Download or read book Three Years from Thirty written by Mike O'Malley and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full Length, Comic Drama characters: 4 male, 3 female Unit set This funny, poignant story of a group of 27 year olds who have known each other since college sold out during its limited run at New York City's Sanford Meisner Theater. Jessica Titus, a frustrated actress living in Boston, has become distraught over local job opportunities and she is feeling trapped in her long standing relationship with her boyfriend Tom. She suddenly decides to pursue her dreams in

Download or read book Get Lit Rising written by Diane Luby Lane and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Get to know the Get Lit Players--a group of teens who use poetry to take on the world--with this common-core aligned book that sheds light on teen issues through their own poetry and slam poetry performances. The Get Lit Players include teens who are homeless, autistic, have parents in jail, battle with weightand body issues, depression, and more. But they use the power of poetry to pursue lives of promise and to reach out to friends, families, and communities ... Each chapter offers questions, writing prompts, and how-tos for readers to set their own inner poet free. Ending with a section for parents and educators featuring the curriculum that ... shows how to get teens excited about poetry and how to create poetry groups and slams in their own communities"--Provided by publisher.

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Download or read book Let s Get It Started written by Maureen Reil and published by Maureen Reil. This book was released on 2013-07-06 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a British girl to do when she is suddenly jobless, loveless and homeless all in the spate of an afternoon? Well she goes on holiday, which is what she does. This is the sorry situation, which Emma Brook finds herself in so if anyone deserves a vacation then Emma thinks it should be her and the destination chosen is exactly what she needs to get over her ex and move on with her life. So with the help and guidance of a family member and a new friend, Emma is set to prove to Gabe and herself that she is not ‘boringly normal’ like he’d cruelly insisted she was and she can be adventurous and daring. But it’s all not as easy as it sounds when the only man Emma falls for has a secret of his own, which he was trying to keep from her ever finding out about. So a spot of revenge/rebound sex is out of the question then, or is it? It all comes to a head when Emma returns home to face her ex and claims to her friends that she had a holiday romance with a Greek God lookalike to show that she was indeed over Gabe. Low and behold, this mystery man actually turns up to complicate matters further. Will Emma regret her white lie, or will it be the best thing that ever happened to her?

Download or read book War Porn written by Roy Scranton and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War Porn follows three intersecting narratives - an end-of-summer barbecue, where a young veteran's homecoming turns violent; the occupation of Iraq seen through the eyes of an American soldier; and the life of a married Iraqi graduate student before the invasion - that build into a single tragic story of loss, connection and the costs of war.

Download or read book Gag written by Melissa Unger and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One rainy afternoon in a Brooklyn diner, Peter Howland punctures an egg with his fork. Undercooked, the egg oozes a thick, snot–like goo; repulsed, Peter pushes the plate away and never eats again. Fifteen years later, feeling as fit as the first foodless day over a decade ago, he heads to Paris, arguably the gastronomic center of the universe, to have another go at food. Enter, Dallas Foster, a mysterious individual who leaves a dramatic and unshakable impact on Peter’s life. An offbeat, incisive observation of the ways in which we thrash into and cling onto each other; bursting with vivid dialogue, intricately painted characters and a breathtaking plot, Gag is a fantastically written portrait of two strangers entangled in the most curious of relationships. This inventive novel wanders down unexpected avenues and uncovers the darkest corners of both its characters and the serpentine city in which they converge.

