Download or read book Not Your Average Jo written by Grace K. Shim and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of THE NOH FAMILY, a second standalone YA novel that follows a Korean American teen as she navigates the treacherous world of nepo babies and cultural appropriation that is the Los Angeles music scene. Perfect for fans of Mary H. K. Choi, Maurene Goo, and Emiko Jean. Riley Jo is a teenager who knows what she wants. Born and raised in Bentonville, Arkansas, this Korean American girl has her sights set on being a musician. So when her parents are surprisingly cool about her attending the prestigious Los Angeles–based arts-focused boarding school her senior year of high school, she jumps at the chance. This is her moment to make her indie rock dreams a reality! Things at Carlmont Academy start out strong: She joins a band, and they set out to make plans to perform at the annual spring concert—with a chance to land a record contract. Another student, Xander, decides his school project will be a documentary about the band leading up to their first show. But not everything goes how Riley Jo imagined. She is soon sidelined when her other bandmates feel she is "too Asian" to be their lead singer, and they choose her classmate Bodhi Collins for the role instead. Bodhi is rock music royalty, with a dad who is a famous music exec. And he's got the "all-American rock star look." Her classmates suggest she try making K-pop, but her heart is in indie rock. Riley Jo decides to take matters into her own hands and writes an original song to showcase her talent. But Bodhi takes the credit . . . and given his connections, the band lets him. Xander captures all of this in his film, which he leaks in order to show the truth behind the band. Riley Jo decides to sign up for the spring concert and perform on her own . . . but will she finally be able to take center stage?

Download or read book Liminal written by Maree Anderson and published by Maree Anderson. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now you see me, now you don’t! My name’s Wren, and I’m a liminal who can phase in and out of the real world. Sounds like an awesome trick, right? Yeah. Like everything that’s supposed to be cool, it’s complicated. I’m caught between two warring factions who’d kill to get a piece of me. Someone’s blocked my energy flows so if I phase I’ll get trapped in a ghostlike plane called Between…and die. And to top it all off, I’m totally crushing on my only ally, mysterious bad boy Kade. Sad thing is he’s keeping secrets from me, just like everyone else. My life’s spinning out of control. I don’t know who to trust anymore. And what I find lurking Between is the biggest shock of all. ~Winner, Editor’s Choice Division: Romance Writers of New Zealand Strictly Single contest ~Second place, Published Authors Division: From the Heart Romance Writers Golden Gateway contest Young Adult paranormal romance, approx 79,000 words Warning: Contains swearing that may be more suited to older readers The Liminals series so far: ~Tangent (Novella-length prequel) ~Liminal (Liminals, Book One) ~Phase (Liminals, Books Two) Other YA books by Maree Anderson: ~Freaks of Greenfield High (Freaks, Book One) ~Freaks in the City (Freaks, Book Two) ~Freaks Under Fire (Freaks, Books Three)

Download or read book The Voice of Witness Reader written by Voice of Witness and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2005, Voice of Witness has illuminated contemporary human rights crises through its oral history book series. Founded by Dave Eggers, Lola Vollen, and Mimi Lok, Voice of Witness amplifies the voices of people impacted by—and fighting against—injustice. Voice of Witness’s work is driven by the transformative power of the story, and by a strong belief that social justice cannot be achieved without deep listening and learning from those marginalized by systems of oppression. This selection of narratives from the organization’s first ten years includes stories from occupied Palestine, Sudan, Chicago public housing, and the US carceral system, among many others. Together, they form an astonishing record of human rights issues in the early twenty-first century; a testament to the strength of the human spirit in the face of incredible odds; and an opportunity to better understand the world we live in through connection and a participatory vision of history.

Download or read book People Who Knew Me written by Kim Hooper and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily Morris got her happily-ever-after earlier than most. Married at a young age to a man she loved passionately, she was building the life she always wanted. But when enormous stress threatened her marriage, Emily made some rash decisions. That’s when she fell in love with someone else. That’s when she got pregnant. Resolved to tell her husband of the affair and to leave him for the father of her child, Emily’s plans are thwarted when the world is suddenly split open on 9/11. It’s amid terrible tragedy that she finds her freedom, as she leaves New York City to start a new life. It’s not easy, but Emily---now Connie Prynne―forges a new happily-ever-after in California. But when a life-threatening diagnosis upends her life, she is forced to rethink her life for the good of her thirteen-year-old daughter. A riveting debut in which a woman must confront her own past in order to secure the future of her daughter, Kim Hooper's People Who Knew Me asks: “What would you do?”

