Monday, 23 January 2017

Precious Things By Stephanie Parent

Precious Things Read By Stephanie Parent

Title:Precious Things
Author:Stephanie Parent
Format:Kindle Edition
Page:200 pages
ISBN:

Isabelle Andrews isn t supposed to be here She isn t supposed to be a freshman at Hartford Community College, she isn t supposed to be living at home and working at her dad s failing bakery, and she definitely isn t supposed to be taking Intro to Electronic Music Production, a class that will get her nowhere toward her goal of an English Lit Ph.D by age twenty five But Isabelle Andrews isn t supposed to be here She isn t supposed to be a freshman at Hartford Community College, she isn t supposed to be living at home and working at her dad s failing bakery, and she definitely isn t supposed to be taking Intro to Electronic Music Production, a class that will get her nowhere toward her goal of an English Lit Ph.D by age twenty five But when her dad s latest business fiasco eats up her college fund, Hartford Community College is exactly where Isabelle finds herself and thanks to her late enrollment, she doesn t even get to choose her classes Stuck with Electronic Music and way too easy English courses, Isabelle is determined to wallow in all the misery she feels entitled to.But community college brings some unexpected benefits like the fact that a certain overworked, over scheduled Electronic Music professor hands over most of his duties to his teaching assistant His tall, green eyed, absolutely gorgeous teaching assistant When TA Evan Strauss discovers Isabelle s apathy toward electronic music and, well, all music he makes it his mission to convert her The music Evan composes stirs something inside Isabelle, but she can t get involved after all, she ll be transferring out as soon as possible Still, no matter how tightly Isabelle holds on to her misery, she finds it slipping away in the wake of all Hartford Community offers new friendships, a surprisingly cool poetry professor, and most of all, Evan But Evan s dream of owning his own music studio is as impractical as Isabelle s dad s bakery, and when Evan makes a terrible decision, everything Isabelle has gained threatens to unravel Soon Isabelle discovers that some of the most important lessons take place outside the classroom and that in life, as in Evan s favorite Depeche Mode song, the most precious things can be the hardest to hold on to


about Author

Stephanie Parent is a graduate of the Master of Professional Writing program at USC and attended the Balti School for the Arts as a piano major She moved to Los Angeles because of Francesca Lia Block s WEETZIE BAT books, which might give you some idea of how much books mean to her She also loves dogs, books about dogs, and sugary coffee drinks both hot and cold.



thumbnailTitle: Precious Things
Posted by:Stephanie Parent
Published :2016-04-18T16:38+01:00
Isabelle Andrews isn t supposed to be here She isn t supposed to be a freshman at Hartford Community College, she isn t supposed to be living at home
Precious Things
200 pagesStephanie Parent

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