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"what book are you r-where the words at..?" "someone of your intellect couldn't comprehend what i'm doing.." •┈┈┈••✦ ♡ ✦••┈┈┈• a story in which, a girl who loves to read, meets a boy who reads blank books. to which, an unlikely bond starts to form at a small little book store on the corner of 67th street. •┈┈┈••✦ ♡ ✦••┈┈┈• COLLEGE AU!! 📖💌☕️ started on: july 21, 2026 published on: july 21, 2026 ended on:

A stubborn bookstore owner. A frozen Swedish billionaire. And three inches that could ruin everything. Farrah Denise Rodgers has enough problems. Her dating app is a disaster, her cousins won't stop judging her choices, and running her family's beloved Chicago bookstore and tea shop, Rodgers Roots & Pages, already takes every ounce of patience she has. Then Aldrich Cunningham walks into her life. Cold, ruthless, and almost twice her age, Aldrich is a Swedish billionaire used to buying whatever stands in his way. But when his luxury redevelopment project hits a legal snag, all he needs is one tiny thing from Farrah: three inches of her family's property line. Farrah says no. To Aldrich, it's a minor easement. To Farrah, it's the first piece of a legacy her family fought too hard to keep. What starts as a business standoff quickly turns into something messier, warmer, and far more dangerous than either of them expected. Between awkward dating app disasters, jealous ex-wives, protective siblings, a past Aldrich can't keep buried, and a Rodgers family determined to bring South Side chaos all the way to Sweden, falling in love might be the least complicated part. Farrah doesn't need saving. Aldrich doesn't know how to be soft. But somehow, over tea, contracts, family dinners, and one very inconvenient truth, the woman he couldn't buy becomes the one thing he's terrified to lose. A contemporary interracial age-gap rom-com about legacy, laughter, healing, and the kind of love that teaches a cold man how to come into the light.

A slightly fantastical, magical realism in the nature of Michael Chabon or Fahrenheit 451 with the insights of the best young adult narrators.... A high school senior, Agnes describes an average brain dead video filled day at Devon Union High School. We are introduced to the last iconoclast English teacher, a dean of students bent on making classes as literature-free as possible, and a surly teen rebel who Agnes is fixated on, Sophie MacDonald. Buying a large cache of unwanted books, Anges and Sophie organize a book burning to make a bit of cash. By winter break the burnings become a dark spectacle. At the same time, her school becomes a series of video classes with optional attendance. As the schools continues to spiral downward, Agnes notices that residents disappear at the same time the books are burned. She comes to an act of civil disobedience that destroys the heart of her school and puts her on the run.

Melinda starts her first day as shift manager of Cozy Retreat with a personal disaster. After spilling coffee into the lap of the most influential food blogger online, she is sure her brief carreer as shift manager was over. An unexpected connection forms and all she needs to do is believe she deserves a second chance. But can Melinda trust her heart as she struggles to keep the secrets of her past and the footprints of her memories beat a path to her door? @XxxSistersxxX is my cover artist. Thank you for the amazing work.

"Some people enter your life like a storm. Others arrive with a cup of tea... and quietly become your home." Every morning at exactly 6:30 a.m., Shivani Sharma sits beside the river with a cup of chai before heading to her university. It's a routine she never misses. Until one morning... An elderly man collapses during his morning walk. Without asking who he is, Shivani rushes to help him. She doesn't know that the old man is Mahendra Singh, the respected head of one of India's most powerful business families. She also doesn't know that this one act of kindness is about to change her life forever. Through Mahendra, Shivani meets Akshit Singh-his quiet, disciplined, and emotionally distant grandson. Known as the ruthless heir of the Singh Empire, Akshit has no time for emotions... Until a simple girl with impossible dreams walks into his carefully controlled life. Between cups of chai... A forgotten bungalow... A dream café called Saanjh... And countless sunsets... Two strangers slowly become friends. Friends become each other's peace. And somewhere between silence and shared dreams... Love quietly finds its way. But can love survive when two people come from completely different worlds? Or will society force them apart before they can write their forever?

