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Bermuda Shorts
By James Patterson. 2010
In clothing, Bermuda Shorts are a kind of casual formal wear - and in this collection of essays, Bermuda Shorts…
is the perfect metaphor for James J. Patterson's fundamentally serious but playful literary style. Patterson writes like the love child of Henry Miller and Mary Karr, with all the contradictions that implies -- a philosopher who thinks best over a glass of fine wine; an ex-Catholic still haunted by the image of the Crucifixion; an irreverent political satirist whose patriotism flies the flag of another iconoclast, Thomas Paine. Patterson grew up with a foot planted in each of two worlds -- one in Washington DC, the Capital of the Empire as he calls it, where the wheels of power spin, and one in rural Ontario, where his Canadian mother insisted the family spend their summers. His father, one of the wizards of twentieth century newspaper publishing, introduced him to the city's wheels of money and power, which he would later navigate as an entrepreneur, starting his first business at 20. But those Canadian summers introduced him to a different world - one where a cedar strip boat was better than any car, and where the ghosts of those who'd previously inhabited the family's island house floated out over the water of Lovesick Lake. It is those two worlds that blend in this collection, in reflections both serious and playful, on what it means to be a man, an artist, an iconoclast, a patriot, a lover, as the 20th century rolls over into the 21st.The Game Changer: A Memoir of Disruptive Love
By Franklin Veaux, Av Flox. 2015
That Paris Year
By Joanna Biggar. 2010
In That Paris Year, five smart, adventurous young women arrive on the banks of the Seine in 1962 for their…
junior year abroad. What they get is an education of a different sort. As they move from the grueling demands of the Sorbonne by day to late nights of discovery in smoky cafes, the young Americans discover a mythical country shaped not only by the upheavals of history, but by the great French writers of the 20th Century, a place where seduction is intellectual as well as sexual. Ten years later, our narrator, J. J., is asked to speak at her old college on the virtues of going abroad. Drawing on the emotionally charged tools of memory and imagination, as well as old journals, letters, and telegrams, she chronicles and re-creates the story of that momentous year. Following in the footsteps of Marcel Proust, Joanna Biggar has written a novel in which intellect, eroticism, and art reverberate from the page to the heartbeat of the City of Light, an American book with the sweep and elegance of French literary tradition.Tea & Antipathy: An American Family in Swinging London
By Anita Miller. 2015
Tea & Antipathy is a delightfully hilarious and true account of one American family's summer in the posh London neighborhood…
of Knightsbridge in 1965. Capturing the helpless feeling that living in a foreign city often brings, the book recounts how the Millers met a wide variety of memorable characters from all social classes, including Mrs. Grail the Irish cleaning woman, who was convinced that their home was haunted and who hated the English; Basil Goldbrick, a businessman from Manchester; and Basil's clever wife Daisy, who resented Americans. Told in a gently sardonic tone, this story provides insight on what London was like during the Swinging Sixties and what it was like to uproot a family for an adventurous summer abroad.Lost and Found: A Daughter's Tale of Violence and Redemption
By Babette Hughes. 2000
Lost and Found is a story of the struggle to survive and transcend murder, secrets, and abandonment. It is the…
story of a family captured by its own bloody history, and ultimately a triumphant tale of Babette's step-by-step passage from an ill-starred and dark destiny to selfhood, freedom, and a transported life.Carol Drinkwater's much-loved Olive Farm memoirs, THE OLIVE FARM, THE OLIVE HARVEST, THE OLIVE ROUTE, THE OLIVE SEASON, THE OLIVE…
TREE and RETURN TO THE OLIVE FARM chart the adventures of Carol and her husband Michel on their Provencal Olive farm in the south of France. THE COMPLETE OLIVE SERIES COLLECTION includes all six books in Carol's vibrant and heartwarming series, from the humble beginnings of the organic olive farm and the highs and lows of life in provincial France; to Carol's sixteen month journey across the Mediterranean in search of the routes that olive growing has taken over the centuries; and back again to France for more life and love, olive oil and beehives at the farm in Provence.Cut the Crap and Feel Amazing
By Ailsa Frank. 2017
