Download or read book Pixely Ever After written by Teresa Yea and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an app she develops crashes and burns, Olive Peale tries her hand at the family business. Running a wedding venue can't be as hard as writing code... right? As if juggling bridezillas and cheating grooms wasn't stressful enough, a rival venue swoops into town with fireworks, helicopter rentals, and a charming owner.Wesley Belmont wants to be Olive's friend.And maybe something more. But what would an arrogant playboy like him want with a nerd like her?Unless he's determined to put her out of business...With her family business in trouble, Olive turns to her trusted gamer friend Culler for help. Wesley and Culler are as different as night and day.Culler would be the perfect ally against Wesley. Culler is the perfect man, actually.Except for one problem?Olive doesn't know his name. Has never seen his face. Never met him in real life. Until Culler suggests they meet.And Olive discovers she's in for the surprise of her life.

Download or read book Once Upon a Photo Booth written by Teresa Yea and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elyse Darrow knows she'll excel at anything she puts her mind to. Run a successful wedding photography business? Check. Be a good mom to a stray dog? Piece of cake. Loosen up the handsome yet tragically square veterinarian Aiden Hines? It'll take tough love to get this heir of a BBQ sauce fortune to flaunt the six-pack she knows he's hiding underneath his dorky Dad clothes, but somebody's gotta do it. Mentor and makeover her timid friend Viola? This is the challenge she's been waiting for. Give her two weeks and she'll transform this mouse into a confident woman?much like herself. Elyse will even prep Viola for dating and she knows an Aussie barista who's been shooting smoldering stares their way. Despite what Aiden says, matchmaking is not meddling, especially when Elyse's judge of character is always on point.And while she's at it, she might as well find a match for herself. Someone spontaneous and exciting- the polar opposite of Aiden. Autumn is the season for matchmaking in Indigo Bay. With Elyse playing cupid, what could possibly go wrong? Once Upon a Photo Booth is an opposites attract romantic comedy that is as spicy and comforting as a generous helping of good old-fashioned Southern BBQ. Perfect for fans of Clueless.

Download or read book Trowbridge Road written by Marcella Pixley and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a stunning novel set in the 1980s, a girl with heavy secrets awakens her sleepy street to the complexities of love and courage. It’s the summer of ’83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father’s death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending an imaginative boy who is living with his Nana Jean after experiencing troubles of his own. But as June Bug’s connection to the world grows stronger, her mother’s grows more distant — even dangerous — pushing June Bug to choose between truth and healing and the only home she has ever known. Trowbridge Road paints an unwavering portrait of a girl and her family touched by mental illness and grief. Set in the Boston suburbs during the first years of the AIDS epidemic, the novel explores how a seemingly perfect neighborhood can contain restless ghosts and unspoken secrets. Written with deep insight and subtle lyricism by acclaimed author Marcella Pixley, Trowbridge Road demonstrates our power to rescue one another even when our hearts are broken.

Download or read book The Man Who Founded the ANC written by Bongani Ngqulunga and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1912, just over a year after returning from his studies at Columbia and Oxford, the thirty-year-old Pixley ka Isaka Seme succeeded where others had failed in forming a political organisation that represented all black South Africans. Seme also established a national newspaper, became one of the pioneering black lawyers in South Africa, bought land from white farmers for black settlement at the time when opposition to it was gaining momentum, became an adviser and confidant to African royalty, and was considered a leading visionary for black economic empowerment. And yet, when he became president general of the ANC in the 1930s, he brought it to its knees through sheer ineptitude and an authoritarian style of leadership. On more than one occasion he was found guilty for breaching the law, which partly led to him being struck off the roll of attorneys. This book discusses in detail Seme’s extraordinary life, tracing it back to his humble beginnings at Inanda Mission to his triumphs and disappointments across the continents, in his public and private life. When Seme died in 1951 he was bankrupt and his political standing had suffered greatly. And yet he was praised as one of the greatest South Africans ever to have lived. For all this, he has largely been forgotten. This biography brings the remarkable life of this extraordinary South Africa back to public consciousness.

Download or read book Without Tess written by Marcella Pixley and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tess and Lizzie are sisters, sisters as close as can be, who share a secret world filled with selkies, flying horses, and a girl who can transform into a wolf in the middle of the night. But when Lizzie is ready to grow up, Tess clings to their fantasies. As Tess sinks deeper and deeper into her delusions, she decides that she can't live in the real world any longer and leaves Lizzie and her family forever. Now, years later, Lizzie is in high school and struggling to understand what happened to her sister. With the help of a school psychologist and Tess's battered journal, Lizzie searches for a way to finally let Tess go.

Download or read book The Horse and the Plains Indians written by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells of the transformative period in the early 16th century when the Spaniards introduced horses to the Great Plains, and how horses became, and remain, a key part of the Plains Indians' culture.

