Download or read book Wow in the World The How and Wow of the Human Body written by Mindy Thomas and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A #1 New York Times Bestseller! Based on their #1 kids podcast, Wow in the World, hosts Mindy Thomas and Guy Raz take readers on a hilarious, fact-filled, and highly illustrated journey through the human body—covering everything from our toes to our tongues to our brains and our lungs! WHY in the world do I have a belly button? And WHAT in the world does it do? WHEN in the world will my nose stop growing? And HOW in the world does my pee keep flowing? The human body is a fascinating piece of machinery. It's full of mystery, and wonder, and WOW. And it turns out, every single human on the planet has one! Join Mindy Thomas and Guy Raz, hosts of the mega-popular Wow in the World podcast, as they take you on a fact-filled adventure from your toes and your tongues to your brain and your lungs. Featuring hilarious illustrations and filled with facts, jokes, photos, quizzes, and Wow-To experiments, The How and Wow of the Human Body has everything you need to better understand your own walking, talking, barfing, breathing, pooping body of WOW!

Download or read book Why Not Me written by Mindy Kaling and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and creator of The Mindy Project and Never Have I Ever comes a hilarious collection of essays about her ongoing journey to find contentment and excitement in her adult life. “This is Kaling at the height of her power.”—USA Today In Why Not Me?, Kaling shares insightful, deeply personal stories about falling in love at work, seeking new friendships in lonely places, attempting to be the first person in history to lose weight without any behavior modification whatsoever, and believing that you have a place in Hollywood when you’re constantly reminded that no one looks like you. In “How to Look Spectacular: A Starlet’s Confessions,” Kaling gives her tongue-in-cheek secrets for surefire on-camera beauty, (“Your natural hair color may be appropriate for your skin tone, but this isn’t the land of appropriate–this is Hollywood, baby. Out here, a dark-skinned woman’s traditional hair color is honey blonde.”) “Player” tells the story of Kaling being seduced and dumped by a female friend in L.A. (“I had been replaced by a younger model. And now they had matching bangs.”) In “Unlikely Leading Lady,” she muses on America’s fixation with the weight of actresses, (“Most women we see onscreen are either so thin that they’re walking clavicles or so huge that their only scenes involve them breaking furniture.”) And in “Soup Snakes,” Kaling spills some secrets on her relationship with her ex-boyfriend and close friend, B.J. Novak (“I will freely admit: my relationship with B.J. Novak is weird as hell.”) Mindy turns the anxieties, the glamour, and the celebrations of her second coming-of-age into a laugh-out-loud funny collection of essays that anyone who’s ever been at a turning point in their life or career can relate to. And those who’ve never been at a turning point can skip to the parts where she talks about meeting Bradley Cooper.

Download or read book A Madness So Discreet written by Mindy McGinnis and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery Mindy McGinnis, the acclaimed author of Not a Drop to Drink and In a Handful of Dust, combines murder, madness, and mystery in a beautifully twisted gothic historical thriller perfect for fans of novels such as Asylum and The Diviners as well as television's True Detective and American Horror Story. Grace Mae is already familiar with madness when family secrets and the bulge in her belly send her to an insane asylum—but it is in the darkness that she finds a new lease on life. When a visiting doctor interested in criminal psychology recognizes Grace's brilliant mind beneath her rage, he recruits her as his assistant. Continuing to operate under the cloak of madness at crime scenes allows her to gather clues from bystanders who believe her less than human. Now comfortable in an ethical asylum, Grace finds friends—and hope. But gruesome nights bring Grace and the doctor into the circle of a killer who will bring her shaky sanity and the demons in her past dangerously close to the surface.

Download or read book This Darkness Mine written by Mindy McGinnis and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mindy McGinnis, award-winning author of The Female of the Species and A Madness So Discreet, returns with a new dark and twisted psychological thriller—perfect for fans of Gone Girl and Fight Club. Sasha Stone knows her place—first-chair clarinet, top of her class, and at the side of her Oxford-wearing boyfriend. She’s worked her entire life to ensure her path to Oberlin Conservatory as a star musician is perfectly paved. But suddenly there’s a fork in the road in the shape of Isaac Harver. Her body shifts toward him when he walks by, and her skin misses his touch even though she’s never known it. Why does he act like he knows her so well—too well—when she doesn’t know him at all? Sasha discovers that her by-the-book life began by ending the chapter of another: the twin sister she absorbed in the womb. But that doesn’t explain the gaps of missing time in her practice schedule, or the memories she has of things she certainly never did with Isaac. Armed with the knowledge that her heart might not be hers alone, Sasha must decide what she’s willing to do—and who she’s willing to hurt—to take it back.

