Download or read book Half Boyfriend written by Judy Balan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Half Boyfriend a feudal rich boy from a village courts a gorgeous city brat who has a weakness for lost causes. They go through a series of pointless events and unbelievable coincidences in a dead-end plot that has to end with the chuavinist sleeping with the girl.
Download or read book Rent a Boyfriend written by Gloria Chao and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before meets The Farewell in this incisive romantic comedy about a college student who hires a fake boyfriend to appease her traditional Taiwanese parents, to disastrous results, from the acclaimed author of American Panda. Chloe Wang is nervous to introduce her parents to her boyfriend, because the truth is, she hasn’t met him yet either. She hired him from Rent for Your ’Rents, a company specializing in providing fake boyfriends trained to impress even the most traditional Asian parents. Drew Chan’s passion is art, but after his parents cut him off for dropping out of college to pursue his dreams, he became a Rent for Your ’Rents employee to keep a roof over his head. Luckily, learning protocols like “Type C parents prefer quiet, kind, zero-PDA gestures” comes naturally to him. When Chloe rents Drew, the mission is simple: convince her parents fake Drew is worthy of their approval so they’ll stop pressuring her to accept a proposal from Hongbo, the wealthiest (and slimiest) young bachelor in their tight-knit Asian American community. But when Chloe starts to fall for the real Drew—who, unlike his fake persona, is definitely not ’rent-worthy—her carefully curated life begins to unravel. Can she figure out what she wants before she loses everything?
Download or read book Hyperbole and a Half written by Allie Brosh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller “Funny and smart as hell” (Bill Gates), Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations. FROM THE PUBLISHER: Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices. This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than fifty percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and one wholly revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the website like, “The God of Cake,” “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving,” and her astonishing, “Adventures in Depression,” and “Depression Part Two,” which have been hailed as some of the most insightful meditations on the disease ever written. Brosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. We dare you not to. FROM THE AUTHOR: This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative—like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it—but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book: Pictures Words Stories about things that happened to me Stories about things that happened to other people because of me Eight billion dollars* Stories about dogs The secret to eternal happiness* *These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!
Download or read book Real Live Boyfriends written by E. Lockhart and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a senior at her Seattle prep school, Ruby continues her angst-filled days coping with the dilemmas of boyfriends, college applications, her parents' squabbling, and realizing that her "deranged" persona may no longer apply.
Download or read book I Have a Theory about That written by Judy Balan and published by Hachette India. This book was released on 2019-08-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meg likes to plan her life on a spreadsheet. Tania believes in letting the universe take charge. Theirs is an unlikely friendship, to say the least – especially since the two met because they used to date the same guy. At the same time. Now, as older, wiser twenty-nine-year olds (and flatmates, no less), they’re determined to enter their thirties with the one thing that''s still missing from their halfway happy lives: that elusive long-lasting romance. When a routine conversation ends up with them laying bets on who will find love first, the battle lines are drawn. Now, if only ridiculous first dates, nosey aunties betting on their bet and complicated professional lives would get out of their way for the girls to find their One. And, really, what is the shortest way to finding love – via probability calculations on a-date-a-day week, or just being in the right place at the right time when the planets are all aligned and there are no Venus–Uranus oppositions?
