Download or read book To Elvis with Love written by Lena Canada and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Case of Lena S written by David Bergen and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Case of Lena S. follows the life, loves, and coming-of-age of sixteen-year-old Mason Crowe during a year in which he will learn what it truly means to be in the world. At the centre of the novel is Lena, a troubled girl who has “chosen” Mason and will teach him something of desire and despair. Impulsive, provocative, vulnerable, and sad, Lena becomes haunting for Mason in ways he does not always understand. We meet Mason’s first “love,” an older girl destined for an arranged marriage; his mother, who takes a lover; and a wise and erudite blind man with a voyeuristic streak, to whom Mason reads. Playful, and with deadpan humour, the novel brilliantly captures the yearnings of youth, as well as the tantalizing possibilities and the confounding absurdities that sometimes lie at the heart of our most intimate relationships.
Download or read book The Rules Do Not Apply written by Ariel Levy and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Every deep feeling a human is capable of will be shaken loose by this short, but profound book' David Sedaris 'I wanted what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful adventurers and middle-aged mothers. We want intimacy and autonomy, safety and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, coziness and thrills. But we can't have it all.' Ariel Levy picks you up and hurls you through the story of how she lived believing that conventional rules no longer applied - that marriage doesn't have to mean monogamy, that aging doesn't have to mean infertility, that she could be 'the kind of woman who is free to do whatever she chooses'. But all of her assumptions about what she can control are undone after a string of overwhelming losses. 'I thought I had harnessed the power of my own strength and greed and love in a life that could contain it. But it has exploded.' Levy's own story of resilience becomes an unforgettable portrait of the shifting forces in our culture, of what has changed - and what never can.
Download or read book Seven Lives and One Great Love written by Lena Divani and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haughty and hilarious cat narrates this tale about seducing a resistant human . . . Anyone who has ever lived with cats knows how cunning, tender, smart, ferocious, underhanded, ingenious, foolish, and completely adorable they can be. These words describe Sugar Zach to a T. This is the epic story of the love between Sugar Zach—in his seventh life, a keenly intelligent and observant cat—and the Damsel, a writer with a frenetic lifestyle and an apparent abhorrence of things feline. Sugar Zach’s powers of observation and analysis are unparalleled, and after six lives lived among people from all walks of life he has countless stories to tell and a remarkable talent for telling them. His real area of expertise, however, lies in his preternatural ability to domesticate his humans—whatever you do, don’t even suggest that the humans are the ones who domesticate him. Yet he is flummoxed by the Damsel’s indifference to his charms. But he is not going to let her coldness stop him: One way or another, he is going to insinuate himself into her life and her art. With wit and a broad repertoire of cultural references, Sugar Zach recounts his days and nights spent with the Damsel in a novel that fits squarely into the illustrious tradition of feline literature à la T. S. Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Bukowski, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
Download or read book Wilful Disregard written by Lena Andersson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Gripped me like an airport read . . . perfect.' Lena Dunham 'Lena Andersson's Wilful Disregard is a story of the heart written with bracing intellectual rigor. It is a stunner, pure and simple.' Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones Winner of the August Prize 2013 On the day that Ester Nilsson, a poet and a sensible person in a sensible relationship, meets renowned artist Hugo Rask, her rational world begins to unravel. Leaving her boyfriend and her past behind, Ester embarks on what is sure to be the greatest love story of her life. It's a shame no one else agrees.
Download or read book Lena s Story written by Judy Waite and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Lena wants is to help a stray dog and hang out with her friends, Sanjay, Chelsea and Kai. All her dad wants is to make a deal with his boss. Somehow, things never quite seem to go according to plan... Join the four friends as they struggle with friendship, family and growing up. Welcome to The Street! Bloomsbury High Low books encourage and support reading practice by providing gripping, age-appropriate stories for struggling and reluctant readers, those with dyslexia, or those with English as an additional language. Printed on tinted paper and with a dyslexia friendly font, The Street is aimed at readers aged 12+ and has a manageable length (96 pages) and reading age (9+). This collection of stories can be read in any order. Produced in association with reading experts at CatchUp, a charity which aims to address underachievement caused by literacy and numeracy difficulties.
