Let's Pretend This Never Happened

Author: Jenny Lawson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101573082
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy. “Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.”—O, The Oprah Magazine When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives. Readers Guide Inside

Let's Pretend this Never Happened

Author: Jim Benton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781536422993
Category : Diaries
Languages : en
Pages : 95

Book Description
Middle school student, Jamie Kelly, writes all the strange and sometimes not so wonderful things that happens to her or she sees during school in her diary and promises that everything she writes is as true as she wants it to be.

Furiously Happy

Author: Jenny Lawson
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1743540256
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 315

Book Description
For fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey and Caitlin Moran comes the new book from Jenny Lawson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Let's Pretend This Never Happened... In Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson regaled readers with uproarious stories of her bizarre childhood. In her new book, Furiously Happy, she explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. And terrible ideas are what Jenny does best. As Jenny says: "You can't experience pain without also experiencing the baffling and ridiculous moments of being fiercely, unapologetically, intensely and (above all) furiously happy." It's a philosophy that has - quite literally - saved her life. Jenny's first book, Let's Pretend This Never Happened, was ostensibly about family, but deep down it was about celebrating your own weirdness. Furiously Happy is a book about mental illness, but under the surface it's about embracing joy in fantastic and outrageous ways. And who doesn't need a bit more of that?

O, Democracy!

Author: Kathleen Rooney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984651092
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
It's late spring of 2008, and one of Illinois' two Democratic senators is poised to become the next president of the United States. Colleen Dugan works for the other one--not on Capitol Hill, but in a Chicago skyscraper that overlooks Lake Michigan, among coworkers with little to do but field calls from angry constituents while the future of the nation gets decided elsewhere. In the coming weeks, Colleen will navigate the perils of costumed protestors, thuggish union reps, vacuous interns, trifling bureaucrats, dirty tricks by the senator's Republican rival, and the unexpected discovery of a scandalous secret that will give her the power to change the course of the election and shape her own fate--though not necessarily for the better. A quarter-life crisis viewed from the ghostly perspective of the Founding Fathers, this is a hilarious and heartbreaking story about American politics and the difficult business of being a good citizen: walking the tricky line between self-sacrifice and self-sabotage, between doing your part and knowing your place.

Let's Pretend We Never Met

Author: Melissa Carol Walker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781338280913
Category : Female friendship
Languages : en
Pages : 231

Book Description
If it were up to Mattie Markham, there would be a law that said your family wasn't allowed to move in the middle of the school year. After all, sixth grade is hard enough without wondering if you'll be able to make new friends or worrying that the kids in Pennsylvania won't like your North Carolina accent. But when Mattie meets her next-door neighbor and classmate, she begins to think maybe she was silly to fear being the "new girl." Agnes is like no one Mattie has ever met -- she's curious, hilarious, smart, and makes up the best games. If winter break is anything to go by, the rest of the school year should be a breeze. Only it isn't, because when vacation ends and school starts, Mattie realizes something: At school Agnes is known as the weird girl who no one likes. All Mattie wants is to fit in (okay, and maybe be a little popular too), but is that worth ending her friendship with Agnes?

Let's Pretend This Never Happened

Author: Jenny Lawson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425261018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Cuckoo Unleashed

Author: Julia Derek
Publisher: Adrenaline Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO PROTECT YOUR CHILD? Seventeen-year-old Gabe Landis has issues. Anger issues, due to severe trauma. If he doesn’t address his ever-present anger, he’ll explode. No orthodox methods help him. The only way he gets true peace is when he takes a life. Temporary peace, that is. Yvonne Landis, his mother, has issues too. Not only does she suffer from schizophrenia, but she’s also a fugitive. She was held at a mental institution to stand trial for her husband’s murder. Gabe killed his father, not Yvonne. But she feels so responsible for what he has become that she can’t turn him in despite having unearthed proof he’s the real killer. Instead, she devotes her life to help him deal with his issues. That means she must find someone for him to kill. But can she go through with it? If you love dark suspenseful crime thrillers with murder and mayhem, vigilante heroes with complex characters and strong women, check out my Club Nirvana series. Mother and son have a singular mission in life - to root out child trafficking once and for all. Part of the Mother and Son Vigilantes bundle. Other series in the Yvonne Landis Universe: - The Child Trilogy - Club Nirvana

Miss Ex-Yugoslavia

Author: Sofija Stefanovic
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501165763
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
A “funny and tragic and beautiful in all the right places” (Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times bestseller author of Furiously Happy) memoir about the immigrant experience and life as a perpetual fish-out-of-water, from the acclaimed Serbian-Australian storyteller. Sofija Stefanovic makes the first of many awkward entrances in 1982, when she is born in socialist Yugoslavia. The circumstances of her birth (a blackout, gasoline shortages, bickering parents) don’t exactly get her off to a running start. While around her, ethnic tensions are stoked by totalitarian leaders with violent agendas, Stefanovic’s early life is filled with Yugo rock, inadvisable crushes, and the quirky ups and downs of life in a socialist state. As the political situation grows more dire, the Stefanovics travel back and forth between faraway, peaceful Australia, where they can’t seem to fit in, and their turbulent homeland, which they can’t seem to shake. Meanwhile, Yugoslavia collapses into the bloodiest European conflict in recent history. Featuring warlords and beauty queens, tiger cubs and Baby-Sitters Clubs, Sofija Stefanovic’s memoir is a window to a complicated culture that she both cherishes and resents. Revealing war and immigration from the crucial viewpoint of women and children, Stefanovic chronicles her own coming-of-age, both as a woman and as an artist. Refreshingly candid, poignant, and illuminating, “Stefanovic’s story is as unique and wacky as it is important” (Esquire).

Harlequin Special Edition February 2022 - Box Set 1 of 2

Author: Jo McNally
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369710630
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 637

Book Description
Harlequin® Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Special Edition box set includes: A SOLDIER'S DARE (A Fortunes of Texas: The Wedding Gift novel) by Jo McNally When Jack Radcliffe dares Belle Fortune to kiss him at the Hotel Fortune’s Valentine’s Ball, he thinks he’s just having fun. She’s interested in someone else. But from the moment their lips touch, the ex-military man is in trouble. The woman he shouldn’t want challenges him to confront his painful past—and face his future head-on… STARLIGHT AND THE SINGLE DAD (A Welcome to Starlight novel) by USA TODAY bestselling author Michelle Major Relocating to the Cascade Mountains is the first step in Tessa Reynolds’s plan to reinvent herself. Former military pilot Carson Campbell sees the bold and beautiful redhead only wreaking havoc with his own plan to be the father his young daughter needs. As her feelings for Carson deepen, Tessa finally knows who she wants to be—the woman who walks off with Carson's heart… THE FIVE-DAY REUNION (A Once Upon a Wedding novel) by Mona Shroff Law student Anita Virani hasn’t seen her ex-husband since the divorce. Now she’s agreed to pretend she’s still married to Nikhil until his sister’s wedding celebrations are over—because her former mother-in-law neglected to tell her family of their split! For more relatable stories of love and family, look for Harlequin Special Edition February 2021 – Box Set 2 of 2

Unaccustomed Earth

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Random House India
ISBN: 8184004842
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279

Book Description
The stories of Unaccustomed Earth focus on second-generation immigrants making and remaking lives, loves and identities in England and America. We follow brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, friends and lovers, in stories that take us from Boston and London to Bombay and Calcutta. Blending the individual and the generational, the exotic and the strikingly mundane, these haunting, exquisitely detailed and emotionally complex stories are intensely compelling elegies of life, death, love and fate. This is a dazzling work from a masterful writer.