Bøger af Emily Stone

In this modern-day retelling of Grimm's fable, young heroines Hansel and Greta are all grown-up and worse off than a witch thrust in an oven. With wild unpredictability, this novel breaks the barriers of the original fairy tale with alarm bells ringing. Teenage Hansel and Greta have great plans to escape their hellish foster home where child exploitation is the norm. But Greta's unplanned pregnancy, and the evangelical wishes of her evil foster mom, threaten to derail them. Greta's past of magical Vegas memories unravel her as she is faced with one difficult choice after another. Escape with Hansel and Greta, if you can.

After her parents passes away in a horrific car accident, college junior Marlena Rhodes is left with nothing but broken dreams and an ever mounting pile of debt. Desperate to make a living, she starts picking up every job offer she can find in an attempt to stay afloat. When she picks up a random flyer from the Art department requesting models to pose for the graduate students, Marlena takes up the offer without a second thought. Marlena soon discovers that not only will she be baring it all, she'll be doing it for one person and one person only: Jonathan Conway, the drop-dead gorgeous painter who she's been eyeing for all three years of college. As their painting sessions grow longer and more personal, will Marlena finally have the courage to truly bare it all to Jonathan?

As a nanny in a New England beach town, eighteen-year-old April has extreme devotion to four-year-old Hunter and his baby sister, Rosy. But during what was supposed to be an extraordinary summer of new friends and falling in love, she witnesses a scary accident that changes everything. April is put to the ultimate test. Only she knows the truth behind what happened. But will she be able to expose it? And at what price? In The Accident, April struggles to find the truth in herself amidst a summer of lies.

A journey to love starts with a letter...Every December, Holly writes to a stranger who is spending Christmas alone. And every year she receives a letter from another lonely person. Being a part of the Dear Stranger club is a tradition she has come to treasure. Because, ever since the accident three years ago, Holly has spent Christmas alone. Usually, the letters go unanswered. But when Holly reads this year's Christmas letter, from an older woman called Emma, she feels compelled to track her down, as Emma mentions a place Holly knows all too well.Holly offers to help Emma reconnect with her estranged grandson. But when Holly tracks down handsome, dark-eyed Jack, she realises she's met him once before, and the connection was electric. Suddenly helping a stranger is about to get a lot more complicated... Praise for Emily Stone 'Will wrap around you like a hug in any season' JOSIE SILVER'Tender and gorgeously romantic. I LOVED it!' CATHY BRAMLEY

Based on multispecies ethnographic fieldwork and interviews in the UK, this book explores the social world of the cat fancy, or the leisure activity of breeding and exhibiting pedigree cats, with attention to the relations that breeding and showing practices generate between human guardians, and both pedigree and non-pedigree cats.

It started with a letter. It ended with a love story. A chance encounter during the holiday season brings two people together as quickly as it tears them apart--until fate intervenes again (and again) in this romantic debut novel in the tradition of One Day in December.Every December, Josie posts a letter from her home in London to the parents she lost on Christmas night many years ago. Each year, she writes the same three words: Missing you, always. But this year, her annual trip to the postbox is knocked off course by a bicycle collision with a handsome stranger--a stranger who will change the course of Josie's life. Josie always thought she was the only one who avoided the Christmas season, but this year, Max has his own reasons for doing the same-and coincidence leads them to spending the holiday together. Aglow with new love, Josie thinks this might be the start of something special. Only for Max to disappear without saying goodbye. Over the course of the next year, Max and Josie will find that fate continues to bring them together in places they'd never expect. New York City. Edinburgh. The quiet English countryside. And it turns out, Max had every reason to leave and every reason to stay. But what does fate hold for Josie and Max as Christmas approaches again? A devastating, romantic, life-affirming love story, Always, in December will stay with readers long after they've finished the last page.

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