Download or read book Not That Kind of Girl written by Lena Dunham and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Includes two new essays! NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, AND LIBRARY JOURNAL For readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris, this hilarious, wise, and fiercely candid collection of personal essays establishes Lena Dunham—the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBO’s Girls—as one of the most original young talents writing today. In Not That Kind of Girl, Dunham illuminates the experiences that are part of making one’s way in the world: falling in love, feeling alone, being ten pounds overweight despite eating only health food, having to prove yourself in a room full of men twice your age, finding true love, and most of all, having the guts to believe that your story is one that deserves to be told. “Take My Virginity (No Really, Take It)” is the account of Dunham’s first time, and how her expectations of sex didn’t quite live up to the actual event (“No floodgate had been opened, no vault of true womanhood unlocked”); “Girls & Jerks” explores her former attraction to less-than-nice guys—guys who had perfected the “dynamic of disrespect” she found so intriguing; “Is This Even Real?” is a meditation on her lifelong obsession with death and dying—what she calls her “genetically predestined morbidity.” And in “I Didn’t F*** Them, but They Yelled at Me,” she imagines the tell-all she will write when she is eighty and past caring, able to reflect honestly on the sexism and condescension she has encountered in Hollywood, where women are “treated like the paper thingies that protect glasses in hotel bathrooms—necessary but infinitely disposable.” Exuberant, moving, and keenly observed, Not That Kind of Girl is a series of dispatches from the frontlines of the struggle that is growing up. “I’m already predicting my future shame at thinking I had anything to offer you,” Dunham writes. “But if I can take what I’ve learned and make one menial job easier for you, or prevent you from having the kind of sex where you feel you must keep your sneakers on in case you want to run away during the act, then every misstep of mine will have been worthwhile.” Praise for Not That Kind of Girl “The gifted Ms. Dunham not only writes with observant precision, but also brings a measure of perspective, nostalgia and an older person’s sort of wisdom to her portrait of her (not all that much) younger self and her world. . . . As acute and heartfelt as it is funny.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “It’s not Lena Dunham’s candor that makes me gasp. Rather, it’s her writing—which is full of surprises where you least expect them. A fine, subversive book.”—David Sedaris “This book should be required reading for anyone who thinks they understand the experience of being a young woman in our culture. I thought I knew the author rather well, and I found many (not altogether welcome) surprises.”—Carroll Dunham “Witty, illuminating, maddening, bracingly bleak . . . [Dunham] is a genuine artist, and a disturber of the order.”—The Atlantic
Download or read book Lena s Rainbow written by Della May Olson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-10-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My dear," said the gypsy queen gazing at Lena's palm, "I see many troubles in the past. I see powerful upheavals. I see death. Terrible scenes of death." By now Lena was trembling in fear. Was her own death written in her palm? The queen continued. "Wait! There is something else! Yes, I see a rainbow. The rainbow stretches over a great body of water. You are sliding down the rainbow into the - - - I cannot continue." "Please," said Lena. "Tell me what you see!" "I cannot see through the water. It is too deep. Too murky. Beware!" In 1895, a sixteen year old Polish girl escapes a wretched life in Poland to care for a rich, aging uncle in Romania, only to be sabotaged by her seemingly worthless cousin. Facing the gallows, her only hope is to escape to America where the horrors of the past can be erased. Or can they? The story of Lena will tear at your heart strings until the last page of the book. Lena is unforgettable.
Download or read book Keeping You written by Lena Hendrix and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I never should have slept with Colin McCoy.When I moved to my sister's small town, I was looking for a fresh start-no more shallow relationships, no snotty fake friends, and definitely no charming, dirty-talking musicians.We had a fun, red-hot night together and we agreed that hooking up was a mistake, a one-time thing. But when my dream bakery location happens to be right next door to his bar, every day I'm forced to see that chiseled jawline and remember the feel of his incredible body on mine.No. I'm starting over. I have rules. No more bad habits, definitely no falling in love. No matter how hard he tries, hooking up with him again would prove I'm the flake everyone expects me to be.But here I am, stuck between wanting to make something of my life and wanting to grab him and make another delicious mistake.KEEPING YOU is a scorching hot, interconnected stand alone small town romance. It's the second book in the Chikalu Falls series set in the fictional Montana town, Chikalu Falls.
