Download or read book CRUSH written by Cathy Alter and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A star-studded collection of essays from acclaimed and bestselling authors and celebrities that illuminates the lasting power of desire and longing, and celebrates our initiation into the euphoria, pain, and mystery that is our first celebrity crush. You never forget your first crush . . . CRUSH brings together stories of heartbreak, humiliation, and hilarity from a roster of popular luminaries, including James Franco, Carrie Fisher, Stephen King, Roxane Gay, Jodi Picoult, Emily Gould, and Hanna Rosin, who share intimate memories of that first intense taste of love. Here are funny, whimsical, sometimes cringe-worthy tales of falling head over heels for River Phoenix, Mary Tyler Moore, Howard Cosell, Jared Leto, and a host of other pop culture icons. A few contributors channeled their devotion into obsessively writing embarrassing fan letters. Some taped pics in school lockers. Others decorated their bedroom walls with posters. For tweenaged Karin Tanabe, it was discovering bad boy Andy Garcia—playing the gun-loving mobster Vincent Corleone in The Godfather III. Barbara Graham unsuccessfully staked out an apartment on Park Avenue for a glimpse of her blue-eyed soulmate, Paul Newman. There was only one puppy for six-year-old Jodi Picoult—Donny Osmond—while Jamie Brisick’s pre-teen addiction was Speed Racer. Swoon-worthy and unforgettable, the essays in CRUSH will leave you laughing, make you cry, and keep you enthralled—just like your first celebrity crush.

Download or read book Crush written by Andrea N. Richesin and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will fall head over heels for this nostalgic and irreverent collection. Twenty-six bestselling authors return to the teenage bedrooms, school hallways and college dorms of their youth to share passionate essays of love lost and found and lessons learned along the way. Whether heartbreaking or hilarious, their soul-baring honesty reminds us to keep reaching for true love wherever we can find it and for as long as it takes. Their intimate reflections will fascinate and move any reader who remembers her first love.

Download or read book Shattered Shields written by Jennifer Brozek and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swords and Shields. Faith and Magic. Grab your weapons and prepare, for the enemy is on the move. High fantasy and mighty conflicts go hand-in-hand. In great wars, armies rise to fight evil hordes and heroes struggle to push beyond their imperfections to save the day. These stories include more than just epic landscapes and charactersãthey also feature epic battles. Imagine a doctor struggling to identify the spy who has infiltrated his companys ranks and poisoned his colleagues or a boy suspected of murder by a king yet protected by a princess as he helps her father against his own people. Imagine a butcher discovering that hes called to lead an uprising, or a First Born knowing that she must betray her own in order to save humanity. The possibilities are endless, but at the heart they have this in common: soldiers¾ordinary and otherwise_struggling against extraordinary odds to survive the day. They must withstand dark magic, dodge enemy blades, and defy the odds to survive SHATTERED SHIELDS. Contributors: Larry Correia Sarah A. Hoyt Gray Rinehart David Farland Glen Cook Seanan McGuire John Helfers Annie Bellet Joseph Zieja Wendy N. Wagner David Farland Cat Rambo Robin Wayne Bailey Nancy Fulda John R. Fultz Dave Gross James L. Sutter Elizabeth Moon At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Shattered Shields: "An inventive and thought-provoking set of tales that capture the bravery and terrors of battle. Carries the banner of military fantasy proudly."--John Marco, author of The Bronze Knight Series About The Raygun Chronicles edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt: "Fans of sf should enjoy this stylistically varied homage to a genre as old as the fiction . . . "--Library Journal About Beyond the Sun edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt: "Beyond the Sun mixes courage, redemption, and stark terror in tales of distant worlds. Buckle in."--Jack McDevitt, author of Firebird