Download or read book Finding Her Hero written by JoAnn Ross and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Live, love, connect: come home to romance this summer It Happened One Week by JoAnn Ross Smugglers’ Inn was once a refuge for Amanda Stockenberg…and a place to find love. Now, ten years later, Amanda is back, this time for a corporate retreat. Dane Cutter is still working at the inn—and still as dangerous to her equilibrium as ever. Suddenly, Amanda isn’t sure what she wants. She has one week. Seven days to choose between achieving all her dreams or reuniting with the man she never stopped loving. Romancing the Wallflower by Michelle Major Kindergarten teacher Erin MacDonald isn’t the type to make the first move on a man—especially gorgeous David McCay, her secret crush. But when a crisis involving one of her pupils offers a chance to help the pro baseballer turned brewery owner, Erin makes a shocking suggestion! David is nobody’s hero. So why can’t he convince the sweet, kindhearted beauty that she deserves better than him?

Download or read book The Stranger written by Kathleen O'Brien and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seems as if Tyler Balfour's mother was the only woman in town his father didn't marry. So he's as surprised as anyone when he discovers Anderson left him a third of everything he owned. Tyler doesn't plan on sticking around. After all, the good people of Heyday already believe he's responsible for ruining their town. Not that he cares what they think. He was only doing his job. Now that he's back in Heyday, he's starting to realize his job just might be finding out what Mallory Rackham--one of the town's favorite daughters--is so desperately trying to hide. Three brothers with different mothers. Brought together by their father's last act. The town of Heyday, Virginia, will never be the same--and neither will they.

Download or read book Too Strong to Die written by Ruth Apsley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's something unusual and a little mysterious about Lisa Carlson, who grows to young womanhood in the shadow of a violent birth. Woven toward a gripping climax are issues of life and death, hardship, bitterness, love, and morality, plus the puzzle of the mysterious stranger at the other end of the phone line. Be prepared to be moved and changed forever!

Download or read book Dark Angels written by Jo-Anne Wiley and published by Pink Flamingo Media. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deadly name game…There’s a killer systematically working their way through the secret membership of The Coven, women drawn together by a mutual obsession. And each victim must provide the name of the next to die. Lee is pulled into this horrifying abyss when her niece is savagely raped. While she loves her niece, the idea of Mindy being held down captivates her imagination and she’s unable to force the images from her mind. The allure of sexual assault becomes an addiction: Books, movies, a survivors’ forum. Using a police scanner, she is always first at a rape crimescene. However, she notices a redhead who haunts the same backstreets and eventually chases her down. But the stranger is not intimidated by their confrontation. “It’s obvious who you are,” the woman says. “And what you are. You may deny it, but you choose to walk the dark side. You look for despair where others seek happiness. You prefer to move among tormented souls. You have come to realize that the very best sex is taken; not given.” Lee thought she was the only one, but she learns that there are others who live in the shadows – the Angels of Darkness.

Download or read book The Town written by Mobashar Qureshi and published by Mobashar Qureshi. This book was released on 2011-08-29 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He had seven days to burn the town down. Seven days to kill every occupant in it. Seven days do it without getting himself in trouble. So begins the story of a stranger who shows up in town with a secret and a motive that could be deadly to the town's folks. approx. 33,000 words. science fiction, mystery, horror, thriller, suspense

Download or read book Who Is Lou Sciortino written by Ottavio Cappellani and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ottavio Cappellani's wildly entertaining Mafia comedy takes us into the unhinged world of a family that makes the Sopranos look like the Waltons. As blood-red as a good bottle of Sicilian wine, Who Is Lou Sciortino? is an exhilarating debut from one of Italy's brightest young talents. Growing up on the streets of New York, young Lou Sciortino learned many lessons from his grandfather, Don Lou: that whiners are fools; that in order to get respect from other people, you sometimes have to whack a guy; and that the movie business is a perfect place to make dirty money clean. So when young Lou is set up as the head of Starship Pictures, everybody's happy. That is, until the day a rival Mafia family plants a bomb in their offices. Nobody's happy after that, especially not Don Lou, who decides to send his grandson to Sicily to stay out of danger; after all, a really nice, decent person like Lou just doesn't take part in Mafia warfare. Not long after young Lou goes to work for Uncle Sal Scali—a hapless Mafia boss from Catania who can't even keep the peace in his own neighborhood—a cop is killed during a routine robbery and young Lou is chosen to bring the situation under control. But there's someone else Sal has to reckon with: Lou's grandfather. Don Lou doesn't like the way things are shaping up in Sicily, and decides it's time he paid one last visit to the old country. That's when the bullets really start to fly.

