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Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They’re opposites in every way. She overthinks everything; he is her twin brother’s wild and unpredictable friend. But over secret walks home and late-night phone calls, they become closer—destined to be one another’s great love story. Until, one day, tragedy strikes, and their future together is shattered. But as the years roll on, Will and Rosie can’t help but find their way back to each other. Time and again, they come close to rekindling what might have been. What do you do when the one person you should forget is the one you just can’t let go?

From the award-winning author of Songs in Ursa Major comes an epic, decade-spanning love story that blazes through the worlds of acting and comedy, and charts a connection so powerful it might just break space and time itself. In the summer of 2000, AJ Graves dreams of writing for SNL; instead, she’s stuck working in a video rental store, with slim odds of escaping her Massachusetts small town and large family. Then in walks Noah Drew, the enigmatic and intense scion of the Drew acting dynasty, and her life changes forever. Despite wildly different upbringings, the two forge a deep, cosmic bond first as friends, then as acting partners—until one day, Noah disappears without a word. Seven years later in New York City, AJ is shocked to find herself cast in the same intergalactic TV production as Noah, by then a well-known Hollywood heartthrob. As their on-screen characters grow closer every day, the lines between reality and acting begin to blur. Unable to stay away from each other, AJ and Noah are forced to confront the truth of what happened years ago—and the devastating secret that will send their lives careening apart, even as fate continues to draw them together. Blending unforgettable characters, explosive chemistry, and devastating emotion, Into the Blue is a journey unlike any other—one that asks: What does it mean to diverge from the script to forge your own story?

في هذه الكوميديا الرومانسية عن الكوميديا الرومانسية، وعلى غرار أعمال كيسي ويست وجين بينيت، تحاول مراهقة رومانسية يائسة أن تضمن لحظة «وعاشا في سعادة إلى الأبد» مع محبوبها الدائم، لكنها تجد نفسها منجذبة على مضض إلى الفتى المجاور. منذ وقت طويل، وهبت ليز بوكسباوم قلبها لمايكل. لكن محبوبها الدائم الرائع والمنعزل لم يلحظها حقًا قبل أن ينتقل بعيدًا. والآن بعد أن عاد إلى البلدة، ستفعل ليز كل ما يلزم لتلفت انتباهه — وربما تظفر به مرافقًا لها في حفلة التخرج — حتى لو اضطرها ذلك إلى مصادقة ويس بينيت. قد يبدو الجار الجذاب على نحو مزعج مرشحًا مثاليًا لخيالات الكوميديا الرومانسية، لكن ويس لم يكن سوى مصدر إزعاج لليز منذ أن كانا طفلين. فالمقالب التي تتضمن ضفادع وتماثيل أقزام حدائق مقطوعة الرأس لا تصنع حبيبًا محتملًا. ومع ذلك، ولسبب ما، ينسجم ويس ومايكل معًا، ما يعني أن ويس هو سبيل ليز إليه. لكن بينما تتآمر ليز وويس لجعل مايكل يلاحظ ليز كي تحظى بلحظتها السحرية في حفلة التخرج، تُصدم حين تكتشف أنها تحب قضاء الوقت مع ويس. ومع استمرار تقاربهما، عليها أن تعيد النظر في كل ما ظنت أنها تعرفه عن الحب، وأن تعيد التفكير في تصورها لما ينبغي أن تبدو عليه سعادة النهاية الأبدية.

A love that couldn't be broken, except by the truth. Lizzie Young has always felt she was too much everything. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder at a young age, she's never fit in with her family, her friends, her community. Lizzie wants to be accepted and understood, but with few family or friends in her corner, she's carries her burdens and her trauma on her own. But when she meets a kind boy on the school bus, things start to look bright for the first time in her life… Hugh Biggs has an old soul and the wisdom of someone far beyond his years. A young man with a sharp mind and a firm code of ethics, he sees something in Lizzie Young that he can't resist. He wants to be her everything and shoulder her burden. And Lizzie wants that too. Lizzie and Hugh's bond seems unbreakable—their chemistry is electric, their love is potent, and their connection is soul deep – but even the truest love can be shaken by forces beyond control.

