Download or read book Weirdos with Gratitude Journals written by Rylee Shelton and published by Rylee Shelton. This book was released on 2024-01-26 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Qi, Classical musician and university student from China, and her boyfriend, Larry, find a middle-aged woman in the street, desperate for water and shelter, they do what most nice humans will naturally do: they help. But who is this woman, Devon, and why is she convinced that a large and dangerous organization is out to get her? Whoever she is, she's about to turn Qi's and Larry's world upside down. Qi's and Larry's relationship is on thin ice as it is. He's ready to take her hand in marriage and become a pastor. The only problem? Qi has a strong distaste for religion, and even more so the idea of marriage. What she would rather do is ditch her entire lifestyle, join a thrash-metal band, and rock out! She allows all of her responsibilities to fly out the window as her personality transitions into something that Larry hardly recognizes. But what happens when it begins to appear as if a dangerous organization really is out to get this middle-aged woman they rescued? And even worse, what will Qi do when it appears that people are out to get her, as well? In this screwball comedy that follows No Dice, get to know this twisted and upside world even more with a whole new set of characters, plus familiar ones as well.
Download or read book No Dice written by Rylee Shelton and published by Rylee Shelton. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pile of gambling debt, a stolen scratch-off, and a mob of angry geese. Janie is in quite the predicament. It's her husband’s fault, snd she’s more than done with her marriage. But who is the handsome stranger offering her a shoulder to lean on? Also, who is this Devon lady smoking pot at the park like there’s no tomorrow, trying to convince Janie that she's in danger? Danger or no danger, Janie’s has some hard decisions to make. Will she decide to patch up her marriage, or will she walk away and be free? And if that wasn’t a hard enough decision to make, she also must decide which is more of a danger to her life: the dangerous people that Devon claims are after her family, or the flock of geese that resent Janie bringing her drama to the park in the first damn place. No Dice is the first installment of the wacky comedy series, Baked and Beautifully Broken. Taking the concept of a spoof romcom to its fullest extent, Rylee Shelton throws us curveball after curveball until we finally figure out the whole picture. Join this new cast of characters for a whole new set of laughs and surprises.
Download or read book You re Weird written by Kate Peterson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen on Buzzfeed: A quirky and engaging journal that celebrates what makes each of us a little weird Part journal, part activity book, and all fun, You're Weird is a valentine for the inner weirdo in everyone--that part of us that doesn't quite fit in, and secretly isn't even trying. Filled with hand-drawn creatures that are a bit...different...along with lists, writing prompts, activities, and more, it's a delightful and affirming book for creative oddballs everywhere. In our mass-produced world that wants everyone to fit in and fall in line, this quirky book give us permission to celebrate what makes us each unique--and amazing. It's the perfect gift for the creative teen, journal-loving best friend, or indie artist in your life...or for your own weird self.
Download or read book Weirdos A Novel written by Kat Kruger and published by Joe Books Ltd. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the summer of 1976, and Kit is fed up of his small town life in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, where he lives with his Dad and grandmother. Dreaming of a more exciting life in the big city, Kit enlists the help of his girlfriend Alice, and they hitchhike towards a new home with his glamorous, artistic mother Laura. As Kit and Alice reach their final destination, their relationship is tested, and Kit faces a difficult realization that will change his life forever. Kat Kruger's novel adaptation of the film Weirdos retells this tender story of a young man's journey to self-discovery.
Download or read book Weirdo Deluxe written by Matt Dukes Jordan and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2005-03-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together work of leading Lowbrow and Pop Surrealist artists. With over 100 examples by two dozens artists. Provides a timeline of the movement with graphic artists profiles.
