Jonah's mother takes him on a shopping trip for girly clothes and lingerie, with one condition - he must go as Jenna. He willingly becomes she and excitedly agrees! Billy says Satch and Jenna owe him money for what they took at the party. It was expensive stuff and he's not a charity. But Jenna has no job and no money. She and Satch get intimately closer, falling into boyfriend and girlfriend territory seemingly naturally. But when Mike warns Jenna how dangerous Satch's friends are it's too late, and she learns the consequences of owing Billy money when she's nothing to pay him with.
Available together for the first time, all 4 parts in this exciting series at one bargain price!Jonah failed at high school, but he's been given a second chance at an all-male college. He's unpopular however until masculine, muscular Mike takes Jonah under his wing.Jonah is effeminate, the youngest of four boys, conceived by a different father, and the last to still live at home. His mother is forever encouraging him to find love with another boy, despite his protests, and is thrilled when he befriends Mike.Mike saves Jonah from a brutal incident on the sports field, then invites him to a party. But there's a misunderstanding about hot girls. Mike appears to promise them, but soon claims Jonah said he'd bring them. Before Jonah can set the record straight every popular guy in college is already expecting them.What Jonah fails to realise is there'll be a forfeit if he fails to deliver, and that may involve Mike and the rest of the guys insisting Jonah transforms himself into a hot girl.
"The final book in the Catfish and Lilly trilogy is a culmination of the past twenty-five years of turmoil and discrimination against Susie Burton and Rodney Thibault's mixed-race relationship in a small town in South Louisiana"--Dust jacket flap.
A 75th anniversary e-book version of the most important and practical self-help book ever written, Alcoholics Anonymous. Here is a special deluxe edition of a book that has changed millions of lives and launched the modern recovery movement: Alcoholics Anonymous. This edition not only reproduces the original 1939 text of Alcoholics Anonymous, but as a special bonus features the complete 1941 Saturday Evening Post article “Alcoholics Anonymous” by journalist Jack Alexander, which, at the time, did as much as the book itself to introduce millions of seekers to AA’s program. Alcoholics Anonymous has touched and transformed myriad lives, and finally appears in a volume that honors its posterity and impact.
In the final part of the series, Jenna learns the harsh truth of how she got her place in college. Then she must return to Billy's house, ready to go to extreme lengths to put in place her plan to be rid of Satch.But the price keeps escalating, especially when Mike turns up at Billy's. She feels at breaking point as it seems her hope of a happy ending evaporates forever.While at college suspicions are raised that someone may be hurting Jonah / Jenna. She's given a straight choice - either reveal who it is or how she truly identifies herself, meaning she'd have to attend college full-time as a girl.Time is quickly running out on all fronts. Can Jenna escape her tormentor without him releasing the footage of her? Will she make it to Mike? Or has Billy even more of a hold on her than anyone?
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.
The psychology classic—a detailed study of scientific theories of human nature and the possible ways in which human behavior can be predicted and controlled—from one of the most influential behaviorists of the twentieth century and the author of Walden Two. “This is an important book, exceptionally well written, and logically consistent with the basic premise of the unitary nature of science. Many students of society and culture would take violent issue with most of the things that Skinner has to say, but even those who disagree most will find this a stimulating book.” —Samuel M. Strong, The American Journal of Sociology “This is a remarkable book—remarkable in that it presents a strong, consistent, and all but exhaustive case for a natural science of human behavior…It ought to be…valuable for those whose preferences lie with, as well as those whose preferences stand against, a behavioristic approach to human activity.” —Harry Prosch, Ethics
From Wall Street Journal bestseller Parker S. Huntington comes a broken love story laced with angst and forbidden romance.I wasn't supposed to be on that roof on Valentine's Day.Neither was Kellan Marchetti, the school's designated freak.We met on the verge of ending our lives.Somehow, the tattered strings of our tragedies tangled and tightened into an unlikely bond.We decided not to take the plunge and agreed to check on each other every Valentine's Day until school ended. Same time. One roof. Two restless souls. We kept our promise for three years. On the fourth, Kellan made a decision, and I was left to deal with the consequences. Just when I thought our story ended, another one began. They say all love stories look the same and taste different. Mine was venomous, disgraceful, and written in scarlet scars. My name is Charlotte Richards, but you can call me Venom.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.