Evelyn Peters is suddenly forced to get a summer job when her mother decides that her "bad behavior" has gone too far. After landing a job at a local bookstore, thinking it's going to be fun times and easy going shifts, she finds out that her enemy since the 9th grade, Quinton Johns, will be working along side her. And boy, do things get ugly. WARNING: this story was started when i was 14 years old. i literally have no idea how i managed to write such a CRINGE story as if i had no brains at all, but it is what it is. i might, and i said MIGHT, continue writing it for pure enjoyment but i'm not sure when that would even be ive kinda given up on this book. anyway, enjoy at your own risk!

A slow-burn contemporary romance about found moments, found people, and discovering that the best chapters in life are often the ones we never intended to write. Some people collect things. Sam Reyes collects places. She'll take the longer road, strike up conversations with strangers, wander into tiny museums no one has heard of, and board trains with no itinerary beyond curiosity. After leaving Santa Fe for a fresh start in Richmond, Virginia, she's determined to build a life one unexpected discovery at a time, convinced that the best stories are never the ones you plan. August Calloway has built a life that already feels complete. A beloved high school English teacher, advisor to the literary magazine, and firm believer that stories matter because people matter, he's content with quiet mornings, overflowing bookshelves, meaningful conversations, and the students who remind him every day why he became a teacher. Nearly a year after the end of a six-year relationship, love is the last thing on his mind. Then one ordinary trip to a used bookstore changes everything. One book. Two strangers. The same moment. What begins as an accidental meeting among dusty shelves slowly unfolds into something neither of them was searching for, proving that sometimes the most important journeys don't begin with a destination. They begin with a single, unexpected page.

--- THE LIAR'S TIDE --- Elena Voss has been dead for three years. At least, that's what the town of Port Morrow believes. She wears the ring. She tells the story. She weeps on command-a perfect widow performing grief like a prayer she's forgotten the words to. But there was no husband. No accident. No tears. Elena Voss is a lie wearing a woman's skin-and she's almost convinced herself it's true. Then a stranger walks into her bookstore. He carries a photograph of a man with her face. A man she's never met. A man who calls himself her husband. A man who's been searching for her across oceans, through years, through the wreckage of a life she never lived. And he's not the only one coming to Port Morrow. The fog is rolling in. The tide is rising. And Elena's lies are about to drown everyone she's touched.

Some people believe love begins with fireworks. Others believe it begins with fate. But sometimes... It begins with a rainy afternoon, a quiet bookstore, and a stranger who reaches for a book just before you do. Liora never expected that her ordinary routine would slowly become filled with familiar faces, shared silences, and chance encounters. Rowan never imagined that the girl he met in a cozy bookstore would quietly become the brightest part of his everyday life. Set in a peaceful town of rain-soaked streets, ivy-covered cafés, old bookstores, and blooming parks, Between Ordinary Days is a slow-burn romance about friendship, patience, and discovering that the most meaningful moments are often the quietest ones. No love triangles. No dramatic misunderstandings. Just two ordinary people learning, one day at a time, that love doesn't always arrive all at once. Sometimes... It grows gently between ordinary days.

In which a moody philosophy student and the barista of his campus bookstore cafe share an evening dance (and maybe a kiss). Just a fluffy little songfic inspired by Cherry Wine by grentperez (it's a great song, go listen if you haven't) Credits for cover art goes to the original artist! If you recognize it, let me know. I'd appreciate votes and comments if you spot any parts you like!! Yuji and Megumi belong to Gege Akutami and MAPPA.

After losing her mother, Flona Wright has to deal with keeping up her mother's bookstore. She loves the bookstore, but running it now is a bit of a chore. One day when none other than Tom Blyth star of the Hunger Games:: Ballad of Song Birds and Snakes and People We Meet on Vacation walks into her book store, buying a whole bunch of books, saving the bookstore. There's a spark, but can Flona let new love in when she's grieving?

