Download or read book The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

Download or read book See If I Care Mr Acker written by Isabelle Del Rosario and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous, rich. and glamorous. That’s Stefan Acker and Harley Kensington. More like the future Mr. and Mrs. Acker who are ready to race to the altar soon. Before the lives of Harley, an A-list actress, and Stefan, a leading athlete, became enviable and fancy, they were lovers-turned-exes. They were young and free high school students then. They meet again after a few years, but later on, bring a feud in the eyes of the showbiz industry. Surprisingly, the chaotic encounter caused them to flee from their own present relationships and decide to start over. It was never imagined, at all, that reconciliation was possible and love can be sweeter the second time around for both of them. It seems that the couple has everything they ever wanted at their fingertips. Who wouldn’t want life in the fast lane where everything is within reach? How about love? There’s temptation, probable grudges, and many fears, even, from the past that might just come with the life they chose. Keeping up with everything going on in their life, Harley and Stefan do their utmost to make the most out of their second chance behind the cameras and the papers. Will life really treat Harley and Stefan well? When a love story seems to be controversial and everything they’ve worked for with that ever so undying promise of love to fight all odds will come crashing down once more, is there still a guarantee that love can really be sweeter the another time around?

Download or read book A Second Bite at the Apple written by Dana Bate and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bate's writing is smart and compelling." --Publishers Weekly From the acclaimed author of The Girls' Guide to Love and Supper Clubs comes a witty, honest novel, perfectly seasoned with both humor and heart, about daring to bite into the life you really want. . . Sydney Strauss is obsessed with food. Not with eating it—though she does that too—but with writing about the wonders of the gastronomic world, from obscure fruit hybrids to organic farming techniques. Since food journalism jobs are more coveted than Cronuts®, Sydney pays her bills working for one of TV's biggest egomaniacs—until she's left scrambling for shifts at a local farmers' market. Stacking muffins for the Wild Yeast Bakery isn't going to win her any James Beard awards. But soon Sydney is writing the market's weekly newsletter, and her quirky stories gain attention from a prominent food columnist. After years of putting her love life into deep freeze, she's even dating again. And then Sydney gets a shot at the story, one that could either make her career or burn it to a crisp—along with her relationship and her reputation. . . "A breezy, idiomatic voice." – Publishers Weekly "Full of humor and lots of genuine heart." – RT Book Reviews "In smart and crisp prose, Bate tells a winning story about food, love and second chances, with recipes appended. Great fun." - Booklist Praise for The Girls' Guide to Love and Supper Clubs "Bate deftly conjures up a witty, resilient heroine, surrounds her with delightful friends and frenemies, and sends them all on a rollicking quest for love and delicious food." --Kirkus "Engaging. . .Even Bate's implausible happy ending feels right." --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "The food—oh my goodness—the food! From the Dupont Circle farmers' market to the Maine Avenue Fish Market, Hannah leads readers on a culinary tour of D.C.'s locavore scene. Do not read this book hungry." --Washington Post

Download or read book Starlet s Web written by Carla J. Hanna and published by Carla Hanna. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ~ STARLET'S WEB Gold Medal Winner: 2014 Readers' Favorite International Book Award Contest: Christian Romance ~ ~ STARLET'S WEB Gold Medal Winner: 2013 AUTHORdb Book Cover Contest! ~ ~ STARLET'S WEB WINNER: January 21, 2013 IBD AWARD! ~ Love. Lies. Acting. A novel about celebrity influence & teens in Hollywood. What makes a star shine? Humility empowers the spirit. Sometimes. Discover the Starlet Series for new adult & college readers and uncover the life of a talented actress caught in Hollywood's web of lies. I'm actress Liana Marie Michael. I won an Oscar at 17 but whatever. Celebrity is what it is: marketing a product. I'm part of a tight-knit group. I keep to myself and don't complain about my life. I've been happy until lately. Evan dumping me leveled me. Matthew shocked me. I knew he couldn't hurt me with my bodyguard so near, but his eyes...so I have trust issues. Dating super-hot Byron didn't help clear the confusion either. I'm torn between going to church on Sunday and making a living from pop culture. But experience builds perspective. My days of shutting up needed to end. First, I told Manuel. Then I told my mom. It turned out awesome until I learned the truth. Now I'm screwed. Totally. Let's face it: Hollywood's web entangles everyone. "YA fans will absolutely want to check out this series, where they'll find a new heroine to root for in the flawed but sympathetic Liana." - BlueInk Review ---Genres: YA contemporary romance, teen love and romance, young adult, coming of age fiction, new adult Christian romance, cultural fiction. Contains sex and mild swearing.

