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Motherhood

Sheila Heti
Motherhood Book PDF

Author : Sheila Heti
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345810564

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Motherhood by Sheila Heti Pdf

A daring, funny, and poignant novel about the desire and duty to procreate, by one of our most brilliant and original writers. Motherhood treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood—whether or not to have children—with the intelligence, wit and originality that have won Sheila Heti international acclaim, and which led her previous work, How Should a Person Be?, to be called "one of the most talked-about books of the year" (TIME magazine). Having reached an age when most of her peers are asking themselves when they will become mothers, Heti's narrator considers, with the same urgency, whether she will do so at all. Over the course of several years, under the influence of her partner, body, family, friends, mysticism and chance, she struggles to make a moral and meaningful choice. In a compellingly direct mode that straddles the forms of the novel and the essay, Motherhood raises radical and essential questions about womanhood, parenthood, and how—and for whom—to live.

Sheila's Shop

Kimberly Battle-Walters
Sheila s Shop Book PDF

Author : Kimberly Battle-Walters
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0847699331

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Sheila's Shop by Kimberly Battle-Walters Pdf

The author studies the impact of race on the everyday lifes of working-class African American women by using beauty shop talk. They discuss from relationships and beauty to politics, equality, race, gender, and class. They speak in their own words about their families and communities and the struggles they face in areas of life.

How Should a Person Be?

Sheila Heti
How Should a Person Be Book PDF

Author : Sheila Heti
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780887842795

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How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti Pdf

A brilliant portrayal of finding a beautiful life by one of Canada's most exciting literary talents, now available as an Anansi Book Club edition featuring discussion questions. How Should a Person Be? is an unabashedly honest and hilarious tour through the unknowable pieces of one woman’s heart and mind, an irresistible torn-from-life book about friendship, art, sex, and love. Part literary novel, part self-help manual, and part racy confessional, it is a fearless exploration into the way we live now by one of the most highly inventive and thoughtful young writers working today.

The Middle Stories

Sheila Heti
The Middle Stories Book PDF

Author : Sheila Heti
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770890886

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The Middle Stories by Sheila Heti Pdf

Balancing wisdom and innocence, joy and foreboding, Sheila Heti’s completely original stories lead you to surprising places. This edition featuring nine new stories. A frog doles out sage advice to a plumber infatuated with a princess, a boy falls hopelessly in love with a monkey, and a man with a hat keeps apocalyptic thoughts at bay by resolving to follow a plan that he admits he won’t stick to. Globe and Mail critic Russell Smith has described Heti’s stories as cryptic fairy tales without morals at the end, but really the morals are in the quality of the telling and in the details disclosed along the way. Look where you weren’t going to look, think what you wouldn't have thought, Heti seems to say, and meaning itself gains more meaning, more dimensions. Heti’s stories are not what you expect, but why did you expect that anyway? This special new edition features nine new stories that were not available in the first Canadian edition.

The Normal Personality

Steven Reiss
The Normal Personality Book PDF

Author : Steven Reiss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521707447

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Many Psychologists regard personality and mental illness as closely related. The shadow of Freudian analysis looms over modern psychopathology, driving many psychologists to try to understand their clients' personal troubles and personalities using constructs developed to study mental illness. They believe that dark, unconscious mental forces that originated in childhood cause personality traits, personal troubles, and mental illnesses. Steven Reiss thinks problems are a normal part of life. In The Normal Personality, Reiss argues that human beings are naturally intolerant of people who express values significantly different from their own. Because of this intolerance, psychologists and psychiatrists sometimes confuse individuality with abnormality and thus over-diagnose disorders. Reiss shows how normal motives, not anxiety or traumatic childhood experiences, underlie many personality and relationship problems, such as divorce, infidelity, combativeness, workaholism, loneliness, authoritarianism, weak leadership styles, perfectionism, underachievement, arrogance, extravagance, stuffed shirt-ism, disloyalty, disorganization, and overanxiety. Based on a series of scientific studies, this book advances an original scientific theory of psychological needs, values, and personality traits. Reiss shows how different points on motivational arc produce different personality traits and values. He also shows how knowledge of psychological needs and values can be applied in counseling individuals and couples. The author describes new, powerful methods of assessing and predicting motivated behavior in natural environments including corporations, schools, and relationships.

