Download or read book Call Me Oppa written by Isla Chiu and published by Isla Chiu. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm Celia, a former pre-med student and bored waitress who's on the fast track to nowhere. In between shifts and staring at my almost empty fridge, I write cheesy fanfiction featuring my favorite K-pop group Afternoon 4 and hope for something to change my life. Little do I know that I would find that life-changing something during a shift and meet the members of Afternoon 4 in the freaking flesh. And imagine my absolute shock when I find out that one of them wants me. ***A sweet and sexy story with an alpha male idol, insta-love, and a happy ending!*** WORD COUNT: 6,000

Download or read book Isekai Defense Volume 2 written by FebyA and published by Feby Ardiansyah. This book was released on 2024-06-02 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six months after parting ways with Bianca to find the hero, our protagonist is ambushed by assassins in a deadly trap that threatens his life. Utilizing his unique abilities, he manages to interrogate one of his pursuers, only to reveal a sinister plot - a secret organization called the Truth Society wants him dead to appease the dragon Nicht’s fury towards them. With each shocking revelation, the stakes climb higher. The fates of the protagonist, the Truth Society, and the dragon Nicht are now intertwined in a deadly three-way war. And what appeared amid the escalating conflict was ... an amnesiac girl from the otherworld?! Dive into this story of survival, scheme, and healing. Follow the protagonist as he battles enemies, breaks sinister plans, and saves the amnesiac girl who holds the key to his survival. Will he overcome their sinister plan and emerge victorious, or will he fall victim to their overwhelming strength and assassinations? Read on to find out the answer!

Download or read book One of a Kind written by Ika and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-20 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of: Emma – an optimistic medical student, wants to know the seed of her brother’s loss of position in his company. Hae – an impudent actor, resents his father and believes him to be responsible for his mother’s suspicious death. This engaging pair is supported by Emma’s brother Yoo, a pharmacist in Korea, Emma’s secret genie and Woo Baek, a reporter living his life alone without any firm emotions and family, slowly drops his guard to welcome Emma into his life. As Hae, Emma and Baek feelings develop over time they slowly come to form a classic, yet exciting, love triangle. This tangled and complex tale of love, loss and desire is filled with mysterious pasts, unresolved yearnings, and tireless search for a better life. Cherry Blossom glimpses the life of Emma, Hae and Baek. They face each other and initiate to work on their goals. With humour in the air but still triggered by past, life goes on….

Download or read book Seoulmates written by Jen Frederick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Amazon's Best Romances of January 2022! A Korean-American adoptee fights to be with the one she loves while coming to terms with her new identity in this enthralling romantic drama and sequel to Heart and Seoul by USA Today bestselling author Jen Frederick. When Hara Wilson lands in Seoul to find her birth mother, she doesn’t plan on falling in love with the first man she lays eyes on, but Choi Yujun is irresistible. If his broad shoulders and dimples weren’t enough, Choi Yujun is the most genuine, decent, gorgeous guy to exist. Too bad he’s also her stepbrother. Fate brought her to the Choi doorstep but the gift of family comes with burdens. A job in her mother’s company has perks of endless company dinners and super resentful coworkers. A new country means learning a new language which twenty-five year old Hara is finding to be a Herculean task. A forbidden love means having to choose between her birth family or Choi Yujun. All Hara wanted was to find a place to belong in this world—but in order to have it all, she’ll have to risk it all.

Download or read book Pachinko National Book Award Finalist written by Min Jin Lee and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB NOW READ THIS * FINALIST FOR THE 2018DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE* WINNER OF THE MEDICI BOOK CLUB PRIZE Roxane Gay's Favorite Book of 2017, Washington Post NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER "There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones." In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations. Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters--strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis--survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history. *Includes reading group guide*

Download or read book Korean Honorifics and Politeness in Second Language Learning written by Lucien Brown and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the ways that advanced speakers of Korean as a second language perceive, use and learn the complexities of the Korean honorifics system. Despite their advanced proficiency in Korean, the study shows that the honorifics use of these speakers diverges in crucial ways from native speaker norms. It is argued that, rather than reflecting the language competence of these speakers as such, this usage is linked to questions of the identity of language learners and foreigners in Korean society. In addition, it shows the influence of conflicting ideologies regarding the meaning of politeness . This argument is backed up by rich data collected through mixed methods (discourse completion tests, role-plays, natural interactions, introspective interviews), allowing for a detailed picture of how the honorifics use of second language speakers emerges in context. The book concludes by discussing the implications of the study for politeness research, interlanguage pragmatics and language pedagogy."