Download or read book Best of Apex Magazine written by Jason Sizemore and published by Apex Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology collects some of the best original short fiction published in Apex Magazine in its first six years. The stories include our numerous award-nominated works, our readers' Story of the Year selections, and personal favorites chosen by Apex Magazine editor-in-chief Jason Sizemore and managing editor Lesley Conner. TABLE OF CONTENTS Jackalope Wives by Ursula Vernon Going Endo by Rich Larson Candy Girl by Chikodili Emelumadu If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love by Rachel Swirsky Advertising at the End of the World Keffy R.M. Kehrli The Performance Artist by Lettie Prell A Matter of Shapespace by Brian Trent Falling Leaves by Liz Argall Blood from Stone by Alethea Kontis Sexagesimal by Katharine E.K. Duckett Keep Talking by Marie Vibbert Remembery Day by Sarah Pinsker Blood on Beacon Hill by Russell Nichols The Green Book by Amal El-Mohtar L’esprit de L’escalier by Peter M. Ball Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale) by Ian Tregillis Build a Dolly by Ken Liu Multo by Samuel Marzioli Armless Maidens of the American West by Genevieve Valentine Pocosin by Ursula Vernon She Gave Her Heart, He Took Her Marrow by Sam Fleming Also includes a foreword by Jason Sizemore and afterword by Lesley Conner.

Download or read book Crush 2 An Incomplete Heartbeat written by Various Authors and published by Authors' Ink Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crush 2: An Incomplete Heartbeat What happens when you love someone and they don't reciprocate in the similar manner? What happens when you love someone but you have to leave them for their own good? But it becomes more beautiful when you get the love you deserve and it remains with you till eternity. The only question which is hard to answer is was it actually love or just a mere attraction? The answer to this question lies in this anthology which consists eighteen such stories, anthology which is a roller-coaster of feelings. Contributors Ashquanda Iqbal, Divya Rawat, Monojit Dutta, Samridhi Garg, Manvi Singh, Satyam Mahato, Apurva Joshi, Arya Dikhole, Shriya Gupta, Rajeev Pundir, Chandra Kant Jaisansaria, Anuj Singhal, Pooja Khurana, Surbhi Sareen, Akash Rumade, Bhumika Khatri, Shagun Kesar, Zeenath Zaveri, Kajal Lalwani

Download or read book Deluge written by Leila Chatti and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “To write a series of poems out of extreme illness is a bracing accomplishment indeed. In Deluge... Leila Chatti, born of a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, brilliantly explores the trauma." —Naomi Shihab Nye, The New York Times In her early twenties, Leila Chatti started bleeding and did not stop. Physicians referred to this bleeding as flooding. In the Qur’an, as in the Bible, the Flood was sent as punishment. The idea of disease as punishment drives this collection’s themes of shame, illness, grief, and gender, transmuting religious narratives through the lens of a young Arab-American woman suffering a taboo female affliction. Deluge investigates the childhood roots of faith and desire alongside their present day enactments. Chatti’s remarkably direct voice makes use of innovative poetic form to gaze unflinchingly at what she was taught to keep hidden. This powerful piece of life-writing depicts Chatti’s journey from diagnosis to surgery and remission in meticulous chronology that binds body to spirit and advocates for the salvation of both. Chatti blends personal narrative, religious imagery, and medical terminology in a chronicle of illness, womanhood, and faith.

Download or read book Writers Crushing Covid 19 written by Ross Cavins and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film and recording artists the world over are broadcasting from home, doing their share to raise money for COVID-19 relief. And now the literati has picked up the gauntlet.Bestselling and award-winning authors have contributed their short stories and essays to inspire one and all during this challenging time, to enlighten the mind, and raise the spirits.