Have you ever felt stuck or unmotivated about life Are there things you want to do or dreams you…
want to achieve but you don t know how to get started or how to reach your goals In Cut the Crap and Feel Amazing experienced hypnotherapist Ailsa Frank provides you with the knowledge and tools you need to take control of your life and ensure that it follows a more positive direction the direction in which you want it to go The techniques described in this book will help you to cut out the negative habits in your life and make improvements where they are needed work relationships health finance finding love and more Making regular small changes to your mindset will enable you to make bigger changes in your life You don t need to know your whole life plan you just need to focus on one small thing to get yourself started Cut the Crap and Feel Amazing offers a helping hand to get you on track and keep your life moving forwards in a positive directionShores Beyond Shores: From Holocaust To Hope: My True Story
By Kris Holloway, John D Bidwell, Irene Butter. 2018
As Irene’s Pappi fights to save his family during the Holocaust, Irene’s childhood is lost. Play is restricted. Family and…
friends disappear. Finally, with the Dutch police at their door comes the reality that Irene’s father has not moved his family far enough from Hitler’s Germany. By January 1945, the family is struggling to survive a death camp. Irene tends her ailing parents, cares for starving kids, and even helps bring clothes to her Amsterdam neighbor Anne Frank, before her family is offered a singular chance for freedom…providing the Nazi doctor says they are healthy enough. After two weeks of heart-lifting miracles and heart-breaking tragedies, Irene arrives in the Algerian desert to journey into redemption and womanhood, without her parents or brother. Irene’s first person memoir, Shores Beyond Shores, is an account of how the heart keeps its common humanity in the most inhumane and turbulent of times. Irene’s hard-earned lessons are a timeless inspiration.How to Kiss Goodbye to Ana: Using Eft In Recovery From Anorexia
By Kim Marshall. 2018
Do you struggle with Ana (anorexia) or have a difficult relationship with food and body image? Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)…
have the potential to transform your life and put you on the path to recovery. Here, honest diary extracts relay Kim Marshall's own struggles with anorexia and bulimia, including time spent in a residential treatment centre, and how she discovered EFT and learned to quiet the negative voices that were blocking her recovery. Now fully-recovered and a certified EFT practitioner, Kim explains how to use the approach as a self-help tool. Including easy-to-follow EFT scripts and positive mantras to help you stay on the path to recovery, Kim explains how to use EFT to help overcome denial and fears about recovery from anorexia. This candid account of recovery from eating disorders shows how it is possible to deal with underlying emotional issues and achieve a more positive mindset.My Miserable Lonely Lesbian Pregnancy
By Andrea Askowitz. 2008
The Flying Carpet of Small Miracles
By Hala Jaber. 2009
The inspiring true story of a prizewinning foreign correspondent longing for a child, two small Iraqi girls in need of…
a mother, and what love and grief can teach us about family and hope. Zahra, age three, and Hawra, only a few months old, were the only survivors of a missile strike in Baghdad in 2003 that killed their parents and five siblings. Across the world, in London, foreign correspondent Hala Jaber was preparing to head to Iraq to cover the emerging war. After ten years spent trying to conceive, Jaber and her husband had finally resigned themselves to a childless future. Now she intended to bury her grief in her work, with some unusually dangerous reporting. Once in Iraq, though, Jaber found herself drawn again and again to stories of mothers and children, a path that led her to an Iraqi childrenas hospitalaand to Zahra and Hawra and their heart-wrenching story. Almost instantly Jaber became entwined in the lives of these girls, and in a struggle to advocate on their behalf that reveals far more about the human cost of war than any news bulletin ever could. Beautifully written and deeply moving, The Flying Carpet of Small Miracles presents a genuinely fresh insight and perspective from a woman who, as an Arab living and working in the West, is able to uniquely straddle both worlds. In its attention to the emotional experiences of women and children whose lives are irrevocably changed by war, Jaberas story offers hope for redemption for those caught in its cross fires.What is to Be Done About Crime and Punishment?