Download or read book Blood Sisters written by Kim Yideum and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blood Sisters tells the story of Jeong Yeoul, a young Korean college student in the 1980's, when the memory of President Chun Doohwan's violent suppression of student demonstrations against martial law was still fresh. Yideum captures with raw honesty the sense of dread felt by many Korean women during this time as Jeong struggles in a swirl of misguided desires and hopelessness against a society distorted by competing ideologies, sexual violence, and cultural conservatism. Facing this helplessness, her impulse is to escape into the world of art. Blood Sisters is a vivid, powerful portrayal of a woman’s efforts to live an authentic life in the face of injustice.

Download or read book Translanguaging and English as a Lingua Franca in the Plurilingual Classroom written by Anna Mendoza and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2023-03-09 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores multilingual practices such as translanguaging, code-switching and stylization in secondary classrooms in Hawai’i. Using linguistic ethnography, it investigates how students in a linguistically diverse class, including those who speak less commonly taught languages, deal with learning tasks and the social life of the class when using these languages alongside English as a lingua franca. It discusses implications for teachers, from balancing student needs in lesson planning and instruction to classroom management, where the language use of one individual or group can create challenges of understanding, participation or deficit identity positionings for another. The book argues that students must not only be allowed to flex their whole language repertoires to learn and communicate but also be aware of how to build bridges across differences in individual repertoires. It offers suggestions for teachers to consider within their own contexts, highlighting the need for teacher autonomy to cultivate the classroom community’s critical language awareness and create conducive environments for learning. This book will appeal to postgraduate students, researchers and academics working in the fields of sociolinguistics and linguistic ethnography as well as pre-service and in-service teachers in linguistically diverse secondary school contexts.

Download or read book Claiming Lady Wynn written by Isla Chiu and published by Isla Chiu. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Soulden is one of the wealthiest men in England. However, he is common-born, a fact that brings no small measure of annoyance to his fiancée Caroline Wynn's father, the snobbish (but poor) Viscount of Cambridgeshire. Even if Caroline were a commoner like Philip, she would still be far too good for him. Of course, that doesn't make him any less determined to make her his wife. When Caroline learns about the truth of her birth, his plans to wed her are put in jeopardy. However, Lady Wynn will discover that Philip always gets what he wants, and what he wants is her… Claiming Lady Wynn is a sexy short story that may contain historical inaccuracies but definitely contains an obsessed alpha male and a happy ending! If you can get with that, enjoy! WORD COUNT: 4,500

Download or read book Taken by the Casino Owner written by Isla Chiu and published by Isla Chiu. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caleb Romans is the incredibly wealthy and powerful owner of Four Leaf Casinos – and Allison Huang’s ex. Allison thought she would never see him again until he shows up at her apartment building and drops this bombshell – her father has been gambling at his casino and owes him money. A lot of money. But Caleb will forgive her father’s debt on one condition – if she offers him the body he has missed the past few months… A standalone book in the INDECENT PROPOSALS series, stories featuring morally dubious (but drop-dead sexy) guys who will do anything to have the women they want. WORD COUNT: 12,400

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Korean Interpreting written by Riccardo Moratto and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-23 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Riccardo Moratto and Professor Hyang-Ok Lim bring together the most authoritative voices on Korean interpreting. The first graduate school of interpretation and translation was established in 1979 in South Korea. Since then, not only has the interpretation and translation market grown exponentially, but so too has research in translation studies. Though the major portion of research focuses on translation, interpretation has not only managed to hold its own, but interpretation studies in Korea have been a pioneer in this field in Asia. This handbook highlights the main interpretation research trends in South Korea today, including case studies of remote interpreting during the Covid-19 pandemic, Korean interpreting for conferences, events, and diplomacy, and research into educating interpreters effectively. An essential resource for researchers in Korean interpreting, this handbook will also be very valuable to those working with other East Asian languages.

