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What is life all about? Each one of us wants an answer to this eternal question. After completing their engineering, Ballu and his friends, Chetan and Aman, realise the difference between 'college life' and 'life'. Facebook, guitar and beer bind the friends reminding them of the good old days. Chetan and Aman are working in the same firm, where the latter is desperate to move to the next level in spite of the office politics. Cricket and chatting ruin Chetan's marriage, but he still seems mesmerised by his wife. Ballu's failing career in music is aggravated by his failure at the MTV Roadies auditions. Things change drastically when the friends get an unknown friend request on Facebook and a game starts. Everything goes as per the plan when one of the friends disappears...




Crappy Friends


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All women have had at least one crappy friend...that one who left a mark and left us drained and confused. Why do we put up with it? How can we focus on the more positive friends in our lives and stop giving our energy to those who suck us dry? In this refreshing, often hilarious look at friendship, Kristan Higgins and Joss Dey (best friends and hosts of the podcast Crappy Friends) relate their own deeply personal experiences with toxic friends, detailing the red flags they missed or ignored, and the broken hearts they nursed back to health. Filled with down-to-earth wisdom, tips on weeding out the bad and making healthy friendships thrive, Crappy Friends is a guide for women of all ages.




I'll Be There (But I'll Be Wearing Sweatpants)


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Is it just me? Am I the only one who’s lonely? Am I the only one without friends? If you’ve ever asked yourself these questions, Amy Weatherly and Jess Johnston, founders of the widely popular “Sister, I Am with You,” are raising their hands to say, “Yeah, us too.” And they want to encourage, equip, and reassure you that you have what it takes to build the kind of friendships you want. I’ll Be There (But I’ll Be Wearing Sweatpants) provides you with the how of cultivating deep relationships in this messy, chaotic, beautiful life. Through Amy and Jess’s wisdom, humor, and confessional stories about the ups and downs of sisterhood, you’ll learn how to admit you need friends—then go out and find them, dismantle the lies you’ve believed about friendship, love yourself so you can find people who will love you for you, be a good friend even though you can’t be a perfect one, and heal from a friend breakup—and find the courage to try again. It’s time you felt completely accepted as you are—from the top of your messy bun to the tips of your unpedicured toes. Let’s start making friendships a priority—together.




What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat


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From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people. Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social justice movements to be inclusive of plus-sized people’s experiences. Unlike the recent wave of memoirs and quasi self-help books that encourage readers to love and accept themselves, Gordon pushes the discussion further towards authentic fat activism, which includes ending legal weight discrimination, giving equal access to health care for large people, increased access to public spaces, and ending anti-fat violence. As she argues, “I did not come to body positivity for self-esteem. I came to it for social justice.” By sharing her experiences as well as those of others—from smaller fat to very fat people—she concludes that to be fat in our society is to be seen as an undeniable failure, unlovable, unforgivable, and morally condemnable. Fatness is an open invitation for others to express disgust, fear, and insidious concern. To be fat is to be denied humanity and empathy. Studies show that fat survivors of sexual assault are less likely to be believed and less likely than their thin counterparts to report various crimes; 27% of very fat women and 13% of very fat men attempt suicide; over 50% of doctors describe their fat patients as “awkward, unattractive, ugly and noncompliant”; and in 48 states, it’s legal—even routine—to deny employment because of an applicant’s size. Advancing fat justice and changing prejudicial structures and attitudes will require work from all people. What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat is a crucial tool to create a tectonic shift in the way we see, talk about, and treat our bodies, fat and thin alike.




My Friend Linkin


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Naudia's friend Linkin is battling brain cancer. Eight year-old Naudia follows seven year-old Linkin on his journey, and writes about the lessons she learns along the way. From learning what cancer is, to how chemotherapy works, "My Friend Linkin" takes kids on a journey where they will learn what a day in the life of someone with cancer is really like. Written for children, this book explores cancer, chemotherapy, and the resiliency of those who have to fight this battle.




Until We Meet


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A poignant and page-turning story of three women whose lives are forever changed by war.… New York City, 1943 Can one small act change the course of a life?Margaret’s job at the Navy Yard brings her freedoms she never dared imagine, but she wants to do something more personal to help the war effort. Knitting socks for soldiers is a way to occupy her quiet nights and provide comfort to the boys abroad. But when a note she tucks inside one of her socks sparks a relationship with a long-distance pen pal, she finds herself drawn to a man she’s never even met. Can a woman hold on to her independence if she gives away her heart? Gladys has been waiting her whole life for the kinds of opportunities available to her now that so many men are fighting overseas. She’s not going to waste a single one. And she’s not going to let her two best friends waste them either. Then she meets someone who values her opinions as much as she likes giving them, and suddenly she is questioning everything she once held dear. Can an unwed mother survive on her own?Dottie is in a dire situation—she’s pregnant, her fiancé is off fighting the war, and if her parents find out about the baby, they’ll send her away and make her give up her child. Knitting helps take her mind off her uncertain future—until the worst happens and she must lean on her friends like never before. With their worlds changing in unimaginable ways, Margaret, Gladys, and Dottie will learn that the unbreakable bond of friendship between them is what matters most of all.




Workout Wishes & Valentine Kisses


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Pam Olson and Steve Turner are childhood friends turned work colleagues-as personal trainers at the local gym. They have a lot in common: a passion for fitness and messy divorces. After a disastrous foray into online dating, Pam joins Steve in his "no dating" pledge.What Pam and Steve can't see is that they're perfect for each other. A happily-married couple who they train recognizes the attraction between them and enlists the help of The Wishing Tree. Pam and Steve each finally agree to go on a blind date to appease the couple. Neither of them knows who they're meeting, but one thing is certain-they aren't going to admit that they're breaking their "no dating" pledge.Will tempers-or sparks-fly on Valentine's Day when Pam and Steve meet for their blind date?







Making the World Safe for Dictatorship


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Making the World Safe for Dictatorship is about how authoritarian states manage their image abroad using both "promotional" tactics of persuasion and "obstructive" tactics of repression. All states attempt to manage their global image to some degree, but authoritarian states in the post-Cold War era have special incentives to do so given the predominance of democracy as an international norm. Alexander Dukalskis looks at the tactics that authoritarian states use for image management and the ways in which their strategies vary from one state to another. Moreover, Dukalskis looks at the degree to which some authoritarian states succeed in using image management to enhance their internal and external security, and, in turn, to make their world safe for dictatorship.