Download or read book My Idol Sits the Next Desk Over 1 written by Koyubi Sugawara and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiro-chan is a world-class idol...at least, to Sakiko Manaka, your run-of-the-mill hard-core idol fan. So when Chiro—real name Chihiro—ends up sitting next to her in school, Sakiko's world is turned upside-down, and all her brain cells vanish. After all, how can she concentrate when her absolute fav is just inches away?! But she needs to be on her A-game, because she may not be the only one who is totally gaga for Chihiro...

Download or read book My Idol Sits the Next Desk Over 2 written by Koyubi Sugawara and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sakiko ended up in the same class and in the seat right next to her beloved idol, Chihiro-chan. Chihiro-chan became her friend and that’s how they spent the days together. Sakiko was still a bundle of butterflies, but little by little, she began to feel more comfortable around her. Then came Spring Sunshine’s surprise concert. Chiro-chan the idol was different than the Chihiro-chan she saw in the classroom, and her powerful performance brought tears to Sakiko’s eyes. She’s supposed to be her friend, but she reveres her too much to treat her as just that! From the class sports tournament to an after-school picnic, the calendar is full of school events!

Download or read book My Idol Sits the Next Desk Over 6 written by Tetsu Tsutsui and published by Kodansha USA. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sakiko has taken a crack at her first photo contest! To become the very best idol photographer, she's putting in some serious effort! Then, while Maaya has mixed feelings about it, she and Chihiro prepare a birthday surprise for Sakiko? Every day is more exciting when your idol is around! This is girlhood at its peak, and these three are in the thick of it in Volume 6!

Download or read book My Idol Sits the Next Desk Over 3 written by Koyubi Sugawara and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her smile, shining dazzlingly bright…Her voice, boldly resounding throughout the large venue…Her brave figure, dashing through the colorful light sticks—Sakiko’s idol is just too precious! Her classmate Tanaka-kun threw all caution aside and confessed his crush to Chihiro (after Sakiko and Maaya drove him to do it). Convinced a plain guy like himself would be a nobody in her eyes, he charged ahead, prepared for certain rejection. But did Chihiro’s cheeks really just turn red?! And will Sakiko sort out her inner turmoil about the idol she adores also being her friend?

Download or read book My Idol Sits the Next Desk Over 7 written by Tetsu Tsutsui and published by Kodansha USA. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chihiro is taking a break from her job, and it's hard to know what to say to her. And Sakiko has been awkward around her since she stepped back from her idol work. Then there's Maaya, who was so desperate for Chihiro not to call it quits, she came clean about her unscrupulous past as a fan. What path will these three take after high school graduation? The trio's unforgettable high school days finally come to a climax!

Download or read book My Idol Sits the Next Desk Over 4 written by Koyubi Sugawara and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last, Sakiko’s summer vacation has arrived—her first since starting high school. This summer is positively packed with Spring Shine events, and she has a feeling it’s going to be awesome! But at the summer rock fest where Spring Shine is performing, she runs into Kasumi, the classmate who made fun of Chihiro before! What will go down when the hater comes face-to-face with the fan?! With Spring Shine’s solo concert, a summer festival, and Maaya’s birthday all happening too, this summer is chock-full of fun events!

Download or read book My Idol Sits the Next Desk Over 5 written by Koyubi Sugawara and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chihiro is appearing in a TV drama, so she’s supposed to be practicing her acting. But is Maaya really going to kiss her?! Witnessing Maaya’s affection for Chihiro, Sakiko feels a tangle of emotions. Meanwhile, Chihiro is shocked when she sees the script and her part! Sakiko and Maaya are glad their idol’s career is taking off, but it’s complicated…things aren't so simple in Volume 5!

