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How to Fall in Love - Cecelia Ahern

"You don't want to end your life, you want yo end your pain that I'm sure you wake up with and go to bed at night with. Maybe no one around understands that, but I do, believe me. But you don't want to end it all the time, do you? Just sometimes it passes through your mind, probably more often lately than before. It's like a habit, trying to think of different ways to end it all. But it passes, doesn't it." - How to Fall in Love    Summary by : Harper Collins A thoughtful, captivating and ultimately uplifting novel from this uniquely talented author She has just two weeks. Two weeks to teach him how to fall in love – with his own life. Adam Basil and Christine Rose are thrown together late one night, when Christine is crossing the Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin. Adam is there, poised, threatening to jump. Adam is desperate – but Christine makes a crazy deal with him. His 35th birthday is looming and she bets him that before then she ...

If you Could See me Now - Cecelia Ahern

"You know when you can feel someone with you? And even though not everyone believes in that person, you know they're there?" - If you Could See me Now Captivating!  As everything Cecelia Ahern touches, just a few pages in it turns into gold. I'm always amazed by how she manages to add the exactly right amounts of magic, mystery, love and humanness to make for a perfect story. Elizabeth adopted her nephew after her sister started showing signs of becoming just like their mother, who abandoned them when they were young. Elizabeth, after having to grow up too fast raising her younger sister and now her nephew, only feels secure when her world is deeply based in reality. She's not one for fun or imagination, and believes that hard work is the best way to stay relatively sane. Out of the blue one day her nephew, Luke, has an imaginary friend, Ivan. Elizabeth starts to worry that his mind is going much like his mother's and does everything s...