My Half Orange
My Half Orange

Author: John Julius Reel

Publisher: Tortoise Books

Published: 2023-04-18

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1948954788

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In his late thirties, John Julius Reel left his native New York for Seville, hoping to reinvent himself, find his voice as a writer, and cast off the shadow of his famous father. When his girlfriend dumped him after a month-long visit, the last tie was cut, and he had to face his future from his stark, mosquito-infested rented room. Alone in a foreign land, struggling with the language, and longing to find his place and purpose in the world, he began to rebuild his life. What follows is a tender, comical, and illuminating story about what it means to learn to speak and think in a new way, and to spend so much time away from home that the foreign becomes familiar. This heartwarming chronicle filled with Sevillian delicias (soccer, Iberian ham, creative cursing, and one extraordinary woman) reveals how love, language, and culture can transform your life forever.

Meeting Your Half-Orange
Meeting Your Half-Orange

Author: Amy Spencer

Publisher: Running Press Adult

Published: 2010-01-12

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0762440309

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How would you like to have a wonderfully well-suited, kind, adoring half-orange who feels like a teammate, a partner in crime, a true other half? "Half-Orange" refers to the Spanish term mi media naranja, which describes one's sweetheart, that perfect other half. What if you heard he or she would be coming along soon? Would you be relieved? Excited? Happy? Well those are the feelings that dating optimism can give you. Rather than admonishing readers to make themselves more available, or turn dating into a full-time job, Spencer's program of dating optimism is a fun, results-oriented way to find a healthy happy relationship, based on brain science and psychology that can help you become a more positive dater. She'll guide you through sowing the orange seed of your ideal relationship and growing it to "fruit-ion." In essence, by focusing positively about dating, you can actually change your brain, which changes everything from your body language to the way you perceive others and what you ultimately attract. Meeting Your Half-Orange is the pep talk that puts finding true love back into your own hands. It will guide you toward becoming so focused on the relationship you want and so happy in your own skin, the right person will be naturally drawn straight to you. You've never read a dating guide like this before. But best of all, it will be the last one you'll ever need.

One Last Shot
One Last Shot

Author: Betty Cayouette

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Published: 2024-05-07

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1250291119

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From the creator of viral TikTok account Betty's Book List, a debut romance about a supermodel and a photographer with a past marriage pact who meet again ten years later on a photoshoot in Cinque Terre, Italy. From the moment Emerson and Theo met as teenagers, they were inseparable. But just when they finally expressed their feelings to one another, they were torn apart. Now, supermodel Emerson is nearing her twenty-eighth birthday, and she’s tired of looking for love in all the wrong places. When the calendar reminder for the marriage pact she and Theo made as teens goes off on her phone, she realizes this is it—her chance to rekindle the only romance that ever really made sense. Emerson convinces her grumpy agent to book her as the face of the fashion campaign that Theo, now a fashion photographer, is shooting. The good news: the campaign is being shot in ridiculously romantic Cinque Terre, Italy. The bad news? Theo might not be as happy to see her as she'd hoped. The two embark on a four-day campaign that tests not only their feelings, but their ability to keep their hands off one another. But as roadblock after roadblock keeps them apart, Emerson starts to wonder: will this photoshoot be the key to getting one last shot at love, or will it be a final goodbye?

A Gift for My Sister
A Gift for My Sister

Author: Ann Pearlman

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-05

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1439159491

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From the author of "The Christmas Cookie Club," a touching, fast-paced page turner about two sisters struggling to understand the meaning of family.

500 Paleo Recipes
500 Paleo Recipes

Author: Dana Carpender

Publisher: Fair Winds Press (MA)

Published: 2012-12

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1592335322

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Low-carb queen and bestselling author Dana Carpender shows how to stay the Paleo diet course deliciously with 500 easy-to-prepare recipes.