Download or read book In the Watchful City written by S. Qiouyi Lu and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This masterful work positions Lu among the vanguard of contemporary futurism and speculative fiction."—Publishers Weekly, starred review In the tradition of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, debut author S. Qiouyi Lu has written a multifaceted story of borders, power, diaspora, and transformation with In the Watchful City. The city of Ora is watching. Anima is an extrasensory human tasked with surveilling and protecting Ora’s citizens via a complex living network called the Gleaming. Although ær world is restricted to what æ can see and experience through the Gleaming, Anima takes pride and comfort in keeping Ora safe from harm. When a mysterious outsider enters the city carrying a cabinet of curiosities from around with the world with a story attached to each item, Anima’s world expands beyond the borders of Ora to places—and possibilities—æ never before imagined to exist. But such knowledge leaves Anima with a question that throws into doubt ær entire purpose: What good is a city if it can’t protect its people? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Chasing the Stars written by Melanie Hooyenga and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They've both sworn off romance, but love is written in the stars. Naomi Insta-love isn't a thing. Even if fans of my podcast think differently. But I can't deny the insta-sparks with the cute boy Hunter on my family camping trip. My fans think I've got it all figured out, so maybe it's time to follow my own advice and listen to my heart. Hunter's scowly attitude almost makes me hit rewind, but our interfering siblings convince me to give him another chance. Just when he starts to open up, I get an offer that could change everything I had planned for the future-and ruin my shot at happily ever after. Hunter My friends say I have a one-track mind, but it's not what you're thinking. If I'm going to finish college in three years and be a book editor in New York, I don't have time for distractions-not even by girls as charming as Naomi. Despite my attempts, it's impossible to ignore this love interest who's fallen into my orbit. I finally have the opportunity to be the hero in my own story, but I have a secret that puts more than just my future at stake, and if I make the wrong decision, it could alter my plotline forever. Book two in the Campfire Series, Chasing the Stars, is filled with stolen kisses, tipping canoes, and stars so bright you can see into the next galaxy.

Download or read book The Beautiful Ones written by Prince and published by One World. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time, in his own words—featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death NAMED ONE OF THE BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND THE GUARDIAN • NOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD Prince was a musical genius, one of the most beloved, accomplished, and acclaimed musicians of our time. He was a startlingly original visionary with an imagination deep enough to whip up whole worlds, from the sexy, gritty funk paradise of “Uptown” to the mythical landscape of Purple Rain to the psychedelia of “Paisley Park.” But his most ambitious creative act was turning Prince Rogers Nelson, born in Minnesota, into Prince, one of the greatest pop stars of any era. The Beautiful Ones is the story of how Prince became Prince—a first-person account of a kid absorbing the world around him and then creating a persona, an artistic vision, and a life, before the hits and fame that would come to define him. The book is told in four parts. The first is the memoir Prince was writing before his tragic death, pages that bring us into his childhood world through his own lyrical prose. The second part takes us through Prince’s early years as a musician, before his first album was released, via an evocative scrapbook of writing and photos. The third section shows us Prince’s evolution through candid images that go up to the cusp of his greatest achievement, which we see in the book’s fourth section: his original handwritten treatment for Purple Rain—the final stage in Prince’s self-creation, where he retells the autobiography of the first three parts as a heroic journey. The book is framed by editor Dan Piepenbring’s riveting and moving introduction about his profound collaboration with Prince in his final months—a time when Prince was thinking deeply about how to reveal more of himself and his ideas to the world, while retaining the mystery and mystique he’d so carefully cultivated—and annotations that provide context to the book’s images. This work is not just a tribute to an icon, but an original and energizing literary work in its own right, full of Prince’s ideas and vision, his voice and image—his undying gift to the world.

Download or read book Atomic Habits written by James Clear and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 20 million copies sold! Translated into 60+ languages! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights. Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field. Learn how to: make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy); overcome a lack of motivation and willpower; design your environment to make success easier; get back on track when you fall off course; ...and much more. Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.

