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My Life Of Evasion
Passport? Check.Book of maps to every country in the world? Check.The world's best treasure hunting dad and the most incredible stepmom? Check.My amazing boyfriend of over a year and a half? Check!The same crazy guy who'd been chasing us on our last exploration and the group of other crazy people he's basically teamed up with? Ugh, check. And the newest member of our group, my baby sister Addy, who's going on her very first treasure hunt at the tender age of four months old? Oh, my gosh, check!Call me, Callie Landon, a complete fool and I'd have to totally agree. As to what type of fool, I'd let you know. I was a fool in love, a fool to do what we did every day, a fool to trust Agents Jenna Hudson and Chris Turner when they said that they had another treasure for us to find, one that's only known by the FBI and the government and hadn't gone public. And just what was that treasure? Well, we didn't know. And neither did they. It was apparently life changing, though, so I was guessing pretty big. Our group was going to be bigger on this exploration, that's for sure. And we were adding another, rather unexpected person: Sophie Barnes, who was Max's ex-girlfriend. This treasure hunt was going to be even more dangerous than our others. It was going to full of sneaking into government facilities in other countries, stealing priceless items that were supposed to be heavily guarded, car chases, near kidnappings...and enough dirty diapers to knock out a hundred men just with the smell. It was going to be one crazy adventure. But then again, it always was in the world of treasure hunting. (Book 3 in the My Life Series)
Malamander by Thomas Taylor
Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, knows that returning lost things to their rightful owners is not easy - especially when the lost thing is not a thing at all, but a girl. No one knows what happened to Violet Parma's parents twelve years ago, and when she engages Herbie to help her find them, the pair discover that their disappearance might have something to do with the legendary sea-monster, the Malamander. Eerie-on-Sea has always been a mysteriously chilling place, where strange stories seem to wash up. And it just got stranger...
The Devil's Alternative - #ThePresidentIsMissing
What would he do? Kill innocents... Or let the terrorists live?How can I kill seven children?You're not. You're killing two terrorists who are plotting their next slaughter of innocent civilians. Al-Fadhli's killing his children by hiding behind them.True, but that's semantics. It's my choice. They live or they die based on my choice. How do I meet my Maker one day and justify their deaths?It's not semantics. If you pass on this, you're rewarding them for their cowardly tactics.But that doesn't matter. Seven innocent children are what matters. Is that what the United States stands for?But why are those high-value terrorists meeting in person? That's never happened before. They must be planning something big. Something that will result in the deaths of more than seven children. Stop this now, you might stop an attack. A net saving of lives.I open my eyes. I take a deep breath, waiting for the drumming of my heart to slow. It doesn't. It speeds up.I know the answer.
Edit like an Editor: A Wattpad Featured Guide ✔
*A WATTPAD FEATURED GUIDE**Highest Ranking #5 in Non-Fiction's HOT List**Ranked #1 in #how-to, #1 in #editor, #1 in #publishing, and #1 in #grammar*• Do you find yourself with too many typos?• Do grammar and spelling tools not always find your slip-ups?• Is English grammar just not your thing?• Are you a victim of writer's block?• Do your characters' personalities fall flat?• Is your dialogue boring?• Do you need help staying consistent with your points-of-view?• Are you struggling with choosing the best genre for your work?• Have you finished your first draft and don't know where to go from there?• Are you in the bulk of your revising stage and could use some guidance?jgfairytales has compiled this guidebook together through her experience as an editorial freelancer and Wattpad editor and critic. She knows what the Wattpad writer struggles with. She wants to help you learn how to avoid those slip-ups again, and she does so with easy-to-understand writing.Learn how to edit your work like an editor through these chapters full of detailed explanations, examples, guides, tips, and practice questions from yours truly.After reading this guidebook, you will walk away with an understanding of (American) English grammar and the confidence to comfortably edit your own work.The end goal for every writer is, of course, publication. jgfairytales even has a few tips for you to reach that goal and how to stay on track.jgfairytales has grown as an editor and critic from college courses, textbooks, guidebooks, editing and critiquing others' work, and editing her work. All references used will be cited, so you may also refer to them if you wish to.Copyright: All Rights Reserved by Jennifer Gioia © 2016-2018However, where credit is given, the copyright is (CC) Attribution-ShareAlike.