Sheila Rae, the Brave

Kevin Henkes
Sheila Rae the Brave Book PDF

Author : Kevin Henkes
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780063083950

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Sheila Rae, the Brave by Kevin Henkes Pdf

Sheila Rae, the Brave is a warm, humorous, and loving story of sibling sympathy and support. Just because Sheila Rae is older, she doesn't always know better! This classic picture book about overcoming fear is written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes, the nationally bestselling and celebrated creator of Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, Owen, and Kitten's First Full Moon. "I am very brave," Sheila Rae said, patting herself on the back. She wasn't afraid of anything—not thunder, not lightning, not the big black dog at the end of the block. And when she wanted to walk home a new way and Louise wouldn't, she called her sister a scaredy-cat and set out alone. But all the bravado in the world failed to help when Sheila Rae found herself lost. Luckily, her sister was not far behind. "Children will love it."—School Library Journal

A Garden of Creatures

Sheila Heti
A Garden of Creatures Book PDF

Author : Sheila Heti
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780735268814

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A Garden of Creatures by Sheila Heti Pdf

A tender and deeply moving picture book about loss and the big questions it leaves behind from New York Times bestselling author Sheila Heti and acclaimed illustrator Esmé Shapiro. Two bunnies and a cat live happily together in a beautiful garden. But when the big bunny passes away, the little bunny is unsure how to fill the void she left behind. A strange dream prompts her to begin asking questions: Why do the creatures we love have to die, and where do we go when we die? How come life works this way? With the wisdom of the cat to guide her, the little bunny learns that missing someone is a way of keeping them close. And together they discover that the big bunny is a part of everything around them -- the grass, the air, the leaves -- for the world is a garden of creatures. With its meditative text, endearing illustrations and life-affirming message, A Garden of Creatures reveals how the interconnectedness of nature and the sweetness of friendship can be a warm embrace even in the darkest times.

A Second Book of Booksellers

Sheila Markham
A Second Book of Booksellers Book PDF

Author : Sheila Markham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN : 0954799720

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A Second Book of Booksellers by Sheila Markham Pdf

The last resort of the eccentric, the antiquarian book trade is rich in colourful and entertaining characters. Since 1991, Sheila Markham has been interviewing some of its most influential figures about their life and work in perhaps the most humane, sociable and absorbing branch of commerce to be found anywhere. This is the second collection of interviews to be published following the success of A Book of Booksellers, which appeared in a limited hardback edition in 2004 and was reprinted in paperback in 2007.

Friend Me

Sheila M. Averbuch
Friend Me Book PDF

Author : Sheila M. Averbuch
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338675870

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Friend Me by Sheila M. Averbuch Pdf

An Amazon Best Book of the Month What happens when an online friend becomes a real-life nightmare? Roisin hasn't made a single friend since moving from Ireland to Massachusetts. In fact, she is falling apart under constant abuse from a school bully, Zara. Zara torments Roisin in person and on social media. She makes Roisin the laughingstock of the whole school. Roisin feels utterly alone... until she bonds with Haley online. Finally there's someone who gets her. Haley is smart, strong, and shares anti-mean-girl memes that make Roisin laugh. Together, they are able to imagine what life could look like without Zara. Haley quickly becomes Roisin's lifeline. Then Zara has a painful accident, police investigate, and Roisin panics. Could her chats with Haley look incriminating? Roisin wants Haley to delete her copies of their messages, but when she tries to meet Haley in person, she can't find her anywhere. What's going on? Her best friend would never have lied to her, right? Or is Haley not who she says she is... With twists, turns, and lightning-fast pacing, this is a middle-grade thriller about bullying, revenge, and tech that young readers won't be able to put down.

The Voice of Sheila Chandra

Kazim Ali
The Voice of Sheila Chandra Book PDF

Author : Kazim Ali
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 194857912X

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The Voice of Sheila Chandra by Kazim Ali Pdf

Ali's sixth collection analyzes the slippery, intangible, and transient nature of existence.

Finding Edward

Sheila Murray
Finding Edward Book PDF

Author : Sheila Murray
Publisher : Cormorant Books
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770866270

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Finding Edward by Sheila Murray Pdf

Cyril Rowntree migrates to Toronto from Jamaica in 2012. Managing a precarious balance of work and university, he begins to navigate his way through the implications of being racialized in his challenging new land. A chance encounter with a panhandler named Patricia leads Cyril to a suitcase full of photographs and letters dating back to the early 1920s. Cyril is drawn into the letters and their story of a white mother’s struggle with the need to give up her mixed-race baby, Edward. Abandoned by his own white father as a small child, Cyril’s keen intuition triggers a strong connection and he begins to look for the rest of Edward’s story. As he searches, Cyril unearths fragments of Edward’s itinerant life as he crisscrossed the country. Along the way, he discovers hidden pieces of Canada’s Black history and gains the confidence to take on his new world.

