Pixely Ever After
Pixely Ever After

Author: Teresa Yea

Publisher:

Published: 2021-03-31

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781943087051

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After an app she develops crashes and burns, Olive Peale tries her hand at the family business. Running a wedding venue can't be as hard as writing code... right? As if juggling bridezillas and cheating grooms wasn't stressful enough, a rival venue swoops into town with fireworks, helicopter rentals, and a charming owner.Wesley Belmont wants to be Olive's friend.And maybe something more. But what would an arrogant playboy like him want with a nerd like her?Unless he's determined to put her out of business...With her family business in trouble, Olive turns to her trusted gamer friend Culler for help. Wesley and Culler are as different as night and day.Culler would be the perfect ally against Wesley. Culler is the perfect man, actually.Except for one problem?Olive doesn't know his name. Has never seen his face. Never met him in real life. Until Culler suggests they meet.And Olive discovers she's in for the surprise of her life.

Once Upon a Photo Booth
Once Upon a Photo Booth

Author: Teresa Yea

Publisher:

Published: 2021-07-06

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781943087075

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Elyse Darrow knows she'll excel at anything she puts her mind to. Run a successful wedding photography business? Check. Be a good mom to a stray dog? Piece of cake. Loosen up the handsome yet tragically square veterinarian Aiden Hines? It'll take tough love to get this heir of a BBQ sauce fortune to flaunt the six-pack she knows he's hiding underneath his dorky Dad clothes, but somebody's gotta do it. Mentor and makeover her timid friend Viola? This is the challenge she's been waiting for. Give her two weeks and she'll transform this mouse into a confident woman?much like herself. Elyse will even prep Viola for dating and she knows an Aussie barista who's been shooting smoldering stares their way. Despite what Aiden says, matchmaking is not meddling, especially when Elyse's judge of character is always on point.And while she's at it, she might as well find a match for herself. Someone spontaneous and exciting- the polar opposite of Aiden. Autumn is the season for matchmaking in Indigo Bay. With Elyse playing cupid, what could possibly go wrong? Once Upon a Photo Booth is an opposites attract romantic comedy that is as spicy and comforting as a generous helping of good old-fashioned Southern BBQ. Perfect for fans of Clueless.

Trowbridge Road
Trowbridge Road

Author: Marcella Pixley

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1536211923

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In a stunning novel set in the 1980s, a girl with heavy secrets awakens her sleepy street to the complexities of love and courage. It’s the summer of ’83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father’s death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending an imaginative boy who is living with his Nana Jean after experiencing troubles of his own. But as June Bug’s connection to the world grows stronger, her mother’s grows more distant — even dangerous — pushing June Bug to choose between truth and healing and the only home she has ever known. Trowbridge Road paints an unwavering portrait of a girl and her family touched by mental illness and grief. Set in the Boston suburbs during the first years of the AIDS epidemic, the novel explores how a seemingly perfect neighborhood can contain restless ghosts and unspoken secrets. Written with deep insight and subtle lyricism by acclaimed author Marcella Pixley, Trowbridge Road demonstrates our power to rescue one another even when our hearts are broken.

The Man Who Founded the ANC
The Man Who Founded the ANC

Author: Bongani Ngqulunga

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

Published: 2017-06-19

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1770229272

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In 1912, just over a year after returning from his studies at Columbia and Oxford, the thirty-year-old Pixley ka Isaka Seme succeeded where others had failed in forming a political organisation that represented all black South Africans. Seme also established a national newspaper, became one of the pioneering black lawyers in South Africa, bought land from white farmers for black settlement at the time when opposition to it was gaining momentum, became an adviser and confidant to African royalty, and was considered a leading visionary for black economic empowerment. And yet, when he became president general of the ANC in the 1930s, he brought it to its knees through sheer ineptitude and an authoritarian style of leadership. On more than one occasion he was found guilty for breaching the law, which partly led to him being struck off the roll of attorneys. This book discusses in detail Seme’s extraordinary life, tracing it back to his humble beginnings at Inanda Mission to his triumphs and disappointments across the continents, in his public and private life. When Seme died in 1951 he was bankrupt and his political standing had suffered greatly. And yet he was praised as one of the greatest South Africans ever to have lived. For all this, he has largely been forgotten. This biography brings the remarkable life of this extraordinary South Africa back to public consciousness.

