Where the Cool Kids Hung Out

Where the Cool Kids Hung Out
Author: Steven Scragg
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2020-10-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1785318101

Where the Cool Kids Hung Out is the story of the UEFA Cup's glory years, when it was a tournament that boasted a stronger field of teams than its senior siblings, the European Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup. Since then it has drifted into its poor current form as the Europa League, the Champions League having siphoned off most of Europe's biggest clubs. Yet the UEFA Cup enjoyed some very stylish years, no more so than during the two-legged final period. It was an era when Ipswich Town swept to glory, Liverpool conditioned themselves to conquer the continent, Tottenham Hotspur twice captured the cup and Dundee United came agonisingly close. It was also a time when Borussia M&önchengladbach made their name, Real Madrid regenerated as a force and Serie A came to dominate. Drawing on an encyclopaedic knowledge of the tournament plus interviews with players, journalists and fans who lived and loved the competition, Steven Scragg brings you the definitive account of the UEFA Cup's halcyon days.

The CoolKids

The CoolKids
Author: Ramsey Dean
Publisher: Ramsey Dean
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2001-04-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1617924520

An overly idealistic hardcore straight-edge vegan high school senior tries to hold his trendy clique together as graduation threatens to tear them and everything they stand for apart.

Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out

Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out
Author: Mizuko Ito
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2009-10-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0262258269

An examination of young people's everyday new media practices—including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use. Conventional wisdom about young people's use of digital technology often equates generational identity with technology identity: today's teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networking sites, and text messaging. Yet there is little actual research that investigates the intricate dynamics of youths' social and recreational use of digital media. Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out fills this gap, reporting on an ambitious three-year ethnographic investigation into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings—at home, in after-school programs, and in online spaces. Integrating twenty-three case studies—which include Harry Potter podcasting, video-game playing, music sharing, and online romantic breakups—in a unique collaborative authorship style, Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out is distinctive for its combination of in-depth description of specific group dynamics with conceptual analysis.

On The Rocks

On The Rocks
Author: Elise Faber
Publisher: Elise Faber
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2020-09-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1946140791

I was a failure. I’d grown up with two well-meaning, but also two overbearing parents, and, as the youngest of three siblings, I was the only one who wasn’t “successful.” I worked in a bar. In. A. Bar. Yup, that was me hearing my mother’s disappointed voice. Because everyone around me was climbing the corporate ladder or performing brain surgery. Hell, my own brother was succeeding as an actual rocket scientist. Meanwhile, I was slinging drinks and refining the art of mixing the perfect Cosmopolitan. I didn’t know what I wanted to do—other than not being a rocket scientist—or who I wanted to be when I grew up. And if I was being honest with myself, growing up had come and gone a while ago. I just . . . wanted to feel something. Excitement or pleasure or even to know what it was like get my heart broken. But nothing ever happened to me. I existed in this boring bubble of life, pouring drinks most nights, reading the others away, and . . . not feeling anything. Until I saw him. Then I felt everything.

Death at the Orange Locks

Death at the Orange Locks
Author: Anja de Jager
Publisher: Constable
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1472130456

'A novel brilliantly evoking the isolation of a woman with an unbearable weight on her conscience' Sunday Times __________________ Keeping it in the family... After her painful divorce four years ago, Lotte Meerman has kept well away from Arjen, her ex-husband, and his new wife Nadia. So when they both visit her at central Amsterdam's police station to report Nadia's father missing, Lotte is shocked - but hides it well. Then two days later a dog walker reports the discovery of a body near the Orange Locks, built to keep the sea out of Amsterdam, and the missing man is identified as Nadia's father. Lotte wants to stay away from the investigation but his widow, Margreet, keeps searching her out as she has no idea it was her daughter who was pivotal in the marriage break-up. She wrongly identifies Lotte as a friend and tells her that Patrick had been a great husband and father, and a successful businessman. But when Lotte digs into Patrick's past, she discovers instead a failing company and a man with a history of making unwanted sexual advances to his female employees. Margreet is unaware of any of this. And the more Lotte investigates the dead man's past, the more she finds to suggest that her ex-husband is somehow involved in his death... ______________________ Praise for Anja de Jager: 'Succeeds as a portrait of both a city and, in its heroine, a delightfully dysfunctional personality' Sunday Express 'Impressive' The Times

