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LIKE IT'S 1999

Author : Karen Grey

Publisher : HOME COOKED BOOKS

Page : 133 pages

File Size : 14,54 MB

Release : 2020-11-27

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1734833076

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★★★★★ “Grey had me at the first film quote! This novella is smartly written, hysterically funny and has a romance too!” Essential Romance Book Club Love 'em and Leave 'em Alice Kim and "Hot" Steve Lowell are perfect for each other. It'll only take them ten years to figure that out. Just because they throw the most bodacious wedding party ever… Just because they're perfect partners in pranksJust because they love all the same boss movies… Just because they share one totally bangin' night of sex together… Does not mean they'll break the One Time Rule. Even if they do… they don't do relationships. And they're never getting married. Like, ever. In this friends-to-lovers, marriage-pact novella spanning the last decade of the 20th century, life forces a playboy and a playgirl grow up—and grow apart—before giving them a chance to create a happy-ever-after they can actually be happy about. ★★★★★ “A special story that spans a decade. It wasn’t at all what I was expecting, but everything I needed. Steve and Alice are meant to be, but like Harry and Sally, it takes them a while to figure it out.” That’s What I’m Talking About ★★★★★ “Full of humor and on-point nostalgia references and movie quotes. Makes me long for the last decades of the 20th century when times were simpler and fun...Highly recommended as well as the other books in the Boston Classics series.” Comfy Chair Books ★★★★★ “Highly recommend it for all fans of contemporary(-ish) romance and romantic comedy.” Laurie Reads Romance ★★★★★ “Sweet, sexy, with lots of compelling funny characters that made you want to read more.” Lost in Booklandia ★★★★★ “A fun NYE novella that spans a decade and will have you laughing.” Book Addiction Reviews ★★★★★ “One of those novellas that feels longer than it is, but in all of the good ways.” YA It’s Lit ★★★★★ "This book grabbed my attention right from the start and captivated it straight to the end." Goodreads review ★★★★★ “Funny and sweet and sexy and transports you to the 1980’s and 1990’s.” Bookbub review ★★★★★ “This is a love story between two commitment-phobic people, and it’s delightful! I loved watching them grow up and learn what they want in life, and finally finding each other. Again. Though it took ten years.” Goodreads review ★★★★★ “a funny, feel-good novella that is themed perfectly to ring in the new year!” Goodreads review ★★★★★ “What can I say? I loved everything about this book! The author engaged me from the 1st quote and I enjoyed strolling down memory lane while reading this sweet and funny story.” Goodreads review ★★★★★ “Well written romance where timing is everything.” Bookbub review ★★★★★ “Fun novella that took me back to the good old days!” Bookbub review ★★★★★ “The perfect friends-to-lovers between a playboy and a playgirl.” Bookbub review ★★★★★ “An entertaining love story with lots of fantastic, nostalgic references.” Bookbub review ★★★★★ “Fun, flirty, with some drama.” Bookbub review ★★★★★ “It's the perfect pick me up for an afternoon listen and if you are movie buff like me, you will love all the quotes!!” Bookbub review ★★★★★ “Absolutely adorable… a fun, unique romance with humor and a little bit of spice.” Bookbub review ★★★★★ “A novella that reads as a full story; you get to know the characters and their story.” Bookbub review



LIKE IT’S 1999: Diary of a Teenager in Love with a Teacher

Author : Giselle Renarde

Publisher : Giselle Renarde

Page : 70 pages

File Size : 22,34 MB

Release : 2014-03-14

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1496039777

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True confessions of a real-life high school student on the cusp of a new millennium. On the eve of the year 2000, high school student Giselle struggles with spirituality, ambiguous friendships, a family dealing with the aftermath of substance abuse, and deepening feelings of attraction toward her English teacher, a married man more than twice her age. Over the course of one school year, she shifts from seeing Lawrence as a father figure to falling obsessively in love. Is Giselle making a total fool of herself, or will her teacher return her affection? Having an affair with a student would easily cost Lawrence his career, his wife, and his kids, not to mention his sanity. Will a by-the-books teacher sacrifice everything to indulge Giselle’s teenage crush? LIKE IT’S 1999 is the actual, unabridged, honest-to-god diary of a teenager in love with her teacher.



Splitopia

Author : Wendy Paris

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 336 pages

File Size : 24,73 MB

Release : 2016-03-15

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 1476725535

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Packed with research, insights, and illuminating (and often funny) examples from Paris’s own divorce experience, this book is a “practical and reassuring guide to parting well.” —Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project Engaging and revolutionary, filled with wit, searing honesty, and intimate interviews, Splitopia is a call for a saner, more civil kind of divorce. As Paris reveals, divorce has improved dramatically in recent decades due to changes in laws and family structures, advances in psychology and child development, and a new understanding of the importance of the father. Positive psychology expert and author of Happier, Tal Ben-Shahar, writes that Paris’s “personal insights, stories, and research” create “a smart and interesting guide that can be extremely helpful for those going through divorce.” Reading this book can be the difference between an expensive, ugly battle and a decent divorce, between children sucked under by conflict or happy, healthy kids. This is “a compelling case that it’s high time for a new definition of Happily Ever After—for everyone” (Brigid Schulte, author of Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time).



