I DON'T BELIEVE WE'VE MET

I DON'T BELIEVE WE'VE MET
Author: Barry F. Schnell
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2011-08-11
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 146534912X

How does a person with essentially no friends in real life amass hundreds of viral friends on Twitter and Facebook? Basically, by telling it like it is and saying what needs to be said. And, as always, incorporate sex whenever possible. Here then, one disgruntled loner’s crusade to see how many others he can actually amass as “friends” through the two most popular social networking sites currently the rage in this, the era of interpersonal demise of the Homo sapien. He started at zero friends using an assumed moniker of “Eman Lluf” (what it lacked in creativity it made up for with Balkan mystique). Between the two me-centric cyber outposts, Eman Lluf garnered over 2,400 of these seemingly coveted social networking relationships simply by churning out random hyperbole on par with the journal musings of a mental patient. In the spirit of full disclosure, at some point “he” became a “she,” but no one really questioned the metamorphisis. In fact, in this day and age, it’s almost expected. Crude? Perhaps. Sophomoric? Almost a certainty. Welcome to literature in the 21st Century. And while 2,400 or so might not seem like a grand number to an adolescent who takes on more superficial social networking friends than she takes breaths in a month, or to the Ashton Kutchers of the world, it’s a pretty respectable number granted Eman Lluf doesn’t really exist at all.

Language and Conceptualization

Language and Conceptualization
Author: Jan Nuyts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1999
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521774819

To what extent is conceptualisation based on linguistic representation? And to what extent is it variable across cultures, communities or even individuals? Of crucial importance in the attempt to develop a comprehensive theory of human cognition, these remain amongst the most difficult of questions in the cognitive sciences. This volume brings together ten new contributions from leading scholars working in a wide cross-section of disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, psychology and philosophy.

The Healing

The Healing
Author: Hannah G. Milan
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2022-07-26
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1638602336

As you turn each page, you will come to find that my book has now become your new obsession. Flipping through the pages, devouring every word, this is an addiction. The rehab and recovery you find in these pages will continue to water your mind, as you develop into a forest that is not only miraculous but indestructible. Let me love you while you learn to love yourself again.

New Rules @ Work

New Rules @ Work
Author: Barbara Pachter
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2006-09-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 144062464X

For anyone who's breaking in, moving up, or just trying to make a great professional impression, this essential guide offers real-life anecdotes and advice to help you build competence and confidence in the tricky arena of modern business etiquette. Includes: "Blunder Busters" - proven strategies to help you tackle anything from office dating to business lunches "Sir, your fly is unzipped!" - the art of verbal diplomacy Contemporary guidelines for goof-proof e-mail The top ten career killers and how to beat them Global gaffes: easy ways to avoid overseas embarrassment Grace under fire-surviving dining disasters, party faux-pas and everything in-between

What Happens at Night

What Happens at Night
Author: Peter Cameron
Publisher: Catapult
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1948226979

A couple find themselves at a fading, grand European hotel full of eccentric and sometimes unsettling patrons in this "faultlessly elegant and quietly menacing" allegorical story that examines the significance of shifting desires and the uncertainty of reality (Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness). An American couple travel to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby, who they hope will resurrect their failing marriage. This difficult journey leaves the wife, who is struggling with cancer, desperately weak, and her husband worries that her apparent illness will prevent the orphanage from releasing their child. The couple check into the cavernous and eerily deserted Borgarfjaroasysla Grand Imperial Hotel where the bar is always open and the restaurant serves thirteen–course dinners from centuries past. Their attempt to claim their baby is both helped and hampered by the people they encounter: an ancient, flamboyant chanteuse, a debauched businessman, an enigmatic faith healer, and a stoic bartender who dispenses an addictive, lichen–flavored schnapps. Nothing is as it seems in this mysterious, frozen world, and the longer the couple endure the punishing cold the less they seem to know about their marriage, themselves, and life itself. What Happens at Night is a "masterpiece" (Edmund White) poised on the cusp of reality, told by "an elegantly acute and mysteriously beguiling writer" (Richard Eder, The Boston Globe).

