Not the Type

Not the Type
Author: Camilla Thurlow
Publisher: John Blake
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2020-08-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789463459

'You can reinvent yourself, you can change, you can grow, you can regress, you can be any number of things at any particular time. Please give yourself permission to do that, and be equally as open-minded to others who choose to do the same. Because perhaps, with just a little more compassion and acceptance, we won't need to fit in to feel that we belong.' Camilla Thurlow came second on Love Island in 2017. More recently, she impressed viewers in Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins. But that's not the most interesting part . . . Camilla can do something that none of her fellow contestants can do: find, neutralise and destroy the landmines that threaten the lives and livelihoods of so many people in the world's former war zones, and which make their land too dangerous to be worked. This is at once a memoir of an extraordinary life, and a script for living one's life to the full. Camilla Thurlow is a highly independent woman whose thoughts and experience will resonate with anyone seeking meaning in a world where women are too often discounted, or who frequently feel alienated amid the frenzy of contemporary life. This is a book about courage - not just the courage to go out and deal with a lethal threat in some of the world's most dangerous and inhospitable places, but the courage to confront one's own fears and anxieties, and to be oneself in what too often seems an inhospitable world. Not the Type will inspire a whole generation to dare the seemingly impossible. Although often an engaging reflection on life, landmines and Love Island, this is also a book about learning to confront one's own anxieties in a world dominated by celebrity culture and social media - and on being a woman in what is still too often a man's world.

Not Your Type

Not Your Type
Author: Elizabeth Jeannel
Publisher: Hansen House
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2022-03-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781956037067

"A beautiful story about healing through trauma, and finding love again (both within yourself and another) after a toxic relationship." -Melissa Karibian, author of A Song of Silver and Gold. This can't work out. It won't end well. But what if it does? When Ava meets Parker in an LGBT therapy group, she's hesitant to get close to someone new. Ava's traumatic past with relationships, and her inability to fully embrace her asexuality has made it hard for her to connect with anyone. But when she starts seeing Parker everywhere, she finds it hard to ignore how familiar Parker is, and how at peace Parker's presence in her life makes her feel. Parker is less than a year out of a toxic relationship when she starts seeing Ava all over town. At the gym where she works, at the coffee shop she frequents, and then at the LGBT therapy group she decides to attend on a whim. She takes this as a sign from the universe, but is shocked to find that Ava doesn't believe in fate, and none of the charm and charisma that has worked before will quite cut it this time. As the two grow closer, they both have to decide if holding onto the things their exes taught them are also holding them back from their future. Content warnings: Discussions of trauma Discussions of domestic violence Alcoholism Representation: Own voices Asexual main character Lesbian Bisexual side character "This book was so amazing! The characters are realistically flawed, as well is their journey through trauma healing, which really hit." -Goodreads Review "This book definitely grew on me; it's well written; the characters have depth and painful pasts and while watching them struggle to work through things was a little heartbreaking at times, and I will admit I teared up a bit at one point. Overall it was a really cute story." -Goodreads Review "A beautiful romance novel about love, sexuality and healing trauma... I couldn't stop highlighting this book, every other line was funny, relatable, sad. It made it all feel so real like I was with them." -Goodreads Review "I particularly loved the asexual representation in this book. It's still so rare to see and it has been written so well - asexuality is a spectrum and I love how that is explored here." -Goodreads Review "This book has such a cute romance, but ah this made my heart ache in many ways." -Goodreads Review

He's Just Not Your Type (And That's A Good Thing)

He's Just Not Your Type (And That's A Good Thing)
Author: Andrea Syrtash
Publisher: Rodale Books
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2010-04-27
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1605290858

In He's Just Not Your Type (And That's a Good Thing), a relationship expert and dating columnist shares her counterintuitive approach to lasting love: encouraging women to date their "non-types." After years of dating, many women fall into a relationship rut. As serial daters, they are attracted to the same type of man time and again. Clearly, something's not working. But the problem is not that he's just not that into them—the reality is, he's just not their type. Relationship expert and life coach Andrea Syrtash hears the disbelief in her clients' voices when they admit that their "Mr. Right" relationship has again gone wrong. In He's Just Not Your Type, Syrtash challenges readers to date outside their comfort zones and poses hard-hitting questions: What if the kind of man they think will make them happy never will? What would happen if they dated someone they'd never considered dating? In each chapter, Syrtash shares stories of women who have found lasting happiness with their non-types (NTs) and provides exercises designed to help readers assess their big-picture goals and core values. In doing so, she shows women how to make better choices in dating so they are more likely to find true love.

