Download or read book Fat Chick Goes AWOL written by Anna Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treasonous written by David Hickson and published by Aeon Books. This book was released on 2021-03-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new president is hiding a dark secret. The journalist who discovered that secret is dead. Now there is only one man who can do anything about it … Ben Gabriel’s life is falling apart. He has been discharged from the British Special Forces... fired from a job in military intelligence… his girlfriend has disappeared... and now he might be the only person who can stop the country from falling into the hands of a corrupt killer. That country is South Africa, where Gabriel is struggling to build a new life. It is a country clogged with corruption and abuse of power. Here it takes someone willing to step outside the law to discover the truth… And Gabriel is that someone. Because the path he treads is more than a little crooked. Treasonous is the pulse-pounding first tale in the Gabriel thriller series. If you like complex heroes, hair-raising action, and gut-wrenching consequences, then you’ll love David Hickson’s electrifying story.
Download or read book My Tutu Went AWOL written by Iestyn Edwards and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ON THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR, IESTYN EDWARDS, BASS BARITONE, BOARDED H.M.S. VICTORY TO SING AT A NAVAL SUPPER IN THE PRESENCE OF HER MAJESTY. Stacks, Royal Marines Commando, was there on duty. He was also on duty when Iestyn turned up in the middle of the Iraq war on a Combined Services Entertainment tour, this time in a tutu... Despite trying to dry his ballet tights on the anti-blast wall,singing from a tank turret and confiscating the President of Estonia’s custard creams, the most unlikely friendship was formed. They even invited him back...
Download or read book Fat Chick Goes AWOL written by Anna Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fat Chick is a 30-something accountant who dreams of cycling, hiking and paddling her way around the world, starting with her own country, Australia. But at a whopping 130kgs (285lbs), she's not exactly the poster child for human-powered travel. On top of that, nobody will let her leave the Real World. The armchair experts won't stop filling her head with dire predictions of being chopped up by axe murderers, run over by road trains, and eaten by crocodiles. Her new personal trainer is trying to kill her. And her boss just hired a hitwoman to destroy Fat Chick's trike, because she needs Fat Chick to fix the accounting system.Fat Chick is determined to steer her life in the direction of her dreams, not the dreams of others, because 'life is short, and it's later than you think'. But the Real World is determined to keep her in its grip. Can she break free of the spider's web and live her dreams before it's too late?
Download or read book Fat Girl Terrestrial written by Kellie Wells and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only the story of a colossus of a woman living in Kansas, Fat Girl, Terrestrial is also a meditation on God, treachery, and blind love. In Kingdom Come, Kansas, a town from which children once mysteriously disappeared, there lives a giant woman. Wallis Armstrong is not a pituitary mutant or a person battling a rare medical condition; she’s just an improbably large woman ill at ease in a world built for shrimps. Paradoxically, Wallis builds miniatures of crime scenes, and her specialty is staged suicides. She constructed her first diorama as a child when a boy in her fourth-grade class went suddenly missing. Wallis’s brother, Obie, believes the only explanation for his sister’s amplitude is that she is the incarnation of God on Earth, and he is her one true ardent disciple. Until he too disappears. Kellie Wells’s story of Wallis’s odyssey through this tight-fitting world is a churlish meditation on the existence and nature of God as well as an exploration of the treachery of childhood and the destructive nature of the most blindly abiding kind of love: that of a love-struck brother for a big sister, a disciple for an unwilling prophet, and a bone-weary god for a savage and disappointing flock.
Download or read book Vengeful written by David Hickson and published by Aeon Books. This book was released on with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of brutal murders. A hunt for the thieves behind the Gold Heist. Both trails lead to the same man. Ben Gabriel was once a soldier in the elite British Special Forces, but that was before his dishonourable discharge and subsequent descent into a life of crime. Now he is on the run from a wealthy gold mining magnate – determined to hunt him down and reclaim the gold taken from him in the biggest gold heist in living memory. And Gabriel’s life is about to become more complicated – when prominent South African society members are brutally murdered, the police discover a link between the murders and Gabriel. But is Gabriel responsible, or is his connection to the murders more complicated than guilt? Can he escape the clutches of his pursuers? And where is all that gold? Vengeful is the third book in the Gabriel series of thrillers set in the turbulent political landscape of South Africa. If you like the works of John le Carre, Len Deighton and Lee Child, stories of the underdog who questions authority, and the daring capers of those who break the law to find the truth, then you’ll love this breathtakingly fresh thriller from David Hickson. Discover a new world of intriguing action today!