Download or read book The Firefighter Daddy written by Margaret Daley and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Bachelor to Father Firefighter Liam McGregory is used to staring down fivealarm fires—but becoming a father to his two little nieces has him sending out a call for help. When the girls return a lost pup to its beautiful owner, Liam thinks widow Sarah Blackburn is just the person he needs—or who the children need. He's promised to never marry again. ' Sarah takes his deal: she'll watch his kids and he'll watch her menagerie of pets—but the new father is off-limits. But two determined little matchmakers can be hard to resist when they need a mom to make one big happy family…

Download or read book Hating You written by Kelsie Rae and published by Author Kelsie Rae. This book was released on with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's owned my heart for years. And now he's back to claim it. When Owen Daniels skipped town to become a college football star, he shattered my heart––and my dreams. Eventually, despite being used to the numbness, I worked hard and became an elementary teacher. And I was fine. Until a familiar last name popped up on my classroom roster. Owen has returned. But he’s not alone, and he's made his intentions clear. He's determined to win me back. And my adorable new student who calls him Daddy? In another world, he would’ve been mine. But I guess not everyone deserves their happily-ever-after. And no matter how sweet he is, I refuse to let his father hurt me again. If you love single dads, second chances, and nerdy heroines, then you'll love Kelsie Rae's Saylor. One-click today!

Download or read book written by Beth Huffman and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Run, Amy, Run!" is written in memory of Amy, an inspirational young woman who refused to give in to cystic fibrosis, a ravaging disease that invaded her lungs at birth. By God's grace and Amy's determined spirit, her life span and quality of life far exceeded her doctors' expectations. "Run, Amy Run!" is also a love story. Amy chose this Bible verse from Corinthians 13:13 to be shared during her wedding ceremony: "And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love." These words became the foundations of Amy's marriage and life. When confronted with one physical battle after another, her unwavering faith and hope prevailed. Amy's greatest ally, though, was love. Given to and received from her family and friends, it was love that ultimately led her to victory. Perhaps you've heard the expression that life should not be measured by the number of breaths we take, but rather by the number of moments that take our breath away. Amy experienced the truth of these poignant words her entire life. She gathered the strength to breathe each day and fought the disease that dictated how many breaths she would finally take.

Download or read book A Soldier s Return The Daddy Makeover written by RaeAnne Thayne and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The women of Brambleberry House are back! Returning home to Cannon Beach and living in Brambleberry House, a place where good things seemed destined to happen, had brought Melissa Fielding and her young daughter such joy. Perhaps it was no accident when the single mom “bumped” into Eli Sanderson and discovered the handsome doctor was also back in town. The ex-soldier was still so captivating, but also more guarded. Was now the time to put old ghosts to rest? Plus, one of the original Women of Brambleberry House stories—The Daddy Makeover! Eben Spencer learned long ago to keep his emotions under wraps. Now it’s just him and his little girl…until he meets Sage Benedetto. She’s warm, emotional, open—everything Eben is not. Sage’s bewitching nature soon has this tycoon rethinking his future…

Download or read book Big Woods written by May Cobb and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2018-07-08 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stephen King's Stand by Me collides with Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects in this exceptional thriller. Gutsy, gripping—and pitch-perfect in its resurrection of an era long gone."—A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window When her sister disappears, the only clue Leah has is a cryptic message: Underground. By the Woods. It's 1989 in the sleepy town of Longview, Texas, when ten-year-old Lucy disappears. Her parents, the police, and the community all brace for the worst, assuming her body will soon be found in Big Woods. Just like the other unsolved kidnappings. But then Lucy's fourteen-year-old sister, Leah, starts having dreams about Lucy—dreams that reveal startling clues as to what happened. Leah begins her own investigation, and soon she meets a reclusive widow who may hold the key to finding Lucy...if only she can find the courage to come forward. Delving into the paranoia surrounding satanic cults in the 1980s, Big Woods is an emotionally wrought, propulsive thriller about the enormity of grief, the magical bond between sisters, and a small town's dark secrets. Praise: "Big Woods is perfectly timed to take advantage of the 1980s horror revival. Its historic details are excellent, down to the songs on Leah's car stereo. Cobb paints in Day-Glo and brings terrors of the night to life."—Foreword Magazine "Readers will be grabbed by Big Woods and sucked into the mysterious story. Hold on tight—it's worth it."—Criminal Element "Cobb's intense, heart-wrenching debut introduces a courageous, determined teen who must find her lost sister amid a disturbing atmosphere of paranoia and fear, crafting a compelling, suspenseful story reminiscent of William Kent Krueger's Ordinary Grace."—Library Journal (starred review) "Big Woods is a nuanced family story and also a heart-stopping thriller with surprising twists. Cobb taps into the fabulous '80s sensibility of Stranger Things and also into our deepest fears about safety, evil, trust, and the power of faith in what we don't understand. I couldn't put it down."—Amanda Eyre Ward, author of The Nearness of You and The Same Sky "Compulsively readable."—Rosamund Lupton, New York Times bestselling author of Sister "Big Woods is brilliant! Cobb has crafted a haunting thriller that dives deep into grief, family connections, and the dreadful power of fear. The novel succeeds as a rich exploration of emotion and a not-so-distant time while also shining as a riveting page-turner."—Owen Egerton, author of Hollow and writer/director of horror-comedy Bloodfest "Big Woods is such a blast—a page-turning thriller with '80s hair, like a Texan Stranger Things."—Amy Gentry, author of Good as Gone "Literally the best thriller I've read in years. Intensely gripping, so evocative of the late '80s, and a brilliant, original storyline. It's blinding."—Clare Empson, author of Him

Download or read book Fight For Me written by Rachel Schurig and published by Rachel Schurig. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tell me one thing.” With those four words, she takes up permeant residence in my heart. Makes me want to pour out all my secrets, to let her in like no one else before her. There’s only one problem—she’s the last girl in the world I’ll ever be allowed to keep. I’ve always been the guy everyone can count on. The big brother. The perfect son. The nephew who makes the whole family proud. What they don’t know is how hard I’ve worked to be what they want me to be. Or how scared I am to lose it all. And that’s what will happen if I let myself love her. I’ll lose. Yet somehow, I can’t seem to help myself. I know it’s dangerous, but I still want more. More time with her. More secrets. More stolen kisses. She may be the one woman I can never have, but she’s also the only woman I can’t seem to give up. And for the first time in my life, I’m starting to wonder if love just might be worth the risk.

