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Killian, Beth. The 310; everything she wants.


KILLIAN, Beth. The 310; everything she wants. Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster

U.S. publishing company. It was founded in 1924 by Richard L. Simon (1899–1960) and M. Lincoln Schuster (1897–1970), whose initial project, the original crossword-puzzle book, was a best-seller.
, MTV MTV
 in full Music Television

U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business.
. 226p. c2006. 1-4165-2168-2. $9.99. S

Eva Cordes is desperately trying to make it in the Hollywood modeling scene and with her hot boyfriend Danny. She is a virgin living with two vixen-like roommates who are constantly on the prowl to "hook-up" Eva and Danny. Maybe Eva still isn't ready to be intimate Verb 1. be intimate - have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"  with Danny, and when her high school boyfriend from Massachusetts shows up unexpectedly, she realizes this. Add that struggle to her search for the identity of her father, dead since she was an infant, her relationship with her high-powered, model agency-owning aunt, and her absentee, former jet-setting model mother, and you get one confused young woman. Eva's identity struggle stands out among her friends' fascinations with shopping, staying thin, and attending Hollywood events, and culminates in an unexpected, life-altering surprise.

Second in the 310 series, Beth Killian's story plows through young Hollywood like a hot knife Hot knife may refer to:
  • A tool with a heated blade, used to cut materials.
  • A method of smoking cannabis.
 through butter. She covers absentee parents alongside manipulative and controlling ones, and struggles with food, weight, money, and personal choices. While reading, I couldn't help thinking I was in the middle of a reality series so popular now on MTV. Holley Wiseman, MLIS MLIS Master of Library and Information Science
MLIS Multilingual Information Society
MLIS Molecular Laser Isotope Separation
MLIS Masters of Library and Information Studies
MLIS Medical/Legal Information Services
, Columbus, OH

S--Recommended for senior high school students.
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Date:Sep 1, 2006
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