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When Lennox and Kenzie meet, there’s electricity between them and the camp is the perfect opportunity for them to explore what might be, but after the magic of their week away from the world dissipates, can they still find that spark and make their relationship work?
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I loved this story for 3 main reasons: it showed two people fell in love knowing they were meant for one another - a forever love; the representation of someone with Aspergers and the insight into how that feels; the love between the two characters, and their relationship, was portrayed in a realistic way."
"Having worked with people on the Autism Spectrum, Pyland did a realistic portrait of her character which was so interesting and loveable without making her be odd."
"Loved this book and would highly recommend."
"I loved every nuance of their personalities and even how that played out in the tastefully steamy sex scenes."
"The love between the main characters as well as the supporting characters is palpable."
"But immediately lust just seems so boring as a story. The love is warm and the lust is there, but. the story is so much more than just lust."
"A book shouldn't be published by someone who doesn't know the difference between a dessert and a desert, or a part and apart. That disregard for an elementary level of grammar shows lack of respect for the published product."
"A totally amazing book."
Grieving over the loss of her family and feeling like her life is unraveling, Lindsey McDermott quits her job, gets a puppy, and retreats to her grandparents’ home in the Texas Hill Country. When Jack and Lindsey form an unlikely friendship, Hannah reluctantly joins them and the three spend the summer swimming and healing as laughter eventually replaces tears. Gerri Hill has thirty published works, including the 2014 GCLS winner The Midnight Moon , 2011, 2012 and 2013 winners Devil's Rock , Hell's Highway and Snow Falls , and the 2009 GCLS winner Partners the last book in the popular Hunter Series, as well as the 2013 Lambda finalist At Seventeen.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The best part of this story for me, is that though the story is full of emotional moments, there isn’t any crazy misunderstandings drama. Most stories like to add the whole nine yards of drama with people misunderstanding and jumping to negative conclusions, and I never thought I would say that a story about the death of loved ones would be less depressing and frustrating than those interpretation drama in other stories."
"I simply loved the slow, and dramatic build up of tension between Hannah and Lindsay, as they both realized that they were falling for each other."
"The emotion in this novel is so real and raw."
"Each, in his/her own way stumbled into a new relationship that gradually replaces the nearly overwhelming weight of their sadness with love, hope, happiness and family."
"The friendship that developed before reminded me so much of my own relationship and love, it brought happy tears to my eyes."
"I loved this book."
"Excellent story of people over coming their grief and sorrow together and eventually finding love, romance, and family."
3 Alpha
They fell in love, once upon a time, but Mel left.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Another great read by Bridget Essex, great story and strong characters."
"I love the story with romance and werewolves in it ."
"After life changing events Mel came home to find that Dani was now the Alpha of their wolf pack. This story is just so sweet and the ladies personalities are very well defined....loved both of them."
"Desperate and with little money, Mel tried to get her life back on track but that was easier said than done. Feeling agitated and confused, her self-torturing reflections and the emotions accompanying them, whirl ’round and ’round. She has not only to deal with her past but also with an evil Alpha, an Alpha who could destroy everything."
"But fate and pack rules intervene and Mel finds herself once again in the presence of the woman whose heart she broke all those years ago."
"She fled the small town of North Versailles (and her partner, Danielle Ingram--Dani) as a young woman and never looked back. But when her marriage falls apart, Mel is forced to return to her mother's home, and to the little sister and lover she left behind. Mel wants to get back on her feet and out of North Versailles as fast as possible, but she hits an unexpected roadblock when she meets up with Dani and discovers the spark she felt all those years ago is still there--for both of them. Mel has never fit in with her pack; much of her internal conflict is based on the fact that she feels trapped in North Versailles, and yet the life she built for herself outside of it didn't pan out like she'd hoped. Without any context to back it up, Mel's loneliness lacks significant emotional impact, and towards the end of the book her should-I-stay-or-should-I-go agonizing feels artificial and drawn-out. However, I think Alpha would have benefitted greatly from stepping outside of her head and her strangely insular home life. In fact, this book could very easily have been a contemporary romance with no werewolves in sight and not changed significantly, which is an issue. Dani growls/rumbles just about every line of her dialogue (seriously, when I mentioned tighter editing--if I took a shot every time she growls/rumbles something, I'd be typing this from a hospital bed now. The writing itself isn't bad (although, again, it would benefit from a stricter red pen), and the bones of an emotional, compelling story are there."
"What a great story !"
"It was more about Mel than it was Mel and Dani."
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • A Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post Best Book of the Year • A New York Magazine "Future Canon" Selection • A Chicago Tribune and Seattle Times (Michael Upchurch's) Favorite Favorite Book of the Year. "The book is incredible.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Set in 1988 and on the Italian Riviera, which adds to the charm and appeal of the novel, Call Me By Your Name is narrated by and tells the story of a seventeen-year-old American-Italian-Jewish youth, Elio Perlman, and his six-week, summer love affair with Oliver Ulliva, a university professor who is seven years older than Elio and who has been selected to live in Elio’s parents’ home as a guest “resident” while finishing a manuscript for publication as part of the parents’ way of aiding budding writers. Much of the first half of Call Me By Your Name has a “stream of consciousness” feeling to it as Elio, a very precocious and intelligent but shy young man, defies his better intuitions and finds himself more and more attracted to Oliver. By time both Elio and the reader are aware of Oliver’s true feelings toward the younger man, a new sense of urgency, an even greater feeling of sensuality and eroticism, and a more intense atmosphere of anxiety and impending doom enters the story—all of it exquisitely captured by Aciman’s exquisitely accomplished writing."
"Call Me By Your Name is a superlative novel that meticulously and comprehensively looks at the human condition from the folly of youth to the introspective later years. Told almost entirely from the stream of consciousness mind of a seventeen year old Elio, who simultaneously possesses intelligence beyond his years whilst embodying the insouciance of youth and trafficking in the same inane fickleness of the average teen in matters of the heart, and in him Aciman’s crafted a character that is quintessentially relatable. Oliver, the doctoral student who came to stay with him and his parents one summer in Italy, left a watermark on Elio’s soul. At seventeen he can’t possibly understand the rarity of his connection with Oliver, so he tells himself there will be another and there are, that it was never intended to last and maybe it wasn't, that is was a summer fling, but who's to say that makes it any less seminal? I’ve no doubt if I reread it in 5 or 10 yrs I’ll have a different interpretation; a change in perspective and the whole thing looks completely different and I feel like the same can be said of Elio. That place that meant so much from the berm to Mafalda and his parents to the bookstore to playing the guitar to paradise to afternoon naps and lazy days and nights spent f***ing each other’s brains out. The romantic in me wants to wallow in the heartbreak and vilify Aciman for countermanding the rules of romancelandia, but to simplify this novel in such a way, to make it solely about loss is a disservice to the narrative. Maybe I missed the point and it is solely a novel of love and loss with the primary objective being bittersweet heartbreak, but I choose to believe (this time) that Aciman deliberately penned a novel to make every reader take stock and cherish what they have, what they have had and what they will have."
"I personally like the book better- you understand the "why" behind their relationship a lot better, and you get a lot more of the emotion between the "call me by your name" theme."
"Andre Aciman. has created a rare and deeply moving story of love without regret - a sensuous and lyrical piece that will live within you long. after the book has been closed."
"I originally started reading this book because Timothée and Armie did so well in the movie."
"The anticipation and longing that builds made me not want to put it down with sentiment that leaves the heart simultaneously brimming and broken."
"A wonderful novel with a deep and imcisive analysis of the relationship of a young adolescent man with an older and more experience in a magnificent setting of an Italian country retreat Brilliantly written !"