Download or read book Call Me Oppa written by Isla Chiu and published by Isla Chiu. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm Celia, a former pre-med student and bored waitress who's on the fast track to nowhere. In between shifts and staring at my almost empty fridge, I write cheesy fanfiction featuring my favorite K-pop group Afternoon 4 and hope for something to change my life. Little do I know that I would find that life-changing something during a shift and meet the members of Afternoon 4 in the freaking flesh. And imagine my absolute shock when I find out that one of them wants me. ***A sweet and sexy story with an alpha male idol, insta-love, and a happy ending!*** WORD COUNT: 6,000
Download or read book Isekai Defense Volume 2 written by FebyA and published by Feby Ardiansyah. This book was released on 2024-06-02 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six months after parting ways with Bianca to find the hero, our protagonist is ambushed by assassins in a deadly trap that threatens his life. Utilizing his unique abilities, he manages to interrogate one of his pursuers, only to reveal a sinister plot - a secret organization called the Truth Society wants him dead to appease the dragon Nicht’s fury towards them. With each shocking revelation, the stakes climb higher. The fates of the protagonist, the Truth Society, and the dragon Nicht are now intertwined in a deadly three-way war. And what appeared amid the escalating conflict was ... an amnesiac girl from the otherworld?! Dive into this story of survival, scheme, and healing. Follow the protagonist as he battles enemies, breaks sinister plans, and saves the amnesiac girl who holds the key to his survival. Will he overcome their sinister plan and emerge victorious, or will he fall victim to their overwhelming strength and assassinations? Read on to find out the answer!
Download or read book Seoulmates written by Jen Frederick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Korean-American adoptee fights to be with the one she loves while coming to terms with her new identity in this enthralling romantic drama and sequel to Heart and Seoul by USA Today bestselling author Jen Frederick. When Hara Wilson lands in Seoul to find her birth mother, she doesn’t plan on falling in love with the first man she lays eyes on, but Choi Yujun is irresistible. If his broad shoulders and dimples weren’t enough, Choi Yujun is the most genuine, decent, gorgeous guy to exist. Too bad he’s also her stepbrother. Fate brought her to the Choi doorstep but the gift of family comes with burdens. A job in her mother’s company has perks of endless company dinners and super resentful coworkers. A new country means learning a new language which twenty-five year old Hara is finding to be a Herculean task. A forbidden love means having to choose between her birth family or Choi Yujun. All Hara wanted was to find a place to belong in this world—but in order to have it all, she’ll have to risk it all.
Download or read book Smart Magic Doctor written by Zhui FengDaoChang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first university student of Qingshan Village, Li Fei, had coincidentally become the successor of the Mysterious Medicine Sect. From then on, he led the villagers to become rich and embarked on the path of a hot-blooded expert!
Download or read book Korean Honorifics and Politeness in Second Language Learning written by Lucien Brown and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the ways that advanced speakers of Korean as a second language perceive, use and learn the complexities of the Korean honorifics system. Despite their advanced proficiency in Korean, the study shows that the honorifics use of these speakers diverges in crucial ways from native speaker norms. It is argued that, rather than reflecting the language competence of these speakers as such, this usage is linked to questions of the identity of language learners and foreigners in Korean society. In addition, it shows the influence of conflicting ideologies regarding the meaning of politeness . This argument is backed up by rich data collected through mixed methods (discourse completion tests, role-plays, natural interactions, introspective interviews), allowing for a detailed picture of how the honorifics use of second language speakers emerges in context. The book concludes by discussing the implications of the study for politeness research, interlanguage pragmatics and language pedagogy."
Download or read book K Pop Confidential written by Stephan Lee and published by Chicken House. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Korean-American girl travels to Seoul in hopes of debuting in a girl group at the same K-pop company behind the most popular boy band on the planet, in this romantic coming-of-age novel perfect for K-pop fans everywhere! Candace Park knows a lot about playing a role. For most of her life, she's been playing the role of the quiet Korean-American girl who takes advanced classes and plays a classical instrument, keeping her love of K-pop to herself. But she has a secret that she's been keeping from the world: she can sing. Like, really sing. So when Candace enters a global audition held by the biggest K-pop label in the world, she doesn't expect to actually win. And convincing her parents to go against everything they believe in is nothing compared to what's next. Under the strict supervision of her instructors at the label's headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Candace must hone her performance skills to within an inch of her life, learn to fluently speak Korean, and navigate the complex hierarchies of her teammates. And the number-one rule? NO DATING - which proves almost impossible after she meets superstar idol One.J and fellow Korean-American trainee YoungBae. And when Candace finds herself in the middle of an international K-pop scandal, she must decide whether a spot in the most hyped K-pop girl group of all time is really worth risking everything ...
