He told me I was a penguin: "tiny, adorable, and loved by everyone." TALES FROM THE BEGINNING OF LOVE It may be after three days together, or after three months-it's that moment when it all falls together. From heartfelt declarations to all-knowing smiles, It Was Love When .. captures that moment when love is just beginning. • I thought to myself, "I love him more than Spider-Man loves Mary Jane." • I was looking through his iTunes when I realized that our playlists were nearly identical. • Suddenly he turned off the lights and told me to look up at the ceiling. Glow-in-the-dark stars covered the entire ceiling, spelling out "I love you." Both addictive and heartwarming, It Was Love When... is a freeze frame of that moment when you realize that you're truly,completely in love.

♡Today's love doesn't always have to look like yesterday's love ♡Book 1 in a set of 2.Falling in love with your best friend is so cliché and old as time.I'm just a southern girl in New York.I never imagined I'd meet my soulmate.And not a big deal like Noah Fierro. He's the classic type A personality with a side order of brusqueness. Far too handsome and a magnetism I was swept up in.And ... we're both into guys.Curve ball, right? Tell me about it. I was crushed.But he's my person. My bestie.And I need to ditch my enormous crush for good.What if a friendship is so consuming it supersedes conventionality?We have love. But will my heart be broken?I'm Sena Black and is he ... Straight-for-me?Disclaimer: Due to this book being part of a duet series the story does have one of those big ole stonking TO BE CONTINUED endings. Bonus Disclaimer: Intended for audiences 18+ because of the hot things two friends do together

“It was love, even if it was not forever.” The book, ‘It was love,’ is a work of fiction but some co-authors have shared their feelings, from their current situation and past experience. It is full of crispy articles, sweet poems and a bunch of emotions poured by amazing writers, across the country. Students, teachers and people who are lost in love have shared their definition of love in their own way. They have shown what happens when two people are deep in love, how they walk together, eat together and later on can’t stay without each other. Having said that, there also comes a time when they don’t want to face each other. Oh! What else I would say, you have hand-picked a garland of words, weaved with love. Just turn the pages to experience many different worlds of affection.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[A] poetic reckoning of the importance of love in a child's life . . . eloquent and moving."—People "Everything that can be called love -- from shared joy to comfort in the darkness -- is gathered in the pages of this reassuring, refreshingly honest picture book."—The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice / Staff Picks From the Book Review “Lyrical and sensitive, ‘Love’ is the sort of book likely to leave readers of all ages a little tremulous, and brimming with feeling.”—The Wall Street Journal From Newbery Medal-winning author Matt de la Peña and bestselling illustrator Loren Long comes a story about the strongest bond there is and the diverse and powerful ways it connects us all. "In the beginning there is light and two wide-eyed figures standing near the foot of your bed and the sound of their voices is love. ... A cab driver plays love softly on his radio while you bounce in back with the bumps of the city and everything smells new, and it smells like life." In this heartfelt celebration of love, Newbery Medal-winning author Matt de la Peña and bestselling illustrator Loren Long depict the many ways we experience this universal bond, which carries us from the day we are born throughout the years of our childhood and beyond. With a lyrical text that's soothing and inspiring, this tender tale is a needed comfort and a new classic that will resonate with readers of every age.

A young black female who thought she had find the love of her life; but the relationship derailed her to a victim of the justice system. Deliah was giving a prison number and sent to the Federal Penitentiary; where she was left to die. After all the abuse, physically, mentally, verbally and emotionally; Deliah still managed to find a deep inner peace that gave her the courage to live and not die. Deliah began soul searching to discover life is all about the choices you make. Deliah knew she had to do something, if she had a plan on ever being free again; but she didn’t know what – Deliah was giving the vision to tell her story... So Deliah began writing this book in prison; without knowledge of her release date; but she knew; Deliah had to share her story. Although, Deliah wasn’t physically killed by the police, Deliah experience with the police, killed her deep within her soul. Deliah’s family, like many other African Americans who are faced with encounters with the police and justice system are too poor to retain an attorney to fight the injustice. Deliah says the time has come, no more injustice, no more average, no more mediocrity; it’s time to GO GET OUR POWER BACK. People are hurting and Deliah can’t and won’t continue to be silenced by the enemy within or the enemy that can be seen; but she must let others know as we heal together... We can overcome any and all obstacles that come our way!! Be Blessed and find that inner peace...

