The Best Friend I Ever Had

Author : Samantha Irby
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780525563495

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Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction Award Winner • A rip-roaring, edgy and unabashedly raunchy new collection of hilarious essays from the New York Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. “Stay-up-all-night, miss-your-subway-stop, spit-out-your-beverage funny.” —Jia Tolentino, New York Times bestselling author of Trick Mirror Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and has been friendzoned by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how with her wife in a Blue town in the middle of a Red state where she now hosts book clubs and makes mason jar salads. This is the bourgeois life of a Hallmark Channel dream. She goes on bad dates with new friends, spends weeks in Los Angeles taking meetings with "tv executives slash amateur astrologers" while being a "cheese fry-eating slightly damp Midwest person," "with neck pain and no cartilage in [her] knees," who still hides past due bills under her pillow. The essays in this collection draw on the raw, hilarious particulars of Irby's new life. Wow, No Thank You. is Irby at her most unflinching, riotous, and relatable. Don't miss Samantha Irby's bestselling new book, Quietly Hostile!

Author : Alexis O'Neill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : PSU:000067527397

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The Worst Best Friend by Alexis O'Neill Pdf

Mike and Conrad, Conrad and Mike are best, BEST friends. That is until Victor--a new boy, a big boy, a cool boy--arrives at school. Suddenly, Conrad turns into the WORST best friend and forgets all about his pal, Mike. But when Victor's need to win leaves Conrad crushed, Mike steps up to the plate and shows how to be a real friend, a true-blue friend--a best, BEST friend. From the creators of The Recess Queen, exuberant illustrations and rhythmic text bounce off the pages in this frank and funny look at the challenges and rewards of friendship. A perfect read-aloud to share with a best, best friend--and all friends--again and again.

Author : Kristin Levine
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780142416488

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The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had by Kristin Levine Pdf

A powerful story about race and an unlikely friendship from award-winning author of The Lions of Little Rock. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults The last thing Harry "Dit" Sims expects when Emma Walker comes to town is to become friends. Proper-talking, brainy Emma doesn't play baseball or fish too well, but she sure makes Dit think, especially about the differences between black and white in the 1910s. But soon Dit is thinking about a whole lot more when the town barber, who is black, is put on trial for a terrible crime. Together Dit and Emma come up with a daring plan to save him from the unthinkable. ★ “Tension builds just below the surface of this energetic, seamlessly narrated first novel set in small-town Alabama in 1917.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review ★ “This classic story of how unlikely persons can change things for the better should appeal to all readers.”—VOYA, starred review

Author : Ellen Jacob
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0740718894

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You're the Best Friend Ever by Ellen Jacob Pdf

Best-selling author Malachy McCourt, Olympic gymnasts (and best friends) Shannon Miller and Kim Zmeskal, and women and men just like you and me contributed essays especially for this book, which reveals the beauty of friendship. In these lovely pages, they tell their stories with warmth and passion, describing the bonds shared by friends. Filled with fond memories, loving stories, and quotes from the famous, You're the Best Friend Ever captures the spirit of friendship, making it the best gift ever for showing your friends what they mean to you.

Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Mathematical Assn of Amer
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0883855453

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Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games by Martin Gardner Pdf

The entire collection of Martin Gardner's Scientific American columns are on one searchable CD! Martin Gardner's ``Mathematical Games'' column ran in Scientific American from 1956 to 1986. In these columns, Gardner introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the delights of mathematics and of puzzles and problem solving. His column broke such stories as Rivest, Shamir and Adelman on public-key cryptography, Mandelbrot on fractals, Conway on Life, and Penrose on tilings. He enlivened classic geometry and number theory and introduced readers to new areas such as combinatorics and graph theory. The CD contains the following articles: (1) Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions; (2) The Second Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions; (3) New Mathematical Diversions; (4) The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions; (5) Martin Gardner's 6th Book of Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American; (6) Mathematical Carnival; (7) Mathematical Magic Show; (8) Mathematical Circus; (9) The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix; (10) Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements; (11) Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Entertainers; (12) Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments; (13) Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers; (14) Fractal Music, Hypercards, and more Mathematical Recreations from Scientific American and (15) The Last Recreations: Hydras, Eggs, and Other Mathematical Mystifications. A profile and interview with Martin Gardner is included in this collection.