Download or read book My Mother Called Me Unni written by Dr. Venugopal K. Menon and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating and admirable history. The detailed and descriptive chapters in this book create entire cultural worlds for readers to learn from, enjoy, and remember." -Chitra Divakaruni, international award-winning and bestselling author, Houston, TX.*** “An inspiring story, a wonderful saga of a migrant in America.” —Tom Reid, Mayor of Pearland, TX.*** “An engaging memoir of a doctor, an Indian American.” —Aseem Chhabra, columnist for India Abroad, NY.*** “Provides an interesting reading of a diasporic longing for home.” —Professor Sanoo Master, writer, critic, humanist, Kerala, India.*** “Unbelievable…interesting and fascinating reading.” —Padma Shri Dr. Vyjayanthimala Bali, dancer, actress, former MP, Chennai, India.*** “Remarkable journey from his native land of India to America.” —John K. Graham, MD, D. Min, President/CEO, ISH., Houston, TX.*** “Enjoyable and authentic descriptions; touching; impressive.” —Padma Vibhushan, professor, physicist, Dr. E.C.G. Sudarshan, Austin, TX.***
Download or read book Translanguaging and English as a Lingua Franca in the Plurilingual Classroom written by Anna Mendoza and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2023-03-09 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores multilingual practices such as translanguaging, code-switching and stylization in secondary classrooms in Hawai’i. Using linguistic ethnography, it investigates how students in a linguistically diverse class, including those who speak less commonly taught languages, deal with learning tasks and the social life of the class when using these languages alongside English as a lingua franca. It discusses implications for teachers, from balancing student needs in lesson planning and instruction to classroom management, where the language use of one individual or group can create challenges of understanding, participation or deficit identity positionings for another. The book argues that students must not only be allowed to flex their whole language repertoires to learn and communicate but also be aware of how to build bridges across differences in individual repertoires. It offers suggestions for teachers to consider within their own contexts, highlighting the need for teacher autonomy to cultivate the classroom community’s critical language awareness and create conducive environments for learning. This book will appeal to postgraduate students, researchers and academics working in the fields of sociolinguistics and linguistic ethnography as well as pre-service and in-service teachers in linguistically diverse secondary school contexts.
Download or read book Lucky Another Marriage written by Hong YuGuoChuang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was born at eight o'clock in the morning!The fortune-teller said that if it was a boy, he would be either rich or noble. If it was a Girl, it would be terrible.Sure enough, my father died when I was young, and my husband became a vegetable when I was married.I put it all down to fate.However, he had appeared!He is tall and handsome and extremely rich. He sympathizes with me and likes me. He gives me warmth and help.However...The River Water of fate makes it impossible for us to be together!Time flew by.When the life of the River Water crashed countless waves and reefs in front of us, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Fate, it didn't abandon me.There was no way out, and in the dark, there was another marriage!Darling, let's do it again in this hard-won marriage.They would walk and cherish each other, snuggling together forever ...
Download or read book Alpha Male Blast from the Past written by Isla Chiu and published by Isla Chiu. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My future used to look so promising. I graduated from high school at the top of my class and got into Princeton. But then I flunked out of the Ivy League school. Now I'm prancing around in a skimpy French maid outfit while waiting on sleazy rich guys at Parisian Dream. Ag, more like Parisian Nightmare. I don't think things could get any worse until I find myself waiting on Gerald Holland, my former best friend. And it turns out he's still a little—okay, very—salty about how I rejected him in high school. But though he acts like he hates me, he also acts like he still wants me... WORD COUNT: 7,300 Excerpt: He's treating me like a charity case. If I had a little more pride, I would tell him to take back his money. But I have a stupid amount of student loans to pay off for my one semester of college, so I keep the cash. "What do you do nowadays?" I ask. Gerald definitely had a glow-up after high school. He lost all of his baby fat and now looks like the stereotypical handsome rich guy from a romance novel. Chiseled cheekbones, a strong jaw, and a sleek blond haircut straight out of an expensive salon. His emerald-green eyes are the same though. "I design apps," he says. "I recently sold one to Google for a pretty penny." That explains the custom-tailored suit and Rolex. He grins. "Not bad for someone who had a 2.0 GPA in high school, eh?" "Not bad," I murmur. I should be glad for Gerald—and I am—but his success makes my failure all the more painful. In high school, people expected great things from me and expected nothing from Gerald. Yet I'm a Princeton dropout and he is a Rolex-wearing tech mogul. "I bet you regret rejecting me in high school." I glare at him. "Did you just come here to rub your success in my face?" "That's one reason. The other reason is I had a burning desire to see you in a sexy French maid outfit." He glances at my cleavage and legs, making me blush. "A wet dream come true."
