Jennifer E. Smith

Two teens, Hugo and Mae, are strangers until they share a cross-country train trip that teaches them about love, each other, and the futures they can build for themselves.

Field Notes on Love

An indie musician reeling from tragedy and a public breakdown reconnects with her estranged father on a week-long cruise in this "pitch-perfect story about the ways we recover love in the strangest places" (Rebecca Serle) from bestselling author Jennifer E. Smith. Greta James's rise to indie stardom was hard-won. Before she graced magazine covers and played to sold out venues, she spent her girlhood practicing her guitar in the family garage, full of big dreams and determination. Her first fan was her mother, Helen, who always encouraged Greta to follow her heart. But her father, Conrad, was less supportive; he saw only a precarious road ahead for his daughter, and always pushed her to make more practical choices. Greta has spent her life trying to prove him wrong. And she's succeeded beyond even her own wildest dreams. But a week after her mother's sudden death, and just before the launch of her high-stakes sophomore album, she completely falls apart on stage. The footage quickly goes viral, and she stops playing, her career suddenly in the exact kind of jeopardy her father always predicted. Months later, Greta--still heartbroken and humiliated and trying to find a way back to her music--reluctantly agrees to accompany Conrad on the week-long Alaskan cruise her parents had booked to celebrate their fortieth anniversary. It could be their last chance to heal old wounds and forge a new relationship in the wake of such loss. But the trip will also prove to be a voyage of discovery for them both, as well as for Ben Wilder, a historian also struggling with a major upheaval in his life. As Greta works to build back her confidence, and Ben confronts an uncertain future, they find themselves relying on each other to make sense of life's difficult, unexpected choices. In the end, Greta must face the biggest challenge of all: can she find a way to listen to the song within her while also making peace with those who love her?

The Unsinkable Greta James

"Sparks fly when sixteen-year-old Lucy Patterson and seventeen-year-old Owen Buckley meet on an elevator rendered useless by a New York City blackout. Soon after, the two teenagers leave the city, but as they travel farther away from each other geographically, they stay connected emotionally, in this story set over the course of one year"--

Sparks fly when 16-year-old Lucy and 17-year-old Owen meet on an elevator rendered useless by a blackout. Soon after, the two teenagers leave the city, but as they travel farther away from each other geographically, they stay connected emotionally.

The geography of you and me

"Alice loves Teddy, her best friend, but has never told him. When she buys him a lottery ticket that turns out to be a winner, their lives are changed forever and their friendship is put to the ultimate test"--

Windfall

On the night before they leave for college, Clare and Aidan only have one thing left to do: figure out whether they should stay together or break up. Over the course of twelve hours, they retrace the steps of their relationship, trying to find something in their past that might help them decide what their future should be. The night leads them to family and friends, familiar landmarks and unexpected places, hard truths and surprising revelations. But as the clock winds down and morning approaches, so does their inevitable goodbye. The question is, will it be goodbye for now or goodbye forever? Charming, bittersweet, and full of wisdom and heart, this irresistible novel from Jennifer E. Smith, author of The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, explores the difficult choices that arise when life and love lead in different directions.

Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between

Ellie O'Neill and Graham Larkin fell hard for each other when a misspelled email address unexpectedly brought them together. Now, over a year has passed since they said goodbye with the promise to stay in touch, and their daily emails have dwindled to nothing. Ellie is a freshman in college and has told herself to move on, and Graham has kept himself busy starring in more movies, as well as a few tabloid columns. But fate brought these two together once before--and it isn't done with them yet. In this sequel novella to This is What Happy Looks Like, Jennifer E. Smith revisits two beloved characters to tell the story of one magical night in Manhattan. When Ellie and Graham come face to face once more, can they get past the months of silence and the hurt feelings to find their happily-ever-after again? Word Count: ~18,000

Happy Again

Emma Healy has grown used to being the only ordinary one in her rather extraordinary family. But when she finds a birth certificate for a twin brother she never knew she had, along with a death certificate dated just two days later, she realizes why she never felt quite whole. She sets off on a trip to visit her brother’s grave. Peter Finnegan, her neighbor, comes along for the ride. Emma thinks they can’t possibly have anything in common, but with each passing mile, they find themselves learning more and more about themselves and each other.

This Is What Happy Looks Like

Quirks of timing feature in this romantic novel about family connections, second chances, and first loves. Set over a twenty-four-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver find that true love can be unexpected. Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan's life. Having just missed her flight, she's stuck at JFK airport and late to her father's second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon-to-be stepmother Hadley's never even met. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport's cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he's British, and he's sitting in her row. A long night on the plane passes in the blink of an eye, and Hadley and Oliver lose track of each other in the airport chaos upon arrival. Can fate intervene to bring them together once more?

