Download or read book The Hot Mess Express written by Steffanie M. Peterson and published by 35th Star Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steffanie Peterson and her daughter, Hannah Jane, embarked on the most extraordinary journey. As a single mom, moving to New York City to help her daughter chase her dreams of Broadway was never in the plan for Steffanie. But, like many things in this world, plans change! “The Peterson Girls” went from their small, comfortable hometown of Charleston, West Virginia, to a city of more than eight million people, where life moved at an entirely different pace. With little knowledge and experience, and even less money and resources, they began to chase what many considered to be an impossible dream, but that was not going to hold them back from what lay ahead for them in the Big Apple. “We came here with blinders on, thinking that everything would be just like it was on the first few visits that preceded our actual move. I now know that those few long weekend trips we took between May and October when we were job interviewing and house hunting were the times that fairy tales are made of. The sun was out every day. The air was crisp in the morning and warm, but not hot, in the afternoons. There was no rain or snow and we weren’t carrying a heavy school bag or a purse and a briefcase to weigh us down. The sounds of the city were invigorating, not overpowering. The scents from the food trucks were wonderfully new. They were blissfully perfect weekends.” Five years later, they are both living their dreams to the fullest in what they now call their “beloved city.” It has not been aneasy journey for either of them, but in the midst of struggles, they are learning to treasure every moment of the experience.Their irrepressible journey has been captured through selfies, Facebook posts, and personal journals, now known to those closest to them as #thepetersongirlsadventures.

Download or read book A Hot Glue Gun Mess written by Mr. Kate and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautiful paperback edition featuring French flaps, hugely popular lifestyle blogger, YouTube star, and designer Mr. Kate (Kate Albrecht) offers a stunning collection of step-by-step personal style and home projects—woven in with quirkily hilarious stories and anecdotes. Do you dream of finding ways to infuse do-it-yourself projects into every aspect of your life and have fun doing it? From the quirky personality behind the Mr. Kate brand comes a not-so-average DIY lifestyle book that will make your dreams of creating unique how-to projects become reality. Filled with 50 unique and approachable projects, along with hysterical, unfiltered stories from Mr. Kate’s crazy life, A Hot Glue Gun Mess will show how life can inspire art. Growing up with a high-powered Hollywood father and an oddball, down-to-earth mother, Kate Albrecht had a childhood that was anything but normal. From how her first period influenced her to become an artist to how her friendship with a high-priced hooker encouraged DIY beauty products, Mr. Kate’s stories are weird, wonderful, personal, inspiring, and downright hilarious. Her love of self-expression inspired Mr. Kate to create her own DIY life and a social media platform to connect with young women everywhere. Her projects involve style, home design, and beauty, including DIY nail art techniques, upcycled projects for your old jeans , and watercolor curtains. You don’t have to be a seamstress, metalsmith, or expert at anything to enjoy these projects, all of which are doable in under two hours and require a minimal number of supplies. Now you, too, can become a DIY diva!

Download or read book The Has Been and the Hot Mess written by Isabel Jordan and published by Isabel Jordan. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She’s supposed to resurrect his image. Falling for him would be bad, right? Asking for a friend… Kendall Quinn is a PR goddess. Meanwhile, her love life is a complete mess. So, when her latest romantic disaster leaves her jobless and homeless, it’s time to take drastic measures. The mission? Drag grumpy, former rockstar Jackson Hale kicking and screaming back into the limelight. The job will be easy. But can she keep her hands off her new client? Seems unlikely. Because as it turns out, he’s actually a nice guy. The fact that he runs a dog rescue in his spare time is just yummy, hot icing on the sweet, sexy, impossible-to-resist cinnamon roll. And did she mention he was also her teenage crush? Yeah…awkward. Good thing her decidedly unprofessional, messy feelings for Jackson are one-sided. Except…they aren’t. So, is it even possible for a certified hot mess and a ridiculously hot has-been to make beautiful music together? Guess there’s only one way to find out… The Has-Been and the Hot Mess, book 1 in the Hot Has-Beens series, is a light, hilarious, contemporary romantic comedy (told in 3rd person, dual point of view) that can be read as a standalone. It features a snarky, down-on-her-luck heroine and the grumpy, reclusive, nice guy former rockstar of her dreams. Happily ever after guaranteed--along with plenty of witty banter, casual cussing, sexy times, and pop culture references. Happy reading! Contemporary romance, rock star romance, rockstar romance, rom com, romantic comedy, silly rom com, zany rom com, wacky rom com, wedding romance, roadtrip romance, funny contemporary romance, snarky, adult romance, quirky heroine, smart heroine, sexy romance, spicy romance, steamy romance, popular romance, romance books, romance ebooks, romance novels, best selling romance books, must read contemporary romance novels, as seen on tiktok, booktok, fun steamy romance, sweet but spicy, heartwarming romance, beach reads, women’s fiction, romantic women’s fiction, nerdy heroine, witty banter, cinnamon roll hero

