Like a Love Story
Title | Like a Love Story PDF eBook |
Author | Abdi Nazemian |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2019-06-04 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0062839381 |
Stonewall Honor Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All Time "A book for warriors, divas, artists, queens, individuals, activists, trend setters, and anyone searching for the courage to be themselves.”—Mackenzi Lee, New York Times bestselling author of The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue It’s 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He’s terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. Reza knows he’s gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media’s images of men dying of AIDS. Judy is an aspiring fashion designer who worships her uncle Stephen, a gay man with AIDS who devotes his time to activism as a member of ACT UP. Judy has never imagined finding romance...until she falls for Reza and they start dating. Art is Judy’s best friend, their school’s only out and proud teen. He’ll never be who his conservative parents want him to be, so he rebels by documenting the AIDS crisis through his photographs. As Reza and Art grow closer, Reza struggles to find a way out of his deception that won’t break Judy’s heart—and destroy the most meaningful friendship he’s ever known. This is a bighearted, sprawling epic about friendship and love and the revolutionary act of living life to the fullest in the face of impossible odds.
Like Love
Title | Like Love PDF eBook |
Author | Michele Morano |
Publisher | Mad Creek Books |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780814255988 |
Turns romance clichés inside out while poignantly and insightfully exploring the pleasures, possibilities, and lessons of unconsummated love.
Grammar Lessons
Title | Grammar Lessons PDF eBook |
Author | Michele Morano |
Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2007-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1587297450 |
In the thirteen personal essays in Grammar Lessons, Michele Morano connects the rules of grammar to the stories we tell to help us understand our worlds. Living and traveling in Spain during a year of teaching English to university students, she learned to translate and interpret her past and present worlds—to study the surprising moments of communication—as a way to make sense of language and meaning, longing and memory. Morano focuses first on her year of living in Oviedo, in the early 1990s, a time spent immersing herself in a new culture and language while working through the relationship she had left behind with an emotionally dependent and suicidal man. Next, after subsequent trips to Spain, she explores the ways that travel sparks us to reconsider our personal histories in the context of larger historical legacies. Finally, she turns to the aftereffects of travel, to the constant negotiations involved in retelling and understanding the stories of our lives. Throughout she details one woman’s journey through vocabulary and verb tense toward a greater sense of her place in the world. Grammar Lessons illustrates the difficulty and delight, humor and humility of living in a new language and of carrying that pivotal experience forward. Michele Morano’s beautifully constructed essays reveal the many grammars and many voices that we collect, and learn from, as we travel.
Like a Love Song
Title | Like a Love Song PDF eBook |
Author | Gabriela Martins |
Publisher | Underlined |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2021-08-03 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0593382080 |
This debut romance follows a Latina teen pop star whose image takes a dive after a messy public breakup, until she's set up with a swoon-worthy fake boyfriend. Fake boyfriend. Real heartbreak? Natalie is living her dream: topping the charts and setting records as a Brazilian pop star... until she's dumped spectacularly on live television. Not only is it humiliating--it could end her career. Her PR team's desperate plan? A gorgeous yet oh-so-fake boyfriend. Nati reluctantly agrees, but William is not what she expected. She was hoping for a fierce bad boy--not a soft-hearted British indie film star. While she fights her way back to the top with a sweet and surprisingly swoon-worthy boy on her arm, she starts to fall for William--and realizes that maybe she's the biggest fake of them all. Can she reclaim her voice and her heart? "The perfect ode to falling in love while you're still finding your voice."--Jennifer Dugan, author of Hot Dog Girl "All the fun and excitement of your favorite summer bop, and all the heart of a love ballad."--Adiba Jaigirdar, author of The Henna Wars "YA rom-com perfection."--Nina Moreno, author of Don't Date Rosa Santos
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You
Title | You Look Like a Thing and I Love You PDF eBook |
Author | Janelle Shane |
Publisher | Voracious |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2019-11-05 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 0316525235 |
As heard on NPR's "Science Friday," discover the book recommended by Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Daniel Pink, and Adam Grant: an "accessible, informative, and hilarious" introduction to the weird and wonderful world of artificial intelligence (Ryan North). "You look like a thing and I love you" is one of the best pickup lines ever . . . according to an artificial intelligence trained by scientist Janelle Shane, creator of the popular blog AI Weirdness. She creates silly AIs that learn how to name paint colors, create the best recipes, and even flirt (badly) with humans—all to understand the technology that governs so much of our daily lives. We rely on AI every day for recommendations, for translations, and to put cat ears on our selfie videos. We also trust AI with matters of life and death, on the road and in our hospitals. But how smart is AI really... and how does it solve problems, understand humans, and even drive self-driving cars? Shane delivers the answers to every AI question you've ever asked, and some you definitely haven't. Like, how can a computer design the perfect sandwich? What does robot-generated Harry Potter fan-fiction look like? And is the world's best Halloween costume really "Vampire Hog Bride"? In this smart, often hilarious introduction to the most interesting science of our time, Shane shows how these programs learn, fail, and adapt—and how they reflect the best and worst of humanity. You Look Like a Thing and I Love You is the perfect book for anyone curious about what the robots in our lives are thinking. "I can't think of a better way to learn about artificial intelligence, and I've never had so much fun along the way." —Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals
Love like Love
Title | Love like Love PDF eBook |
Author | Kingshuk Sen |
Publisher | Clever Fox Publishing |
Pages | 70 |
Release | |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
In this modern-day, our view of love has become so skewed that we are failing to differentiate between pretence and the real deal. We have built stereotypes about how love should be and how it shouldn't be. To an extent, we have gone to commoditise “love” itself. “Love like Love” is an attempt to break a few of those notions and myths about love. More than anything, it's a silent attempt in helping people understand, the most underrated feeling of our generation called “Love”
FRIENDSHIP IS LIKE LOVE WITH MORE LETTERS IN IT
Title | FRIENDSHIP IS LIKE LOVE WITH MORE LETTERS IN IT PDF eBook |
Author | David Heller and David Johns |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 2014-07-25 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 1499052480 |