A Hungry Heart

Author : Jennifer Weiner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476723426

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Hungry Heart by Jennifer Weiner Pdf

"Generous and entertaining." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and columnist comes a "fiercely funny, powerfully smart, and remarkably brave" (Cheryl Strayed) collection of heartwarming personal essays "as wonderful as her fiction" (Mindy Kaling) that "will enthusiastically reach out to readers and swiftly draw them close" (Publishers Weekly , starred review). Jennifer Weiner is many things: a bestselling author, a Twitter phenomenon, and an "unlikely feminist enforcer" (The New Yorker ). She's also a mom, a daughter, and a sister, a clumsy yogini, and a reality-TV devotee. In this "unflinching look at her own experiences" (Entertainment Weekly ), Jennifer fashions tales of modern-day womanhood as uproariously funny and moving as the best of Nora Ephron and Tina Fey. No subject is off-limits in these intimate and honest essays: sex, weight, envy, money, her mother's coming out of the closet, her estranged father's death. From lonely adolescence to hearing her six-year-old daughter say the F word-fat-for the first time, Jen dives into the heart of female experience, with the wit and candor that have endeared her to fans all over the world.

Author : Geneen Roth
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1993-09-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780452270831

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Feeding the Hungry Heart by Geneen Roth Pdf

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Women Food and God This is how Geneen Roth remembers her time as an emotional overeater and self-starver. After years of struggle, Roth finally broke free from the destructive cycle of bingeing and purging. In the two decades since her triumph, she has gone on to help tens of thousands of others do the same through her lectures, workshops, and retreats. Those she has met during this time have shared stories that are both heartrending and inspiring, which Roth has gathered for this unique book. Twenty years after its original publication, Feeding the Hungry Heart continues to inspire women and men, helping them win the battle against a hunger that goes deeper than a need for food. With contributions from Ronda Slater, Sylvia Gillett, Carolyn Janik, Janet Robyns, Sharon Sperling, Lyn Lifshin, Linda Ostreicher, Sondra Spatt Olsen, Jill Jeffery, Penny Skillman, Leslie Lawrence, Juneil Parmenter, Lisa Wagner, Joan P. Campbell, Micki Seltzer, Rita Garitano, Barbara Florio Graham, Linda Myer, Laura Fraser, Rachel Lawrence, Florinda Colavin, and other Breaking Free workshop participants.

Author : Gordon Parks,Gordon Parks, Jr.
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743269032

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A Hungry Heart by Gordon Parks,Gordon Parks, Jr. Pdf

Acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, composer, and author Gordon Parks reflects on his life achievements and the social and political events he has witnessed.

Author : Jean-Claude Baker,Chris Chase
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : African American entertainers
ISBN : 9780815411727

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Josephine by Jean-Claude Baker,Chris Chase Pdf

This revelatory biography of Folies Bergere dancer Josephine Baker (1906-1975) is a study of struggle, truimph and tragedy.

Author : Gary Williams
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015046885839

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Hungry Heart by Gary Williams Pdf

Reexamines the early literary career of Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), best remembered as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."

Author : Joanna Poppink
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : MEDICAL
ISBN : 1410444414

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Healing Your Hungry Heart by Joanna Poppink Pdf

Although eating disorders are usually talked about as diseases of the young, 1 in 5 women of all ages in the U. S. suffers from one. Now psychotherapist Joanna Poppink offers healing and recovery for women 30, 40, 50 or beyond. Her step-by-step program helps you identify early warning signs of an eating disorder, common pitfalls of recovery, your triggers, and the effect the disorder is having on your health and relationships. Then, she steers you toward healing.

Author : Walsh, Jennifer Rudolph
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780593229644

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Hungry Hearts by Walsh, Jennifer Rudolph Pdf

Sixteen innovators, creatives, and thought leaders—Austin Channing Brown, Sue Monk Kidd, and Luvvie Ajayi Jones, among others—share intimate stories of uncovering beauty and potential through moments of fear, loss, heartbreak, and uncertainty. “You’ll find kindred spirits in these tales of resilience, transformation, and joy.”—Time Over the course of four years, the traveling love rally called Together Live brought together diverse storytellers for epic evenings of laughter, music, and hard-won wisdom to huge audiences across the country. Well-known womxn (and the occasional man) from all walks of life shared their most vulnerable truths in a radical act of love, paving the way for healing in the face of adversity. Now, off the stage and on the pages of Hungry Hearts, sixteen of these beloved speakers offer moving, inspiring, deeply personal essays as a reminder that we can heal from grief and that divisions can be repaired. Bozoma Saint John opens herself up to love after loss; Cameron Esposito confronts the limits of self-reliance in the wake of divorce; Ashley C. Ford learns to trust herself for the first time. A heartfelt anthology of transformation, self-discovery, and courage that also includes essays by Luvvie Ajayi Jones, Amena Brown, Austin Channing Brown, Natalie Guerrero, Sue Monk Kidd, Connie Lim (MILCK), Nkosingiphile Mabaso, Jillian Mercado, Priya Parker, Geena Rocero, Michael Trotter and Tanya-Blount Trotter of The War and Treaty, and Maysoon Zayid, Hungry Hearts shows how reconnecting with our own burning, undeniable intuition points us toward our unique purpose and the communities where we most belong.

