Author: Monica DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
One Pair of Hands
Author: Monica DickensPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448116090
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
'Life was a wordless battle of wits between us, with her keeping a sharp look-out for signs of neglect, and me trying to disguise my slovenliness by subterfuge. I became an adept at sweeping dust under the bed, and always used the same few pieces of silver' Unimpressed by the world of debutante balls, Monica Dickens shocked her family by getting a job. With no experience whatsoever, she gained employment as a cook-general. Monica's cooking and cleaning skills left much to be desired, and her first few positions were short lived, but soon she started to hold her own. Monica discovered the pleasure of daily banter with the milkman and grocer's boy and the joy of doing an honest day's work, all the while keeping a wry eye on the childish pique of her employers. One Pair of Hands is a fascinating and thoroughly entertaining memoir of life upstairs and downstairs in the early 1930s.
Five Feet Apart
Author: Rachael LippincottPublisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1534451560
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Also a major motion picture starring Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson! Goodreads Choice Winner, Best Young Adult Fiction of 2019 In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel that’s perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, two teens fall in love with just one minor complication—they can’t get within a few feet of each other without risking their lives. Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella Grant likes to be in control—even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions. The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. He couldn’t care less about his treatments, or a fancy new clinical drug trial. Soon, he’ll turn eighteen and then he’ll be able to unplug all these machines and actually go see the world, not just its hospitals. Will’s exactly what Stella needs to stay away from. If he so much as breathes on Stella, she could lose her spot on the transplant list. Either one of them could die. The only way to stay alive is to stay apart. But suddenly six feet doesn’t feel like safety. It feels like punishment. What if they could steal back just a little bit of the space their broken lungs have stolen from them? Would five feet apart really be so dangerous if it stops their hearts from breaking too?
Before We Were Strangers
Author: Renée CarlinoPublisher: 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
I Wish That I Had Duck Feet
Author: Dr. SeussPublisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0394800400
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
¡Una edición en rima y en español de un clásico de la colección Beginner Books de Dr. Seuss acerca de la autoaceptación! En este gracioso y ameno libro de Dr. Seuss, un niño evalúa los pros y los contras de poseer varias extremedidades de animales, como las astas de un venado, el pitorro de una ballena y la trompa de un elefante, solo para concluir que es mejor ser él mismo. Con encantadoras ilustraciones del caricaturista neoyorquino B. Tobey, esta es una historia alocada y reveladora que los primeros lectores querrán escuchar una y otra vez. Creados originalmente por el propio Dr. Seuss, Beginner Books son libros divertidos, graciosos y fáciles de leer. Estos libros de tapa dura sin sobrecubierta animan a los niños a leer individualmente, usando palabras e ilustraciones sencillas. Más pequeños que los clásicos libros ilustrados de Dr. Seuss, de gran formato, como El Lórax y ¡Oh, cuán lejos llegarás!, son perfectos para que los lectores de 3 a 7 años practiquen, ¡y para sus afortunados padres también! Las ediciones en rima y en español de los libros clásicos de Dr. Seuss de Random House hacen que la alegre experiencia de leer los libros del Dr. Seuss esté disponible para los más de 41 millones de personas en los Estados Unidos que hablan español. Los lectores pueden disfrutar de más de 30 títulos clásicos de Dr. Seuss, que incluyen: The Cat in the Hat (El Gato Ensombrerado); Green Eggs and Ham (Huevos verdes con jamón); One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (Un pez dos peces pez rojo pez azul); The Lorax (El Lórax); Oh, the Places You'll Go! (¡Oh, cuán lejos llegarás!); How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (¡Cómo el Grinch robó la Navidad!); y Horton Hears a Who! (¡Horton escucha a Quién!). Ideales para su uso en el hogar y en el salón de clases, han sido cuidadosamente traducidos en rima por hispano-hablantes latinoamericanos. A rhymed Spanish edition of Dr. Seuss's classic Beginner Book about self-acceptance! In this comical easy-reader by Dr. Seuss, a young boy weighs the pros and cons of possessing various animal appendages—such as a deer's antlers, a whale's spout, and an elephant's trunk-only to decide that he's better off just being himself. With charming illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist B. Tobey, this is a zany, insightful story that beginning readers will wish to hear again and again!
Fixing Your Feet
Author: John VonhofPublisher: Wilderness Press
ISBN: 0899978304
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Foot pain and injuries can thwart even the most experienced athletes. Foot expert and ultra runner John Vonhof discredits the conventional wisdom of 'no pain, no gain, ' teaching instead how the interplay of anatomy, biomechanics, and footwear can lead to happy or hurting feet. With a focus on individual and team care, the 6th edition of Fixing Your Feet covers all that any active person needs to know to find out what works now and also hundreds of miles down the road. This sixth edition has an important new chapter, Blister Prevention - A New Paradigm. It contains new information about blister formation and introduces the concept of shear, which in turn, changes the way we look at blister prevention and treatment. This comprehensive resources covers the full gamut of footwear basics, prevention, and treatments. If it can happen to a foot, it's covered in this book.
Matched
Author: Ally CondiePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101558466
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate . . . until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to follow. Look for CROSSED, the sequel to MATCHED, in Fall 2011! Watch a Video
Between the Lines
Author: Jodi PicoultPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451635818
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy-tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.
My Turn to Make the Tea
Author: Monica DickensPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0349016003
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
INTRODUCED BY LISSA EVANS 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens. She's beady eyed, big hearted and blissfully funny' NINA STIBBE 'Wherever her eye falls, it finds the exact, significant detail, and her ear for dialogue is unerring' OBSERVER 'Monica's naked curiosity and general bolshiness are easy to identify with' LISSA EVANS Poppy, newly recruited cub reporter at the Downingham Post, is determined to prove to the editor that he's wrong in his belief that 'Women are a nuisance in the office'. He certainly doesn't think she's a nuisance when it's time for the tea round - a job which never fails to fall to the only female reporter. What Poppy lacks in experience, she makes up for in spirit and ambition. She'll make the Downingham Post the best regional newspaper there is - even if she occasionally gets the names wrong in court hearings. Life for a single professional woman in the post-war years certainly has its challenges - from finding a room, when the tyrannical landlady doesn't consider Poppy to be quite respectable to changing her editor's deeply entrenched ways. This semi-autobiographical novel, recounted with Monica Dickens's wit, warmth and wry observation will charm all who read it. If you enjoyed My Turn to Make the Tea, you will love One Pair of Feet, Dickens's novel of being a wartime trainee nurse, also published in Virago Modern Classics.
Revenge of the Scapegoat
Author: Caren BeilinPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1948980088
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
From the author of Blackfishing the IUD, a darkly hilarious novel about familial trauma, chronic illness, academic labor, and contemporary art. In the tradition of Rabelais, Swift, and Fran Ross—the tradition of biting satire that joyfully embraces the strange and fantastical—and drawing upon documentary strategies from Sheila Heti, Caren Beilin offers a tale of familial trauma that is also a broadly inclusive skewering of academia, the medical industry, and the contemporary art scene. One day Iris, an adjunct at a city arts college, receives a terrible package: recently unearthed letters that her father had written to her in her teens, in which he blames her for their family’s crises. Driven by the raw fact of receiving these devastating letters not once but twice in a lifetime, and in a panic of chronic pain brought on by rheumatoid arthritis, Iris escapes to the countryside—or some absurdist version of it. Nazi cows, Picassos used as tampons, and a pair of arthritic feet that speak in the voices of Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pécuchet are standard fare in this beguiling novel of odd characters, surprising circumstances, and intuitive leaps, all brought together in profoundly serious ways.
