Download or read book Cheer Up written by Crystal Frasier and published by Oni Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweet, queer teen romance perfect for fans of Fence and Check, Please! Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her senior year of high school who’s under pressure to join the cheerleader squad to make friends and round out her college applications. Her former friend BeeBee is a people-pleaser—a trans girl who must keep her parents happy with her grades and social life to keep their support of her transition. Through the rigors of squad training and amped up social pressures (not to mention micro aggressions and other queer youth problems), the two girls rekindle a friendship they thought they’d lost and discover there may be other, sweeter feelings springing up between them.

Download or read book Cheer Up Love and Pompoms written by Crystal Frasier and published by Oni Press. This book was released on 2021-08-11 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her senior year of high school who’s under pressure to join the cheerleading squad to make friends and round out her college applications. Her former friend Bebe is a people-pleaser, a trans girl who must keep her parents happy with her grades and social life in order to maintain their support of her transition. Through the rigors of squad training and amped-up social pressures (not to mention microaggressions and other queer youth problems), the two girls rekindle a friendship they thought they’d lost and discover there may be other, sweeter feelings springing up between them.

Download or read book Youth Fiction and Trans Representation written by Tom Sandercock and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth Fiction and Trans Representation is the first book that wholly addresses the growth of trans and gender variant representation in literature, television, and films for children and young adults in the twenty-first century. Ranging across an array of media—including picture books, novels, graphic novels, animated cartoons, and live-action television and feature films—Youth Fiction and Trans Representation examines how youth texts are addressing and contributing to ongoing shifts in understandings of gender in the new millennium. While perhaps once considered inappropriate for youth, and continuing to face backlash, trans and gender variant representation in texts for young people has become more common, which signals changes in understandings of childhood and adolescence, as well as gender expression and identity. Youth Fiction and Trans Representation provides a broad outline of developments in trans and gender variant depictions for young people in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and closely analyzes a series of millennial literary and screen texts to consider how they communicate a range of, often competing, ideas about gender, identity, expression, and embodiment to implied child and adolescent audiences.

Download or read book Love Earth Now written by Cheryl Leutjen and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to live sustainably in an unsustainable society—and not let the world discourage your spirit. Do you find yourself wondering what on Earth you can do about the very serious environmental challenges we face on our planet today? Do you worry there’s nothing any one person can do that will make a difference? Most people say that they would like to do something to make the world a better place, but they just don’t believe they have the time, energy, money, or power to make a real difference. Love Earth Now invites us to explore our own thoughts and feelings about the challenge, and to check in with internal guidance about the waste and negative environmental impacts we see on a daily basis. While most of us can’t stop the Arctic icepack from melting, we can decide to make better choices like avoiding excessive packaging with our purchases, walking more and driving less, planting organic veggies in the front yard instead of a water-wasting lawn, and even going as green as possible at work and at home. Does your office lack a recycling and composting program? Do the research and start one yourself! Each chapter concludes with a “Diving In” section, a simple and immediate exercise, much like a guided meditation, to prompt us toward our own sustainable solutions. By practicing eco-mindfulness, we can discover that one thing we can do to make a difference today and for all our tomorrows. This is not only a source of inspiration but a sourcebook of direct actions—large and small—we can all take to ensure our children and their children’s children have a healthy future on this planet. Drawing from her experiences as an engineering geologist, environmental law attorney, small shop owner, and mindfulness practitioner, Cheryl Leutjen also reminds us about the importance of simplicity—and how all our possessions and the constant shopping for more are no better for us than they are for the planet itself, contributing to landfills and a tech-tethered society that is increasingly isolated. Both helpful and hopeful, Love Earth Now is brimming with creative suggestions that will get us closer to a sustainable lifestyle, one day at a time.