Download or read book One Hot Mess written by Lois Greiman and published by Dell. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In southern California it’s raining crime—and psychologist Christina McMullen could use an umbrella. Her clients are crazy, her on-again-off-again relationship with LAPD lieutenant Jack Rivera has just started heating up again, and now Rivera’s womanizing dad has come calling—asking Chrissy to investigate a mysterious death that might haunt his next campaign: for president of the United States. Soon Chrissy is investigating not one “accidental” death, but two—until she stumbles on a trail of bodies littering Senator Rivera’s distinguished career. As she untangles a web of high-stakes lies, Chrissy believes that she’s found the secret to a serial killer’s underground campaign. The killer has a list, a motive, and the perfect disguise—the only question is: who’s next?

Download or read book The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish Swish Swish written by Lil Miss Hot Mess and published by Running Press Kids. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing off "The Wheels on the Bus," this nursery rhyme book from a founder of Drag Queen Story Hour is a fun, freewheeling celebration of being your most fabulous self. The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish encourages readers to boldly be exactly who they are. Written by a founding member of the nationally recognized Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH), this playful picture book offers a quirky twist on a classic nursery rhyme by illustrating all of the ways to "work it". The story plays off "The Wheels on the Bus" as it follows a drag queen who performs her routine in front of an awestruck audience. A fun frenzy of fierceness, this book will appeal to readers of all ages.

Download or read book Hey Professor Quinn written by Anne Quinn BSN RN and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you interested in becoming a nurse? Are you in nursing school and wondering what in the heck youaEUR(tm)ve gotten yourself into? Are you a new grad in search of some insight and reassurance?? Well, look no further!When I was a student, a great nurse I worked with at the emergency department told me, aEURoeYou wonaEUR(tm)t learn anything about this job until youaEUR(tm)re a new grad. Nursing school is designed to teach you how to take a test. ThataEUR(tm)s it.aEUR So what do they not teach you in nursing school? Well, this clinical instructor/ER nurse has compiled some of the top questions repeatedly asked by her students and placed them all in this little book to help shed some light on what you can expect! So buckle up, my littles! YouaEUR(tm)re in for a fast, thrilling roller-coaster ride of laughs, tears, and feel-goods that will take your soul through the wonderful world of nursing!SheaEUR(tm)s a great nurse. SheaEUR(tm)s kinda scary, but sheaEUR(tm)s great.aEUR"ED physicianUgh, what do you want now?aEUR"ED management teamOh great, AnneaEUR(tm)s my nurse todayaEUR|aEUR"Trauma surgeonNo! AnneaEUR(tm)s my radio nurse?aEUR"ED charge nurseOh boy, the black cloud is in chargeaEUR|aEUR"ED staffSheaEUR(tm)s a real sassholeaEUR|aEUR"Former studentMan, Anne just pulled me out of my assignment. Now IaEUR(tm)m gonna be exhausted.aEUR"Supersad ED nurseI heard about her when I first started working here. I thought she was an urban legend!aEUR"ED physician

Download or read book The Hot Mess and the Heartthrob written by Pippa Grant and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't know me, but you do know me. I'm your neighborhood hot mess single mom, doing my best to keep my head above water while running my little slice of heaven and keeping my youngest from shoving marbles up his nose, which is exactly what he's doing the first time Levi Wilson, pop star god, world's sexiest man, and my all-time number one celebrity obsession, walks into my bookstore. Related: I'm writing this from beyond the grave, because I've died of mortification and am now residing in an alternate universe. I have to be. Because Levi Wilson came back. And we had a moment. Like, a moment moment. The kind that makes me remember that adult pleasure isn't all about hoping the lock holds in the bathroom so your kids don't interrupt on the rare occasion you feel like taking an extra-long mommy-time shower. So when he proposes a no-strings fling? Count. Me. In. Thrill of a lifetime, right? Surely, nothing will go wrong... The Hot Mess and the Heartthrob is a rockin' fun, sexy romantic comedy featuring a celebrity panty-melter who doesn't know what he's been missing, a sassy single mom hanging on by a string, three adorable children who would never burst in on a woman when she's on a toilet (ha!), and shameless ovary-busting moments between a guy who never thought he'd be a dad and a family who thought they got along just fine without him. It stands alone and comes complete with a happily-ever-after.