The Montgomery Family Chronicles, Book 4: Family Matters

The Montgomery Family Chronicles, Book 4: Family Matters
Author: J. J. Massa
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2012-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1612353576

Montgomery Family 4: Family Matters By J. J. Massa -- How many Weres could manage to find their mate and lose her all at the same time? Yancey Montgomery's mate has been right under his nose for at least a decade. When he makes her his, he also chases her off. What will it take to convince the delicate little werewolf that he is a worthy mate? -- Never had Sue been so glad to be back in America, and now she was moving into Old Moon, the town where her best friend lived. What could be better than that--there was no drama at Tracey's place...or so she thought.

The Big Town

The Big Town
Author: Monte Schulz
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2012-03-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1606995030

A Great Gatsby for the 21st century. A novel of the Jazz Age, The Big Town is the story of a failed businessman whose dreams of prosperity hinge on the secret proposition of a millionaire industrialist and a dangerous relationship he finds with a poor orphan girl chasing love in the great American metropolis. Harry Hennesey’s hopes of success, both in his household and the world, have driven him to sell his home in an Illinois small town and take his chances in the big city. He rents a room in a run-down hotel. He deals in wholesale items scavenged from yard sales and close-outs. One night at a movie theater downtown, he meets a teenage flapper named Pearl who latches onto him and won’t let go. For several years now, Harry has threatened his marriage and self-esteem with innumerable infidelities. Now he finds himself falling in love with a girl less than half his age. But that’s not all. Charles A. Follette, chairman of the board of the American Prometheus Corporation, comes to him with a slick proposition: find Follette’s missing niece, and the road to riches shall be his. Soon, though, Harry discovers a darker secret to the identity of the missing niece and what lies behind the urgency for her detection. It’s this revelation that leads him to a closer examination of what it means to the life he’s known since the birth of his children and that life he believes awaits him if he can only reach the top of the ladder. Harry’s story in The Big Town is set against a fantastic backdrop of an archetypal 1920s American big city. We see speakeasies, sanitariums, skyscrapers, and a glittering Gatsby-like party high atop the metropolis. Lost in his own moral confusions, we watch Harry try to reform his young lover and uncover the secret of her own past in a small canal town miles beyond a city where gangsters murder ordinary citizens and everyone seems to have a get-rich scheme as the Roaring ’20s come to a thunderous close. The Big Town evokes a lost era through language and flamboyant characters reminiscent of Fitzgerald, Dos Passos, Ring Lardner, etc. Yet it’s also eerily relevant to our own time with its study of the role of business, crime, morality, and love in our lives.

Her Seductive Dare

Her Seductive Dare
Author: Lena Hart
Publisher: Maroon Ash Publishing
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2019-06-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1941885500

Nadia Pierre has always had a competitive spirit… ​When a game of truth or dare shoves her in the direction of a sexy, brooding stranger at the bar, she realizes just how in over her head she is. But Nadia has never backed down from a challenge and she isn’t about to now. Struck by an unwavering attraction to the beautiful but tipsy grade school teacher, Sean Colt isn’t prepared for the kiss that hurls them both toward a night filled with explosive passion. Yet when a sudden tragedy reveals a daunting family secret, Sean discovers his life has been nothing but lies, leaving him uncertain of everyone around him. Except Nadia. When the ultimate truth is revealed, will it put an end to their budding relationship—or will Sean and Nadia dare a future together despite it?

A Communicative Grammar of English

A Communicative Grammar of English
Author: Geoffrey Leech
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2013-11-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317869680

A Communicative Grammar of English has long been established as a grammar innovative in approach, reliable in coverage, and clear in its explanations. This fully revised and redesigned third edition provides up-to-date and accessible help to teachers, advanced learners and undergraduate students of English. Part One looks at the way English grammar varies in different types of English, such as ‘formal’ and ‘informal’, ‘spoken’ and ‘written’; Part Two focuses on the uses of grammar rather than on grammatical structure and Part Three provides a handy alphabetically arranged guide to English grammar. A new workbook, The Communicative Grammar of English Workbook also accompanies this edition.