Frankly in Love
Frankly in Love

Author: David Yoon

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2020-09-01

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 198481222X

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An Instant New York Times Bestseller and #1 Indie Bestseller! A William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist An Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Honor Book Two friends. One fake dating scheme. What could possibly go wrong? Frank Li has two names. There's Frank Li, his American name. Then there's Sung-Min Li, his Korean name. No one uses his Korean name, not even his parents. Frank barely speaks any Korean. He was born and raised in Southern California. Even so, his parents still expect him to end up with a nice Korean girl--which is a problem, since Frank is finally dating the girl of his dreams: Brit Means. Brit, who is funny and nerdy just like him. Brit, who makes him laugh like no one else. Brit . . . who is white. As Frank falls in love for the very first time, he's forced to confront the fact that while his parents sacrificed everything to raise him in the land of opportunity, their traditional expectations don't leave a lot of room for him to be a regular American teen. Desperate to be with Brit without his parents finding out, Frank turns to family friend Joy Song, who is in a similar bind. Together, they come up with a plan to help each other and keep their parents off their backs. Frank thinks he's found the solution to all his problems, but when life throws him a curveball, he's left wondering whether he ever really knew anything about love—or himself—at all. In this moving debut novel—featuring striking blue stained edges and beautiful original endpaper art by the author—David Yoon takes on the question of who am I? with a result that is humorous, heartfelt, and ultimately unforgettable.

Frankly, My Dear
Frankly, My Dear

Author: Molly Haskell

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2010-02-01

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0300164378

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Haskell keeps both novel and movie at hand, moving from one to the other, comparing and distinguishing what Margaret Mitchell expresses from what obsessive producer David O. Selznick, directors George Cukor and Victor Fleming, screenplaywrights Sidney Howard and a host of fixers (including Ben Hecht and Scott Fitzgerald), and actors Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Hattie McDaniel, and others convey. She emphasizes the contributions of Selznick, Leigh, and in an entire chapter, Mitchell, drawing heavily and analytically on existing biographies, the literature of women and the Civil War, Civil War films (especially Birth of a Nation and Jezebel), and film criticism to such engaging effect as to not just revisit GWTW but to revive and intensify the enduring fascination of what Selznick dubbed the American Bible. --Olson, Ray Copyright 2009 Booklist.

It's Been Said Before
It's Been Said Before

Author: Orin Hargraves

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0199315744

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Careful writers and speakers agree that clichés are generally to be avoided. However, nearly all of us continue to use them. Why do they persist in our language? In It's Been Said Before, lexicographer Orin Hargraves examines the peculiar idea and power of the cliché. He helps readers understand why certain phrases became clichés and why they should be avoided -- or why they still have life left in them. Indeed, clichés can be useful -- even powerful. And few people even agree on which expressions are clichés and which are not. Many regard any frequent idiom as a cliché, and a phrase regarded as a cliché in one context may be seen simply as an effective expression in another. Examples drawn from data about actual usage support Hargraves' identification of true clichés. They also illuminate his commentary on usage problems and helpful suggestions for eliminating clichés where they serve no useful purpose. Concise and lively, It's Been Said Before serves as a guide to the most overused phrases in the English language -- and to phrases that are used exactly as often as they should be.

A True Untimely Awareness
A True Untimely Awareness

Author: Isaac Mampuya Samba

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2015-08-17

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1504944275

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In this little romance-to-retrospective nature, it's about a tumultuous history of fictional love, one of moral rights, to express ourselves in this way. (And this man was that? And so it was this man: Julio Fernandez [from Progeny Poitevese and background on Progeny Spanish]), which moral was actually caught between an unfortunate birth, which birth was therefore virtually finally theirs-theirs. Why? It was actually because it was her that Julio questioned and three sisters. There also discussed is morale-morale of Julio Fernandez, caught between a sudden versatility of a generous woman (Agatha Leroux),a generous woman, was therefore his beloved godmother. There is also about finally and moral of this Julio, caught between an incessant consciousness, which remorse therefore came by to a hysterical trilingual executive secretary (Ms. Maryvonne Keviler [a mixed descent from Paris and in background Kinese Progeny]); that mixed would thus ultimately become his partner, or rather his wife, and that mixed so finally live conjugal relationship with him that Julio Fernandez in question that would happen so he actually in this tumultuous history fictional love? Anyway, so in reading this little romance, which actually marks the beginning of a total of a series of five small volumes, or to be able to express more correctly, so in reading this little volume, which indeed marks the beginning of a small subset of a total of five short novels, because the truth is that in this series or collection. Their membership negritude (negritude [all cultural and spiritual values of blacks]), Africa, and the West-or rather, in Africa and in the world-one finds or, rather, one will also find several other small subsets. In any way, so in reading this little novel, we will have some insight into the answer to this question: what would happen so he makes in this tumultuous history fictional love?

Technology and the Dream
Technology and the Dream

Author: Clarence G. Williams

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2003-02-28

Total Pages: 1060

ISBN-13: 9780262731577

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Transcripts of more than seventy-five oral history interviews in which the interviewees assess their MIT experience and reflect on the role of blacks at MIT and beyond. This book grew out of the Blacks at MIT History Project, whose mission is to document the black presence at MIT. The main body of the text consists of transcripts of more than seventy-five oral history interviews, in which the interviewees assess their MIT experience and reflect on the role of blacks at MIT and beyond. Although most of the interviewees are present or former students, black faculty, administrators, and staff are also represented, as are nonblack faculty and administrators who have had an impact on blacks at MIT. The interviewees were selected with an eye to presenting the broadest range of issues and personalities, as well as a representative cross section by time period and category. Each interviewee was asked to discuss family background; education; role models and mentors; experiences of racism and race-related issues; choice of field and career; goals; adjustment to the MIT environment; best and worst MIT experiences; experience with MIT support services; relationships with MIT students, faculty, and staff; advice to present or potential MIT students; and advice to the MIT administration. A recurrent theme is that MIT's rigorous teaching instills the confidence to deal with just about any hurdle in professional life, and that an MIT degree opens many doors and supplies instant credibility. Each interview includes biographical notes and pictures. The book also includes a general introduction, a glossary, and appendixes describing the project's methodology.

Years of Minutes
Years of Minutes

Author: Andy Rooney

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2007-10-09

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 1586486160

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Andy Rooney has been at it for twenty-five years. It's time to celebrate. So here's the ultimate gift for every Rooney fan: an illustrated collection of Rooney's very best pieces from a quarter centur