Touch is a fundamental part of human interaction. What happens when that simple pleasure causes immeasurable fear?Ireland Hayes has fought an uphill battle with his phobia most of his life, believing "normal" is unachievable. Every time things look up, unexpected triggers set him right back to square one where he needs to start over. When he falls, he falls hard.Work is impossible.Love is impossible.Life is impossible.Raven Kingsley takes life as it comes. Not many things bother this free-spirited man. He is passionate, vibrant, and easy-going. He's the friend who's always there, and the sympathetic shoulder for anyone in need. He works hard. Loves with his entire heart and soul. And believes life is always possible.Ireland doesn't have much faith in relationships. The past has proven many times that he isn't worthy of love. Everyone gives up. Will Raven prove different? When the walls come crashing down, will love prevail? Or are life, love, and happiness truly meant for someone else?

A Touch of Love is Jonathan Coe's delightfully comic and moving novel about not fitting in Robin, a postgraduate student in Coventry, has spent four and a half years not writing his thesis. He and his academic colleagues, united by pallor, social ineptitude and sexual inexperience, once spent hours discussing their theories, but they somehow never made it into print. Now his unfinished thesis languishes in a drawer, and Robin hides in his room, increasingly frightened by a world he doesn't understand. His friends have failed him and romance eludes him. His only outlet is his short stories, scribbled in notebooks and expressing his secret obsessions and frustrations. Then, when an unfortunate and embarrassing incident in a public park lands him in serious trouble, Robin's life finally spirals out of control. . . A Touch of Love is a brilliant, bittersweet book that will be enjoyed by readers of David Nicholls, Nick Hornby and lovers of comic fiction. 'A magnetic, moving tale' Observer 'Very funny' The Times Literary Supplement 'Witty and astringently intelligent' Guardian Jonathan Coe's novels are filled with moving, astute observations of life and love, and are written with a revealing honesty that has captivated a generation of readers. His other titles, The Accidental Woman, The Rotters' Club (winner of the Everyman Wodehouse prize), The Closed Circle, The Dwarves of Death, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, The House of Sleep (winner of the 1998 Prix Médicis Étranger), A Touch of Love, What a Carve Up! (winner of the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Middle England (Costa Novel Award), Mr Wilder and Me and Bournville are all available in Penguin paperback. Written with his signature wit, Jonathan Coe's unmissable new novel, The Proof of My Innocence, is available to order now!

With the advent of sites like www.whollylove.com comes a growing awareness that sex was God's idea, that we can celebrate its joys and rewards openly before God, and that there are facts and techniques to be learnt that will improve our sex lives. Written from the orthodox Christian viewpoint that sex belongs within marriage, this books speaks plainly about mutual understanding, preparation and practice. Chapters cover issues that arise from the earliest days of marriage right through to maturer years. The book is illustrated with line drawings.

As they sat talking, Jerry took Kathy's hand in his. When she turned to look at him and tried to pull her hand away, he smiled and held her hand tighter. It made her feel good inside, something she hadn't felt in a long time. Kathy and Jerry are two people living two very different lives. But after a chance meeting at an afternoon baseball game, instant attraction sparks, and both are left to decide if they will choose to seek out God's answers for their future or continue down separate roads. In A Touch of Love C.A. Cavanaugh presents a story of hurt, disappointment, bruised lives—and the love that conquers all. Can Jerry convince Kathy that God will take the broken pieces of her life and make something good for the both of them? Will Kathy forgive herself and allow God to work in her life? Join Kathy as she examines her sordid past and questions whether she's the right woman for Jerry, a man called of God. After A Touch of Love, their lives will never be the same.

"Just think, most of the universe is made up of stuff no one can see or hear." Kassie has felt adrift ever since her dad died when she was in college. Now 24 and living in Seattle, she gets interested in learning sign language through her roommate, an ASL interpreter. One day at a Deaf community event, she sees a young man sitting off by himself. Kassie feels compelled to try signing to him--the fact that he's strikingly handsome doesn't hurt. Jake has been deaf and blind since birth. His disability has cut him off from the world, but beneath his isolated exterior is a smart, sweet guy with a dry sense of humor. Despite the odds, he's highly educated, but at 26 he's gotten stuck in a rut with few friends and no clear career path. Until a sweet-smelling girl introduces herself to him unexpectedly, and opens up a whole new world to him.Jake is more intelligent, more genuine than anyone Kassie has met before, and for the first time she starts to feel like her life has some direction. But as their friendship deepens into something more, the difficulty in communicating with each other only grows, and it seems like everyone they know thinks their relationship won't work. How can they come to a deeper understanding of each other, and find a future together?Originally published in 2013 by Dev Love Press, Love in Touch has been reissued in a second edition.

In A Touch of His Love, Charles Stanley explains why knowing and receiving the love of Christ is the path to genuine worship and personal devotion, explores the depth and breadth of God's amazing, awesome love, and helps readers to experience this love anew. Photos by the author.