Download or read book Prune written by Gabrielle Hamilton and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Gabrielle Hamilton, bestselling author of Blood, Bones & Butter, comes her eagerly anticipated cookbook debut filled with signature recipes from her celebrated New York City restaurant Prune. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE SEASON BY Time • O: The Oprah Magazine • Bon Appétit • Eater A self-trained cook turned James Beard Award–winning chef, Gabrielle Hamilton opened Prune on New York’s Lower East Side fifteen years ago to great acclaim and lines down the block, both of which continue today. A deeply personal and gracious restaurant, in both menu and philosophy, Prune uses the elements of home cooking and elevates them in unexpected ways. The result is delicious food that satisfies on many levels. Highly original in concept, execution, look, and feel, the Prune cookbook is an inspired replica of the restaurant’s kitchen binders. It is written to Gabrielle’s cooks in her distinctive voice, with as much instruction, encouragement, information, and scolding as you would find if you actually came to work at Prune as a line cook. The recipes have been tried, tasted, and tested dozens if not hundreds of times. Intended for the home cook as well as the kitchen professional, the instructions offer a range of signals for cooks—a head’s up on when you have gone too far, things to watch out for that could trip you up, suggestions on how to traverse certain uncomfortable parts of the journey to ultimately help get you to the final destination, an amazing dish. Complete with more than with more than 250 recipes and 250 color photographs, home cooks will find Prune’s most requested recipes—Grilled Head-on Shrimp with Anchovy Butter, Bread Heels and Pan Drippings Salad, Tongue and Octopus with Salsa Verde and Mimosa’d Egg, Roasted Capon on Garlic Crouton, Prune’s famous Bloody Mary (and all 10 variations). Plus, among other items, a chapter entitled “Garbage”—smart ways to repurpose foods that might have hit the garbage or stockpot in other restaurant kitchens but are turned into appetizing bites and notions at Prune. Featured here are the recipes, approach, philosophy, evolution, and nuances that make them distinctively Prune’s. Unconventional and honest, in both tone and content, this book is a welcome expression of the cookbook as we know it. Praise for Prune “Fresh, fascinating . . . entirely pleasurable . . . Since 1999, when the chef Gabrielle Hamilton put Triscuits and canned sardines on the first menu of her East Village bistro, Prune, she has nonchalantly broken countless rules of the food world. The rule that a successful restaurant must breed an empire. The rule that chefs who happen to be women should unconditionally support one another. The rule that great chefs don’t make great writers (with her memoir, Blood, Bones & Butter). And now, the rule that restaurant food has to be simplified and prettied up for home cooks in order to produce a useful, irresistible cookbook. . . . [Prune] is the closest thing to the bulging loose-leaf binder, stuck in a corner of almost every restaurant kitchen, ever to be printed and bound between cloth covers. (These happen to be a beautiful deep, dark magenta.)”—The New York Times “One of the most brilliantly minimalist cookbooks in recent memory . . . at once conveys the thrill of restaurant cooking and the wisdom of the author, while making for a charged reading experience.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Download or read book The Lines that Define Me 1 written by Atsunori Horiuchi and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sosuke Aoyama is a college student adrift on his own...until a chance meeting with suibokuga artist Kozan Shinoda brings him into the world of India-ink painting. But though he finds connection with the art and Shinoda himself, there's more to both the art world and Shinoda's family than Sosuke realizes...

Download or read book Yuri Bear Storm Volume 1 written by Ikunigomakinako and published by TOKYOPOP. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every night, 16-year-old Kureha has a strange dream involving lilies, storms, and... her classmate Ginko as a bear?! At school, Kureha's unassuming personality and looks render her practically invisible. Sometimes, it feels like no one notices her at all... until cute and energetic Ginko asks Kureha to talk privately one day during lunch. Maybe she really is a bear... or maybe she's just got a crush on Kureha!

Download or read book My Darling Next Door 1 written by Rukana and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ririka thinks she must be missing out—after all, what high school girl isn't obsessed with romance? But when a young, handsome salaryman moves in next door, she realizes she may just be able to understand the appeal of crushes, after all...

Download or read book Bouncing Back from Rejection written by Leslie Becker-Phelps and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go beyond your fear of rejection to develop confidence, compassionate self-awareness, and resilience! Do you have a fear of rejection? If so, you aren’t alone. But if you have difficulty bouncing back after rejection, experience intense pain as a result, or if the fear of rejection is so crippling that it interferes with your everyday life, it’s time to make a change. This groundbreaking guide can help. With this book, you’ll learn why you fear rejection by gaining an understanding of your unique attachment style. Secure attachment is defined as a feeling of being protected and well-cared for. People who experience secure attachment as young children are more likely to be happy, healthy, and resilient adults. On the other hand, insecurely attached people are less likely to cope well with rejection, and may have trouble “bouncing back” after difficult experiences. Once you understand how your attachment style has informed your fears, you can begin the work needed to overcome them! Using the theory of attachment, and the five domains of awareness: Sensations, Thoughts, Emotions, Actions, and Mentalizing (STEAM), you’ll learn to relate to yourself and to others in more positive ways, even when difficult situations arise. So, whether you experience rejection in a romantic relationship, at work, or with friends, you’ll have the resilience needed to recover quickly and focus on what makes you special and unique. This isn’t a book that promises to protect you from future rejection. Unfortunately, rejection happens to everyone and is a normal part of life. But you will learn skills to handle this rejection and come to see it as less scary. With this view, you’ll gain confidence, self-awareness, and the resilience needed to bounce back, even when life throws you a curveball.

Download or read book Illuminate written by Aimee Agresti and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brainy, shy high school outcast interning at a Chicago hotel discovers that the hotel staff has an evil agenda planned for her classmates on prom night.