Once We Were Sisters

Sheila Kohler
Once We Were Sisters Book PDF

Author : Sheila Kohler
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143129295

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Once We Were Sisters by Sheila Kohler Pdf

ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE’S BEST NEW BOOKS “A searing and intimate memoir about love turned deadly.” —The BBC “An intimate illumination of sisterhood and loss.” —People When Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister Maxine, only two years older, was killed when her husband drove them off a deserted road in Johannesburg. Stunned by the news, she immediately flew back to the country where she was born, determined to find answers and forced to reckon with his history of violence and the lingering effects of their most unusual childhood—one marked by death and the misguided love of their mother. In her signature spare and incisive prose, Sheila Kohler recounts the lives she and her sister led. Flashing back to their storybook childhood at the family estate, Crossways, Kohler tells of the death of her father when she and Maxine were girls, which led to the family abandoning their house and the girls being raised by their mother, at turns distant and suffocating. We follow them to the cloistered Anglican boarding school where they first learn of separation and later their studies in Rome and Paris where they plan grand lives for themselves—lives that are interrupted when both marry young and discover they have made poor choices. Kohler evokes the bond between sisters and shows how that bond changes but never breaks, even after death. “A beautiful and disturbing memoir of a beloved sister who died at the age of thirty-nine in circumstances that strongly suggest murder. . . . Highly recommended.” —Joyce Carol Oates

Brave

Sheila Vijeyarasa
Brave Book PDF

Author : Sheila Vijeyarasa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-03
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781922579829

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Brave by Sheila Vijeyarasa Pdf

Ford Falcon Commemorative Edition celebrates the much-loved car's six-decade rule of Aussie roads and racetracks. With the chequered flag flying on the Blue Oval favourite, this book examines the first Falcons to take flight in the early 1960s through to the final FG-X. Special emphasis is placed on the glorious decade 1969-78 and the magnificent high-performance machines from the Falcon XW GT-HO to the XA, XB and the Cobra. These are cars that still command instant respect and ooze all the excitement, emotion, colour, freedom and raw power of their time. Ford Falcon captures the stories from the men who designed, developed, built and raced these bred-for-Bathurst beasts. It features stunning photography of Falcon's triumphs, milestones and majesty. After some 56 years and 3.8 million cars, what better way to say goodbye to Aussie motoring royalty.

Leave Society

Tao Lin
Leave Society Book PDF

Author : Tao Lin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101974483

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Leave Society by Tao Lin Pdf

From the acclaimed author of Taipei, a bold portrait of a writer working to balance all his lives—artist, son, loner—as he spins the ordinary into something monumental. An engrossing, hopeful novel about life, fiction, and where the two blur together. In 2014, a novelist named Li leaves Manhattan to visit his parents in Taipei for ten weeks. He doesn't know it yet, but his life will begin to deepen and complexify on this trip. As he flies between these two worlds--year by year, over four years--he will flit in and out of optimism, despair, loneliness, sanity, bouts of chronic pain, and drafts of a new book. He will incite and temper arguments, uncover secrets about nature and history, and try to understand how to live a meaningful life as an artist and a son. But how to fit these pieces of his life together? Where to begin? Or should he leave society altogether? Exploring everyday events and scenes--waiting rooms, dog walks, family meals--while investigatively venturing to the edges of society, where culture dissolves into mystery, Lin shows what it is to write a novel in real time. Illuminating and deeply felt, as it builds toward a stunning, if unexpected, romance, Leave Society is a masterly story about life and art at the end of history. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL

The Beat of My Own Drum

Sheila E.
The Beat of My Own Drum Book PDF

Author : Sheila E.
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476714981

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The Beat of My Own Drum by Sheila E. Pdf

From the Grammy-nominated singer, drummer, and percussionist who is world renowned for her contributions throughout the music industry, a moving memoir about the healing power of music and spiritual growth inspired by five decades of life and love on the stage. She was born Sheila Escovedo in 1957, but the world knows her as Sheila E. She first picked up the drumsticks and started making music at the precocious age of three, taught by her legendary father, percussionist Pete Escovedo. As the goddaughter of Tito Puente, music was the heartbeat of her family, and despite Sheila's impoverished childhood in Oakland, California, her family stayed strong, inspired by the music they played nightly in their living room. When she was only five, Sheila delivered her first solo performance to a live audience. By nineteen, she had fallen in love with Carlos Santana. By twenty-one, she met Prince at one of her concerts. Sheila E. and Prince would eventually join forces and collaborate for more than two decades, creating hits that catapulted Sheila to her own pop superstardom. The Beat of My Own Drum is both a walk through four decades of Latin and pop music—from her tours with Marvin Gaye, Lionel Richie, Prince, and Ringo Starr to her own solo career. At the same time, it’s also a heartbreaking, ultimately redemptive look at how the sanctity of music can save a person’s life. Having repeatedly endured sexual abuse as a child, Sheila credits her parents, music, and God with giving her the will to carry on and to build a lasting legacy. Rich in musical detail, pop, and Latin music history, this is a fascinating walk through some of the biggest moments in music from the ’70s and ’80s. But as Sheila’s personal story, this memoir is a unique glimpse into a world-famous drummer’s singular life—a treat for both new and longtime fans of Sheila E. And above all, The Beat of My Own Drum is a testament to how the positive power of music has fueled Sheila’s heart and soul—and how it can transform your life as well.