Download or read book Size 14 Is Not Fat Either written by Meg Cabot and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former pop star Heather Wells has settled nicely into her new life as assistant dorm director at New York College—a career that does not require her to drape her size 12 body in embarrassingly skimpy outfits. She can even cope (sort of) with her rocker ex-boyfriend's upcoming nuptials, which the press has dubbed The Celebrity Wedding of the Decade. But she's definitely having a hard time dealing with the situation in the dormitory kitchen—where a cheerleader has lost her head on the first day of the semester. (Actually, her head is accounted for—it's her torso that's AWOL.) Surrounded by hysterical students—with her ex-con father on her doorstep and her ex-love bombarding her with unwanted phone calls—Heather welcomes the opportunity to play detective . . . again. If it gets her mind off her personal problems—and teams her up again with the gorgeous P.I. who owns the brownstone where she lives—it's all good. But the murder trail is leading the average-sized amateur investigator into a shadowy world. And if she doesn't watch her step, Heather will soon be singing her swan song!
Download or read book The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl written by Tess Holliday and published by Weldon Owen International. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A plus-size supermodel tells her powerful personal story and offers inspiration and tips to women everywhere to help them survive and thrive. Mom. Feminist. Plus size. Supermodel. Loud. Proud. Body Activist. Beautiful. Businesswoman. Homemaker. Cat owner. Funny. Outspoken. Wife. Daughters. Lover. Fighter. Survivor… Tess Holliday is many things and perfect is not one of them. But she loves her imperfections—after all, they’ve formed the woman she is today. Tess’s number one rule in life is to love yourself no matter who you are, what your faults may be, where you come from, or what dress size you wear! It’s this discovery that has helped her through life—from being abused and bullied about her weight, to raising a kid alone and fending off social media trolls. Now here in this amusingly candid account, the woman at the forefront of the body positive movement—who has been credited with transforming the fashion industry—explains why you should be happy to make mistakes but how to properly learn from them, as well as how to love your imperfections and be comfortable in your own skin, no matter how much you have. “[Tess’s] determination and drive to take all the bricks life has thrown her way and build a life full of beautiful experiences…makes this book a page turner. You’ll also be left with so many gems of wise advice, you’ll be ready to not so subtly step into your greatness too.”—Danielle Brooks, star of Orange is the New Black #effyourbeautystandards
Download or read book Dripfeed written by Lami Okrekson and published by Chipmunkapublishing ltd. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DescriptionThis is a book about youth out of control, out of control with no-one to help, no-one to help because no-one cares. In this dark look at youth and their world today, no-one cares about themselves, anyone else or the world. Apathy and depression, greedy meaningless culture, drugs and aggression; these have swallowed everything. The young have their young friends, but are they too inexperienced and too unprepared by the elders who had a duty to them, to realise that they drifting, and snorting and smoking, into destruction? And if they realised, would they want or be able to change anything? About the AuthorLami Okrekson is 19 and grew up in South London. Always an avid reader, Lami began to write short stories at the age of ten and has since gone on to write for small independent magazines in London. She now lives in Leeds where she is studying at Leeds Metropolitan University.
Download or read book Betsey written by Betsey Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir by the internationally famous fashion designer and style icon Mention the name "Betsey Johnson" and almost every woman from the age of 15 to 75 can rapturously recall a favorite dress or outfit; whether worn for a prom, a wedding, or just to stand out from the crowd in a colorful way. They may also know her as a renegade single mom who palled around with Edie Sedgwick, Twiggy, and The Velvet Underground, or even as a celebrity contestant on Dancing with the Stars. Betsey is also famous for her iconic pink stores (she had 65 shops across the US) and for her habit of doing cartwheels and splits down the runway at the close of her fashion shows. Throughout her decades-long career, she's taken pride in producing fun but rule-breaking clothing at an accessible price point. What they might not know is that she built an empire from scratch, and brought stretch clothing to the masses in the 80s and 90s. Betsey will take the reader behind the tutu and delve deeply into what it took to go from a white picket fence childhood in Connecticut to becoming an internationally known force in a tough, competitive business. The book will feature Betsey's candid memories of the fashion and downtown scene in the 60s and how she started her own business from the ground up after designing successfully for multiple other companies. She will discuss that business's ups and downs and reinventions (including bankruptcy), and her thoughts on body image, love, divorce, men, motherhood, and her bout with breast cancer. Betsey will be richly illustrated with many of her landmark clothes, fashion sketches, and personal photos--making the book the perfect memento and gift for every girl (of any age) for whom Betsey is, as a recent New York Times profile noted, "a role model still."
