Life And Other Inconveniences

Author : Annie Choi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781451698404

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Shut Up, You're Welcome by Annie Choi Pdf

From the author of Happy Birthday or Whatever, an outright hilarious and heartfelt collection of personal essays about everything from underwear to musical theater. ANNIE CHOI HATES MUSICAL THEATER. SHE THINKS SANDWICHES ARE BORING. She likes camping, except for the outdoors part. At fifteen, her father made her read the entire car manual before allowing her to sit in the driver’s seat. Her neighbor, who has no cur­tains, is always naked. And she once chased down a man who stole her handbag. All this is to say that Choi is one part badass and one part curmudgeon, with a soft spot for savage bears. Mostly she wants to ask the world: WTF?! Written in Choi’s strikingly original and indignant voice, Shut Up, You’re Welcome paints a revealing portrait of Annie in all her quirky, compelling, riotous glory. Each of Choi’s personal essays begins with an open letter to someone (babies) or something (the San Fernando Valley) she has a beef with. From the time her family ditched her on Christmas to her father’s attach­ment to the World's Ugliest Table, Choi weaves together deeply personal experiences with laugh-out-loud observations, all of which will delight and entertain you.

Author : Kristan Higgins
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451489470

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Always the Last to Know by Kristan Higgins Pdf

Sometimes you have to break a family to fix it. From New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins, a new novel examining a family at the breaking point—in all its messy, difficult, wonderful complexity. The Frosts are a typical American family. Barb and John, married almost fifty years, are testy and bored with each other...who could blame them after all this time? At least they have their daughters-- Barb's favorite, the perfect, brilliant Juliet; and John's darling, the free-spirited Sadie. The girls themselves couldn't be more different, but at least they got along, more or less. It was fine. It was enough. Until the day John had a stroke, and their house of cards came tumbling down. Now Sadie has to put her career as a teacher and struggling artist in New York on hold to come back and care for her beloved dad--and face the love of her life, whose heart she broke, and who broke hers. Now Juliet has to wonder if people will notice that despite her perfect career as a successful architect, her perfect marriage to a charming Brit, and her two perfect daughters, she's spending an increasing amount of time in the closet having panic attacks. And now Barb and John will finally have to face what's been going on in their marriage all along. From the author of Good Luck with That and Life and Other Inconveniences comes a new novel of heartbreaking truths and hilarious honesty about what family really means.

Author : Kristan Higgins
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451489432

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Life and Other Inconveniences by Kristan Higgins Pdf

“A heart-wrenching page-turner told with warmth and humor.”—People Magazine (Pick of the Week) “A rich testament to the power of second chances.”—Women’s World A Publishers Weekly and USA Today Bestseller! From the New York Times bestselling author of Good Luck with That comes a new novel about a blue-blood grandmother and her black-sheep granddaughter who discover they are truly two sides of the same coin. Emma London never thought she had anything in common with her grandmother Genevieve London. The regal old woman came from wealthy and bluest-blood New England stock, but that didn't protect her from life's cruelest blows: the disappearance of Genevieve's young son, followed by the premature death of her husband. But Genevieve rose from those ashes of grief and built a fashion empire that was respected the world over, even when it meant neglecting her other son. When Emma's own mother died, her father abandoned her on his mother's doorstep. Genevieve took Emma in and reluctantly raised her--until Emma got pregnant her senior year of high school. Genevieve kicked her out with nothing but the clothes on her back...but Emma took with her the most important London possession: the strength not just to survive but to thrive. And indeed, Emma has built a wonderful life for herself and her teenage daughter, Riley. So what is Emma to do when Genevieve does the one thing Emma never expected of her and, after not speaking to her for nearly two decades, calls and asks for help?

Author : Bambi Harris
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781450204132

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Death and Other Inconveniences by Bambi Harris Pdf

Penny Lane is brutally murdered on her thirteith birthday. In her afterlife she is chosen to work deciding the fates of murderers but must learn to survive her new world when one of the murderers escapes.

Author : Steven Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0898152399

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P. M. S. Attacks and Other Inconveniences of Life by Steven Phillips Pdf

Tenth edition guide for earning degrees through correspondence classes, night school, summer school, weekend school, exams and life experience. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Sue William Silverman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496220998

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How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences by Sue William Silverman Pdf

Many are haunted and obsessed by their own eventual deaths, but perhaps no one as much as Sue William Silverman. This thematically linked collection of essays charts Silverman's attempt to confront her fears of that ultimate unknown. Her dread was fomented in part by a sexual assault, hidden for years, that led to an awareness that death and sex are in some ways inextricable, an everyday reality many women know too well. Through gallows humor, vivid realism, and fantastical speculation, How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences explores this fear of death and the author's desire to survive it. From cruising New Jersey's industry-blighted landscape in a gold Plymouth to visiting the emergency room for maladies both real and imagined to suffering the stifling strictness of an intractable piano teacher, Silverman guards her memories for the same reason she resurrects archaic words--to use as talismans to ward off the inevitable. Ultimately, Silverman knows there is no way to survive death physically. Still, through language, commemoration, and metaphor, she searches for a sliver of transcendent immortality.

