love is is a powerful thing
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If I could just  one word about this it would be COLLIN ohhh I love this book I think it is  my favorite collin is hot sexy smart and powerful man and he has the hot's for miss tessa he wants her bad and tessa feels the same about him she thinks he is hot and sexy and arrogant but she has been hurt so bad by lucas she has a hard time trusting him at first she is super sassy that what I love about her and she loves with her whole heart she don't like to hurt anyone I did more laughing I  this book than crying don't get me wrong there r some sad parts in this book but lots of happy times collin gets along with her family he fellin love with from the first time he seen her  I LOVE THIS BOOK  so great  collin and tessa forever
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There are many kinds of love, as we are reminded in A Groovy Kind of Love.
From the first chapter, where our hero Thaddeus recalls his oldest memory, to the final ones, where he demonstrates his unwavering love for Spring Pearson, this book chronicles the many ways that we all give and receive love. Even when our hearts feel like breaking from the weight of the worlds sorrows, love in its various forms lifts us up and carries us forward, whether via acts of kindness, shared experiences with friends or traditional romantic love.
Above all, this story reminds us that love is everywhere, and impacts everything we do and feel. We are changed by love and our love has the power to change others. Sometimes it reveals itself when least expected, for which we need to be grateful.
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Communicating with love

Breezes is a story about a couple that have fallen in love, but have trouble communicating. Throughout the book they are communicating, without communicating, thus the tittle breezes. How love commenced, and thrived through spiritual conversation. The Author relates the agony felt in each breath, of the lost words we feel when in love.
The importance of the story is the art of the human condition, and its complexity. We feel love, but are inhibited perhaps by all we know. Doubt, and assumptions make us negatively react to love. We fail to accept, or we seek to explain the cause of events that happen to us, we rarely consider the randomness of events. We often seek reasons, explanations for why love happens.
I recommend this book to anyone that understands love, and the complexity of it all. If you want to read, know the other version of the story, this is the book. Beautifully written, and heart felt it took me in a whirlwind, like its tittle of emotion, I was breezed away by its power.
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The author of Rants on Love does a phenomenal job of presenting what love is about--philosophically speaking. I never thought  love was as deep as the author presents it. I always had a somewhat simplistic view of love. However, the author has convinced me otherwise; love is chaotic and humans evolve. Thus, love isn't based on rational thinking of how you view your significant other, rather love is an act of faith. This book gives me hope for love: love is all we need, yet it is not what we perceive it to be.

"I've made a choice a while back to accept the fact that love cannot be cataloged. Love cannot be reduced to words. Love should not be reduced to words. You should not merely say "I love you"; your entire existence should breathe love into every sphere of your beloved's life. You should not dissect love and dismantle it into a loveless pile of technical jargon and empirical atoms. Love should remain elusive -- even for the philosopher. It should remain even when all other questions have been answered. Love alone shall reign as god of questions. Love will remain a mystery that baffles the wise and irritates the stupid. It will give men suffering from erectile dysfunction four-hour erections and women suffering from sterility pregnancies. Love should remain a verb. It should not be talked about much -- it should merely be the very essence of our existence. Like oxygen, it must remain a given -- something no one dare mention, but something all of us could not live without, even for a second" - p. 122.
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Imagine Dragons Believer is the song that kept running through my head as I read Fred Feeleys latest, powerful novel about love and pain and cataclysm: When Heaven Strikes. So, when they make the movie about this, I get credit for choosing the theme song, ok?

Not everything is a phase, remember that.

A loving grandmother speaks these words to her terrified seven-year-old grandson as she rocks him in the aftermath of a terrifying brush with a tornado in the books prologue. It is an odd message, meant as much for the boys parents as it is for him, but It is a message the boy, Anderson, carries with him into adulthood. It is through the same grandmother, thirty years later, that Anderson meets Ted, a painter with a substantial local reputation, whom his grandmother commissions to paint a portrait of her garden in Indianola, Iowa, outside of Des Moines. The two men, in their late thirties, form an instant rapport, but each of them needs to negotiate the emotional hurts of his past. Both must be willing to risk the self-imposed, if comfortable, isolation of their lives.

This is a book that cuts close to the bone for Feeley. Ive been waiting for him to write this, and I know something of its psychological and emotional roots. I was not disappointed, and once it gets past a little rocky writing in the beginning, the story pulls you in and ties you up in the lives of its three protagonists. A rich cast of secondary players amplifies the main plot threads, bringing them together in the narrative crescendo of the final drama.  Eleanor, Andersons grandmother, is the lynchpin in the narrative, a warm, nurturing presence that influences Ted as much as it does Anderson. I particularly liked the fact that Eleanor is rich and socially prominent, not because that matters in itself, but because it suggests that such socio-economic power in the right hands can make peoples lives better. Eleanor is a force for good, and her garden is a metaphor for her big heart and her emotional courage.