Download or read book The Little Big Book of Love written by Lena Tabori and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 2000-01-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Big Book of Love is the most adorable, chunky valentine ever. There have been many successful love anthologies before this one, but none so complete, timeless, and delightful, and none in such a beautifully designed format. This great little fat love anthology is chock-full of the best of everything, including: Stories and excerpts from novels and plays by such favorite authors as Jane Austen, E. E. Cummings, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and William Shakespeare Love letters of famous historical couples such as Winston and Clementine Churchill, Napoleon and Josephine, And Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning Love poems by such renowned poets as Lord Byron, Robert Frost, William Butler Yeats, and Maya Angelou Recipes for aphrodisiac menus and treats to share with the one you love--including a Forgiveness Breakfast, Chocolate Truffles, and Luscious Lemon Hearts Lyrics to some of the greatest love songs of our time, from Cole Porter's "I've Got You Under My Skin'' to Johnny Mercer's "Something's Gotta Give'' More than 200 lavish illustrations, including 100 full-color, early twentieth-century images. There have been many successful love anthologies before this one, but none so complete, timeless, and delightful, and none so beautifully designed. This great little fat love anthology is chock-full of stories, poems, songs, letters, and the best recipes ever, including: * Poetry of William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Butler Yeats, John Keats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, T. S. Eliot, e. e. cummings, William Carlos Williams, Nikki Giovanni, and many, many more! * The best romantic recipes, with his-and-her aphrodisiac dinner menus, a forgiveness breakfast, cookie valentines, and a heart-shaped strawberry meringue shortcake * Love letters from famous historical figures such as Winston Churchill, John and Abigail Adams, Queen Victoria, Oscar Wilde, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre . . . and many equally passionate, entertaining, and eloquent declarations * Love songs like "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Night and Day," "Our Love Is Here to Stay," and "I Only Have Eyes for You." Lavishly illustrated with nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century illustrations, this charming book will remind you of the simplicity, integrity, and importance of love. There have been many successful love anthologies before this one, but none so complete, timeless, and delightful, and none so beautifully designed. This great little fat love anthology is chock-full of stories, poems, songs, letters, and the best recipes ever, including: * Poetry of William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Butler Yeats, John Keats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, T. S. Eliot, e. e. cummings, William Carlos Williams, Nikki Giovanni, and many, many more! * The best romantic recipes, with his-and-her aphrodisiac dinner menus, a forgiveness breakfast, cookie valentines, and a heart-shaped strawberry meringue shortcake * Love letters from famous historical figures such as Winston Churchill, John and Abigail Adams, Queen Victoria, Oscar Wilde, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre . . . and many equally passionate, entertaining, and eloquent declarations * Love songs like "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Night and Day," "Our Love Is Here to Stay," and "I Only Have Eyes for You." Lavishly illustrated with nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century illustrations, this charming book will remind you of the simplicity, integrity, and importance of love.
Download or read book Exhibitors Daily Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Million of Money written by Alice Maud Meadows and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wallace s American Trotting Register written by John Hankins Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wallace s American Trotting Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To day written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Serpari written by Stephen R. Galati and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen R. Galati’s engaging new collection of poetry and prose provides a sometimes musical, sometimes bold view of emotional transformation. The poems and short fiction are reflective and candid, and take us through life’s hidden passageways that guide us from the point of hardship to the moment of healing. Themes of nature, love, pain, and loss are addressed through metaphor and honesty in his prose and in such poems as “Farewell Like the Autumn Leaf,” “While She Sleeps,” and “When You Are Done.” This is a wonderfully enlightening collection from one of today’s great new voices.
Download or read book Heartbreak Ranch written by Rebecca Bracken and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helena Maleno had no intention of leaving her family farm after her father passed away. Her brother, Galen, had decided to work with Lena to keep the farm. Little did they know that there was an addendum to their father's will. Galen and Helena's adopted sisters have to decide if they want a stake in the farm as well. Lorenzo Maleno wanted all five children to work on the farm all summer and make an educated decision of whether they want to keep it or sell it, knowing that they didn't get along with Helena and Galen. It's up to Helena and Galen to sway one of the stubborn sisters to keep the farm, all the while exposing numerous and damaging family secrets. Their task is not easy, as sudden "mishaps" keep happening. Who is responsible for everything that suddenly keeps happening to the horses? Is it the same person that puts Lena in danger? Can Eli Miller, the man who loves Lena, save her?
