Download or read book Semi Famous written by Josh Sundquist and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "laugh-out-loud funny” book (Hank Green, New York Times bestselling author), social media star and comedian Josh Sundquist takes readers on his hilarious journey to the fringes of viral stardom to discover if it’s possible to be both very famous and very happy As a semi-famous internet creator, Josh Sundquist knows what it's like to chase fame, but he also knows that more fame usually means more stress. So he set out on a pseudo-scientific investigation to find out if there is any way for fame and happiness to overlap. He attempts to define the word “fame”—hint: it's harder than you'd think. He turns back time to identify the first facially-recognizable celebrity (you might know his former BFF Brutus). He digs into the numbers to debunk urban legends associated with stardom (ever heard of the 27 Club?). He talks to other semi-famous people (from K-pop sensations to former child stars) and asks them: Is this fame thing making you happy? If not, why are you doing it? If so, what's your secret? All while recounting funny stories about his own cringy fame-seeking (like his many attempts, and failures, to get onto MTV). Packed with playful diagrams, fascinating insights from celebrities, and embarrassing truths from Josh’s experience with semi-fame, this is a must-read for anyone who has ever dreamed of becoming famous…or at least going viral on TikTok.

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Download or read book Semi Famous written by Josh Sundquist and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "laugh-out-loud funny” book (Hank Green, New York Times bestselling author), social media star and comedian Josh Sundquist takes readers on his hilarious journey to the fringes of viral stardom to discover if it’s possible to be both very famous and very happy As a semi-famous internet creator, Josh Sundquist knows what it's like to chase fame, but he also knows that more fame usually means more stress. So he set out on a pseudo-scientific investigation to find out if there is any way for fame and happiness to overlap. He attempts to define the word “fame”—hint: it's harder than you'd think. He turns back time to identify the first facially-recognizable celebrity (you might know his former BFF Brutus). He digs into the numbers to debunk urban legends associated with stardom (ever heard of the 27 Club?). He talks to other semi-famous people (from K-pop sensations to former child stars) and asks them: Is this fame thing making you happy? If not, why are you doing it? If so, what's your secret? All while recounting funny stories about his own cringy fame-seeking (like his many attempts, and failures, to get onto MTV). Packed with playful diagrams, fascinating insights from celebrities, and embarrassing truths from Josh’s experience with semi-fame, this is a must-read for anyone who has ever dreamed of becoming famous…or at least going viral on TikTok.

Download or read book Famous People Eat Too written by Josiah Howard and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When not writing, journalist Josiah Howard (Donna Summer: Her Life & Music, Blaxploitation Cinema: the Essential Reference Guide) was also a waiter at one of New York City's most popular restaurant/bars. For sixteen years Mr. Howard worked at Restaurant Florent, a Meat Packing District institution that was a favorite hangout of actors, actresses, models, directors, singers and other celebrities of dubious distinction (the establishment also served food to mere mortals!) From Madonna and Mariah Carey to Tom Cruise and Keanu Reeves, from Calvin Klein and Barry Diller to the Olsen Twins and Jerry Seinfeld, Famous People Eat Too! A New York City Food Server's Encounters with the Rich, Famous, Semi-Famous and Infamous offers a rare, behind-the-scenes look at some of the entertainment industry's biggest stars. You can't tell a book by its cover-and you can't tell a celebrity by their cover either. Josiah Howard uncovers them all! Was Diana Ross really the boss? Was Warren Beatty really "on top" of things? And, just who is that woman that looks like Bette Midler's mother? To find out: Put on your white shirt and waiters apron, get a pad and pencil, and make your way over to that table-NOW!

Download or read book Make It Bigger written by Paula Scher and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scher reveals her thoughts on design practice, drawing on her experiences as a leading designer in the USA. The book includes a survey of Scher's work, from her designs as art director at Columbia Records, to her identity for New York's Public Theater.

Download or read book Famous For Nothing written by T/James Reagan and published by T/James Reagan. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T/ James Reagan's Famous For Nothing, is a post-Empire novel that explores the lives of five socialites as they search for meaning in a landscape populated with harsh critics and soft jail sentences. Famous For Nothing satirizes celebrity blogs, while humanizing the socialites these blogs ridicule. Told with a mix of straightforward literary narrative and hilarious blog posts, a complete vision of the current state of entertainment journalism can be found within in the novel. Famous For Nothing is a novel for the blog generation. It makes you feel guilty, and inferior, and superior at the same time. Hopefully, it also makes you laugh. It's about socialites. It's about wanting to be a better person. It's about wanting to be something more. It's about five girls. It's about new wave music. It's about second chances. It's a book that can be read in quick 5 minute increments, then picked back up again when you have another couple minutes. This is a novel for people scared of books. This is a novel for socialites, about socialites. So if the invites don't come in tonight, Famous For Nothing is here for you.