The Estrogen Patch

The Estrogen Patch
Author: Marnie Minsi
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2021-12-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1662456883

The Estrogen Patch is a fictional romance comedy about a recently divorced woman in her early fifties named Marie. Marie has lupus and is going through early menopause. After doctors put her on an estrogen patch to curb her hot flashes, she discovers that it is causing some unusual side effects, one of which is making her a bit more aroused than normal. With all her recent life changes--her teen daughter being sent away to wilderness therapy camp for depression, anxiety, and self-harm; divorcing her husband who is eighteen years older than her; moving again for the second time in one year; starting a second job; and dealing with the all aches and pains of having lupus--Marie finds herself falling for a much younger, fitter, and healthier guy named Pauly. After continuous spying and brief encounters, Marie finds herself falling for Pauly. Can someone like Marie, with all her issues, have any kind of romantic relationship with a much younger man? Will her physical setbacks be an issue for a healthier, younger man? Can she try to make herself look younger with Botox and CoolSculpting? Can an older woman with all of her insecurities find love again this late in the game with someone that seems to be unobtainable? Should Marie just throw out her estrogen patch and go back to her usual uneventful and boring life?

Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids

Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids
Author: Murray Milner Jr.
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1134000324

In this timely and insightful book, award-winning sociologist Murray Milner tries to understand why teenagers behave the way they do. Drawing upon two years of intensive fieldwork in one high school and 300 written interviews about high schools across the country, he argues that consumer culture has greatly impacted the way our youth relate to one another and understand themselves and society. He also suggests that the status systems in high schools are in and of themselves an important contributing factor to the creation and maintenance of consumer capitalism explaining the importance of designer jeans and designer drugs in an effort to be the coolest kid in the class.

Capsize of the San Mateo

Capsize of the San Mateo
Author: Herb Eash
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2011-06-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0557572517

On February 16, 1983 twenty-three middle school children and nine adults ventured out to sea for an ordinary whale watching adventure. As the San Mateo moved harmlessly through the calm harbor waters of Morro Bay. They reached the harbor entrance then suddenly the ocean became violent tossing the boat about. Then striking it with three 30-60 foot waves crushing the small 42 foot vessel into tiny bits.

The Branded Rose Prophecy

The Branded Rose Prophecy
Author: Tracy Cooper-Posey
Publisher: Stories Rule Press
Total Pages: 888
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 177263574X

Enduring, undying love. A woman caught between two worlds. The man she can never have. The Kine and the Alfar, enemies since before Odin sat upon the throne of Asgard. When Charlee Montgomery discovers Asher Strand’s true nature and the feelings he has for her, she also learns Asher's love puts her in mortal danger. Prophesied long ago, the ancient bridges connecting Earth to the other eight worlds are opened. The Alfar descend upon Earth and the Kine must emerge from their hidden life to take up their role as Man’s protectors. Without Asher, the Kine will fall and Man with them. To defeat the Alfar, Asher must give up any hope of a human life with Charlee. Love. Duty. An impossible choice that must be made. Man’s survival depends on it. Reader Advisory: This epic Norse fantasy romance is a very long book! ____ Praise for The Branded Rose Prophecy: Heartbreaking at times, bloody and terrible at times, and downright epic all the way through, this is one story that made me hurt for ALL the characters. In a glorious, puddly tears kind of way.—Reading the Paranormal One cannot help but be awed at the detailed world, characters and conflicts that are created to thrill and the star-crossed romance that develops amongst the action packed suspense —Amazon Reader I was completely caught up in the story from the very beginning and I fought sleep and screamed at everybody if they interrupted me, I had to finish this emotionally gripping and terrific tale. —Eva Millien, Reviewer

Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids

Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids
Author: Murray Milner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2015-08-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317746600

In Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids, Second Edition, award-winning sociologist Murray Milner tries to understand why teenagers behave the way they do. The first edition drew upon two years of intensive fieldwork in one high school and 300 written interviews about high schools across the country, where he argued that consumer culture greatly impacts the way our youth relate to one another and understand themselves and society. Milner now expands on that concept with a new year of fieldwork fifteen years after he began. He has uncovered in teens a move away from consumerism and towards the cultural capital of information in a time of social media and standardized tests.