Download or read book Co WRECKER written by Meghan Quinn and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do ice cream and Sadie Montgomery have in common? They're both ice cold, but one taste is never enough.I wanted to be friends - I would have even settled for her seeing me as anything but a nerd - but there was no getting through. So just like any hard-headed, red-blooded man out there, I made up my mind.I'd make my coworker fall for me.I'd like to say it was simple, but like every other epic love story, all it took was one drunken night and a lot of naked courage to get the girl. For a moment, at least.Love with a coworker is never simple, especially since Sadie's trying to keep us on the low. Not to mention her persistent ex-boyfriend who won't leave her alone. But I've never been good at giving up, and I don't plan to start now.The whole thing is a recipe for a rocky road, but I plan to eat the whole gallon, no matter how bad the brain freeze.

Download or read book The Thrill of Temptation Boss Romantic Comedy written by Ember Casey and published by Ember Casey. This book was released on with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic Comedy novel featuring a celebrity boss! Perfect for those who love workplace romances, Hollywood hunks, and forbidden love...and for those who enjoy their romance novels full of heat, humor, and heart. Maggie Blankenship is a hot mess—broke, unemployed, and down on her luck. So when she’s offered the chance to fill in as an extra in a movie, she wonders if her luck is changing. At the very least, she sees it as an opportunity to inject some excitement into her oh-so-dull life, if only for a day. She has no idea how much her life is about to change. It turns out that the movie is being directed by Orlando Fontaine—the intense and mysterious youngest brother of the Fontaine family. Sparks (and underwear) fly between the pair of them from the start, but Orlando has a strict no-fraternizing policy on his sets. He wants her, but he won’t touch her. She wants him, but she can’t have him. As the heat builds between Maggie and Orlando, only one question remains—what’s the cost of giving in to temptation? Book #4 in the Fontaines Celebrity Romance Series. Meet the Fontaines: Hollywood royalty. L.A.'s most notorious bad boys. Permanent stars of the tabloids. And the wickedest, most devilish lovers around... THE FONTAINES CELEBRITY ROMANCE SERIES: Book 0 - The Secret to Seduction (Felicia Liddle + Roman Everet) Book 1 - The Sweet Taste of Sin (Ashlyn Worth + Dante Fontaine) Book 2 - The Lies Between the Lines (Emilia Torres + Luca Fontaine) Book 3 - The Mystery of You (Edie Marshall + Rafe Fontaine) Book 4 - The Thrill of Temptation (Maggie Blankenship + Orlando Fontaine) This series is perfect for those who love books by: Melissa Foster, Bella Andre, Julia Kent, Blair Babylon, Lauren Landish, Lucy Score, Lauren Blakely, Christina Lauren, Claire Adams, Emma Chase, Penny Reid, Lila Monroe, Avery Flynn, Kylie Gilmore, and many more! Keywords: contemporary romance, billionaire romance, billionaire romance novel, contemporary romance novel, family saga, series romance, steamy romance, steamy romance novel, first in series, love story, bad boy romance, alpha billionaire, alpha romance, alpha her, boss romance, boss romance books, boss romance book, boss romance novels, boss romance novel, romantic comedy, romantic comedy books, funny romance, funny romance books, hilarious romance, hilarious romance books, rom com, rom com book, hollywood, hollywood romance, hollywood hero, hollywood romance books, celebrity romance, celebrity hero, celebrity romance books, celebrity romances, seduction, contemporary love story, beach romance, beach romance books, beach read, beach reads, summer romance, summer romances, summer romance books, summer reads, new adult, new adult romance, new adult romance books, new adult books, laugh out loud romance, laugh out loud, forbidden love, movie star, movie set romance, forbidden romance books, laugh out loud books, brothers romance, brothers romance series, brothers romance books, family romance series, family romance books, bad boy celebrity, happily ever after, normal girl celebrity guy, poor girl rich guy, poor girl wealthy guy, sexy, steamy, sensual, sensual romances, steamy romance, sexy romance

