Also a major motion picture starring Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson! Goodreads Choice Winner, Best Young Adult Fiction of 2019 In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel that’s perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, two teens fall in love with just one minor complication—they can’t get within a few feet of each other without risking their lives. Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella Grant likes to be in control—even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions. The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. He couldn’t care less about his treatments, or a fancy new clinical drug trial. Soon, he’ll turn eighteen and then he’ll be able to unplug all these machines and actually go see the world, not just its hospitals. Will’s exactly what Stella needs to stay away from. If he so much as breathes on Stella, she could lose her spot on the transplant list. Either one of them could die. The only way to stay alive is to stay apart. But suddenly six feet doesn’t feel like safety. It feels like punishment. What if they could steal back just a little bit of the space their broken lungs have stolen from them? Would five feet apart really be so dangerous if it stops their hearts from breaking too?

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the matter. In the meantime, she could not but reflect that her social position was by no means improved, since she had failed to gain any advantage or protection from a husband's presence. And then came the news that Mr. and Mrs. Jebb were soon coming back. Now, at last she would be able to tell the truth. Paul had alluded lately to the home to which he intended shortly to take her; she would be obliged to account to the Jebbs for this change in her dwelling; she and Paul would be brought face to face with a difficulty from which there would be no escape. CHAPTER VI. It seems almost a pity that you should be obliged to leave to-morrow, Mr. Peshale. Quite a pity, I think, Mrs. Phipps, but what can I do ? Can't we persuade you to stay ? You are very kind, but I'm afraid I must go. Millenvale, the home of Mr. Mortimer and his daughter Flora, was especially beautiful on a warm summer evening, and what could be more pleasant than after dinner to stroll down to the water's edge, and having settled yourself comfortably in the stern-seat of the little boat, to float calmlyalong by drooping hawthorns and acacias, with the swans following close in your wake. This was what Mrs. Phipps had done on leaving Mr. Mortimer's dining-room; she had the stern-seat with the steerage in her hands, while the boat was lazily propelled by Flora Mortimer and Edward Peshale. Mrs. Phipps's father had been first cousin to Mr. Mortimer and his predecessor at Millenvale. She was now a widow, and no longer in her first youth, for she was ten years older than Flora, and Flora was three-and-twenty, but she was very fresh and pretty still. An air of softness pervaded her; she had soft eyes, soft fair hair, a soft voice, and a soft tread. Most people liked her, and called her an ag...

A school reader for secondary pupils, in the OXFORD BOOKWORMS. BLACK SERIES STAGE 6. This new series offers students at all levels the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of English.

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • Twenty-eight “heart-stopping [and] utterly beautiful” (Newsday) stories that locate moments of love and betrayal, desire and forgiveness, from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro “Her stories are like few others. One must go back to Tolstoy and Chekhov . . . for comparable largeness.”—John Updike, The New York Times Book Review A traveling salesperson during the Depression takes his children with him on an impromptu visit to a former girlfriend. A poor girl steels herself to marry a rich fiancé she can’t quite manage to love. An abandoned woman tries to choose between opposing pleasures of seduction and solitude. To read these stories is to succumb to the spell of a true narrative sorcerer, a writer who enchants her readers utterly even as she restores them to their truest selves.

Available for the first time since its original publication more than fifty years ago, Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm is a charming collection whose hilarious title story features Christmas dinner with the Starkadders before Flora's arrival. With Adam playing Santa while draped in Mrs. Starkadders's shawls, the family shares their traditional "Christmas pudding"-a mélange containing random objects of doom foretelling the coming year: a coffin nail for death, a bad sixpence for financial ruin, and a menthol cone to indicate that the lucky recipient will go "blind wi' headache." These lively tales will delight anyone who loves Stella Gibbons and her signature wit.

Following the breakdown of her marriage, Alex Duggins has returned to her picturesque hometown of Folly-on-Weir in the Cotswolds in order to start afresh. But you can't outrun the past, as Alex is about to discover when she stumbles across a frosted corpse buried in the snow. The subsequent murder investigation threatens to unearth old secrets - including Alex's own. As Folly-on-Weir braces for a chilling winter and Alex finds herself top of the police's suspect list, she determines to clear her name and find the real murderer. But as she begins to peel back the layers of deception that have long-concealed one of the town's darkest secrets, she herself becomes the target of a ruthless killer who has nothing left to lose. Will Alex be the next snow-covered body to be found in the beautiful hills above the town? The Alex Duggins series will appeal to fans of Louise Penny and Elizabeth George.

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