Download or read book The Swell Dressed Party written by Cynthia Rowley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling authors of Swell: A Girl's Guide to the Good Life, Home Swell Home: Designing Your Dream Pad, and Swell Holiday: Turning Up the Twinkle have delighted readers with their groundbreaking manuals on style and decor. Now Cynthia Rowley and Ilene Rosenzweig bring you The Swell Dress Party, a bubbly bible for the modern hostess. With their fun-loving spirit and entertaining expertise, they serve up ideas for memorable affairs that are easy to execute, don't leave you exhausted, and allow you to achieve the ultimate hostess goal -- to be a guest at your own party. This day-to-night guide brings a much-needed dose of realism to fabulous entertaining. The confident hostess makes the most of what she's got, mixing homemade with store-bought, pairing her best crystal flutes with last minute Polaroid placecards, and knowing it's important to keep the conversation as sparkling as the champagne. "Part Dressing" is a new approach to great entertaining that relies on playfulness, not perfectionism. Over twenty parties in this book combine recipes that deliver wow factor without requiring a culinary PH.D., and anecdotes from Rowley and Rosenzweig's party career. They show how to bring friends and family together for high-style good times without spending an obscene amout of time or blowing a wad of dough. The Swell motto is: Minimize effort and maximize fun. Great hostessing is about setting a mood as much as making sure people get enough to eat and drink. A Swell party is like the perfect black dress glammed up with little accessories that make a big impact. • Double-duty favors that bring an activity to the party, like sketchbooks and charcoals at everyy place setting. • Iced gel-eye masks and Tylenol for a Hangover Brunch. • Filling the pool with blow-up ducks as an aquatic centerpiece. • The No-Time-for-Dinner Party, ordering in every course, from MacDonald's fries to steakhouse sirloins, and making an event of every delivery. • Turning Games Night or Must-See TV into a weekly ritual of three-martini playdates. • Keeping the cupboard stocked for chic-and-easy bar snack and canapes for the impromptu cocktails.

Download or read book All Talk written by Bartosz Sztybor and published by Black Panel Press. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rahim is a suburban kid like any other, a "good kid." Chilling with his boys, hearing the legends of "Immortal Al," the greatest gangster who ever lived, it's hard not to get stars in his eyes. Rahim dreams of becoming a kingpin, idolizing his local gangsters, hoping to climb their ranks. But his friends laugh: they say he's all talk, no action. Until one day, he sees an opportunity to prove himself … but how far will he take it before there's no turning back? A modern, urban 120-page graphic novel exploring the toxic nature of "street cred" and the role it plays in the lives of vulnerable young men.

Download or read book Forbidden Entries written by Lis Frimpong and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first four parts are introductions to each character, and from there, we move into the story. - Rivalry - Mafia family dysfunction - Division - Coming together Oscar Al-Ghul has always found Lee Yen-Soo a threat to his Mafia world, as well as his reputation. The people give Yen-Soo the attention Oscar wanted. The attention he craved for is never given. After hearing the birth of his newly conceived son, his anger and resentment increase. The birth of an Alpha is unexpected. Awhile back, Alpha and their packs have overtaken the entire Mafia World. They are seen as strong, fearless, and dominating. The feeling of insecurity falls on the Mafias who are humans, wondering what makes them so special. Jealousy grows, and with that comes rivalry, and with rivalry comes the division. Sophia Al-Ghul, Oscar’s wife, bore him children, and Oscar comes up with an idea to help his kids remain in an environment where they don’t have to feel inferior. He invests in building a school with a few of his other friends that has the same views as he does. This school would only authorize kids with human genetics and no trace of any kind of wolf blood. Growing up, Oscar has taught his kids that werewolves wanted to dominate wherever they step foot and look down on people they overpowered. He has taught them to stay away and to never to be seen with any. Lee discovers what Al-Ghul had been plotting, and word spreads quicker than light. Furious at the allegations put against people of his kind, he decides to fire back to keep the humans away from werewolves. No trace of humans should be near their territories in neither day nor night. Since then, gaps has grown between friends and communities.

Download or read book Along Came Holly written by Codi Hall and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Codi Hall brings all the feels."—Monica Murphy, New York Times bestselling author Holly Winters is not about to let her grumpy neighbor Declan steal her holiday joy...even if he does look rather handsome under the mistletoe. Holly Winters owns the jolliest holiday shop on Main Street and this season is shaping up to be the best yet. The only pit in her figgy pudding? Declan Gallagher, the owner of the hardware store next door. He's the scroogiest man in all of Mistletoe, Idaho. Then Holly's revenge prank escalates into an all-out war with her Grinchy neighbor, and the situation turns sticky when she realizes she needs his help. Declan can't believe the nerve of his oh-so-cheerful neighbor hiring him to set up her holiday lights display, but the money is too good to pass up. Despite his utter loathing of excessive decorations, he throws himself into getting the job done, only to encounter sabotage at every turn. To his astonishment, Declan finds himself championing the very woman who used to get under his skin. Then one rooftop kiss has him thinking maybe the season's traditions aren't as heinous as he believed. Declan's heart has grown three sizes since Holly came along, but how can he admit he's falling for the one woman he shouldn't want? "A fun, engaging, and romantic read that is perfect for Christmastime!" —The Nerd Daily for Nick and Noel's Christmas Playlist