Download or read book Half Fae Hunter Series Bundle written by J.C. Diem and published by Seize The Night Publishing Agency. This book was released on with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bundle contains the complete Half Fae Hunter Series from books one to four. Dark Moon Rising: Jake Everett hunts monsters for a living and he’s very good at his job. While his mother was human, his father is a full blood Unseelie fairy. Unfortunately, that’s the bad kind of fairy, not the good kind. They aren’t exactly known as champions of justice in the fae realms. After leaving his old team of human hunters behind, he ends up in his hometown of Devil’s Peak. Almost from the first moment that he arrives, he learns he isn’t the only supernatural creature in town. A monster is on the loose and it is his duty to put a stop to it. Jake won’t be alone during this mission. His faithful sidekick, Rudy the leprechaun, will join him on his hunt. His new team will have skills and talents that will come in very handy when dealing with the new types of creatures that keep cropping up. As a twist, he won’t be the only one on the team who isn’t a full human for once. Deadly Seduction: Jake and his new team’s next mission will take them to a town called Paradise. All is not heavenly within the boundaries of the town. Strange creatures are plaguing the humans and it is their job to figure out what they are and how to get rid of them. They enlist the help of a clever young Archivist. With Brandon Cooper’s database of information, they can narrow down the monsters they’ll be facing. Unfortunately, he has to report their visit to his boss, the new Master Archivist. Jake hasn’t met Sheridan Harwood yet and his instincts tell him to avoid her at all costs. They encounter one of the Supernatural Crime Units that have been created to deal with non-human entities. Jake and his team won’t always be able to handle the monsters they’ll be facing alone. While he isn’t happy about the idea of working with the SCU, he might not have a choice. He knows where this job will ultimately take him; back to the fae realms where both danger and delight await him. Dungeon Trials: Hunting elemental monsters that have appeared in Texas, Jake and his team finally discover where they’re coming from. Someone is altering the portals that normally lead to the fae realms to allow creatures to come through from other worlds. They suspect the Dark Prince is behind it, but they don’t know how he’s achieving it. Jake receives a surprise visitor from the Seelie Court. The delectable Emelia gives him a magical invitation from her rulers. He knows he’ll have to open it eventually, but doing so will embroil him deeper in his quest. He’ll have to answer their imperial summons when he’s finished with his current mission. The Hunter Elite join Jake and his team on a job to take down some particularly nasty monsters, then Jake has no choice but to head to the fae realms. Once he has the gem that will allow him to close the dragon portal for good, he will be captured by Prince Sindarian. What happens after that wasn’t covered in the prophecy, but he doubts that whatever the ruler of the Unseelie realm has planned for him will be pleasant. Dragon Pledge: Jake is trapped in the goblin dungeon with no way out. He’s succumbed to the darkness inside him just as the Seer had told him, but he is no closer to finding a way out. Once he finally breaks free of the labyrinth, he has two enemies to kill. The Dark Prince’s days are numbered, even if he doesn’t realize it yet. The team that he left behind is facing their own problems. Asha has been taken and they don’t know where she is. They’ll have to rely on a mysterious warrior from the Seelie realm to come to their aid in order to free her. Sheridan Harwood is gaining the power to evict or kill all supernatural creatures from this realm. She’s made deals with beings from other realms, but she has plans of her own. The new Master Archivist is just as dangerous as the old one and she intends to pick up right where he left off.
Download or read book Hello Goodbye written by Emily Chenoweth and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a single week, a family leaves behind its past and a daughter awakens to the future in Emily Chenoweth’s intimate and beautifully crafted debut novel. In the winter of 1990, Helen Hansen–counselor, wife, and mother in the prime of her life–is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The following August, Helen, her husband, Elliott, and their daughter, Abby, a freshman in college, take a trip to northern New Hampshire, where Helen will be able to say goodbye to a lifetime of friends. Ensconced in a historic resort in the White Mountains–a place where afternoon cocktails are served on the veranda and men are expected to wear jackets after six–the Hansens and their guests must improvise their own rituals of remembrance and reconnection. For Elliott, the trip is a parting gift to his beloved wife, as well as some needed respite from the caretaking duties that have become his main work. For Helen and the procession of old friends who come to pay their respects, the days offer a poignant celebration of a dear, too-brief life. And for Abby, still unaware that her mother’s cancer is terminal, the week brings a surprising conflict between loyalty and desire as, drawn by the youthful, spirited hotel staff, she finds herself caught between the affections of two very different young men. Heartbreaking and luminous, Hello Goodbye deftly explores a family’s struggle with love and loss, as a summer vacation becomes an occasion for awakening rather than farewell, and life inevitably blossoms in the face of death.
Download or read book FRIENDSHIP written by Anandkumar Patil and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once, friendship met love. Love asked, “Why do you even exist when I am here?” Friendship replied, “To put smiles on faces where you have left tears.” Sunny, Alize, Mark, Kaira, Rehan, Jenny and Peter have an invincible friendship. They are living there life to the fullest. They rock the college corridors, sneak out of the college gate, prank their professors. But, just like a ‘to be happy story’, their story also has problems. What harm does Rathore cause them? Where does misunderstanding, overthinking and their ego lead them? Even after facing huge piles of troubles, how does their friendship last? Why doesn’t their friendship sink?
