Download or read book Jinxed Company written by Ekant Babani and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever experienced a life-threatening moment? A spooky encounter? A car crash? Or maybe just all of them? Well, I did. I experienced all of the above and much more during my teenage years. And I didn’t plan any of them, they just happened. Strangely, these weird occurrences always happened when I met my cousin Aatish. Passing it off as a mere coincidence initially, I couldn’t help but believe there was something wrong and that a fuse went off every time we met. I soon realised that we were pretty much a ‘Jinxed company’. I am 40 now, and when I looked back at the great, adventurous, amazing life I’ve led, there were these occurrences that I couldn’t get out of my head. I remember writing them down at some point and tried forgetting about them as if they were a nightmare. And almost a decade later, I got my hands on those notes. What you will read is spectacular, surreal, spooky, unbelievable adventure. I lived it; I didn’t plan it and don’t regret it. I just thought I should write about it. Have a freak read!
Download or read book Jinxed written by Amy McCulloch and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Compass meets the digital age! When a coding star enters an elite technology academy, she discovers a world of competition, intrigue, and family secrets—plus a robotic companion that isn't what it seems. Lacey Chu is a girl who codes. She has always dreamed of working as an engineer for MONCHA, the biggest tech firm in the world and the company behind the "baku"—a customizable "pet" with all the capabilities of a smartphone. But when Lacey is rejected by the elite academy that promises that future, she's crushed. One night, Lacey comes across the broken form of a highly advanced baku. After she repairs it, the cat-shaped baku she calls Jinx opens its eyes and somehow gets her into her dream school. But Jinx is different than any other baku she's ever seen...He seems real. As Lacey settles into life at school, competing with the best students in a battle of the bakus that tests her abilities, she learns that Jinx is part of a dangerous secret. Can Lacey hold on to Jinx and her dreams for the future? Jinxed is the perfect... middle grade book for girls who are passionate about coding summer reading chapter book for kids 9-12 science fiction book for kids 9-12 engineer academy book robot book for kids "With a sharp eye toward the rising awareness of device addiction and a keen sense of wonder, McCulloch's tale is a feast for the imagination that celebrates women in STEM fields."—Publisher's Weekly, STARRED review "I raced through this book...a little bit Golden Compass and all adventure."—Amie Kaufman, New York Times bestselling author
Download or read book Jinxed written by Michelle Carey and published by Sunrai Multimedia. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jordan "Jinx" Monroe wanted it all - to have love and win a major title on the professional women’s bowling tour. Just when she thought she could have it all, she loses a major bowling tournament to her main rival Renita Hamilton and her fiance leaves her at the altar for one of her bridesmaids. Jinx needs to find her way back. On the lanes and in love. Is Jinx jinxed?
Download or read book Unleashed written by Amy McCulloch and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Compass for the digital age in this action-packed sequel to Jinxed. When Lacey Chu wakes up in a hospital room with no memory of how she got there, she knows something went really wrong. And with her cat baku, Jinx, missing in action and MONCHA, the company behind the invention of the robot pet, threatening her family, she isn't sure who to turn to for answers. When Lacey is expelled and her mom starts acting strangely after the latest update from MONCHA, Lacey and her friends work together to get to the bottom of it and discover a sinister plot at the heart of the corporation. Lacey must use all her skills if she has a chance of stopping MONCHA from carrying out their plans. But can she take on the biggest tech company in North America armed with only a level 1 robot beetle and her friends at her side? Praise for Jinxed: "[A] vividly imagined Toronto-set middle grade series opener intertwines smartphone technology with the hallmarks of classic science fiction via a fun, insightful narrative and bright voice...With a sharp eye toward the rising awareness of device addiction and a keen sense of wonder, McCulloch's tale is a feast for the imagination that celebrates women in STEM fields."—Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW) "McCulloch effectively strikes a balance between worldbuilding and action...A solid series starter for tinkerers and adventurers alike."—Kirkus Reviews "A little bit Golden Compass, a little bit Hunger Games, and all adventure!"—New York Times bestselling author Amie Kaufman