Download or read book The Struggle for Kathy s Soul written by Karen Ross and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Struggle For Kathy's Soul" is the story of two young social workers who meet in California in the 1970's. There is an immediate attraction between them, but Kathy's Christian background clashes with Susan's independence. Kathy wants marriage and a family. Susan wants a career. They both want a close, intimate partner. They find a common passion for the children they guide through foster care, but their relationship is more complicated. When their feelings for each other surface, they must deal with the conflicts, compromises and choices stemming from their different backgrounds and desires. It becomes a struggle for Kathy's soul

Download or read book Smart but Scattered written by Peg Dawson and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2024-11-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All kids occasionally space out, get sidetracked, run out of time, or explode in frustration--but some do it much more often than others. With over 425,000 in print, this encouraging, bestselling parent guide is now in a revised and updated second edition. The authors explain the crucial brain-based skills that 4- to 12-year-olds need to get organized, stay focused, and control their impulses and emotions. Handy questionnaires help parents home in on their own child's executive strengths and weaknesses. Armed with a better understanding of their "smart but scattered" kid, readers can use proven strategies to boost skills that are lacking, fix everyday routines that don't work, and reduce everyone's stress. Including new research, new and updated vignettes, and "A Good Place to Start" suggestions for each skill, the second edition features a new chapter on technology and a greatly expanded school chapter. Readers can download and print a wealth of practical tools. See also the authors' Smart but Scattered Teens, Smart but Scattered--and Stalled (with a focus on emerging adults), and The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success (with a focus on adults).

Download or read book The Steward Living in Covenant written by Ronald E. Vallet and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Steward Living in Covenant discusses the theme of stewardship from a fruitful new perspective. Ronald Vallet explores Old Testament stories from creation to Isaiah, linking the life of the steward to the theme of covenant -- a first for books in this area. Written as an Old Testament parallel to Vallet's acclaimed Stepping Stones of the Steward, this book reclaims the Old Testament foundations of a fully biblical theology of stewardship. Vallet looks especially at the promise and command aspects of God's covenant with his people as a vital dimension of what it means to be a genuine steward.

Download or read book Mother s Day written by Joyce Livingston and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mindy and Chuck O'Connor's marriage was once rocky, but for the past four years they've been truly happy. That all changes, however, when Chuck announces that his boss has suspended him from work - for molesting a female coworker. To complicate matters, Mindy and Chuck decide to keep the situation secret from their daughter, Bethany. But when Bethany turns up missing, Mindy and Chuck realize secrets and lies are no way to build a marriage or a family. Will the pain of a missing child destroy their marriage, or can God's love overcome their heartache?

Download or read book The Terrorist Lodge written by Nicholas Scoyni and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The terrosist lodge is about the true story of a man that was caught in a real life connection of drug dealers and prostitutes in the north west. The novel also involves a plan to help Osama Bin Laden in exchange for heroin and power; this is how they operate and still are in hiding.

Download or read book Christmas in Lone Pine written by Karen Erickson and published by EM Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her holidays have never looked so promising... Christian Nelson has a list of things he wouldn't mind getting for Christmas. Continued safety for the fire crew he heads. More good times with the guys. Even more with the ladies. Nowhere on that list did a single mom named Jane Clark appear. So why can't he get her off his mind? Jane's quiet and mysterious for a reason--being widowed by a fire will do that to you. Conquering her fears started with a tour of the fire station. The captain is her younger brother's handsome best friend, and Chris's offering to personally help her was unexpected. Especially since she's heard he's been burned before. Despite her brother’s warnings about his friend’s playboy status and dangerous occupation, Jane can’t help but fall for this unexpected gift of a man. If they can find the strength to let go of their pasts, a lifetime together might be the Christmas miracle neither one of them knew they needed.

Download or read book Auntie Mags written by Kate Danley and published by Kate Danley. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie's a now an auntie and ready to show this new nugget all the awesomeness of being a World Walker. But when the child is kidnapped as part of an ancient prophecy, Maggie and Killian must save the kid before nap time means a permanent sleep. The creatures of the Other Side are about to get a hands-on lesson in why you don't mess with the MacKay girls. Auntie Mags is Book Twelve in the Maggie MacKay: Magical Tracker series.