Download or read book Loving the Chase written by Isla Chiu and published by Isla Chiu. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lila Lawrence – beautiful, innocent, desperate. Chase Eastwick – sexy, arrogant, possessive. Let the chase begin… All Lila Lawrence wants is a chill junior year at college. Unfortunately, the ridiculously wealthy Chase Eastwick threatens her wish. Although he possesses criminally good looks, Lila wants nothing to do with the creep who is unwilling to take no for an answer and refuses to understand the concept of personal space. But Chase soon becomes the only person she can turn to for help. However, his help comes with strings attached… WORD COUNT: 18,000 The standalone second book in the INDECENT PROPOSALS series! A sexy new adult contemporary romance novella with a hot alpha male, a beautiful virgin, and insta-love! You’ve been warned 😉

Download or read book Stepshifters A Taboo Romance Collection written by Isla Chiu and published by Isla Chiu. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3 sexy taboo paranormal short stories in one hot bundle! My Stepbrother is a Werewolf “Don’t be afraid, Lilah.” Okay, did someone dump LSD into that punch or is the wolf talking? And if the wolf is talking, how does it know my name? And why does its voice seem so familiar? “Don’t faint.” Why is the wolf telling me not to faint? Wouldn’t me fainting make it easier for the wolf to eat me? Then the wolf transforms into a man. But not just any man. My stepbrother stands in front of me. And he’s naked. Very naked. I faint. WORD COUNT: 3,300 I Saw My Stepfather Turn Into a Unicorn Huh? The unicorn knows my name? And it can talk? Also, its voice sounds a lot like my stepfather’s. For some reason, I feel the need to say this out loud: “Huh, you sound a lot like my stepdad.” “I am your stepdad.” I yelp when there’s a puff of glittering pink smoke. I yelp again when out of the smoke emerges my stepfather, who is very naked. WORD COUNT: 3,300 My Stepsister is a Fox (Literally) When a fox appears in front of me, I stop running. It’s just a fox, so I don’t know why I stopped when my stepsister is missing, but the color of its fur looks just like the red in Lan’s hair… “Lan?” I say. Then I want to bang my head against a tree for my stupidity. It’s a godd*mn fox, not Lan. I yelp when a cloud of red sparks appears. I yelp again when the cloud dissipates and I see my stepsister. Who’s very, extremely naked. My damn d*ck acts up again when my eyes travel up and down her bare curves. It takes all of my willpower to not put my hands on her perfect fair skin… WORD COUNT: 3,000

Download or read book He Knows What He Wants A Romance 5 Book Bundle written by Isla Chiu and published by Isla Chiu. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5 romance stories in one sexy bundle! Includes LOVING THE CHASE, TAKEN BY THE CASINO OWNER, KIDNAPPING THE BRIDE, RINGING IN THE LUNAR NEW YEAR, and CALL ME OPPA. LOVING THE CHASE Lila Lawrence - beautiful, innocent, desperate. Chase Eastwick - sexy, arrogant, possessive. Let the chase begin... All Lila Lawrence wants is a chill junior year at college. Unfortunately, the ridiculously wealthy Chase Eastwick threatens her wish. Although he possesses criminally good looks, Lila wants nothing to do with the creep who is unwilling to take no for an answer and refuses to understand the concept of personal space. But Chase soon becomes the only person she can turn to for help. However, his help comes with strings attached... TAKEN BY THE CASINO OWNER Caleb Romans is the incredibly wealthy and powerful owner of Four Leaf Casinos - and Allison Huang's ex. Allison thought she would never see him again until he shows up at her apartment building and drops this bombshell - her father has been gambling at his casino and owes him money. A lot of money. But Caleb will forgive her father's debt on one condition - if she offers him the body he has missed the past few months... KIDNAPPING THE BRIDE Theoretically, my wedding day should be the happiest hours of my life. But it's not, thanks to a certain someone I can't get over—that someone being the incredibly sexy Hikaru Watanabe, who also happens to be the ruthless leader of a powerful yakuza gang. And it turns out that Hikaru wants me back and he will stop at nothing to reclaim me. Even if that means kidnapping me on my wedding day. ***A sexy second-chance story with an obsessed alpha male, lots of smut, and a HEA!*** RINGING IN THE LUNAR NEW YEAR College freshman Simone Chang is feeling homesick. For the first time, she's spending Chinese New Year without her family. But fortunately, she has her best friend by her side, Will Higa...aka the boy she has wanted since pretty much forever. Will promises her that he will make this Chinese New Year one to remember. Because it turns out that he has always wanted her too and is ready to make her his... ***Ring in the Lunar New Year with this sweet and sexy friends-to-lovers story!*** CALL ME OPPA I'm Celia, a former pre-med student and bored waitress who's on the fast track to nowhere. In between shifts and staring at my almost empty fridge, I write cheesy fanfiction featuring my favorite K-pop group Afternoon 4 and hope for something to change my life. Little do I know that I would find that life-changing something during a shift and meet the members of Afternoon 4 in the freaking flesh. And imagine my absolute shock when I find out that one of them wants me. ***A sweet and sexy story with an alpha male idol, insta-love, and a happy ending!***

