{"product_id":"counting-down-to-you-by-emily-stone","title":"Counting Down to You By Emily Stone","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eOnce More We Saw Stars\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, an electrifying debut novel about AI that calls to mind\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNever Let Me Go\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Candy House's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003etantalizing vision of the future.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFour interconnected souls grapple with an inexplicable tragedy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnna is shattered by the violent death of her son, Alex, and torme\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"description\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this heartfelt romance from the author of \u003ci\u003eAlways, in December\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eYours for the Season, \u003c\/i\u003ea bittersweet Christmas countdown opens the door to healing, hope . . . and maybe even love.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAli has always loved Christmas, but this year she doesn’t think she’ll make it through. Christmas was always her and her best friend Robyn’s Every year, they exchanged Advent calendars filled with challenges. Tell the hot guy at the coffee shop you like him. Delete your ex’s number. Throw out the bathroom scales.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut this Christmas, Robyn is gone, because she didn’t get the heart transplant she needed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is one last calendar, though—given to Ali before Robyn died, with a promise to open it in December.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first challenge sends Ali to the Alps, where she takes a seasonal job at the ski lodge that she and Robyn had planned to visit together. But when another challenge leads her co-workers to think she’s dating her boss—the stoic, seriously hot Leo—things get complicated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo save her embarrassment, Leo agrees to play along. As Ali spends more time with him, she realizes that he’s grieving, too. And as he helps her complete Robyn’s challenges, she starts to wonder if their fake relationship could become something real.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut the truth behind Leo’s grief could bring them closer . . . or tear them apart for good.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"genresList\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genres\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ented by the question of whether it was an accident or a suicide. Samantha is Alex’s best friend, and the only eyewitness to his death. She keeps returning to the cliff where she watched him either jump or fall, trying to sift through the shards. Aviva is an “upload,” a digital entity composed of the sense memories of a human tether. But she’s “emancipated,” having left her human behind. Set free from her source and harboring a troubling secret, she finds temporary solace in the body of Cathy, a self-destructive ex-addict turned AI professor and upload-rights activist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eUnWorld\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Jayson Greene envisions a grim but eerily familiar near-future where all lines have blurred—between visceral and digital, human and machine, real and unreal. As Anna, Cathy, Sam, and Aviva’s stories hurtle toward each other, the stakes of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eUnWorld\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reveal themselves with electrifying intensity: What happens to the soul when it is splintered by grief? Where does love reside except in memory? What does it mean to be conscious, to be human, to be alive?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"ReadersWorldUAE","offers":[{"title":"Soft Cover","offer_id":67586487550102,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hard Cover","offer_id":67586487582870,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0691\/5486\/5302\/files\/readersworldsingle_91db57d1-60e3-40c9-bd21-672e64991d38.png?v=1791959609","url":"https:\/\/readersworlduae.com\/products\/counting-down-to-you-by-emily-stone","provider":"ReadersWorldUAE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}