Author: Anya HindmarchPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1526629739
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Author: Laura FreemanMission Monday: Making the most of every week
Author: Kristin OsinskiPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 035981168X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Have you ever had a case of the Monday's? Well, fear not, fellow citizen! Kristin Osinski's debut book, ""Mission Monday,"" is here to help. Laugh at Kristin's problems, absorb her advice, and make the best of your own week, all while reading a good ol' book.
American Son: A Novel
Author: Brian Ascalon RoleyPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393340724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A powerful novel about ethnically fluid California, and the corrosive relationship between two Filipino brothers. Told with a hard-edged purity that brings to mind Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, American Son is the story of two Filipino brothers adrift in contemporary California. The older brother, Tomas, fashions himself into a Mexican gangster and breeds pricey attack dogs, which he trains in German and sells to Hollywood celebrities. The narrator is younger brother Gabe, who tries to avoid the tar pit of Tomas's waywardness, yet moves ever closer to embracing it. Their mother, who moved to America to escape the caste system of Manila and is now divorced from their American father, struggles to keep her sons in line while working two dead-end jobs. When Gabe runs away, he brings shame and unforeseen consequences to the family. Full of the ache of being caught in a violent and alienating world, American Son is a debut novel that captures the underbelly of the modern immigrant experience. A Los Angeles Times Best Book, New York Times Notable Book, and a Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize Finalist
Everyday Use
Author: Alice WalkerPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813520766
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Presents the text of Alice Walker's story "Everyday Use"; contains background essays that provide insight into the story; and features a selection of critical response. Includes a chronology and an interview with the author.
Knitting with Dog Hair: Better a Sweater from a Dog You Know and Love Than from a Sheep You'll Never Meet
Author: Kendall CroliusPublisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1324091150
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Shed happens! Don’t clog up your vacuum cleaner—turn that fuzz into fabulous fashions with this complete guide. Recycle Rover into treasured mementos of your beloved pet. No, it’s not a joke! Knitting with Dog Hair became a cult sensation when first published in the 1990s. Back by popular demand, this expanded edition by author and spinner Kendall Crolius reveals how dog knitting became a movement and helped launch cottage industries of artisans spinning pet hair. It includes an expanded guide of dog breeds, including the trendy “designer dogs” that have become all the rage. This twenty-first-century edition, a perfect gift book for all occasions, provides tip-filled, easy-to-use advice on: How to evaluate a breed based on its potential for knitting How to harvest, clean, and spin your pooch’s fuzz—and why you don’t necessarily need a long-haired breed to create yarn from your dog How to modify your favorite patterns to accommodate pet-spun yarn How to find experienced pet-hair spinners Whether it’s mittens from your Malamute, a cap from your Collie, or an afghan from your Afghan, this “extensive catalogue raisonne of the various breeds” (Tom Ferrell, New York Times Book Review) is the definitive guide to putting on the dog.
Sixteenth Summer
Author: Michelle DaltonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442423455
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This sweet summer romance about “the floaty happiness of first love” (BCCB) between a girl living in a beachside island town and a city boy is perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Morgan Matson. Anna is dreading another tourist-filled summer on Dune Island that follows the same routine: beach, ice cream, friends, repeat. That is, until she locks eyes with Will, the gorgeous and sweet guy visiting from New York. Soon, her summer is filled with flirtatious fun as Anna falls head over heels in love. But with every perfect afternoon, sweet kiss, and walk on the beach, Anna can’t ignore that the days are quickly growing shorter, and Will has to leave at the end of August. Anna’s never felt anything like this before, but when forever isn’t even a possibility, one summer doesn’t feel worth the promise of her heart breaking…
Little Bee
Author: Chris CleavePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416589643
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Millions of people have read, discussed, debated, cried, and cheered with Little Bee, a Nigerian refugee girl whose violent and courageous journey puts a stunning face on the worldwide refugee crisis. “Little Bee will blow you away.” —The Washington Post The lives of a sixteen-year-old Nigerian orphan and a well-off British woman collide in this page-turning #1 New York Times bestseller, book club favorite, and “affecting story of human triumph” (The New York Times Book Review) from Chris Cleave, author of Gold and Everyone Brave Is Forgiven. We don’t want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly special story and we don’t want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific. The story starts there, but the book doesn’t. And it’s what happens afterward that is most important. Once you have read it, you’ll want to tell everyone about it. When you do, please don’t tell them what happens either. The magic is in how it unfolds.
Hope in a Jar
Author: Beth HarbisonPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429925469
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A friend breakup is healed at a twentieth high school reunion in this women’s fiction novel that is “as slick and enjoyable as a brand-new tube of lip gloss” (People). Twenty years ago, Allie Denty was the pretty one and her best friend Olivia Pelham was the smart one. Throughout high school, they were inseparable . . . until a vicious rumor about Olivia—a rumor too close to the truth—ended their friendship. Now, on the eve of their twentieth high school reunion, Allie, a temp worker, finds herself suddenly single, a little chubby, and feeling old. Olivia, a cool and successful magazine beauty editor in New York, realizes she’s lonely, and is finally ready to face her demons. Sometimes hope lives in the future; sometimes it comes from the past; and sometimes, when every stupid thing goes wrong, it comes from a prettily packaged jar filled with scented cream and promises. New York Times–bestselling author Beth Harbison has done it again. A hilarious and touching novel about friendship, Love’s Baby Soft perfume, Watermelon Lip Smackers, bad run-ins with Sun-In, and the healing power of “Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific.” Hope in a Jar: we all need it. “Harbison continues to wow readers with charm and genuine characters.” —Booklist ”Harbison creates vivid, convincing characters and handles them well.” —Publishers Weekly
Awakening Hair
Author: Laura SullivanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781944669003
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Awakening Hair - Caring for Your Cosmic Antenna is about experiencing new Hair Dynamics creating magic in your life. Some people think of hair simply as dead cells hanging off their head. Awakening Hair invites you to experience hair as an extension of our living selves, profoundly affected by our biological functions, hair care practices, environmental impacts, and even our thoughts. Hair can also be experienced as cosmic antenna, able to receive and transmit information and energy. It can function as a sixth sense. Awakening Hair reveals nature's guidance that will help you realize your most enlivened hair ever. Beginning with The Power of Hair Gardening, the wisdom in each chapter will help you grow, achieve and maintain the healthiest hair possible using life enhancing practices. Understanding what kind of hair you have, the benefits of nature's elements, and the cycles of the seasons, sun and moon, will create a new improved, relationship with your hair. We have all experienced 'bad hair days'. Studies at Yale University have shown that bad hair days diminish self-confidence, and increase feelings of shame, self-doubt, social insecurity and self-criticism. You can discover how to end 'bad hair days', create 'great hair days' leading to a happier life. In Awakening Hair you can determine the style of hair care that suits you best, and design your Personal Hair Care Improvement plan. Along with Five Easy Steps to Sustainable Hair Care, this will streamline your experience with your hair. To make finding the right products for your hair even easier, you will find a guide alerting you to the ingredients you most want to avoid. Awakening Hair may be your introduction to Hair Balancing, the holistic healing art that cuts hair with a precise pattern of sacred geometry. It is based on the principles and points of acupuncture and cranio-sacral therapy and is most noted for releasing hair trauma, reducing hair loss, enhancing hair growth, and making hair happy!
