The Smash Up

Author : Ali Benjamin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593229668

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Smart, sublime, and wickedly clever, The Smash-Up captures—then transcends—our current polarized moment “An exhilarating ride . . . hilarious . . . a modern and energetic story about a marriage on the skids.”—The New York Times Ethan has always been one of the good guys, and for years, nobody has appreciated this fact more than his wife, Zo. Until now. Jolted into activism by the 2016 election, Zo’s transformed their home into the headquarters for the local resistance, turning their comfortable decades-long marriage inside-out. Meanwhile, their boisterous daughter, Alex, grows wilder by the day. Ethan’s former business partner needs help saving the media company they’d co-founded. Financial disaster looms. Enter a breezy, blue-haired millennial making her way through the gig economy. Suddenly Ethan faces a choice unlike any he’s ever had to make. Unfolding over fivet urbulent days in 2018, The Smash-Up wrestles shrewdly with some of the biggest questions of our time: What, exactly, does it mean to be a good guy? What will it take for men to break the “bro code”? How does the world respond when a woman demands more? Can we ever understand another's experiences… and what are the consequences of failing to try? Moving, funny, and cathartic, this portrait of a marriage—and a nation—under strain is, ultimately, a magic trick of empathy, one that will make you laugh and squirm until its final, breathless pages.

Author : Francina Simone
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781488069390

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Smash It! by Francina Simone Pdf

Refreshingly authentic and bold… Don’t miss this smashing novel from Francina Simone, filled with heart, humor and a heroine to root for! Olivia “Liv” James is done with letting her insecurities get the best of her. So she does what any self-respecting hot mess of a girl who wants to SMASH junior year does… After Liv shows up to a Halloween party in khaki shorts—why, God, why?—she decides to set aside her wack AF ways. She makes a list—a F*ck-It list. 1. Be bold—do the thing that scares me. 2. Learn to take a compliment. 3. Stand out instead of back. She kicks it off by trying out for the school musical, saying yes to a date and making new friends. Life is great when you stop punking yourself! However, with change comes a lot of missteps, and being bold means following her heart. So what happens when Liv’s heart is interested in three different guys—and two of them are her best friends? What is she supposed to do when she gets dumped by a guy she’s not even dating? How does one Smash It! after the humiliation of being friend-zoned? In Liv’s own words, “F*ck it. What’s the worst that can happen?” A lot, apparently. #SMASHIT “Smash It! smashed it."—New York Times bestselling author Christine Riccio

Author : Tres Seymour
Publisher : Orchard Books (NY)
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Automobile racing
ISBN : 053108731X

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The Smash-up Crash-up Derby by Tres Seymour Pdf

While visiting the fair, a child describes the most exciting event -- the demolition derby and its surprise winner.

Author : Ian Winwood
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780306902734

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Smash! by Ian Winwood Pdf

A group biography of '90s punk rock told through the prism of Green Day, The Offspring, NOFX, Rancid, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, and more Two decades after the Sex Pistols and the Ramones birthed punk music into the world, their artistic heirs burst onto the scene and changed the genre forever. While the punk originators remained underground favorites and were slow burns commercially, their heirs shattered commercial expectations for the genre. In 1994, Green Day and The Offspring each released their third albums, and the results were astounding. Green Day's Dookie went on to sell more than 15 million copies and The Offspring's Smash remains the all-time bestselling album released on an independent label. The times had changed, and so had the music. While many books, articles, and documentaries focus on the rise of punk in the '70s, few spend any substantial time on its resurgence in the '90s. Smash! is the first to do so, detailing the circumstances surrounding the shift in '90s music culture away from grunge and legitimizing what many first-generation punks regard as post-punk, new wave, and generally anything but true punk music. With astounding access to all the key players of the time, including members of Green Day, The Offspring, NOFX, Rancid, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, and many others, renowned music writer Ian Winwood at last gives this significant, substantive, and compelling story its due. Punk rock bands were never truly successful or indeed truly famous, and that was that -- until it wasn't. Smash! is the story of how the underdogs finally won and forever altered the landscape of mainstream music.

Author : Imbolo Mbue
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525509714

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Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue Pdf

