To Jessica Wakefield, Lila Fowler is not her best friends, not since the big fight. Jessica was sad until she found a bottle floating in the ocean. It had a message inside! The message was from a girl who really needs a friend. Just like me! Now I have a secret friend. But will I ever get to meet her?

Ten-year-old Jessica loses her best friend, and in struggling to win her back finds out some important things about friendship.

“An elegant and deeply moving meditation on friendship, family, and life on earth. Rules for Visiting is a wonderful novel.” —Emily St. John Mandel, author of Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven The national bestseller and an Indie Next List pick Name a Best Book of the Year by O Magazine • Good Housekeeping • Real Simple • Vulture • Chicago Tribune Named a Best Book of the Summer by The Today Show • Good Morning America • Wall Street Journal • San Francisco Chronicle • Southern Living Shortlisted for the 2020 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Long-listed for the 2020 Tournament of Books Dry, witty, and unapologetic, May Attaway loves literature and her work as a botanist for the university in her hometown. More at home with plants than people, May begins to suspect she isn’t very good at friendship and wonders if it’s possible to improve with practice. Granted some leave from her job, she sets out on a journey to spend time with four long-neglected friends. Smart, funny, and full of compassion, Rules for Visiting is the story of a search for friendship in the digital age, a singular look at the way we stay in touch. While May travels, she studies her friends’ lives and begins to confront the pain of her own. With simplicity and honesty, Jessica Francis Kane has crafted an exquisite story about a woman trying to find a new way to be in the world. This nourishing book, with its beautiful contemplation of travel, trees, family, and friendship, is the perfect antidote to our chaotic times.

When Corey’s mom starts dating, Corey feels like her world is falling apart—can her best friends help? Corey’s parents are divorced, and her mom, Doc Tock, has started seeing a man with a daughter named Alice, who is Corey’s age. But the two girls don’t have a thing in common. Alice doesn’t even like animals! She’s nothing like Corey’s Pony Tails pals. Everything seems to be going wrong for Corey until she realizes that someone is helping her with small tasks around the house—latching the gate to make sure the puppies don’t get out, feeding the ponies, putting her bike in the garage. When Corey learns that it isn’t Jasmine or May, she can’t help but wonder about the identity of her secret friend.

When fifteen-year-old Jessica Ingram hears those words she knows she will never be the same. Suddenly her family-and her emotions-are in pieces. She feels as though her whole world is coming apart. Do you know any students like Jessica who are facing the separation or divorce of parents? What can you say or do to help? What do they need most right now? Perhaps more than any time in their lives they need a "911 friend"-a friend who "...is always loyal and a brother [and sister who] is born to help in time of need" (Prov. 17:17). Through the aid of a gripping true-to-life story, Josh McDowell along with Ed Stewart offers biblical insights and practical instruction on what your friend can do when faced with the break-up of a home. But more importantly, you will discover how to become a true source of comfort, encouragement, and support to him or her during the ordeal. This book is designed for you to read first and then give to your friend. And if you are that person faced with your parent's divorce, you will learn what to expect in the weeks and months ahead. But more than that, you will discover how to experience the comfort, encouragement and support you need from both God and a friend-most likely the friend who gave you this book.

Jessica and Katelyn have been friends since 3rd grade. Jessica has a secret she wants to tell Katelyn but she can't. Katelyn has a secret to tell Jessica but she won't. When Katelyn and Jessica meet on a hunt, what will happen? Since they have graduated high school Katelyn has changed and so has Jessica. Find out what happens in 2 Secrets 2 Friends One Hunt

I’ve got a secret. The new girl at work? The one I’ve got a crush on? She’s got a crush too—on the stripper who’s dressing like Santa every weekend in December. And that’s my secret. I’m him. The Saturday night Santa stripper. Liv has no idea it’s her new work buddy under the fake white beard and tiny red hot pants, and every time she blushes when she talks about him, I burn with jealousy over myself. But Liv’s also starting to get close to me—the real me—and seems interested in Christmas Eve activities that’ll put us both on the so-naughty-it's-nice list. I just hope she’ll still want to sit on Santa's lap after I tell her the truth. My Not-So-Secret Santa is a full-length, high-heat holiday rom-com that'll heat you up like a mug of hot cocoa and make you melt like the swirl of whipped cream on top. Unwrap a laugh-out-loud romance this Christmas!

It's what life does to you. We don't have time to waste. Worrying over the small stuff while the big stuff takes its toll. You're living and then . . . boom. At 27, History teacher Nick is on the edge. A hidden secret lies under the Brink. Nick can't get it out of his mind. A series of visions force Nick to investigate what lies beneath. Nick's girlfriend doesn't understand. Neither do his fellow teachers. Frustrated, he confides in a Year 10 student but can she be expected to have all the answers? The Brink is an arch but affecting parable for the times we live in. This edition was published to coincide with the play's world premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre, London, in April 2016.

There are two Wakefield twins in the marching band, but only one drum. Which twin should play it? Jessica believes that she's the twin for the instrument, but Elizabeth gets picked to play it.

Collection of Short Stories about Life' is a fiction book that contains 4 short stories telling the chain of events of characters in various contexts, with themes such as romance, resilience, and optimism. The first story tells of the setbacks of a young girl and how, thanks to her personality, she manages to survive; the second story reveals the thoughts of two characters who will meet for a blind date; the third story is about a woman who describes her experience in a pole dancing class, and the fourth story is about the life of a teenager before he left home to go to college.