Download or read book Claiming Lady Wynn written by Isla Chiu and published by Isla Chiu. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Soulden is one of the wealthiest men in England. However, he is common-born, a fact that brings no small measure of annoyance to his fiancée Caroline Wynn's father, the snobbish (but poor) Viscount of Cambridgeshire. Even if Caroline were a commoner like Philip, she would still be far too good for him. Of course, that doesn't make him any less determined to make her his wife. When Caroline learns about the truth of her birth, his plans to wed her are put in jeopardy. However, Lady Wynn will discover that Philip always gets what he wants, and what he wants is her… Claiming Lady Wynn is a sexy short story that may contain historical inaccuracies but definitely contains an obsessed alpha male and a happy ending! If you can get with that, enjoy! WORD COUNT: 4,500
Download or read book Blackmailed by the Jerk written by Isla Chiu and published by Isla Chiu. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have a secret. I kind of faked my perfect SAT score to get a full scholarship at Middleson University. It worked, but now I have one major problem—Rick, a wealthy jerk who looks like Zac Efron and who's blackmailing me with my lie. What does the jerk want in exchange for his silence? My body... WORD COUNT: 8,400 Excerpt: I'm in a good mood till I spot something in the corner. Or more precisely, someone. Rick is here, and he's staring at me. He looks like such a privileged d**khead with his pink polo shirt, chino pants, the sunglasses on his head, and the smirk on his handsome—but begging to be punched—face. I glare at him. "Who's that?" Felicity asks. "Do you know him?" Oh, he's this guy who's blackmailing me because he knows I cheated to get a full ride to Middleson University. "He's some jerk I'm hooking up with," I mutter. "Why are you hooking up with a jerk?" "It's complicated." When Rick begins walking toward us, I say, "Jesus Christ. Excuse me." I march up to him and hiss, "What are you doing here?" "It's one-dollar beer night," he says casually. "You're rich. You don't need to take advantage of cheap beer." He shrugs. "What are you doing here? I thought you were supposed to be studying." I flush. "I needed a study break." He wraps a possessive arm around my waist, whispering into my ear, "Why don't we have a 'study break' at my place?" A deep sigh leaves me. Because his suggestion is not really a suggestion.
Download or read book Caught by Mr Smith A Best Friend s Dad Story written by Isla Chiu and published by Isla Chiu. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Smith is a major DILF. He has thick dark brown hair with only a hint of gray, smoldering green eyes, and a jawline that could cut glass. Also, he works out regularly, and it shows. And he's single. Not that I would ever hook up with my best friend's dad because that would violate every single girl code in existence. But it's okay to have a naughty dream once in a while, right? WORD COUNT: 3,000
Download or read book Bad Habits A MMF Romance written by Isla Chiu and published by Isla Chiu. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persephone Danbury doesn't mind being a nun at St. Camilla's Convent. Sure, it can be dull, but it's better than being in London with her harsh father, and she has her dear friend Mary beside her. However, after a night swim that leads to an encounter with the wickedly handsome Marcus Elham, the Duke of Charlotteshire, her life ceases to be dull. And she soon finds herself sought after by not only the duke, but also his friend Thomas Ellison, a devilishly attractive tycoon... Bad Habits is a MMF romance that may contain historical inaccuracies and definitely contains two obsessed alpha males! If you can get with that, enjoy this sexy story that's chock-full of OTT instalove! WORD COUNT: 12,000 EXCERPT: Though she instantly hated the stranger, she couldn't help noting how handsome he was. Golden hair, bright hazel eyes, the facial structure of a Greek god. He wore fine, expensive clothes that marked him as a member of the nobility. He seemed familiar. Had she seen him at a ball last season? Her face lost all remaining color as she realized his identity. He was Marcus Elham, the Duke of Charlotteshire. Unlike her father, he was extremely wealthy — and extremely powerful. "Can you speak, fair maiden, or are you mute?" he asked. She wished she could throw a stone at his head. "I can speak." He smiled. "So fair maiden who can speak, do you or do you not want your clothes back?" She clenched her teeth. "I do want my clothes back, so if you could hand them to me, I would be much obliged." Ignoring her, he mused, "A