Sphere In the Time We Lost Fletcher Carrie Hope

Your soul is too heavy to pass through this door, • Leave the weight of the world in the world from before • Evie Snow is eighty-two when she quietly passes away in her sleep, surrounded by her children and grandchildren. It's the way most people wish to leave the world but when Evie reaches the door of her own private heaven, she finds that she's become her twenty-seven-year-old self and the door won't open • Evie's soul must be light enough to pass through so she needs to get rid of whatever is making her soul heavy. For Evie, this means unburdening herself of the three secrets that have weighed her down for over fifty years, so she must find a way to reveal them before it's too late. As Evie begins the journey of a lifetime, she learns more about life and love than she ever thought possible, and somehow, some way, she may also find her way back to the only man she ever truly loved

The latest in the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series from the worldwide bestselling author, Alexander McCall Smith • Life for Bertie seems to be moving at a pace that is rather out of his control. Upstairs, at 44 Scotland Street, his father Stuart is powerless to stop over-bearing Irene and her determination that Bertie will travel to deepest, coldest Aberdeen on a three-month sojourn. Can his friend Ranald Braveheart Macpherson save the day? And can the boys execute a great escape? Meanwhile, further up in the New Town, Bruce Anderson's property development plans are thwarted by a sudden crisis of conscience that leads to a shocking revelation. And, in Big Lou's cafe, it seems that love might blossom at last • Warm hearted, humorous and always wonderfully wise, Love in the Time of Bertie offers philosophical insight as well as sartorial elegance

There are novels, like journeys, which you never want to end: this is one of them. One seventh of July at six in the afternoon, a woman of 71 and a man of 78 ascend a gangplank and begin one of the greatest adventures in modern literature. The man is Florentino Ariza, President of the Carribean River Boat Company; the woman is his childhood sweetheart, the recently widowed Fermina Daza. She has earache. He is bald and lame. Their journey up-river, at an age when they can expect 'nothing more in life', holds out a shimmering promise: the consummation of an amor interruptus spanning half a century. Love in the Time of Cholera is one of the most uplifting romances of our times. An epiphany to late-flowering love, it holds out the subversive promise that you can have what you wish for: you may just have to wait

At seven years old, Nainoa falls into the sea and a shark takes him in its jaws – only to return him, unharmed, to his parents. For the next thirty years Noa and his siblings struggle with life in the shadow of this miracle • Sharks in the Time of Saviours is a brilliantly original and inventive novel, the sweeping story of a family living in poverty among the remnants of Hawai‘i’s mythic past and the wreckage of the American dream

Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time • Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half-century, Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina. Having sworn his eternal love to her, he lives for the day when he can court her again • When Fermina's husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love

Four narrators, a student from a cafe, a private detective hired by an aggrieved husband, the heroine herself and one of her lovers, construct a portrait of Jacqueline Delanque, otherwise known as Louki • The daughter of a single mother who works in the Moulin Rouge, Louki grows up in poverty in Montmartre. Her one attempt to escape her background fails when she is rejected from the Lycee Jules-Ferry. She meanders on through life, into a cocaine habit, and to frequenting the Cafe Conde, whose regulars begin calling her "Louki". She drifts into marriage with a real estate agency director, but finds no satisfaction with him or his friends and so makes the simple decision not to return to him one evening. She turns instead to a young man almost as aimless and adrift as she, but who perhaps loves her all the same

Just as Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower became the defining account of our century's first devastating event, 9/11, so The Plague Year will become the defining account of the second • The story starts with the initial moments of Covid's appearance in Wuhan and ends with Joseph Biden's inauguration in an America ravaged by well over 400,000 deaths - a mortality already some ten times worse than US combat deaths in the entire Vietnam War • This is an anguished, furious memorial to a year in which all of America's great strengths - its scientific knowledge, its great civic and intellectual institutions, its spirit of voluntarism and community - were brought low, not by a terrifying new illness alone, but by political incompetence and cynicism on a scale for which there has been no precedent

'It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love' • Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half-century, Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina • When Fermina's husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love. But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives?

Два человека. Один выбор. Что, если? • У каждой истории любви есть начало… • Люси и Гейб встречаются в Нью–Йорке в день, который навсегда изменит их жизни – и весь мир. Пока город горит у них за спиной, они целуются в самый первый раз • В течение следующих тринадцати лет их то разлучали, то снова собирали вместе, снова и снова. Это путешествие мечтаний, желаний, ревности, прощения – и, прежде всего, любви • И поскольку Люси стоит перед разрушительным выбором, она задается вопросом, является ли их любовь делом судьбы или случая • что, если на этом их история закончится? • Книга на английском языке • Two people. One choice. What if? • Every love story has a beginning… • Lucy and Gabe meet in New York on a day that will change their lives – and the world – forever

"С этим поцелуем" • Если бы вы знали, чем закончится ваша история любви, осмелились бы вы ее начать? • Со стороны Лорелай - обычная молодая женщина с обычной жизнью. Она любит читать, работает в местном кинотеатре и обожает жить со своей лучшей подругой. Но на ее плечи ложится тяжкое бремя, которое она скрывала долгие годы: всякий раз, целуя кого-то в губы, она видит, как он умирает • Лорелай никогда не знала, видит ли она то, что было предрешено, или ее поцелуй решает их судьбу. Поэтому с восемнадцати лет она ни с кем не целовалась • А потом она встречает Грейсона. Милого, умного, забавного Грейсона. И впервые за много лет она жаждет мужского поцелуя. Но она не может... или может? И если да, то стоит ли ей пытаться вмешаться и изменить то, что она видит? • Завораживающая, волшебная и совершенно оригинальная книга "С этим поцелуем" - история любви, которую вы никогда не забудете

Если бы вы знали, чем закончится ваша история любви, осмелились бы вы начать? • Внешне Лорелай - обычная молодая женщина с нормальной жизнью. Она любит читать, работает в местном кинотеатре и обожает свою лучшую подругу. Но она несет болезненное бремя, то, что скрывала годами; всякий раз, когда она целует кого-то в губы, она видит, как этот человек умрет • Лорелай так и не узнала, видит ли она то, что должно было быть, или ее поцелуй - это то, что решает их судьбу. И она никого не целовала с тех пор, как ей исполнилось восемнадцать • Но однажды она встречает Грейсона. Милого, умного, забавного Грейсона. И впервые за много лет она жаждет мужского поцелуя. Но она не может... или может? И если она это сделает, может ли она попытаться вмешаться и изменить то, что она видит? • Завораживающий, волшебный и совершенно оригинальный, роман Кэрри Флетчер "С этим поцелуем" - история любви, которую вы никогда не забудете

In the aftermath of tragedy, it's strange what you remember • The deafening boom as the house exploded • The paralyzing fear as I searched for my wife • The smoke blinding me as I carried her out • But the woman in my arms was not my wife • Bree and Eason survive the fire that takes their partners - but neither of them are truly living after that fateful night. As a single dad with nowhere to turn, Eason moves in with Bree despite the old tensions and the new grief they share • Eason may have carried Bree out of the fire, but she just might be the one to save him. Yet as they both start to heal, and romance flickers to life, secrets from the past threaten to ignite • Their love was born from the embers, and together they could go up in flames