In the aftermath of her sister's sudden death, Von travels to New York where she learns her sister has left an art project unfinished for an exhibition opening soon, which is based on their family history. As Von travels to Ireland and Holland she learns about her grandmother and father and she comes to realize her family's past is much richer than she ever imagined.

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?

GET READY TO FALL IN LOVE WITH ONE INCREDIBLE DOG ... Marika Meeks fell in love with Stella the moment she saw her. The adorable pit bull puppy had been abandoned in a cold field in winter—but her warm, friendly eyes and boundless affection could melt anyone’s heart. Even so, Marika wasn’t sure she was ready to adopt a dog. As a busy entrepreneur, wife, and mother of two daughters, Marika’s life was crazy already. She was recovering from stage-three breast cancer, and her family was still reeling from her brush with mortality. But Marika couldn’t deny the way Stella made her feel—the pure joy of this sweet-natured dog’s unconditional love—and she knew in her heart what her family needed ... In a leap of faith, the Meekses welcomed Stella into their home, and thanks to this incredible dog, the daily pressures of work, stress, and Marika’s health problems seemed to slip away. As Marika’s cancer receded and her family found renewed vitality, she began sharing Stella’s story with the world. Now an international social media star, Stella helps Marika to spread their heartfelt message of advocating for pit bull breed awareness, explaining the benefits of pet ownership, and supporting shelters and other organizations that save animals’ lives. If you’ve ever experienced the joy that only an animal can bring—or felt the healing power of a pet’s unconditional love—you’re going to adore Incredibull Stella.

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...

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.

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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.

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.