Do you know how pathetic and stupid it feels when people just turn away from you for no apparent reason? When they want nothing more to do with you from one day to the next? Believe me, I know how you feel and I've been there. That's exactly how I felt. Because of two people I once called my friends. Mia and Hannah were the constants in my little world for seven long years. I thought it would stay that way forever. But here I am, two years later. With many unanswered questions and memories of that time. Being a teenager is already challenging enough, but having struggles with friends makes it all even more complicated. Back then, I wished someone with similar experiences would have talked about their worries. So here I am sharing mine with you. Trust me, you are not alone. And it will become better.

Do you know this moment when your parents ask you: What happened to you? And its not a good: You changed question, its a: You can not be fixed, one so you just shrug because there are too many words at once? This is the answer. No matter if you are the one in need of comfort, the one to understand or the cause. This book was written for understanding what happens in our minds, to cure our inner childs and most importantly to know it is okay, no matter the age. May you find a home between these pages.

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Winner of the Alex Award and the Massachusetts Book Award • Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Grantland Booklist, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, School Library Journal, Bustle, and Time Our New York The acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts “A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense.” —O, the Oprah Magazine “Explosive . . . Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family.” —Entertainment Weekly “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.

What happens when a dreamer, swept into love's tide, meets a lover seeking stability on life's undertow? Simon Balzano and June McKenna's journey begins in 2007, when they first meet at the verge of death. They grow up as next-door neighbors and classmates with grand ambitions, but after a sudden loss, Simon struggles with the weight of responsibilities that drown out his dreams. Meanwhile, June, fueled by a burning desire to become a successful screenwriter, grapples with balancing her career aspirations against a future with Simon. Their story, a heart-wrenching experience of fragile love tested by fate and their relentless attempts to rewrite it - a gripping and devastating page-turner. Well-intended secrets and unspoken sacrifices, nurtured over a decade, threaten to flood everything they've built. Can their love endure the opposing currents that threaten to pull them apart, or will it suffocate along with their dreams?

Love is so short, forgetting is so long. This is what Pablo Neruda writes, but who and why do we remember? This anthology examines how we experience life and relationships through our five senses: smell, sight, sound, taste, and touch. But more importantly, how do we remember when we have loved and lost? Embark on a journey through the body and mind as the story unfolds of the father's and daughters whose relationship flourished and failed, and maybe as it restores again. Eat your way through burnt toast and slick sushi spines. Listen to the cicadas and screaming. Smell the ocean and gasoline down the burning pavement. Touch a beloveds hand and feel its grip around your throat. But most importantly, see the life as it unfolds, for one day it might be over and nothing remains but the memories left in its wake. This is an exploration of what prevails at the end of love.

Penelope Young meets him in an unexpected moment. Hayden Moore, who sooner or later would play an important role in her future. But when Penelope receives a phone call from Hayden's brother, her life immediately changes. A sudden stroke of fate causes her whole life to change. But at some point, she has to face the truth. Since Hayden would have wanted that. Hayden, who always saw her potential and the great woman she would eventually become someday.

Her name is Rose, she planted peonies and she loved. those were the words she has written.