Neuroscientist Dr. Stephanie Cacioppo was
single at 37 and content with focusing on the neuroscience of romantic love.
However, everything changed when she met a neuroscientist whose work was on the
neuroscience of loneliness, John Cacioppo. After falling in love, they married
and shared an office while working at the University of Chicago. Seven years
after their wedding, John died of cancer.
Wired for Love not only breaks down Cacioppo’s research about love but
is about her own personal experience that she shared with her late husband.
Cacioppo’s book shows us how we process love that is lost and how grief and
healing affect us.
From the world’s foremost neuroscientist of romantic love comes a personal story of connection and heartbreak that brings new understanding to an old truth: better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
At thirty-seven, Dr. Stephanie Cacioppo was content to be single. She was fulfilled by her work on the neuroscience of romantic love―how finding and growing with a partner literally reshapes our brains. That was, until she met the foremost neuroscientist of loneliness. A whirlwind romance led to marriage and to sharing an office at the University of Chicago. After seven years of being…
In this novel that takes place in the 1960s, Talitha
Getty, the young wife of Paul Getty, a famous oil heir, had a dream existence
from an outsider's perspective.
She was a known model and actress in her
twenties and lived in a palace in Marrakesh with her husband. Life was lavish
and had no bounds.
It is through the eyes of newcomer Claire, who
instantly hits it off with Talitha, that we realize there is darkness beneath
the alluring veneer. As the two women continue to grow closer, the precarious
realities of Talitha's life threaten to alter Claire.
We are drawn into the
center of Talitha's drama, secrets, and the tragic end.
A PARADE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK POST BEST BOOK OF THE WEEK
In her first novel inspired by a true story, Jane Green re-imagines the life of troubled icon Talitha Getty in this transporting story from a forgotten chapter of the Swinging '60s
From afar Talitha's life seemed perfect. In her twenties, and already a famous model and actress, she moved from London to a palace in Marrakesh, with her husband Paul Getty, the famous oil heir. There she presided over a swirling ex-pat scene filled with music, art, free love and a…
Heard’s thriller introduces readers to Summer
and Leo, two close friends who travel around California in Summer’s Land
Cruiser. Both young women are escaping their pasts and lost connections to
their mothers. They have become con artists to survive.
Everything changes when Leo sets her sights on
self-made billionaire Michael Forrester as her next scheme for the ‘con.’ Once
she is invited to his private island off the California coastline, it seems
like a smooth plan… yet she is in over her head and disappears soon after.
Summer determines to find out what really happened and travels to Michael’s
Island. Once there, she quickly learns that no one knows who Leo is and there
is no way to leave. Has Summer finally entered too dangerous an arena?
In a “thriller with a sharp take on wealth and privilege” (People, Book of the Week), two best friends grift their way through the California elite—until a scam goes awry.
“A blazingly sharp, sexy, feminist thriller for those who wished The White Lotus season two was told from the POV of Mia and Lucia.”—Halley Sutton, author of The Hurricane Blonde
A Glamour Best New Summer Thriller • A Paste Must-Read Thriller • A Crime Reads Most Anticipated Crime Novel
Summer and Leo would do anything for each other. Inspired by the way each has had to carve her place in…
Veronica and Simon Cutler and their dazzling
adult daughters, Elodie and Aubrey, strike an enviable pose, the ultimate Palm
Beach family. While the sisters are opposites, they are fiercely loyal to
each other. When Elodie receives the shocking news that she is no longer able
to conceive a baby, she turns to Aubrey.
Aubrey, a free spirit, isn’t interested in marriage or children, yet when her
sister asks her to carry her child, she can’t say no despite her mother’s
warnings. And then one stupefying secret, meant to be buried forever, is
unearthed, and no one in the Cutler clan can turn back.
As the family is
shaken, Aubrey and Elodie must realize their places in the world
and the lives they want to lead.
