![]() ![]() What he doesn't realize, though, is that he is now V&C K-BEAUTY's biggest competitor. When his classmates clamor to buy the K-pop branded beauty products his mom gave him to "make new friends," he sees an opportunity-one that may be the key to help him pay for the music school tuition he knows his parents won't cover. Enter the new kid in class, Wes Jung, who is determined to pursue music after graduation despite his parents' major disapproval. With each sale, Valerie gets closer to taking her beloved and adventurous halmeoni to her dream city, Paris. Together with her cousin Charlie, they run V&C K-BEAUTY, their school's most successful student-run enterprise. Frankly in Love meets Shark Tank in this feel-good romantic comedy about two entrepreneurial Korean American teens who butt heads-and maybe fall in love-while running competing Korean beauty businesses at their high school.There's nothing Valerie Kwon loves more than making a good sale. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The perfect vacation has become a nightmare! Somehow Kyle and BeeBee have to outwit nature's fury and save themselves from tsunami terror. The giant wave charges straight up the hillside and through the woods where the children are running for their lives. Kyle and BeeBee flee uphill as a tsunami crashes over the beach, the hotel, and the town. Giant tsunami waves - three or four stories high can ride in from the sea and engulf anyone who doesn't escape fast enough. Then the earthquake comes - starting a fire in their hotel! As Kyle and BeeBee fight their way out through smoke and flame, Kyle remembers the sign at the beach that said after an earthquake everyone should go uphill and inland, as far from the ocean as possible. One evening Kyle is left in charge of his younger sister, BeeBee, while his parents attend an adults-only Salesman of the Year dinner on an elegant yacht. He'd never flown before, and he'd never seen the Pacific Ocean. Your Plus plan is 7.95 a month after 30 day trial. You will get an email reminder before your trial ends. Thirteen-year-old Kyle thought spending a vacation on the Oregon coast with his family would be great. Escaping the Giant Wave By: Peg Kehret Narrated by: Terry Bregy Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins 4.5 (178 ratings) Try for 0.00 Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks, and podcasts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Poor Anne Neville doesn’t even get this much from any of the adults in her life. “Well, honey, Upper Class Twit A has 5/8’s a cup of royal blood and Upper Class Twit B has 4/7’s a cup of royal blood, and their wives have been egging them on a bit, so loads and loads of lower class men are going to kill each other and wrack havoc on the physical and economic landscape, just so someone can wear a shiny crown.” Imagine trying to explain succession wars to a child: The White Queen of Middleham is the first book in the Sprigs of Broom series, following the lives of Yorkist Plantagenet off-spring including "The Princes in the Tower" and Perkin Warbeck. Their love, almost wrecked by theįeud of York and Lancaster, culminates in great happiness and the last Plantagenet reign in England. The third son of the ambitious Duke of York, later King Richard III, is a hero in the eyes of the shy and bewildered Anne, and the key to her understanding of the great events happening around her. For Anne Neville, a timid and delicate child, ignored by her mother, patronised by her elder sister and bullied by her formidable father Warwick the Kingmaker, her childhood friend Richard Plantagenet becomes a source of strength throughout her life.Īs she moves abruptly from castle to castle, from England to France, with Warwick’s changing fortunes in the turbulent Wars of the Roses, Anne is a pawn in the dangerous games of political intrigue that she struggles to understand. ![]() ![]() ![]() We also learn that Josie had an older sister, Sal, who was also sick and eventually died. Rick is less well off and is not "lifted" (which means he wasn't genetically modified as a child), and the "lifted" kids see him as inferior. Klara moves in with Josie and her mother and meets Josie's best friend, Rick. She bonds with a sweet but sick girl named Josie, who eventually comes back to purchase her. In Part One and Part Two of Klara and the Sun, Klara is introduced as a solar-powered AF ("artificial friend"), which is a companion robot for children, being sold at an AF store. It's soon discovered that Josie's parents have a secret plan to possibly replace Josie with Klara (if she dies), but Josie gets better instead. Klara goes on a quest to try to ask the Sun to heal Josie. The three-sentence version of this: In the not-too-distant future, Klara is a solar-powered companion robot who is purchased by a sick girl, Josie. ![]() ![]() A nun who tries to outmaneuver private equity investors by amassing a multimillion-dollar portfolio of affordable homes. ![]() A teenaged girl who leads her apartment complex against their rent-raising landlord. To tell this new story of housing, Dougherty follows a struggling math teacher who builds a political movement dedicated to ending single-family-house neighborhoods. With propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting, New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty chronicles America's housing crisis from its West Coast epicenter, peeling back the decades of history and economic forces that brought us here and taking readers inside the activist uprisings that have risen in tandem with housing costs. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation's future has become a cautionary tale. ![]() Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties where the homeless make their homes. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. ![]() Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. A stunning, deeply reported investigation into the housing crisis ![]() |