Somewhere Close to Happy

Author: Lia Louis
Publisher: Trapeze
ISBN: 9781409184164
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
'A wonderfully written, funny and moving debut with an intriguing mystery at its heart... Unforgettable.' - Claire Douglas, bestselling author Lizzie James is happy. She has a steady office job (with a steady stream of snacks), has had the same best friend since school, and she sees her family every Thursday night for take-away and trashy TV. Lizzie likes her uncomplicated life. Then a letter arrives one day from her first love, Roman. A letter dated the day he disappeared, 12 years before. As Lizzie uncovers the secrets of the letter, she discovers what really happened the year her life fell apart - and all avenues lead back to Roman. Lizzie James thought she was happy, or somewhere close to happy, at least. Now she's not so sure. 'I LOVED Somewhere Close to Happy. It made me cry several times but was also really funny. It is incredibly good and I am sure it will be huge.' - Laura Marshall, bestselling author of Friend Request *Perfect for fans of Giovanna Fletcher, Mhairi McFarlane and Cecelia Ahern and Kate Eberlen's Miss You. This is a novel you won't soon forget.*

This Close to Happy

Author: Daphne Merkin
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374711917
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Favorite Read of 2016 “Despair is always described as dull,” writes Daphne Merkin, “when the truth is that despair has a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottled silver.” This Close to Happy—Merkin’s rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression—captures this strange light. Daphne Merkin has been hospitalized three times: first, in grade school, for childhood depression; years later, after her daughter was born, for severe postpartum depression; and later still, after her mother died, for obsessive suicidal thinking. Recounting this series of hospitalizations, as well as her visits to myriad therapists and psychopharmacologists, Merkin fearlessly offers what the child psychiatrist Harold Koplewicz calls “the inside view of navigating a chronic psychiatric illness to a realistic outcome.” The arc of Merkin’s affliction is lifelong, beginning in a childhood largely bereft of love and stretching into the present, where Merkin lives a high-functioning life and her depression is manageable, if not “cured.” “The opposite of depression,” she writes with characteristic insight, “is not a state of unimaginable happiness . . . but a state of relative all-right-ness.” In this dark yet vital memoir, Merkin describes not only the harrowing sorrow that she has known all her life, but also her early, redemptive love of reading and gradual emergence as a writer. Written with an acute understanding of the ways in which her condition has evolved as well as affected those around her, This Close to Happy is an utterly candid coming-to-terms with an illness that many share but few talk about, one that remains shrouded in stigma. In the words of the distinguished psychologist Carol Gilligan, “It brings a stunningly perceptive voice into the forefront of the conversation about depression, one that is both reassuring and revelatory.”

A Little Life

Author: Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804172706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 833

Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.

If He Had Been with Me

Author: Laura Nowlin
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402277849
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know—the cause of the argument—is crucial. So let me tell you...

Before We Were Strangers

Author: Renée Carlino
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501105787
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other. Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding… I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello. After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half? M

Somewhere Close to Happy

Author: Lia Louis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781409184157
Category : Best friends
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
"Lizzie James is happy. She has a steady office job (with a steady stream of tray bakes), has had the same best friend since high-school, and she sees her family every Thursday night for take-out and trash TV. Granted, some members of her family she'd rather not see, and they definitely don't want to see her after what happened back then. But on the whole she's happy. Or somewhere close to it, anyway. Until a letter arrives one day from her best friend, Roman. A letter dated 12 years' before, the day he went missing. It brings all her painful memories flooding back: the new school she had to go to when she was ill, losing her beloved granddad, Hubble, and then losing her first love. As Lizzie uncovers the secrets of the letter, she starts to discover what really happened the year her life fell apart - and all avenues lead back to Roman. Who sent her the letter, and what happened to Roman?"--Publisher.

El Cerrito

Author: Anthony Ziegler
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 055707813X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Sometimes we don't look and we find things. We are busy being ourselves. We are enjoying the breath we breathe with the words we hear and share. Everyone around us is a part of us. We smile and talk to strangers as if they are friends we've known since birth or before. The moment is complete and there is no other reason to look for anything else. There are no wants to fulfill. Our needs are met. We hold on tightly to what we have, afraid it may slip out of our hands if we do not. Eventually, our hands become comfortably numb. We no longer can feel what we are holding and often forget what it is we are holding or why we are holding so tightly to begin with. We open our cupped hands to look at what we have and they are empty. We had let whatever it was we thought we wanted to hold so tightly and keep for ourselves, slip away. It fell on the ground somewhere while we were busy holding it. It is not until what we want is lost that we may realize it's what we need.

The Agendaneers I {English}

Author: Richard W. Custer
Publisher: Richard W. Custer
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560

Book Description
The Agendaneers are responsible for this apocalypse. Schematoria is where they send you for re-education. -And Anarchemy is the universal language of dissent on the wasteland... "The Agendaneers - Schematoria" is the first prequel to "Anarchemy"; which can be read in advance of the feature-length Trilogy involving "Schematoria", "Perturbatory" and the feature-lengthed version of "Anarchemy" -a novel which includes the Author's ever-popular "Dirty Chip and Uncle S.A.M.", and Best-Selling "Cosmos Line" products. All 12 of the Foreign Language Editions of "Anarchemy - The Crypto-Contagion" are 2014 International Bestsellers {iBookstore and Feedbooks}, and seven of the Editions; to include Five Editions of "Anarchemy's prequel, "The Agendaneers - Schematoria" are ALL-TIME BEST-SELLERS {iBookstore}, this being suggestive only of a broad audience's probable enjoyment of these Dystopian Comedies meant to serve as a preamble to the further enjoyment of the science fiction FPS/RPG frameworks that are now being offered to the public by innumerable developers, -or as an introduction to several Author-inspired near-future television and feature movie products that are already arriving on the market {readers will be able to unlock the code of NBC's "The Black List" when reading "The Agendaneers" and will, in many cases, recognize the Author's work spanning 30 years of cinema as the reader enjoys the entire Trilogy}. All Foreign Language Translations {Dutch, Italian, Norwegian, French, Spanish, German, Maori, Malay, Turkish, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Persian and Polish} are being provided by Google Translate! The Author thanks you, in advance, for your consideration of this series; and hopes that you enjoy the works completely.

Trends in Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure

Author: Víctor Yepes
Publisher: MDPI
ISBN: 3036509143
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
The recently established Sustainable Development Goals call for a paradigm shift in the way that buildings and infrastructures are conceived. The construction industry is a major source of environmental impacts, given its great material consumption and energy demands. It is also a major contributor to the economic growth of regions, through the provision of useful infrastructure and generation of employment, among other factors. Conventional approaches underlying current building design practices fall short of covering the relevant environmental and social implications derived from inappropriate design, construction, and planning. The development of adequate sustainable design strategies is therefore becoming extremely relevant regarding the achievement of the United Nations 2030 Agenda Goals for Sustainable Development. This book comprises 11 chapters that highlight the actual research trends in the construction sector, aiming to increase the knowledge on sustainable design practices by highlighting the actual practices that explore efficient ways to reduce the environmental consequences related to the construction industry, while promoting social wellbeing and economic development. The chapters collect papers included in the Special Issue “Trends in Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure” of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

An Understanding of Self

Author: J.L. Dhar
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 8183282601
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
Simple Ways To Harness The Power Within Practical, precise and full of real-life examples, this book is meant to be your intimate life-coach. In fact, this book is an invitation - an invitation to truly know and understand yourself. But it is not an invitation that somebody else has sent you. It has actually come from the deep yearning of your own soul. It is an invitation from you to yourself. Be invited and undertake the journey within.