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"From USA TODAY bestselling author Renee Carlino (Before We Were Strangers), a warm and witty novel about a struggling writer who must come to grips with her past, present, and future after she discovers that she's the inspiration for a pseudonymously published bestselling novel. When a bestselling debut novel from mysterious author J. Colby becomes the literary event of the year, Emiline reads it reluctantly. As an adjunct writing instructor at UC...
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Penny spends her afternoons sitting outside a sandwich shop, surrounded by ghosts. Fourteen years ago, this shop was her childhood dance studio--and she was a dancer on the rise. Now she's a suburban housewife, dreading the moment her son departs for MIT, leaving her with an impeccably decorated McMansion and a failing marriage. She had her chance at wild, stars-in-her-eyes happiness, but that was a lifetime ago. After The Kiss. Before The Decision....
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"Why do we love to swear so much? Why do we get so offended when others do it? With wit and insight, philosopher Rebecca Roache seeks answers to these and other puzzling questions about bad language. When someone swears at you, it can sting. Likewise, sometimes there is no better way to make the point you're making-emphasize, insult, or just plain offend-than to use a swear. What explains the magical power of swearwords? Why are they so good at offending...
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"This highly entertaining, crucially informative visual guide to the art of swearing employs quick-read charts, diagrams, explications and strategies to take readers' salty skills to the next level. Offering guidance, history and etymology, quips, insults, answers to lingering questions, and much more, How to Swear celebrates the rude ingenuity of using a single naughty word to express surprise, excitement, anger, joy, or disgust, limited only by...
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"In a smart and hilarious book, a linguist and cognitive scientist, revealing how our brains process language and why languages vary around the world and over time, shows us how and why we swear, which, it seems, is an intimate part of us that we have decided to selectively deny." -- from publisher
7) Kiss me
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After Phoebe Kitzke's kind heart gets her suspended from her job in LA, she swears off doing favors-- until her best friend begs for help on the family ranch in Fool's Gold, California. Unfortunately, sexy cowboy Zane Nicholson isn't exactly thrilled by the city girl's arrival. Thanks to his brother's latest scheme, Zane has been roped into taking tourists on a cattle drive. What Phoebe knows about ranching wouldn't fill his hat, but her laughter...
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IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
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In Acton, Oregon, sisters Alex, Stevie, and Joey take turns telling about their lives, including their long line of actor ancestors, creative family dinners, toe marshmallows, swearing in Shakespeare, and the Sisters Club.
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We each will face times of transition, loss, challenge, and change in our lives. The goal of this book is to provide perspective and encouragement that will lead to living more meaningfully in response to the many significant events that will occur over the course of a lifetime. Among the themes addressed are life's essential untidiness; memory; ordinary holiness; gratitude, love, and fidelity; work, leisure, and fallow times; wealth, beauty, and...
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She's been called vulgar, crass, sophomoric, offensive and dirty...and that was just in one article. But there's so much more to talk show host, internet entrepreneur, and original YouTube sensation, Carrie Keagan. You may know her as host, writer, and producer of VH1's hit morning show Big Morning Buzz Live with Carrie Keagan, but before Judd Apatow made being dirty mainstream, she was pioneering the R-rated, A-List celebrity digital video to an...