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Growing up Wired by DavidWFleming
DavidWFleming
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While on his computer, Victor Hastings admires the provocative pictures of girls he's dating. Meanwhile, these girls are posting more and more on Facebook and all the social sites. Now, all the young men in his cramped fraternity are competing for the attention of these online, amateur pinups. And the institution of the college fraternity itself is beginning to be threatened by this emerging, online phenomenon that, in the fall of 2007, has yet to be identified as "Social Media." Three women will make an impact on Victor. Erin Masters is an alluring yet naïve co-ed. Despite outward modesty, she has no reservations about letting friends plaster her provocative images across various social websites. Emily Green-Portsmith comes from wealth and is comparatively more aware of her effect on young men, both on and offline. Technological reliance, however, does not sit well with the house mother of these fraternity boys. She is affectionately known as Ma Red. This feisty, former Vietnam correspondent from the old-school of etiquette and discipline is prepared to make a fight for her traditional values. And throughout these technological and romantic discoveries, Victor wonders: What kind of love is this? ... the wired kind. He explores the pharmaceutical, social and sexual habits of the digital age. Pills are popped, rebellions spark - a young man matures against a set of difficulties unknown to generations past. Can Victor find meaning in the close sensations of a woman from the real world?
Late Summer Rain by AubreyEatsHearts
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It was pity that first made Dannie speak to him. She had known Ryan since she was a kid, but he had always been the popular Golden Boy, and she had always been the tomboy that didn’t mind not having any friends. It was odd, she had thought, that all the popular kids who had once kissed the ground he walked on, didn’t so much spared him a glance anymore, and it was this that made her sit with him that one faithful day and begin something that would only end up causing her pain.
Sweet Oblivion by TheWaySheLoved
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You can sell drugs, you can sell secrets, you can even sell your soul. If they are willing to buy it, are you willing to sell it? The answer is usually yes, at least for Jesse. He's bad. He'll take pieces of her to complete himself. She's horrible, for different reasons. They are a storm together that no one can stop. Their relationship can only end badly. Jesse is nightmare wrapped up in a pretty package. He is no good but she already knows it. He's bad for her but she's even worse for him. He uses any excuse to break each and any law at any given moment. Dealing with his own tragedies, he finds the perfect partner to create chaos with and heal himself. Even if she pays for it in the end.
A Rainy Summer by moodizz
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Selena James, a junior at the prestigious Julliard Institute, adores music more than anything in life, eager for a summer adventure, she heads to london in hopes of seeing her brother, boarding the airplane she wasn't expecting to sit by the gorgeous loving guy who will change her life forever, but will she be able to overcome all the obstacles that will face her?