habit. So you're from the convent…" "Excellent deduction," she muttered. "Was that a sarcastic remark? I thought that nuns weren't allowed to be sarcastic." She wanted to snort. Some of the nuns at St. Camilla's Convent were definitely sarcastic, especially Sister Grace, who loved to give Persephone a hard time for her "extraordinarily poor arithmetic skills." "May I have my clothes back?" she asked, near the edge of desperation. "That depends…" Frustration brewed in her. "Depends on what?" He lowered his head, grabbing her chin. "If you're willing to give me a kiss." Before she could push him away or slap him, he put his mouth on hers. She caught her breath. She had kissed a few boys before, but the kisses had always been chaste; they might as well have been pecks from her grandmother. This kiss from the duke, however, was anything but chaste. He thrust his tongue between her lips, threatening to completely consume her. And for some reason, she liked — no, loved — it. Additional keywords: bisexual heroine, bisexual hero, obsessed alpha male
Download or read book Taken by the Casino Owner written by Isla Chiu and published by Isla Chiu. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caleb Romans is the incredibly wealthy and powerful owner of Four Leaf Casinos – and Allison Huang’s ex. Allison thought she would never see him again until he shows up at her apartment building and drops this bombshell – her father has been gambling at his casino and owes him money. A lot of money. But Caleb will forgive her father’s debt on one condition – if she offers him the body he has missed the past few months… A standalone book in the INDECENT PROPOSALS series, stories featuring morally dubious (but drop-dead sexy) guys who will do anything to have the women they want. WORD COUNT: 12,400
Download or read book He Knows What He Wants A Romance 5 Book Bundle written by Isla Chiu and published by Isla Chiu. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5 romance stories in one sexy bundle! Includes LOVING THE CHASE, TAKEN BY THE CASINO OWNER, KIDNAPPING THE BRIDE, RINGING IN THE LUNAR NEW YEAR, and CALL ME OPPA. LOVING THE CHASE Lila Lawrence - beautiful, innocent, desperate. Chase Eastwick - sexy, arrogant, possessive. Let the chase begin... All Lila Lawrence wants is a chill junior year at college. Unfortunately, the ridiculously wealthy Chase Eastwick threatens her wish. Although he possesses criminally good looks, Lila wants nothing to do with the creep who is unwilling to take no for an answer and refuses to understand the concept of personal space. But Chase soon becomes the only person she can turn to for help. However, his help comes with strings attached... TAKEN BY THE CASINO OWNER Caleb Romans is the incredibly wealthy and powerful owner of Four Leaf Casinos - and Allison Huang's ex. Allison thought she would never see him again until he shows up at her apartment building and drops this bombshell - her father has been gambling at his casino and owes him money. A lot of money. But Caleb will forgive her father's debt on one condition - if she offers him the body he has missed the past few months... KIDNAPPING THE BRIDE Theoretically, my wedding day should be the happiest hours of my life. But it's not, thanks to a certain someone I can't get over—that someone being the incredibly sexy Hikaru Watanabe, who also happens to be the ruthless leader of a powerful yakuza gang. And it turns out that Hikaru wants me back and he will stop at nothing to reclaim me. Even if that means kidnapping me on my wedding day. ***A sexy second-chance story with an obsessed alpha male, lots of smut, and a HEA!*** RINGING IN THE LUNAR NEW YEAR College freshman Simone Chang is feeling homesick. For the first time, she's spending Chinese New Year without her family. But fortunately, she has her best friend by her side, Will Higa...aka the boy she has wanted since pretty much forever. Will promises her that he will make this Chinese New Year one to remember. Because it turns out that he has always wanted her too and is ready to make her his... ***Ring in the Lunar New Year with this sweet and sexy friends-to-lovers story!*** CALL ME OPPA I'm Celia, a former pre-med student and bored waitress who's on the fast track to nowhere. In between shifts and staring at my almost empty fridge, I write cheesy fanfiction featuring my favorite K-pop group Afternoon 4 and hope for something to change my life. Little do I know that I would find that life-changing something during a shift and meet the members of Afternoon 4 in the freaking flesh. And imagine my absolute shock when I find out that one of them wants me. ***A sweet and sexy story with an alpha male idol, insta-love, and a happy ending!***
