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Gayle Forman is an award-winning author and journalist whose articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Seventeen, Cosmopolitan and Elle in the US. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
Gayle Forman’s novel, If I Stay, was recently released as a blockbuster movie, directed by Nashville executive producer R.J. Cutler, starring Chloë Grace Moretz.
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April 2018 Book of the Month A heart-wrenching and powerful YA story exploring themes of loss, love and discovery, from award-winning, bestselling author, Gayle Forman The story is told over the course of one day with flash backs to the past to help us engage with the characters and understand what has brought them to this place and this moment in time. Through Harun we learn to understand love through his own loss and fears. The love he feels is alien and not acceptable within the society he lives in. He is ashamed, obsessed and utterly lost. Freya is a star in the making but is following a difficult path and is torn between the need for adoration and the ‘friends’ and sense of belonging she fears she will lose if she can no longer sing. Her lack of self-love is evident as she fears losing her voice will mean losing her place in the world and the acceptance she craves. Nathaniel is a tortured soul and his sadness pours from the pages as we slowly discover the tragedy that has driven him to New York. Each character is suffering their own pain and yet when they are brought together they find the strength to try a different path. But is friendship enough to heal the pain of the past? This is a tender, sad and yet uplifting tale that shows the power of friendship in times when we feel desperate and unable to find a solution. Three strangers come together and show that strength can be found with each and every one of us no matter what our individual troubles may be. That we too can find our way to a life we truly deserve when we are true to ourselves. Beautiful, tender and very important, Gayle Forman has yet again captured a coming of age take that will fill you with hope, love and courage. ~ Shelley Fallows - You can also find Shelley here.
February 2015 Book of the Month Best-selling Gayle Forman’s I Was Here explores the complicated repercussions of suicide on all those who are left behind. Cody and Meg have been best friends forever. Surely they have no secrets between them? But when Cody receives an email from Meg describing the horrific way she has just taken her own life she begins a journey of discovery that shows her just how little she knew her friend. Cody travels to Meg’s university to collect all her belongings and begins to unravel small leads – including an encrypted file- which bring her to knowing and understanding her friend better.
Gripping, heartrending and ultimately life-affirming, If I Stay is a haunting novel about the power of love and loss – a story that won’t quite let you go. It will make you appreciate all that you have, all that you've lost - and all that might be. For seventeen-year-old Mia, surrounded by a wonderful family, friends and a gorgeous boyfriend decisions might seem tough, but they're all about a future full of music and love, a future that's brimming with hope. But life can change in an instant. On a cold February morning and suddenly all of Mia's choices are gone. Except one. As alone as she'll ever be, Mia must make the most difficult choice of all. This is a special edition to accompany the film, with interviews with the cast...for more about the flim vist www.ifistaymovie.com.
Allyson and Willem share one magical day together in Paris, before chance rips them apart. A romantic, emotional companion to Just One Day, this is a story of the choices we make and the accidents life throws at us. But is one day enough to find your fate?
Just One Day is the first in a sweepingly romantic duet of novels. The second in the duet, Willem's story - Just One Year - will be published in September 2013. In Just One Day When sheltered American good girl Allyson LuLu Healey first meets laid-back Dutch actor Willem De Ruiter at an underground performance of Twelfth Night in England, there's an undeniable spark.
May 2012 Book of the Month. If you had a second chance at first love... would you take it? It's been three years since Adam's love saved Mia after the accident that annihilated life as she knew it... and three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever. Sequel to If I Stay, for which film rights have been optioned by Summit - the studio that made 'Twilight'.
All the pain of love and loss is crammed into this powerful and passionate novel about two talented teenagers from the bestselling author of If I Stay. Adam’s making it big as a rock star but he’s still haunted by how Mia ended their high school relationship. Having never come to terms with it, it still fuels his songs. When he gets the chance to meet up with Mia again, will he be able to find some kind of peace? Adam and Mia set out on a challenging and touching journey of discovery. Does first love ever die?