Download or read book Urmi Orissa Society of Americas 45th Annual Convention Souvenir written by and published by Odisha Society of the Americas. This book was released on with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orissa Society of Americas 45th Annual Convention Souvenir for Convention held in 2014 at Columbis, Ohio re-published as Golden Jubilee Convention July 4-7, 2019 Atlantic City, New Jersey commemorative edition. Odisha Society of the Americas Golden Jubilee Convention will be held in Atlantic City, New Jersey during July 4-7, 2019. Convention website is http://www.osa2019.org. Odisha Society of the Americas website is http://www.odishasociety.org

Download or read book Teen Boys Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny written by Alisha Gaddis and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Acting Series). You wanna be funny for your audition? This book of monologues, written by people who are actually funny for a living, has your back. This incredibly hysterical, cutting-edge monologue book will give the teen actor the extra bang he needs to land the perfect comedic role! Teen Boys' Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny features monologues by writers and comics who have written for and/or performed on Saturday Night Live , The Tonight Show , Last Comic Standing , E! Entertainment, Comedy Central Stage, and many, many more. This book is the answer to the comedic monologue needs of teen actors everywhere!

Download or read book Tales from Dad s Toolshed and Mom s Footlocker written by Ted Cayobit Visaya and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of creative, humorous, and informative stories inspired by following the footsteps of my parents in America. My scrapbook of stories centered around being Filipino American. I wrote this book as if I'm talking to my kids. No one else will tell your stories except for yourself and I've been waiting for the right time to share them. We all have stories to share, we should all keep a Scrapbook and share them.

Download or read book The Pilgrim and the Dark God written by Brooks Horsley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journey of Erin Milesdottur from our 21st century to the medieval age of a sister world is an exceptionally strange story told in Against a Fell Current. Erin’s circumstances in her new world are unusual; she is the copilot in her own body while Loki, the dark Norse god, is pilot. Loki takes control intermittently and only under unusual circumstances so most of the time Erin is ‘in charge’ and possessed of godlike powers. Truly helping other people is tricky and difficult, especially if you’re twenty first century and they are medieval, but Erin, with tact, wisdom and imagination manages this difficult feat brilliantly. The only thing truly beyond her reach is getting home to her own world. Or is it?

Download or read book The Diary of V written by Debra Kent and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-31 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V has won millions from her divorce settlement with Rodger. Now she and her young son are set for the future. But after 10 years of marriage, V is single again. Is she ready to enter the world of dating?

Download or read book Cloud Native Go written by Matthew A. Titmus and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Docker, Kubernetes, and Prometheus have in common? All of these cloud native technologies are written in the Go programming language. This practical book shows you how to use Go's strengths to develop cloud native services that are scalable and resilient, even in an unpredictable environment. You'll explore the composition and construction of these applications, from lower-level features of Go to mid-level design patterns to high-level architectural considerations. Each chapter builds on the lessons of the last, walking intermediate to advanced developers through Go to construct a simple but fully featured distributed key-value store. You'll learn best practices for adopting Go as your development language for solving cloud native management and deployment issues. Learn how cloud native applications differ from other software architectures Understand how Go can solve the challenges of designing scalable distributed services Leverage Go's lower-level features, such as channels and goroutines, to implement a reliable cloud native service Explore what "service reliability" is and what it has to do with cloud native Apply a variety of patterns, abstractions, and tooling to build and manage complex distributed systems

Download or read book Women Leading Justice written by Elaine Gunnison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The women’s movement and increasing social consciousness regarding gender disparity and discrimination has helped to make gains over the past several decades to reduce gender disparity for women in the workplace. However, gender discrimination and disparity continue to exist. Women continue to receive lower wages, and fewer opportunities for promotion and professional advancement – and this is particularly true in male dominated professions such as criminal justice. Building on original qualitative data, this book explores the experiences of female criminal justice professionals who have risen to the top of their professional ladders. The book includes first-hand narrative accounts of high ranking successful professional women working across a range of fields such as policing, courts, corrections, victim and restorative justice services and criminal justice research agencies in the United States and Canada. This book highlights the barriers that successful female criminal justice professionals have to overcome to obtain their positions, and identifies key themes that these women see as having allowed them to break through those barriers and to navigate their professional environments. This book provides students interested in entering the criminal justice field – and working professionals already in the field – with knowledge about women who have risen through the ranks and up the professional ladder to break through the glass and the brass ceilings of their profession.