Download or read book Jinxed written by Carol Higgins Clark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-09-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carol Higgins Clark, bestselling author of Fleeced and co-author with Mary Higgins Clark of He Sees You When You're Sleeping, returns in top form in her new Regan Reilly mystery, blending her talent for intriguing locales, eccentric characters, and fast-paced suspense laced with humor. In Jinxed, smart, saucy sleuth Regan Reilly faces a new challenge—the case of the missing wedding guest. Regan, an L.A.-based private detective, returns to her office after a vacation with her beau, Jack "no relation" Reilly. Their tour of the wineries in Napa Valley and Santa Barbara County is cut short when Jack has to fly back to New York City, where he is the head of the Major Case Squad of the NYPD. Their last stop had been at Altered States, a run-down winery owned by three siblings who are all former hippies—Lilac, Earl, and Leon Weldon. Not knowing how soon it would be put to use, Regan leaves her business card behind. Within minutes of being back to work, Regan gets an excited call from Lilac. The Weldon family has been invited to the wedding of ninety-three-year-old Lucretia Standish, a former silent-screen star. Lucretia's maid, Phyllis, clues Lilac in on the fact that Lucretia plans to give the Weldons $2 million each—if they all show up at the wedding. The wedding is two days away, and there is only one problem: Lilac's daughter, Whitney, a.k.a. Freshness, a young actress, has taken off on one of her go-with-the-flow weekends. Whitney is out of touch and goes where the wind blows. If it doesn't blow her back into town by Sunday morning, the Weldon family will be out $8 million. Regan's job is to find Whitney. But unbeknownst to Regan, there's someone else on the hunt. Lucretia's fiancé, the much younger Edward Fields, has hired an accomplice in crime to locate Whitney and keep her away from the wedding. He wants to say "I do" to Lucretia and her millions before Whitney can protest. When Edward finds out that Regan Reilly has been hired to find the missing Whitney, he gives the order to get rid of her as well. As in her previous novels, Carol Higgins Clark has created a novel that is both exciting and vastly entertaining. As no less a master of suspense than Nelson DeMille has said, "Clark's writing is elegantly clear and concise, her characters are witty and engaging, and her plots and pacing are perfect." And in Jinxed, she is at her very considerable best.
Download or read book Business Maharajas written by Gita Piramal and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inside track to India's most powerful tycoons The eight business maharajas profiled here are among Asia's most powerful industrial tycoons, Their combined turnover runs into billions of rupees, and between them they employ some 650,000 people, while indirectly affecting the lives of millions more. Sip a cup of tea, drive to work, listen to music, build a house and the chances are that in these and a myriad other ways you are using products that they manufacture or market. By any yardstick, the achievements of these men would rank among the great business stories of our time. How did these men build their enormous empires? What are their management secrets? How did they thrive and prosper even as others failed? What is their vision for the future? Top business writer and industry insider Gita Piramal draws on exhaustive interviews and in-depth research to discover the answers to these and related questions in her profiles of the men who will lead the country's push to become an industrial superpower in the 21st century.
Download or read book Wordcraft written by Alex Frankel and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2004-04-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Five little words: BlackBerry, Accenture, Viagra, Cayenne, e-business. Two of the words are appropriated (BlackBerry and Cayenne); two are completely made up (Viagra and Accenture); and one (e-business) is a composite word made of a word and a letter that already exist. . . .These five words are the characters in this book." Words shape and move the modern marketplace; they are at once ubiquitous and invisible. But where do words such as Saturn, PowerBook, and Tylenol originate? How did we come to "xerox" our paperwork and "have a cup of Starbucks"? Which names work, and why? For journalist Alex Frankel, what began as an exercise in curiosity--tracing the evolution of a handful of the most successful brand names from the marketplace to their places of origin--resulted in a year-long journey in which he gained access to a previously undiscovered world of forward-thinking creatives: professional namers, the unique group of marketers responsible for inventing words that ultimately become a part of our everyday vocabularies. Wordcraft is Frankel's in-depth look at how companies name themselves and their products and, in the process of defining their business through words and language, develop narratives that define the way they present themselves to the outside world. His lively, fly-on-the-wall narrative takes us into the conference rooms of Lexicon, the world's largest professional naming firm, where we see how the highly successful email pager known as the BlackBerry got its name. We travel to Germany to learn how Porsche approached the naming of its controversial SUV, a car that challenged the company's famously sporty image. The creative team behind Viagra explains how they took a completely fabricated word and turned it into a powerful idea. We witness how IBM assumed ownership of the word and story of "e-business" and in so doing turned around its corporate mindset and returned to a dominant industry position. The book is filled with stories about how things get their names, but it's not just tales of business meetings and product launches. We meet the characters who populate the naming world, "information age neologists" like freelance namer Andrea Michaels, who plays professional Scrabble and competes on TV game shows when not brainstorming for corporate clients. And we learn about the civic unrest that erupted in Denver when the naming rights for Mile High Stadium were sold. Frankel laces his narrative with cultural and historical references and quotations from thinkers as diverse as Marianne Moore and Lawrence Lessig, all of which add a layer of richness and depth to this book's multithreaded and engaging stories. For anyone intrigued by the power of words and ideas in today's marketplace, Wordcraft is a captivating tour of a fascinating world.