Download or read book The Hayley Mysteries The Haunted Studio written by Hayley LeBlanc and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in an exciting new middle grade mystery series from actress, artist, and social star Hayley LeBlanc! In Hayley Mysteries: The Haunted Studio, when Hayley is cast as the lead in a Nancy Drew like kids TV show, strange things start happening around the studio and she becomes a real-life sleuth. Hayley needs YOU to help her solve a terrifying ghost mystery in this fun-filled, action-packed story. Plus, get a behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to be an actress IRL! When Hayley gets the lead role in a new TV show called Sadie Solves It, she's so excited...even if there are rumors of hauntings surrounding the Silver Screen Studios. It's LA, she thinks—there are ghost stories everywhere! But to her surprise, strange things actually start happening as production ramps up. Lights flicker, cold blasts of air come out of nowhere, and one day the electricity is cut to the studio entirely with no clear cause. Can Hayley and her two best friends solve the mystery of the haunted studio...before it means curtains for their show? The perfect choice for anyone looking for mystery books for kids 9-12!

Download or read book Broken by It written by Chelsea Camaron and published by Carolina Dreams Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2024-09-28 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two broken people, one forbidden romance, this is a passion-fueled ride … are you ready? Karma Family over everything. My club. My son. I have no time for anything else. I am Dillon “Karma” Jacoby. I’m jaded, hard, and determined to give my every emotion to my son. Maritza Family is everything. Even if I feel smothered by my father, Ruben “Ruby” Castillo, I wouldn’t change a thing. I spend my days helping in the office with my mother and my nights longing for a biker who will never be mine. I am Maritza Castillo. I live a life devoted to a club I will never be part of. When he has no one else to trust with his son, I step up. Except he refuses to see how good we could be together. I’m ready for the ride, if only he would trust me.

Download or read book Look at Me written by Jennifer Egan and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • In this ambitiously multilayered novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, a fashion model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown with her face so badly shattered that it takes eighty titanium screws to reassemble it. She returns to New York still beautiful but oddly unrecognizable, a virtual stranger in the world she once effortlessly occupied. With the surreal authority of a David Lynch, Jennifer Egan threads Charlotte’s narrative with those of other casualties of our infatuation with the image. There’s a deceptively plain teenaged girl embarking on a dangerous secret life, an alcoholic private eye, and an enigmatic stranger who changes names and accents as he prepares an apocalyptic blow against American society. As these narratives inexorably converge, Look at Me becomes a coolly mesmerizing intellectual thriller of identity and imposture.

Download or read book The Leidel written by Octávio Dostroevitch and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is about a journey into the unknown where, from the dark, a new start comes rushing out and shows all the views no one dares to look for. Be in touch with nature and reveal much more than meets the eye.

Download or read book Tough As Fine Silk Escape from Beijing written by Uta Christensen and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tough as Fine Silk is a fast-paced, intricate and subtly alluring tale of love, betrayal and a journey through China’s colorful, fascinating and monumental history. Michael Sorensen, a young Californian, has a serendipitous as well as frightening encounter on China’s Great Wall. A beautiful young Chinese woman, Li Juan, trips on a steep stairway above him and falls literally into his arms. If he hadn’t caught her, Juan could have been killed. Michael works in Beijing as an electronics engineer. Juan is the star attraction at Beijing’s elegant Blue Moon night club. The club owners’ most precious asset is Juan – gorgeous, sociable, self-educated and independent. Juan decides to leave the Blue Moon for a day job to spend more time with Michael. Shortly thereafter, with seeming intent, a hit-and-run accident totals Michael’s car. He is shaken, but unharmed. Hearing about the accident, Juan is terrified. After some contemplation, she believes that her former bosses may mean Michael harm and her as well. The couple flees Beijing. Leaving everything behind, they embark on a long train journey to Guangzhou that takes them through China’s ancient and recent past. With greater distance from Beijing, the couple feels safer and falls passionately in love. Ultimately it is Juan, embodying her unfathomable country, who causes events to take unexpected and traumatic turns.

Download or read book Memoirs of a Geisha written by Arthur Golden and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1999-11-09 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. We witness her transformation as she learns the rigorous arts of the geisha: dance and music; wearing kimono, elaborate makeup, and hair; pouring sake to reveal just a touch of inner wrist; competing with a jealous rival for men's solicitude and the money that goes with it. In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction—at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful—and completely unforgettable.

