thomas weeks obit

PESAWAT berbadan besar yang kutumpangi melaju cepat meninggalkan London. Penerbangan ini nonstop menuju Singapura. Gadis dengan rambut dikucir dan seperangkat touchscreen di tangan, berisi corat-coret daftar pertanyaan, tersenyum gugup di kursi berlapis kulit asli di sebelahku. Aku sedang tidak berselera untuk tersenyum, cukup menyeringai, menatapnya datar. ”Silakan,” kataku. ”Maaf, wawancara ini sudah berkali-kali ditunda. Kami sudah berusaha menyesuaikan jadwal. Tapi begitulah, tidak mudah mengejar kesibukan Anda.” Dia sedikit percaya diri tampaknya. Senyumnya lebih baik. Aku mengangguk. Aku tahu, tidak perlu dijelaskan. Janji pertama bertemu di Jakarta kemarin pagi batal karena aku sudah berangkat menghadiri konferensi. Editor senior majalah minggu- an itu spesial meneleponku, minta maaf, bilang wawancara ini

Nora Chen needs the Aldridge Prize to keep her scholarship. Ethan Cross doesn't need anything except, apparently, to make her life impossible. When they're named the only two finalists and forced into weekly peer reviews, eight weeks of reading each other's most honest writing becomes eight weeks of pretending they don't feel what's between the lines. She thinks he's privileged and careless. He knows she's brilliant and terrifying. They're both wrong. They're both right. And the thing neither of them is ready to admit? He wrote his submission about her. And her secret poetry... is about him.

Anahita Maurya is the modern image of independent, liberated girl with an equally modern family background. Despite this, she is betrothed to her father's best friend's son, Yuvraaj, who knows nothing but to get under her skin. She clearly despised his presence in her life and adamantly employs all the devices to get out of his vice clasp. Even if this means getting a boyfriend and defiant her family. Now, she has successfully involved herself in a relationship and Yuvraaj has chosen the exact moment to turn her world upside down. From persuasion to rebellion, all the measures have been plied. Finally, headstrong and ball breaking Anahita decides to elope on the eve of her wedding. Except, her boyfriend never turns up.

THOMAS is a quiet boy who grows up without emotional attention. At home, he lives under pressure and shame. At school, he is invisible until he discovers a simple truth: attention can be taken from those who are weaker. Laughter becomes validation. Cruelty becomes a shortcut to being seen. For the first time, Thomas feels alive. Years later, Thomas finds another way to be noticed. Not through open violence, but through achievement, status, and quiet superiority. He rises above others and learns to look down on them. Yet changing methods does not erase consequences. The past Thomas never truly faced lingers in silence. As reality slowly catches up and guilt begins to consume him, he is forced to confront a life built entirely around himself. In the end, when understanding arrives too late and no attention can fill the emptiness anymore, Thomas chooses death as his way out. THOMAS is a psychological tragedy about craving validation, ego, and what happens when self-awareness comes after everything has already been lost.

Having a twelve-week sexual agreement with a stranger who also turned out to be her boss and her old friend’s fiancee was the last thing Livianna Atkiss expected. She regretted the day she used him to make her ex-boyfriend jealous without knowing who he was. Now, she was engulfed in her sexual encounters with her boss, Arthur Regal, while trying to hide the truth from her friend. Will she be able to continue the lies or give up to avoid being humiliated even though she is already in love with Arthur Regal? Find out in the book.

Lieutenant Lee Mallory spends his time off duty playing video games. There isn't much else to do while stationed on the USS Nova out in deep space.<br><br>Unfortunately, a run in with his commanding officer, Jonan Thomas, strips him -- and everyone else onboard -- of their gaming privileges.<br><br>Thomas has had it in for Lee from day one, when they got off on the wrong foot. Now, banned from using the game server in the rec room, Lee sneaks online in his quarters after hours, looking to play.<br><br>That's where he meets a fellow gamer onboard who's interested in a different kind of game. As much as Lee wants to hook up, though, he can't afford to get into any more trouble.<br><br>Can Lee take command -- in the game and in the bedroom -- without further aggravating his CO?

*finished* Akilah Dunes has no interest in boys after two failed relationships. She just wants to graduate and is ever so close. Her best friend Mathew is all she needs. Right? Jack has finally gotten out of his old life and found himself here. In a desperate attempt to not repeat his old life, Jack takes up a bet to make Akilah fall in love with him so he can brake her fragile heart. He has a past full of secrets that he’d rather keep buried. He’d never tell anyone. The best way to keep them buried is to start over. In a new state. With new friends. Jack will do anything to keep the past behind him. But what happens when Jack starts to see Akilah in a different light? What happens when a tingly feeling starts to appear when Akilah starts to talk? What happens when Jack falls in love? Suicide and drugs mentioned. Last two chapters uploaded to my account

Yuna Lee’s life falls apart in one humiliating night. After catching her boyfriend cheating on her with her bestfriend and getting thrown out of her apartment with nothing but two suitcases and a shopping addiction she can no longer afford, Yuna is desperate for a way to survive. She needs money, stability, and a miracle—fast. Adrian Hart doesn’t believe in love, older, very mature, doesn't believe in miracles, or messy women who trip over their own feet. Cold, untouchable, and terrifyingly handsome, Adrian is the CEO of Hart Group, and he has exactly three weeks to find a wife before his grandfather changes his will and hands his company to his younger brother. He doesn’t want romance. He wants a contract. A temporary bride. A woman who can smile in public, wear a ring, and disappear when the deal is over. Yuna should have said no. Instead, she signs a marriage contract with the most impossible man she has ever met. There’s only one problem: living with Adrian Hart is far more dangerous than the contract itself. Because the more Yuna sees the lonely man behind his perfect suits and icy stare, the harder it becomes to remember the rules of their fake marriage. And when Adrian starts looking at her like she belongs to him, Yuna realizes their deal might end in heartbreak… or a love neither of them ever wanted. Three weeks to the wedding. Three months of marriage. One contract they were never supposed to break.

Hailey, a hardworking second-year scholarship student at a prestigious university, juggles her studies while supporting her family. Jason, on the other hand, comes from wealth but lives cut off from his family, drifting through life with no real purpose. Known for his three-week flings, Jason makes a reckless bet with his friend: to break his own rule with the one girl who seems immune to his charm—Hailey. But as their worlds collide, neither expects just how much can change in three weeks.

Norbert, a young man from Granville, learns that he shares the same fate as his grandfather. Determined to make something of his life, he sets out to make his dreams a reality. But as he embarks on his journey, he discovers that his past trauma has left him with a warped view of life and relationships. When his mother is murdered, Norbert must navigate a world of pain, depression, and lies to uncover the truth about her death. As he uncovers hidden secrets, he begins to question everything he thought he knew about himself and his family.