Download or read book Harlequin Pink written by Day Leclaire and published by . This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jinxed written by Bradley Torrence and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jinz has the duty of taking care of his two families in different states. He also has the duty of running a multi-million dollar drug empire in Philadelphia. He is handling everything as smoothly as one man can. Of course, when you are on top, the haters will do everything in their power to bring you down. Someway, some how, Jinz still puts himself in a position to retire with enough money and businesses to live comfortably. Retirement is at the tip of his fingers until his brother comes home from prison talking wildly about things that could possibly jinx Jinz's retirement. Could the release of his little brother be his downfall? Jinz has to do everything in his power to avoid the jinx of being locked up or killed in a game that loves nobody. Let the author, Tuffy, of the streets' hottest urban novel, Bad Blood, take you on another exciting ride.
Download or read book Rock Story written by Siva Gopal Ojha and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-01-09 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a documentary based on the strife and changing social ethos in the Rock countryside during the last two decades of the twentieth century. The area to which the story relates is spread over the laterite hilly region embracing the States of West Bengal and Jharkhand in India. Although a work of fiction, the story portrays the trends sweeping through that part of the countryside where the archaic agricultural society was splitting up to give birth to a hybrid and faceless social pattern.
Download or read book Sweet RevengeJace Emerald written by Lovella Novela and published by StarNovel (HK) Co., Limited. This book was released on 2024-09-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerald thought that she and Jace Higginson were divorced. After five years, she returns to the country to collaborate with his company and eventually takes her revenge. What will she do when she sees a different Jace, making her uneasy whenever they meet? What would she do when her supposed ex-husband was still her husband because he didn't file the divorce? Will Emerald give Jace his rights to their son whom she conceived before she left? Find out how Emerald will try to fight her own feelings towards Jace and his eagerness to win her back as she tries to find her nanny who will eventually unfold her true identity.
Download or read book The Potion Diaries written by Amy Alward and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samantha may be falling for the beloved of the princess she is sent to save in this start to a “charming and humorous” (Kirkus Reviews) romantic trilogy. “Inventive, romantic, and downright delightful.” —Sarah J. Mass, author of Throne of Glass When the Princess of Nova accidentally poisons herself with a love potion meant for her crush, she falls crown-over-heels in love with her own reflection. Oops. A nationwide hunt is called to find the cure, with competitors travelling the world for the rarest ingredients, deep in magical forests and frozen tundras, facing death at every turn. Enter Samantha Kemi—an ordinary girl with an extraordinary talent. Sam’s family were once the most respected alchemists in the kingdom, but they’ve fallen on hard times, and winning the hunt would save their reputation. But can Sam really compete with the dazzling powers of the ZoroAster megapharma company? And just how close is she willing to get to Zain Aster, her dashing enemy, in the meantime. Just to add to the pressure, this quest is ALL OVER social media. And the world news. No big deal, then.
Download or read book The North Carolina Black Repertory Company written by Felecia Piggott McMillan and published by Open Hand Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evening Street Review Number 27 written by Barbara Bergmann and published by Evening Street Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evening Street Review is centered on the belief that all men and women are created equal, that they have a natural claim to certain inalienable rights, and that among these are the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. With this center, and an emphasis on writing that has both clarity and depth, it practices the widest eclecticism. Evening Street Review reads submissions of poetry (free verse, formal verse, and prose poetry) and prose (short stories and creative nonfiction) year round. Submit 3-6 poems or 1-2 prose pieces at a time. Payment is one contributor’s copy. Copyright reverts to author upon publication. Response time is 3-6 months. Please address submissions to Editors, 2881 Wright St, Sacramento, CA 95821-4819. Email submissions are also acceptable; send to the following address as Microsoft Word or rich text files (.rtf): [email protected].
Download or read book Printers Ink written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Blofeld to Moneypenny written by Steven Gerrard and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception, 007 has captured the hearts of a worldwide audience, and the franchise is now available over multiple media platforms, including movie, comic strips, games, graphic novels and fashion statements. This edited collection examines the role that gender has played across the platforms that the James Bond franchise now occupies.
Download or read book Jinxed written by Rebecca McRitchie and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic awaits around every corner ... Cora is eleven years old and missing one eye. She lives with an elderly lady named Dot in a room hidden behind a wall. In a crowded, industrial city, where everyone looks out for themselves, Cora and Dot hunt and sell rare and exotic things - apple seeds, silver forks, shoe polish. Until one day, Cora finds a few words scribbled on a piece of paper. She takes it home and says the words aloud. Then two plump, hairy fairies named Tick and Tock crash land in her path to warn her that she is in terrible danger. Cora has unknowingly summoned a sinister creature known as a Jinx. Jinxes eat magical beings and once they have a scent, they never forget it. But Cora isn't a magical being . . . is she? Quickly, Cora is thrown headfirst into a world filled with magic, necromancers, shape-shifters, enchantresses, fairies, nightwalkers, witches and giants. Richly illustrated throughout by Sharon O'Connor, this is a very exciting magical new series from the talented author of Whimsy & Woe. AWARDS Shortlisted - 2019 Aurealis Awards (Best Children's Fiction)
