelists.

The Last Time They Met

Author: Anita Shreve
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780316781145
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Book Description
In a new novel about love and forgiveness by the bestselling author of "The Pilot's Wife" and "Fortune's Rocks", a man and a woman sustain a lifelong passionate relationship even though they have been together only three times.

Light on Snow

Author: Anita Shreve
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0759512779
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
What makes a family? That's what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home. Through the days that follow, the Dillons and an unexpected visitor who soon turns up at their door-a young woman evidently haunted by her own terrible choices-face a thicket of decisions, each seeming to carry equal possibilities of heartbreak and redemption. Writing with all the emotional resonance that has drawn millions of readers around the world to her fiction, Anita Shreve unfolds in Light on Snow a tender and surprising novel about love and its consequences.

All He Ever Wanted

Author: Anita Shreve
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0759528233
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
"A marriage is always two intersecting stories." This realization comes perhaps too late to the husband of Etna Bliss-a man whose obsession with his young wife begins at the moment of their first meeting, as he helps Etna and her companions escape from a fire in a hotel restaurant, and culminates in a marriage doomed by secrets and betrayal. Written with the intelligence and grace that are the hallmarks of Anita Shreve's bestselling novels, this gripping tale of desire, jealousy, and loss is peopled by unforgettable characters as real as the emotions that bring them together.

How They Met and Other Stories

Author: David Levithan
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375849424
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255

Book Description
Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes a confection from David Levithan that is sure to have fans of Boy Meets Boy eager to devour it. Here are 18 stories, all about love, all kinds of love. From the aching for the one you pine for, to standing up and speaking up for the one you love, to pure joy and happiness, these love stories run the gamut of that emotion that at some point has turned every one of us inside out and upside down. What is love? With this original story collection, David Levithan proves that love is a many splendored thing, a varied, complicated, addictive, wonderful thing.

Last Time We Met

Author: Emily Houghton
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473581265
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
An emotional friends-to-lovers romance, perfect for fans of Mhairi McFarlane and Colleen Hoover Readers have fallen for Emily Houghton's brilliant romances: 'I'm an absolute sucker for a good friends-to-lovers trope and this book definitely delivers that' 'An absolute joy and a love story about falling in love and allowing yourself to be loved' 'A funny, heart-wrenching and beautiful love story. Absolutely loved it' 'Beautifully written with characters that have such great depth' ONE PROMISE Aged thirteen, best friends Eleanor and Fin are inseparable. Convinced it will always be this way they make a pact - to go to university together, always live near each other, and if they're both single at 35 they'll get married. TWO DECADES Eleanor and Fin haven't spoken in fifteen years. Life has run away from them and they're both far from where they'd dreamt of being all those years ago. CAN THEY STILL KEEP THEIR WORD? It takes tragic circumstances for Fin to come back into Eleanor's life, but everything has changed since the last time they met. Is it too late to mend their friendship? Or is there a chance they can keep some of the promises they made? 'I cried, I laughed, I swooned! A gorgeous friends-to-lovers romance' Laura Jane Williams, author of Our Stop 'Perfect for a sunny afternoon' Daily Mail 'Funny, heart-wrenching and simply brilliant' Beth Reekles, author of The Kissing Booth series on Netflix and Love Locked Down

The Weight of Water

Author: Anita Shreve
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 0316789976
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189

Book Description
A tale of marital intrigue. The protagonist is a woman photographer sent to investigate an old murder on an island. She takes along her husband, the husband's brother and the brother's girlfriend. Problems arise when the husband develops an interest in the other woman. By the author of Resistance.

Resistance

Author: Anita Shreve
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316045705
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
A tale of impossible love in Nazi-occupied Belgium, where forbidden passions have catastrophic consequences. Claire Daussois, the wife of a Belgian resistance worker, shelters a wounded American bomber pilot in a secret attic hideaway. As she nurses him back to health, Claire is drawn into an affair that seems strong enough to conquer all--until the brutal realities of war intrude, shattering every idea she ever had about love, trust, and betrayal. Resistance is a tender but tragic love story, told with the same narrative grace and keen eye for human emotion that have distinguished all of Anita Shreve's cherished bestsellers.

Before We Met

Author: Lucie Whitehouse
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408829223
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
The most gripping marriage thriller since Gone Girl..

Fortune's Rocks

Author: Anita Shreve
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780316781015
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468

Book Description
Olympia Biddeford's passionate affair with a married man nearly three times her age, results in her being exiled from society and forces her to make a new life for herself.