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Montello High: School of Gangsters
Shiela May Familaran - 2014
Ngunit matutuklasan ni Summer Leondale na hindi ito ang kaso sa Montello High, a school where nothing seems to be normal at kung saan lahat ay puno ng tensiyon at aksiyon. Try as she may to stay away from trouble, Summer always finds herself caught in the middle of two rival gangs: Black Government and Dark Monarch. Bukod sa mga misteryong unti-unti niyang nadidiskubre sa Montello High at mga death threats na natatanggap niya, Summer has to deal with her ridiculously good-looking schoolmates, Tyler, Jin, and Van, who keep on giving her mixed signals. Makakaya ba niyang matapos ang isang school year sa Montello High nang buhay? Kailangan maging maingat ni Summer because the enemy is much closer than she thinks.Cloak is Pop Fiction's brand of stories that include horror, mystery, science fiction and fantasy. From tales that are downright unusual to the frighteningly possible and simply magical. Cloak explores the life of seemingly ordinary individuals in different worlds, both real and imagined.Content is not suitable for readers below 18 years old.
Pugad Baboy One
Pol Medina Jr. - 1997
Only 800 copies were published and every one of them is sold in three weeks.
Walk of Shame (Walk of Shame, #1)
Aniya B. - 2014
Rule #02: Get but never give. Rule #03: Never do them twice. Rule #04: Ignoring the bitches. Rule #05: Don’t ever worry about pleasing anybody. Rule #06: Never do someone who’s in a relationship. Rule #07: Never be ashamed of yourself. Rule #08: Never start a fight, end one. Rule #09: Never let anyone see your weak side. Rule #10: Never fall in love.And then Sed happened.
Pothichoru |പൊതിച്ചോറ്
Karoor Neelakanda Pillai
Pothichoru has 5 stories including Mothiram, Marappavakal, Poovampazham and Pounder Pothan. Introductory study by M Achuthan.
548 Heartbeats
Jessamine Verzosa - 2008
She feels like all her dreams are coming true when they actually end up becoming friends.Things are looking up, but Xeira soon finds out how friendship can get complicated when tangled up with love. First, she has to deal with Chris, a guy friend who’s in love with her, then she has to cope with her feelings for Kyle – who’s in love with someone else!Will Xei ever get her heart’s desire? Or will her heart learn to beat for Chris instead?
The Shadow at the Door: Four Stories. Four Cases. One Connection.
Tim Weaver - 2021
The windows are locked from the inside.Paul has vanished.FOUR STORIESMissing persons investigator David Raker is an expert in locating the lost.So when he's hired by Maggie, he knows that in every disappearance - however impossible it seems - there's an answer.What he doesn't know yet is that his search for Paul Conister will become linked to three other mysteries . . .ONE CONNECTIONA night patrolman on the London Underground makes a deadly discovery.A cold case is reopened - but the key witness appears to no longer exist.And thousands of miles away, a random shooting may not be random at all.
In this unique, limited edition book,
David Raker is key to unlocking the truth . . .
The Best of Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore - 2004
Kabuliwala2. The Parrot's Training3. The Rat's Feast4. Atonement5. The Nuisance6. Wish Fulfilment7. The Runaway8. Shiburam9. The Scientist10. The Invention of Shoes11. A 'Good' Man12. Return of the Little Master
How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife, and Other Stories
Manuel Estabillo Arguilla - 1970
The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created
Jane Leavy - 2018
A major work of American history by an author with a flair for mesmerizing story-telling.” —ForbesHe lived in the present tense—in the camera’s lens. There was no frame he couldn’t or wouldn’t fill. He swung the heaviest bat, earned the most money, and incurred the biggest fines. Like all the new-fangled gadgets then flooding the marketplace—radios, automatic clothes washers, Brownie cameras, microphones and loudspeakers—Babe Ruth "made impossible events happen." Aided by his crucial partnership with Christy Walsh—business manager, spin doctor, damage control wizard, and surrogate father, all stuffed into one tightly buttoned double-breasted suit—Ruth drafted the blueprint for modern athletic stardom.His was a life of journeys and itineraries—from uncouth to couth, spartan to spendthrift, abandoned to abandon; from Baltimore to Boston to New York, and back to Boston at the end of his career for a finale with the only team that would have him. There were road trips and hunting trips; grand tours of foreign capitals and post-season promotional tours, not to mention those 714 trips around the bases.After hitting his 60th home run in September 1927—a total that would not be exceeded until 1961, when Roger Maris did it with the aid of the extended modern season—he embarked on the mother of all barnstorming tours, a three-week victory lap across America, accompanied by Yankee teammate Lou Gehrig. Walsh called the tour a "Symphony of Swat." The Omaha World Herald called it "the biggest show since Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey, and seven other associated circuses offered their entire performance under one tent." In The Big Fella, acclaimed biographer Jane Leavy recreates that 21-day circus and in so doing captures the romp and the pathos that defined Ruth’s life and times.Drawing from more than 250 interviews, a trove of previously untapped documents, and Ruth family records, Leavy breaks through the mythology that has obscured the legend and delivers the man.