Download or read book Faux Pas Fame written by Clare Chu and published by Gigaverse Press. This book was released on with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clumsy, awkward, and perpetually embarrassed? Congratulations, you’re one viral video away from internet stardom. Meet Mimi Meme, the self-proclaimed Queen of Cringe and master of turning mortifying moments into meme gold. With her feathered sidekick Captain Cocky and a knack for catastrophe, Mimi’s about to teach you how to: • Transform your daily disasters into trending topics • Monetize your misfortunes (hello, sponsorships!) • Navigate the cutthroat world of influencers without losing your soul (or all your dignity) But when hunky stuntman Maverick Worthy slides into her DMs, Mimi faces her biggest challenge yet: balancing her budding romance with her brand of beautiful disasters. Can she level up from meme to mainstream without faceplanting her way out of love? Get ready to laugh until you cry, cringe until you can’t look away, and be seen in ways you never thought possible. This zany self-help guide is your ticket to: • Embracing your inner train wreck with pride • Finding your tribe of fellow beautiful disasters • Boosting your confidence by owning your awkward • Learning to laugh at yourself (before others beat you to it) Packed with more sass than your group chat and enough secondhand embarrassment to make you grateful for your own life choices, this misguided guidebook is a hilarious rollercoaster of relatable moments and “OMG, same!” revelations. So grab your helmet, prep your apology templates, and get ready to live that #CringeLife to the fullest. Because in Mimi’s world, it’s not about how gracefully you fall—it's about how epically you fail upwards. Where embarrassment is an art form, and you’re about to become a masterpiece. Faux Pas Fame is the perfect guide for embracing your inner hot mess. Equal parts self-help and comedy gold, it’s a must-read for anyone who’s ever wanted to turn their awkward moments into memorable assets. Or just laugh out loud. “I’ve never felt so seen or laughed so hard!” “Hilarious, relatable, and surprisingly inspiring.”

Download or read book The Lost Continent written by Bill Bryson and published by VNR AG. This book was released on 1989 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.

Download or read book Everything s Trash But It s Okay written by Phoebe Robinson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DON’T MISS PHOEBE ROBINSON’S COMEDY SERIES EVERYTHING’S TRASH—NOW ON FREEFORM! New York Times bestselling author and star of 2 Dope Queens Phoebe Robinson is back with a new, hilarious, and timely essay collection on gender, race, dating, and the dumpster fire that is our world. Wouldn't it be great if life came with instructions? Of course, but like access to Michael B. Jordan's house, none of us are getting any. Thankfully, Phoebe Robinson is ready to share everything she has experienced to prove that if you can laugh at her topsy-turvy life, you can laugh at your own. Written in her trademark unfiltered and witty style, Robinson's latest collection is a call to arms. Outfitted with on-point pop culture references, these essays tackle a wide range of topics: giving feminism a tough-love talk on intersectionality, telling society's beauty standards to kick rocks, and calling foul on our culture's obsession with work. Robinson also gets personal, exploring money problems she's hidden from her parents, how dating is mainly a warmed-over bowl of hot mess, and definitely most important, meeting Bono not once, but twice. She's struggled with being a woman with a political mind and a woman with an ever-changing jeans size. She knows about trash because she sees it every day--and because she's seen roughly one hundred thousand hours of reality TV and zero hours of Schindler's List. With the intimate voice of a new best friend, Everything's Trash, But It's Okay is a candid perspective for a generation that has had the rug pulled out from under it too many times to count.

Download or read book Be More Chill The Graphic Novel written by Ned Vizzini and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The groundbreaking story by New York Times best-selling author Ned Vizzini that inspired the Tony-nominated Broadway musical--now adapted in a graphic novel by #1 New York Times best-selling author David Levithan. Jeremy Heere is your average high school dork. Day after day, he stares at beautiful Christine, the girl he can never have, and dryly notes the small humiliations that come his way. Until the day he learns about the "squip." A pill-sized supercomputer that you swallow, the squip is guaranteed to bring you whatever you most desire in life. By instructing him on everything from what to wear, to how to talk and walk, the squip transforms Jeremy from geek to the coolest guy in class. Soon he is friends with his former tormentors and has the attention of the hottest girls in school. But Jeremy discovers that there is a dark side to handing over control of your life--and it can have disastrous consequences.