Download or read book Fibromyalgia written by Barbara Robbins and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written by Fibromyalgia patients from around the world. The chapters range from an individual's journey with fibromyalgia, to interviews, a visual chapter of our illness, special chapters and graphs showing fibro symptoms. The purpose of this book is to inform the newly diagnosed, patients, family, friends and yes, doctors, to recognize and learn the symptoms and helpful solutions of how to deal with this illness. Once the population is more educated, we all pray a cure will be found. One symptom alone runs through us all, PAIN. It is time for everyone to recognize Fibromyalgia as a valid illness. Like the canaries in the coal mines, we are the tip of the iceberg. Due to environmental toxins, GMO foods, chemicals added to vitamins and medicines, trauma/stress in daily life, ALL these elements woven together WILL eventually affect each of us. Our sensitivities, allergies, exhaustion and pain will continue to spread. Let's not allow this illness to control future generations. The time to stop the suffering is now.

Download or read book Four and a Half Shades of Fantasy written by W.J. May and published by W.J. May. This book was released on with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA Today bestselling author W.J. May, comes a boxset of first books in her international bestselling series! RAE OF HOPE – THE CHRONICLES OF KERRIGAN How hard do you have to shake the family tree to find the truth about the past? Fifteen year-old Rae Kerrigan never really knew her family's history. Her mother and father died when she was young and it is only when she accepts a scholarship to the prestigious Guilder Boarding School in England that a mysterious family secret is revealed. Will the sins of the father be the sins of the daughter? As Rae struggles with new friends, a new school and a star-struck forbidden love, she must also face the ultimate challenge: receive a tattoo on her sixteenth birthday with specific powers that may bind her to an unspeakable darkness. It's up to Rae to undo the dark evil in her family's past and have a ray of hope for her future. SEVENTH MARK Part 1&2 – THE HIDDEN SECRETS SAGA Like most teenagers, Rouge is trying to figure out who she is and what she wants to be. Everything changes when she befriends a strangely intoxicating family. Siblings Grace and Michael, appear to have secrets which seem connected to Rouge. Her hunch is confirmed when a horrible incident occurs at an outdoor party. Rouge may be the only one who can find the answer. An ancient journal, a Sioghra necklace and a special mark force life-altering decisions for a girl who grew up unprepared to fight for her life or others. Eternal - the Queen's Alpha Series When the king is murdered, his only daughter, Katerina, must flee for her life. She finds herself on a strange and dangerous path. Alone for the first time she's forced to rely on her wits and the kindness of strangers, while protecting her secret at the same time. Because she alone knows the truth. It was her brother who killed the king. And he's coming for her next. With her brother's hired assassins closing in at every turn, Katerina must unlock a secret that's hidden deep inside her. It's the only thing strong enough to keep the darkness at bay. Can she find the answers she needs? Will she ever take her rightful place on the throne? Only one thing is certain…she's running out of time. RADIUM HALOS – THE SENSELESS CHRONICLES Everyone needs to be a hero at one point in their life. The small town of Elliot Lake will never be the same again. Caught in a sudden thunderstorm, Zoe, a high school senior from Elliot Lake, and five of her friends take shelter in an abandoned uranium mine. Over the next few days, Zoe's hearing sharpens drastically, beyond what any normal human being can detect. All four develop similar traits. Their senses develop into stronger, supernatural powers. Fashioning themselves into superheroes, the group tries to stop the strange occurrences happening in their little town. Muggings, break-ins, disappearances, and murder begin to hit too close to home. It leads the team to think someone knows about their secret – someone who wants them all dead. An incredulous group of heroes. A traitor in their midst. Some dreams are written in blood. COURAGE RUNS RED – The BLOOD RED SERIES What if courage was your only option? When a raging blood feud between vampire & shifter spills into her home, Kallie is caught in the middle. Torn between love and family loyalty she must find the courage to fight, even if it means risking her own life in the process.

Download or read book Trans written by Juliet Jacques and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Powerful and engaging.” —New York Times “Brutally honest and funny.” —Marie Claire “A lyrical exploration of [Jacques’s] gender journey.” —Guardian “A marvelously nuanced” transgender memoir, “brilliantly contextualized in the disparate worlds of pop culture, football, mass media, and the NHS” (Kate Bornstein, author of A Queer and Pleasant Danger). In July 2012, aged 30, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery—a process she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a serialized national newspaper column. Trans tells of her life to the present moment: a story of growing up, of defining yourself, and of the rapidly changing world of gender politics. Fresh from university, eager to escape a dead-end job, she launches a career as a writer in a publishing culture dominated by London cliques and still figuring out the impact of the Internet. She navigates the treacherous waters of a world where, even in the liberal and feminist media, transgender identities go unacknowledged, misunderstood or worse. Yet through art, film, music, politics and football, Jacques starts to become the person she had only imagined, and begins the process of transition. Interweaving the personal with the political, her memoir is a powerful exploration of debates that comprise trans politics, issues which promise to redefine our understanding of what it means to be alive. Revealing, honest, humorous, and self-deprecating, Trans includes an epilogue with Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?, in which Jacques and Heti discuss the cruxes of writing and identity.