Gripping, heartrending and ultimately life-affirming, If I Stay is a haunting novel about the power of love and loss – a story that won’t quite let you go. It will make you appreciate all that you have, all that you've lost - and all that might be. For seventeen-year-old Mia, surrounded by a wonderful family, friends and a gorgeous boyfriend decisions might seem tough, but they're all about a future full of music and love, a future that's brimming with hope. But life can change in an instant. On a cold February morning and suddenly all of Mia's choices are gone. Except one. As alone as she'll ever be, Mia must make the most difficult choice of all. If you would rather have the film tie-in edition to accompany the film in autumn 14, with interviews with the cast, the click here.
A heartbreaking story about finding yourself and your people, from the bestselling author of If I Stay, a major film starring Chloe Grace Moretz. For fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, John Green and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. 'I got this whole-body feeling . . . it was like a message from future me to present me, telling me that in some way we weren't just bound to happen, that we had, in some sense, already happened. It felt . . . inevitable.' So far, the inevitable hasn't worked out so well for Aaron Stein. While his friends have gone to college and moved on with their lives, Aaron's been left behind in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State, running a failing bookshop with his dad, Ira. What he needs is a lucky break, the good kind of inevitable. And then he meets Hannah. Incredible Hannah - magical, musical, brave and clever. Could she be the answer? And could they - their relationship, their meeting - possibly be the inevitable Aaron's been waiting for?
Der neue Roman der Bestseller-Autorin Gayle Forman nach NUR EIN TAG ... UND EIN GANZES JAHR und MANCHMAL MUSST DU EINFACH LEBEN Es ist wahre Freundschaft - aber es gibt ein groes Geheimnis Ich bedaure, Euch mitzuteilen, dass ich meinem Leben ein Ende setzen musste. Dieser Entschluss hat mich schon eine lange Zeit begleitet, und ich habe ihn allein getroffen. Es ist nicht Eure Schuld. Meg Cody und Meg waren unzertrennlich - beste Freundinnen fur immer. Sie wussten alles voneinander. Jedenfalls dachte Cody das. Bis sie die E-Mail bekommt und mit einem Mal nichts mehr so ist wie vorher. Wer war Meg wirklich? Cody begibt sich auf die Suche nach Antworten und findet, was sie nicht erwartet - Freundschaft und Liebe. Ein einfuhlsames und bewegendes Buch uber den Mut, den es braucht, um nach einem schrecklichen Verlust weiterzuleben und an die Liebe zu glauben. Als ihre beste Freundin Meg sich in einem Motelzimmer umbringt, ist Cody vollig geschockt. Sie und Meg haben sich immer alles anvertraut - wieso hat sie nichts geahnt? Aber als sie zu Megs College in Tacoma, nahe Seattle, fahrt, um deren Sachen zusammenzupacken, entdeckt sie, dass es vieles gibt, von dem Meg ihr nie erzahlt hat. Cody wusste nichts von ihren Mitbewohnern, von Ben, dem geheimnisvollen Typen mit der Gitarre und dem spottischen Grinsen. Und sie wusste nichts von der verschlusselten Datei, die sie nicht offnen kann - und die, als sie es doch schafft, plotzlich alles, was sie uber den Tod ihrer Freundin zu wissen glaubt, in Frage stellt.