Sorry, You’re Not My Type

Sorry, You’re Not My Type
Author: Sudeep Nagarkar
Publisher: Random House India
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2017-08-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8184005571

All relationships should come with a precautionary warning: HANDLE WITH CARE The final audition for Rajhans College’s prestigious music band brings together three contrasting personalities. Vikrant, a perfectionist, who believes there is only one perfect someone for you. Anamika, a free spirit, who stands up for what she believes is right. And Yuvi, a die-hard music lover, who can strum the guitar all night long and still wake up the next morning to drop off his girlfriend. The three become close friends and start hanging out regularly. So how does Aditya, a stranger, become a part of their lives? And what happens next? Sorry, You’re Not My Type is a true story that will redefine friendship, affection, and infatuation.

Not His Type

Not His Type
Author: Chamein Canton
Publisher: Genesis Press, Inc.
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1585715611

He’s a handsome Yankees star and she’s a literary agent with a successful career but an empty social life. When they meet at a trendy restaurant, she must overcome her self-consciousness long enough to believe he could really be interested in a full-figured woman.

Not the Religious Type

Not the Religious Type
Author: Dave Schmelzer
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 141431583X

Smeltzer, a minister in the Vineyard Church, describes the events that led him from athiesm to Christianity.

Not God's Type

Not God's Type
Author: Holly Ordway
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2014-07-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1681493578

This is the story of a glorious defeat. Ordway, an atheist academic, was convinced that faith was superstitious nonsense. As a well-educated college English professor, she saw no need for just-so stories about God. Secure in her fortress of atheism, she was safe (or so she thought) from any assault by irrational faith. So what happened? How did she come to “lay down her arms” in surrender to Christ and then, a few years later, enter the Catholic Church? This is the moving account of her unusual journey. It is the story of an academic becoming convinced of the truth of Christianity on rational grounds — but also the account of God’s grace acting in and through her imagination. It is the tale of an unfolding, developing relationship with God — told with directness and honesty — and of a painful surrender at the foot of the Cross. It is the account of a lifelong, transformative love of reading and the story of how a competitive fencer put down her sabre to pick up the sword of the Spirit. Above all, this book is a tale of grace, acting in and through human beings but always issuing from God and leading back to Him. And it is the story of a woman being brought home.

This Is Not That Kind of Book

This Is Not That Kind of Book
Author: Christopher Healy
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0525580298

This is a book that answers all the kids who have ever posed the question What kind of book is it? This clever alphabet book... Wait, that's not right. This original fairy tale... Nope. Mystery? Joke book? Superhero story? Pirate adventure? This delightful mash-up features every kind of character found in the picture-book universe--all in one book. Just when the reader is convinced the story is going in one direction, it spins off in another. Ever-changing illustrations keep pace with the rapid reversals, and the setting shifts with nearly every turn of the page. Truly inventive, here's a picture book that can be anything you want it to be!

The Type

The Type
Author: Sarah Kay
Publisher: Hachette Books
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2016-02-09
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0316386618

Sarah Kay's powerful spoken word poetry performances have gone viral, with more than 10 million online views and thousands more in global live audiences. In her second single-poem volume, Kay takes readers along a lyrical road toward empowerment, exploring the promise and complicated reality of being a woman. During her spoken word poetry performances, audiences around the world have responded strongly to Sarah Kay's poem The Type. As Kay wrote in The Huffington Post: "Much media attention has been paid to what it means to 'be a woman,' but often the conversation focuses on what it means to be a woman in relation to others. I believe these relationships are important. I also think it is possible to define ourselves solely as individuals... We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our own words, with our own voices." Never-before-published in book form, The Type is illustrated throughout and perfect for gift-giving.

So Not My Type

So Not My Type
Author: Amelia Kingston
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2021-05-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1839435062

FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR AMELIA KINGSTON Book four in the So Far, So Good series An endearingly irreverent love story. To Jackie Ryan, insults are foreplay and love is war. What the feisty redhead lacks in stature, she makes up in attitude. She's made more than one grown man cry and she's damn proud of it. Little does the rowdy barista know she's about to meet her match in the shape of a walking, talking pair of starched khakis. When unassuming Eddie Jaworski stumbles into a quirky coffee shop, he isn't expecting a battle of wits with the maniac behind the counter. Still, he can't help be intrigued by the endearingly irreverent human enigma. She's brash, but considerate. Closed off to most, but fiercely loyal to a few. Everything is a joke, except those things that are sacred. Jackie doesn't trust easily and if he wants to get close, he's going to have to work for every inch. Good thing he's up for the challenge. But Eddie has a secret—one he didn't mean to keep—that's going to tug at the delicate strings weaving the pair together. When everything begins to unravel, Jackie must decide just what she's willing to risk for love.