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Raised with manners, morals, and a good head on her shoulders, 21-year-old Paris doesn't look a thing like what she's been through. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Paris is whisked away at an early age and raised by her paternal grandmother. While she blossoms into a respectable young lady, frequent flashbacks from her childhood leave her with a heart full of resentment and a box of letters from her imprisoned father. As summer break arrives before her final year of college, life as she knows it comes to a screeching halt when her grandmother needs assistance running the family-owned business. Without giving it a second thought, Paris dives in head first, and while learning the ropes, she encounters a roughneck named Sterling. While romance is the farthest thing from her mind, Paris discovers that she thoroughly enjoys Sterling's company. Then smack dab in the middle of figuring each other out, the unthinkable happens, and Paris is left wondering if time really can heal all wounds.

Paris experiences a roller coaster of emotions as her heart recovers from her grandmother's death. Suppressed feelings leave Paris overwhelmed with grief, and she rushes to granny's room for solace. Sadly, her mourning is interrupted when Evie, an obnoxious ex from Sterling's past brings drama to Paris? doorstep. After their worlds collide, Sterling's new title and unlawful activities take a toll on Paris, and she's drained mentally. While second-guessing their relationship, Paris clings to Angel and Adam and seeks revenge for the ill acts Evie has committed. Along with thoughts of payback, Paris withholds information from her father to protect Sterling's character. As time passes, Paris doesn't like the individual she's becoming and partially comes clean, but things continue to go downhill and a cyclone of events pushes Paris to the edge. When the smoke clears who will hold the key to Paris? heart? Will she remain with Sterling through the madness or will she give Adam the chance he's been waiting for?

The perfect anti-valentine: a whirlwind tour through love’s most crushing moments What’s the best way to mend a broken heart? Forget ice cream, wine, and sappy movies. Journalist Meghan Laslocky advises: Read through the pain. From forbidden love in 12th century Paris to the art of crafting the perfect “I’m over you” mix, The Little Book of Heartbreak is a quirky exploration of all things lovelorn, including: • How serial cheater Ernest Hemingway stole his wife’s job just as their marriage was collapsing • Kinky spells cast by lovesick men in ancient Greece • Painter Oscar Kokoschka’s attempt to get over an ex by creating (and having liaisons with!) her life-size replica • Brooding crooner Morrissey’s personal creed about how romantic love is useless • The surprising science behind heartbreak and love addiction • The connection between World War II and what you talk about with your therapist • Insights into the tricky chemistry of monogamy and infidelity, courtesy of tiny rodents • And other lessons learned from ill-fated romances, lovers’ quarrels, and hell-hath-no-fury spats throughout the ages Featuring anecdotes from history, literature, culture, art and music, The Little Book of Heartbreak shares the entertaining, empowering and occasionally absurd things that happen when love is on its last legs.

How can you be a football genius if you don't know the rules of the game? Fifteen year-old Drew Hennings’ dream of playing quarterback for his local high school team and playing college football in the Ivy League ended when he got a serious concussion. Drew can’t play football anymore, but he loves the game too much to walk away. With a close family friend and football official, Jack, as his mentor, Drew decides to transform himself into the first teenage football referee that Boston’s South Shore has ever seen. Can he transfer his leadership skills to refereeing and make the right call even when it’s unpopular? Will he be good enough to earn a place on the crew of a youth football playoff game?

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.

From a well-educated two generation of doctors and now pursuing a career toward being the third rising generation along with her older sister. The Lord blessed Alexa tremendously. She had the perfect life, but her perfect life quickly turned into tragedy when her husband Bryan was killed by a drunk driver, leaving her temporarily paralyzed from the waist down. Not wanting to accept that she was bound to a wheelchair, Alexa’s faith and trust in God became a rebellion against God for having the power to save but did not bother to save her husband. Although she can only recall bits and pieces of the accident, she has horrifying nightmares and flashbacks reliving that tragic night. Obstacles continue to harden her heart as she struggles to take her rightful place in the church. Alexa no longer had hope in Lord until He sends a handsome unexpected Christian gentleman named Brendon into her life. Alexa can feel herself slowly start to fall for him. As their friendship grew, so did the love they had for each other. Everything seemed perfect again, but within a month of dating, strange things started to happen. Like once before the nightmares started again, but this time the nightmares became reality when the drunk driver that killed her husband was plotting to kill her. Brendon’s love for Alexa endangers them both when he investigates the unsolved death of her husband and risks his own life to save hers.

A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.

"I got 99 problems but a Mitch ain't one." A friends-to-lovers, fake-boyfriend romance from NYT and USA Today bestseller Marie Harte! Dear Aunt Truth: Thanks for taking the time to answer me. I got 99 problems but a Mitch ain’t one. (Heh—he’s my ex.) My life is complicated. I have enough trouble dealing with my jerk of a boss, my overbearing parents, an awful bridesmaid’s dress, and my wayyyy too sexy downstairs neighbor. He’s the real problem. The good news is we’re friends. Xavier is smart, kind, and heck, I’ll say it—beyond nice to look at. But when my mom forces me into a plus-one situation for my sister’s wedding, I lie and tell her I’m bringing Xavier—my new (fake) boyfriend. He’s up for tricking my parents, especially if I return the favor with his mom, acting as his new (again, fake) girlfriend. Except somehow I find myself liking him a lot more than I should. And, well, things are getting heated, especially in the bedroom. I’m falling in love. And I’m not sure what to do about it… Falling for 2C *Includes a bonus short story!