Download or read book Gimme a Call written by Sarah Mlynowski and published by Ember. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who better to take advice from than your future self? This hilarious novel from the author of Ten Things We Did (And Probably Shouldn't Have), Don't Even Think About It, and the Magic in Manhattan series is sweet, entertaining, and all-too-relatable. A new life is just a phone call away! Devi's life isn't turning out at all like she wanted. She wasted the past three years going out with Bryan—cute, adorable, break-your-heart Bryan. Devi let her friendships fade, blew off studying, didn't join any clubs . . . and now that Bryan has broken up with her, she has nothing left. Not even her stupid cell phone—she dropped it in the mall fountain. Now it only calls one number . . . hers. At age fourteen, three years ago! Once Devi gets over the shock—and convinces her younger self that she isn't some wacko—she realizes that she's been given an awesome gift. She can tell herself all the right things to do . . . because she's already done all the wrong ones! Except . . .what if getting what you think you want changes everything? "Mlynowski is in peak form: an outrageous concept, plot jammed with twists, a laugh on every page, and a heroine — no, two heroines in one! — you completely connect with." —E. Lockhart, New York Times bestselling author of Genuine Fraud and We Were Liars "Read this fast-paced, absorbing, and sweet story to find out what happens when senior-year wisdom meets starry-eyed freshman dreams!" —Melissa de la Cruz, New York Times bestselling author of The Isle of the Lost, Blue Bloods, and Alex and Eliza "A warm, wonderful (and hilarious!) story about learning to be your own hero. I ♥ this book like crazy!!" —Lauren Myracle, New York Times bestselling author of TTYL and Twelve

Download or read book Give Me a Call written by Sarah Mlynowski and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the Magic in Manhattan series comes a hilarious new novel with a high-concept premise -- what if you could call a cell phone number and give your younger-self advice based on hard-won, life-learned wisdom?

Download or read book Don t Even Think About It written by Sarah Mlynowski and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “funny, realistic, heartfelt, satiric, and unpredictable” novel about a group of big-city teens with mind-blowing powers (Ned Vizzini, New York Times–bestselling author). It was just an ordinary day at Manhattan’s Bloomberg High School. Socially awkward Olivia Byrne was stressing about her upcoming speech in public speaking class. Cooper Miller was flying high over the Yankees’ win from the night before. Mackenzie Feldman, Cooper’s girlfriend, was dreading the class’s upcoming flu vaccines because of her overwhelming fear of needles. Little did Mackenzie know that the shot would be the least of her worries . . . Now—after getting immunized—most of the students in homeroom 10B have the power to hear everyone’s thoughts: catty remarks, who’s crushing on whom, and what their teachers and parents really think about them. Once the students figure out what’s going on, the question becomes: What do they do with their new superpower? Use it for good . . . or for evil? Because world domination is on the menu . . . “A tour-de-force comic narration that will leave you gasping in awe—if you ever catch your breath from laughing.” —E. Lockhart, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of We Were Liars “Smart and frequently hilarious . . . Filled with heartbreak, hilarity, and some brutal truths, Mlynowski’s novel will leave readers thinking about the gaps between our private and public selves and the lies we tell others and ourselves.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Hilarious, moving, and utterly ingenious.” —Robin Wasserman, author of Girls on Fire

Download or read book The Call for Something written by Stephen Thomas and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-25 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At twenty-two years of age, Del Booker finds himself on the brink of adulthood. But he's still dependent on his family. He never even got his college degree. Meanwhile his friends are all at Ivy League schools while he grapples with his decision to become an artist. Eventually his sense of guilt becomes too much and, more childishly than ever, decides to run away from home. The odyssey that follows is more than just a job-huntit is the reluctant embracing of responsibility that begins to define, for Del, what being a grown-up really means.

Download or read book MYSTERY BABY written by Dani Sinclair and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost & Found He didn't have a clue about the baby on his doorstep What Steve Gregory did have was an excuse to cozy up to Lynn Rothmore, the neighbor whose touch-me-not air had taunted him for weeks. He was certain the uptight woman had a softer side—and that she knew something about the mystery baby. An unauthorized glimpse of Lynn's gorgeous body proved one hunch. Her shock at the sight of the abandoned infant confirmed another. But a kidnapping attempt—and Lynn's stony silence—only raised more questions. Protective instincts guaranteed that Steve would watch over the innocent babe…and the tantalizing woman who was most likely anything but innocent.

Download or read book The Completely Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green written by Eric Orner and published by Northwest Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Orner’s groundbreaking comic strip, “The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green”, debuted in 1990 and appeared in papers in a hundred cities across the US, Canada and the UK. Now, for the first time, every subversive, laugh-out-loud funny, and occasionally surreal episode from the gay everyman’s 15 years in print is in one deluxe collection. Includes behind-the-scenes stories from the author, bonus strips, and a foreword by New York Times bestselling author David Ebershoff. Released by Northwest Press, which has been publishing quality LGBT-inclusive comics and graphic novels since 2010.

