Girl Wasted

Some Kind of Girl recounts the story of Caroline, a Malawian girl, who, after facing the impossibility of following both African and Western roles and standards for women in her adolescent years, finally moves to America to escape the Malawian traditions she still struggles inwardly to understand. Upon arriving in America, Caroline discovers that the America she saw on television was not an accurate representation of the life she lives in Boston. Caroline’s process of self-discovery awakens her to different kinds of insecurities about gender, race, class, language and sexuality. As Caroline grapples with the tension between maintaining her well-cultured Malawian persona and fitting into an American society, she discovers her desire to become a film actress shifting to a professional life she never saw coming: teaching and writing. Meanwhile, Caroline must face the complexities of the American immigration system as she struggles to maintain legal status as a working student. With the guidance of mentors and, sometimes, with misdirection from wild friends, Caroline takes risks to earn money and respect in America in order to be the kind of girl who successfully seizes the American dream, abandoning her home country, Malawi.

Brittany Taltos explores her progression into alcoholism, beginning with the familiar and ever-so-common binge drinking in college. She delves into her addiction at every level by highlighting her thirst for fame and attention through two reality TV appearances including The Bachelor Pad and Jersey Shore. After her epic and humiliating failure with television, she escapes to New York, predicting a fresh start. The city poses multiple threats to her happiness and well-being. Her romantic obsession with a married financier becomes the catalyst that initiates an alcoholic tailspin, fueled by heartbreak and anger. Brittany's insatiability becomes apparent at every level. Her eating disorder and alcoholism are in full throttle as she battles the demons inside of her head. Her raw, candid, and unapologetic delivery allows the reader into the mind of an addict. In the first chapter she asks, "How did my life as a beautiful girl with a college degree and an effervescent personality become a train wreck?"Throughout the book she explores this theme of transformation. Her desire for escaping reality became her reality. She analyzes and reflects on every destructive decision of her twisted mind that ultimately led her to sobriety. She renders provoking questions regarding life-fulfillment and happiness. By the end of the book, Brittany salvages her integrity as a woman and redefines her role as a fighter by not living as a product of her past.

This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - Sheridan Le Fanu - H. and E. Heron - Charlotte Riddell - Flora Annie Steel - Amelia B. Edwards - Margaret Oliphant - Edward Bellamy - Arnold Bennett - S. Baring-Gould - Daniil Kharms - E.F. Benson - John Buchan - Ella D'Arcy - Jacques Futrelle - Frank Richard Stockton - John Kendrick Bangs - Kenneth Grahame - Julian Hawthorne - A. E. W. Mason - Richard Middleton - Pierre Louÿs - Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole - Ethel Richardson - Gertrude Stein - E. Phillips Oppenheim - Arthur Quiller-Couch - Mór Jókai - Andy Adams - Bertha Sinclair - Fitz James O'Brien - Eleanor H. Porter - Valery Bryusov - John Ulrich Giesy - Otis Adelbert Kline - Paul Laurence Dunbar - Frank Lucius Packard - Barry Pain - Gertrude Bennett - Francis Marion Crawford - William Pett Ridge - Gilbert Parker - Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford - Elizabeth Garver Jordan - Richard Austin Freeman - Alice Duer Miller - Leonard Merrick - Anthony Hope - Ethel Watts Mumford - Anne O'Hagan Shinn - B. M. Bower

This book contains70 short storiesfrom 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the criticAugust Nemo, in a collection that will please theliterature lovers. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: Anthony Hope: - The Adventure of Lady Ursula. - AspirationsExplanations. - A Cut and a Kiss. - Promising. - Imagination. - Uncle John and the Rubies. - Lucifera.William Pett Ridge: - Ah Lun's Gift. - The Alteration in Mr. Kershaw. - A Brief Comic Opera. - A Cautious Youth. - A Conflict of Interests. - A Determined Young Person. - Easy Come.Sir Gilbert Parker: - The Little Bell of Honour. - The Baron of Beaugard. - The Singing of the Bees. - The Marriage of the Miller. - Mathurin. - Uncle Jim. - Parpon the Dwarf.Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford: - The Mad Lady. - A Homely Sacrifice. - Her Eyes Are Doves. - An Angel in the House. - Yesterday. - The Conquering Will. - The Deacon's Whistle.Elizabeth Garver Jordan: - Bart Harrington, Genius. - The Community's Sunbeam. - Mrs. Mccafferty Explains. - Motion Study at St. Katharine's. - Philip's "Furnis Man". - The Surrender of Professor Seymour. - Young Love. R. Austin Freeman: - The Case of Oscar Brodski. - A Case of Premeditation. - The Echo of a Mutiny. - The Anthropologist at Large. - The Aluminum Dagger. - By the Black Deep. - A Message From The Deep Sea.Alice Duer Miller: - The Candid Friend. - A Clash of Sentimentalists. - Emulation. - Home Influence. - Middle Age. - The Relapse. - The Respecters of Law.Leonard Merrick: - Aribaud's Two Wives. - The Attack in the Rue de la Presse. - The Doll in the Pink Silk Dress. - The Elegant de Fronsac. - Fluffums. - A Millionaire's Romance. - The Propriety of Pauline.Ethel Watts Mumford: - The Arabian Days of Jimmy Jennette. - The Bells of Cullam . - The Cordon Bleu of the Sierra. - The Eyes of the Heart. - The Fear Motif. - Her Groove. - How Beelzebub Came to the Convent.Anne O'Hagan Shinn: - Bread Eaten in Secret. - The Courtship of the Boss. - Emeline Hardacre's Revenge. - Fate and the Pocketbook. - Margaret McDonough's Restaurant. - The Romance at Hollywood College - Phbe in Politics

Elizabeth Garver Jordan was an American journalist, author, editor, and suffragist, now remembered primarily for having edited the first two novels of Sinclair Lewis, and for her relationship with Henry James, especially for recruiting him to participate in the round-robin novel The Whole Family. This book contains: - Bart Harrington, Genius. - The Community's Sunbeam. - Mrs. Mccafferty Explains. - Motion Study at St. Katharine's. - Philip's "Furnis Man". - The Surrender of Professor Seymour. - Young Love.

The first book introduced you to the Style Chicks. The second book introduced you to the Archangels. For this third book, they've saved their best adventures for last. Eight new stories featuring a two-part story and the origins of the Archangels. For the last time, if you're ready? Let's Do It to It and Rock!

Shay has had a rare blood disorder since she was born. In fact, her mother married one of Shay's doctors, Martin, who left his world-renowned leukemia research to try and figure out exactly what the disorder is and how to cure it. When she turns seventeen, Martin begins to give her new blood transfusions that make her feel the strongest she has ever felt. But she also has odd visions where she sees through the eyes of a vampire. At first, she thinks she must be imagining the visions, but when she begins to see Martin's office in them, she knows she has to check it out. That's when she finds Gabriel, a sexy, teenaged vampire, imprisoned in Martin's office. The connection she has built with Gabriel compels her to set him free. But when he kidnaps her in an attempt at revenge on Martin, their lives become deeply intertwined. She doesn't know the half of it.