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

The last place Ryan Walsh should be this afternoon is on a train heading to Wrigley Field. She should be in class, enduring yet another miserable day of her first year of high school. But for once, Ryan isn't thinking about what she should be doing. She's not worried about her lack of friends, or her suffering math grade, or how it's been five whole years since the last time she was really and truly happy. Because she's finally returning to the place that her father loved, where the two of them spent so many afternoons cheering on their team. And on this -- the fifth anniversary of his death -- it feels like there's nowhere else in the world she should be. Ryan is once again filled with hope as she makes her way to the game. Good luck is often hard to come by at a place like Wrigley Field, but it's on this day that she meets Nick, the new kid from her school, who seems to love the Cubs nearly as much as she does. But Nick carries with him a secret that makes Ryan wonder if anyone can ever really escape their past, or believe in the promise of those reassuring words: "Wait till next year." Is it too much for Ryan to hope that this year, this season, might be her comeback season?

The Comeback Season

Enter the world of The Storm Makers, where there's magic behind every forecast. What starts as an ordinary summer turns exciting and perilous for twins Ruby and Simon when strange occurrences begin happening on their farm -- sudden gusts of wind, rainstorms, and even tornado warnings -- that seem eerily timed to Simon's emotions. Then a stranger arrives and tells the twins that Simon is a Storm Maker -- part of a clandestine group of people entrusted with controlling and taming the weather -- and that he is in great danger. Soon Simon and Ruby must race against the clock as they try to master Simon's powers in time to stop a rogue Storm Maker's treacherous -- and potentially deadly -- plans. In this thrilling new adventure, loyalties can shift as quickly as the wind . . . and the ordinary can turn extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

The Storm Makers

E se? Três letrinhas com o peso das decisões. E se você pegar o metrô e não o ônibus? Sorrir para um estranho ou baixar o rosto? E se Hadley tivesse saído de casa mais cedo? Quatro minutos. Duzentos e quarenta segundos. Por conta desse pequeno imprevisto cronológico, ela perde o voo. Mas encontra seu destino. Quem pode dizer que isso não faz parte de algum plano cósmico? Presa no aeroporto em Nova York, esperando outro voo, depois de perder o seu, Hadley conhece Oliver. Um britânico, que se senta a seu lado na viagem para Londres. Enquanto conversam sobre tudo, eles provam que o tempo é, sim, muito, muito relativo. Passada em apenas 24 horas, a história de Oliver e Hadley mostra que o amor, diferentemente das bagagens, jamais se extravia. Jennifer E. Smith é autora, também, de The Comeback Season e You Are Here. Se formou em redação criativa pela Universidade de St. Andrews, na Escócia e atualmente trabalha como editora em Nova York. "Um deslumbrante e doce lembrete do poder do destino... e um cativante — inspirador — relato de como é se apaixonar." The New York Times Book Review "Uma fábula emocionante e sagaz sobre amor, família... Os insights de Smith sobre dor e perda são tão reais quanto a mágica do nascimento de um novo amor." Kirkus "Um ágil e divertido romance com uma magistral premissa romântica." Publishers Weekly

A probabilidade estatística do amor à primeira vista

Hadley könnte sich wirklich etwas Schöneres vorstellen, als auf der Hochzeit ihres Vaters Brautjungfer zu spielen. Dass sie dann allerdings ihr Flugzeug verpasst und erst einmal auf dem überfüllten New Yorker Flughafen festsitzt, hat sie dann doch nicht gewollt. Und genauso wenig hatte sie vor, sich ausgerechnet hier unsterblich zu verlieben: in den Jungen mit den verwuschelten Haaren und dem Puderzucker auf dem Hemd, der wie sie nach London muss. Hadley bleibt genau eine Fluglänge Zeit, um sein Herz zu gewinnen ...

Die statistische Wahrscheinlichkeit von Liebe auf den ersten Blick

An indie musician reeling from tragedy and a public breakdown reconnects with her father on a weeklong cruise in “a pitch-perfect story about the ways we recover love in the strangest places” (Rebecca Serle, bestselling author of In Five Years) “The characters are drawn with a generosity that allows them to be wrong but also right, loving but also prone to missteps, and ultimately deserving of a resolution that’s full of hope.”—Linda Holmes, New York Times bestselling author of Flying Solo ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: She Reads Just after the death of her mother—her first and most devoted fan—and weeks before the launch of her high-stakes sophomore album, Greta James falls apart on stage. The footage quickly goes viral and she stops playing, her career suddenly in jeopardy—the kind of jeopardy her father, Conrad, has always predicted. Months later, Greta—still heartbroken and very much adrift—reluctantly agrees to accompany Conrad on the Alaskan cruise her parents had booked to celebrate their fortieth anniversary. It could be their last chance to heal old wounds in the wake of shared loss. But the trip will also prove to be a voyage of discovery for them both, and for Ben Wilder, a charming historian struggling with a major upheaval in his own life. As Greta works to build back her confidence and Ben confronts an uncertain future, they find themselves drawn to and relying on each other. It’s here in the unlikeliest of places—at sea, far from the packed city venues where she usually plays and surrounded by the stunning Alaskan wilderness—that Greta will have to decide what her path forward might look like—and how to find her voice again.

