Download or read book Romance Stories An Interactive Fiction Collection Choose Your Own Happily Ever After written by Christina Crooks and published by Christina Crooks. This book was released on with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be the star of six fun and twisted little romance stories. Explore the playfulness, action, and sudden mortal danger of these adventures with built-in hyperlinks where you choose the direction the stories take. Thirty-five possible endings, but only a few will be a happily ever after. Can you find them? "For a well-written, light-hearted distraction from the annoyances of flying or watching your kid’s Little League game, this gamebook may well be your next best friend." - Lauri J. Owen, Critique de Book This gamebook's six stories include: "Meeting the Barbarian" - You've lived inside the ground for as long as you can remember. "The Lifeguard" - You're riding a bicycle down a beach trail when disaster strikes. "Blood Rock" - You're rock climbing when you encounter a creature from a nightmare... or a fantasy? "Luck in Love" - Con man or policeman? Your luck in love is about to change. "Baxter and Bunny" - The love of your life dumps you for a blond receptionist named "Bunny." "Unfamiliar Ground" - You're a mermaid lured to the shore by a powerful impulse. Gamebook Directions: When choices are presented to you, highlight and select your desired choice. If you change your mind and wish to make a different choice, press the BACK button (not the Previous Page button) to go back to your previous location. New edition includes a 1,600-word excerpt from romance novel Thrill of the Chase.

Download or read book My Lady s Choosing written by Kitty Curran and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interactive romance lets you choose your own path—and satisfy your earthly desires—as you embark on “an enticing romp” through the Regency era (Entertainment Weekly). “If you've ever been frustrated by a romantic heroine's choices, this book is for you.” —Bustle Endless scenarios of high romance, deep desire, and quivering...comedy await your tender caress in this chooseable-path romance novel. You are the plucky but penniless heroine in the center of 19th-century society, the courtship season has begun, and your future is at hand... Will you flip forward fetchingly to find love with the bantering baronet, Sir Benedict Granville? • Or turn the page to true love with the hardworking, handsome, horse-loving highlander, Captain Angus McTaggart? • Or perhaps you will chase through the chapters a good man gone mad, bad, and scandalous to know, in the arousing form of Lord Garraway Craven? • Or read recklessly on to take to the continent as the "traveling companion" of the spirited and adventuresome Lady Evangeline? • …or yet another intriguing fate? Whether it’s forlorn orphans and fearsome werewolves, mistaken identities and swashbuckling swordfights, or long-lost lovers and pilfered Egyptian artifacts, every delightful twist and turn of the romance genre unfolds at your behest!

Download or read book Build Your Own Christmas Movie Romance written by Riane Konc and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create the Christmas romance of your dreams, scene by scene, twist by charmingly predictable twist—each choice is yours. Slip on your favorite Christmas sweater, cozy up to a crackling fire, sip some spiced eggnog, and prepare to experience the ultimate holiday love story. But instead of watching it on some cheesy cable channel, open this book and put yourself in the director’s chair. First, decide your heroine’s problem. Was she just fired from her big city business job? Avoiding going home for Christmas? Or did she just realize the man who proposed to her maybe isn't Mr. Right? Then it's time to meet the man--should your heroine end up with the big city business exec, the small town hunk or someone totally unexpected (but still hunky)? Each choice will take you down a totally different path that all somehow end up making for a perfect made-for-TV romance. Will your Christmas activity montage include baking cookies, walking through a holiday festival, or skating on a picturesque frozen lake? Will you choose to include a generically bearded old man who perhaps could maybe be Santa Claus? Choice by hilarious choice, you’ll make your way closer and closer to the big payoff--the picture perfect, most romantic final kiss ever. And when you’ve savored that last bit of snowy, romantic goodness, don’t be glum. Turn back to page one and start a new love story. With hundreds of possible stories the happily-ever-afters never stop happening. Praise for Build Your Own Christmas Movie Romance “The choose-your-own-adventure-style parody features all the best tropes and treats of made-for-TV holiday specials.” —Chicago Reader “If you’re searching for the perfect gift for your Hallmark holiday film loving BFF (or just shopping for yourself, no shame), Riane Konc’s new book, Build Your Own Christmas Movie Romance, is the present you’ve been waiting for.” —Bustle

Download or read book Life s Lottery written by Kim Newman and published by Titan Books. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 965 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As rich and as revealing as you care to make it." Time Out At six years old you're asked to make a choice, the first of many in a multitude of possible lives. If you make the right decision, you may live a long happy life, or be immensely powerful, or win the lottery. If you take the wrong path, you may become a murderer, die young, make every mistake possible, or make no impression on life at all. The choice is yours. And by making the choices you do, you will change forever the lives of your family, your friends, your enemies, and your lovers. You can even change the fate of the world; all you have to do is choose... An adult role-playing novel where small decisions have monumental consequences.