Author : Kristan Higgins
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451489463

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Always the Last to Know by Kristan Higgins Pdf

Sometimes you have to break a family to fix it. From New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins, a new novel examining a family at the breaking point—in all its messy, difficult, wonderful complexity. The Frosts are a typical American family. Barb and John, married almost fifty years, are testy and bored with each other...who could blame them after all this time? At least they have their daughters-- Barb's favorite, the perfect, brilliant Juliet; and John's darling, the free-spirited Sadie. The girls themselves couldn't be more different, but at least they got along, more or less. It was fine. It was enough. Until the day John had a stroke, and their house of cards came tumbling down. Now Sadie has to put her career as a teacher and struggling artist in New York on hold to come back and care for her beloved dad--and face the love of her life, whose heart she broke, and who broke hers. Now Juliet has to wonder if people will notice that despite her perfect career as a successful architect, her perfect marriage to a charming Brit, and her two perfect daughters, she's spending an increasing amount of time in the closet having panic attacks. And now Barb and John will finally have to face what's been going on in their marriage all along. From the author of Good Luck with That and Life and Other Inconveniences comes a new novel of heartbreaking truths and hilarious honesty about what family really means.

Author : Lesley Crewe
Publisher : Vagrant Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1774712792

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Death & Other Inconveniences by Lesley Crewe Pdf

National bestselling author Lesley Crewe's new novel explores widowhood, complicated family dynamics, and growing up at any age. Well, Dick's dead. Now what? Margo, his widow, is trying to dodge the tsunami of paperwork coming her way. She doesn't want to deal with the details -- why do you think she was married in the first place? Dick always handled the drudgery. Monty, Margo's ex-husband (the first one, not the dead one), is trying to support Margo -- who seems to be finally entering adulthood at the tender age of sixty-two. Their daughter Julia knows Margo needs her, but between work complications, house complications, and genius-yet-useless son complications, Julia's gasping for air already. Dead Dick's ex-wife Carole and their daughter Velma consider a Margo a maneater thanks to a few long-ago indiscretions, so the funeral is a nightmare. Life in New Brunswick lately is a tornado of siblings, children, pets, marriages, health issues, and endless bureaucracies. And at the centre of it all is Margo, living alone for the very first time, trying to endure everyone else's judgements about the woman she is when she doesn't even know herself. Maybe a cat will help. (The cat doesn't help.) How old do you have to be to come of age? ....and has anyone seen Dick's will? With humour and heart, national bestseller Lesley Crewe walks readers through the incredibly disruptive domino effects of the death of one unremarkable man.

Author : Sue William Silverman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781496235756

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Acetylene Torch Songs by Sue William Silverman Pdf

Acetylene Torch Songs is a guidebook for writers who want their honesty, social engagement, and intimacy to reach beyond the page and transform the lives of readers with searing, indelible, and unquenchable words.

Author : George Herbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Literature
ISBN : HARVARD:HN2HV9

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The Works of George Herbert in Prose and Verse by George Herbert Pdf

Author : Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600077405

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Essays, tr. by C. Cotton, with some account of the life of Montaigne, notes and a tr. of all the letters, ed. by W.C. Hazlitt by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Pdf

Author : John Burn Bailey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Biography
ISBN : HARVARD:HN2VVZ

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Modern Methuselahs: Or, Short Biographical Sketches of a Few Advanced Nonagenarians Or Actual Centenarians who Were Distinguished in Art, Science, Literature, Or Philanthropy by John Burn Bailey Pdf

Author : Alexander Pika,Jens Dahl,Inge Larsen
Publisher : International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Arctic peoples
ISBN : UCSC:32106015465880

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Anxious North by Alexander Pika,Jens Dahl,Inge Larsen Pdf

Jens Dahl is a Danish anthropologist and former director and Board member of IWGIA who has followed the organization's development for the last 40 years.

Author : Kippis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1793
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00136261

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Biographia Britannica Or the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons by Kippis Pdf

Author : James Roderick O'Flanagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Judges
ISBN : HARVARD:HL4MGI

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The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of Ireland by James Roderick O'Flanagan Pdf