Download or read book Too Much and Not the Mood written by Durga Chew-Bose and published by FSG Originals. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entirely original portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to find her own voice

Download or read book Halo Escalation 19 written by Duffy Boudreau and published by Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues). This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unexpected ally joins a team of Spartans for a dangerous operationa secret mission into a hidden Forerunner world where the mysterious site known as the Absolute Record awaits! The thrilling sequel to _Halo_ _4_'s Spartan Ops continues from Duffy Boudreau (_BlackAcre_) and Ian Richardson (_Noble Causes_). * An essential addition to the _Halo_ canon! * The _Halo_ franchise has sales eclipsing $4 billion over its lifetime! * The start of a new arc and a great jumping-on point for new readers!

Download or read book The World According to Color written by James Fox and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans' unique and vibrant relationship with color. We have an extraordinary connection to color—we give it meanings, associations, and properties that last millennia and span cultures, continents, and languages. In The World According to Color, James Fox takes seven elemental colors—black, red, yellow, blue, white, purple, and green—and uncovers behind each a root idea, based on visual resemblances and common symbolism throughout history. Through a series of stories and vignettes, the book then traces these meanings to show how they morphed and multiplied and, ultimately, how they reveal a great deal about the societies that produced them: reflecting and shaping their hopes, fears, prejudices, and preoccupations. Fox also examines the science of how our eyes and brains interpret light and color, and shows how this is inherently linked with the meanings we give to hue. And using his background as an art historian, he explores many of the milestones in the history of art—from Bronze Age gold-work to Turner, Titian to Yves Klein—in a fresh way. Fox also weaves in literature, philosophy, cinema, archaeology, and art—moving from Monet to Marco Polo, early Japanese ink artists to Shakespeare and Goethe to James Bond. By creating a new history of color, Fox reveals a new story about humans and our place in the universe: second only to language, color is the greatest carrier of cultural meaning in our world.

Download or read book Symphony in the Snow written by Teresa Yea and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Blood Sweat and Pixels written by Jason Schreier and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The stories in this book make for a fascinating and remarkably complete pantheon of just about every common despair and every joy related to game development.” — Rami Ismail, cofounder of Vlambeer and developer of Nuclear Throne Developing video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason Schreier takes readers on a fascinating odyssey behind the scenes of video game development, where the creator may be a team of 600 overworked underdogs or a solitary geek genius. Exploring the artistic challenges, technical impossibilities, marketplace demands, and Donkey Kong-sized monkey wrenches thrown into the works by corporate, Blood, Sweat, and Pixels reveals how bringing any game to completion is more than Sisyphean—it's nothing short of miraculous. Taking some of the most popular, bestselling recent games, Schreier immerses readers in the hellfire of the development process, whether it's RPG studio Bioware's challenge to beat an impossible schedule and overcome countless technical nightmares to build Dragon Age: Inquisition; indie developer Eric Barone's single-handed efforts to grow country-life RPG Stardew Valley from one man's vision into a multi-million-dollar franchise; or Bungie spinning out from their corporate overlords at Microsoft to create Destiny, a brand new universe that they hoped would become as iconic as Star Wars and Lord of the Rings—even as it nearly ripped their studio apart. Documenting the round-the-clock crunches, buggy-eyed burnout, and last-minute saves, Blood, Sweat, and Pixels is a journey through development hell—and ultimately a tribute to the dedicated diehards and unsung heroes who scale mountains of obstacles in their quests to create the best games imaginable.

Download or read book Halo Escalation Volume 1 written by Christopher Schlerf and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the events of Halo 4, the UNSC Infinity is deployed to security detail for a peace summit between the Elites and Brutes. When the negotiations are ambushed by a mercenary fleet, Infinity is drawn into a plot which leads them to the discovery of a long-lost UNSC asset trapped behind enemy lines. This graphic novel collects the comics Halo: Escalation 1 through 6. Don't miss the thrilling new adventures set in the Halo universe!

Download or read book Pale Blue Dot written by Carl Sagan and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fascinating . . . memorable . . . revealing . . . perhaps the best of Carl Sagan’s books.”—The Washington Post Book World (front page review) In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time. Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier—space. In Pale Blue Dot, Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. The exploration and eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race. “Takes readers far beyond Cosmos . . . Sagan sees humanity’s future in the stars.”—Chicago Tribune

Download or read book Regency Influencer written by Teresa Yea and published by Time Travelers. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Francis of the Filth written by George Miller and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tiers are shifting. The omniverses are under attack. And only one man has the chromosomes to make things right. Or does he? Filthy Frank begins life as the harmless creator of extinction level radioactive weapons, but is taken far into the deepest recesses of the omniverses to learn how everything came to be and how everything will be. If it were only that simple. He and his group of deviant disciples are chased from realm to realm by murderous chimpillas and treacherous peace lords, as he seeks to understand the dark secrets of the omniverses. An encounter with the Ultimate God might be his only chance, but Frank must first survive not only those who fight for evil but his own struggle for good as well. If only his chromosomes would stop multiplying...

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Download or read book PNG written by Greg Roelofs and published by O'Reilly Media. This book was released on 1999 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a senior researcher who helped design the PNG image format comes a guide that focuses on implementing PNG with the libpng C library and discusses improvements, such as gamma correction and the standard color spaces for precise reproduction of image colors on a wide range of systems.