Download or read book The Best Short Stories 2021 written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty prizewinning stories selected from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year—continuing the O. Henry Prize's century-long tradition of literary excellence. "Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction." —The Atlantic Monthly. Now entering its second century, the prestigious annual story anthology has a new title, a new look, and a new guest editor. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has brought her own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and young emerging voices. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Adichie, observations from the winning writers on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction. Featured in this collection: Daphne Palasi Andreades • David Means • Sindya Bhanoo • Crystal Wilkinson • Alice Jolly • David Rabe • Karina Sainz Borgo (translator, Elizabeth Bryer) • Jamel Brinkley • Tessa Hadley • Adachioma Ezeano • Anthony Doerr • Tiphanie Yanique • Joan Silber • Jowhor Ile • Emma Cline • Asali Solomon • Ben Hinshaw • Caroline Albertine Minor (translator, Caroline Waight) • Jianan Qian • Sally Rooney
Download or read book Everything You Need to Know About the Coronavirus in 2020 written by Albert Isak and published by Isak. This book was released on 2020-03-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you worried about your health amid the new coronavirus that has emerged in China since December 2019?Watching the news like a hawk to see what the latest developments are with COVID- 19? Not sure how to protect yourself from the novel coronavirus and what you can do to stop the spread in your community? Starting in December 2019, we saw the outbreak of a coronavirus that was larger than what we could expect and infected more people than the SARS outbreak of 2003. Immediately, people started to panic and think back to the time when people were fearful of that virus and how it wreaked havoc on the world as a global pandemic could emerge. As this recent epidemic has been termed as a ‘pandemic,’ numerous health professionals have been investigating the cause and treatment of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. But what is more powerful in this process is becoming informed about the virus and not giving in to the temptation to be overly fearful or anxious. Information is powerful and provides us with reassurance of what we can do about a situation. Like any other virus that has infected the world, the coronavirus is one that can be treated and dealt with, but it takes the responsibility of the citizens of this world to become informed and know what to do to treat and prevent the spread of this virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) identified the COVID-19 coronavirus as a global health emergency. Because of this appellation, many people would do well to learn as much as they can about the virus and what to do when and if they get it. That’s where this book comes in. This book will give you everything you need to know about the novel coronavirus, including stats and figures, symptoms and treatment, information about the spread and cases throughout the world, as well as tips that will help protect you and your family from catching the virus. In a world that is well-connected through the Internet and other information pathways, there is a wealth of resources available to inform you about this virus. This book provides an encapsulation and synthesis of those online resources that will help you understand the virus and what you can do about it to help stop the spread of this highly contagious disease. The most important thing we can do is not panic about what is happening with this illness. Instead of worrying and becoming anxious, we should trust in the truth that we are not in control and that we need to relinquish our feelings of control over the situation and allow it to be, but at the same time we also have to be defensive and do what we can to fight the fears that are enveloping this world.What we need to protect ourselves from is not only the virus but also the fear and hysteria that inevitably accompany this illness throughout the world. If you are concerned about the COVID-19 coronavirus, then read on to find out what you can do about the illness and how you can protect your family from it, as well. You will not be disappointed with our in-depth coverage of the illness and well- researched points that will inform you and provide you with the reassurance that all will be well. Stop worrying and start acting. It is crucial to be proactive during these times, and then you will experience freedom from your fears and confidence to face the challenges. Join us on this journey to discover what to do about COVID-19 and how you can battle the anxiety and fear by empowering yourself with the information that will protect you from the spread of this virus. Be strong and courageous for you will be guided to safer pastures in the future.
Download or read book Marnie s Journals written by Lila Karoub and published by Page Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marnie's Journals is a true story about a woman who participates in two decades of crime-related activities that went too far with her latest crime. She was arrested and charged with grand larceny, facing twenty-one years in prison. She was also facing other felony charges. She would begin to have headaches and confusion, trying to keep up with the hearts of three men. The death of one them would change Marnie's course and stop her dead in her tracks to consider her actions. After this death, her life takes a dangerous turn into a life of crime for two decades. Marnie's Journals is a story about multiple men, manipulation, deceit, dishonor, and mayhem.
Download or read book It s All Relative written by A.J. Jacobs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A.J. Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but this note was perhaps the strangest: “You don’t know me, but I’m your eighth cousin. And we have over 80,000 relatives of yours in our database.” And so begins A.J. Jacobs’s quest to build the biggest family tree in history. In an era of us-versus-them thinking, this book is a hilarious, heartfelt and profound exploration of what binds us all – where family begins, how far it goes, and the science that is revolutionizing the way we think about ethnicity, history and the human species. This book is about A.J. Jacobs’s family. But it’s also about your family. Because it is the same family.
