Download or read book Sweet Treats Secret Crushes written by Lisa Greenwald and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a blizzard threatens to ruin Valentine’s Day, three seventh-grade friends make and distribute fortune cookies to their lonely neighbors—and confront the secrets they’ve been keeping from one another. Confident Kate doesn’t notice much but the latest gossip, and shy Georgia can’t say out loud what’s always on her mind. They’re joined by observant, careful Olivia, whose epic, single-minded crush on PBJ (real name: Phillip Becker-Jacobs) is starting to frustrate them. Using fortune cookies that mysteriously always seem to speak directly to the person who opens them, the three girls try to work together to bring some love to their building while reminding each other why they’re such good friends to begin with.

Download or read book Fortune Cookies written by John Darling and published by John Darling. This book was released on 2010 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dim Sum for Everyone written by Grace Lin and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tasty morsel of a board book all about dim sum from the Newbery Honor–winning author of Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Grace Lin. A Chinese American family sits down to enjoy a traditional dim sum meal. Dumplings, cakes, buns, and tarts are wheeled out in little dishes on trolleys, and each family member gets to choose a favorite treat! Lin’s bold and gloriously patterned artwork is a feast for the eyes. Her story is simple and tailor-made for reading aloud to young children, and she includes an informative author’s note for parents, teachers, and children who want to learn more about the origins and practice of dim sum.

Download or read book Disrupted written by Dan Lyons and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant New York Times bestseller, Dan Lyons' "hysterical" (Recode) memoir, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "the best book about Silicon Valley," takes readers inside the maddening world of fad-chasing venture capitalists, sales bros, social climbers, and sociopaths at today's tech startups. For twenty-five years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer at the top of his profession--until one Friday morning when he received a phone call: Poof. His job no longer existed. "I think they just want to hire younger people," his boss at Newsweek told him. Fifty years old and with a wife and two young kids, Dan was, in a word, screwed. Then an idea hit. Dan had long reported on Silicon Valley and the tech explosion. Why not join it? HubSpot, a Boston start-up, was flush with $100 million in venture capital. They offered Dan a pile of stock options for the vague role of "marketing fellow." What could go wrong? HubSpotters were true believers: They were making the world a better place ... by selling email spam. The office vibe was frat house meets cult compound: The party began at four thirty on Friday and lasted well into the night; "shower pods" became hook-up dens; a push-up club met at noon in the lobby, while nearby, in the "content factory," Nerf gun fights raged. Groups went on "walking meetings," and Dan's absentee boss sent cryptic emails about employees who had "graduated" (read: been fired). In the middle of all this was Dan, exactly twice the age of the average HubSpot employee, and literally old enough to be the father of most of his co-workers, sitting at his desk on his bouncy-ball "chair."

Download or read book The Best Worst Thing written by Kathleen Lane and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Front door locked, kitchen door locked, living room windows closed. Nobody in the closet, nobody under the beds. Still, Maggie is worried. Ever since she started middle school, she sees injustice and danger everywhere--on the news, in her textbooks, in her own neighborhood. Even her best friend seems to be changing. Maggie believes it is up to her, and only her, to make everything all right. Can she come up with a plan to keep everyone safe? The Best Worst Thing is a perceptive novel about learning the limits of what you can control, and the good--sometimes even best--things that can come of finally letting go.

Download or read book Shanghai Girls written by Lisa See and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-03-29 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shanghai, 1937. Pearl and May are two sisters from a bourgeois family. Though their personalities are very different - Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid - they are inseparable best friends. Both are beautiful, modern and living a carefree life ... until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away the family's wealth, and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to two 'Gold Mountain' men: Americans. As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, the two sisters set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the villages of southern China, in and out of the clutches of brutal soldiers, and even across the ocean, through the humiliation of an anti-Chinese detention centre to a new, married life in Los Angeles's Chinatown. Here they begin a fresh chapter, despite the racial discrimination and anti-Communist paranoia, because now they have something to strive for: a young, American-born daughter, Joy. Along the way there are terrible sacrifices, impossible choices and one devastating, life-changing secret, but through it all the two heroines of this astounding new novel by Lisa See hold fast to who they are - Shanghai girls.

Download or read book Miss Fortune Cookie written by Lauren Bjorkman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erin, a non-Chinese teenager living in San Francisco's Chinatown, ghostwrites an online advice column, but when a reply to her ex-best friend backfires, Erin's carefully constructed life takes a crazy spin.

Download or read book Fortune s Diary written by Giselle Renarde and published by Giselle Renarde. This book was released on 1901 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are three things Fortune doesn't believe in: psychics, astrology, and the possibility of ever finding a place of her own. While her mother spends money they don't have on internet tarot readers, Fortune imagines a new life with the girl of her dreams. Not that she's met the girl of her dreams... until she attends a lesbian speed-dating event and falls instantly in love with Maya. The problem is that Maya isn't one of the participants—she seems to be dating the event organizer. In case that isn't enough of a deterrent, Maya is also the tarot reader Fortune's mother has been spending oodles of money on! Why can't life ever be easy? Fortune would give anything to escape the drudgery of cooking and cleaning for her mother, but she doesn't believe in the business Maya is building. How can a girl who's given up on love ever find her happy-ever-after? Lesbian romance from award-winning queer Canadian author Giselle Renarde.