Download or read book Mayhem Under the Mistletoe written by Lori Sjoberg and published by Lori Sjoberg. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tis the season for a fake romance… All Fiona wants for Christmas is to repair the broken pieces of her life after an ugly breakup. Thanks to her ex, she’s sworn off men, at least until her emotional scars have a chance to heal. For now, she’ll settle for watching her hot downstairs neighbor from the safety of her balcony when he goes on his daily run. But things get messy when her Grinch of an ex shows up on her doorstep, insisting they get back together and refusing to take no for an answer. Enter Joseph Pinto, security specialist, former Navy SEAL medic, and Fiona’s hot neighbor… All Pinto wants for Christmas is a cold beer, a hot pizza, and for his hockey team to win on home ice. Is that really too much to ask? But his meddling mother is playing matchmaker, and he can’t enjoy a moment’s peace with all that racket upstairs. After sending Fiona’s ex packing, he proposes a relationship of convenience: in exchange for protecting Fiona from her ex, she’ll help convince Pinto’s mom to stay out of his love life. Just one problem… It doesn’t take long for their fake relationship to start feeling very real. The tree is decorated, the mistletoe is hung, and the temptation to act on their mutual attraction is growing stronger by the minute. But the ex from Hell is determined to get Fiona back at all costs, and his mom is still causing trouble. Pinto’s determined to keep Fiona safe, but who will protect them both from the greatest threat of all, a broken heart?

Download or read book The Total Bent written by Stew and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a British record producer arrives in Montgomery, Alabama to hook Marty Roy, a young black musical prodigy, he launches us back into Marty’s tumultuous upbringing. The son of a gospel star and self-proclaimed healer, Marty spent his childhood writing the songs that have made his charismatic father famous. But in a nation on the verge of social upheaval, with the rising heat from the street guiding his pen, Marty finds himself at odds with his spiritually forceful father as he strives to create a masterpiece that will change America—no matter the cost. A funny, fiery, one-of-a-kind show, THE TOTAL BENT is about the passions that divide a father and son as they make their music and make their choice between salvation and selling out.

Download or read book The Flying Hound written by Joseph Rooney and published by Joseph Rooney. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of a young man trying to find himself while in college. An opportunity to do a semester abroad in Ireland changes his life. Join John Frawley and his friends through an epic adventure of life, love and friendship.

Download or read book Lovestruck Kisses Lies and Oatmeal Cream Pies written by Rachel Anne Jones and published by Fire & Ice Young Adult Books. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meridian’s sophomore year is off to a rough start. Her bestie ditches their traditional birthday party of the last fifteen years for a seat at the cool kid’s table. Kelli is the cool kid, and Meridian’s nemesis. Kelli is also the girlfriend of the class hottie, Cam Kohl, aka Meridian’s long-time secret crush. Meridian suffers in silence while she hovers in a corner booth as a helpless spectator to Kelli’s popularity with an unwanted front row seat. Fate smiles on Meridian in the form of a magical rune, and a haunting love spell is cast. Juan, a not-so-secret admirer from Meridian’s past returns. His feelings haven’t changed. Meridian soon dodges the affections of a few but craves unexpected attention from Cam and Juan. Cam and Meridian’s friendship grows, but the spell has Meridian wondering how much of it is real. If kissing Cam breaks the spell, is Meridian willing to let him go? And what about Juan? Can she handle losing both of them? A full moon and a fright night in a Haunted House is the perfect place to lay her doubts to rest. Will Meridian’s lips be brave enough to put love to the test?

