Download or read book Sketchy Behavior written by Erynn Mangum and published by Zonderkidz. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Carter is an ordinary eighteen-year-old. Other than a somewhat obsessive fondness for iced tea and complete swearing-off of boys ever since a blind date when she was fifteen (don’t ask), she’s about as normal as they come. At least until she steps into art class. There, she’s surrounded by pencils, paper, paint and her stoic table partner, Silent Nathan. Which is fine with her—no guys, remember? When her new art teacher starts a series on how to use art in the everyday world, Kate starts getting excited. And it’s not about the electrical engineer career her dad has envisioned for her. When the “real-life” sketching leads to Kate accidentally sketching a man wanted for first-degree murder, and when her sketch shows up on the news, Kate becomes an instant celebrity. But just as she’s learning to enjoy her fame, the man she helped catch escapes from jail. Suddenly, Kate’s life is far from normal.

Download or read book Game Slaves written by Gard Skinner and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly intelligent group of video game enemy non-player characters (NPC) begins to doubt they are merely codes in a machine. Their search for answers leads them to a gruesome discovery.

Download or read book The Intrigues of Haruhi Suzumiya light novel written by Nagaru Tanigawa and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After closing a time loop fiasco in The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (Vol. 5), our protagonist Kyon is ready to start a new year with a blank slate--no time travel, no apocalyptic worries, and maybe some actual peace and quiet with the SOS Brigade, a club comprised of his high school's most extraordinary students. Their leader is Haruhi, a bold, brash girl who doesn't realize that she's actually a powerful goddess whose moods can easily change the balance of the universe. Just as Kyon starts to get comfortable, he gets a visit from his friend Mikuru. Except this isn't his Mikuru; it's a Mikuru from eight days in the future! Time traveling shenanigans start all over again as Kyon, guided by the future Mikuru, attempts to stop a terrible future from becoming a reality.

Download or read book Direct Selling Success written by Randy Gage and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eagerly awaited sequel to the worldwide bestseller How to Build a Multi-Level Money Machine from Direct Selling icon and Hall of Famer Randy Gage Randy Gage revolutionized the Direct Selling profession with the bestselling phenomenon How to Build a Multi-Level Money Machine, translated into more than 20 languages. Now he’s at it again with the long-waited sequel: Direct Selling Success. This all-new book is the ultimate textbook on creating success in the business. You’ll learn everything from choosing the right company, finding the best candidates, becoming a rock star recruiter—to advanced skills like making powerful presentations, becoming a leader, and creating a leadership factory on your team. Since Randy’s previous book took the profession by storm, there have been significant changes to the business that demand a fully up-to-date sequel: Regulatory oversight of the industry has increased dramatically, it’s now much trickier to make simple product or income claims, and distributors are hungry for the right information on how to get it done. The business model has gained widespread public acceptance—it’s now common for industry companies to secure naming rights for sports arenas and sponsor major league teams. Even Warren Buffet and Forbes Magazine promote the business. More and more people are taking on side hustles and are considering or already in the business.Maybe the biggest change is the impact of e-commerce, social media, and mobile apps on the business today. Randy’s up-to-the-minute book explains how you can become successful in this new environment. The need for expert, proven guidance on the Direct Selling and Network Marketing profession has never been greater than right now. Direct Selling Success will help you: Choose the best company for you Locate the best candidates Become a Rock Star recruiter Design your system to create maximum duplication Employ the latest e-commerce and social media marketing techniques to grow your business Conduct powerful persuasive presentations Become a positive, dynamic leader for your team The Direct Selling industry continues to experience robust growth. The opportunity to generate passive income and create complete financial freedom is immense under current conditions. Direct Selling Success is a must-have resource for anyone who wants to build a team of customers and distributors that will generate residual income for years to come.