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-04-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-04-26 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Download or read book Spoon River Anthology written by Edgar Lee Masters and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAn American poetry classic, in which former citizens of a mythical midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dreams of their lives. /div

Download or read book Sun Bakery Fresh Collection written by Corey Lewis and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mecha-suit space documentarians, wish-fulfillment magic jackets, social-status swordplay -- just a taste of the stories featured in SUN BAKERY: FRESH COLLECTION. Collecting the completed stories "Dream Skills," "Arem," "Layered Jacket," as well as supplementary artwork and more from SUN BAKERY Comics Magazine. Collects issues #1-4

Download or read book Uncanny Magazine Issue 19 written by Sam J. Miller & Lara Elena Donnelly and published by Uncanny Magazine. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The November/December 2017 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Sam J. Miller & Lara Elena Donnelly, Karin Tidbeck, Sarah Monette, Tina Connolly, Troy L. Wiggins, and Tansy Rayner Roberts, reprinted fiction by Zen Cho and Rachel Swirsky, essays by Dimas Ilaw, Tim Pratt, Mallory Yu, Mari Ness, and Natalie Luhrs, and poetry by Nin Harris, Sharon Hsu, Sara Cleto & Brittany Warman, Betsy Aoki, Cassandra Khaw, Valerie Valdes, Millie Ho, and Dominik Parisien, interviews with Sam J. Miller & Lara Elena Donnelly and Tansy Rayner Roberts by Shana DuBois, a cover by Julie Dillon, a guest editorial by Julia Rios, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.

Download or read book Shattered Prism 1 written by Amir Naaman and published by Rosarium Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHATTERED PRISM is an exciting new, online journal focusing on science fiction and fantasy from around the world. Edited by Carmelo Rafala and Amir Naaman, SP promises to shatter the glass ceiling and explore what lies beyond.This first issue features the works of Nisi Shawl, Hassan Abdulrazzak, T.L. Huchu, Rati Mehrotra, Sarina Dorie, and Lavie Tidhar.

Download or read book Shattered Lives written by Peter Seymour and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suicides, hangings, shootings, car accidents, drownings, cliff falls, electrocutions … Detective Peter Seymour has seen every type of death imaginable in his time in the NSW Coroner’s Court and, after many years in law enforcement, the tragedies are beginning to take their toll. Dealing with death day in day out becomes too much for Seymour and this seasoned veteran starts to grapple with overwhelming feelings of fear and doubt. He decides to return to the police force hoping the operational work might offer some reprieve. Fate would have it otherwise as he is thrust straight back into an intense murder investigation. One Friday night in the year 2000, Nick Hanes is heading home after a night out with his mates. Barely two-hundred and fifty metres from his home, he is set upon by two men. Bashed, beaten then murdered, Hanes dies after a senseless and random attack. Seymour is called to the St Mary’s crime scene. He examines the body and discovers that there are very few clues, no leads and no witnesses. As the case unravels it takes every bit of his experience, tenacity and determination to not only discover the identity of the perpetrators but to also deal with his own demons that are beginning to spiral out of control. Shattered Lives tells the true story of two men embarking on dangerous paths. One man finds himself the victim of a violent crime, the other searching for justice for the dead man’s family as he struggles with his own battle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, the result of a life spent giving his all for others. Both paths are intertwined, and there is no turning back.

Download or read book Death Magazine written by Matthew Haigh and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death Magazine is a futuristic, glossy body horror magazine in poetry form. It takes our cacophonous obsession with perfectionism and turns it into a series of synthetic, blackly-comic nightmares.

Download or read book crush stuff written by Lisi Harrison and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventh grade besties navigate crushes and friend drama in the second book in bestselling author Lisi Harrison's new middle grade series, Girl Stuff, perfect for fans of The Baby-Sitters Club, Real Friends, and Invisible Emmie. Halloween is just around the corner and with it comes the dreaded overnight class trip at a smelly farm. Fonda has ideas for a way cooler trip but before she can say Catalina Island, other kids (including her best friend’s crush’s best friend!) come forward with class trip proposals of their own. There's only one solution: a petition competition, and whoever gets the most signatures wins. Fonda enlists her besties Drew and Ruthie to help, but are they ready to do whatever it takes to win? Between school stuff, girl stuff, and crush stuff, this trio's trip—and hearts—are on the line.

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