Download or read book Build Your Own Romantic Comedy written by Lana Schwartz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A rollicking, meta, Choose Your Own Adventure novel for adults whose notions of romance are skewed and cracked from a lifelong diet of Meg Ryan movies.” —Vulture Get ready to relax with your favorite romantic comedy of all time—the one you create! Instead of turning on the latest cheesy rom-com for a simple, mood-boosting love story, put yourself in the director’s chair with Build Your Own Romantic Comedy. First, open the book and pick your heroine. Will she be a high-powered business lady with no time for love? Or a quirky bakery owner? Just make your choice and read how the magic unfolds. When it’s time to meet your man, do you prefer a hunky prince, a hunky executive, or a hunky nemesis? Each choice will take you down a totally different path that all somehow end up making a charmingly predictable romance. Choice by hilarious choice, you’ll pick from classic rom-com elements like: Sassy best friends Romantic date montages A makeover, obviously Dramatic but easily solved misunderstandings Make your way closer and closer to the big payoff—the picture-perfect, most romantic final kiss ever. And when you’ve savored that last bit of fun, romantic goodness, don’t be glum. Turn back to page one and start a new love story. With over 100 possible stories, the happily-ever-afters never have to stop.

Download or read book Mortal Danger written by Eileen Wilks and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former cop Lily Yu has her sister's wedding to attend, a missing magical staff to find, and now must deal with her grandmother's decision to return to the old country. Lily could turn to the man she's involved with for advice, but for all the passion that flares between them, she doesn't really know Rule Turner--she's just bound to him for life. Rule happens to be a werewolf, and Lily wonders just how far she can trust him.

Download or read book Endlessly Ever After written by Laurel Snyder and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This funny, original choose-your-path picture book of fractured fairy tales will charm any young fan of the genre, putting the power of storytelling right in the reader's hands! Grab your basket and your coat. Put on some walking shoes. Turn the page and begin: Which story will you choose? Award-winning creators Laurel Snyder and Dan Santat transform a crowd of classic tales into an ever-changing, fascinating, laugh-out-loud choose-your-path picture book, in which you may find a sleeping maiden, waste away in a sticky licorice cage, discover the gold at the end of a wild goose chase, or maybe (just maybe) save yourself—and the day! GIVES YOUNG READERS THE POWER OF CHOICE: Where do you want to take the story next? Choice and autonomy are essential concepts for children to learn at a young age, and this choose-your-path picture book puts the decision-making power right in their hands. FUNNY TWISTS ON CLASSIC FAIRY TALES: "The Three Little Pigs," "Hansel and Gretel," "Snow White," "Sleeping Beauty," "Little Red Riding Hood," and more—characters and settings from these classic fairy tales take on hilarious new life in a brand-new story, just right for the youngest fairy tale fans. TEACHES STORYTELLING BY EXAMPLE: This playful picture book offers young readers the chance to build their own narratives out of the decisions they make each step of the way, powerfully illustrating how a story is created and how it proceeds from beginning to middle to end. Both a teaching tool and an exciting adventure in its own right, this book is a great resource for learning storytelling. FABULOUS AUTHOR-ILLUSTRATOR TEAM: Laurel Snyder is the author of the Geisel Award–winning Charlie & Mouse early chapter book series. Her books have earned numerous starred reviews and Best Book designations, and her middle grade novel Orphan Island was longlisted for the National Book Award. Acclaimed artist Dan Santat has illustrated over 50 books for children, earning a Caldecott Medal for his picture book The Adventures of Beekle and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Drawn Together. Perfect for: • Teachers and librarians • Lovers of fairy tales and fairy tale retellings • Readers who enjoy choose-your-path stories • Parents and caregivers seeking a story that will continue to surprise and delight, even after the 100th time through • Gift-givers looking for a beautiful present that can be read again and again • Anyone who appreciates clever, hilarious takes on classic fairy tales