Download or read book Mouseling s Words written by Shutta Crum and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively introduction to the pleasure of words, a timid young mouse's first trip out of the nest becomes a reading adventure. Mouseling has grown up surrounded by words, scraps of paper torn from menus. Once he leaves the nest, he decides that discovering words is his mission in life and finds more words than he can count, spelling and sounding them out, thrilled by each one. The library offers a treasure trove of words, also danger: a cat. When Mouseling realizes that the cat would rather know what's in the books than eat him for dinner, he starts reading aloud to the cat—the best gift he can give in exchange for the world of stories.
Download or read book Salt Fat Acid Heat written by Samin Nosrat and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a Netflix series New York Times Bestseller and Winner of the 2018 James Beard Award for Best General Cookbook and multiple IACP Cookbook Awards Named one of the Best Books of 2017 by: NPR, BuzzFeed, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Rachel Ray Every Day, San Francisco Chronicle, Vice Munchies, Elle.com, Glamour, Eater, Newsday, Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Seattle Times, Tampa Bay Times, Tasting Table, Modern Farmer, Publishers Weekly, and more. A visionary new master class in cooking that distills decades of professional experience into just four simple elements, from the woman declared "America's next great cooking teacher" by Alice Waters. In the tradition of The Joy of Cooking and How to Cook Everything comes Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, an ambitious new approach to cooking by a major new culinary voice. Chef and writer Samin Nosrat has taught everyone from professional chefs to middle school kids to author Michael Pollan to cook using her revolutionary, yet simple, philosophy. Master the use of just four elements--Salt, which enhances flavor; Fat, which delivers flavor and generates texture; Acid, which balances flavor; and Heat, which ultimately determines the texture of food--and anything you cook will be delicious. By explaining the hows and whys of good cooking, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat will teach and inspire a new generation of cooks how to confidently make better decisions in the kitchen and cook delicious meals with any ingredients, anywhere, at any time. Echoing Samin's own journey from culinary novice to award-winning chef, Salt, Fat Acid, Heat immediately bridges the gap between home and professional kitchens. With charming narrative, illustrated walkthroughs, and a lighthearted approach to kitchen science, Samin demystifies the four elements of good cooking for everyone. Refer to the canon of 100 essential recipes--and dozens of variations--to put the lessons into practice and make bright, balanced vinaigrettes, perfectly caramelized roast vegetables, tender braised meats, and light, flaky pastry doughs. Featuring 150 illustrations and infographics that reveal an atlas to the world of flavor by renowned illustrator Wendy MacNaughton, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat will be your compass in the kitchen. Destined to be a classic, it just might be the last cookbook you'll ever need. With a foreword by Michael Pollan.
Download or read book Nightbitch written by Rachel Yoder and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING AMY ADAMS • In this blazingly smart and voracious debut novel, an artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced she's turning into a dog. • "A must-read for anyone who can’t get enough of the ever-blurring line between the psychological and supernatural that Yellowjackets exemplifies." —Vulture One day, the mother was a mother, but then one night, she was quite suddenly something else... An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later, she steps into the bathroom for a break from her toddler's demands, only to discover a dense patch of hair on the back of her neck. In the mirror, her canines suddenly look sharper than she remembers. Her husband, who travels for work five days a week, casually dismisses her fears from faraway hotel rooms. As the mother's symptoms intensify, and her temptation to give in to her new dog impulses peak, she struggles to keep her alter-canine-identity secret. Seeking a cure at the library, she discovers the mysterious academic tome which becomes her bible, A Field Guide to Magical Women: A Mythical Ethnography, and meets a group of mommies involved in a multilevel-marketing scheme who may also be more than what they seem. An outrageously original novel of ideas about art, power, and womanhood wrapped in a satirical fairy tale, Nightbitch will make you want to howl in laughter and recognition. And you should. You should howl as much as you want.