What is wrong meets what feels right in this romance set in Italy by the New York Times bestselling author of Deep End. Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out her life. Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him. It’s such a cliché, it almost makes her heart implode: older man and younger woman; successful biotech guy and struggling grad student; brother’s best friend and the girl he never even knew existed. As Conor loves to remind her, the power dynamic is too imbalanced. Any relationship between them would be problematic in too many ways to count, and Maya should just get over him. After all, he has made it clear that he wants her gone from his life. But not everything is as it seems—and clichés sometimes become plot twists. When Maya’s brother decides to get married in Taormina, she and Conor end up stuck together in a romantic Sicilian villa for over a week. There, on the beautiful Ionian coast, between ancient ruins, delicious foods, and natural caves, Maya realizes that Conor might be hiding something from her. And as the destination wedding begins to erupt out of control, she decides that a summer fling might be just what she needs—even if it’s a problematic one.

"Kun til navlen er måske dette litterære års første fuldgyldige mirakel" Berlingske En gruppe venner fra universitetet; syv sommerdage i et sommerhus på landet i Danmark. En chance for at svømme, sole sig, flirte, læse og tilbringe tid sammen som i gamle dage. I hvert fald var det, hvad Sylvia havde håbet. Men da Gry dukker op med sine børn, og Esben og Karen annoncerer deres bryllup, bliver Sylvia efterladt med spørgsmålet om, hvad der blev af de radikale måder at leve på, som de forestillede sig på universitetet. Desuden plejer hun en årtier lang forelskelse i Esben, som hendes monogame, langvarige kæreste Charlie ikke vil godkende. I resten af gruppen hvirvler begær og angst rundt i lige mål. Quince føler sig endelig hjemme i sin krop og er klar til at rave, men der er børn med putterutiner. Mens gnisterne flyver rundt om middagsbordet, føler Gry sig banal blandt sine farverige, excentriske venner. Usædvanligt nok har hun også taget sin mand Adam med, plakatsønnen for en heteroseksuel maskulinitet, som Quince ikke kan beslutte, om han vil rive ned eller binde fast. Efterhånden som ugen skrider frem, intensiveres diskussionerne og flirteriet. En moderne skærsommernatsdrøm for den nye generation; Kun til navlen føjer en sanselig, æterisk blomstring til det evige spørgsmål om, hvad der er den bedste måde at leve og elske på, når man bliver ældre. "En parfumeret drøm af en debut" Politiken "Linea Maja Ernst skriver så godt om seksuelt begær, at det tænder hendes læsere" Weekendavisen

The summer before Sally Holt starts the eighth grade begins as a gloriously uneventful one. It's full of family trips to the beach and long afternoons at the local pool with her older sister Kathy, which they mostly use as an excuse to ogle Billy Barnes, who works the concession stand there. A rising senior and local basketball star, Billy has been an unending source of intrigue for both girls since he jumped off the school roof in fifth grade, and their fascination with him is one of the few things the increasingly different sisters have in common. By summer’s end Billy and Kathy are an item—an unthinkable stroke of luck that ends in an even more unthinkable tragedy. Set over the course of fifteen years, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance is narrated by Sally as she addresses Kathy before, during, and after her death. We watch as Kathy’s absence creates a gaping hole that only Billy—now firmly off-limits to Sally—understands and might possibly begin to fill. Charting years of their shared history and missed connections, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance is both a breathtaking love story between two broken people who are unexplainably, inconveniently drawn to each other, and a wry, sharply observant coming-of-age story that looks at the ways the people we love the most continue to shape our lives long after they’re gone.

Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023' It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend. Lucy begins to make sense of herself during a long hot summer, when a spark with her school friend Susannah escalates to an all-consuming infatuation, and, very quickly, to a desperate and devastating love. Fearful of rejection from her small and conservative community, Lucy begins living a double life, hiding the most honest parts of herself in stolen moments with Susannah. But with the end of school and the opportunity to leave Crossmore looming, Lucy must choose between two places, two people and two futures, each as terrifying as the other. But only one can offer her real happiness. Sunburn is an astute and tender portrayal of first love, adolescent anxiety and the realities of growing up in a small town where tradition holds people tightly in its grasp.