Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break. Every expectant parent will tell you that they don't want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they'd been given the choice. Instead, their lives are made up of sleepless nights, mounting bills, the pitying stares of "luckier" parents, and maybe worst of all, the what-ifs. What if their child had been born healthy? But it's all worth it because Willow is, well, funny as it seems, perfect. She's smart as a whip, on her way to being as pretty as her mother, kind, brave, and for a five-year-old an unexpectedly deep source of wisdom. Willow is Willow, in sickness and in health. Everything changes, though, after a series of events forces Charlotte and her husband to confront the most serious what-ifs of all. What if Charlotte should have known earlier of Willow's illness? What if things could have been different? What if their beloved Willow had never been born? To do Willow justice, Charlotte must ask herself these questions and one more. What constitutes a valuable life? Emotionally riveting and profoundly moving, Handle with Care brings us into the heart of a family bound by an incredible burden, a desperate will to keep their ties from breaking, and, ultimately, a powerful capacity for love. Written with the grace and wisdom she's become famous for, beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult offers us an unforgettable novel about the fragility of life and the lengths we will go to protect it.
The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee: A Novel – Rebecca Miller
What part of our selves do we hide away in order to have a stable, prosperous life? Pippa Lee has just such a life in place at age fifty, when her older husband, a retired publisher, decides that they should move to a retirement community outside New York City. Pippa is suddenly deprived of the stimulation and distraction that had held everything in place. She begins losing track of her own mind; her foundations start to shudder, and gradually we learn the truth of the young life that led her finally to settle down in marriage--years of neglect and rebellion, wild transgressions and powerful defiance. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is the study of a brave, curious, multilayered woman--an acutely intelligent portrait of the many lives behind a single name
The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee: A Novel – Rebecca Miller
What part of our selves do we hide away in order to have a stable, prosperous life? Pippa Lee has just such a life in place at age fifty, when her older husband, a retired publisher, decides that they should move to a retirement community outside New York City. Pippa is suddenly deprived of the stimulation and distraction that had held everything in place. She begins losing track of her own mind; her foundations start to shudder, and gradually we learn the truth of the young life that led her finally to settle down in marriage--years of neglect and rebellion, wild transgressions and powerful defiance. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is the study of a brave, curious, multilayered woman--an acutely intelligent portrait of the many lives behind a single name
Made For Sex – Joan Elizabeth Lloyd
New York...the city that never sleeps, where sex is available anytime, anyplace. It's a city of hot desires and wild fantasies, exquisite pleasure and erotic seduction. And two women have come looking for it all...Sex For Sale A single mom of three, Carla is stuck in a suburban rut. Then she bumps into an old college friend who makes her an incredible proposition: become her partner as a very selective, high-priced prostitute. Shocked at first, Carla soon feels a thrill of excitement when she gets a glimpse of her new life. There are men who control and who like to be controlled, men who become aroused listening to the whisper of silk panties over the phone, and men who want to play with a woman's naked body until she's a quivering mess of ecstasy. And she has the power to live out her most intimate fantasies and deepest desires... Sex To Savor For years Fran has been writing erotica under the pseudonym Nichole St. Michelle. Now that she's been nominated for the prestigious Madison Prize, Fran has a chance to go to New York and take a walk on the wild side--as Nicki. By day, Fran is dazzled by the city's lights and the beautiful, seductive men and women strutting by. By night, she becomes Nicki, a wanton creature, tasting, touching and exploring sex in every way imaginable. It's pure, unfettered ecstasy, and all Nicki wants is more...
Made For Sex – Joan Elizabeth Lloyd
New York...the city that never sleeps, where sex is available anytime, anyplace. It's a city of hot desires and wild fantasies, exquisite pleasure and erotic seduction. And two women have come looking for it all...Sex For Sale A single mom of three, Carla is stuck in a suburban rut. Then she bumps into an old college friend who makes her an incredible proposition: become her partner as a very selective, high-priced prostitute. Shocked at first, Carla soon feels a thrill of excitement when she gets a glimpse of her new life. There are men who control and who like to be controlled, men who become aroused listening to the whisper of silk panties over the phone, and men who want to play with a woman's naked body until she's a quivering mess of ecstasy. And she has the power to live out her most intimate fantasies and deepest desires... Sex To Savor For years Fran has been writing erotica under the pseudonym Nichole St. Michelle. Now that she's been nominated for the prestigious Madison Prize, Fran has a chance to go to New York and take a walk on the wild side--as Nicki. By day, Fran is dazzled by the city's lights and the beautiful, seductive men and women strutting by. By night, she becomes Nicki, a wanton creature, tasting, touching and exploring sex in every way imaginable. It's pure, unfettered ecstasy, and all Nicki wants is more...
Thirty-Nothing – Lisa Jewell
30. The age when both men and women starts thinking real hard about their futures: Should I settle down or live it up till my 40s? Here's a story of two friends who has been searching for that special one for most of their lives, totally comfortable in their friendship. Till something shakes them both up real well...
After The Party – Lisa Jewell
Eleven years ago, Jem Catterick and Ralph McLeary fell in love. They thought it would be for ever, that they'd found their happy ending. Then two became four, a flat became a house. Romantic nights out became sleepless nights in. And they soon found that life wasn't quite so simple any more. Now the unimaginable has happened. Two people who were so right together are starting to drift apart - Ralph is standing on the sidelines, and Jem is losing herself. Something has to change. As they try to find a way back to each other, back to what they once had, they both become dangerously distracted - but maybe it's not too late to recapture happily ever after ...
After The Party – Lisa Jewell
Eleven years ago, Jem Catterick and Ralph McLeary fell in love. They thought it would be for ever, that they'd found their happy ending. Then two became four, a flat became a house. Romantic nights out became sleepless nights in. And they soon found that life wasn't quite so simple any more. Now the unimaginable has happened. Two people who were so right together are starting to drift apart - Ralph is standing on the sidelines, and Jem is losing herself. Something has to change. As they try to find a way back to each other, back to what they once had, they both become dangerously distracted - but maybe it's not too late to recapture happily ever after ...
Fifty Shades Of Grey (TRILOGY) – E. L. James
A 2011 erotic novel by British author E. L. James. The story sets in present Seattle, consists of mainly 2 characters, young ambitious business man Christian Grey and college graduate Anastasia Steele, and other characters that played friends and family of the young couple. Anastasia is attracted instantly to Christian, and likewise Christian to Anastasia. Being the domineering Christian, he sets his heart to Anastasia and got her. Alas, it is not the kind of relationship which Anastasia is expecting. At least, not at the very beginning of the relationship. Ana starts to learn of Christian's sexual preferences, which is predominantly BDSM, his behaviors and responses to general matters. Christian, on the other hand, loves Ana very much, and will be extremely devastated should Ana were to leave him. As such, Christian starts to change so that Ana is able to accept him. This is only towards the later development of the story when Christian realizes that their relationship is not merely a contractual basis, rather a genuine mutual attraction.
Antony And Cleopatra – William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Parthian War to Cleopatra's suicide during the Final War of the Roman Republic. The major antagonist is Octavius Caesar, one of Antony's fellow triumviri and the future first emperor of Rome. The tragedy is a Roman play characterised by swift, panoramic shifts in geographical locations and in registers, alternating between sensual, imaginative Alexandria and the more pragmatic, austere Rome.
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