Download or read book It s Not About the Pom Poms written by Laura Vikmanis and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A forty-year-old cheerleader? When Laura Vikmanis, a single mom in Ohio, told friends that she wanted to be an NFL cheerleader, they said it would never happen. But she proved them all wrong. . . . Laura Vikmanis has got spirit . . . and pom-poms, too! But before she stepped onto the field as the oldest cheerleader in the National Football League, she was sidelined by a bad marriage and the many responsibilities of stay-at-home motherhood. She finally got the courage to leave her husband and to ask herself something she had never asked before: What do I want to do? Remembering her teenage love of dance, she signed up for a pole-dancing fitness class, where she met a former cheerleader for the Cincinnati Bengals. When the woman suggested that Laura audition to be a “Ben-Gal,” Laura laughed her off but soon realized that the audition process could be a way of healing herself—and regaining her confidence. Her boots were made for walking—but also for stomping on a football field. She tried out for the team next to girls young enough to be her daughters. Girls with tighter abs, fuller hair, no kids, and no crow’s-feet. After much adversity and multiple auditions, she finally made the team, becoming the oldest cheerleader in the League. It’s Not About the Pom-Poms follows Laura’s inspiring, funny, and eye-opening journey from demoralized divorcée to high-kicking Cincinnati Ben-Gal. Readers will cheer her on as she rediscovers her passion for dancing, takes hip-hop classes with twelve-year-olds, loses twenty-five pounds, discovers her abs, finds love again, and becomes a new kind of role model to her daughters. Laura also provides an inside look into the fascinating world of NFL cheerleaders—the grueling workouts, bad pay, twice-weekly weigh-ins, but, most important, the lifelong bond between the women, who do it all for the glory. Leading with her heart, Laura Vikmanis faces adversity with her head held high as she learns in mid-life to take a flying leap. Powerful and uplifting, It’s Not About the Pom-Poms shows that, no matter your age, it’s never too late to go, fight, and win!

Download or read book In Love with Paper Crafts written by Leisure Arts and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 2011 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Love with Paper Crafts, -Endearing designs from Paper Crafts magazine celebrate love of all kinds, from valentines to wedding wishes and family ties. Cards, bags, boxes, albums, sweet gifts, and more.

Download or read book How I Got Skinny Famous and Fell Madly in Love written by Ken Baker and published by Running Press Kids. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Emery Jackson's mother signs her up for a weight loss competition reality show, she must learn how to balance the trials of her new figure, her newfound fame, and her relationships with family and friends.

Download or read book The Hour of the Gate written by Alan Dean Foster and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marooned in another universe, a musician leads a motley army to save two worlds, in an entertaining tale by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author. Jon-Tom just wanted to go home. Trapped in a world where animals speak and magic is real, the American college student yearned for an ordinary dorm-room life. But here his music has magical power—even if he can’t control it—which may be able to save the world from the army of the Plated Folk, whose sinister queen plans on killing and eating every warm-blooded mammal she can get her pincers on and taking over their lands. The great battle is coming, and Jon-Tom, whose posse includes a wizarding turtle, a cowardly bat, and an otter with a filthy mind, must raise an army to fight it. To find allies they must make an impossible journey, across mountains and rivers no one has ever passed before. Survival will be a miracle—but Jon-Tom is no ordinary musician.

Download or read book Work is Love Made Visible written by Frances Hesselbein and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Channel happiness and find your purpose with stories from the world’s leading minds Work is Love Made Visible offers the insights of some of the world’s greatest thought leaders as they tackle one of life’s most difficult treasure hunts: finding purpose. The word “purpose” is big. Very big. And heavy. It carries the weight of a lifetime of work and struggle; the weight of legacy, and the mass of days spent not doing something else. It’s something we all grapple with at some point—some of us find our purpose, others spend a lifetime searching. A lucky few grow to realize they’ve been working their purpose all along. Most of us aren’t quite that lucky; often, fulfilling your purpose requires some kind of change—career, lifestyle, habits, family—and what then? Are we selfish for the upheaval, or are we fulfilling destiny? Once we know our purpose, how do we pursue it? This book asked those very questions of people who have followed their purpose and succeeded on a global scale. Their un-distilled answers are here, lending you the wisdom of their experiences, their examples, inspiration, and motivations as they: Tackle the universal struggle with individual purpose and meaning Illustrate how personal thought patterns contribute to real-world action Move challenges into the opportunities of their lives Reveal how they arrived at their life’s purpose, and what they sacrificed to get there We all want a meaningful life. We want to work together for a brighter future, we want to celebrate our differences and commit to good. We want to inspire others, nurture their talents, and help them grow. We want to look back one day on a life well-lived, and leave something behind that matters to the world. Work is Love Made Visible shows you how some of us have succeeded, and offers you insight and guidance so that you can do the same.