Download or read book The Celluloid Courtroom written by Ross D. Levi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-03-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The genre of legal cinema is an extensive and revealing one: it is a body of films that depicts lawyers, clients, criminals, judges, and juries, often not as they actually are, but as we would like them to be. The idealized courtroom of many legal movies tells us a great deal about what we think of our justice system and what we want it to reflect about America, but the films in the genre vary widely in how they do this. From To Kill a Mockingbird to Liar, Liar, from A Time to Kill to Twelve Angry Men, we see certain stereotypes repeating themselves again and again: the judge as stern referee, the jury as an ultimately fair body of decisionmakers, the lawyer as hardworking and passionate fighter for the underdog. In this new and comprehensive study of this understudied category of film, author Ross D. Levi argues that, contrary to popular belief, legal movies show us a system that is far more fair than our actual one, with corruption downplayed and greed made subordinate to compassion and compromise. With a comprehensive filmography, penetrating analysis—both cinematic and legal—and engaging discussion of a wide array of movies, The Celluloid Courtroom is an indispensable guide to a key aspect of American movies and American justice. The genre of legal cinema is an extensive and revealing one: it is a body of films that depicts lawyers, clients, criminals, judges, and juries, often not as they actually are, but as we would like them to be. The idealized courtroom of many legal movies tells us a great deal about what we think of our justice system and what we want it to reflect about America, but the films in the genre vary widely in how they do this. From To Kill a Mockingbird to Liar, Liar, from A Time to Kill to Twelve Angry Men, we see certain stereotypes repeating themselves again and again: the judge as stern referee, the jury as an ultimately fair body of decisionmakers, the lawyer as hardworking and passionate fighter for the underdog. In this new and comprehensive study of this understudied category of film, author Ross D. Levi argues that, contrary to popular belief, legal movies show us a system that is far more fair than our actual one, with corruption downplayed and greed made subordinate to compassion and compromise. These are films that have affected as much as reflected the American justice system, as we enter the courts hoping, often against hope, that they will be something like what we've seen in the movies. With a comprehensive filmography, penetrating analysis—both legal and cinematic—and engaging and enlightening discussion, The Celluloid Courtroom is an indispensable guide to a key aspect of American movies and American justice.

Download or read book Chasing the Wind written by DL Williams and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-16 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah can’t remember the day of the week anymore. With a drugged-up ex-boyfriend, a newborn daughter, and a hectic work schedule, it makes sense. Persuaded by one of her coworkers, she goes out to a bar for the first time in months. And there, just maybe, she’ll meet someone to take her mind off her ex. A few miles away from Hannah lives Josh Howard, a car mechanic with dying dreams of owning his own business and making it big. One night, he goes out to a bar—something he does most weekends—and meets a young mother and his TGI Fridays waitress from a few hours ago. They hit it off, and suddenly life isn’t so difficult anymore. Over a thousand miles away, in Los Angeles, lives Emma. Since she was twelve, she’d had dreams of being a star. As luck would have it, an agent notices her. But as time passes, Emma discovers even her little twelve-year-old dream was only that: just a dream. Chasing the Wind follows three characters as they attempt to find happiness in the drama, tragedy, and philosophical moments of their lives. About the Author When not chained down by the banalities of work, DL Williams spends his time with family, reading books on science, and tinkering with his doomsday device.

Download or read book Alpha s human mate written by Roelien and published by Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd. This book was released on with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emelia Clark has been under her parent's rule for her whole life until she went to university then it all changed. She met Keegan David. She thought she found the one until one dark night her whole life change. Trying to pick up the pieces of her life she met Derric Taylor Alpha of the Dark moon pack. She realized that werewolves, vampires, and fairies are no fairy tale. Will she be able to be the Luna she was meant to be?

Download or read book Never Forget written by Melanie A. Smith and published by Wicked Dreams Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She must find the strength to keep going as her world falls apart around her... Just when Serafina Evans seems to have figured out how to make the relationships in her life work, the loose ends she knew might come back to haunt her threaten to unravel it all. But if she's learned anything from her hardships, it's how to let the people who care about her in, to trust them, and lean on them to ride out the storm. Until fate deals a hand that changes everything. Sera is smart and resourceful, but that won't help her now. And she thought she was done safeguarding her heart, but is she? Is she doomed to return to protecting herself from harm or will she find a way to persevere without closing herself off forever?