Download or read book Felix Ever After written by Kacen Callender and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Stonewall Honor Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All Time From Stonewall and Lambda Award–winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time. Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What’s worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many—Black, queer, and transgender—to ever get his own happily-ever-after. When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages—after publicly posting Felix’s deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned—Felix comes up with a plan for revenge. What he didn’t count on: his catfish scenario landing him in a quasi–love triangle.... But as he navigates his complicated feelings, Felix begins a journey of questioning and self-discovery that helps redefine his most important relationship: how he feels about himself. Felix Ever After is an honest and layered story about identity, falling in love, and recognizing the love you deserve. "Felix is attending an ultracompetitive arts summer program to have a better shot at a full scholarship to Brown when someone posts Felix’s dead name beside photos of him, pre-transition, in the school’s lobby. Felix’s plot to get revenge throws him onto the path of love and self-discovery." (Publishers Weekly, "An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List")

Download or read book Happily Ever After written by Kristin Ramsdell and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Briefly sketches the history of romance novels, discusses modern romance genres, and provides an annotated list of romances and useful references.

Download or read book Ritchie Mined Volume I written by Bill H. Ritchie and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short summaries of 3,026 essays by Bill H. Ritchie, artist, teacher and visionary drawn from his journals written between 1969 - 2009. He structured the headings of each article according an imaginary place he calls "Emeralda," imagining ten islands on a lake where he, as a recipient of a mythical prize, is encouraged to write freely about anything that seems important to an artist, teacher and philosopher. Mindful of the use of new technologies, each essay summary has key index features which would allow a reader having a computer and optional CD/ROM to retrieve the full text of any article. Or, using freely chosen keywords of their own, find the articles which have those words in them.

Download or read book E Love Evolution Second Edition written by Azhar ul Haque Sario and published by Azhar Sario Authorship and Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-22 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever swiped right and wondered if love was just an algorithm? Or shared a heart emoji and questioned if it truly captured your feelings? Welcome to “E Love Evolution: Second Edition,” your guidebook to love in the digital age – where heartbeats meet hashtags, and romance unfolds in the glow of your screen. This book isn’t your grandma’s love story; it’s a deep dive into the thrilling, sometimes messy, always fascinating ways technology has reshaped our love lives. We’ll journey through the virtual landscapes where modern love blossoms, exploring the surprising link between clicking a mouse and falling in love, decoding the psychology behind why that profile pic made your heart skip a beat, and discovering how pixels and emojis can foster surprisingly deep connections. In “E Love Evolution: Second Edition,” we also meet the AI companions blurring the lines between human and machine affection. And that’s just the beginning. We’ll delve into the ethics of algorithmic matchmaking, navigate the tricky waters of digital polyamory, and confront the dark side of online love – from cyberstalking to revenge porn. This book isn’t afraid to ask the big questions: Is love just a series of 1s and 0s? Can an emoji truly express the butterflies in your stomach? What does the future hold for love in our ever-connected world? So, whether you’re a die-hard romantic or a tech-savvy skeptic, join us on this captivating journey. Let’s unravel the mysteries of modern love, one byte at a time. Because in this digital age, love isn’t just about finding “the one” – it’s about understanding how technology is changing what it means to be human, to connect, and to love.

Download or read book Spied Can YOU Crack the Code as a Secret Agent written by James Schannep and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3 Unique Storylines. Over 50 Possible Endings. Just one question... Can YOU Crack the Code as a Secret Agent?SPIED is a suspense thriller unlike any other -- YOU are the main character. Recruited from the lower-levels of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to become a field agent (finally!), it's up to you to break into secure facilities, solve cryptic puzzles, expose potential moles, and suavely talk your way out of any situation before shadowy forces [REDACTED] the world!Praise for SPIED:"Filled with so many twists and turns, Schannep had me both shaken and stirred."-Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond seriesHere's how it works: You, Dear Reader, are the main character of this story. Go undercover, be a double agent, or save the world -- based solely on the merit of your own choices. Enemy agents have the package, and time is of the essence...what should you do?

Download or read book Teen Talkback with Interactive Booktalks written by Lucy Schall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the genres popular with today's teens—fiction and nonfiction, including poetry and graphic novels—this resource provides 110 great book choices for young adult reading, interactive booktalks, and individual writing activities. All educators and library professionals need practical resources with easily accessible information and activities that can be immediately applied. Teen Talkback with Interactive Booktalks! is such a resource, supplying ready-to-use, interactive booktalks and curriculum connections for more than 100 recently published young adult books. This unique book is an invaluable tool for motivating teens to read. It shows how to make booktalks interactive and get teens participating in the presentation, rather than passively listening. Book selections include titles published from 2008 to 2012 organized in seven categories: Issues, Contemporary, Adventure/Survival, Mystery/Suspense, Fantasy, Heritage, and Multiple Cultures. Complete bibliographical information for each selection is included along with a literary classification as well as an age/grade level and gender designation. The read-alouds passages include talkback questions to facilitate discussion, and related works are supplied as suggestions for additional reading choices.

