"Not all Muslims are terrorists." You know how people say never to judge a book by its cover? I shouldn't have done that myself. Growing up with racist parents planted a negative reputation of Muslims in my head. So, I started believing everything they've told me. I thought Muslims were the reason crisis was happening around the world. I thought Islam was an evil religion. But, boy, was I wrong. Everything changed, the day I met the Muslimah next door.

''Marriage isn't easy especially when it's arranged and you hardly know the guy.'' 23-year-old Zara, a modest and virtuous Muslimah, has finally accepted a marriage proposal and is ready to share her life and love with her husband. But what happens when he is broody, stiff and ignores her most of the time? Is it possible to make her own husband fall in love with her or will Zara become a victim of unrequited love? #WATTYSWINNER2014

Tessa Young is an 18 year old college student with a simple life, excellent grades, and a sweet boyfriend. She always has things planned out ahead of time, until she meets a rude boy named Hardin, with too many tattoos and piercings who shatters her plans.

"Noah, I won't do it unless you ask me to," he whispered, his voice seductively low. "What?" I asked almost breathless. "Kiss you," he murmured. "And God, there are no words for how badly I want to." **** Noah was your all American boy. Captain of his soccer team, extremely good-looking, having other boys want to be him and girls want to be with him, but there's one problem. He doesn't chase after the captain of the cheerleading squad or the girls who spread their legs open for whoever asks. In fact, he doesn't go for any girl. Instead, he hates himself when his eyes linger on a guy that his brain and heart say is cute. He's gay, and he's having a hard time accepting himself for it. It doesn't help when he wakes up almost naked in another guy's house, let alone in another guy's bed. And to make matters worse, he can't help but fall for the outspoken and extremely attractive Madison who he'd drunkenly went home with and tried to screw. Finally, to add the cherry on top of the crap-tastic cake, Noah is forced to work with Madison for at least six months, or he'll lose his beloved soccer. Nothing could go wrong, right? Throw in a bit of awkwardness mixed with a few close calls and you've got a recipe for disaster....and a tiny tear in Noah's heavily protected heart. © 2018 *endless thanks and love to @half_a_hetero for helping me with the Italian in this book. I'm not a native Italian speaker, so having their help was invaluable. Follow them and show them some love!!* Amazing cover by @Grand_ Highest Rank: #4 in lgbt

[#1 in #bangchan] 08.01 [#1 in #straykids] 08.02 beck and jae flopped onto their bed, opening up their laptop. "CHAN IS LIVE JAE CLICK ON IT CLICK ON IT!" beck screamed, repeatedly hitting jae's arm. she paused and swatted beck's arm away. "hit me one more time beck, see what happens." chan's smiling face came onto the screen "hi stay! how are you guys?" through tons of smiles and laughter they reached the end of the broadcast. "jae jae, comment something!" beck pestered. she sighed and began to type the comment. 'chan i LOVE YOU. ill forever be your babygirl ;) @chansbabygirl" the two girls burst into laughter at jae's cringey comment, but they were interrupted by the australian man on the other side of the screen. "if you guys are my babygirls..does that mean i'm your daddy?" jae sat in shock, eyes wide. she turned to her best friend who returned the same look of fear. after about 15 seconds, jae began to scream, jumping off the bed and onto the floor. "WHATTHEFUCK!!?? WHATTHEFUCK?!??" beck began to fangirl with her, they screamed so much they didn't realize the broadcast had ended. jae's phone was blowing up with instagram notifications, multiple people were DMing her and following her. "what did i DO BECK?" - *inspired by 'snapchat|han jisung' by unbiasedlex!'*

"Do not seek any rules or methods of worship. Say whatever your pained heart chooses. " "O soul! When the veil is gone, we are gone. " "I planted roses, but without you, they were thorns. I hatched peacock eggs, and snakes were inside. Played the harp, sour music. I went to Eighth Heaven, It was the lowest hell" "Surrender to grace. The ocean cares for each wave until it reaches the shore. You are given more help than you will ever know. " "I have phrases & whole pages memorised, But nothing can be told of love. " ~ Maulana Jalal Ud-din Rumi Lovely Readers☆ In this book, I have published the forty rules of Sufi book, ' Forty rules of love ' by Elif Shafak. Give it a read. It might be able to help you like it did mine. These rules are spiritual so it can be read by any relegion.

"You want to go find your brother, and I want to find my best friend. Since you're crazy and do dangerous things you can't go alone. Since I have no clue where to start or even how to, I can't go alone." "And since us together alone is haram..." "we marry and go together. Simple." He finishes off, a cocky smirk appearing on his face. --- Little did I know, that 'simple' would go a long way from its meaning. From crazy adventures, pretend loving, to hints of jealousy, that simple travelled further than ever. -------- #Muslim #ThatsWhyTheWholeMarriageThing Caution: Hearts May Explode Due to Some Scenes XD Extended summary inside*

When the notebook containing their deepest, darkest secrets is stolen, two former best friends must unite, despite crushing on the same heart-stopping boy. ***** Best friends, Alex Canterbury and Alexx Lorde have been inseparable for years, but when school, family pressure, and even other friends begin to get in the way, the two girls decide to update each other in a notebook. As tough as it is sometimes, they are candid and real about EVERYTHING, until a mysterious boy with a dimpled smile gets in the way. When their notebook is suddenly stolen by someone who threatens to upload all their secrets to social media, the girls must unite despite their massive rivalry. Will they stop the perpetrator in time to save their reputations and their friendship? [From the author of The Cell Phone Swap aka Textrovert.]

DISCLAIMER: This story is completed, however it is unedited. I wrote this story when I was very young, and it is reflected in the work. If you are looking for the edited version of Love, Emma as seen on my Instagram or Facebook, this is NOT it. . . . . . . . . . . "E-Emma? It's okay y-you know. I-I'm used to i-i-it." "You shouldn't have to be, some people disgust me, the nerve of them." "I can't blame t-t-th-them, I m-mean l-l-l-look at m-me." He sounds so defeated, even though I can tell he's trying to hide it, so hurt and broken and utterly defeated. And that, to me, is absolutely heartbreaking. Whipping around, he bumps into me, clearly not expecting my abrupt stop. "I am looking at you, and you're beautiful Nathan Walker, beautiful." There's tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat the size of a basketball, and my eyes are burning, and my heart hurts but it's so fast, pounding a beat against my chest---because he should know. People like Nathan deserve to be told how unequivocally, unconditionally, completely beautiful they are. . . . . . . . . . . Emma Dawn is a sixteen year old girl in the big city of Toronto who befriends her school's social pariah, Nathan Walker. Outcast for his looks, Nathan's a very quiet, very gentle, giant, but everything's not that simple; the tough guy one might assume him to be is nothing like what he actually is, not with his stutter, continuous insecurities, and his social anxiety. While their friendship develops, both at school and at his families Italian-style Cafe, Emma slowly starts to tear down his walls, finding herself deeply caring for the boy she finds behind them---a boy so caught up in his life's worth of ridicule, he has no idea of how beautiful he is. Read on into the story of Emma and Nathan, where she helps him come to terms with his anxiety, breaks his insecurities, and every other social standard set to define something beautiful. . . . . . . . . . .