Download or read book The Incredible Ryleigh Barlowe written by Rebecca Luffman and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ryleigh Barlowe is a college Senior, ready to embark upon her last year of school before adulthood arrives. Despite her many preparations and efforts, the looming unknown after graduation settles in quickly and she becomes anxious about the future. That is until her world is turned around by a boy when she least expects it. Sorren Trevino - Northview Universities star basketball player finds himself suddenly smitten with Ryleigh. Sorren takes matters into his own hands to help Ryleigh find her true passion for her future career and life, all while dealing with his own questions and trials. Join Ryleigh as she navigates this new and intimidating season of life, all while learning and discovering more about herself than she ever has before.

Download or read book Some Kind of Girl written by Caroline Kautsire and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some Kind of Girl recounts the story of Caroline, a Malawian girl, who, after facing the impossibility of following both African and Western roles and standards for women in her adolescent years, finally moves to America to escape the Malawian traditions she still struggles inwardly to understand. Upon arriving in America, Caroline discovers that the America she saw on television was not an accurate representation of the life she lives in Boston. Caroline’s process of self-discovery awakens her to different kinds of insecurities about gender, race, class, language and sexuality. As Caroline grapples with the tension between maintaining her well-cultured Malawian persona and fitting into an American society, she discovers her desire to become a film actress shifting to a professional life she never saw coming: teaching and writing. Meanwhile, Caroline must face the complexities of the American immigration system as she struggles to maintain legal status as a working student. With the guidance of mentors and, sometimes, with misdirection from wild friends, Caroline takes risks to earn money and respect in America in order to be the kind of girl who successfully seizes the American dream, abandoning her home country, Malawi.

Download or read book Structure of Matter written by Attilio Rigamonti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook, now in its third edition, provides a formative introduction to the structure of matter that will serve as a sound basis for students proceeding to more complex courses, thus bridging the gap between elementary physics and topics pertaining to research activities. The focus is deliberately limited to key concepts of atoms, molecules and solids, examining the basic structural aspects without paying detailed attention to the related properties. For many topics the aim has been to start from the beginning and to guide the reader to the threshold of advanced research. This edition includes four new chapters dealing with relevant phases of solid matter (magnetic, electric and superconductive) and the related phase transitions. The book is based on a mixture of theory and solved problems that are integrated into the formal presentation of the arguments. Readers will find it invaluable in enabling them to acquire basic knowledge in the wide and wonderful field of condensed matter and to understand how phenomenological properties originate from the microscopic, quantum features of nature.

Download or read book Moving the Meat written by Kenneth Labich and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04-11 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Dolan earned millions as a major-league baseball pitcher until his arm gave out. He succeeded again in his second career as a freelance detective, guiding clients through tight spots with a combination of luck, guile, and stubborn resolve. Then he got careless during a case and a woman he cared about died, savagely beaten and left to bleed out on the side of a California highway. A year later, Dolan, still grieving, finds himself once more immersed in a world populated by dangerous people. He’s been hired by Hank Callahan, a Chicago tycoon who built a profitable international airline despite a weakness for Kentucky bourbon and long nights in dark saloons. Callahan wants to retire and hand the airline over to his employees. But powerful industry rivals have other ideas, and they are willing to play very dirty to get their way. Dolan takes them on, battling the bad guys, defying the long odds against him—and changing the course of his life along the way.

Download or read book Set on You written by Amy Lea and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of... Amazon's Best Romances of 2022 Bustle's Most Anticipated Books of May Goodreads' Most Anticipated May Romances SheReads' Best Romance Books Coming in 2022 A gym nemesis pushes a fitness influencer to the max in Amy Lea’s steamy debut romantic comedy. Curvy fitness influencer Crystal Chen built her career shattering gym stereotypes and mostly ignoring the trolls. After her recent breakup, she has little stamina left for men, instead finding solace in the gym – her place of power and positivity. Enter firefighter Scott Ritchie, the smug new gym patron who routinely steals her favorite squat rack. Sparks fly as these ultra-competitive foes battle for gym domination. But after a series of escalating jabs, the last thing they expect is to run into each other at their grandparents' engagement party. In the lead up to their grandparents' wedding, Crystal discovers there’s a soft heart under Scott’s muscled exterior. Bonding over family, fitness, and cheesy pick-up lines, they just might have found her swolemate. But when a photo of them goes viral, savage internet trolls put their budding relationship to the ultimate test of strength.