Download or read book OKAY across Languages written by Emma Betz and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OKAY has been termed ‘a spectacular expression’ and ‘America’s greatest invention.’ This volume offers an in-depth empirical study of the uses that have resulted from its global spread. Focusing on actions and interactional practices, it investigates OKAY in a variety of settings in 13 languages. The collected work showcases the importance of a holistic analysis: prosodic realization and the placement of OKAY in its larger sequential and multimodal context emerge as constitutive for distinct uses in individual languages. An inductive approach makes it possible to identify practices not previously documented, for example OKAY used for ‘qualified acceptance’ or as a ‘continuer’, and to document a core of recurrent, similar uses across languages. This work also outlines new research directions for comparative analysis by offering first insights into the diachronic development of OKAY’s uses and the relationship of OKAY to other particles in specific languages.

Download or read book Independence Day written by Richard Ford and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his career, has entered an 'Existence Period' - selling real estate in New Jersey and mastering the high-wire act of normalcy. But over one Fourth of July weekend, Frank is called into sudden, bewildering engagement with life. Independence Day is a moving, peerlessly funny odyssey through America and through the layered consciousness of one of its most compelling literary incarnations, conducted by a novelist of extraordinary empathy and perception.

Download or read book Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks written by August Turak and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August Turak is a successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, and award-winning author who attributes much of his success to living and working alongside the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey for seventeen years. As a frequent monastic guest, he learned firsthand from the monks as they grew an incredibly successful portfolio of businesses. Service and selflessness are at the heart of the 1,500-year-old monastic tradition's remarkable business success. It is an ancient though immensely relevant economic model that preserves what is positive and productive about capitalism while transcending its ethical limitations and internal contradictions. Combining vivid case studies from his thirty-year business career with intimate portraits of the monks at work, Turak shows how Trappist principles can be successfully applied to a variety of secular business settings and to our personal lives as well. He demonstrates that monks and people like Warren Buffett are wildly successful not despite their high principles but because of them. Turak also introduces other "transformational organizations" that share the crucial monastic business strategies so critical for success.

Download or read book Avengers written by Marvel Comics and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects West Coast Avengers (1985) #1-9 And Vision And The Scarlet Witch (1985) #1-2. The ties that bind can be the worst kind! The West Coast Avengers fight demons, robots, zombies and more in this collection of eighties extravagan zas! The Grim Reaper wants his brother dead, and Ultron wants the same for his father - leaving the Vision and Scarlet Witch between two bloodlines getting bloodier by the minute! Guest-starring the Rangers and the ever-lovin', blue-eyed Thing! Plus: Wonder Man in a role that will surprise you!

Download or read book Wanderer written by Sterling Hayden and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of Sterling Hayden: actor, (Dr. Strangelove, The Godfather, Asphalt Jungle), sailor, officer, writer (Voyage), one-time communist, and constant wanderer.

Download or read book Junior s Farm A Tale Of Sardis County written by T. M. Bilderback and published by Sardis County Sentinel Press. This book was released on 2025-01-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an idea inspired by the classic Paul McCartney song comes Junior’s Farm, the second entry in the series Tales Of Sardis County! Laid off from a job in the city, Katie Montgomery and her thirteen-year-old daughter, Carol Grace, move home to Sardis County…to the farm that had been owned by her grandfather, Arthur “Junior” Ballantine, with the hopes of raising her daughter in the relative safety of rural America. Alan Blake is a cop. He also leaves the city to go to Sardis County…but not for the same reason. Alan arrested one of the Giambini crime family’s star gamblers: poker expert Moses Turley. Alan also grew up in Sardis County, but no one in the city knows that except his partner. Alan must hide out and stay alive long enough to testify against the mobster. Katie lets her former high school classmate, Alan, hide out with her and Carol Grace. But, in order to lie low on Junior’s Farm, he has to work as Katie’s farm hand. Then Katie discovers two things: She’s a descendant of the Sardis family, and she’s head over heels in love with Alan! Has Katie inherited the Sardis magic? Will Katie and Alan live happily ever after? Or will the Giambinis wipe out any chance of happiness? Find out in T. M. Bilderback’s Junior’s Farm - A Tale Of Sardis County!

