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Best Young Woman Job Book

Author : Emma Healey
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735275010

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Best Young Woman Job Book by Emma Healey Pdf

Wry, inventive, and relentlessly honest, a memoir of trying to make a living without compromising your truth. Emma Healey just wants to be a writer, but that’s more a journey than a job, and the journey isn’t free. As a teenager, she begins her adventures in precarious employment when introduced by her actor/playwright mother to the role of “standardized patient,” performing illness as a living training dummy for medical students. In university, she joins a creative writing program, cultivating a poet’s interest in language while learning lessons about the literary world that have more to do with survival than art. Through her twenties, she writes software manuals for the world’s leading producer of online pornography, masters search engine optimization for a marketing firm run out of a bedroom by two Phish-loving brothers, narrowly escapes death as a research assistant for a television drama, and works the night shift captioning daytime TV. Along the way, as she navigates dating apps, tumultuous relationships, and the evolution of a voice that she is slowly learning to trust, she begins writing personal essays for money—and finds herself embroiled in a content economy that blurs the boundaries between day job and making art even further. Through the stories of several very odd jobs, each related to—but also achingly far from—the job she really wants, poet and essayist Emma Healey creates a unique snapshot of the gig economy that is also a timeless meditation on identity, value, and language. For a writer trying to pay the bills, life can be a work in progress.

Begin with the End in Mind

Author : Emma Healey
Publisher : Arp Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1894037626

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Begin with the End in Mind by Emma Healey Pdf

Residing on the border between poetry and prose, Emma Healey masterfully navigates the tension and balance between the two forms. Her writing examines the animate qualities of seemingly inanimate things and explores personal relationships, collective and individual human experiences, as they are distilled through our encounters with such things as the CBC, chain bookstores, the contents of a kitchen, or the expanse of a whole city. Begin With the End in Mind tests the capabilities of the prose poem--the specific rhythmic, lyrical, and syntactic possibilities of the form, and the opportunities for play, renegotiating the more traditional/technical elements of lyric and line that are afforded the prose poet.

Elizabeth Is Missing

Author : Emma Healey
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345808325

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Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey Pdf

WINNER 2014 – Costa Book Awards—First Novel An internationally heralded debut novel of extraordinary warmth, insight and humanity that will appeal to readers who loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Still Alice: Elizabeth Is Missing is at once a page-turning mystery that takes us from post-war Britain to the present day and a piercingly honest portrait of love and memory, families and aging through the lens of an unforgettable protagonist who will seize your heart--an elderly woman descending into forgetfulness, as she embarks alone on a quest to find the best friend she believes has disappeared. Maud, an aging grandmother, is slowly losing her memory--and her grip on everyday life. Notes fill her pockets and dot the walls of her home, increasingly crucial reminders of the immediate world. Most crucial is the fact that she can't find her only friend--Elizabeth has disappeared: she isn't answering the phone and doesn't seem to be at her house. Maud, convinced Elizabeth is in terrible danger, refuses to forget her even if her frustrated daughter, Helen, her carer, Carla, and the police won't listen and won't help. Armed with an overwhelming feeling that Elizabeth desperately needs her help, Maud sets out to find her. And, unexpectedly, her search triggers an old and powerful memory of another unsolved disappearance--that of her sister, Sukey, who vanished more than 50 years ago, shortly after the Second World War. As long-ago memories emerge, Maud begins to uncover forgotten clues to her sister's disappearance and to piece together the mystery that has haunted her family for decades, discovering new momentum in her search for her friend. Could the mystery of Sukey's disappearance hold the key to finding Elizabeth?

The Ophelia Girls

Author : Jane Healey
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780358105268

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The Ophelia Girls by Jane Healey Pdf

A mother’s secret past and her daughter’s present collide in this richly atmospheric novel from the acclaimed author of The Animals at Lockwood Manor. In the summer of 1973, Ruth and her four friends were obsessed with pre-Raphaelite paintings—and a little bit obsessed with each other. Drawn to the cold depths of the river by Ruth’s house, the girls pretend to be the drowning Ophelia, with increasingly elaborate tableaus. But by the end of that fateful summer, real tragedy finds them along the banks. Twenty-four years later, Ruth returns to the suffocating, once grand house she grew up in, the mother of young twins and seventeen-year-old Maeve. Joining the family in the country is Stuart, Ruth’s childhood friend, who is quietly insinuating himself into their lives and gives Maeve the attention she longs for. She is recently in remission, unsure of her place in the world now that she is cancer-free. Her parents just want her to be an ordinary teenage girl. But what teenage girl is ordinary? Alternating between the two fateful summers, The Ophelia Girls is a suspense-filled exploration of mothers and daughters, illicit desire, and the perils and power of being a young woman.

