Game On

Game On
Author: Susan F. Paterno
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2021-06-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1250622654

Director of the Chapman journalism program—and mother of four recent college grads—Susan F. Paterno leads you through the admissions process to help you and your family make the best decision possible. How is it possible that Harvard is more affordable for most American families than their local state university? Or that up to half of eligible students receive no financial aid? Or that public universities are rejecting homegrown middle- and working-class applicants and instead enrolling wealthy out-of- state students? College admission has escalated into a high-stakes game of emotional and financial survival. How is the deck stacked against you? And what can you do about it? Susan F. Paterno, a veteran academic and journalist, answers these questions and more in Game On. Paterno helped her four very different kids navigate the application process to a wide range of colleges, paying for their four-year educations on a finite budget. She incisively decodes the college admission industry—the consultants, the tutors, the rankers, the branding companies hawking “advantage”—and arms you with the knowledge you need to make the system work for you. You’ll learn how to narrow your focus, analyze who gets in and why, and look for the right financial fit before considering anything else, including geography, reputation, and, especially, ranking. Among the tools and insights in Game On: · Why forty years of failed free-market policies have led to skyrocketing tuition and historic levels of student debt · Why applying to college has become a bewildering maze and how to find your way to a successful result · Why college costs are more terrifying than you think · How to read beyond the rack rate to negotiate the best financial package with the least debt · Why merit is a myth, but merit aid is essential · The difference between family debt and student debt and how to split it A playbook for the Hunger Games of higher education, Game On explains the anxiety, uncertainty, and chaos in college admission, explodes the myth of meritocracy, exposes the academy’s connection to America’s widening gap between rich and poor, and provides strategies to beat—and reform—a broken system.

The Killer We Wished For

The Killer We Wished For
Author: R K Upadhyay
Publisher: R K Upadhyay
Total Pages: 670
Release: 2024-04-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

You have to play his game. Participation is involuntary. The only choice you have is the one he chose for you. Few need to die so the city can be reborn. Eight days, eight dead. All high-profile victims (News Anchor, Priest, Terrorist, NYPD chief, Mayor, Lawyer, Rapper, Actor) are murdered on camera after failing in the twisted games of the masked killer. Each victim played a game designed by the masked killer based on the victim’s history of wrongdoings. In this gripping tale, the vigilante boldly confronts the corrupt heart of society, dismantling it with relentless determination. Armed with technology and masked anonymity, he targets wealthy elites and politicians, sparking a frantic pursuit by NYPD detectives. Rich live in fear in their mansions, and the poor rejoice in the street because they were not the targets the first time. The masked killer is in pursuit of making the powerful feel helpless. He is snatching power from a few and distributing it among many. In the ages-long tussle of Few vs. Many, the killer has chosen the side of many. He kills few to save many. The common man sees him as a leveler and the high-class society as a killer. One man’s killer is another man’s savior. This is how much the society is divided. The common man’s rage and frustration are embodied in the masked killer. This is the killer they wished for. Detective Rick of NYPD, a force of law, won’t have his city drowning in the anarchy. He is determined to capture the killer. Killer also sees Rick as the right adversary and challenges him to capture him. As the cat-and-mouse game unfolds, New York City descends into chaos, revealing the high stakes of justice versus power. This time, in the Cat-and-Mouse Game, the Police are the mouse, and the killer is the cat.

Promises

Promises
Author: Robert N. Quinn
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2002-04-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595224490

Promises is the lead story of an anthology of short stories. It is the story of Michael Blair, a young sailor and Naomi LeBeouf, a Eurasian girl on the South Pacific Island of Moratova during World War Two. They fall in love and Michael promises to return after the war to marry Naomi and make a life together on her island. Ten years pass and Michael, now a detective with the New York Police Department, learns that Naomi is in New York and has become a famous international fashion model for the House of Henri Galliard Fashions. They meet at the popular, off-Broadway, Sardi's restaurant where the beginning of their former passion is rekindled. Love, however, is placed on hold when Naomi's brother, Jean Pierre is killed. The motive behind Jean Pierre's murder and that of his accomplices', are the twenty-eight black pearls Jean Pierre has smuggled into the United States. Intrigue and romance go hand in hand as Michael and his partner unravel the web of fact and circumstance in solving the crime. In the end justice prevails in an unusual manner, as does the unrequited love Michael and Naomi feel for each other.