Digital AMA Writing Contest - Roshan Ali ( Contest Ended )
Read the Excerpt from Roshan Ali's book - Ib's Endless Search for Satisfaction below and and tell us what happens next by writing your own chapter under 500 words.Penguin will pick the top 10 entries. The top 3 entries will receive a direct feedback from the Penguin editors and will also be featured on Social Media by Wattpad. All top 10 entries will receive a physical copy of the book.
Digital AMA Writing Contest - Rheea Mukherjee ( Contest Ended )
Read the Excerpt from Rheea Mukherjee's book - The Body Myth and below and and tell us what happens next by writing your own chapter under 500 words.Penguin will pick the top 10 entries. The top 3 entries will receive a direct feedback from the Penguin editors and will also be featured on Social Media by Wattpad. All top 10 entries will receive a physical copy of the book.
Dearest George (CONTEST CLOSED)
Write the most cheesiest corniest love letter to your 'Dearest' person, place, pet , book character or anyone you have ever been in love with in 100 words.
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, is a modern classic. Now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel.
Discover India: Folktales of India
Have you heard about Janba and Janai and their incredible generosity?Do you know the story of the tiger who married a young woman?What about the story of the woman who bought a song?From Madhya Pradesh to Mizoram, Kerala to Maharashtra, Indians have for centuries had a treasure trove of folk stories to tell. Join Mishki, Pushka and Daadu Dolma to read these stories and several more traditional tales from across India!
An Excerpt from 'Agent Running in the Field'
Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's secret intelligence service, believes his years as an agent Runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow centre, the Office has one more job for him.
The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson (Contest Ended)
The President is Missing. The world is in shock.But the reason he's missing is much worse than anyone can imagine. With details only a President could know, and the kind of suspense only James Patterson can deliver.
Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age with Quichotte.
Excerpt: Plastic Emotions
Plastic Emotions is inspired by the life of Minnette de Silva-a forgotten feminist icon and one of the most important figures of twentieth-century architecture. Moving between London, Chandigarh, Colombo, Paris and Kandy, the book by Shiromi Pinto explores the life of a young, trailblazing South Asian woman at a time of great turbulence across the globe.
The World Between Us
When Amal finds out that her disastrous Tinder match is now going to be her boss, she can't be more annoyed. Qais Ahmed is everything she never wants to be: narcissistic, manipulative and arrogant.However, despite her relentless efforts, she is unable to resist his charm and wit and is drawn to him once she gets to know the real him.She soon discovers that he isn't just a part of her professional life but has a deep connection to a past she is trying to forget.Will this disturbing secret tear them apart or bind them together forever?
Sacred Games Writing Contest (Contest ended)
Did you binge through both seasons of Sacred Games? Or still waiting on it? Either way, we want to hear your version of how Sacred Games ends! The winners stand a chance to win a copy of special edition of Sacred Games!
Excerpt: The Flyaway Boy
Kabir doesn't fit in. Not in the wintry hill town he lives in, and not in his school, where the lines are always straight. Backed into a corner with no way out, Kabir vanishes.With every adult's nightmare now coming true, finding this flyaway boy will mean understanding who he really is. Or is it too late?Spirited and powerfully imaginative, Flyaway Boy is a story about embracing everything that makes you uniquely you.
A Song of India
Sixteen-year-old Ruskin, after having finally finished his school, is living with his stepfather and mother at the Old Station Canteen in Dehradun. Struggling to begin his writing journey, he tries to make a passage to England to chase his true calling. But as he prepares for his long voyage, the prospect of saying goodbye to the warm, sunny shores of India looms large.Brought straight from his past, Ruskin Bond recalls the longing for familiarity, the joys of receiving his first money order, publishing his stories and finding new friends.Following the trail of Looking for the Rainbow, Till the Clouds Roll By and Coming Round the Mountain, A Song of India is another year from the life of a fiery teenager as he embarks on a journey to an unfamiliar land.