Did you notice I mentioned three protagonists? The third makes a brief appearance at the beginning of the story, but doesnt really draw our attention until the second half of the book. Jeffery is a Baptist preacher who first encounters Ted as he canvases the neighborhood with his teenaged son Josiah. Rigid and doctrinaire, Jeffery is all too familiar to Ted, whose own father was such an evangelical minister. But at first Ted knows nothings of who Jeffery is, not even his name: he merely takes note of the teenaged son and sees himself at the same age in the same predicament. It is Teds mildly silly brush-off of Jefferys door-to-door efforts that inadvertently triggers what will come later, when both Jeffery and Josiah become participants in the story.

Wild as the wind is love appears on the cover of When Heaven Strikes as a sort of subtitle. Love can be a violent thing; both as a strong emotion, and as a trigger for physical violence when it clashes with deeply-held prejudice or desperate fear. It takes no great mental leap to figure out that the wind, too, will play a part in this tale of love and its consequences.

I want Matt Bomer to play Ted in the movie. Just saying.
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Couldnt put it down, most powerful book I have read in a very long time. Intrigue, heartbreak, humor, sadness, and in the end hope for all that have suffered abuse, that regardless of the ugliness a person has to endure, love can heal the pain and bring peace.
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This is a book well worth your time. Very inspiring and the power of love. Only one kind of LOVE that can change a Country. With friends and Love you can do anything.
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This is a book in which you feel the love in simple everyday events. It is powerful because we have all had the experience of trying to keep it all together for the kids, your spouse and family. Life has a way of challenging each of us and JessieMay has an insight into how to tell the stories of those challenges with love as the guiding principle. This is an elegant memoir of simplicity that inspires.
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As Erric Fromm taught us about responsibility after love, this movie taught us When love and duty are one, then grace is within you."

It's been a long time I did not give a perfect score for a movie. But this movie is so elegant and deep. Love can be made gradually. And love also can be at the first sight. It is a movie about an awkward love between the husband who love his bride at a first sight, and the independent woman who gradually respect and finally love her husband.
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This is an evocative and moving book about love, courage, loss, longing and the power of continued connection between mother and son. With a whole new realm of connection possibilities to consider, it beckons the mind and heart to stretch wide open.  Its an emotional, often mysterious, heart crushing AND heart lifting account of a young life extraordinarily well-lived and the loving and energetic bond that continues still between Melody and Dev.  This story is an intimate and emotional journey that invites the reader to sit still and contemplate whats possible. Bring a box of tissue and also prepare to smile through your tears as the power of love does its magic.
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Alex Flinn writes a powerful novel that grabs a reader's attention and doesn't let go until the end. First love, obsession, abuse, friendship, loyalty, self-esteem, and anger management are just a few of the topics covered in this novel. The book is even more powerful because it's told from the abuser's perspective. It is not until he is forced to attend anger management classes and his retelling of the events in journal format that Nick is able to come to grips with how his love for Caitlyn has become twisted and abusive. It is easy to see how Caitlyn, a formerly overweight girl with a controlling mother, has difficulty knowing when to draw the line and end her first real relationship with a charming and handsome boyfriend who has swept her into a higher social status within the school. Nick's fall from grace and spiraling relationships with new and former friends shows the importance of honesty in relationships and delves into the concept of loyalty.
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This book made me realize how much I associate music with various points in my life. When I hear a familiar song, I am often reminded of who I was with at the time, what I was doing, and my state of mind. Sheffield's book succeeds in verbalizing a lot of this feeling.

This book is about love. Sheffield uses music as a way to evoke the feelings he had for Renee, his ex-wife, at different periods of their relationship. This book takes the reader from the beginning of Sheffield's relationship with Renee, through their marriage, her death, Sheffield's mourning, and his eventual new romance. If one is familiar with the music Sheffield and Renee listen to, the book might be more powerful. But to someone like me with no real background of listening to that music, it still evoked the powerful feelings love and loss can awaken. I felt Sheffield's pain when Renee suddenly died. To lose someone you love so much is a blow that few people can recover from. I was wounded when I read about the lonely and aimless way Sheffield makes his way through life after Renee's death, everything and anything bringing up her memory. To anyone who has dared to love, the feelings in this book will bring up a case in deja vu. To those who haven't loved, it might give some insight as to why people act so crazy when they love someone.

