Consider Your Ass Kissed

A biography of singer, dancer and actress Ruta Lee

Ruta Lee IS Hollywood! Her Book "Consider Your Ass Kissed" looks back at decades of her work reaching the top as a Hollywood Star. Her stories are told with truth and humor which are the hallmarks of Ruta Lee's life.

Some people can kiss ass naturally, some can’t do it to save their lives, and many just don’t know how! Kissing Ass: The Art of Office Politics is a no-bullshit, jargon-free, non-sloppy guide that breaks down typical workplace situations and offers you not textbook advice but real sucking-up solutions to them. From nervous first days to elated farewell mails, Kissing Ass gives you tips and tricks on how to act, react, or play dumb as per the scenario. Learn different types of ego massage techniques, what to say to the CEO in the loo, how to reply to work emails over weekends, and, yes, even how to deal with sex at work! So polish your corporate lips, pucker up, and get ready to kiss your way to success.

Anna had everything figured out – she was about to start senior year with her best friend, she had a great weekend job and her huge work crush looked as if it might finally be going somewhere... Until her dad decides to send her 4383 miles away to Paris. On her own. But despite not speaking a word of French, Anna finds herself making new friends, including Étienne St. Clair, the smart, beautiful boy from the floor above. But he's taken – and Anna might be too. Will a year of romantic near-misses end with the French kiss she's been waiting for?

Natalie Wood and “lovely” Richard Beymer, to the mercurial Jerome Robbins and “passionate” Rita Moreno, with whom Chakiris remains friends. “I know exactly where my gratitude belongs,” Chakiris writes, “and I still marvel at how, unbeknownst to me at the time, the joyful path of my life was paved one night in 1949 when Jerome Robbins sat Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Laurents down in his apartment and announced, ‘I have an idea.’"

NYT bestselling author Monica Murphy takes you back to the Lancaster Prep world with a deeply romantic story about the most popular girl at school - and the boy who becomes completely obsessed with her. Wren Beaumont is a model student. Kind, clever and beautiful, she is loved by everyone at Lancaster Prep. Everyone but brooding campus bad boy Crew Lancaster. Son of the family who own the school, Crew's life seems easy - but with an overbearing father and high expectations, it's anything but. Which is why he has no time for people like Wren. But when their lives unexpectedly collide, Wren discovers there's more to life than good grades - and Crew finally understands what it's like to care about someone other than himself . . . Could they - should they - become the school's most unlikely couple?

This is about some of the things I have learned in 72 years on how to be financially responsible, be an adult, live a healthy life, have good work habits, play hard and have good, productive relationships.Having a "Life's Plan" early on in life makes the difference and being true to yourself.

Meet Rosie Gordon. A fourteen-year-old with mysterious powers who has been recently uprooted from her home on Earth when her deadbeat dad moved her family to the newly habitable Uranus. However, Uranus does not turn out to be all that the holo-brochure has promised.... Meet Uranus. One of the original gods who was castrated by his son and cast into obscurity. Powerless and teste-less, Uranus, with the help of his three demigod sons, has a plan to regain his strength.... Welcome to Uranus (the planet, not the god), a world that was accidentally created on purpose. It is a planet covered in moss, overrun by wild pug grumbles, and under the thumb of a nefarious mining company that lures desperate people with the promise of riches only to enslave them and their children. It's kind of a bummer.... Join Rosie and her friends in her quest to discover the root of her powers, to overthrow the ruthless mining company, and to get the best slice of pizza on all of Uranus.