Download or read book The Morningstar Diaries Ava written by Lydia Drace and published by Lydia Drace. This book was released on with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born as a human, Ava became a hybrid Seraphim as a result of her joining to Lucifer, The Morningstar, the highest of all God's Seraphim. After their marriage, the unconventional couple made an agreement to live apart in order to provide a normal life in the best interest of their son, Tyler. Torn between her duties as a human and a mother, and her duties as Queen of the Cyrillian angels and wife of Lucifer, Ava juggles many roles that sometimes leaves her frustrated. Now, with her brother-in-law Abaddon hell bent on ending her life to destroy Lucifer, Ava seems to buckle under the weight of the life and title she has chosen. However, even though she still has human blood, Ava has a will and determination that has yet to be matched by even the greatest of warriors.
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Download or read book On Rereading written by Patricia Meyer Spacks and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After retiring from a lifetime of teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favorites, fiction first encountered in young adulthood and never before revisited, books frequently reread, canonical works of literature she was supposed to have liked but didn’t, guilty pleasures (books she oughtn’t to have liked but did), and stories reread for fun vs. those read for the classroom. On Rereading records the sometimes surprising, always fascinating, results of her personal experiment. Spacks addresses a number of intriguing questions raised by the purposeful act of rereading: Why do we reread novels when, in many instances, we can remember the plot? Why, for example, do some lovers of Jane Austen’s fiction reread her novels every year (or oftener)? Why do young children love to hear the same story read aloud every night at bedtime? And why, as adults, do we return to childhood favorites such as The Hobbit, Alice in Wonderland, and the Harry Potter novels? What pleasures does rereading bring? What psychological needs does it answer? What guilt does it induce when life is short and there are so many other things to do (and so many other books to read)? Rereading, Spacks discovers, helps us to make sense of ourselves. It brings us sharply in contact with how we, like the books we reread, have both changed and remained the same.
Download or read book Weird California written by Greg Bishop and published by Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE WEIRD SERIES What’s weird around here? That’s a question Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman have enjoyed asking for years—and their offbeat sense of curiosity led them to create the best-selling phenomenon, Weird N.J. But why should they stop at New Jersey when there’s so much that’s peculiar, odd, and utterly nutty across the whole U.S.? So the two Marks—along with several other writers with a taste for the strange—have focused on some key locales, giving each of them the full “New Jersey” treatment. Spanning the breadth of the country, from New York to California, these are travel guides of a sort, but to the kind of places voyagers will never find on their everyday maps. Instead, they’re chock-full of local legends, crazy characters, cursed roads, and bizarre roadside attractions. So come along and join the fun: Some of what’s out there is disturbing, some hilarious, but all of it is unforgettably…weird. Praise for WEIRD N.J.: “They are the chroniclers of the creepy, bards of the bizarre…From abandoned asylums to colorful real-life characters past and present, to folk stories of ghosts, monsters, and aliens, Mr. Sceurman and Mr. Moran have created a journal of New Jersey’s unwritten history.”—The New York Times. “Enough with the head-severing mobsters of Jersey. The state is packed with far more evil than TV could ever invent—from satanic Klan rallies to time-traveling tree farmers. And Weird N.J. has the pictures to prove it.”—Rolling Stone. “Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran see their native state as others do not. For them, it is a demented Disneyland of worldly, and otherworldly, delights.”—The Boston Globe. “If it’s the offbeat, paranormal or downright weird that you crave…there could be no better place”—USA Today. Praise for Weird U.S. “Weird U.S. is delicious armchair reading. Who can resist an ax-wielding man in a bunny suit, a home shaped like a giant shoe, cannibal albino villages, midget colonies, passages to hell or close relations of Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster?”—San Francisco Chronicle. “Weird U.S. is a marvelous work of entertainment and the basis for a truly unique vacation.”—Library Journal. “Kudos to Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman…This is the book by which future explorers will chart their road trips in pursuit of the meaning of this nation.”—New York Press.
Download or read book Let s Be Weird Together written by Brooke Barker and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weird meets weird—and the rest is history! This is a book about weird couples and the tiny two-person universes they create. It’s about accidentally wearing the exact same outfit. It’s about made-up songs. It’s about your rules for the thermostat. It’s about breakfast rituals, and funny nicknames, and long hugs, and that voice you pretend the cat has. If you’re half of a weird couple, or if you have a favorite weird couple, or if you just love love, this book is for you. Includes 1 sheet of temporary tattoos!