Download or read book Alpha Male Blast from the Past written by Isla Chiu and published by Isla Chiu. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My future used to look so promising. I graduated from high school at the top of my class and got into Princeton. But then I flunked out of the Ivy League school. Now I'm prancing around in a skimpy French maid outfit while waiting on sleazy rich guys at Parisian Dream. Ag, more like Parisian Nightmare. I don't think things could get any worse until I find myself waiting on Gerald Holland, my former best friend. And it turns out he's still a little—okay, very—salty about how I rejected him in high school. But though he acts like he hates me, he also acts like he still wants me... WORD COUNT: 7,300 Excerpt: He's treating me like a charity case. If I had a little more pride, I would tell him to take back his money. But I have a stupid amount of student loans to pay off for my one semester of college, so I keep the cash. "What do you do nowadays?" I ask. Gerald definitely had a glow-up after high school. He lost all of his baby fat and now looks like the stereotypical handsome rich guy from a romance novel. Chiseled cheekbones, a strong jaw, and a sleek blond haircut straight out of an expensive salon. His emerald-green eyes are the same though. "I design apps," he says. "I recently sold one to Google for a pretty penny." That explains the custom-tailored suit and Rolex. He grins. "Not bad for someone who had a 2.0 GPA in high school, eh?" "Not bad," I murmur. I should be glad for Gerald—and I am—but his success makes my failure all the more painful. In high school, people expected great things from me and expected nothing from Gerald. Yet I'm a Princeton dropout and he is a Rolex-wearing tech mogul. "I bet you regret rejecting me in high school." I glare at him. "Did you just come here to rub your success in my face?" "That's one reason. The other reason is I had a burning desire to see you in a sexy French maid outfit." He glances at my cleavage and legs, making me blush. "A wet dream come true."

Download or read book Just Because of You written by Isla Chiu and published by Isla Chiu. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilarie Walsh just wants to lay low during her senior year after being branded the class tramp by her loathsome ex. Unfortunately for her, she doesn't escape the notice of the new kid Eric Lawington, the arrogant but incredibly sexy son of a billionaire who makes the rich heirs and heiresses at her school look middle-class in comparison. At first, she wants nothing to do with him, but Eric is nothing if not persistent and evident sparks fly between them. However, jealousy, the past, and a drama-making twin with a history of wrecking his sibling's happiness threaten their relationship... Excerpt: All the hardness left her face. Her eyes turned wide; her mouth stopped glowering. She looked vulnerable, like she could fall into pieces at any moment. "I don't know if I should be relieved or scared that you've stopped acting like a jerk." "Why should you be scared?" "Most of the time, guys are jerks. When they're being nice, they want something from you or are planning to break your heart." "You're so cynical." "Blame my ex." He untied the knot behind her mask. "How about I help you forget your ex?" "Trying to seduce me?" "Maybe." "Why are these masks so small?" she asked as he took off her mask. "Isn't the point of a masquerade ball to not know who anyone is?" "Not for me. I just wanted to show off my wealth." "You're a douche, but at least you're an honest one." "Unlike your ex?" She lifted the corners of her mouth. "You don't know his name, yet you already somehow know him so well." His mask fell to the bed. "May I kiss you?" "Why not?" she whispered. Closing his eyes, he put his lips on hers. From the way she moaned without pulling away from him, he could tell she enjoyed this. He then left a trail of kisses down her slender white neck, making her sigh in bliss. Christ, even her shoulders are beautiful, he thought as he pulled the straps of her dress down the smooth pale skin. She gasped as his teeth grazed the skin over her collarbone. "Want me to stop?" he breathed against her shoulder. "No," she whispered.

Download or read book Ringing in the Lunar New Year written by Isla Chiu and published by Isla Chiu. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College freshman Simone Chang is feeling homesick. For the first time, she’s spending Chinese New Year without her family. But fortunately, she has her best friend by her side, Will Higa…aka the boy she has wanted since pretty much forever. Will promises her that he will make this Chinese New Year one to remember. Because it turns out that he has always wanted her too and is ready to make her his… ***Ring in the Lunar New Year with this sweet and sexy friends-to-lovers story!*** WORD COUNT: 6,000