Download or read book Jim Henson s Tale of Sand Screenplay written by Jim Henson and published by Boom! Studios. This book was released on 2014-04-09 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1967 and 1974, Jim Henson and his longtime writing partner Jerry Juhl developed three drafts of a screenplay for a feature-length film entitled TALE OF SAND. It was durning the development of the later drafts of the screenplay that Jim Henson became involved in the production of SESAME STREET and THE MUPPET SHOW, and left behind the experimental filmmaking of his youth to concentrate on the creations that would in time make him a household name. TALE OF SAND remained in the vaults of The Jim Henson Company as the only feature-length screenplay written by Henson that he was never able to produce during his lifetime. Stunningly illustrated and adapted by acclaimed artist Ramon K. Perez (WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN), the most critically acclaimed graphic novel of 2012-- winner of 3 Eisner Awards and 2 Harvey Awards including Best Graphic Album-- finally makes its digital debut on comiXology.

Download or read book Thank You for Sharing written by Rachel Runya Katz and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our new favorite trope: Childhood friends. To enemies. To lovers. In a chemistry-filled debut romance. Daniel Rosenberg and Liyah Cohen-Jackson’s last conversation—fourteen years ago at summer camp—ended their friendship. Until they find themselves seated next to each other on a plane, and bitterly pick up right where they left off. At least they can go their separate ways again after landing... That is, until Daniel's marketing firm gets hired by the Chicago museum where Liyah works as a junior curator, and they’re forced to collaborate with potential career changing promotions on the line. With every meeting and post-work social gathering with colleagues, the tension (and chemistry) between Daniel and Liyah builds until they’re forced to confront why they broke apart years ago at camp. But as they find comfort in their shared experiences as Jews of color and fumble towards friendship, can they ignore their growing feelings for each other? With sexy charm and undeniable wit, Rachel Runya Katz's sparkling debut, Thank You For Sharing, proves that if you're open to love, anything is possible. "[An] excellent, multilayered look at the experiences of Jews of color in this deftly woven story...Katz successfully portrays how romance meets real life in this terrific debut." - Library Journal (starred review) "Rachel Runya Katz’s Thank You for Sharing is a magical love story. This is a poignant, sharp and sexy romance with the kind of complex, big-hearted characters and emotional honesty readers will adore. I loved it!" - Carley Fortune, New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After "This book wrapped a fist around my heart and refused to let go. Gorgeously written, with two magnetic leads, an irresistible group of friends, and a warmth that radiates from every page. Rachel Runya Katz is a true talent." - Rachel Lynn Solomon, New York Times bestselling author of The Ex Talk "Impossible to put down! A delicious pressure-cooker-style slow burn of a romance, Thank You for Sharing contains the greatest ‘only one bed’ scene I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading. Not only is the romance delightful, but Rachel Runya Katz handles the complexity of grief and trauma with the tenderest of touches, creating a safe, welcoming space for her characters and readers alike. I have no doubt that readers will fall head over heels for Liyah and Daniel!" - Alexandria Bellefleur, bestselling, Lambda award-winning author of Written in the Stars and The Fiancée Farce

Download or read book The Dreidel Do Over written by Amanda Usen and published by Balancing Act Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the OG Matzo Ballers: eight friends who became found family, living and loving their best lives on a yearly Hanukkah harbor cruise around Manhattan… Instead of partying with her crew on her favorite night of the year, Talia Katz is stuck pinch hitting for the flaky chef her even flakier brother hired for the glitzy event. Happy freaking Hanukkah. To make matters worse, her brother forgot to order fryer oil. How is she supposed to make Hanukkah happen without enough oil to fry the latkes? It’s going to take a miracle… Asher Stein hates Hanukkah—and with good reason. But when the Matzo Baller’s bartender gets sick at the last minute, he agrees to step in, even though he usually avoids all things blue and gold like the plague. Now he’s stuck on a cruise for eight hours with a twelve-foot tall sparkling menorah and enough gelt to sink the boat. Oy vey. Hanukkah starts looking a little bit brighter—and hotter—when Asher discovers the cute chef he’s been eyeing on the boat is his long-lost BFF from Jewish day camp. Both Asher and Talia have secrets. If they want to give their friendship—or more—a second chance these two opposites will have to share more than a sizzling spin in the sheets after a smoking-hot game of strip dreidel…although that’s a very good start. Looking for another book in the Matzo Ballers Hanukkah Romance Series? Check out THE HANUKKAH HOOK-UP by Jessica Topper!