Download or read book The Spellsinger Adventures Volume One written by Alan Dean Foster and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three fantasy novels of music and magic in the beloved series by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author. A college slacker’s world is turned upside down when he’s transported to a new land where music can create magic. There, he teams up with other magical brethren and creates bonds of friendship he will honor for life. Spellsinger: Jonathan Thomas Meriweather is a typical college student, interested in girls, music, and pot. But when an interdimensional portal lands him in another world, he learns that his musical ability can create magic, which he’ll need in order to stop a dark force. The Hour of the Gate: Jon-Tom, whose posse now includes a wizarding turtle, a cowardly bat, and an otter with a filthy mind, must raise an army to fight the Plated Folk and end their queen’s plans to eat all the mammals in the land. The Day of the Dissonance: Jon-Tom’s merry band went its separate ways after the battle of Jo-Troom Gate. But now the wizarding turtle, Clothahump, is dying, and Jon-Tom must embark on a new quest with his friends to search for a cure.

Download or read book Campaigning for Love written by K. D. Fleming and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katherine Harper Can't Be Beat For Katherine, running for city council is about protecting children from the kind of grim childhood she had. And she won't let privileged politician's son Nick Delaney ruin her chances. Like he once ruined her dreams of true love and a family of her own. Nick has his sights set on public office, not on rekindling a star-crossed romance from years ago. Yet as he and Katherine spend time together on the election circuit, his competitor compels him with her beauty and heart of gold. Falling for the opposition was never in his plans, but Nick will give anything to earn Katherine's forgiveness and renew their love.

Download or read book Rebel Love written by Tess Oliver and published by Sugartree Press. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate tale of unrequited love and second chances from New York Times bestselling author, Tess Oliver. For a long time, I thought of that kiss, the kiss that unraveled everything, the kiss that changed the course of history, as a split second decision. But there was nothing split second about an obsession. And while she might have been impetuous and wild, there sure as hell wasn't anything split second about Rebecca . . . the girl I called Rebel. Rebel Love is a standalone romance.

Download or read book Curse of the Wish Eater Frightville 2 written by Mike Ford and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Frightville... one-stop shopping for all your fears! Frightville is a store with a toy for anyone's wish list. Or so it seems. . . Max's new chattering teeth toy was advertised as a Wish Eater: "Able to grant any wish!" But after annoying siblings are wished away, can they be wished back?

Download or read book For Love of the Broken Body written by Julia Walsh and published by Monkfish Book Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Julia Walsh gives me hope for a future with religious women changing the world. She tells a story all her own, but I felt her doubts, questions, and passion each step of the way. Highly recommended.” —Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking and River of Fire A questioning novice nun’s coming-of-age story. Readers will be moved to reflect on the universal human experiences of being broken and the pull to be part of something bigger than themselves. At the age of 25, just a month into her novitiate as a Franciscan Sister, Julia Walsh fell from a cliff and became disfigured. While working toward healing, she felt pulled to religious community life, but also toward unresolved feelings regarding her own sexuality, identity, and injustice. For Love of the Broken Body is a story of pain, questioning, recovery, and discovery. What does it mean to exist as a broken body? Why would a young woman dedicate herself to the Catholic Church—to a life as a Franciscan Sister—while others are leaving churches in droves? The number of women choosing to enter religious life across the U.S. is shrinking rapidly, so Walsh encounters a lot of curiosity about her choice. In this memoir, she writes honestly about feeling drawn to men and to sex, as well as what it means, in this age of self-discovery and hook-ups, for a young woman—physically broken and still very much attracted to the world—to join a celibate, religious community.