Stitch, Fabric & Thread

Author : Elizabeth Healey
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781782212850

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Stitch, Fabric & Thread by Elizabeth Healey Pdf

Experiment with stitch, fabric and thread to create your own unique textiles. This inventive book is a treasure trove of over 40 inspiring practical exercises, a rich and creative exploration of fabric and stitch, and a fascinating all-round read. Elizabeth Healey's approach to sewing is that it should be fun, and not like a chore or an exam we need to excel in. Her aim is to simply encourage you to pick up a needle and thread and get sewing! The exercises draw inspiration from around the world: create corded works of art inspired by Milton Glaser's iconic Bob Dylan poster; create bold embroidered African masks; layer up and cut away to create Mola applique; use bleach and fabric paint to create Aboriginal dreamtime lizards; create knotted works of art inspired by ancient Mayan counting systems; embroider varsity cross-stitch letters or try out decorative Japanese book binding. Alternatively, try a host of other techniques such as quilting, printing, dyeing, couching tumbled crockery, creating pleats and puckers and needlelace. Packed with stitch galleries and bursting with slow sewing ideas, the book also contains 'behind the stitches' features: illuminating insights into sewing movements such as Boro textiles, Gee's Bend quilting and Dorset buttons.

Stereoblind

Author : Emma Healey
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781487003838

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Stereoblind by Emma Healey Pdf

In Stereoblind, no single thing is ever perceived in just one way. Shot through with asymmetry and misconception, the prose poems in Emma Healey’s second collection describe a world that’s anxious and skewed, but still somehow familiar — where the past, present, and future overlap, facts are not always true, borders are not always solid, and events seem to write themselves into being. An on-again, off-again real estate sale nudges a quartet of millennial renters into an alternate universe of multiplying signs and wonders; an art show at Ontario Place may or may not be as strange and complex (or even as “real”) as described; the collusion of a hangover and a blizzard carry our narrator on a trancelike odyssey through Bed Bath & Beyond. Using a diverse range of subjects — from pharmaceutical research testing to Tinder — to form an inventory of ontological disturbance, Healey delves moments when the differences between things disappear, and life exceeds its limits.

Austin-Healey 100, 100-6, 3000 Restoration Guide

Author : Gary G. Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Austin automobile
ISBN : 1610608143

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Austin-Healey 100, 100-6, 3000 Restoration Guide by Gary G. Anderson Pdf

Bring your Big Healey back to life! If youre looking to restore your Austin-Healey - youve come to the right place. This authentic restoration guide discusses the differences between model years, identifies parts numbers, year-to-year changes, correct finishes, and more. Charts and tables cover production figures, paint schemes, wiring codes, and provide thoroughly detailed information on mid-year production changes. Contains a detailed appendix on British fasteners and deciphering the fastener codes in the Austin-Healey service manuals.

AUSTIN-HEALEY

Author : Bill Piggott
Publisher : Veloce Publishing Ltd
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781845848552

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AUSTIN-HEALEY by Bill Piggott Pdf

The Austin Healey – or ‘Big’ Healey – is one of the iconic British sports cars. The first Austin-Healey 100 model was unveiled at the 1952 Earls Court Motor Show, and when the last car rolled off the production line in 1967, over 73,000 examples had been built.

Best Seat in the House

Author : Tom Stephen,Keith Elliot Greenberg
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781773052748

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Best Seat in the House by Tom Stephen,Keith Elliot Greenberg Pdf

For 15 years, Tom Stephen had the unique distinction of being both drummer and manager of the Jeff Healey Band. The dual role was fraught with conflicts of interest. One minute, he was leading the debauched life of a rock musician; the next, he was disciplining the band for the havoc they caused. But few knew or understood Jeff Healey — a national icon and one of the world’s best blues guitarists — better. Funny and loyal, with a luminous mind and staggering talent, Healey was also provincial, stubborn, obnoxious, and antagonistic. This book explores both sides with honesty, clarity, and humor and reveals what life for the band was really like: Jeff challenging ZZ Top to a bowling competition — and winning; Bill Clinton inviting the band to the White House, and enjoying a special audience with Queen Elizabeth II. To say nothing of the legendary guitarist’s interactions with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Keith Richards, and more… Tom Stephen was there for it all. He believes that young fans deserve to experience Healey’s brilliance — to understand the complicated man behind those timeless sounds. Best Seat in the House offers an authentic perspective that fans won’t find elsewhere.