Download or read book If You re a Drag Queen and You Know It written by Lil Miss Hot Mess and published by Running Press Kids. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strike a pose. Blow a kiss. Mouth the words. A fun, sing-along book with a drag twist that encourage kids to embrace all the playfulness of drag culture written by a founding member of Drag Queen Story Hour. If you’re a drag queen and you know it, let it show by winking, shaking your bum, laughing real big, twirling around, and more! Join a cast of fabulous drag queens as you sing along to the tune of “If You’re Happy and You Know It” in this playful celebration of expressing your brightest and boldest self. A perfect companion to The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish written by a board member of Drag Queen Story Hour.

Download or read book Living Full written by Danielle Sherman-Lazar and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survivor takes those struggling with anorexia and/or bulimia on “a passionate, heartbreaking to humorous road from rock bottom to recovery” (Robert Tuchman, author of Young Guns). Imagine waking in a hospital bed to find your frail, pale arm punctured by an IV transferring fluids and nutrients into your weak, stiff body. What happened? You’re an adult, age twenty-six, and you just had a seizure precipitated by your chronic, secretive, decades-long struggle with unacknowledged eating disorders. You have no friends and no normal young-adult experiences. Living Full is written by Danielle Sherman-Lazar, a woman who passed through the eating disorder crucible to recovery, sharing the most intimate and shameful details of her mental illness. Living Full is Danielle’s story. Eating disorders in young adults are hardly talked about, but are pervasive. Eating disorders are kept hidden out of shame. A groundbreaking 2012 study published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders found that about thirteen percent of women over age fifty exhibit eating disorder symptoms. Living Full chronicles the author’s step-by-step descent into the full-blown eating disorder nightmare and her path to recovery. Recovery comes from the Maudsley Approach, a regimen of supervised controlled eating or refeeding by out-patient helpers that eventually can result in recovery. Benefits of reading Living Full: See how to confront your eating disorder demon Learn from someone who won her eating disorder battle Discover a new and beautiful life

Download or read book Talk Bookish to Me written by Kate Bromley and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A USA Today Best Book of 2021! "Bromley does a deft job at keeping the twists and turns of this reunion realistic and utterly romantic.” —USA Today Inspiration can come from the most unlikely—and inconvenient—sources. Kara Sullivan’s life is full of love—albeit fictional. As a bestselling romance novelist and influential bookstagrammer, she’s fine with getting her happily-ever-after fix between the covers of a book. But right now? Not only is Kara’s best friend getting married next week—which means big wedding stress—but the deadline for her next novel is looming, and she hasn’t written a single word. The last thing she needs is for her infuriating first love, Ryan Thompson, to suddenly appear in the wedding party. But Ryan’s unexpected arrival sparks a creative awakening in Kara that inspires the steamy historical romance she desperately needs to deliver. With her wedding duties intensifying, her deadline getting closer by the second and her bills not paying themselves, Kara knows there’s only one way for her to finish her book and to give her characters the ever-after they deserve. But can she embrace the unlikely, ruggedly handsome muse—who pushes every one of her buttons—to save the wedding, her career and, just maybe, write her own happy ending? "A fun and sexy romp, with chemistry that gave me all the feels!" —Jennifer Probst, New York Times bestselling author of Our Italian Summer "Add this book to your TBR list immediately!" —Sarah Smith, author of Faker Don't miss Kate Bromley's new delightful rom-com, Here for the Drama, and stay tuned for Ciao for Now—coming June 2023!

Download or read book Inside Jokes written by Matthew M. Hurley and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some things are funny -- jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side, Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed -- but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching The Simpsons? In Inside Jokes, Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams offer an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Humor, they propose, evolved out of a computational problem that arose when our long-ago ancestors were furnished with open-ended thinking. Mother Nature -- aka natural selection -- cannot just order the brain to find and fix all our time-pressured misleaps and near-misses. She has to bribe the brain with pleasure. So we find them funny. This wired-in source of pleasure has been tickled relentlessly by humorists over the centuries, and we have become addicted to the endogenous mind candy that is humor.