Featuring poetry, memoir pieces, and short stories, THE LOVE BOOK collects the best writing about love entered into its international contest. Love comes in many forms: the love of a child for her dog, the quasi-love of a teen for a stranger on a train, the love of two women who spend half a century together despite being from different countries, the love of a couple whose marriage has faded until a life crisis revives it, the love of a mountaineering father determined to bond with his son climbing the highest mountains in the U.S., love for ranchland and the partner who has worked it side-by-side, love for parents who are declining, love for children who see the world in crayola colors, love for a people being annihilated in Gaza, love for a partner who has moved on, love for all the sensory joys of life, love for a person who is kind and caring, love of young marrieds with very different behavior patterns, love for young people continuing to protest and for a partner dead now several years. These and more love stories and expressions fill this book. They testify to love's power over us in all sorts of situations and life stages.