A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award • An ALA Notable Book NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The New York Times Book Review • San Francisco Chronicle • The Guardian • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Chicago Public Library • BookPage • Refinery29 • Kirkus Reviews Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality, discretion, and loyalty—and Jende is eager to please. Clark’s wife, Cindy, even offers Neni temporary work at the Edwardses’ summer home in the Hamptons. With these opportunities, Jende and Neni can at last gain a foothold in America and imagine a brighter future. However, the world of great power and privilege conceals troubling secrets, and soon Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers’ façades. When the financial world is rocked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Jongas are desperate to keep Jende’s job—even as their marriage threatens to fall apart. As all four lives are dramatically upended, Jende and Neni are forced to make an impossible choice. Praise for Behold the Dreamers “A debut novel by a young woman from Cameroon that illuminates the immigrant experience in America with the tenderhearted wisdom so lacking in our political discourse . . . Mbue is a bright and captivating storyteller.”—The Washington Post “A capacious, big-hearted novel.”—The New York Times Book Review “Behold the Dreamers’ heart . . . belongs to the struggles and small triumphs of the Jongas, which Mbue traces in clean, quick-moving paragraphs.”—Entertainment Weekly “Mbue’s writing is warm and captivating.”—People (book of the week) “[Mbue’s] book isn’t the first work of fiction to grapple with the global financial crisis of 2007–2008, but it’s surely one of the best. . . . It’s a novel that depicts a country both blessed and doomed, on top of the world, but always at risk of losing its balance. It is, in other words, quintessentially American.”—NPR “This story is one that needs to be told.”—Bust “Behold the Dreamers challenges us all to consider what it takes to make us genuinely content, and how long is too long to live with our dreams deferred.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “[A] beautiful, empathetic novel.”—The Boston Globe “A witty, compassionate, swiftly paced novel that takes on race, immigration, family and the dangers of capitalist excess.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Mbue [is] a deft, often lyrical observer. . . . [Her] meticulous storytelling announces a writer in command of her gifts.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune

Author : Derek Charm,Jeremy Whitley,Sean E. Williams,Rachel Deering,Mariah Huehner
Publisher : Powerpuff Girls
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1631403788

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Powerpuff Girls: Super Smash-Up by Derek Charm,Jeremy Whitley,Sean E. Williams,Rachel Deering,Mariah Huehner Pdf

"Originally published as 'The Powerpuff Girls: Super Smash Up!' issues #1-5"--Indicia.

Author : Shelly Crane
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : College students
ISBN : 1491234512

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Smash Into You by Shelly Crane Pdf

"Jude has spent the whole twenty one years of his life running. From what, he wasn't quite sure. His mother tried to keep him safe; a low profile, a constant move on the horizon, a week's pay always stashed away. She tried to instill in him that he was special somehow. He never felt different. He was so completely normal and vanilla that he wondered if it had all been in her head. But then she was murdered and all he saw was a running silhouette of a man as his mother said three final words to him. Three words that changed his whole being. Never stop running... Now he's semi-settled into a big town. The college is huge and easy to blend into. It's been three months since he had to move because 'Biloxi', as he calls the man who killed his mother, found him once more. Then Marley, an eighteen year old girl who is as infuriating as she is blissfully ignorant of her gorgeousness, smashes into his car with hers. Then smashes into his life as he realizes that whatever it is he has that Biloxi wants, she has it, too. And now, they're after them both."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Ali Benjamin
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593229675

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The Smash-Up by Ali Benjamin Pdf

Smart, sublime, and wickedly clever, The Smash-Up captures—then transcends—our current polarized moment “An exhilarating ride . . . hilarious . . . a modern and energetic story about a marriage on the skids.”—The New York Times Ethan has always been one of the good guys, and for years, nobody has appreciated this fact more than his wife, Zo. Until now. Jolted into activism by the 2016 election, Zo’s transformed their home into the headquarters for the local resistance, turning their comfortable decades-long marriage inside-out. Meanwhile, their boisterous daughter, Alex, grows wilder by the day. Ethan’s former business partner needs help saving the media company they’d co-founded. Financial disaster looms. Enter a breezy, blue-haired millennial making her way through the gig economy. Suddenly Ethan faces a choice unlike any he’s ever had to make. Unfolding over fivet urbulent days in 2018, The Smash-Up wrestles shrewdly with some of the biggest questions of our time: What, exactly, does it mean to be a good guy? What will it take for men to break the “bro code”? How does the world respond when a woman demands more? Can we ever understand another's experiences… and what are the consequences of failing to try? Moving, funny, and cathartic, this portrait of a marriage—and a nation—under strain is, ultimately, a magic trick of empathy, one that will make you laugh and squirm until its final, breathless pages.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UCAL:B2929535

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The Farmer's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Farmers' Alliance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LOC:00026911175

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The Farmer's Magazine Volume the Twenty-Fourth by Farmers' Alliance Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : OXFORD:555020439

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British Farmer's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Sunday schools
ISBN : OSU:32435082209834

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Youth's Penny Gazette by Anonim Pdf

Author : American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Mechanical engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015023119327

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Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers Pdf

Vols. 2, 4-11, 62-68 include the Society's Membership list; v. 55-80 include the Journal of applied mechanics (also issued separately) as contributions from the Society's Applied Mechanics Division.

Author : Sheila Wagner
Publisher : Future Horizons
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 1885477546

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Inclusive Programming for Elementary Students with Autism by Sheila Wagner Pdf

A guide to help teachers, and administrators with the schooling of children in the inclusive classroom.

Author : Ali Benjamin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593243242

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The Smash-Up by Ali Benjamin Pdf