Crush: 26 Real-life Tales of First Love

by Andrea N. Richesin (Editor)

Other authorsTara Bray Smith (Contributor), Jacquelyn Mitchard (Contributor), Steve Almond (Contributor), Ann Hood (Contributor), Emily Franklin (Contributor), Christopher Coake (Contributor), Brendan Halpin (Contributor), Rebecca Walker (Contributor), Sheila Kohler (Contributor), Suzanne Finnamore (Contributor), Robert Wilder (Contributor)15 more, Katherine Center (Contributor), Laurie Faria Stolarz (Contributor), Heather Swain (Contributor), Daria Snadowsky (Contributor), Melissa Walker (Contributor), Rebecca Woolf (Contributor), Kerry Cohen (Contributor), Catherine Newman (Contributor), Jon Skovron (Contributor), Joshua Mohr (Contributor), Lauren Oliver (Contributor), Amy Greene (Contributor), Melissa Febos (Contributor), Dan Levithan (Contributor), Katie Herzog (Contributor)
Paperback, 2011

Status

Available

Call number

306.7

Publication

Harlequin (2011), Edition: Original, Paperback, 272 pages

Description

Readers will fall head over heels for this nostalgic and irreverent collection. Twenty-six bestselling authors return to the teenage bedrooms, school hallways and college dorms of their youth to share passionate essays of love lost and found and lessons learned along the way. Whether heartbreaking or hilarious, their soul-baring honesty reminds us to keep reaching for true love wherever we can find it and for as long as it takes. Their intimate reflections will fascinate and move any reader who remembers her first love.

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Physical description

272 p.; 5.51 x 0.69 inches

ISBN

0373892330 / 9780373892334

Local notes

Twenty-six bestselling authors return to the teenage bedrooms, school hallways and college dorms of their youth to share passionate essays of love lost and found and lessons learned along the way.

What I Kept - Jacquelyn Mitchard
When It Was All Brand-New - Rebecca Walker
A Bruise For Every Broken Heart - Kerry Cohen
Sweet Nothings - Robert Wilder
The Boy in the White VW Bug - Ann Hood
Creative Writing - David Levithan
Three Little Words - Lauren Oliver
How Duran Duran Saved My Life - Katherin Center
What Good is Sitting Alone in your Room? - Jon Skovron
When We Two Parted - Sheila Kohler
To Sir Anthony, With Love - Daria Snadowsky
It Never Was, Not Really - Steve Almond
Red All Over - Tara Bray Smith
Consequently Yours - Laure Faria Stolarz
Crush Me - uizanne Finnamore
Love, Illustrated - Melissa Walker
What We Know Now - Katie Herzog
Just a Friend - Brendan Halpin
Adam - Amy Greene
My Romantic Past - Emily Franklin
The Subtle Art of Crush-Suffocating - Joshua Mohr
Olfactory - Catherine Newman
Uncle Greg, A Giant Chicken, and the Murderous Pottery Wheel - Heather Swain
Giving Up the Ghost - Melissa Febos
What Kitty Taught Me - Christopher Coake
Before It Gets Complicated - Rebecca Wolfe
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