Download or read book When Opposite Worlds Collide written by Michael Jeffrey Carter and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-05-23 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Val is an extremely attractive and very bright young African-American woman. An exotic dancer by trade (and very successful at her craft), the hard gristled back boned enchantress lives a free wheeling, come and go as she pleases lifestyle. Choosing to always remain emotionally unattached, Val very much enjoys the intrinsic freedoms of her devil-may-care standard of existence. By far her favorite customer is a good looking and very upstanding Ebony gentleman named Martin who made sporadic appearances at the club where she danced. A very well-to-do advertising executive, Martin has been widowed for 10 years and is 18 years further up the age ladder than is Val. In coming from the opposed stations that they hailed from, their improbable association will take them both on a gut wrenching, emotionally charged rollercoaster ride (that neither of them could ever have been mentally prepared for), and trigger a chain of events that is packed with the types of drama, twists and turns that oft times happen..................‘When Opposite Worlds Collide’!!!

Download or read book The Murmurings written by David Walks-As-Bear and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1.) "David Walks-As-Bear delivers all the action and suspense you could ever want, but beyond that there is so much wisdom in everything he writes. And so much humanity. In a world of pretenders, David Walks-as-Bear is the real thing." ---Steve Hamilton, author of Michigan's Upper Peninsula's Alex McKnight series 2.) "The Murmurings, a novel of mystery, a novel of mystic-spiritual power, a novel of love, loyalty, friendship, betrayal, and murder; a storyline woven so intricately together that it is a masterpiece. Highly recommended." ---Midwest Book Review 3.) "Ely Stone is a compelling protagonist, richly endowed with both smarts and wit. Through him, David Walks-As-Bear nails voice, character, sense of place, and cultural insight in these pages, and I look forward to reading a great deal more of his work." --Cornelia Read, Madeline Dare series author

Download or read book Liphar Short Stories Volume 2 written by Liphar Magazine and published by Spangaloo. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are proud to present second collection of 20 short stories by 20 different authors. The stories may have or will appear in past or future issues of LIPHAR magazine. Most of the authors presented here have an extensive portfolio of other books and stories that you may want to check out. From heart warming family situations to the totally bizarre , including aliens worlds and ideas, you will find stories that get your attention. The stories cover a wide genre and offer a cross-section of writing talents. We have not edited the stories in any way and are publishing them as we have received them. We hope you enjoy the stories as we also hope to publish many volumes of short stories. All these stories have come to us from submissions to the magazine. We encourage all writers to send us their stories for inclusion.

Download or read book Wounded Warriors written by Mike Sager and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lt. Col. Tim Maxwell prided himself on being a hard-core Marine—a patriotic Devil Dog on his third tour of Iraq. Then his brain was shredded with mortar shrapnel. Today, Maxwell has a large angry scar on the left side of his head. He forgets words, his wife has to read to him, and he drags one foot when he walks. Yet he works twelve-hour days as commander of the Wounded Warrior Barracks at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. For these warriors, Iraq and Afghanistan will never quite be in the past. And the struggle never ends. Other stories in Wounded Warriors depict life inside an L.A. crack gang, ex-pat Vietnam War veterans in Thailand, and five days in Las Vegas with basketball anti-hero Kobe Bryant—all of it captured stylishly by the writer who has been called “the beat poet of American journalism.”

Download or read book Nicki Sosebee in Love A Complete Romance Series 14 Book Box Set written by Jade C. Jamison and published by Jade C. Jamison. This book was released on with total page 2400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steamy contemporary romance author Jade C. Jamison’s “series full of twist and turns, action and adventure, all mixed with love and passion” (Goodreads reviewer Amy) is together for the first time in this complete collection, perfect for both new and longtime readers. Follow “funny, tough, sexy vixen” (Goodreads reviewer Sue) Nicki Sosebee, a woman trying to make a better life for herself as an investigative reporter and figuring out how to move on from her mostly unrequited lust for her best friend, motorcycle mechanic Sean Ramsey. He’s not willing to commit and she’s not ready for another broken heart. Danger, mystery, and plenty of steam follow Nicki as she tries to save her sleepy Colorado town and find her happily ever after…but not without a few bumps in the road first. “[W]hat probably hit me the most was just how quickly this first book flies by. It's definitely one of those ‘I can't put down’ and ‘read in one sitting’ type of books - the whole series is, really.” Backstage Blogs “This whole series has been leading up to this story [book #13] and it was worth every sleepless night I spent reading the previous books, the angst, and the tears… especially when I got to the epilogue. Oh, how happy that made me! I won’t say a word that will give anything away. Just know that it is all worth it. I promise. I want to grab every reader I know and tell them to start on this series!! Now! Today!!” Mary Lou, The Page Princess “I like that Nicki’s life isn’t perfect. She has job troubles, financial struggles, and her life isn’t always roses and sunshine. Her life is real. She faces real problems and real emotions and I love it! Jamison has created a world that is realistic but in such a way that you can’t wait to see what happens next. Her writing style is fluid and grounded in really knowing her characters. I continue to be a serious fan! Recommend! Recommend! Recommend!” Shannon, My Secret Book Spot “Jade definitely ups the bar in intrigue, danger, and HOTNESS!!” Elizabeth, Perusing Princesses