The Dragon King's Obsession

The Dragon King's Obsession
Author: Kalenca
Publisher: Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd
Total Pages: 102
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

" One of you three will become the Dragon king's wife ! " said the king .Without even knowing it , this one sentence would change Charlotte's life forever . From a forgotten princess to the wife of the most feared king on earth . The dragon king , Damien PenDraco ! He was ruthless , he was cold-blooded, he was a pure dragon with a scary appearance and skin similar to a snake... Charlotte was the second daughter of the king . Her mother was one of the king's concubines . Her father lost his favor towards her mother and her . Although Charlotte was a princess , she was never treated as one. They often got bullied and mistreated by the queen and her daughters . When the marriage offer came from king Damien , the palace was in shock . King Damien used the marriage as an excuse so that he could get his hands on the land where the crystal of power could be found .The king couldn't refuse him . Neither of his daughters wanted to marry him . The marriage proposal was the only way Charlotte could be free .In exchange for her mother's divorce from her father and freedom, she started her journey to king Damien's castle . ' Everywhere is better than this hell! ' thought Charlotte .King Damien was exactly as described, a real dragon ." If you don't want to be my wife, you will work as a servant in my castle! "said Damien looking at Charlotte's rejection ." No problem ! " said Charlotte .When the king learns about Charlotte's immense knowledge of archeology , he offered her the freedom she longed for in exchange for her help in finding the crystal of power .The two of them agreed and started their journey in finding the crystal power but after finding it , king Damien refused to let her go . " You're mine ! "

Successor's Promise

Successor's Promise
Author: Trudi Canavan
Publisher: Orbit
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316324965

The third book in the Millennium's Rule fantasy series by international bestseller Trudi Canavan. Five years have passed since the Rebels confronted the Raen. Five years, in which the boy Rielle rescued, Qall, has safely grown up among the Travellers. Five years, in which Tyen has made a new home for himself, hidden from those who call him a traitor and the Spy. Five years of chaos in the world, barely contained by Baluka and the Restorers. Worlds are at war, some overrun by machines, some drained of magic as sorcerers seek immortality. As war threatens Rielle and Tyen's hard-won peace, and Qall comes of age, loyalties will be decided and tested. The promises they have made could change everything. Qall's very existence depends on them. Because Dahli has the means to restore the Raen to power, and he will stop at nothing to succeed.

Masked Assassin

Masked Assassin
Author: Ashley Christensen
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2017-09-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1543454089

Ever since I became a vampire, I always felt the need to move. Nothing seemed to satisfy the constant need for movement. I tried everything and went everywhere. I studied every possible fighting style every corner of the earth had to offer. Nothing ever lasted for long. Until I found a certain flyer six years after I was turned. That flyer changed my life, in more ways than one.

Marrying the American Heiress

Marrying the American Heiress
Author: Diana Bold
Publisher: Tracy Liebchen
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2021-05-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Michael Blake, a straitlaced English nobleman, desperately needs to marry an heiress. When he discovers that his intended bride--and her much-need dowry--has been romanced away from him by his own brother, he is forced to turn to the only other great heiress on the market. Emma Marks is an American adventuress who has spent the last few years traveling the world--a bargain she made with her father in return for her promise to marry a titled aristocrat by the time she's twenty-five. But when Michael is accused of a crime he didn't commit, can Emma help him deal with the ghosts of his past? And can Michael show Emma she doesn't need to travel the world to be happy because love is the greatest adventure of all?

Kwaito's Promise

Kwaito's Promise
Author: Gavin Steingo
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2016-06-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 022636254X

Examines kwaito as it has developed alongside the democratization of South Africa over the past two decades. Tracking the fall of South African hope into the disenchantment that often characterizes the outlook of its youth today - who face high unemployment, extreme inequality, and widespread crime - Steingo looks to kwaito as a powerful tool that paradoxically engages South Africa's crucial social and political problems by, in fact, seeming to ignore them

Masked Intentions

Masked Intentions
Author: Diana Bold
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9788201292905

Adrian Strathmore is a reclusive genius by day. However, by night, he is a masked avenger named Prometheus, rescuing unfortunate children from lives of prostitution. Horribly burned as a child, he loves the anonymity of his mask. Vanessa Bourke, the famous actress, is fascinated by both Adrian Strathmore, who throws flowers at her feet but remains in the shadows, and Prometheus, the masked man who shows up in her flat in the middle of the night with a small boy he's saved. When she discovers they are one and the same, she begs him to unmask himself, to no avail. He is willing to lose her forever rather than trust her to love him despite his scars. Frustrated, she blackmails Adrian into marrying her, ruining his trust. Will he ever believe she's come to love the man behind the mask?

The Devil's Promise

The Devil's Promise
Author: Celso Hurtado
Publisher: Inkshares
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2023-10-03
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1950301648

San Antonio is full of secrets, and seventeen-year-old Erasmo Cruz investigates the strangest of them. After gaining renown for surviving the city's legendary Ghost Tracks, he has set up shop as a paranormal investigator. But helping exorcize other people’s demons doesn’t seem to relieve his own; his best friend Rat has abandoned him, his grandmother is nearing death, and his own health has taken a sudden decline. None of these hardships can prepare Erasmo for the story his newest client brings him. Two decades after a strange ritual at a rural ranch, Bradley Erickson is being hunted by the Devil. In exchange for the life of his dreams, Bradley must surrender the blood of his child. The case hurls Erasmo into a dark web of cults, bargains, and broken pasts. Only one thing is certain: the Devil keeps his promises.