Download or read book I love korea written by Visit Korea Committee (South Korea) and published by 길잡이미디어. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature of Korea - Mountains, Oceans & Roads Bicycle Riding in Seoul The 8 Streams of Seoul, and Chuseok Hiking the Baekdudaegan Mountain Range Yikes! Bang! What?! Hahaha...an unforgettable night at the Jirisan National Park's Shelters Busan - Seoul Bicycle Tour 548 km bike ride from Busan to Seoul, thank you for the helmet-ful of Korean love Jeju Olle Trail I received a precious gift from this earth, I feel 10 Years Younger thanks to the Olle trail Hiking in Geojedo Island The Geoje Sanmaru-gil Road that I made, you will be shocked Migratory Bird Habitats in Korea I was mesmerized by the sight of migratory birds I saw in Suncheonman Bay, Haenam Walking on Seoul's Namsan Mountain A life spent falling in love with the four seasons of Namsan Mountain, a life already 21 years old Photo Journey of Korea The intoxicating orange light from the rising sun, I had fallen in love with the East Coast Tour of Ulleungdo Island When you've missed the last boat, that's when you get to see the generosity of Ulleungdo Island Heritage of Korea - Tradition & History General Yi Sun-sin General! I get very emotional seeing you standing in the middle of Seoul with a big sword Panmunjeom & the DMZ Ah, so heart breaking! Only a few steps separate the south to the north Bukchon Hanok Village, Seoul Jeongdok Public Library, Samcheong Park and the Asian Art Museum, a cluster of Seoul Charm Taekwondo Taekwondo is a friend of 20 years, and now I’m a Korean at heart Templestay I almost lost my knees doing the 108 bows, barely kept my eyes open during the early morning service, but I got to known a new side of Korea The Gi (energy) Experience of Palgongsan Mountain One of my wishes was fulfilled that day “Arigato, Gatbawi!” Culture of Korea _ Hallyu & Passion Tour of Busan It’s more affectionate because it’s loud and crazy. Haeundae is a place you just keep wanting to go back to Tour of Drama Filming Locations Namiseom Island, Manjanggul Cave, East Sea Lighthouse… I came to see Bae Yong-joon, and I’m leaving with Korea in my heart Korean Soccer I go to soccer stadiums to feel the “Real” Korea Journey of Korean Literature Sonagi Village in Yangpyeong-gun and the Gwanghalluwon Garden in Namwon-si, Such a Romantic Korea Best Place to Propose I proposed to my girlfriend at Lotte World, and she couldn’t stop crying K-pop Live Elementary English teacher during week, K-pop fanatic on weekends Tour of the Korean Night Life Partying at clubs, noraebang, DVDbang, then relaxing at a jjimjilbang Exploring the Alleys of Seoul Experience the Depth of Seoul in the Small Alleys Between the Tall Buildings Korean Popular Music I got to know Korean songs through Chu Ga-yeoul, and felt the Korean ‘jeong’ through Shim Su-bong Busan's Sajik Baseball Park While Screaming for the “Busan Galmaegi” I too became a Citizen of Busan Incheon International Airport See the Korean Wisdom at the Traditional Korean Cultural Experience Zone for Transit Travelers Train Journey Romance in Public Transportation Tastes of Korea - Nature, Health & Body Jeonju Bibimbap A spoonful of colorful ingredients, wow! Culinary Tour of the Namdo Area Food critic from Hong Kong can’t stop eating Namdo food Korean Street Food I tried mandu, eomuk, gimbap, and… dak kkochi at a pojangmacha, and now I can’t forget the taste! Native Foods of Korea Devotion beyond your imagination, I was humbled by seeing how gochujang is made Tour of Traditional Markets There’s nothing that Moran Market doesn’t have, and here I felt the warmth of Korea Food Culture of Andong-si Spicy jjimdak for Lunch, Healthy heotjesabap for Dinner. Fine dining from morning till night 16 Regional Areas of Korea + Must-see Routes

Download or read book Real Life Love written by Michael Gibson and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the grandson of world-famous marriage expert Gary Smalley comes a practical and hope-filled guide to building great relationships. No one in history has seen a world like this. Never before has information been so accessible. Never before have people lived as long, enjoyed fuller bank accounts, or been more connected. Yet, we live in a world where relationships remain unfulfilled. People aren't happy. Marriages are falling apart. And the so-called "strongest relationships" we have are built on a simple swipe to the right. So, what's the problem? If anyone can answer this impending question, it's Michael Gibson. Growing up with a front row seat to the life and marriage of his grandfather, best-selling author and speaker Gary Smalley, Michael witnessed firsthand what it truly takes to build a life filled with great relationships. Providing a modern take on time-tested wisdom for a new generation, Michael challenges us to push past the fake, heal the pain in our hearts, and move into a love that is real through 7 practical principles: Honor others Identify anger Forgive Celebrate in the midst of trials Understand the power of God's Word Be second in a world of firsts Identify the personalities of others to foster understanding By the end of REAL LIFE LOVE, you will learn to love and be loved like never before, understand why you've been holding back on experiencing amazing relationships from the beginning, and ensure that the love of your life won't just come into your life but stay in your life.

Download or read book Love and Football written by JOSHUA LEVI BROWN and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and Football will keep you on the edge! Star quarterback Cimeon and his beautiful cheerleader wife, Ebony, will take you on a suspenseful, exciting, loving, action-packed, funny, emotional ride. The perfect couple. Together since they were five years old. From high school, college, and to the pros, he has remained the baddest quarterback on the planet while she remained the hottest cheerleader on the planet! Boom! She gets kidnapped by the mob! The only way to win her back is to go to the Super Bowl . . . and lose! By the way, she is pregnant! Can he carry his city, his team, and his family on his back? Boom! Touch down! Who wins, love or hate?