In a novel that's
perfect for fans of Abbi Glines and Jessica Sorensen, USA Today
bestselling author Lauren Layne delivers a sexy take on the timeless
question: Can a guy and a girl really be “just friends”?
When
Parker Blanton meets Ben Olsen during her freshman year of college, the
connection is immediate—and platonic. Six years later, they're still
best friends, sharing an apartment in Portland's trendy Northwest
District as they happily settle into adult life. But when Parker's
boyfriend dumps her out of the blue, she starts to wonder about Ben's
no-strings-attached approach to dating. The trouble is, even with Ben as
her wingman, Parker can't seem to get the hang of casual sex—until she
tries it with him.
In the spellbinding new novel from #1 New York Times
bestselling author Robert Goolrick, 1980s Manhattan shimmers like the
mirage it was, as money, power, and invincibility seduce a group of
young Wall Street turks. Together they reach the pinnacle, achieving the
kind of wealth that grants them access to anything--and anyone--they
want. Until, one by one, they fall.
With the literary chops of Bonfire of the Vanities and the dizzying decadence of The Wolf of Wall Street, The Fall of Princes
takes readers into a world of hedonistic highs and devastating lows,
weaving a visceral tale about the lives of these young men, winners all .
. . until someone changes the rules of the game. Goolrick paints a
magnificently authentic portrait of an era, tense and stylish, perfectly
mixing adrenaline and melancholy.
The adventures that began with Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and continued with Hollow City comes to a thrilling conclusion with Library of Souls.
As
the story opens, sixteen-year-old Jacob discovers a powerful new
ability, and soon he’s diving through history to rescue his peculiar
companions from a heavily guarded fortress. Accompanying Jacob on his
journey are Emma Bloom, a girl with fire at her fingertips, and Addison
MacHenry, a dog with a nose for sniffing out lost children.
They’ll
travel from modern-day London to the labyrinthine alleys of Devil’s
Acre, the most wretched slum in all of Victorian England. It’s a place
where the fate of peculiar children everywhere will be decided once and
for all.
Simon has an encounter
with Downworlders and is reprimanded for not following the rules for
Academy students interacting with Downworlders. A story within a story:
Andrew Blackthorn, while a student at the Academy, becomes enthralled by
a faerie and has two children with her: Mark and Helen.
An affecting and
hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the
talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world's
attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation.
Marina
Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated "magna cum laude" from
Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New
York Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at "The New Yorker."
Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash.
As
her family, friends, and classmates, deep in grief, joined to create a
memorial service for Marina, her deeply moving last essay for "The Yale
Daily News," "The Opposite of Loneliness," went viral, receiving more
than 1.4 million hits.
A woman known only as
A lives in an unnamed American city with her roommate, B, and
boyfriend, C, who wants her to join him on a reality dating show called That's My Partner!
A eats mostly popsicles and oranges, watches endless amounts of
television, often just for the commercials— particularly the recurring
cartoon escapades of Kandy Kat, the mascot for an entirely chemical
dessert—and models herself on a standard of beauty that exists only in
such advertising. She fixates on the fifteen minutes of fame a local
celebrity named Michael has earned after buying up a Wally's
Supermarket's entire, and increasingly ample, supply of veal.
Meanwhile,
B is attempting to make herself a twin of A, who in turn hungers for
something to give meaning to her life, something aside from C's
pornography addiction. Maybe something like what's gotten into her
neighbors across the street, the family who's begun "ghosting"
themselves beneath white sheets and whose garage door features a strange
scrawl of graffiti: he who sits next to me, may we eat as one.
Cole Masten.
Abandoned by his superstar wife, Hollywood’s Perfect Husband is now
Hollywood’s Sexiest Bachelor: partying hard and screwing even harder.
Watch out Los Angeles, there's a new bad boy in town.
Summer Jenkins.
That’s me, a small town girl stuck in Quincy, Georgia. I cook some mean
chicken and dumplins, can bluff a grown man out of his savings in
poker, and was voted Most Friendly my senior year.
We were from
different worlds. Our lives shouldn’t have collided. But then Cole
Masten read a book about my small town. And six months later, his jet
landed on our dusty airstrip, and he brought Hollywood with him.
