From Kirsty Eagar, Summer Skin is a young adult novel about a modern-day riot grrl and an alpha male jock who explore love, trust, and double standards against the backdrop of today's hookup culture. Jess Gordon is out for revenge. Last year the jocks from Knights College tried to shame her best friend. This year she and a hand-picked college girl gang are going to get even. The lesson: Don't mess with Unity College girls. The target: Blondie, a typical Knights stud, arrogant, cold . . . and smart enough to keep up with Jess. A neo-riot grrl with a penchant for fanning the flames meets a rugby-playing sexist pig—sworn enemies or two people who happen to find each other when they're at their most vulnerable? It's all Girl meets Boy, Girl steals from Boy, seduces Boy, ties Boy to a chair, and burns Boy's stuff. Just your typical love story. Kirsty Eagar expertly handles a searingly honest and achingly funny story about love and sex amid the college hookup culture.

Twenty-five-year-old Anna—restless, famished and emotionally numb—is following the long-cold trail of her father, a celebrated luthier, whose death has always haunted her. She's tracked his former business partner to a sailboat on Bellingham Bay, determined to pry from the old man the secrets of their guitarmaking trade, and maybe a few answers about her father. Anna catches an echo of her musical father in Arlan, guitar player for a local band. Soon she's living on his sofa, hanging out with his girlfriend—having friends for the first time, even. And if Anna's new friends do drugs, read her journal and leave open a few too many bedroom doors, who's to say they aren't real friends? And if Anna has feelings for Arlan, who's to say where her loyalty lies? During a single summer's worth of days, gin-soaked and colored with longing, Anna rediscovers her senses, shut down since her father's death, and finds that the only way to get free of her past is to embrace it.

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The grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four seasons, illustrated with paintings by the great German artist Anselm Kiefer 2 June--It is completely dark out now. It is twenty-three minutes to midnight and you have already slept for four hours. What you will dream of tonight, no one will ever know. Even if you were to remember it when you wake up, you wouldn't have a language in which to communicate it to us, nor do I think that you quite understand what dreams are, I think that is still undefined for you, that your thoughts haven't grasped it yet, and that it therefore lies within that strange zone where it neither exists nor doesn't exist. The conclusion to one of the most extraordinary and original literary projects in recent years, Summer once again intersperses short vividly descriptive essays with emotionally-raw diary entries addressed directly to Knausgaard's newborn daughter. Writing more expansively and, if it is possible, even more intimately and unguardedly than in the previous three volumes, he mines with new depth his difficult memories of his childhood and fraught relationship with his own father. Documenting his family's life in rural Sweden and reflecting on a characteristically eclectic array of subjects--mosquitoes, barbeques, cynicism, and skin, to name just a few--he braids the various threads of the previous volumes into a moving conclusion. At his most voluminous since My Struggle, his epic sensational series, Knausgaard writes for his daughter, striving to make ready and give meaning to a world at once indifferent and achingly beautiful. In his hands, the overwhelming joys and insoluble pains of family and parenthood come alive with uncommon feeling.

"A magical language. An enchanted flame. A word to save everything. Seven-year-old Summer Duke has always hated dragons, and the magic they bring ever since the ash dragon Dark-Crimzon murdered her sister. Every year, Summer endures the 'Dragon's Decade Festival' celebrating the dragon's delivery of an enchanted flame. The enchanted flame kills, but also provides magic that keeps the Northern Invaders at bay. Until this year. The dragon that Summer hates the most; never comes, leaving her kingdom vulnerable to attack. Separated from her mother, Summer joins forces with two very different princes on a death-defying journey of magic and adventure to save all that she holds dear."

Winter, spring, summer or fall, this book of quotes and poetry will make you fall in love in all seasons. Love for your significant other, love for yourself and just appreciate and be in love with your life. We hope that this book will be able to create a deeper impact on the lives of our dear readers and they will be able to shower us with their unconditional love and feedback.

Become an empowered skincare consumer and uncover your best skin SkInformation is a must-have handbook for the skin-savvy woman who wants to cut through the hype and choose the best for her skin. Cosmetics companies will tell you anything to convince you to buy their latest skincare lines. Millions of women fall for these marketing campaigns designed to look like science – potentially to the detriment of their skin (not to mention bank accounts!). Cosmetic chemist and educator Terri Vinson exposes the misinformation and ‘white noise’ about miracle products and ingredients, debunks current skin ‘mythology’ and empowers you to make your own smart skin choices. If you have an interest in skin health and want to understand the science behind the cosmetics you purchase, this book will take you to the next level of understanding and make you a truly informed consumer. SkInformation is written in an easy to digest manner so you don't need to be a science graduate to understand it.From sunscreen and mineral formulas to skin-friendly nutrition and lifestyle tips, SkInformation covers everything you need to know about your skin. You’ll also find special sections on the skin issues that matter most to you. Terri Vinson covers acne, skin aging, enlarged pores and many other concerns, teaching you the scientific explanations of these phenomena and explaining which skincare products really work – and why they work. Use this new knowledge to amp up your skincare regime and cut out the products that don’t serve you. Familiarise yourself with the basic science of skin, including how essential skincare products work Become an empowered reader of labels to avoid harmful ingredients and marketing hype Improve your skin and guard against aging with diet and lifestyle tips from a cosmetic chemist Discover the skincare routine that will work best for your unique skin challenges For ladies (and gents) who love to learn, this book goes beyond the average beauty and skincare advice guide, diving into skin conditions and concerns in a way that anyone can appreciate and enjoy!

The Summer Showers in Brindavan, 1974 are no showers, but a flood. Bhagawan in His compassion and boundless love covered the whole gamut of truths, esoteric and explicit, contained in the Vedas in His discourses. While unfolding the esoteric content and explaining the technical terms, He dispelled many misconceptions in the minds of students and pundits, particularly about the term ‘Brahman’, which He established by drawing from scriptural texts, as also His own testimony as Eternal and Universal. He explained the term Bharath as embracing the whole world and not confined to the geographic entity now called ‘India’. Bhagawan has made a loving and passionate appeal to all students to take His teachings to heart and practice Dharma all the while. In fact, it can be, without exaggeration, renamed ‘The Sathya Sai Gita’.