Until the Stars Chose Us Emma Carter has always believed that love isn't something you chase-it's something that finds you when the time is right. Surrounded by old books, rainy mornings, and the quiet comfort of her grandmother's love, she dreams of opening a cozy bookstore where every story feels like home. Alexander Hayes has everything the world admires-wealth, success, and respect. Yet behind his perfect life is a man who stopped believing in love after life taught him that success can't fill an empty heart. Living in the same city, they walk the same streets, visit the same places, and write letters to a future they cannot see... never realizing that destiny is quietly bringing them closer. Some stories begin with a glance. Theirs begins with hope. A slow-burn romance filled with cozy bookstores, rainy Edinburgh evenings, handwritten letters, healing, found family, and the kind of love that feels like coming home. "Maybe the stars don't decide our fate... maybe they simply guide us to the person we were always meant to find." Genre: Romance | Slow Burn | Contemporary Fiction | Emotional | Feel-Good | Happy Ending

✨ Welcome to my "Palace of Delusions"✨ 🎀 This book is for all my delusional girlies who always carry a novel in their bag and a daydream in their mind, who cancel plans to finish just "One more chapter", who fall in love with fictional characters more deeply than real ones, and who treat bookstores like sacred ground. 💗 This book will be a shared space for us who highlight quotes that feel like poetry, cry over character deaths as if we lost a friend, and believe that somewhere, somehow, life will mirror the magic of the stories we love. 🔮 This book is a collection of the stories of and for us "Romantics at heart" who are also a little delusional (in the best way). I will write what you want to read....be it those perfect book boyfriends or the green forests who raise our bars for bare minimum. Your plot in my words. Let's sing together... "I am just a girlll" 💅🛍️🌷

When an overthinking university student takes a job at The Reading Nook, a cozy bookstore-café, she expects nothing more than a few extra coins and a quiet place to hide from her worries. Instead, she meets Theo-a charming, unreadable barista who doesn't even like books. What starts as casual banter and shared chocolate soon turns into a whirlwind of first love, late-night confessions, and heartbreak. Inspired by the viral "19 Theory," Butterfly Season is a raw, intimate coming-of-age story about the kind of love that changes you forever-and the pain that lingers long after the last page.

In a world where fame and privacy collide, A-list actor Theo Calder finds himself in a compromising situation with the paparazzi. Enter Riley Morgan, an ordinary individual whose chance encounter with Theo thrusts her into the spotlight. Their solution? A fake relationship orchestrated for PR, turning Riley's life upside down as she navigates the unfamiliar world of celebrity alongside one of its brightest stars.

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A small town. A inherited bookstore. A sealed envelope with a date no one will talk about. Wren Calloway is twenty, stubborn, and new to Fern Hollow, Wisconsin. The town is warm on the surface and guarded underneath. The retired pastor everyone loved didn't die the way they're saying. And the man who owns the café on Main Street knows more than a stranger should. Some things are better left where they are. Wren hasn't learned that rule yet.

--- Ina quiet town where life moves at a gentle pace, Rose finds solace in the worn pages of old books. She owns a quaint bookstore, her days filled with the comforting scent of ink and parchment, the rustling of pages, and the occasional chatter of customers seeking forgotten stories. Life is simple, predictable-until the day a man in black steps through her door. From the moment he arrives, her world is upended. Shadows creep into the corners of her once-peaceful existence,. The stranger isn't just any man-a former secret agent"Lucifer" whose life has been built on precision, control, and an unyielding grip on reality. But the moment he accepts what should have been a simple mission, that control begins to slip, and the ghosts of his past claw their way back into his present. Two lives-one built on quiet routine, the other on deadly secrets-collide in a storm of blood and ink. The lines between truth and deception blur as nightmares take hold, twisting fate into something neither of them can escape. Destinies are not written in ink alone. Sometimes, they are carved in blood. Join Rose and Lucifer as they navigate a world where danger lurks in the most unexpected places, and where love might be the only thing powerful enough to break the cycle of fear and betrayal. --- English is not my first language...so if you find any error or mistake please ignore it or correct me i wish to learn from you guys... hope my story is to your liking...🤧🤧

A short story. Main characters: Robert and Jessica.