By Roger Matthews. 2016
This book responds to the claim that criminology is becoming socially and politically irrelevant despite its exponential expansion as an academic sub-discipline. It does…
so by addressing the question 'what is to be done' in relation to a number of major issues associated with crime and punishment. The original contributions to this volume are provided by leading international experts in a wide range of issues. They address imprisonment, drugs, gangs, cybercrime, prostitution, domestic violence, crime control, as well as white collar and corporate crime. Written in an accessible style, this collection aims to contribute to the development of a more public criminology and encourages students and researchers at all levels to engage in a form of criminology that is more socially relevant and more useful.The Song of Spider-Man
By Glen Berger. 2013
From the show's cowriter who saw it all firsthand, this is the epic story of the most expensive, ambitious, dangerous,…
and controversial Broadway musical of all-time: Spider-Man.Never in the history of Broadway has there been anything like Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Lampooned by reviewers, loved and loathed by audiences, and boldly envisioned by its producers, Spider-Man has forever made its mark in pop culture history. Author Glen Berger was present at the creation, when visionary director Julie Taymor selected him to collaborate with her on the book of the musical. For seven years, Berger was an eyewitness to great artistic hopes and battles as Taymor sought to bring her vision to the stage, along with celebrated rock stars Bono and the Edge. But despite terrible reviews and public ridicule, Spider-Man went on to become one of the top ten grossing musicals in the history of Broadway--a feat inseparable from its creators' unassailable passion, immense efforts, and artistic ambition. With a sharp eye for detail and candid sense of humor, Berger reveals every aspect--the highs and lows--of the production and in doing so, takes us inside the theatrical process in a way few authors can. The Song of Spider-Man is the ultimate fly-on-the-wall account of how Broadway works, how big musicals are made, and how great artists continue to dream, even in the midst of a nightmare.The Bears of Manley: Adventures of an Alaskan Trophy Hunter in Search of the Ultimate Symbol
By Sarkis Atamian. 2005
The Bears of Manley a 448 page perfect bound book by Alaskan Sarkis Atamian is exciting…
entertainment for hunters This is not a typical Joe Hunter went afield stalked his quarry shot his trophy hunting book The Bears of Manley includes stories of an Alaskan trophy hunter and his quest for the ultimate trophy and his hunts which did not go as planned The book also gives enlightening and absorbing answers to animal activists and a stirring response to antihunters Sarkis Atamian s numerous academic research papers and articles concerning the philosophy and psychology of hunting has contributed to Mr Atamian being a recognized authority in the fieldSelections from the Journals: An Annotated Selection From The Journal Of Henry D. Thoreau (Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy Ser.)
By Henry David Thoreau, Walter Harding. 1995
Noted Thoreau scholar offers rich selection of favorite excerpts from voluminous Journals. Masterly meditations on man, society, nature and many…
other subjects--expressed with verve and vigor in some of the most poetic prose in American literature. Perfect introduction to the great naturalist and his thought. Introduction.Hunting the Way it Was: The Way It Was to Our Changing Alaska
By Lenora Conkle. 1997
Reading Hunting the Way it Was is like lingering around a campfire 50 miles deep in the Snag River…
country or at Wolf Lake and hearing the fascinating and entertaining stories told by Bud and LeNora about hunting in Alaska s bygone era It is the true tales about one of Alaska s best fair-chase guides of horse-wranglers and assistant guides and of pilots who flew clients in their fragile Super Cubs to the frozen arctic for polar bear and to the windy Alaska Peninsula for the big browns -- and all the other big game Alaska had to offer brave hunters Hunting the Way it Was is more than an Alaskan big game guide s story -- it s LeNora Conkle s biography as well She was there -- This is her story and Bud s These are not the flowered up narratives of a professional journalist but the true tales of two amazing Alaskans and what they did for a living This is the story of hunting in Alaska the way it was but will never be againAiuto! Il mio capo è fuori di testa!