Private Vs. Public
Hannalove - 2013
Perfect meets Pacific Academy's Mr. Perfect. At dahil galling sila sa magkaibang mundo (a.k.a. public vs private school), natural lang na magbangayan sila pero what if the tables were turned? Will love bloom between the two of them who extremely hate each other?
The Beach House
Beth Reekles - 2011
They've spent every summer of their lives there, but things are different this year. For one thing, Rochelle is dating Lee's older brother Noah, who's also going to be there with them. Summer at the beach house has never been more fun - and never has it been more upside-down and inside-out. From kissing to sunbathing to volleyball, summer this year is going to be one hell of a ride.
Magdalena
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard - 2008
Set against the turbulent history of East Asia in the twentieth century and by turns erotic and tragic, Magdalena vividly depicts three generations of strong Filipino women. Aimee Liu, author of Cloud Moutain Cecilia Manguerra Brainard s novel Magdalena takes its title from a protagonist descended from several generations of equally compelling female characters. . . Brainard uses a nonlinear narrative and multiple points of view to describe the history of the Philippines that roughly corresponds to its contact with the United States from the Spanish American War to the war in Vietnam. The novel brings into focus not only the romantic and social conflicts of different generations of women but also economic and racial divisions in the Philippines . . . Interspersed throughout the novel are archival photographs of places and people, photographs that remind the reader that while the characters are fictional, the backdrop is historical reality. Kathleen Flanagan, Longwood University, World Literature Today With her second novel, Magdalena, Cecilia Brainard adds new portraits to the gallery in Philippine literature. She has always had a strong sense of place. Here, she provides an inner landscape as well. Together, these provide the coordinates for the family secrets that bind the characters as securely as bloodlines. Linda Ty-Casper, author of The Stranded Whale In this novel, Brainard blends a series of multiple perspectives to create a polyphony of voices that enacts Philippine society before and during the Second World War. The narrative is a nuanced vision of the workings of culture, social class, obligation and the Filipino personality. Rocio G. Davis, author of Transcultural Reinventions: Asian American and Asian Canadian Short Story Cycles I have been looking for a good story about the war. N.V.M. Gonzalez, author of The Bread of Salt and Other Stories (upon reading Winning Hearts and Minds, one chapter of Magdalena.) About Brainard s first novel When the Rainbow Goddess Wept The strengthening of the national spirit; the loss of innocence in two generations these themes are explored by the author, who was born in the Philippines, with persuasive conviction and stark realism. (Publishers Weekly) A fast-paced, sensitively written first novel about the psychological damage war wreaks, seen through the eyes of an intelligent, resilient young girl ... Brainard s appealing characters are larger-than-life people who change before our eyes, yet remain utterly convincing. (Kirkus Review) "
Saving Sawyer
Millie Morgan
On the outside, she's a normal seventeen year old girl with amazing friends, a charitable job and a loving family. She's beautiful, funny and easy to get along with and just by looking at her, you'd think that she's the perfect girl, living in the perfect world. On the inside though, just waking up and living her day-to-day life is a struggle for Sawyer. Well, aware of this fact, Sawyer's mother forces to see a psychiatrist after school on a daily basis in order to cope with the tragic events Sawyer encountered a year prior. Now meet Graham Cambridge. Those who don't know him could easily stereotype him as being a blunt, selfish, egotistical golden boy, just because he likes to party and play football. Those who actually know him though know that he's actually quite the opposite of all of those things.When Graham transfers from his elite prep school to Sawyer's high school and quickly takes an interest in her, things go from bad to worse. At least, that's what Sawyer's convinced herself of. What people don't realize though is that maybe they were wrong about Graham Cambridge and that his life is about as far from perfect as they come and that he and Sawyer are alike in more ways than one. Two completely different teenagers that maybe aren't all that different after all are about to embark on a wild ride that neither of them could have ever expected. Can they help each other get past their demented previous tragedies? Or are their bygones too great to ever escape them? And can Sawyer ever truly be saved? Full of romance, heartbreak and just a little bit of fate, the next couple of months will challenge both Sawyer and Graham in ways they never thought possible.And maybe, just maybe, something beautiful will come out of it.