A Novel

Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything? Today should be one of the worst days of Hadley's life. Her father is getting married in London to a woman she's never even met, and she's just missed her flight. Hadley has never believed in destiny or fate before. But, stuck at the airport in New York, today is also the day she meets Oliver. He's British. He's cute. And he's on her new flight. Set over twenty-four hours, Hadley and Oliver's story will make you believe that true love finds you when you're least expecting it.

¿Desde cuándo son puntuales los aviones a la hora de despegar? Hadley ha llegado cuatro minutos tarde, lo que, bien pensado, no parece mucho; una pausa para la publicidad, el descanso entre dos clases, el tiempo que lleva calentar un plato precocinado en el microondas. Cuatro minutos no son nada. Cierra los ojos solo un instante y, cuando los vuelve a abrir, el avión ha desaparecido. Hoy debería ser uno de los peores días en los diecisiete años de la vida de Hadley Sullivan: ha perdido su vuelo por cuatro minutos y ahora está atrapada en el aeropuerto JFK de Nueva York. Llega tarde a la segunda boda de su padre, que se celebrará en Londres, con una mujer a la que Hadley ni siquiera conoce y que pronto se convertirá en su madrastra. Pero entonces conoce al chico perfecto en la atestada sala de espera del aeropuerto. Su nombre es Oliver, es británico y su asiento es el 18C. El de Hadley, el 18 A. Los caprichos del destino y las casualidades de la vida son el motor de esta conmovedora novela sobre lazos familiares, segundas oportunidades y primeros amores. Desarrollada a lo largo de 24 horas, la historia de Hadley y Oliver nos convence de que el amor verdadero puede aparecer en nuestras vidas cuando menos lo esperamos.

La probabilidad estadística del amor a primera vista

Stromausfall in New York: Lucy und Owen lernen sich irgendwo zwischen dem 10. und 11. Stock kennen, steckengeblieben im Fahrstuhl eines Hochhauses. Doch auch in völliger Dunkelheit sind sich die beiden gleich sehr sympathisch. Als sie nach ihrer Rettung durch die dunklen Straßen von Manhattan schlendern, steht für beide fest, dass sie ziemlich gut zusammenpassen. Doch mit dem Strom kehrt leider auch die Realität zurück: Lucy wird mit ihren Eltern in wenigen Tagen nach Europa ziehen. Wann und wo wird sie Owen wiedersehen? Ein wunderbarer neuer Schmöker von Jennifer Smith ("Geschmack von Glück") – hochromantisch, unterhaltsam und trotzdem mit Tiefgang.

Dich immer wiedersehen

Ein einziger, kleiner Tippfehler und schon landet die Email von Graham Larkin, dem zurzeit am heißesten umschwärmten Teeniestar, in Ellies Postfach - ganz am anderen Ende der USA und in einer vollkommen anderen Welt: ohne Glamour, dafür mit Ferienjob in einer Eisdiele. Dennoch, und ohne, dass der eine irgendetwas vom anderen weiß, entspinnt sich sofort ein wunderbarer, sprühender Dialog zwischen den beiden. Sie können über Gott und die Welt miteinander reden, nur nicht darüber, wer sie in Wirklichkeit sind. Doch dann schlägt Graham als Drehort für seinen neuesten Film Ellies kleines Küstenstädtchen vor, weil er sie endlich persönlich kennenlernen will. Aber wie macht man das als überall bekannter Filmstar und warum scheut umgekehrt Ellie die Öffentlichkeit so sehr?

Der Geschmack von Glück

Panne de courant généralisée à New York. Immobilisés dans l'ascenseur, Owen et Lucy font connaissance. Lui, le fils du gardien, qui vient de perdre sa mère. Elle, la solitaire, aux parents globe-trotteurs. Ils ont juste une nuit, une nuit féérique où la ville est éteinte, à partager en haut d'un toit, à contempler les étoiles et à rêver de voyage. Jusqu'où une seule nuit peut-elle les emmener ?

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