Download or read book How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia written by Mohsin Hamid and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mr. Hamid reaffirms his place as one of his generation's most inventive and gifted writers." –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "A globalized version of The Great Gatsby . . . [Hamid's] book is nearly that good." –Alan Cheuse, NPR "Marvelous and moving." –TIME Magazine From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Exit West, the boldly imagined tale of a poor boy’s quest for wealth and love His first two novels established Mohsin Hamid as a radically inventive storyteller with his finger on the world’s pulse. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia meets that reputation—and exceeds it. The astonishing and riveting tale of a man’s journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, it steals its shape from the business self-help books devoured by ambitious youths all over “rising Asia.” It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he begins to amass an empire built on that most fluid, and increasingly scarce, of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else, on the pretty girl whose star rises along with his, their paths crossing and recrossing, a lifelong affair sparked and snuffed and sparked again by the forces that careen their fates along. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is a striking slice of contemporary life at a time of crushing upheaval. Romantic without being sentimental, political without being didactic, and spiritual without being religious, it brings an unflinching gaze to the violence and hope it depicts. And it creates two unforgettable characters who find moments of transcendent intimacy in the midst of shattering change.

Download or read book Getting Dirty Complete Series written by Lucia Jordan and published by Wild Hearts Romance. This book was released on 2021-10-30 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Justin Lang chooses Cara Kinkaid’s restaurant for an important finance meeting and enters her kitchen, Cara learns quickly that he’s all about control. Accustomed to giving orders and having those orders obeyed, Justin insults Cara from the get-go by telling her how—and what—to cook. Although she’s irritated by his arrogant attitude, Cara finds Justin’s commanding presence, overt sensuality, and masculine good looks impossible to resist. She flirts with him shamelessly—and then puts Justin in his place by creating a tantalizing gourmet event for his investors. Flirtation quickly transforms into passion, and Cara and Justin spend the better part of a weekend in bed together. As the hours pass in a haze of passion, they explore their appetites and each other’s bodies. But Cara questions the intensity of their connection, afraid that it borders on obsession and mirrors her past relationships. Justin demands control in bed every bit as much as he does in the boardroom. Will Cara submit completely to Justin’s desires? Can Justin offer Cara something deeper than physical pleasure? And what consequences will Cara face if she gives up control to remain in Justin’s bed?

Download or read book Getting Dirty written by Kat Latham and published by Agony and Hope Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the world's hottest rugby team! This sampler gives you the FIRST TWO CHAPTERS of each of the London Legends books, featuring players on the world's hottest rugby team. In this sampler, you'll get the opening chapters of these stories: Knowing the Score (London Legends Book 1): Spencer Bailey is a smokin' hot rugby player with a scandalous past. He has vowed to stay celibate during the rugby season... but when aid worker Caitlyn Sweeney comes into his life, he becomes determined to help this virgin overcome her fear of intimacy. Playing It Close (London Legends Book 2): Team captain Liam Callaghan escapes to Venezuela for some much-needed rest and relaxation. He spends one passionate night with Tess Chambers and wakes up to discover she has left him nothing but a note. He never thinks he'll see her again--until he returns to London and discovers she works for his team's newest sponsor. Tempting the Player (London Legends Book 3): Matt Ogden's extreme fear of flying is keeping his career from taking off. But when he gets one final chance to prove himself, he turns to the one woman he can trust--his best friend Libby Hart, a pilot who has secretly loved Matt for years. Can she tempt him into her cockpit to help him overcome his phobia... of planes and commitment? Unwrapping Her Perfect Match (London Legends Book 3.5): At six-foot-nine, "Little" John Sheldon is known more for his strength than his finesse. But this Christmas is shaping up to be the toughest of his life. Fortunately, emergency room nurse Gwen Chambers has the skills he needs to get him through--but can he convince shy Gwen to trust him to be her perfect match? Taming the Legends (London Legends Book 4): In this passionate story of lovers reunited, legendary rugby player Ash Trenton fights to help Camila Morales--his first-and-only love--save her indebted sports camp...while also fighting to keep from losing his heart to her all over again.Please note that this is a sampler, giving readers a taste of each book so they can decide whether to buy the full book. This sampler does not contain the complete stories.

Download or read book Moth Smoke written by Mohsin Hamid and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Year Is 1998, The Summer Of Pakistan S Nuclear Tests, And Darashikoh Shezad Has Just Managed To Lose His Job In Lahore. As The Economy Crumbles Around Him, His Electricity Is Cut Off, And The Jet Set Parties Behind High Walls, Daru Takes The Bright Steps Of Falling For His Best Friend S Wife And Giving Heroin A Try. This Is The Story Of His Decline.

Download or read book How to Get Filthy Stinking Rich and Still Have Time for Great Sex written by Herb Kay and published by Wildcat Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed businessman and money expert Herb Kay outlines the three ways to wealth--Slow, Quick, and Smart--and proves the smart way is the fastest and most enjoyable whether measured by one's bank account or inner contentment. 60 illustrations.