Download or read book Within and Without written by Deborah Maroulis and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When sixteen-year-old Wren Newmann is forced to move from her small California town to her grandmother's vineyard after her parent's divorce, she's convinced she'll die a shriveled, wine-country virgin.Her dating life improves when Jay, the son of Granny's vintner and her long-time country crush, notices her. She tries to be the girl Jay would want-social, skinny, and sexy. But as their relationship heats up, so does her anxiety and the need for her secret purging sessions. Still, she insists Jay is the perfect boyfriend in spite of everyone's warnings.When Panayis, the cute Greek farmhand, insists on being her friend, Wren finds someone who truly sees her-trouble is she can't bring herself to look at her own reflection, let alone allow anyone else to see her as she is.When personal tragedy strikes the night of the Spring Break party, Wren is left to pick up the pieces of her broken relationships. Now, she must step up to the plate and decide if the illusion of being loved is worth sacrificing her health, and maybe even her life.
Download or read book The Barren Beaches of Hell written by Boyd Cochrell and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book There s Something about Sweetie written by Sandhya Menon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Favorite Book of 2019 “Adorable, joyous.” —BuzzFeed “I’m head-over-heels for this charming, funny, romantic, life-affirming book.” —Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Leah on the Offbeat The irresistible companion novel to the New York Times bestseller When Dimple Met Rishi, which follows Rishi’s brother, Ashish, and a confident, self-proclaimed fat athlete named Sweetie as they both discover what love means to them. Ashish Patel didn’t know love could be so…sucky. After being dumped by his ex-girlfriend, his mojo goes AWOL. Even worse, his parents are annoyingly, smugly confident they could find him a better match. So, in a moment of weakness, Ash challenges them to set him up. The Patels insist that Ashish date an Indian-American girl—under contract. Per subclause 1(a), he’ll be taking his date on “fun” excursions like visiting the Hindu temple and his eccentric Gita Auntie. Kill him now. How is this ever going to work? Sweetie Nair is many things: a formidable track athlete who can outrun most people in California, a loyal friend, a shower-singing champion. Oh, and she’s also fat. To Sweetie’s traditional parents, this last detail is the kiss of death. Sweetie loves her parents, but she’s so tired of being told she’s lacking because she’s fat. She decides it’s time to kick off the Sassy Sweetie Project, where she’ll show the world (and herself) what she’s really made of. Ashish and Sweetie both have something to prove. But with each date they realize there’s an unexpected magic growing between them. Can they find their true selves without losing each other?
Download or read book Dictionary of Russian Slang and Colloquial Expressions written by Vladimir Shlyakhov and published by Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated. This book was released on 2006 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expanded and updated reference book lists approximately 5,100 Russian idiomatic words and expressions with their translations into English. Included are figures of speech, slang, and vulgarisms, many of which cannot be found in standard Russian-English dictionaries. Here are valuable insights on how Russian is really spoken today. Each entry comes with an example sentence in Russian and its English translation.
Download or read book Three Soldiers written by John Dos Passos and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grimly realistic depiction of army life follows a trio of idealists as they contend with the regimentation, violence, and boredom of military service. A powerful exploration of warfare's dehumanizing effects.
Download or read book Everything Beautiful written by Simmone Howell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When sixteen-year-old Riley unwillingly attends a religious summer camp, she forms a deep bond with another camper who happens to be wheelchair bound.
Download or read book The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted written by Elizabeth Berg and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER Now with an additional story. Every now and then, right in the middle of an ordinary day, a woman kicks up her heels and commits a small act of liberation. What would you do if you could shed the “shoulds” and do, say—and eat—whatever you really desired? Go AWOL from Weight Watchers and spend an entire day eating every single thing you want? Start a dating service for people over fifty to reclaim the razzle-dazzle in your life—or your marriage? Seek comfort in the face of aging, look for love in the midst of loss, find friendship in the most surprising of places? In these beautiful, funny stories, Elizabeth Berg takes us into the heart of the lives of women who do all these things and more—confronting their true feelings, desires, and joys along the way.
