Bar Flower

Author : Lea Jacobson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312368976

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Bar Flower by Lea Jacobson Pdf

Having originally landed in Japan in 2003 after college at McGill to work as a kindergarten teacher, Jacobson was fired from her job at the Happy Learning English School in Yokosuka city because the psychiatrist she saw for anxiety revealed her condition in a letter to her employer. Outspoken about discrimination against women in Japanese society, fond of drinking and prone to eating disorders and self-cutting, Jacobson drifted among teaching jobs before settling into the more lucrative but taxing employment as a hostess at the Palace, on Tokyo's Ginza strip, where the reigning mama-san taught her the fine art of being a decorative bar flower who serves men drinks and light conversation without being touched. Jacobson soon found her job leaching into all aspects of her life, and the paid dates, drinking and partying prompted a destructive spiral of cutting and blacking out. Truly fascinated by Japanese mores, Jacobson nonetheless elevates her story with compelling digressions into ukiyo (the floating world), geisha tradition and the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923, among other topics, for a candid version of cultural immersion.

Author : Fiona Stapley
Publisher : Random House
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781473566132

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The Good Pub Guide 2020 by Fiona Stapley Pdf

Britain's bestselling travel guide for over 35 years and the only truly independent pub guide of its kind. ***Featured in the Guardian, the Times and Mail Online and on BBC Radio 4*** The 38th edition of this much-loved book is as irreplaceable as ever. Organised county by county, its yearly updates and reader recommendations ensure that only the best pubs make the grade. Here you will not only find a fantastic range of countryside havens, bustling inns and riverside retreats, but also pubs known for their excellent food, some specialising in malt whiskey and craft beers. Discover the top pubs in each county for beer, food and accommodation, and find out the winners of the coveted titles of Pub of the Year and landlord of the Year. Packed with hidden gems, The Good Pub Guide continues to provide a wealth of honest, entertaining and up-to-date information on the countries drinking establishments.

Author : Massachusetts Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Massachusetts
ISBN : UCD:31175016707997

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Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society by Massachusetts Historical Society Pdf

For the statement above quoted, also for full bibliographical information regarding this publication, and for the contents of the volumes [1st ser.] v. 1- 7th series, v. 5, cf. Griffin, Bibl. of Amer. hist. society. 2d edition, 1907, p. 346-360.

Author : CC Ainsworth
Publisher : Garland Science
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135325657

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Sex Determination in Plants by CC Ainsworth Pdf

Indispensable for all plant biologists, this is a fascinating and thorough examination of those factors which affect the sex determination of plant species, describing all of the main classes of plant with unisexual flowers hermaphrodite, monoecious and

Author : Eléonore Riego de la Branchardière
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024918710

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The Crochet Book. Sixteenth Series by Eléonore Riego de la Branchardière Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Gardening
ISBN : UOM:39015086611764

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Gardeners' Chronicle by Anonim Pdf

Author : Danielle Geller
Publisher : One World
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781984820419

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Dog Flowers by Danielle Geller Pdf

A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her mother’s life in a memoir that is both a narrative and an archive of one family’s troubled history. “A candid and achingly fractured memoir of [Geller’s] mother, her family, her Navajo heritage and her own journey to self-discovery and acceptance.”—Ms. SHORTLISTED FOR: The Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, The Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Esquire, She Reads When Danielle Geller’s mother dies of alcohol withdrawal during an attempt to get sober, Geller returns to Florida and finds her mother’s life packed into eight suitcases. Most were filled with clothes, except for the last one, which contained diaries, photos, and letters, a few undeveloped disposable cameras, dried sage, jewelry, and the bandana her mother wore on days she skipped a hair wash. Geller, an archivist and a writer, uses these pieces of her mother’s life to try and understand her mother’s relationship to home, and their shared need to leave it. Geller embarks on a journey where she confronts her family's history and the decisions that she herself had been forced to make while growing up, a journey that will end at her mother's home: the Navajo reservation. Dog Flowers is an arresting, photo-lingual memoir that masterfully weaves together images and text to examine mothers and mothering, sisters and caretaking, and colonized bodies. Exploring loss and inheritance, beauty and balance, Danielle Geller pays homage to our pasts, traditions, and heritage, to the families we are given and the families we choose.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Horticulture
ISBN : UCAL:C2617223

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The Gardeners' Chronicle by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCAL:B2870864

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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alisdair Aird,Fiona Stapley
Publisher : Random House
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781448175925

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The Good Pub Guide 2014 by Alisdair Aird,Fiona Stapley Pdf

The 32nd edition of The Good Pub Guide is as invaluable as ever. Organised county by county, its comprehensive yearly updates and countless reader recommendations ensure that only the very best pubs make the grade. Here you will find classic country pubs, town-centre inns, riverside retreats, historic havens and exciting newcomers, plus gastropubs and pubs specialising in malt whisky or own-brew beer. Discover the top pubs in each county for beer, dining and accommodation, and find out the winners of the coveted titles of Pub of the Year and Landlord of the Year. Packed with hidden gems, The Good Pub Guide 2014 provides a wealth of honest, entertaining and indispensable information. Whether you are planning a night out, a weekend away, holidaying in the UK or simply looking for a local pub, Alisdair Aird and Fiona Stapley have it covered.

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1452 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2539692

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Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Hamilton Andrews Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Boston (Mass.)
ISBN : CHI:19337896

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History of the Old South Church (Third Church) Boston, 1669-1884 by Hamilton Andrews Hill Pdf

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1620 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Patents
ISBN : WISC:89119133809

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Alan Bennett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780571246878

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Writing Home by Alan Bennett Pdf

Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Writing Home brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights. As a memoir it covers the production of his very first play, Forty Years On, which starred John Gieldgud. His television series 'Talking Heads' has become a modern-day classic; as part of the 1960s revue 'Beyond the Fringe' Bennett helped to kick-start the English satire revolution, and has since remained one of our leading dramatists, most recently with The History Boys at the National Theatre. At the heart of the book is The Lady in The Van, since adapted into a radio play featuring Dame Maggie Smith. It is the true account of Miss Mary Shepherd, a homeless tramp who took up residence in Bennett's garden and stayed for fifteen years. This new edition also includes Bennett's introduction to his Oscar-nominated screenplay for The Madness of King George and his more recent diaries.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : American drama
ISBN : UOM:39015077982745

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Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf