Let S Not Talk Anymore

Author : Weng Pixin
Publisher : Drawn and Quarterly
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 177046462X

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Let's Not Talk Anymore by Weng Pixin Pdf

A five-generation family history told through what is seen and heard, if not said Let’s Not Talk Anymore weaves together five generations of women from Weng Pixin’s family, each at age fifteen. Her lineage is full of breakages—her great grandmother Kuan is sent away from her family in South China, her grandmother Mèi is adopted by a neighbor to help with housework, and her mother, Bing, is heartbroken by her father’s estrangement. Pixin's own story centers on her feelings of isolation and her rebellion from her mother. She extends the line by envisioning a fictional future daughter, Rita, who questions her family’s legacy. While spanning one hundred years, Pixin moves back and forth in time seamlessly, as each woman experiences loneliness and kinship, hope and longing. As each story develops, generational traumas are revealed and fraught relationships passed on from mother to daughter. Creative impulses are stifled or nurtured. They struggle with poverty and neglect. And at some point each woman begins to separate herself from her situation and understand the woman she will become. Pixin’s bold, vibrant paintings fill the aching silences between generations with beauty and emotion. Her paintings conjure complete worlds that these women inhabit. Let's Not Talk Anymore is a family history filled with tender moments as these women find connection with plants, animals, and their own creative pursuits, while struggling to connect with one another.

Author : Weng Pixin
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-20
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770466371

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Let's Not Talk Anymore by Weng Pixin Pdf

Let’s Not Talk Anymore weaves together five generations of women from Weng Pixin’s family, each at age fifteen. Her lineage is full of breakages—her great grandmother Kuan is sent away from her family in South China, her grandmother Mèi is adopted by a neighbor to help with housework, and her mother, Bing, is heartbroken by her father’s estrangement. Pixin's own story centers on her feelings of isolation and her rebellion from her mother. She extends the line by envisioning a fictional future daughter, Rita, who questions her family’s legacy. While spanning one hundred years, Pixin moves back and forth in time seamlessly, as each woman experiences loneliness and kinship, hope and longing. As each story develops, generational traumas are revealed and fraught relationships passed on from mother to daughter. Creative impulses are stifled or nurtured. They struggle with poverty and neglect. And at some point each woman begins to separate herself from her situation and understand the woman she will become. Pixin’s bold, vibrant paintings fill the aching silences between generations with beauty and emotion. Her paintings conjure complete worlds that these women inhabit. Let's Not Talk Anymore is a family history filled with tender moments as these women find connection with plants, animals, and their own creative pursuits, while struggling to connect with one another.

Author : Weng Pixin
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-16
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770465213

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Sweet Time by Weng Pixin Pdf

Vibrant swathes of paint build resonant portraits of heartache, childhood memories, and loneliness Sweet Time is an intimate rumination on love, empathy, and confidence. Singaporean cartoonist Weng Pixin delicately explores strained relationships with a kind of hopefulness while acknowledging their inevitable collapse. Her stories are like a series of snapshots in a photo album or the brightest highlights from an Instagram profile. Gorgeous image follows gorgeous image in a delicate quest to find connection. A night out turns into a chance encounter that is at first ecstatic and then quickly descends into awkwardness. A round of “he loves me, he loves me not” becomes a way of reading every action taken by a distant love interest. A couple find themselves in an artificially beautiful landscape, but the relationship can’t survive their difference of opinion on the illusion of its beauty. In Sweet Time, thick and bold strokes of color mingle with delicate lines. Weng combines the colorful realism of Maira Kalman with a gentle wit and introspection all her own, crafting infinitely relatable stories of everyday life and love now.

Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1663608199

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Last Lecture by Perfection Learning Corporation Pdf

Author : Jarah Aurel
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783756265039

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Sommerstall Academy by Jarah Aurel Pdf

Sommerstall Academy is a contemporary teen romance story between a quiet boy with outgoing friends and a girl that likes flowers filled to the brim with cute, funny, and occasionally heartbreaking moments- not to mention steamy scenes...

Author : Mark Manson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780062457738

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson Pdf

#1 New York Times Bestseller Over 10 million copies sold In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up. Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek. There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.

Author : Gary McGilloway
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781728385006

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Ur Not Wise Lad by Gary McGilloway Pdf

This story starts of with me talking to a friend about an idea that I have going through my head. Its about two men who become friends after meeting at support group for out of work Terrorist. The two men only know each other by nick names like Orange Crusher an Green Avenger. When they finely learn each other’s name, they have at least become somewhat close. Orange Crusher is King William King and Green Avenger is Kiral O’Tool. He’s a real spanner. William gets shot by Kiral’s brother, Patrick who has taken a real spite against William just be cause he’s a Protestant. A friend of William’s comes back from England where he was living for years. William finds out that his friend, Scott, has Cancer and has come home to die. A lot of secrets start to come to light some of Scott and William’s wife, Jane. But the worst of all is about William and Scott and Kiral’s parents. But before all that, Kiral’s daughter, Mary, gets attacked and ends up in Hospital in a coma after been kicked in the head by three little thieving bastards. William offers his help to Kiral to get the wee fuckers

Author : Alison Green
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780399181818

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Ask a Manager by Alison Green Pdf

From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Author : Deborah Smith
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307798305

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Miracle by Deborah Smith Pdf

Haunted by a past filled with poverty and abuse, Amy Miracle finds escape and release in the vineyards of Georgia--and in Sebastian de Savin, a brilliant and arrogant surgeon whose own past has hardened his heart. Amy finally breaks through de Savin's shell and teaches him to love and laugh again, and Sebastian helps Amy blossom into a magnificent woman. From the Paperback edition.

Author : John Irving
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735276185

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The World According to Garp by John Irving Pdf

An international bestseller since its publication in 1978, The World According to Garp established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation. This is the life of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields—a feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes—even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with “lunacy and sorrow”; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. In more than thirty languages, in more than forty countries—with more than ten million copies in print—this novel provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: “In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.”

Author : Xi BeiXiaoMei
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649910813

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Doctor Princess Is Prickly by Xi BeiXiaoMei Pdf

Li's parents, Li Yu Chu, was framed for infidelity, caged and sunk. When he returned, his personality had changed drastically. He had beaten up his stepmother and abused his own younger sister. His methods had been extremely ruthless. What a joke, how could she dress up as a sloppy young miss that could be easily bullied! Rumors had it that the Li family's eldest daughter had become a yaksha and was carrying a prostitute who didn't know who her father was. No one dared to marry her! I am the mother Yaksha I am proud, I bring the oil bottle I am proud of! As for who would dare to marry — what was the point of having two men lined up in front of Li's house? The little bun jumped out, "Mother, I'll choose your man!" Pick and choose... Li Yu Chu smacked his lips and asked, "Bastard, and you chose such a cripple for your mother?" "He said that he can eat soft food in the kitchen and bring children. Mother, I think it's suitable for you!"

Author : Mu XiaoXi
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649486103

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This Spoiling President Is My Husband by Mu XiaoXi Pdf

Many years ago, she was tricked into his bed, and the charming night was extremely cozy. She unwillingly became a street mouse in her heart, and many years later, when they met again, she was still in his bed. "Plotted against me?" "What Mr. Lin said is not right. I am not the only one feeling good. How can I be called scheming?" In order to find out the reason for her mother's death, she brought her child back to the city ... 

Author : Xiao Xiao
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 1283 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781648849831

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CEO, Release Me by Xiao Xiao Pdf

She was once the grand and illustrious Great Young Miss of Mu Family, and once the scandal had engulfed her, she became the unfilial son of another.Just as her fiancé betrayed her, as well as her mother's illness, when everyone in the world had abandoned her, Gu Chen suddenly appeared in front of her like a god."Sir, please, please save me."The man's eyes flashed, his slender fingers pinched Mu Ning's chin, and his deep voice sounded as cold and indifferent as Xiu Luo's."Woman, you'll have to pay the price for begging me."

Author : Belinda Fristoe Vaughn
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1475913893

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Sara Came Back by Belinda Fristoe Vaughn Pdf

Austin Edmund cant sleep. Hes haunted by nightmares of a man in a dark hat and a little girl, calling him home. His daughter refers to the dark figure in his dreams as the boogeyman, and shes seen the little girl, too. Austin wonders how that could be possibleare people capable of sharing the same dream?but hes distracted when he receives an invite to head home to Alabama to help his parents fix up the old family cabin. Austin takes his wife, Paige, and their daughter, Beth Ann, back home to Decatur, where they get the chance to rekindle their connection to Austins parents, Floyd and Opal. Plus, with Austins experience as an architect and Paiges as a remodeler, the log cabin will soon be livable again. Austin is excited at the prospect, and he scoffs at the silly idea that the cabin is haunted. After all, ghosts arent real. Beth Ann is visited by the young girl from Austins dreams. Her name is Sara, and she travels with a dog named Maya. The Edmunds soon realize that Sara isnt a playmate; shes a restless ghost, and shes struggling to protect them from a vengeful character known as Judas. Judas preys on dreams, and he wreaks havoc in their minds. Soon, the line between dream and reality becomes blurred, and Sara is the Edmunds only hope of staying alive and staying sane.

Author : Song Jiayin
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647870065

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Heart Hunting Game: Clever Sweet Wife by Song Jiayin Pdf

"Hubby, be a bit more gentle ... ...""Be good, it's almost done. Endure it a bit more!"Watching a certain CEO carefully bandage her wound, Ran Bingyi pursed her lips and was speechless!Four years ago, in a conspiracy, she had been sent to his bed, and at the same time had been designed out of the family property and lost her right to inherit it.Four years later, he shut her up in her room. "Son called me daddy, and you still pretend you don't know me?"Everyone said that Young Master Lan was unreachable and became a servant in the blink of an eye. He even had two small tails on his back."Daddy, there's a media outcry about Mommy, Little Three!""Buy that website!""Daddy, someone sent flowers to Mommy, chasing Mommy!""Buy his company!""Daddy, when are you going to ask Mommy to give us a sister?""Tonight!"