In this enchanting novel set at Cedar Cove’s cozy Rose Harbor Inn, #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber celebrates the power of love—and a well-timed love letter—to inspire hope and mend a broken heart.
Summer is a busy season at the inn, so proprietor Jo Marie Rose and handyman Mark Taylor have spent a lot of time together keeping the property running. Despite some folks’ good-natured claims to the contrary, Jo Marie insists that Mark is only a friend. However, she seems to be thinking about this particular friend a great deal lately. Jo Marie knows surprisingly little about Mark’s life, due in no small part to his refusal to discuss it. She’s determined to learn more about his past, but first she must face her own—and welcome three visitors who, like her, are setting out on new paths.
Twenty-three-year-old Ellie Reynolds is taking a leap of faith. She’s come to Cedar Cove to meet Tom, a man she’s been corresponding with for months, and with whom she might even be falling in love. Ellie’s overprotective mother disapproves of her trip, but Ellie is determined to spread her wings.
Maggie and Roy Porter are next to arrive at the inn. They are taking their first vacation alone since their children were born. In the wake of past mistakes, they hope to rekindle the spark in their marriage—and to win back each other’s trust. But Maggie must make one last confession that could forever tear them apart.
For each of these characters, it will ultimately be a moment when someone wore their heart on their sleeve—and took pen to paper—that makes all the difference. Debbie Macomber’s moving novel reveals the courage it takes to be vulnerable, accepting, and open to love.
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Ugly Love
Number-one New York Times best-selling author Colleen Hoover returns with a new heart-wrenching love story.
When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn’t think it’s love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her:
Never ask about the past.
Don’t expect a future.
They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all.
Hearts get infiltrated.
Promises get broken.
Rules get shattered.
Love gets ugly.
Love Quotes: For Inspired Relationships
What is it about love that we find some compelling? It drives us, inspires us, and fulfils us. Love is the antidote to our human suffering. Only in love do we find completion, and with it, our life needs no other meaning. Yet despite the obsessive quality of our heart’s desire, so few of us are able to articulate how love makes us feel, particularly to someone we love! The benefit of this book is twofold; it brings Love’s most beautiful sentiments right to your fingertips, and it portrays enlightened ideals to which your love can aspire.
This book curates sublime and beautiful quotes and verses on the subject of Love from: Marilyn Monroe Dr. Seuss Bob Marley William Shakespeare Albert Einstein Mark Twain and many more!
Greeting cards are read once then thrown away, but a book of wisdom can inspire for a lifetime. Give an unforgettable gift!
TheQuoteWell books are curated collections. Each book is the result of an exhaustive search from past through present for only the most amazing quotes on the subjects of Love, Life, Leadership, and more! The result is a chorus of profound wisdom emanating from a fascinating diversity of speakers.
Talk To Me Like I’m Someone You Love: Flash Cards for Real Life (Tarcher Inspiration Cards)
Based on Talk to Me Like I’m Someone You Love, described by Glamour.com as “the most crucial relationship advice book since Men Are from Mars,” this card deck has the power to stop an argument dead in its tracks. Talk to Me Like I’m Someone You Love: Flash Cards For Real Life feature sixty-four written statements that hold the power to express what we wish we could say to the person we love, but for which we can’t find either the right words or the right tone in which to say them. On the back of each beautifully designed card are “field notes” from the author that explain when, why, and how to use the statement. These cards include statements such as:
Right now, I don’t need a lecture. I need your love. I’m afraid to be real with you. When you are so intense, it’s hard to take in what might be valid about what you are saying. When you treat me this way, it feels like you don’t respect me. Is that true? We need a new perspective. Let’s take a break and each get clearer about what really matters here. Okay?
These flash cards, as well as the book on which they’re based, were first inspired by a particularly angry couples therapy session in which a wife’s unrelenting criticism of her husband was making him more and more emotionally withdrawn. Suddenly, Nancy Dreyfus found herself scribbling on a scrap of paper, “Talk to me like I’m someone you love,” and gesturing to the husband that he should hold it up. He did, and within seconds, the familiar power differential between the two shifted, and a gentler, more genuine connection emerged before all their eyes. Talk to Me Like I’m Someone You Love: Flash Cards For Real Life are a brilliant interactive relationship tool that can help couples stop arguing and begin healing.
The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life – Master Any Skill or Challenge by Learning to Love the Process
In those times when we want to acquire a new skill or face a formidable challenge we hope to overcome, what we need most are patience, focus, and discipline, traits that seem elusive or difficult to maintain. In this enticing and practical book, Thomas Sterner demonstrates how to learn skills for any aspect of life, from golfing to business to parenting, by learning to love the process.
Early life is all about trial-and-error practice. If we had given up in the face of failure, repetition, and difficulty, we would never have learned to walk or tie our shoes. So why, as adults, do we often give up on a goal when at first we don’t succeed? In his study of how we learn (prompted by his pursuit of disciplines such as music and golf), Sterner has found that we have forgotten the principles of practice the process of picking a goal and applying steady effort to reach it. The methods Sterner teaches show that practice done properly isn’t drudgery on the way to mastery but a fulfilling process in and of itself, one that builds discipline and clarity.
Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
Can working parents in America—or anywhere—ever find true leisure time?
According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is “that place in which we realize our humanity.” If that’s true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we’re doing dangerously little realizing of our humanity. In Overwhelmed, Schulte, a staff writer for The Washington Post, asks: Are our brains, our partners, our culture, and our bosses making it impossible for us to experience anything but “contaminated time”?
Schulte first asked this question in a 2010 feature for The Washington Post Magazine: “How did researchers compile this statistic that said we were rolling in leisure—over four hours a day? Did any of us feel that we actually had downtime? Was there anything useful in their research—anything we could do?”