April 2018 Book of the Month A heart-wrenching and powerful YA story exploring themes of loss, love and discovery, from award-winning, bestselling author, Gayle Forman The story is told over the course of one day with flash backs to the past to help us engage with the characters and understand what has brought them to this place and this moment in time. Through Harun we learn to understand love through his own loss and fears. The love he feels is alien and not acceptable within the society he lives in. He is ashamed, obsessed and utterly lost. Freya is a star in the making but is following a difficult path and is torn between the need for adoration and the ‘friends’ and sense of belonging she fears she will lose if she can no longer sing. Her lack of self-love is evident as she fears losing her voice will mean losing her place in the world and the acceptance she craves. Nathaniel is a tortured soul and his sadness pours from the pages as we slowly discover the tragedy that has driven him to New York. Each character is suffering their own pain and yet when they are brought together they find the strength to try a different path. But is friendship enough to heal the pain of the past? This is a tender, sad and yet uplifting tale that shows the power of friendship in times when we feel desperate and unable to find a solution. Three strangers come together and show that strength can be found with each and every one of us no matter what our individual troubles may be. That we too can find our way to a life we truly deserve when we are true to ourselves. Beautiful, tender and very important, Gayle Forman has yet again captured a coming of age take that will fill you with hope, love and courage. ~ Shelley Fallows - You can also find Shelley here.
A powerful display of empathy and friendship from the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of If I Stay.The New York Times bestseller from the author of If I Stay "e;Heartwrenching...If you are ready to be emotionally wrecked yet again, you are in luck."e; - HypableA fateful accident draws three strangers together over the course of a single day:Freya who has lost her voice while recording her debut album.Harun who is making plans to run away from everyone he has ever loved. Nathaniel who has just arrived in New York City with a backpack, a desperate plan, and nothing left to lose. As the day progresses, their secrets start to unravel and they begin to understand that the way out of their own loss might just lie in helping the others out of theirs. An emotionally cathartic story of losing love, finding love, and discovering the person you are meant to be, I Have Lost My Way is bestselling author Gayle Forman at her finest. "e;A beautifully written love song to every young person who has ever moved through fear and found themselves on the other side."e; - Jacqueline Woodson, bestselling author of Brown Girl Dreaming
It's every woman's fantasy: to pack a bag and leave everything behind. Meet Maribeth Klein, a harried working mother who is so busy taking care of her husband and twins that she doesn't even realise that she has had a heart attack. But her recuperation seems to be an imposition on those who rely on her. So Maribeth does the unthinkable - she packs a bag and leaves. Maribeth has always wondered who she is and where she comes from: and now's the time to find out. Now, far from the demands of family and career, she is finally able to own up to the secrets she has been keeping from herself and those she loves. From the bestselling author of If I Stay and I Was Here comes a stunning new novel for Forman's adult readers, an unflinching portrait of a woman confronting the joys and sorrows of marriage, motherhood and friendship. *~*~*Readers love Leave Me*~*~* '[Leave Me] reminds you that we are all fragile human beings, imperfect and all a work in progress and above all, it reminds us that life is complex and frightening but not impossible' The Bookbag 'Read it, as they say, and weep' Daily Mail 'When I reached the end of this book, I was in tears because of how honest and raw it was. This book will really make you think very deeply about your deepest desires' Twenty-Three Pages 'An appealing fairy tale for the exhausted and underappreciated' Kirkus 'Deftly explores the domestic struggles of 21st-century bourgeois life. This is an insightful ode to-and cautionary tale for-the overburdened working mother' Book Page 'With humor and pathos, Forman depicts Maribeth's complicated situation and her thoroughly satisfying arc, leaving readers feeling as though they've really accompanied Maribeth on her journey' Publishers Weekly
Wir wissen alle, wie es sich anfuhlt, uberfordert zu sein, keine Kraft mehr zu haben - aber immer weiter machen zu mussen.Maribeth Klein, Anfang 40, in New York, ist so damit beschaftigt, die perfekte Mutter von kleinen Zwillingen, Ehefrau und Mitarbeiterin zu sein, dass sie vor lauter Stress gar nicht merkt, dass sie einen Herzinfarkt hatte. Erst als sie nach einer Notoperation vollig geschwacht wieder zu Hause ist und begreift, dass Familie und Job ihr keine Moglichkeit lassen, zu Kraften zu kommen, trifft sie eine unglaubliche Entscheidung: Sie packt eine kleine Tasche und geht. Gayle Forman erzahlt auf ergreifende Weise davon, wie viel Mut es braucht, sich fur das Leben zu entscheiden, und davon, dass man manchmal von zu Hause fortgehen muss, um wieder dorthin zuruckfinden zu konnen.Ein Roman, der groe Fragen stellt und uns mitnimmt bis dorthin, wo sich Liebe und Leben treffen. Ein Buch, das ehrlicher, aufwuhlender und lebensbejahender nicht sein konnte.