The Star of India
Hollywood, 1946. When Nancy Valentine meets the dashing crown prince of Cooch Behar, sparks fly almost instantly. Sporty-as she lovingly nicknames him-is like nobody the beautiful young actress has ever met before. She is swept away to Sporty's kingdom in India just as the country is caught up in a tumultuous freedom struggle. And before she knows it, Nancy is entangled in a whirlwind of intrigue, espionage and attempted murder.From the glitz of Hollywood to the lush chambers of Indian royalty, The Star of India weaves a spirited tale of a strong-willed woman whose fate was deeply entwined with the momentous birth of modern India.
The Children Of Destruction
We used to live in a world of magic . . .For Alice, life as a teenager is hard enough without turning into a supernatural herald of destruction. And you would think that after causing minor hurricanes with a major sneeze, being visited by a talking fox and ending up on a journey with death around every corner, things can't get much worse.Wrong.They can.Between a blind and telekinetic mass murderer, a girl bound to a shadow-demon and a genetically engineered pseudo messiah, a whole generation of weird is ready to come of age. And when it does, the world will change.If it survives that long.
Excerpt: Queens of Crime
Dysfunctional families, sexual abuse, sheer greed and sometimes just a skewed moral compass. These are some of the triggers that drove the women captured in these pages to become lawbreakers. Queens of Crime demonstrates a haunting criminal power that most people do not associate women with. The acts of depravity described in this book will jolt you to the core, ensuring you have sleepless nights for months.Based on painstaking research, these are raw, violent and seemingly unbelievable but true rendition of India's women criminals
The End of October
A race-against-time thriller, as one man must find the origin and cure for a new killer virus that has brought the world to its knees.At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with a mysterious fever. When Dr Henry Parsons - microbiologist and epidemiologist - travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe: an infected man is on his way to join the millions of worshippers in the annual Hajj to Mecca.
Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth
It is almost ten years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end of the ground-breaking, bestselling His Dark Materials sequence.Now, in The Secret Commonwealth, we meet Lyra Silvertongue. And she is no longer a child . . .This is a world at once familiar and extraordinary, and they must travel far beyond the edges of Oxford, across Europe and into Asia, in search for what is lost - a city haunted by daemons, a secret at the heart of a desert, and the mystery of the elusive Dust.
The Crown of Seven Stars
Aum is under attack. The enemies are not external; rather, they are within the kingdom, each obsessed with the Crown of Seven Stars. Early one morning, Destiny rolls her dice. General Saahas, heir to the throne, becomes a hunted man and Aum plunges into chaos, submitting meekly to the tyranny of the self-appointed Raja Shunen and the wily Queen Manmaani.Turned into a fugitive, Saahas is forced to submit to the power of the saade saati--the dreaded seven and a half years befalling every person at least once in their lifetime. Bitter and full of despair, he vows to vanquish his biggest foe, Destiny.
Sarojini's Mother
Sarojini-Saz-Campbell comes to India to search for her biological mother. Adopted and taken to England at an early age, she has a degree from Cambridge and a mathematician's brain adept in solving puzzles. Handicapped by a missing shoebox that held her birth papers and the death of her English mother, she has few leads to carry out her mission and scant knowledge of Calcutta, her birthplace. Luckily, she has Chiru Sen, an Elvis lookalike, as her guide. Together, Saz and Chiru chase the mirage of a lost mother, helped by Chiru's band members and his friend Suleiman, master bookie of the racecourse. When luck leads them to a slum, Jamuna, a housemaid with a troubled past, presents herself as the likely candidate. As Saz settles into the routine of slum life, a second candidate, Urvasi, presents herself, emerging from the very opposite end of the spectrum.
An Excerpt from Bestselling Author Harinder Sikka's New Book
Bibi Amrit Kaur's life is literally torn apart in the 1947 riots. She's now in a different country with a different identity. She accepts this new life gracefully and begins a new chapter. She gets married and has two children. Life, however, has something else in store for her. It breaks her apart. Again.This time the pain is unbearable.But the hope that she will reunite with her children and be whole again keeps her alive. And she doesn't let the bitterness cloud her days, becoming a beacon of hope and courage for all.From the bestselling author of Calling Sehmat comes another hitherto untold story of strength, sacrifice and resilience.A must read.