Author : Elsie Chapman,Caroline Tung Richmond,Sandhya Menon,S. K. Ali,Rin Chupeco,Anna-Marie McLemore,Rebecca Roanhorse,Sara Farizan,Jay Coles,Adi Alsaid,Sangu Mandanna,Phoebe North,Karuna Riazi
Publisher : Simon Pulse
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781534421868

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Hungry Hearts by Elsie Chapman,Caroline Tung Richmond,Sandhya Menon,S. K. Ali,Rin Chupeco,Anna-Marie McLemore,Rebecca Roanhorse,Sara Farizan,Jay Coles,Adi Alsaid,Sangu Mandanna,Phoebe North,Karuna Riazi Pdf

“A briliant multicultual collection that reminds readers that stories about food are rarely just about the food alone.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A stunning collection of short stories about the intersection of family, culture, and food in the lives in teens, from bestselling and critically acclaimed authors, including Sandhya Menon, Anna-Marie McLemore, and Rin Chupeco. A shy teenager attempts to express how she really feels through the pastries she makes at her family’s pasteleria. A tourist from Montenegro desperately seeks a magic soup dumpling that can cure his fear of death. An aspiring chef realizes that butter and soul are the key ingredients to win a cooking competition that could win him the money to save his mother’s life. Welcome to Hungry Hearts Row, where the answers to most of life’s hard questions are kneaded, rolled, baked. Where a typical greeting is, “Have you had anything to eat?” Where magic and food and love are sometimes one in the same. Told in interconnected short stories, Hungry Hearts explores the many meanings food can take on beyond mere nourishment. It can symbolize love and despair, family and culture, belonging and home.

Author : Jim Lawrence
Publisher : Illuminata Publishers
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1450750168

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Callused Hands Hungry Heart by Jim Lawrence Pdf

In the early 1970's Jim Lawrence unplugged from his well-fed, well-bred urban background, rejected the main staves of the American dream and wandered into the wilderness of adventure in search of a meaningful life. Callused Hands Hungry Heart is a journey across the working landscape of the country, from logging forests in the great Northwest, to commercial fishing and relentless hours in fish canneries; from life in a remote Aleutian island to hopping freights across the country. This book celebrates the romance, adventure, pitfalls and perseverance of a life on the bumpy road less traveled.

Author : Frances Metzman
Publisher : Wilderness House Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0982711557

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The Hungry Heart by Frances Metzman Pdf

Frances Metzman has found the secret of presenting a mood in a short story that sometimes takes a novelist many pages to achieve. Her new short story collection, The Hungry Heart, combines tales of suspense, passion and empathy in artful and sophisticated story-telling.

Author : Peter Wells
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781869794750

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The Hungry Heart by Peter Wells Pdf

Shortlisted for the NZ Post Award this fascinating, innovative biography is of a true original and significant figure in NZ's early colonisation. "I love doubters: of a truly honest doubter I have great hope." Printer, botanist and missionary, William Colenso was a nineteenth-century maverick, a true original. He protested at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, arguing that Maori did not fully understand its implications. He became a troubled conscience during the white-hot period of colonisation, maintaining his dissident voice throughout his career. Peter Wells refreshes our vision of this awkward, highly talented man, who lost his family after the church expelled him for fathering a child by a Maori woman. Rejected by church, family and friends, Colenso made botany his home and lovingly described the plants of New Zealand. At the same time he wrote a series of remarkable pamphlets that open up our past. 'I write for future generations,' he noted in 1881. The time has come to welcome Colenso back.

Author : Jeremy Tankard
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763633608

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Me Hungry! by Jeremy Tankard Pdf

A little prehistoric boy decides to hunt for his own food, and makes a new friend in the process.

Author : Antoinette de Chavonnes Vrugt,Hentie Burger,Christine Hugo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9991685235

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My Hungry Heart by Antoinette de Chavonnes Vrugt,Hentie Burger,Christine Hugo Pdf

Author : Patrick M. Lencioni
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119209614

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The Ideal Team Player by Patrick M. Lencioni Pdf

In his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking approach for tackling the perilous group behaviors that destroy teamwork. Here he turns his focus to the individual, revealing the three indispensable virtues of an ideal team player. In The Ideal Team Player, Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley, a leader desperate to save his uncle’s company by restoring its cultural commitment to teamwork. Jeff must crack the code on the virtues that real team players possess, and then build a culture of hiring and development around those virtues. Beyond the fable, Lencioni presents a practical framework and actionable tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players. Whether you’re a leader trying to create a culture around teamwork, a staffing professional looking to hire real team players, or a team player wanting to improve yourself, this book will prove to be as useful as it is compelling.

Author : Randall Silvis
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119800733

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Heart So Hungry by Randall Silvis Pdf

A remarkable adventure, a heart-rending love story and a gripping race are all front and centre in this account of how one woman's devotion to her late husband's memory transformed Mina Hubbard from a rural Ontario nurse into the most celebrated female explorer of her time.