The Dragon Heir

Author : Amelia Maria Wood

Publisher :

Page : 336 pages

File Size : 10,31 MB

Release : 2022-03-12

Category :

ISBN :

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Steel and vengeance... Ember Ignis, the heir of House Draco, knows hatred. She's grown up in it, reveled in it, under the watchful eye of her mother, Lady Verity. Second only in power to the royal family, Ember and Verity are practically untouchable. That is, of course, until Verity goes missing, leaving Ember scrambling to find her mother as rumors of a powerful rebel group spread. Armed only with rumors and the assistance of a lesser son from a low house, she is willing to cleave the world apart to get her mother back. All the while, the crown prince of House Phoenix, Asher Cinis, struggles with a crushing addiction that dulls the abuse he endures at his mother's hands. He prepares to flee, to abandon duty and honor- until Juniper Farley, a new servant at the palace, steps into his life and sees him beyond the crown. As Ember races to find her mother before the consequences turn deadly, and Asher struggles to choose between his head and his heart, they find enemies lurking in every corner, and that the brightest smiles hide the darkest secrets.



Seeing Like a State

Author : James C. Scott

Publisher : Yale University Press

Page : 462 pages

File Size : 43,46 MB

Release : 2020-03-17

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0300252986

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“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University



When Angels Speak of Love

Author : bell hooks

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 113 pages

File Size : 21,69 MB

Release : 2007-02-06

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1416538232

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Feminist icon bell hooks reminds us of the full spectrum of feeling we spend in love through her inspiring collection of love poetry, with a new introduction by Cole Arthur Riley, author of Black Liturgies. Written from the heart, When Angels Speak of Love is a book of fifty love poems by bell hooks, one our most beloved public intellectuals, and author of over twenty books, including the bestselling All About Love. Poem after poem, hooks challenges our views and experiences with love—tracing the links between seduction and surrender, the intensity of desire, and the anguish of death. “Love must clean house, choose memories to keep, and memories to let go,” she writes. These verses are expansive yet accessible—encompassing romantic love, to love of family, friends, or oneself. In any iteration, these poems remind us of both the beauty and possibility of love.



Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms

Author : National Academy of Sciences

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 354 pages

File Size : 45,66 MB

Release : 2000-11-11

Category : Science

ISBN : 0309070996

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"The present book is intended as a progress report on [the] synthetic approach to evolution as it applies to the plant kingdom." With this simple statement, G. Ledyard Stebbins formulated the objectives of Variation and Evolution in Plants, published in 1950, setting forth for plants what became known as the "synthetic theory of evolution" or "the modern synthesis." The pervading conceit of the book was the molding of Darwin's evolution by natural selection within the framework of rapidly advancing genetic knowledge. At the time, Variation and Evolution in Plants significantly extended the scope of the science of plants. Plants, with their unique genetic, physiological, and evolutionary features, had all but been left completely out of the synthesis until that point. Fifty years later, the National Academy of Sciences convened a colloquium to update the advances made by Stebbins. This collection of 17 papers marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Stebbins' classic. Organized into five sections, the book covers: early evolution and the origin of cells, virus and bacterial models, protoctist models, population variation, and trends and patterns in plant evolution.



Lucky Caller

Author : Emma Mills

Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

Page : 276 pages

File Size : 43,7 MB

Release : 2020-01-14

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 1250179661

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With the warmth, wit, intimate friendships, and heart-melting romance she brings to all her books, Emma Mills crafts a story about believing in yourself, owning your mistakes, and trusting in human connection in Lucky Caller. When Nina decides to take a radio broadcasting class her senior year, she expects it to be a walk in the park. Instead, it’s a complete disaster. The members of Nina's haphazardly formed radio team have approximately nothing in common. And to maximize the awkwardness her group includes Jamie, a childhood friend she'd hoped to basically avoid for the rest of her life. The show is a mess, internet rumors threaten to bring the wrath of two fandoms down on their heads, and to top it all off Nina's family is on the brink of some major upheaval. Everything feels like it's spiraling out of control—but maybe control is overrated?



Private Life under Socialism

Author : Yunxiang Yan

Publisher : Stanford University Press

Page : 319 pages

File Size : 47,21 MB

Release : 2003-03-12

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0804764115

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For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist to begin the unparalleled span of eleven years’ fieldwork that has resulted in this book—a comprehensive, vivid, and nuanced account of family change and the transformation of private life in rural China from 1949 to 1999. The author’s focus on the personal and the emotional sets this book apart from most studies of the Chinese family. Yan explores private lives to examine areas of family life that have been largely overlooked, such as emotion, desire, intimacy, privacy, conjugality, and individuality. He concludes that the past five decades have witnessed a dual transformation of private life: the rise of the private family, within which the private lives of individual women and men are thriving.



The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

Author : John Gottman, PhD

Publisher : Harmony

Page : 321 pages

File Size : 14,18 MB

Release : 2015-05-05

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 0553447718

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Over a million copies sold! “An eminently practical guide to an emotionally intelligent—and long-lasting—marriage.”—Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work has revolutionized the way we understand, repair, and strengthen marriages. John Gottman’s unprecedented study of couples over a period of years has allowed him to observe the habits that can make—and break—a marriage. Here is the culmination of that work: the seven principles that guide couples on a path toward a harmonious and long-lasting relationship. Straightforward yet profound, these principles teach partners new approaches for resolving conflicts, creating new common ground, and achieving greater levels of intimacy. Gottman offers strategies and resources to help couples collaborate more effectively to resolve any problem, whether dealing with issues related to sex, money, religion, work, family, or anything else. Packed with new exercises and the latest research out of the esteemed Gottman Institute, this revised edition of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is the definitive guide for anyone who wants their relationship to attain its highest potential.