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Download or read book Filthy Dirty Dom written by Virna DePaul and published by Virna De Paul. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He’ll light the world on fire to protect her but will he expose his own darkness? Manhattan fashion designer Leslie Duke has been captivated by her older brother’s best friend Alex Samuels, for a long time. He’s beautiful, honorable, and strong, with a reputation for dark sexual tastes that makes her heart race and her imagination run wild. A former special ops soldier, Alex is hiding a terrible secret that means danger will follow him to the grave. To protect Leslie, he pushes her away again and again—until the day comes that he no longer can. When Alex runs into Leslie in a sex club, he can’t stand idly back. Alex is well-versed in the world of BDSM and kink, and he refuses to let Leslie traverse it without him. She’s his to protect, but also to teach and satisfy. Soon, they enter a friends-with-benefits arrangement that allows Leslie to explore her sexuality while also enabling Alex to walk away when their lessons are done. As Alex and Leslie grow physically and emotionally closer, a sinister presence is waiting to strike. When it does, will Alex sacrifice their love? Or will he confront the darkness of his past, earning himself redemption and a future with the woman he adores?

Download or read book Filthy Neighbor written by Scarlett King and published by Blessings For All SC. This book was released on with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this bad boy billionaire romance at a terrific discount. I want him, but all I can do is look. My new neighbor Jimmy is the hottest guy I’ve ever seen, and I can’t take my eyes off him, but I’m untouched, inexperienced; I’ve barely even dated, and I have no idea what being with a man would even be like. I want Jimmy to teach me, but how do I even approach a stud like him without seeming like a fool? Keywords: Next door romance, billionaire, bad boy, new adult, instalove, age gap romance, alpha male, new adult romance, steamy romance, age gap romance older man younger woman, sweet romance, romantic novels, love, action, adventure, sexually romantic books, hot, alpha hero, contemporary romance, guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers, sweet romance, love books, love stories.

Download or read book Getting Dirty written by Mia Storm and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dirty A poem by Blaire Leon If sex is dirty, why would I do it with someone I love? If sex is dirty, then didn't we all come from the dirt? What if I like the dirt? What if I want to get dirty? What if I want to roll in the mud until I'm so fucking filthy that I'll never be clean again? When twenty-five-year-old graduate assistant Caiden Brenner asked Blaire Leon how old she was, she said she was a senior. He chose to believe she meant in college. They connect over Lord Byron's Don Juan and, as their conversations become increasingly thicker with sexual innuendo, Caiden finds himself obsessing over a totally off-limits undergrad who's bold, beautiful, brilliant, and one of the most passionate poets he's ever met. But it turns out Blaire hasn't been totally honest. She's the seventeen-year-old valedictorian of her high school class, taking courses at Sierra State while awaiting her acceptance to Stanford. Will Caiden get too deeply into Blaire to back away before he finds out the truth? Or will their connection be enough to seduce him into risking his entire future on Jail Bait? "A thousand and one feels....Getting Dirty is a thrilling, tantalizing forbidden romance you do not want to miss! I not only devoured this book, it devoured me right back!"--Katy Evans, New York Times Bestselling author of REAL

Download or read book Getting Up written by Craig Castleman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1984-04-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Getting Up" is the term used by graffiti "artists" to describe their success in making their mark on the New York subway system. Through candid interviews, New Yorker Craig Castleman documents the inside story of the lives and activities of these young graffitists.

Download or read book Meet the Dogs of Bedlam Farm written by Jon Katz and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the dogs of Bedlam Farm that inspire the author's books.

Download or read book Becoming Someone written by Anne Goodwin and published by Inspired Quill. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What shapes the way we see ourselves? An administrator is forced into early retirement; a busy doctor needs a break. A girl discovers her sexuality; an older man explores a new direction for his. An estate agent seeks adventure beyond marriage; a photojournalist retreats from an overwhelming world. A woman reduces her carbon footprint; a woman embarks on a transatlantic affair. A widow refuses to let her past trauma become public property; another marks her husband’s passing in style. Thought-provoking, playful and poignant, these 42 short stories address identity from different angles, examining the characters’ sense of self at various points in their lives. What does it mean to be a partner, parent, child, sibling, friend? How important is work, culture, race, religion, nationality, class? Does our body, sexuality, gender or age determine who we are? Is identity a given or can we choose the someone we become?

Download or read book Filthy Animals written by Brandon Taylor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY USA TODAY, NPR, VULTURE, MARIE CLAIRE, THE TIMES OF LONDON, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY A group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, a hotly charged, deeply satisfying new work of fiction from the author of Booker Prize finalist Real Life In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, set among young creatives in the American Midwest, a young man treads delicate emotional waters as he navigates a series of sexually fraught encounters with two dancers in an open relationship, forcing him to weigh his vulnerabilities against his loneliness. In other stories, a young woman battles with the cancers draining her body and her family; menacing undercurrents among a group of teenagers explode in violence on a winter night; a little girl tears through a house like a tornado, driving her babysitter to the brink; and couples feel out the jagged edges of connection, comfort, and cruelty. One of the breakout literary stars of 2020, Brandon Taylor has been hailed by Roxane Gay as “a writer who wields his craft in absolutely unforgettable ways.” With Filthy Animals he renews and expands on the promise made in Real Life, training his precise and unsentimental gaze on the tensions among friends and family, lovers and others. Psychologically taut and quietly devastating, Filthy Animals is a tender portrait of the fierce longing for intimacy, the lingering presence of pain, and the desire for love in a world that seems, more often than not, to withhold it.