Download or read book Changing Fortune Cookies written by P.D. Workman and published by pd workman. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman! Fortune Cookies Favor the Bold The baker turned sleuth is hard at work once more, trying to run her business while at the same time tracking down a missing boy. Is he missing by his own choice, as the police suggest, or has he been kidnapped and held against his will? The clues are all there, but can Erin decipher them before it is too late? ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ The author has the ability to pull you into her story and keep you firmly rooted there until the end. Her characters are interest and have depth. She isn't afraid to explore the areas of our society that many would rather sweep under the rug. Like baking mysteries? Cats, dogs, and other pets? Award-winning and USA Today Bestselling Author P.D. Workman brings readers back to small town Bald Eagle Falls for another culinary cozy mystery to be solved by gluten-free baker Erin Price and her friends. Have your gluten-free cake and eat it too. Sink your teeth into this sweet treat now!

Download or read book Ill Fated Fortune written by Jennifer J. Chow and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Woman's World must-read cozy mystery! A Book Riot and Criminal Element Most Anticipated Cozy Mystery! The first in the heart-warming and deliciously mysterious Magical Fortune Cookie series from Lefty Award-nominee Jennifer J. Chow. Felicity Jin grew up literally hanging onto Mom’s apron strings in their magical bakery in the quaint town of Pixie, California. Her mother’s enchanted baked goods, including puffy pineapple buns and creamy egg tarts, bring instant joy to all who consume them. Felicity has always been hesitant in the kitchen herself after many failed attempts, but a takeout meal gone wrong inspires her to craft some handmade fortune cookies. They become so popular that Felicity runs out of generic fortunes and starts making her own personalized predictions. When one customer’s ill-fated fortune results in his murder, Felicity’s suspiciously specific fortune has the police focusing on her as the main culprit. Now Felicity must find a way to turn her luck around and get cleared from suspicion.

Download or read book The Wedding written by Nicholas Sparks and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stunning New York Times bestselling follow-up to The Notebook, a hardworking but distant husband vows to win back the love of his life by looking to Noah and Allie's legendary romance. After thirty years, Wilson Lewis is forced to face a painful truth: the romance has gone out of his marriage. His wife, Jane, has fallen out of love with him, and it is entirely his fault. Despite the shining example of his in-laws, Noah and Allie Calhoun, and their fifty-year love affair, Wilson himself is a man unable to express his true feelings. He has spent too little time at home and too much at the office, leaving the responsibility of raising their children to Jane. Now his daughter is about to marry, and his wife is thinking about leaving him. But if Wilson is sure of anything, it is this: His love for Jane has only grown over the years, and he will do everything he can to save their marriage. With the memories of Noah and Allie's inspiring life together as his guide, he vows to find a way to make his wife fall in love with him...all over again. In this powerfully moving tale of love lost, rediscovered, and renewed, Nicholas Sparks once again brings readers his unique insight into the only emotion that ultimately really matters.

Download or read book Your Face in Mine written by Jess Row and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A widely praised young writer delivers a daring, ambitious novel about identity and race in the age of globalization. One afternoon, not long after Kelly Thorndike has moved back to his hometown of Baltimore, an African American man he doesn't recognize calls out to him. To Kelly’s shock, the man identifies himself as Martin, who was one of Kelly’s closest friends in high school—and, before his disappearance nearly twenty years before, white and Jewish. Martin then tells an astonishing story: after years of immersing himself in black culture, he’s had a plastic surgeon perform “racial reassignment surgery”: altering his hair, skin, and physiognomy to allow him to pass as African American. Unknown to his family or childhood friends, Martin has been living a new life ever since. Now, however, Martin feels he can no longer keep his identity a secret; he wants Kelly to help him ignite a controversy that will help sell racial reassignment surgery to the world. Inventive and thought-provoking, Your Face in Mine is a brilliant novel about cultural and racial alienation and the nature of belonging in a world where identity can be a stigma or a lucrative brand.