Download or read book One Billion Secrets written by Lydia Michaels and published by Lydia Michaels Books. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Sawyer Bishop, I was innocent. He was my mentor and my father’s business partner. He was never meant to be my lover. The first time he touched me I was twenty-three. As I lay quivering on the floor of my father’s study, relieved of my virginity, I recall how satisfying it felt to finally do something wrong, something forbidden, something a little vengeful to help me feel anything beyond the pain of their abandonment. But Sawyer Bishop was as ruthless as the rest of them. I never meant to fall in love with him. He had a power over me. I would have given him anything. Between us lived a billion secrets, a billion stolen glances, and a billion lies. He was my first love, my first enemy, and the first man to truly break my heart. But he could not break me. Book #1 in the Ruthless Billionaires series: One Billion Secrets is a spicy age-gap, forbidden love, billionaire romance from bestselling and award-winning author Lydia Michaels.

Download or read book Reproductive Injustice written by Dána-Ain Davis and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2020 Senior Book Prize, given by the Association of Feminist Anthropology Winner, 2020 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, given by the Society for Medical Anthropology Honorable Mention, 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, given by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology Finalist, 2020 PROSE Award in the Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology category, given by the Association of American Publishers A troubling study of the role that medical racism plays in the lives of Black women who have given birth to premature and low birth weight infants Black women have higher rates of premature birth than other women in America. This cannot be simply explained by economic factors, with poorer women lacking resources or access to care. Even professional, middle-class Black women are at a much higher risk of premature birth than low-income white women in the United States. Dána-Ain Davis looks into this phenomenon, placing racial differences in birth outcomes into a historical context, revealing that ideas about reproduction and race today have been influenced by the legacy of ideas which developed during the era of slavery. While poor and low-income Black women are often the “mascots” of premature birth outcomes, this book focuses on professional Black women, who are just as likely to give birth prematurely. Drawing on an impressive array of interviews with nearly fifty mothers, fathers, neonatologists, nurses, midwives, and reproductive justice advocates, Dána-Ain Davis argues that events leading up to an infant’s arrival in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and the parents’ experiences while they are in the NICU, reveal subtle but pernicious forms of racism that confound the perceived class dynamics that are frequently understood to be a central factor of premature birth. The book argues not only that medical racism persists and must be considered when examining adverse outcomes—as well as upsetting experiences for parents—but also that NICUs and life-saving technologies should not be the only strategies for improving the outcomes for Black pregnant women and their babies. Davis makes the case for other avenues, such as community-based birthing projects, doulas, and midwives, that support women during pregnancy and labor are just as important and effective in avoiding premature births and mortality.

Download or read book Machu My Picchu written by Iris Bahr and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy Sedaris meets Woody Allen in an uproarious memoir of self discovery. In her critically acclaimed memoir Dork Whore, Iris Bahr finally lost her virginity in the summer between high school and Brown University. In this book, she’s ready for love a year later—but not much wiser. Through all of her uproarious capers, she tries to reconcile her craving for mindblowing sex with her desire for a meaningful relationship—all in an attempt to become an adult. Sort of.

Download or read book The Everything Body Language Book written by Shelly Hagen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifty eyes? Your boss is lying. Wide, open eyes? Your blind date is definitely interested. Crossed arms? Your mother-in-law is feeling defensive. You can read anyone's body language—if you know how and where to look. Master the art of nonverbal communication and you'll unlock the secrets of everyone you meet—yourself included! Learn how to: Identify an aggressive handshake Recognize a genuine smile Display self confidence Tell when your child is fibbing Show your date you're interested When you can interpret body language, you're literally clued in to the world around you—and everyone in it. Whether you're at work, at home, or even on a blind date, The Everything Body Language Book is your ticket to understanding people—one wink, blink, and nod at a time!