Healey

Author : Jessie Fothergill
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385225398

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Healey by Jessie Fothergill Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Nomination of Thomas J. Healey

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PURD:32754076264658

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Nomination of Thomas J. Healey by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance Pdf

Austin-Healey Big Healeys

Author : Reid Trummel
Publisher : Veloce Publishing Ltd
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781845843922

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Austin-Healey Big Healeys by Reid Trummel Pdf

Having this book in your pocket is like having a real marque expert by your side. Benefit from the author’s years of real ownership experience, learn how to spot a bad car quickly, and how to assess a promising one like a professional. Get the right car at the right price!

Austin Healey Sprite - The Complete Story

Author : Malcolm Thorne
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780719840524

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Austin Healey Sprite - The Complete Story by Malcolm Thorne Pdf

In May 1958, one of the world's largest motor manufacturers unveiled a diminutive two-seater that would take the world by storm. Small in stature yet able to punch well above its weight, the Austin-Healey Sprite rapidly gained an enthusiastic following among keen drivers, as well as an impressive record in competition. Being neither expensive nor exotic, for many motorists the Sprite opened the door to sports car ownership and, in so doing, its commercial success was almost guaranteed. With over 250 photographs, this book includes: the genesis of the Sprite, from the Austin Seven and pre-war MG Midget, via Donald Healey's Riley- and Nash-engined models, to the Austin A30, A90 Atlantic and Healey Hundred. The development, launch and market reception is covered along with details of the evolution from Mk I to Mk IV, including the Frogeye and restyled ADO 41. Rallies, racing and record breaking details are given as well as information on modifications, special-bodied variants, replicas and finally, buying and restoring a Sprite today.

Mr Big Healey

Author : Norman Burr
Publisher : Veloce Publishing Ltd
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781845842574

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Mr Big Healey by Norman Burr Pdf

This is the authorized biography of one of the best-liked bad boys in British motorsport. John Chatham, driver, racer, repairer, rebuilder, tuner, trader and lover of Austin-Healeys, was in the words of Geoffrey Healey “uncontrollable” in his youth, and has only mildly mellowed with age. Burly and genial but formidably competitive, and not above bending the rules when he thought he could get away with it, to many he is the archetypal club racer. John is so synonymous with Austin-Healeys that the most famous racing Healey in the world, DD300, is so well-known mainly because John campaigned it for decades, notching up tens of thousands of racing miles. But his career embraces far more than one car, and until this biography no-one had attempted to fill in the gaps. The book is not a dry description of one club race after another. It does include a list of John’s principal sporting achievements, but no complete record exists of the hundreds of events which made up his competitive career, so the writer has not attempted to compile one. Instead Norman Burr, who was himself acquainted with John in his youth, has created a more rounded and personal account, full of motoring and sporting anecdotes, but also telling the story of John’s family, his work, his business, his three wives and his lovers. John has a comprehensive photo library from which the book is generously illustrated, with cartoons added to illustrate some of the moments that a camera was not around to record. Thoroughly politically incorrect even by the standards of the 1960s, it’s an account which will strike a chord not only with admirers of Big Healeys, but also with anyone who believes that independent thinking, and the courage to apply and enjoy it, is the greatest virtue of all.

The Labour Party, Denis Healey and the International Socialist Movement

Author : Ettore Costa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319773476

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The Labour Party, Denis Healey and the International Socialist Movement by Ettore Costa Pdf

This book describes how, after the Second World War, the Labour Party assumed leadership of the International Socialist Movement, thanks to the achievements of the Attlee Government. International Secretary Denis Healey guided the reconstruction of the Socialist International through the early Cold War, making the British vision for socialist internationalism prevail over the French and Belgian. At first, the provisional Socialist International (International Socialist Conference and Comisco) supported cohabitation with pro-communist socialists and the USSR, but with the Sovietisation of Eastern Europe it committed to militant anti-communism. Ambiguity between the Labour Party and Labour Government influenced British policy in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy and Poland, while the characterization and stereotypes of Eastern and Southern Europe shaped the language and actions of the British. Furthermore, the book shows how international contacts and the British and Swedish model encouraged the transition of socialist parties to responsible government parties fully embracing Western democracy and prepared the ideological revision of the 1950s.