Download or read book Jane Raggedfir Was a Dike written by Steven Kladstrup and published by Steven E. Kladstrup. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Readers' Praise For Jane Raggedfir Was a Dike "a great read - funny, heroic and frightening" "a detailed account of a teacher's life" "laugh-out-loud storytelling" "heartfelt, funny, and eye-opening" . If you are a veteran teacher, this story will make you laugh. And cry. And maybe stamp your feet, as you curse all the idiots who turned your job into a drive-up window for people who simply want things their way. . If you're thinking about a career as a public school teacher in the United States, reading this book may make you think twice. Jane Raggedfir is an in-your-face heads-up on what you'll truly be facing once you're on the job. . Written as a set of novels spanning the course of a veteran teacher's last year on the job, Jane Raggedfir's story will have you laughing when you're not crying, pondering when you're not simply appalled, and in the end, sympathizing with the people who are serving on the real world front lines we call "classrooms" doing their best to fight the good fight. . That's because this is the story of how "impossible" it is to actually be a teacher nowadays. . In Volume 1: Back to School, you'll start learning about: * All the sacrifices * All the endless expectations * All the so-called leadership * All the incompetence * All the secrets * All the compromises * All the competition * All the merciless scrutiny * All the blame * All the unfairness * And last. but not least, all the consequences... . Inspired by issues and practices in the real world of education, this first volume, "Back To School," is your introduction to Jane Raggedfir, a high school teacher who spent the last years of her career trying to hold back the waters of ignorance and save a troubled teen, only to fail spectacularly, thanks to all the hypocrisy and short-sightedness that has too often turned public education into a fragmented, fear-based nightmare of self-serving competition and back-biting disrespect. . Get ready to experience the non-public side of public education as Jane deals with the system and the system, in turn, deals with her. Likewise, get ready to learn the secrets that the rest of the staff doesn't know about Mrs. Raggedfir, like the truth that she is anything but safe in the classroom and is, in fact, disabled in a way that no one else can ever fully understand. . So - if you're an admin in an American public school, go ahead and burn this book right now before it challenges your tried-and-true ways of operating. . If you're simply on the outside looking in, i.e., an interested party who wants to know why teachers and teaching seem so messed up these days, this series will offer you plenty of insight into what's been going on, particularly in some of the "best" schools. . No matter where you're coming from, Jane Raggedfir will take you places you haven't been before in any other book about teaching. Instead of all the rah-rah, rose-colored, "I just love teaching" stories, Jane's journey will have you howling and shaking your head, even as it clues you in on how compromised the profession really is and where many of the dark closets in your own local schools can be found. . Please Note: This is Volume 1 of a planned series. While this first volume stands on its own as a humorous (and painful) example of what it's really like for teachers when a school year is about to get underway, it is also intended as an invitation to readers to come back for the rest of the story as additional volumes are released. . Volume 1: Back To School includes: * Prologue: The Edge * Part 1: The Dog Days of August * Part 2: Workshop Week

Download or read book Imperium written by Robert Harris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-09-19 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Pompeii, comes the first novel of a trilogy about the struggle for power in ancient Rome. In his “most accomplished work to date” (Los Angeles Times), master of historical fiction Robert Harris lures readers back in time to the compelling life of Roman Senator Marcus Cicero. The re-creation of a vanished biography written by his household slave and righthand man, Tiro, Imperium follows Cicero’s extraordinary struggle to attain supreme power in Rome. On a cold November morning, Tiro opens the door to find a terrified, bedraggled stranger begging for help. Once a Sicilian aristocrat, the man was robbed by the corrupt Roman governor, Verres, who is now trying to convict him under false pretenses and sentence him to a violent death. The man claims that only the great senator Marcus Cicero, one of Rome’s most ambitious lawyers and spellbinding orators, can bring him justice in a crooked society manipulated by the villainous governor. But for Cicero, it is a chance to prove himself worthy of absolute power. What follows is one of the most gripping courtroom dramas in history, and the beginning of a quest for political glory by a man who fought his way to the top using only his voice—defeating the most daunting figures in Roman history.

Download or read book An Anonymous Girl written by Greer Hendricks and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant #1 New York Times bestseller (January 2019) everyone is talking about! People Magazine's Book of the Week • Bookish's "Must-Read Books of Winter" • PopSugar's "Best Books of Winter" • Cosmopolitan's "2019 Books to Bring to Your Book Club" • Bookbub's "Biggest Books of Winter" • Refinery 29's "Best Books of January 2019" • Crime Reads' "January's Best Psychological Thrillers" • InStyle's "7 Books That You Should Resolve to Read This January" • HelloGiggles' "The 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2019" • USA Today's "5 New Books Not to Miss" • Marie Claire's "The Best Women’s Fiction of 2019 (So Far)" • Hypable's "Winter Releases You Can’t Afford to Miss" "Hendricks and Pekkanen are at the top of their game...You won't see the final twist coming." —People Magazine “Beware strange psychologists...the authors know exactly how to play on their characters’ love of danger to bring them to the brink of disaster - and dare them to jump off.” —New York Times Book Review "Slickly twisty [with] gasp-worthy final twists...major league suspense." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) "For those who relished the creepy stalking in Hendricks and Pekkanen's The Wife Between Us, this unnerving tale will have them rethinking what secrets are safe to share and if moral and ethics really matter when protecting the ones you love." —Library Journal (starred review) "Masterfully escalates the suspense." —Booklist (starred review) Looking to earn some easy cash, Jessica Farris agrees to be a test subject in a psychological study about ethics and morality. But as the study moves from the exam room to the real world, the line between what is real and what is one of Dr. Shields’s experiments blurs. Dr. Shields seems to know what Jess is thinking... and what she’s hiding. Jessica’s behavior will not only be monitored, but manipulated. Caught in a web of attraction, deceit and jealousy, Jess quickly learns that some obsessions can be deadly. From the authors of the blockbuster bestseller The Wife Between Us, Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, An Anonymous Girl will keep you riveted through the last shocking twist.

Download or read book A Symphony of Voices written by and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 1992 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1966-05-27 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.