Download or read book The Place We Make written by Sarah L. Sanderson and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful investigation into the incredible true story of a Black man convicted and exiled under the Oregon Exclusion Law in 1851—and a contemporary White woman wrestling with racism and faith after learning she’s a descendant of two men who assisted in the exile. “A beautiful rendering of an ugly history. A worthy read.”—Chanté Griffin, advocate, journalist, and author Moving back to the outskirts of Portland, called the “Whitest city in America,” prompted Sarah’s curiosity about the colonization of the West, her ancestors, and the legal exile of a Black man. She examined four city leaders involved in Jacob Vanderpool’s case—Oregon City’s founder, the case judge, Jacob’s accuser, and a local pastor—and the cultural and theological fallout of their decisions. Along the way, Sarah took a hard look at her tendencies, unconscious and deliberate, to ignore the possibility of prejudice in her heart. Vanderpool’s case proved a fascinating lens on a far bigger story than one trial, illuminating truths to help us all come to honest terms with our past, learn to repent, and contribute to the good of the people and places around us. Journey through this sensitive expedition into the events that remain a thorn under America’s skin and discover afresh the vast potential of the flawed but endlessly redeemable—human heart.

Download or read book Objects of Desire written by Clare Sestanovich and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A debut story collection of the rarest kind ... you wish that every single entry could be an entire novel." —Entertainment Weekly Fresh, intimate stories of women’s lives from an extraordinary new literary voice, laying bare the unexpected beauty and irony in contemporary life A college freshman, traveling home, strikesup an odd, ephemeral friendship with the couple next to her on the plane. A mother prepares for her son’s wedding, her own life unraveling as his comes together. A long-lost stepbrother’s visit to New York prompts a family’s reckoning with its old taboos. A wife considers the secrets her marriage once contained. An office worker, exhausted by the ambitions of the men around her, emerges into a gridlocked city one afternoon to make a decision. In these eleven powerful stories, thrilling desire and melancholic yearning animate women’s lives, from the brink of adulthood to the labyrinthine path between twenty and thirty, to middle age, when certain possibilities quietly elapse. Tender, lucid, and piercingly funny, Objects of Desire is a collection pulsing with subtle drama, rich with unforgettable scenes, and alive with moments of recognition each more startling than the last—a spellbinding debut that announces a major talent.

Download or read book The Millionaire written by Victoria Purman and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned photographer Chris Malone is fed up with fame and disaster. All he wants is anonymity and a chance to recharge. Suburban journalist Ellie Flannery has other ideas. If she can just convince her long-time idol to support her favorite cause, she knows her fund-raiser will be a huge success. After refusing at first, Chris decides to co-operate. When he’s forced to defend his own reputation as well as his family’s, he decides he wants something from the idealistic and sexy-but-doesn’t-know-it Ms Flannery Ellie in return: her heart. But Ellie has scars that no one has ever seen, and she doesn’t want to open herself up to anyone, much less a man with such an unflinching eye for the truth. Can Chris convince her to strip herself bare, in more ways than one?

Download or read book Fast Lane written by Kristen Ashley and published by Rock Chick LLC. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Once he met her, it was and always would be Lyla.” They were the gentlemen bad boys of rock. Forming in a garage in a small town in Indiana. Taking their licks on the road. Going balls to the wall until they made their big break. And then Preacher McCade and the Roadmasters redefined rock and roll. Guided by their tortured lead singer and songwriter, the Roadmasters changed the face of music in the 80s and 90s. And on their journey to becoming one of the most enduring bands in history—dogged by rumors and myth and fueled by drugs and booze—the Roadmasters had one touchstone. Lyla. Preacher’s muse, the love of his life, and the band’s moral compass, from the beginning, Lyla is along for the ride. But with fame and acclaim in their grasp, they’ve entered the fast lane. And they didn’t know it, but they were headed for a crash.

Download or read book face2face Advanced Student s Book with DVD ROM written by Gillie Cunningham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: face2face Second edition is the flexible, easy-to-teach, 6-level course (A1 to C1) for busy teachers who want to get their adult and young adult learners to communicate with confidence. The fully updated and redesigned Advanced Student's Book provides 80-120 hours of material. It comes with a free DVD-ROM that includes consolidation activities and an electronic portfolio for learners to track their progress with customisable tests and grammar and vocabulary reference sections. This Second edition Student's Book includes a bank of extra video lessons (available on the Teacher's DVD) and 9 additional Writing lessons. The vocabulary selection is informed by the English Vocabulary Profile and Cambridge Learner Corpus. (Please note that the face2face Second edition Class Audio CDs are available separately.)