Author : Kristin Hannah
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429927840

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Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . now a #1 Netflix series! In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all---beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying her. They make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer's end they've become TullyandKate. Inseparable. So begins Kristin Hannah's magnificent new novel. Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives. From the beginning, Tully is desperate to prove her worth to the world. Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she longs to be loved unconditionally. In the glittering, big-hair era of the eighties, she looks to men to fill the void in her soul. But in the buttoned-down nineties, it is television news that captivates her. She will follow her own blind ambition to New York and around the globe, finding fame and success . . . and loneliness. Kate knows early on that her life will be nothing special. Throughout college, she pretends to be driven by a need for success, but all she really wants is to fall in love and have children and live an ordinary life. In her own quiet way, Kate is as driven as Tully. What she doesn't know is how being a wife and mother will change her . . . how she'll lose sight of who she once was, and what she once wanted. And how much she'll envy her famous best friend. . . . For thirty years, Tully and Kate buoy each other through life, weathering the storms of friendship---jealousy, anger, hurt, resentment. They think they've survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears them apart . . . and puts their courage and friendship to the ultimate test. Firefly Lane is for anyone who ever drank Boone's Farm apple wine while listening to Abba or Fleetwood Mac. More than a coming-of-age novel, it's the story of a generation of women who were both blessed and cursed by choices. It's about promises and secrets and betrayals. And ultimately, about the one person who really, truly knows you---and knows what has the power to hurt you . . . and heal you. Firefly Lane is a story you'll never forget . . . one you'll want to pass on to your best friend.

Author : Christopher Peterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780195188332

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A Primer in Positive Psychology by Christopher Peterson Pdf

Positive psychology is the scientific study of what goes right in life, from birth to death and at all stops in between. It is a newly-christened approach within psychology that takes seriously the examination of that which makes life most worth living. Everyone's life has peaks and valleys, and positive psychology does not deny the valleys. Its signature premise is more nuanced, but nonetheless important: what is good about life is as genuine as what is bad and, therefore, deserves equal attention from psychologists. Positive psychology as an explicit perspective has existed only since 1998, but enough relevant theory and research now exist to fill a textbook suitable for a semester-long college course.A Primer in Positive Psychology is thoroughly grounded in scientific research and covers major topics of concern to the field: positive experiences such as pleasure and flow; positive traits such as character strengths, values, and talents; and the social institutions that enable these subjects as well as what recent research might contribute to this knowledge. Every chapter contains exercises that illustrate positive psychology, a glossary, suggestions of articles and books for further reading, and lists of films, websites, and popular songs that embody chapter themes.A comprehensive overview of positive psychology by one of the acknowledged leaders in the field, this textbook provides students with a thorough introduction to an important area of psychology.

Author : Daniel Grader
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748679904

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Life of Sir Walter Scott by John Macrone by Daniel Grader Pdf

A well-written and carefully-researched narrative, it increases our knowledge of Scott's life and work as perceived by his contemporaries, as well as enabling us to read Hogg's Anecdotes in their original context.

Author : Peter Messent
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199736805

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Mark Twain and Male Friendship by Peter Messent Pdf

This book explores male friendship in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through Mark Twain and the relationships he had with William Dean Howells, Joseph Twichell, and Henry H. Rogers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : CUB:U183015756585

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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country by Anonim Pdf

Author : Debbie Macomber
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426884320

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Between Friends by Debbie Macomber Pdf

Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski. Two girls from very different backgrounds. Jillian is the only child of wealthy parents, while Lesley's from a working-class family. They become best friends in the turbulent '60s, but their circumstances, their choices—and their mistakes—take them in virtually opposite directions. Lesley stays in their Washington State hometown. She gets pregnant and marries young, living a life defined by the demands of small children, not enough money—never enough money—and an unfaithful husband. Jill lives those years in a completely different way: on a college campus shaken by the Vietnam War, and then as an idealistic young lawyer in New York City. But they always remain friends. Through the years and across the miles, through marriage, children, divorce and widowhood, Jill and Lesley confide everything to each other—every grief and every joy. Because the quality of a friendship is the quality of a life.

Author : William Mudford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023328626

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The British Novelists; Comprising Every Work of Acknowledged Merit which is Usually Classed Under the Denomination of Novels. Accompanied with Biographical Sketches of the Authors, and a Critical Preface to Each Work. By William Mudford. Embellished with Elegant Engravings [including Portraits]. by William Mudford Pdf

Author : Henry Mills Alden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : American literature
ISBN : PRNC:32101064076183

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Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden Pdf

Harper's informs a diverse body of readers of cultural, business, political, literary and scientific affairs.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
Page : 9643 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781621076384

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English by William Shakespeare Pdf

If you’ve always wanted to read Shakespeare, but are intimidated by the older language, then this is the perfect edition for you! Every single Shakespeare play is included in this massive anthology! Each play contains the original language with modern language underneath!

Author : Herthey Hill
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781477271124

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Song Lyrics and Poems by Herthey Hill Pdf

I do hope these writtings will be very inspirational to you, and inspire you with more hope for the future. I have written a lot of Truck driving songs and Humorus songs also. You will find songs and Poetry of different Holidays too. So come on and let's go on a journey into the past, the present, and hope for the Future.