By Richard G Lowe, Sonia Dal Cason. 2016
Migliorate la vostra vita lavorativa per raggiungere una maggiore produttività, per ottenere potenziali aumenti e una vita più felice. Il…
vostro capo vi fa ammattire o vi tormenta? Lui o lei vi avviliscono, negandovi aumenti o promozioni o controllando ogni vostra mossa? Siete felici della vostra condizione lavorativa? Capite che non cambierà nulla se non fate qualcosa in proposito? Non vi piacerebbe non vedere l'ora di andare a lavorare? Non gradireste essere rispettati, fare più soldi e tornare a casa sentendovi soddisfatti per il lavoro ben fatto? Io ero dove siete voi oggi. Nella mia vita ho avuto ogni genere di manager, da un capo che è stato dichiarato malato di mente a quello con la mania del controllo e, il peggiore di tutti, il capo che stava per andare in pensione e che non voleva approvare o fare niente che potesse dare uno scossone alla barca. Mi sono sentito attaccato, sottovalutato e sopraffatto, talvolta nello stesso momento. Queste situazioni hanno influito sulla mia salute e sul mio benessere e hanno causato una sensazione di impotenza e di depressione che nulla sembrava risolvere. La vita pareva non essere altro che un fallimento causato dalla svalutazione e dalla negatività. Alla fine ho capito che potevo fare qualcosa per il problema del capo fuori di testa. Esistevano molte opzioni, da una semplice conversazione fino a trovarmi un nuovo impiego. Ho compreso che si deve essere in due per essere una vittima - il persecutore (il capo fuori di testa) e la vittima. Ho quindi deciso di rompere il circolo vizioso. * Convincetevi che potete fare qualcosa per raddrizzare la situazione. * Imparate le varie opzioni che avete a disposizione. * Costruitevi una via di fuga da usare se le cose non migliorano. * Cercate persone che possano aiutarvi a intraprendere azioni correttive. Non lasciate passare un altro giorno senza far nulla per dare un calcio nel sedere al boss fuori di testa. Acquistate una copGuida rapida per principianti alle rendite passive
By Annarita Tranfici, Alex Nkenchor Uwajeh. 2016
Sapevate che Internet ha generato più milionari di qualsiasi altro mezzo nella storia? Costruire un solido business online in grado…
di generare reddito può rivelarsi un'attività estremamente redditizia, se eseguita nella maniera corretta. In realtà, esistono così tanti modi diversi per guadagnare online, che avrete solo l'imbarazzo della scelta. Tra i maggiori benefici di questo tipo di business, vi è la libertà di creare simultaneamente diversi flussi di entrate. Se vi impegnerete con serietà e costanza, riuscirete inoltre a moltiplicare i guadagni derivanti dalla vostra attività online, fino al punto da sostituirla al vostro attuale impiego. In questo libro sono descritti alcuni sistemi - efficaci e comprovati - finalizzati a generare reali flussi di rendite online. Siete pronti a iniziare? Andiamo...Memoirs of a Buccaneer: Dampier's New Voyage Round the World, 1697
By William Dampier. 1968
It was William Dampier's passion to see the world that turned him into a buccaneer. He possessed remarkable powers of…
observation and analysis, and his life as a seventeenth-century navigator aboard pirate and privateering ships is brilliantly detailed in his journal. Throughout his travels of Central and South America and the East Indies, Dampier provides riveting accounts of sea battles against Spanish treasure ships, as well as pirate life, lore, and customs. Originally published in 1697 as the New Voyage, his journal became an instant success, and has been read ever since as one of the greatest travel and adventure accounts ever written.But Memoirs of a Buccaneer is far more than historical adventure. Dampier was a man of intelligence and education with a strong naturalist's urge, and his book quickly became a vital source of information on the geology, biology, zoology, and peoples of the lands he visited. His descriptions of the West Indian manatee, booby birds, cacao, and mangrove trees--flora and fauna never before heard of in England and the Continent--are incredibly accurate. His notes on the produce of Guam and Mindanao--coconuts, vanilla beans, bananas, breadfruit, and more--exerted a powerful influence on Britain's explorations and colonizations. And his depictions of Central America's Mosquito Indians and the natives of Mindanao proved to be highly reliable.The influence of this classic book on the work of later travelers is incalculable, leading writers such as Defoe, Swift, and Coleridge to borrow both facts and literary style from it. It continues to inspire readers today.A Lot Like Me: A Father and Son's Journey to Reconciliation
By Larry Elder. 2012
Dear Father Dear Son is national bestselling author and syndicated radio host Larry Elder s personal memoir of his…
troubled one might even say tortured relationship with his father Elder writes A man s relationship with his father every boy every man lucky enough to have a father in his life has to figure that out My own father I thought I knew him even though he seldom talked about himself And what I knew I hated really really hated Cold ill-tempered thin-skinned my father always seemed on the brink of erupting Scared to death of him I kept telling myself to find the courage to stand up to him When I was fifteen I did We did not speak to each other for ten years And then we did for eight hours Dear Father Dear Son is the powerful story of those eight hours during which Elder finally confronted his father It is the story of one extraordinary all-day conversation between Elder and his long-estranged father that utterly transformed their relationship It is the story of one man discovering a son he never really knew And of the son finding a man a friend a father who had been there all along