Download or read book Realization written by Dr. Prashant Kumar Shukla and published by Writersgram. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everything was perfect, at least for him. Now even a message notification would cheer him up, which was of no importance to him before. Now he spent most of his time with his cellphone. From being Mr. Attitude of college, he had transformed into a lover boy. This was something he had never witnessed or experienced before. This was a great feeling, a never-ending warmth in his heart. These new happenings made his life heaven; after all, it was first time he was experiencing love. He had friends who were his life and now, he had someone who was more than a friend to him. He was happy about his decision to be in love. His life was in full pace and the little emptiness of his heart had been filled by this girl, his love. She loved him, he loved her... his gang was with him... what was more that he could ask from God? Everything was beyond perfect to him, unimaginable. However, as usual, expiry dates of good things are too short. It has been a fear in his mind before accepting this new track of life. Because he knew that his heart was too vulnerable to break. How long can he go to save his perfect life? It has been a question that haunts him every night before sleep, and soon comes again as he opens his eyes in the morning. But in the end, it is all about Realization of self, which is the only thing matters most in the life, which he was going to witness, which he will experience. What a true man is and what is the value of realization, this story is all about it. "
Download or read book PathoGraphics written by Susan Merrill Squier and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culturally powerful ideas of normalcy and deviation, individual responsibility, and what is medically feasible shape the ways in which we live with illness and disability. The essays in this volume show how illness narratives expressed in a variety of forms—biographical essays, fictional texts, cartoons, graphic novels, and comics—reflect on and grapple with the fact that these human experiences are socially embedded and culturally shaped. Works of fiction addressing the impact of an illness or disability; autobiographies and memoirs exploring an experience of medical treatment; and comics that portray illness or disability from the perspective of patient, family member, or caregiver: all of these narratives forge a specific aesthetic in order to communicate their understanding of the human condition. This collection demonstrates what can emerge when scholars and artists interested in fiction, life-writing, and comics collaborate to explore how various media portray illness, medical treatment, and disability. Rather than stopping at the limits of genre or medium, the essays talk across fields, exploring together how works in these different forms craft narratives and aesthetics to negotiate contention and build community around those experiences and to discover how the knowledge and experiences of illness and disability circulate within the realms of medicine, art, the personal, and the cultural. Ultimately, they demonstrate a common purpose: to examine the ways comics and literary texts build an audience and galvanize not just empathy but also action. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Einat Avrahami, Maureen Burdock, Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Ariela Freedman, Rieke Jordan, stef lenk, Leah Misemer, Tahneer Oksman, Nina Schmidt, and Helen Spandler. Chapter 7, “Crafting Psychiatric Contention Through Single-Panel Cartoons,” by Helen Spandler, is available as Open Access courtesy of a grant from the Wellcome Trust. A link to the OA version of this chapter is forthcoming.
Download or read book My Unsentimental Education written by Debra Monroe and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman reflects on her working-class roots, her unsuitable exes, and her accidental road to happiness in a memoir of “many delights” (Atlanta Journal Constitution). A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin, with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe leaves to earn a degree, then another, and another, and builds a career—if only because her plans to be a midwestern housewife continually get scuttled. Fearless but naive, she vaults over class barriers but never quite leaves her past behind. When it comes to men, she’s still blue-collar. Negotiating the world of dating, Monroe pays careful attention to what love and sex mean to a woman ambivalent about her newfound status as “liberated.” Both the story of her steady rise into the professional class and a parallel history of unsuitable exes, this memoir reminds us how accidental even a good life can be. If Joan Didion advises us “to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be,” Monroe takes this advice a step further and nods at the people she might have become but didn’t. Funny, poignant, wise, My Unsentimental Education explores the confusion that ensues when a working-class girl ends up far from where she began. “Trying to be a Midwestern housewife in the tradition of her mother and grandmothers, and an early feminist at the same time, makes for comic incongruity.”—Wisconsin State Journal “Monroe’s candid memoir reads like a country ballad: a down-and-out woman, working gritty jobs, gets entangled with Mr. Completely, Laughably Wrong. But her unexpected story is far from a cliché.” —Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book Butterfly Nation written by Santhosh D and published by Verses Kindler Publication. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Butterfly Nation" is a conglomeration of poems, stories and other articles inked by twenty five fascinating minds despite of age from different parts of the world. The Title "Butterfly Nation" is justified by the budding writers who had exhibited their writings for the first time as how a caterpillar becomes a Butterfly. This collection of magnificent write-ups bewitchingly written for readers to be a part of this journey, which takes you through the various aspects of life and perspectives.
Download or read book Piano Girl written by Robin Meloy Goldsby and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining memoir provides a glimpse into the comedies, tragedies, and mundane miracles witnessed from the business perspective of a world-traveling lounge musician.