Download or read book F k It written by John Parkin and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: F**k It has taken the world by storm, helping countless people to let go, stop struggling and finally do what they want; to ignore what everyone else is telling them and go their own way. This now classic text has been updated with inspirational new material from John C. Parkin. In this inspiring and humorous book, John suggests that saying F**k It is the perfect Western expression of the Eastern spiritual ideas of letting go, giving up and finding real freedom by realising that things don't matter so much (if at all). It's a spiritual way that doesn't require chanting, meditating, wearing sandals or eating pulses. And it's the very power of this modern-day profanity that makes it perfect for shaking us Westerners out of the stress and anxiety that dominate our meaning-full lives. So, find out how to say F**k It to all your problems and concerns. Say F**k It to all the 'shoulds' in your life and finally do what you want to do, no matter what other people think.

Download or read book An Economist Gets Lunch written by Tyler Cowen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most influential economists of the decade-and the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Stagnation-boldly argues that just about everything you've heard about food is wrong. Food snobbery is killing entrepreneurship and innovation, says economist, preeminent social commentator, and maverick dining guide blogger Tyler Cowen. Americans are becoming angry that our agricultural practices have led to global warming-but while food snobs are right that local food tastes better, they're wrong that it is better for the environment, and they are wrong that cheap food is bad food. The food world needs to know that you don't have to spend more to eat healthy, green, exciting meals. At last, some good news from an economist! Tyler Cowen discusses everything from slow food to fast food, from agriculture to gourmet culture, from modernist cuisine to how to pick the best street vendor. He shows why airplane food is bad but airport food is good; why restaurants full of happy, attractive people serve mediocre meals; and why American food has improved as Americans drink more wine. And most important of all, he shows how to get good, cheap eats just about anywhere. Just as The Great Stagnation was Cowen's response to all the fashionable thinking about the economic crisis, An Economist Gets Lunch is his response to all the fashionable thinking about food. Provocative, incisive, and as enjoyable as a juicy, grass-fed burger, it will influence what you'll choose to eat today and how we're going to feed the world tomorrow.

Download or read book Sit Stay Love written by Amy Hutton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-08-02 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most uplifting rom-com you’ll read this year – a fresh take on the friends-to-lovers trope, brimming with heart, joy and puppies! Sera loves owning a pet shelter – even if it’s often tricky to make ends meet, and her mother thinks she's wasting her life. Thankfully, she can always rely on her steadfast best friend, Toby, who just happens to be the local vet. And then famous actor Ethan James enters the scene. After Sera 'saves' Ethan from a friendly German Shepherd, he confesses to a terrible fear of dogs. A canine co-star is all that stands between Ethan and the role of a lifetime – and he wants Sera to help him overcome his fear. As they bumble through a series of training sessions together, sparks fly and Sera's surprised to find herself falling for Ethan. But not half as surprised as she is when Toby starts acting like a jealous boyfriend. Now Sera's juggling six dogs, a litter of kittens, a horse, a sheep, and two men intent on outdoing each other. But she'll have to figure out what her heart truly wants ... before her life goes completely to the dogs.

Download or read book When in Doubt Add Butter written by Elizabeth M. Harbison and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dedicating herself to her culinary patrons, private chef Gemma Craig goes home every night to boxed cereals until an unexpected event compels a confrontation with the past and an unexpected romance.

Download or read book Portrait of a Past Life Skeptic written by Robert L. Snow and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2015-11-08 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A veteran police detective, Robert Snow was devoted to evidence and hard facts—he had never given any thought to reincarnation. But during a hypnotic regression, he experiences a vivid awareness of being alive in three separate historical scenes. Remaining skeptical, Snow begins to investigate with the intention of disproving reincarnation. Instead, diligent research and corroboration from multiple sources reveal solid evidence that he lived a former life as Carroll Beckwith, a nineteenth-century American artist. Portrait of a Past Life Skeptic tells the fascinating story of Robert Snow's transformation from skeptic to believer.

Download or read book Christmas at the Palace written by Jeevani Charika and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sparkling, festive read full of love, joy and a little Christmas magic. Snuggle up with the perfect Christmas romance that readers have fallen in love with this year, as one ordinary girl learns what it means to love a prince. Not even in her wildest imaginings did Kumari ever think she'd become a princess. But having fallen for Ben - or rather Prince Benedict, sixth in line to the throne - it looks like nothing will ever go as planned again. And as Christmas rapidly approaches the distinction between family festivities and Royalty becomes ever more apparent. With the paparazzi hounding her, her job on the line and some rather frustrating royal training, Kumari feels panic set in. Does loving Prince Charming mean she'll get her fairy tale ending - and on her own terms? PLEASE NOTE: This is the expanded, special Christmas edition of Jeevani Charika's novel, A Royal Wedding. For readers who have already purchased A Royal Wedding, you can read the expanded edition for free; just sync your ereader and the new file will download to your device. Praise for Jeevani Charika: 'She writes heroes and heroines who jump from the pages to carry me along to their happy endings' Sue Moorcroft 'A gentle, cosy romance' Milly Johnson 'Witty in places and utterly emotional at other times, and it deals with some deeper issues too' Rachel's Random Reads 'Beautifully observed heart-warming tale' Reader Review 'Smart and sassy' Reader Review 'A fab page-turner' Reader Review