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Finding a guy was easy. Keeping him might be harder than running up a tree. Kevin McCollum is a high school junior with the usual things on his mind: getting good grades, having fun, and finding a boyfriend. The last one was eluding him until he noticed the "parkour guy." After several days of pretending to study while watching the attractive teen jump on rocks, run up trees, and do flips, Shin finally comes over to introduce himself. As they start dating, Kevin should've known it wouldn't be that easy.Shin's parents only want their son to date Japanese boys. When cultures clash and pressures mount, Kevin has no idea how to subvert traditions and Shin's parents to keep the boy he cares about. Kevin will need to clear some tricky obstacles to make his modern love story a reality. "Flipping for Him" is a gay YA multicultural romance that features fast-paced scenes, young teen love, and a sweet story. If you've ever been in love, then Jeff Adams' latest will warm your heart all over again. Buy "Flipping for Him" today to read YA at its best

It takes two to tango... or waltz.Hollywood electrician Todd Stewart is thrilled when he gets the opportunity to work on his favorite show, "America's Next Top Dancer." What he doesn't expect is making a connection with Nathaniel Mayer, a contestant on the show and a dancer he's got a major crush on.In creating a partnership that works, they must navigate the challenges of crazy schedules, fame and post-show commitments. Todd and Nate are determined to keep their run going long past the season finale.

Buy bank-owned properties at fire-sale prices! Banks and lending institutions today own more than one million foreclosed properties, more are in the foreclosure pipeline. Banks desperately want to get these properties off their balance sheets, but there aren't enough buyers. The result is a soft real estate market with prices investors and homeowners may not see again in their lifetime. In recent years many bargain-hunting investors and homebuyers made the mistake of trying to get foreclosure prices via short sales and pre-foreclosure-- before the bank reclaimed the property. They've been burned by endless delays and uncertainty of the messy foreclosure process. With bank-owned properties, that's over. You deal directly with a motivated seller—the bank—and get the foreclosure price without the hassles and complexity of a short sale or pre-foreclosure. This book shows you how to negotiate the best possible terms with the real estate owned (or REO) department of a bank or lender, including step-by-step instructions and no-nonsense advice on finding great deals, estimating fair market value, and closing the deal. You don't need a ton of cash, because REO investing at fire-sale prices is affordable for almost any investor or homebuyer. Provides detailed, step-based guidance on buying REO propertiesWritten by a super-successful REO investor with fifteen years of experience

In The Conspiracy of the Text, first published in 1986, Jeff Adams looks at an early stage in childhood to examine the ways in which children create social organisation and moral order. Adams shows how certain narratives, such as fairy tales, serve as a foundation for this system, and does this through a fascinating linguistic analysis of a young girl’s reading of her favourite fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast. This title will be of interest to students of literary theory and linguistics.

In The Conspiracy of the Text, first published in 1986, Jeff Adams looks at an early stage in childhood to examine the ways in which children create social organisation and moral order. Adams shows how certain narratives, such as fairy tales, serve as a foundation for this system, and does this through a fascinating linguistic analysis of a young girl’s reading of her favourite fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast. This title will be of interest to students of literary theory and linguistics.

With this volume in the Play Like... series, you can study the trademark songs, licks, tones, and techniques of singer/songwriter and master guitarist John Mayer.This comprehensive book and audio teaching method provides detailed analysis of Mayer's gear, tone, techniques, styles, songs, licks, riffs and much more. You'll learn everything you need to know about his renowned Guitar playing, from his pop styles to his authentic blues chops and beyond.The price of this book includes access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming, using the unique code inside the book. This book also includes Playback+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys and pan left or right.Play Like John Mayer: The Ultimate Guitar Lesson features lessons from 15 songs spanning Mayer's entire career as well as five full songs: Bold as Love, Gravity, No Such Thing, Perfectly Lonely and Slow Dancing in a Burning Room.

Secret agent and teenage computer genius Theo Reese lives in two separate worlds-and they're about to collide.Theo's high school computer-science club is gearing up for a competition, and Theo agrees to lend his knowledge of cybersecurity to help them win. The covert agency he works for also needs his talents. An encrypted key that allows access to the nation's electrical grid has been stolen. Theo's skills are crucial in its recovery before disaster strikes.When the file shows up at the competition as one of those to be decoded, Theo must find a way to be both an average high school student and Winger, his secret identity. The file must be secured-all while protecting his teammates from those who will use any means necessary to get the file for themselves.

Theo Reese is just like any other seventeen-year-old-with one small exception.This summer all he wants is to spend time with his boyfriend, Eddie, and work on his MIT research project. His parents have other plans.An old friend needs the help of Theo's family. Oliver Glenwood is an '80s music star who runs his own label. His wife and his daughter, Sofia, now a chart-topper herself, are the targets of kidnappers. Oliver hopes they can eliminate whoever is behind the threat.When Theo uncovers an even more insidious plot, the covert agency the Reeses work for, Tactical Operational Support, swoops into action.Song files have been modified to steal personal data from devices and emit a tone that drives listeners into a homicidal rage. Theo and his parents race against the clock to stop this mysterious enemy from releasing the music on an unsuspecting populace and causing worldwide chaos.Just when Theo thinks the mission couldn't be more complicated, Eddie shows up in New York looking to hang out with his boyfriend.No one ever said being a teenage secret agent would be easy.

The thrilling conclusion to the Codename: Winger series After a summer that was nothing like he'd planned, teenage secret agent Theo Reese is back to school and to work with Tactical Operational Support's IT department. His world turns upside down arriving home from hockey practice to a major security breach.On the run, he soon discovers the TOS network is down and he's cut off.As he uses his unique skills to find out what's happened, Theo discovers the evil agency Blackbird is responsible. A nemesis from Theo's first field mission is out for him and will stop at nothing to force Theo to help Blackbird realize their goal of taking global control of the internet.Getting help from some unexpected sources, Theo must stop the internet takeover while trying to keep those closest to him safe.

This book analyses graphic novels which document social crises. It demonstrates that artists’ documentary use of this medium is a form of social realism, inextricably bound up with politics and ideology. Theoretical and visual approaches are employed throughout, introducing the principal themes of the graphic novels under scrutiny: political realism, visual documentary, traumatic childhood, ethnic discrimination, state oppression, and military occupation. The key works examined are Keiji Nakazawa’s Barefoot Gen, Joe Sacco’s Palestine, Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, W.G. Sebald’s Emigrants and Art Spiegelman’s Maus. Innovative techniques, radical methods of depiction, sequence and text organisation are analysed throughout to explain how the authors use visual realism to represent these social crises. The book is well illustrated as a visual support for its exploration of this emerging and vital documentary medium.