Download or read book A Slice of Summer written by Melissa McClone and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First, he ghosted her. Now, he has a proposition… Taryn Lawson needs more customers in her bakery to prove she’s capable of taking over the family business. The summer fair is the perfect opportunity to jump-start her vision with a specialized booth showcasing her creative desserts. Despite her fierce work ethic, she needs help to build her booth in time. Unfortunately, the only person available is the handsome attorney who played with her heart last Christmas. Trial attorney Garrett Andrews regrets not contacting the pretty baker he dated during his last holiday vacation. But he had his reasons and is finally ready to make amends. When he returns to town for his sister’s wedding, Garrett gets his second chance when Taryn needs help building her booth. Working together reignites the spark, but Taryn is aware the clock is ticking. Will they realize what they have is special before it’s too late, or will their second chance at love once again slip through their fingers?

Download or read book Love Inspired Suspense September 2023 Box Set 1 of 2 written by Jessica R. Patch and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. This box set includes: COLD CASE REVENGE (A Pacific Northwest K-9 novel) by Jessica R. Patch When Nick Rossi’s three-year-old daughter disappears, it’s up to Special Agent Ruby Orton and her K-9 to find her. But once they locate the child, it’s an eerie echo of a decades-old case involving Nick’s sister. And someone’s killing to keep the past a secret… MOUNTAIN ABDUCTION RESCUE (A Crisis Rescue Team novel) by Darlene L. Turner When her son is kidnapped by a serial arsonist out for revenge, park warden Hazel Hoyt must team up with firefighter Mitchell Booth to track down her missing child. But with danger closing in on all sides, can they survive long enough to save her son? WYOMING RANCH AMBUSH by Sommer Smith Evie Langford’s move to Wyoming is meant to be a fresh start…until her ex-boyfriend’s death makes her the target of a kingpin. Accused of having money stolen from the crime boss, Evie needs cowboy Beau Thorpe’s protection before she pays for a crime she didn’t commit. For more stories filled with danger and romance, look for Love Inspired Suspense September 2023 Box Set – 2 of 2

Download or read book Teddy s Truth written by KD Ellis and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM POPULAR AUTHOR OF LGBT+ ROMANCE, KD ELLIS Book one in the Out in Austin series Teddy De Luca thought being born into the wrong body was the worst thing that had ever happened to him. Then he met Julian... All Teddy De Luca wants is for his outside to match his inside—so badly that he takes a loan from a Mexican cartel. It's not like he can borrow the money from his alcoholic mother. She got him into this mess in the first place when she poured his savings into bottles of Jack. He figures he'll get his operation, pick up a second job, then pay the debt off quickly and put it all behind him. When the cartel raises the stakes, his plan falls apart and he's left with a mounting debt and no way out. Ian Romero is a second generation Hispanic-American whose only goal is to live the American dream—finish college, find the perfect partner and settle down. His inappropriate crush on his brother's best friend isn't going to stop him. But when his troubled brother becomes another victim of the local cartel, his plans change. He can't save his brother, but he can get his revenge. After years apart, Teddy's and Ian's paths cross again, neither expecting the passion between them to re-ignite even hotter than before. Can Ian forgive Teddy's role in his brother's death to become the Daddy the younger man needs—or is their relationship destined to fail again?

Download or read book The Dead Girls Club written by Damien Angelica Walters and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Refinery29's and POPSUGAR's Favorite New Books A scary story becomes far too real in this “unsettling” supernatural thriller in the vein of A Head Full of Ghosts that “will keep you guessing to the very last page” (Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger) Red Lady, Red Lady, show us your face... In 1991, Heather Cole and her friends were members of the Dead Girls Club. Obsessed with the macabre, the girls exchanged stories about serial killers and imaginary monsters, like the Red Lady, the spirit of a vengeful witch killed centuries before. Heather knew the stories were just that, until her best friend Becca began insisting the Red Lady was real—and she could prove it. That belief got Becca killed. It’s been nearly thirty years, but Heather has never told anyone what really happened that night—that Becca was right and the Red Lady was real. She’s done her best to put that fateful summer, Becca, and the Red Lady, behind her. Until a familiar necklace arrives in the mail, a necklace Heather hasn’t seen since the night Becca died. The night Heather killed her. Now, someone else knows what she did . . . and they’re determined to make Heather pay.