Download or read book The Ex Boyfriend s Handbook written by Matt Dunn and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Funny, moving, and a guaranteed page-turner. Brilliant!" —Mike Gayle, author of Mr. Commitment "It's not me—it's you." After ten years, Jane's had enough of Edward Middleton. "You've let yourself go," she tells him. "So I'm letting you go too." Determined to get her back, Edward realizes he must learn how to make women want him again. But right now, he's the kind of man who puts the "ex" in "sexy." One thing is certain: if he's going to be Jane's Mr. Right, he needs to turn himself around. From Atkins to Waxing, Edward begins working his way through the makeover alphabet. But is a change in appearance what Jane really wants? Can cuddly Teddy really become sexy Eddie? Or is there more to the dating game than meets the eye? "[The Ex-Boyfriend's Handbook] gives a real insight into the different ways men and women think." —Prima
Download or read book The Other Half written by Charlotte Vassell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You know how they live. This is how they die. Clemmie is dead. Who killed her? Was it the blithe, sociopathic boyfriend? His impossibly wealthy godmother? The gallery owner with whom Clemmie was having an affair? Or was it the result of something else entirely? Rupert's 30th birthday party is a black-tie dinner at the Kentish Town McDonald's—catered with cocaine and expensive champagne. The morning after, his girlfriend Clemmie is found murdered on Hampstead Heath, a single stiletto heel jutting from under a bush. All the party-goers have alibis. Naturally. This investigation is going to be about aristocrats and Classics degrees, Instagram influencers and whose father knows who. Or is it 'whom'? Detective Caius Beauchamp isn't sure. He's sharply dressed, smart, and thoroughly modern—he discovers Clemmie's body on his early morning jog. As he searches for the dark truth beneath the luxurious life of these London socialites, a wall of staggering wealth and privilege threatens to shut down his investigation before it's even begun. Can Caius peer through the tangled mess of connections in which the other half live—and die—before the case is wrenched from his hands? Bitingly funny, full of shocking twists, and all too familiar, The Other Half is a stunning debut from your next favorite crime writer.
Download or read book The New Messiah written by Daniel Biskar and published by Daniel Biskar. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Messiah is a novel of personal discovery set in the 1970's. Neal Shelley is an idealistic poet who falls in love with a woman he meets while hitchhiking across America during the Bicentennial summer of 1976. But despite the storybook beginning, the love affair soon fades and Neal is left disillusioned and searching for answers in his life. In his disheartened state, he conceives a utopian plan to launch a new messiah movement which he hopes will end his and everyone else's unhappiness. He enlists his charismatic friend, Andrew Moore, to pose as a modern-day savior. They begin their mission with a sermon on the Venice Boardwalk. The initial sermon succeeds brilliantly but then Neal's plan takes an unexpected turn as Andrew starts to truly believe he is the Chosen One. Inspired by actual events, The New Messiah shows how American youth culture in the mid-1970's-characterized by a quest for higher consciousness; pre-AIDS sexual promiscuity; recreational drug use; pop mysticism; irreverent humor; and cynicism and alienation in the post-Watergate "malaise" era-was the soil out of which a messiah movement could grow. One of the most striking features of The New Messiah is its play-like format. The story is told through the conversations of the characters. The authenticity of the dialogue in the party scenes, street scenes, and intimate one-on-one scenes will no doubt be appreciated by readers who lived through that time period. College-age readers today may also find much to identify with in the novel's depiction of 70's youth culture.
Download or read book Death at Fort Devens written by Peter Colt and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2022-05-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a race against time to find a teenager missing on the mean streets of Boston, in this hardboiled mystery featuring Andy Roark, Vietnam veteran turned Private Investigator. Boston, 1985. Private Investigator Andy Roark left the military behind years ago, but his past comes flooding back when he's hired by an old army buddy who's worried about his rebellious teenage daughter's safety. There are bonds of blood between Roark and the highly-decorated Lieutenant Colonel Dave Billings, forged in the steamy Vietnamese jungle, and some debts aren't easy to forget. Working the case for free, Roark's investigation quickly leads him to Boston's Combat Zone, five acres of sex, drugs and crime, right in the heart of one of America's oldest cities - and to Judy's unsavory new boyfriend, the drug-dealing K-nice. Then Judy runs away, and the clock starts ticking in earnest. Roark is determined to save his friend's daughter from a life of drugs and prostitution, but it'll take more than missing-person flyers and polite questions to save the girl and get them both out of the concrete jungle of the Combat Zone alive. This page-turning hard-edged mystery, written by a US Army veteran and New England police officer, is a great choice for readers who enjoy military detail, twisty plots and classic PI heroes with plenty of flaws, humour and attitude.