Download or read book Can t You Get Along with Anyone written by Allan C. Weisbecker and published by Bandito Books, LTD.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Allan Weisbecker penned the last sentence ofIn Search of Captain Zero,most readers assumed the full scope of the tale had been told. But apparently, life had other plans. In his latest offering,Can't You Get Along With Anyone? A Writer's Memoir and a Tale of a Lost Surfer's Paradise,Weisbecker chronicles the bizarre and convoluted circumstances that drove him from his adopted home in Costa Rica.

Download or read book Filthy Beasts written by Kirkland Hamill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running with Scissors meets Grey Gardens in this “vivid tragicomedy” (People), a riveting riches-to-rags tale of a wealthy family who lost it all and the unforgettable journey of a man coming to terms with his family’s deep flaws and his own hidden secrets. “Wake up, you filthy beasts!” Wendy Hamill would shout to her children in the mornings before school. Startled from their dreams, Kirk and his two brothers couldn’t help but wonder—would they find enough food in the house for breakfast? Following a hostile exit from New York’s upper-class society, newly divorced Wendy and her three sons are exiled from the East Coast elite circle. Wendy’s middle son, Kirk, is eight when she moves the family to her native Bermuda, leaving the three young boys to fend for themselves as she chases after the highs of her old life: alcohol, a wealthy new suitor, and other indulgences. After eventually leaving his mother’s dysfunctional orbit for college in New Orleans, Kirk begins to realize how different his family and upbringing is from that of his friends and peers. Split between rich privilege—early years living in luxury on his family’s private compound—and bare survival—rationing food and water during the height of his mother’s alcoholism—Kirk is used to keeping up appearances and burying his inconvenient truths from the world, until he’s eighteen and falls in love for the first time. A keenly observed, fascinating window into the life of extreme privilege and a powerful story of self-acceptance, Filthy Beasts is “a stunning, deeply satisfying story about how we outlive our upbringings” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Download or read book How to Get Things Really Flat written by Andrew Martin and published by The Experiment. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes actual instructions! “You might not think that a book about cleaning could be funny but this made me laugh out loud” (The Financial Times). For many reasons, men often neglect housekeeping chores—even when they share the house with other humans who wish they could get some help in that department. How to Get Things Really Flat combines witty observations, true tales of family life, useful information that takes the mystery out of such phenomena as dishwashers and vacuums, and answers to timeless questions including: When dusting, where does the dust go? What is the worst thing that can happen while ironing? Is housework therapeutic? How can I impress people with bicarbonate of soda? Aren’t men supposed to be dirty? And more! “A delightfully amusing tale about the joys and tribulations of doing housework that also serves as a very good primer on how to actually do housework . . . His main target audience is men. But women, I think, will also find Martin’s observations funny and many of his tips helpful . . . And if, after laughing your way through Martin’s text, you’re still not into doing housework, he has a tip for that, too: Hire a cleaner.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune “Martin’s lighthearted but quite handy guide looks at the reasons why men don’t help out around the house as much as they ought to and proposes what can be done about that . . . After reading this offbeat and thoroughly delightful guide to housework, it’s hard to imagine anyone not wanting to give this stuff a try. Martin does what your mother never could: he makes doing chores seem fun, exciting, and rewarding.” —Booklist

Download or read book Get Real with Storytime written by Julie Dietzel-Glair and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complete, year-long programming guide that shows librarians how to integrate nonfiction and poetry into storytime for preschool children in order to build literacy skills and overall knowledge. The right nonfiction titles—ones with colorful photographs and facts that are interesting to young imaginations—give librarians an opportunity to connect with children who are yearning for "true stuff." Presenting poetry in storytime encourages a love of language and the chance to play with words. Written by authors with a combined 25 years of experience working with children and books in a library setting, Get Real With Storytime: 52 Weeks of Early Literacy Programming goes far beyond the typical storytime resource book by providing books and great ideas for using nonfiction and poetry with preschool children. This book provides a complete, year-long programming guide for librarians who work with preschool children in public libraries and school librarians who run special programs for preschoolers as well as parents, childcare providers, and camp counselors. Each of the 52 broad storytime topics (one for each week of the year) includes a sample storytime featuring an opening poem; a nonfiction title; picture books; songs, rhymes, or fingerplays; and a follow-up activity. Early literacy tips that are based on the authors' extensive experience and the principles of Every Child Ready to Read (ECRR) are presented throughout the book.