♡Today's love doesn't always have to look like yesterday's love ♡Book 2 in a set of 2. Love is blind.And the universe hates me.Serious fricking hate.To catch you up; Southern girl falls for extremely wealthy and gorgeous gay.We became besties.Then in an epic plot twist my gay... caught feelings for me.Unbelievable, right? I should have known I was deluding myself.Now I'm left broken.Only, Noah tells me it wasn't a lie.Can I believe the happily ever after he promises?It's not only me to convince ... but everyone else. I'm Sena Black and is he still .... Straight-for-me?

After a decade apart, childhood sweethearts reconnect by chance in New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren’s touching, romantic novel Love and Other Words…how many words will it take for them to figure out where it all went wrong? The story of the heart can never be unwritten. Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new pediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older, financially secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked away. But when she runs into Elliot Petropoulos—the first and only love of her life—the careful bubble she’s constructed begins to dissolve. Once upon a time, Elliot was Macy’s entire world—growing from her gangly bookish friend into the man who coaxed her heart open again after the loss of her mother...only to break it on the very night he declared his love for her. Told in alternating timelines between Then and Now, teenage Elliot and Macy grow from friends to much more—spending weekends and lazy summers together in a house outside of San Francisco devouring books, sharing favorite words, and talking through their growing pains and triumphs. As adults, they have become strangers to one another until their chance reunion. Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many years ago, Elliot will come to understand the truth behind Macy’s decade-long silence, and will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love.

“A beautifully written and well-researched cultural criticism as well as an honest memoir” (Los Angeles Review of Books) from the author of the popular New York Times essay, “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This,” explores the romantic myths we create and explains how they limit our ability to achieve and sustain intimacy. What really makes love last? Does love ever work the way we say it does in movies and books and Facebook posts? Or does obsessing over those love stories hurt our real-life relationships? When her parents divorced after a twenty-eight year marriage and her own ten-year relationship ended, those were the questions that Mandy Len Catron wanted to answer. In a series of candid, vulnerable, and wise essays that takes a closer look at what it means to love someone, be loved, and how we present our love to the world, “Catron melds science and emotion beautifully into a thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation” (Bookpage). She delves back to 1944, when her grandparents met in a coal mining town in Appalachia, to her own dating life as a professor in Vancouver. She uses biologists’ research into dopamine triggers to ask whether the need to love is an innate human drive. She uses literary theory to show why we prefer certain kinds of love stories. She urges us to question the unwritten scripts we follow in relationships and looks into where those scripts come from. And she tells the story of how she decided to test an experiment that she’d read about—where the goal was to create intimacy between strangers using a list of thirty-six questions—and ended up in the surreal situation of having millions of people following her brand-new relationship. “Perfect fodder for the romantic and the cynic in all of us” (Booklist), How to Fall in Love with Anyone flips the script on love. “Clear-eyed and full of heart, it is mandatory reading for anyone coping with—or curious about—the challenges of contemporary courtship” (The Toronto Star).

The narrator arrives in Berlin, a place famed for its hedonism, to find peace and maybe love; only to discover that the problems which have long haunted him have arrived there too, and are more present than ever. As he approaches his fortieth birthday, nearing the age where his father was killed in a brutal revolution, he drifts through this endlessly addictive and sometimes mystical city, through its slow days and bottomless nights, wondering whether he will ever escape the damage left by his father's death. With the world as a whole more uncertain, as both the far-right and global temperatures rise at frightening speed, he finds himself fighting a fierce inner battle against his turbulent past, for a future free of his fear of failure, of persecution, and of intimacy. In The End, It Was All About Love is a journey of loss and self-acceptance that takes its nameless narrator all the way through bustling Berlin to his roots, a quiet village on the Uganda-Sudan border. It is a bracingly honest story of love, sexuality and spirituality, of racism, dating, and alienation; of fleeing the greatest possible pain, and of the hopeful road home.

A funny, transporting, surprising, and poignant novel that was one of the highest-selling debuts of recent years in Korea, Love in the Big City tells the story of a young gay man searching for happiness in the lonely city of Seoul Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea’s most exciting young writers. A runaway bestseller, the novel hit the top five lists of all the major bookstores, went into twenty-six printings, and was praised for its unique literary voice and perspective. It is now poised to capture a worldwide readership. Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. He and Jaehee, his female best friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they push away their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and ice-cold Marlboro Reds that they keep in their freezer. Yet over time, even Jaehee leaves Young to settle down, leaving him alone to care for his ailing mother and to find companionship in his relationships with a series of men, including one whose handsomeness is matched by his coldness, and another who might end up being the great love of his life. A brilliantly written novel that takes us into the glittering nighttime of Seoul and the bleary-eyed morning after with both humor and emotion, Love in the Big City is a wry portrait of millennial loneliness as well as the abundant joys of queer life.