I can't recommend this book enough.
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There are very few words used in this volume of poetry about that game we all play at -- Love, in all its disappointments and splendor. Very few words, but this little book speaks volumes! The images are powerful and will hit ya in the feels! I love the way he looks at the world, and at love. It is good to know men obsess like women do about affairs of the heart. A very honest and powerful look at being a human, alive and sexual, and a poet.
Plus, I love short poems! Get to the point I say, and he does.
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There are so many things that I could say about this book. I could go on for quite a long time about it. It is beautiful and it is powerful. Within its numbered amount of pages, I fell in love with the characters and I learned. Both Augustus and Hazel are wise beyond their years, Augustus even more so.

In response to the people who criticize Augustus and Hazel for not sounding like 'regular' teenagers, they were not regular teenagers. Not every teen is forced to fight a terrifying battle like the ones that Augustus and Hazel were forced into. Not every teen is forced to see the things that they saw because of that battle.

I will be honest and say that I am mad that it is Hazel who got to live, when Augustus did not. I found Augustus to be very unselfish and very vulnerable, and much easier for me to love. I thought that Hazel was very selfish, because after all, up until Gus told her about his recurrence, she never stopped to think that he, too, would always carry the possibility of being "like a grenade." Maybe I'm the selfish one for feeling that way, but I still feel that way. If there is one single thing I would want changed, it would be that Hazel would not be so oblivious to the feelings of others.

I could not put this book down from the moment I picked it up until the moment I finished it. Once again, it is beautiful and it is powerful. It is an absolute must read for everyone.

Thank you, John Green, for giving us an infinity within the numbered amount of pages of your book.
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The third book of poetry that Ms. Esselman and Ms. Velez have put together, YOU DRIVE ME CRAZY can help anyone once again believe in the power and redeeming force of love. Whether newlyweds, heading towards your golden anniversary, or gripped in the claws of new love with a significant other, these poems are for you.

From Shakespeare to Neruda, from e.e. Cummings to a poet named Rumi, YOU DRIVE ME CRAZY tackles every aspect of love and lays it bare. A testament to true love in VALENTINE segues into the daily lives of a couple caught in a lull in APEX PLUMBING. You can be thrown into that frenzied feeling of new love and sexuality in I WANT, then tossed back into the sea of heartache with FINDING IS THE FIRST ACT.

I am the first to admit that I don't know all the ins and outs of poetry. I don't know the structure with which true poems are put together; I haven't a clue as to what makes a poem a poem. What I do know, however, is that love is glorious thing. It's also the most painful emotion that a human being can suffer. In this book, you can live through the range of emotions that we all experience every day-longing, need, understanding, misery, and hope.

YOU DRIVE ME CRAZY is for the woman who knows that Hallmark cards aren't for real people. There are no cards to say "Gee, I'm sorry your kid got kicked off the basketball team," or "Oops, guess that comment I made about husbands who pick their noses in public wasn't so funny after all." This book is for me, for you, for everyone who knows that the good always comes with the bad, that baggage is generously included with your lover, and that being imperfect isn't, after all, necessarily the end of the world.
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I really enjoyed M.A. Abraham's story, Aura. It is very powerful and deep tale of a young woman, Aura, who is very unhappy due to the lack of love she craves from her mother which is never freely given. This has repercussions in her dealings with facing her soul mate. She finds him in the distant past where she is transported back in time from the cave she takes refuge from the hurt heaped on her yet again by her Mother. She adapts and grows as she did all her life, she is strong, witty, but afraid to believe that love does exist.
Thorn is a highly respected warlord, a very strong and proud warrior, also very warm and caring. He has dreamed about his soul mate for some time and those dreams come true when he meets Aura. Despite the rough beginning, their relationship blossoms into love. Makes us believe that you have to really believe in something, never let go of the hope you hold strong, and only then it will become reality.
I strongly recommend this book, it is a journey of two people who complement each other and together they are whole. A story showing that loves transcends time and place.
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Through a carefully crafted and intertwining dialogue, J. Matthew Nespoli takes the reader on an emotional journey with real life situations.  The dialogue will have you laughing out loud in one line and crying in the next.  Nespoli is able to show that we all have the same basic needs as humans and that when we're broken we all look for is the same thing: love.  "...love is the glue that keeps us from completely falling apart" and this power of love is incredible.  We all have our hang-ups whether large or small and this book will relate to people on all levels.

Everyone's problems are relative and in this fast-paced chaotic world sometimes the pieces missing to our puzzle of life are hard to find. However it is up to the individual to find the strength and love needed to piece it back together.  Nespoli shows how love mends all and that even in the darkest of times, love is what remains.

Broken is touching and even among the tears, readers will find themselves chuckling at the witty diologue. It is a must read that will be hard to put down.