Overwhelmed is a map of the stresses that have ripped our leisure to shreds, and a look at how to put the pieces back together. Schulte speaks to neuroscientists, sociologists, and hundreds of working parents to tease out the factors contributing to our collective sense of being overwhelmed, seeking insights, answers, and inspiration. She investigates progressive offices trying to invent a new kind of workplace; she travels across Europe to get a sense of how other countries accommodate working parents; she finds younger couples who claim to have figured out an ideal division of chores, childcare, and meaningful paid work. Overwhelmed is the story of what she found out.
Permission to Parent: How to Raise Your Child with Love and Limits
After being bombarded by parenting fad after parenting fad, moms and dads finally have a friendly, commonsense guide to raising thriving children.
Today, many parents have rejected the dictatorships they resented from their own childhoods. But they overcorrected by turning into child-pleasers. Showering praise and letting kids rule the roost has actually eroded the very self-esteem parents are trying to create.
Using her clinical experience, psychiatrist Robin Berman shows parents how they can take charge while building a loving family with deep connections. How children learn love and respect at home becomes the template for how they show love and respect in life. It’s a huge task, but Dr. Berman is your ally every step of the way.
Every parent’s struggles are reflected (many of them comically), but so are heartwarming triumphs. Parents, teachers and children themselves recount turning points at which they figured out what great parenting looked like and the magic it unlocked.
This engaging book—a perfect mix of medical research and inspirational anecdotes—just might be the key to being the parent you want to be and the parent your children need.
A Dictionary of Love: Over 650 quotes on love from the profane to the profound arranged alphabetically in 213 subject categories by more than 350 … Erich Fromm, Mother Theresa and Zsa Zsa Gabor
Praise for A Dictionary of Love “A Dictionary of Love is a veritable Valentine of a book. It‘s a tidy collection of bon mots on the subject of love.” The Sunday Herald, Monterrey, CA “A really fun book to read. There is either a good laugh or a real thought provoker (or even both) on each page.” New England Bride “Consider these ‘pearls of wisdom’ from A Dictionary of Love” Family Circle “Who wrote the book of love? The Answer, historians will argue. might be pretty difficult to trace. But one thing is certainly true, whoever wrote the book of love could probably have used Gil Friedman’s A Dictionary of Love, on the desk beside the tablets, papyrus sheets, sheepskin, or whatever the muses used in the misty land of romantic wisdom.” Chico Enterprise Record, Chico, CA “With its variety of quotes—from the acerbic to the spiritual to the sentimental—this collection is never dull, and it also offers many thoughts worth meditating on.” Small Press Review “Beautiful Work.” John Robbins, author of Diet for a Small America “…Very beautiful book, we will refer to it often.” Joyce and Barry Visell, authors of The Shared Heart “What a joy to receive your wonderful book. I am honored you included mine.” Susan Jeffers, author of Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway “A great depository of quotes on love.” Single Adult Ministry Information “What sets Mr. Friedman’s volume apart from earlier anthologies on the theme of love is that he included many New Age sages and they add a touch of seriousness and timeliness. There is Rollo May, Meher Baba, Gerald G. Jampolsky, Bernie S. Siegal, to mention just a few.” North Coast News “Funny, rueful, practical, wise and compassionate, this collection is a recommended gift to anyone who is in or might be in a love relationship (like teenagers). One charming feature is the great range of attitudes displayed. One can disagree totally with one, and on the same page find one that rings true and provides an insight. Lots of fun, and more educational than many a tome.” New Age Retailer “This rich reference book is a must for all of us who want to express and understand love. Helpful, funny, bittersweet comments and insights. . . In all, about 300 lovers from various times and places unite to guide the reader on an odyssey invaluable to those who write lyrics, poetry, or an occasional love letter. It would make a suitable gift to mark either the end or the beginning of a love affair.” Body, Mind Spirit “Witty, profound and sometimes just plain fun this book is a delightful addition to the growing ranks of subject specific quotation books. It will be welcome by anyone—reader, writer, or librarian—who has ever searched in vain for just the right quote on the subject of love.” American Reference Book Annual, Vol. 22, Libraries Unlimited, Inc. (It has been translated into Korean and Chinese.) NEW EXPANDED EDITION! A Dictionary of Love with 22 more subject categories and over 50 more authors than the first edition. A Dictionary of Love consists of over 650 quotes on love from the profane to the profound arrange alphabetically in 213 subject categories by more than 350 authors, philosophers and celebrities including Kahlil Gibran, Bertrand Russell, Erich Fromm, Mother Teresa and Zsa Zsa Gabor. The book is arranged for leisurely and easy reading. There is an index in the back listing authors, the category containing their quotes, and the source of these quotes, when known.
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Love Comes Along: The Best Mistake, Local Hero
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts come two classic tales about finding the man of your dreams right under your nose
The Best Mistake
Ex-model Zoe Fleming is now a hardworking single mom—and she wouldn’t have it any other way. Though she would like a tenant to share household expenses. What she gets is confirmed bachelor J. Cooper McKinnon. Coop quickly befriends her son and in no time has the reluctant Zoe charmed, too. But she has zero room in her life for a man! Either this was a recipe for disaster or the best mistake she’s ever made.
Local Hero
Hester Wallace is proud of her independence. She needs only one man in her life—her nine-year-old son, Radley. But when Rad starts idolizing their neighbor Mitch Dempsey, Hester wonders if her son needs a male role model. Hester would do anything for her boy, but inviting Mitch into their lives is dangerous. She might start to rely on Mitch… or worse, fall in love with him.