Prisoner of Wonderland
Prisoner of Wonderland

Author: Jane Keeler

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2006-03

Total Pages: 71

ISBN-13: 1411618017

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Jane and Melissa were recent college graduates, uncertain of what their futures would hold. While their friends and classmates accepted mundane jobs in the business world, Jane and Melissa searched for something a little more interesting ' after all, they wanted excitement and adventure, not a future trapped within the close confines of a cubicle. The friends were excited to land seemingly exotic positions teaching English as a Second Language, or ESL, at a small private school in Daegu, South Korea. They set out on their journey in high spirits, expecting to have the experience of a lifetime... only to have their adventure turn into a misadventure when they became Prisoners of Wonderland.

Head-Tripped
Head-Tripped

Author: Nicole Archer

Publisher: Twist Idea Lab, LLC

Published: 2017-04-08

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0692874674

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One weekend to fall in love. One summer to change their lives. One secret to ruin it all. Child Prodigy violinist, Effie Murphy, has never had a boyfriend much less been in love. After all who would want damaged goods like her? After a miserable year in New York trying to pick up the pieces of her life, she’s just about to give up, when a series of ridiculous events at an advertising awards show lands her on a European tour with love personified—Elias Lovaro, a.k.a, El Love, and his band, Urban, one of the hottest acts in the world. Like a crazy dream, Elias and Effie spend the summer making music and playing like the kids they never got to be. She doesn’t care about his fame, the paparazzi, his insane groupies, or even his crippling shyness. Elias thinks he’s found his other half, his wild child, his inspiration. That is, until Effie’s past life as an ex-drug addict surfaces and ruins everything. This inspirational rock star romance is based on Alice in Wonderland and is the second book in the Ad Agency Series. It can be read as a standalone, however reading the series in order will make more sense. Adult subjects. Not for underage readers.

The Challenge of Changing Your Life
The Challenge of Changing Your Life

Author: Clara Stella Arenas

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2016-08-31

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1504364384

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Economic and social pressures have absorbed us in such a way that we have forgotten to live. Instead, we confine ourselves to surviving. We work without enjoying, we eat without tasting, we speak without communicating, and we ride through life accepting and generating destructive and painful relationships. The worst thing about this is that we have become accustomed to living like this, and we believe that we should continue that way. The good news, which brings us this work, is that nothing compels us to live that way; and we have the right and the ability to change our destiny. Obviously, one of the main needs for human beings is education. But I am not referring solely to academics; I also refer to learning to live, education for everyday. We need to learn what urges us, as a society and as individuals, to know and to recognize ourselves in order to modify behaviors, which constrain us, and produce suffering to those around us and ourselves. The Challenge of Changing Your Life is not just a stop on the way to reflecting on life, happiness, our relationships, past, present, future and mainly about ourselves. It is rather a repair and maintenance workshop which we can use to align and fix ourselves and then return to the path with another perspective, anew vision and tools to correct any damage that may arise during the rest of our journey.

The Book of Collateral Damage
The Book of Collateral Damage

Author: Sinan Antoon

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2019-05-28

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0300244851

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Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon’s fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the excursion, Nameer ventures to al-Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, famed for its bookshops, and encounters Wadood, an eccentric bookseller who is trying to catalogue everything destroyed by war, from objects, buildings, books and manuscripts, flora and fauna, to humans. Entrusted with the catalogue and obsessed with Wadood’s project, Nameer finds life in New York movingly intertwined with fragments from his homeland’s past and its present—destroyed letters, verses, epigraphs, and anecdotes—in this stylistically ambitious panorama of the wreckage of war and the power of memory.

Talking About Puddings
Talking About Puddings

Author: Margaret Bates

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1483160610

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Talking about Puddings presents a collection of recipes of home-made puddings. The book describes cooking methods and preparation, dressing, and storage suggestions for each recipe. The text also provides recipes of traditional Christmas and winter puddings, fritters, pancakes and sweet omelets, creamy milk puddings, junkets and custards, and pies. The book covers recipes of other baked puddings, pies, tarts, flans, meringue delicacies, and lush cakes. Recipes of cheese or curd cakes and other delicacies made with cottage cheese and sour cream; cold sweets; ice cream and food with ice cream; and petits fours, friandises, and dessert biscuits are also provided. The book concludes by discussing useful fundamentals such as pastry-making, sweet sauces, flavorings and simple garnishes, handy measures, and British and American measures. Home cooks and professional chefs will find the book invaluable.