Nur fur kurze Zeit: "e;Nur ein Tag"e;, "e;Und ein ganzes Jahr"e;, "e;Und noch eine Nacht"e; - die Gayle-Forman-Reihe jetzt zum sensationellen Preis von 9,99 Nur ein Tag:Am letzten Tag ihrer Europatour lernt Allyson Willem kennen. Sofort knistert es zwischen den beiden. Als freier, ungebundener Schauspieler ist Willem all das, was die 18-jahrige Allyson nicht ist, und als er sie einladt, mit ihr nach Paris zu kommen, trifft sie spontan eine fur sie untypische Entscheidung. Sie geht mit ihm. Nach nur einem gemeinsamen Tag wird aus dem Knistern ein Brennen ... bis Allyson am nachsten Morgen aufwacht und feststellen muss, dass Willem nicht mehr da ist. Und ein ganzes Jahr:Der zweite Teil der Bestseller-Reihe von Gayle Forman. Wenn Du einem Menschen begegnet bist, der dein Herz geoffnet hat, wirst du alles dafur tun, ihn wiederzufinden. Eine groe, uberwaltigende Geschichte von Entscheidungen und Zufallen - und vom Gluck wenn beides zusammenkommt. Jetzt erzahlt Willem seine Geschichte! Und noch eine Nacht:Allyson steht vor Willems Tur. Sie klingelt. Er offnet. Und Allyson tritt ein. Es ist Liebe. Schicksal. Bestimmung. Es wird die schonste Nacht ...UND NOCH EINE NACHT erzahlt, was passiert, als sich Allyson und Willem endlich wiedertreffen. Dass man sich manchmal erst verlieren muss, um sich finden zu konnen ... und dass die Menschen, die wir suchen, haufig naher sind, als wir ahnen. Eine Geschichte von Liebe, Identitat und den Zufallen des Schicksals.
Der erste Teil des Roman-Duos NUR EIN TAG ... UND EIN GANZES JAHRder Bestseller-Autorin Gayle Forman. Wenn du einem Menschen begegnet bist, der dein Herz geoffnet hat, wirst du alles dafur tun, ihn wiederzufinden.Allysons Leben ist genau wie ihr Koffer - uberlegt, geplant und ordentlich gepackt. Doch am letzten Tag ihrer dreiwochigen Europatour lernt sie Willem kennen. Als freier, ungebundener Schauspieler ist er all das, was die 18jahrige Allyson nicht ist, und als er sie einladt, mit ihm nach Paris zu kommen, trifft sie spontan eine fur sie untypische Entscheidung. Sie andert ihren Plan und geht mit ihm. Allyson erlebt einen Tag voller Abenteuer und Romantik, Freiheit und Nahe - bis Willem am nachsten Morgen nicht mehr da ist. Als sie sich auf den Weg macht, ihn zu suchen, findet sie sich selbst.Ein uberwaltigendes Buch uber Liebe, Identitat und die Zufalle des Schicksals. Er sieht mich an und ich spure, wie ein Flattern meinen Korper erfasst. Werde ich das wirklich tun?"e;Also? Was sagst du? Mochtest du fur einen Tag nach Paris fahren?"e;Das ist total verruckt. Ich kenne ihn nicht mal. Und ich konnte erwischt werden. Und wieviel kann man an einem Tag von Paris sehen? Es konnte in so vielerlei Hinsicht katastrophal schieflaufen. All das ist richtig. Ich wei. Aber das andert nichts daran, dass ich fahren mochte.Anstatt nein zu sagen, probiere ich diesmal etwas anderes aus.Ich sage ja.
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