The Horse and the Plains Indians
The Horse and the Plains Indians

Author: Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 0547125518

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Tells of the transformative period in the early 16th century when the Spaniards introduced horses to the Great Plains, and how horses became, and remain, a key part of the Plains Indians' culture.

Too Much and Not the Mood
Too Much and Not the Mood

Author: Durga Chew-Bose

Publisher: FSG Originals

Published: 2017-04-11

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0374535957

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An entirely original portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to find her own voice

Black Heart, Red Ruby
Black Heart, Red Ruby

Author: Teresa Yea

Publisher: Wicked Jewel

Published: 2024-08-31

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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A ruby red obsession... Rock bottom. Familiar with it? I'm living it. It's a high school expulsion and a dead end job. A future as a pathetic nobody. But you know what they say about rock bottom? There's nowhere to go but up. I've got an ace up my sleeve. Or rather...a ruby. Priceless. Magical. A wicked jewel that can raise the dead. There's only one problem. I don't have it... Yet. It's hidden in an old mansion by the sea. You know the kind. There's one in every small town. A house with an overgrown lawn and a grave or two. Locals whisper about the ruby's bloody history. Tales of murder, madness, and curses... But that's just a load of crap. Made up to scare off treasure hunters and tomb raiders. Right? Good thing I'm neither of the above. I'm just a girl trying to make ends meet. Every story needs a hero. Every hero sheds a little blood...

Without Tess
Without Tess

Author: Marcella Pixley

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2011-10-11

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1429969822

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Tess and Lizzie are sisters, sisters as close as can be, who share a secret world filled with selkies, flying horses, and a girl who can transform into a wolf in the middle of the night. But when Lizzie is ready to grow up, Tess clings to their fantasies. As Tess sinks deeper and deeper into her delusions, she decides that she can't live in the real world any longer and leaves Lizzie and her family forever. Now, years later, Lizzie is in high school and struggling to understand what happened to her sister. With the help of a school psychologist and Tess's battered journal, Lizzie searches for a way to finally let Tess go.

Halo: Escalation #19
Halo: Escalation #19

Author: Duffy Boudreau

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues)

Published: 2015-03-25

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13:

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An unexpected ally joins a team of Spartans for a dangerous operationa secret mission into a hidden Forerunner world where the mysterious site known as the Absolute Record awaits! The thrilling sequel to _Halo_ _4_'s Spartan Ops continues from Duffy Boudreau (_BlackAcre_) and Ian Richardson (_Noble Causes_). * An essential addition to the _Halo_ canon! * The _Halo_ franchise has sales eclipsing $4 billion over its lifetime! * The start of a new arc and a great jumping-on point for new readers!

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

Author: Jason Schreier

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2017-09-05

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0062651242

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The stories in this book make for a fascinating and remarkably complete pantheon of just about every common despair and every joy related to game development.” — Rami Ismail, cofounder of Vlambeer and developer of Nuclear Throne Developing video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason Schreier takes readers on a fascinating odyssey behind the scenes of video game development, where the creator may be a team of 600 overworked underdogs or a solitary geek genius. Exploring the artistic challenges, technical impossibilities, marketplace demands, and Donkey Kong-sized monkey wrenches thrown into the works by corporate, Blood, Sweat, and Pixels reveals how bringing any game to completion is more than Sisyphean—it's nothing short of miraculous. Taking some of the most popular, bestselling recent games, Schreier immerses readers in the hellfire of the development process, whether it's RPG studio Bioware's challenge to beat an impossible schedule and overcome countless technical nightmares to build Dragon Age: Inquisition; indie developer Eric Barone's single-handed efforts to grow country-life RPG Stardew Valley from one man's vision into a multi-million-dollar franchise; or Bungie spinning out from their corporate overlords at Microsoft to create Destiny, a brand new universe that they hoped would become as iconic as Star Wars and Lord of the Rings—even as it nearly ripped their studio apart. Documenting the round-the-clock crunches, buggy-eyed burnout, and last-minute saves, Blood, Sweat, and Pixels is a journey through development hell—and ultimately a tribute to the dedicated diehards and unsung heroes who scale mountains of obstacles in their quests to create the best games imaginable.