Download or read book Burn for Me written by Ilona Andrews and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this spellbinding first novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews’s urban fantasy Hidden Legacy series, private detective Nevada Baylor navigates her way through an alternate world where dynasties, built on inherited wealth and magic, guide the course of humanity. ?Nevada Baylor runs a small-time detective agency in Houston, Texas, busting scammers, exposing cheaters, and dealing with petty criminals. She’s very good at her job—helped by a magical ability to sense when someone tells the truth or lies. But when she’s forced into accepting a case to find a radical pyrotechnic who can conjure heat and fire at will, Nevada knows she’s out of her league. To bring him to justice, she’ll have to join forces with someone who wields an even more dangerous power. Connor “Mad” Rogan is a former combat mage, a telekinetic singularly responsible for mass destruction in war-torn countries, and a member of one of the most powerful magic families in the world. His nephew has been kidnapped by the fugitive pyromaniac, and Nevada is his best chance at finding them both. But unlike Nevada, Connor could care less about societal law and order, and has no qualms about extinguishing his family’s enemy. Bound by their mission, Nevada and Connor clash over their tactics and moral beliefs, even as things undeniably heat up between them. But the man they’re chasing is involved in a darker conspiracy that threatens to destroy the city—and destabilize the balance of power the elite magical families use to influence every nation on Earth.

Download or read book Outdated written by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance and love are in a state of crisis: Statistically speaking, young women today are living romantic lives of all kinds—but they’re still feeling bogged down by social, cultural, economic, and familial pressures to love in a certain way. Young women in the modern world have greater flexibility than ever when it comes to who we choose to love and how we choose to love them; but while social circumstances may have changed since our parents’ generation, certain life expectations remain. In Outdated, Samhita Mukhopadhyay addresses the difficulty of negotiating loving relationships within the borderlands of race, culture, class, and sexuality-and of holding true to our convictions and maintaining our independence while we do it. Outdated analyzes how different forms of media, cultural norms, family pressure, and even laws, are produced to scare women into believing that if they don’t devote themselves to finding a man, they’ll be doomed to a life of loneliness and shame. Using interviews with young women that are living around, between, within, and outside of the romantic industrial complex, Mukhopadhyay weaves a narrative of the alternative ways that women today have elected to live their lives, and in doing so offers a fresh, feminist look at an old topic: How do diverse, independent young women date happily and successfully—and outside of the box?

Download or read book Stolen written by Lucy Christopher and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning debut novel with an intriguing literary hook: written in part as a letter from a victim to her abductor. Sensitive, sharp, captivating!Gemma, 16, is on layover at Bangkok Airport, en route with her parents to a vacation in Vietnam. She steps away for just a second, to get a cup of coffee. Ty--rugged, tan, too old, oddly familiar--pays for Gemma's drink. And drugs it. They talk. Their hands touch. And before Gemma knows what's happening, Ty takes her. Steals her away. The unknowing object of a long obsession, Gemma has been kidnapped by her stalker and brought to the desolate Australian Outback. STOLEN is her gripping story of survival, of how she has to come to terms with her living nightmare--or die trying to fight it.

Download or read book Chilling Effect written by Valerie Valdes and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jam-packed with weird aliens, mysterious artifacts, and lovable characters... a tremendous good time and an impressive debut.” -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and features an irresistible foul-mouthed captain and her motley crew, strange life forms, exciting twists, and a galaxy full of fun and adventure. Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Fridge, a shadowy syndicate that holds people hostage in cryostasis, Eva must undergo a series of unpleasant, dangerous missions to pay the ransom. But Eva may lose her mind before she can raise the money. The ship’s hold is full of psychic cats, an amorous fish-faced emperor wants her dead after she rejects his advances, and her sweet engineer is giving her a pesky case of feelings. The worse things get, the more she lies, raising suspicions and testing her loyalty to her found family. To free her sister, Eva will risk everything: her crew, her ship, and the life she’s built on the ashes of her past misdeeds. But when the dominoes start to fall and she finds the real threat is greater than she imagined, she must decide whether to play it cool or burn it all down.