Author: Sean Maher
Publisher: Running Press
ISBN: 9780762435630
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Who hasn't peered through their old, dusty family albums and wondered about those unfashionable clothes, the “what-were-they-thinking?” hairdos, and just downright funny-looking faces staring back at them? This quirky collection is a celebration of the very best with a variety of old-time images paired with misguided family wisdom and expressions that reveal the real sentiments that lie beyond these innocent-looking, “old-fashioned” facades. With sixty black-and-white and sepia photographs paired with hilarious captions and a padded cover to emulate a real photo album, this book will have you screaming with laughter!
My Little Dysfunctional Family Album
Author: Sean Maher
Publisher: Running Press
ISBN: 9780762435630
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Who hasn't peered through their old, dusty family albums and wondered about those unfashionable clothes, the “what-were-they-thinking?” hairdos, and just downright funny-looking faces staring back at them? This quirky collection is a celebration of the very best with a variety of old-time images paired with misguided family wisdom and expressions that reveal the real sentiments that lie beyond these innocent-looking, “old-fashioned” facades. With sixty black-and-white and sepia photographs paired with hilarious captions and a padded cover to emulate a real photo album, this book will have you screaming with laughter!
Publisher: Running Press
ISBN: 9780762435630
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Who hasn't peered through their old, dusty family albums and wondered about those unfashionable clothes, the “what-were-they-thinking?” hairdos, and just downright funny-looking faces staring back at them? This quirky collection is a celebration of the very best with a variety of old-time images paired with misguided family wisdom and expressions that reveal the real sentiments that lie beyond these innocent-looking, “old-fashioned” facades. With sixty black-and-white and sepia photographs paired with hilarious captions and a padded cover to emulate a real photo album, this book will have you screaming with laughter!
The Good Stuff from Growing Up in a Dysfunctional Family
Author: Karen Casey
Publisher: Mango Media Inc.
ISBN: 1609258312
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Is there a silver lining to growing up in a dysfunctional family? Twenty-four survivors recount their stories—and the strengths forged in the chaos. Living in a dysfunctional family isn’t easy. But while you can’t choose where you come from, you can choose the lessons you take away. Bestselling recovery author Karen Casey looks at stories of people who grew up in dysfunctional families and “the good stuff” that can, ironically, come from the experience. She interviews survivors who emerged from the fires of turbulent households affected by abuse, addiction, or other problems, and reveals how they came to process their often-harrowing personal trials and, against the odds, triumph over their difficulties—using skills they honed in response to their childhoods. In The Good Stuff from Growing Up in a Dysfunctional Family, Casey reveals the stories and the skills they developed to live more creative and fulfilling lives, and not just survive but thrive. “Using her interviews as groundwork, she explores the benefits that result from surviving in a dysfunctional family, including resiliency, perseverance, a sense of humor, forgiveness, kindness, and the ability to discern real love.” —Publishers Weekly “You just can’t go wrong with Karen Casey.” —Earnie Larson, author of Stage II Recovery
Publisher: Mango Media Inc.
ISBN: 1609258312
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Is there a silver lining to growing up in a dysfunctional family? Twenty-four survivors recount their stories—and the strengths forged in the chaos. Living in a dysfunctional family isn’t easy. But while you can’t choose where you come from, you can choose the lessons you take away. Bestselling recovery author Karen Casey looks at stories of people who grew up in dysfunctional families and “the good stuff” that can, ironically, come from the experience. She interviews survivors who emerged from the fires of turbulent households affected by abuse, addiction, or other problems, and reveals how they came to process their often-harrowing personal trials and, against the odds, triumph over their difficulties—using skills they honed in response to their childhoods. In The Good Stuff from Growing Up in a Dysfunctional Family, Casey reveals the stories and the skills they developed to live more creative and fulfilling lives, and not just survive but thrive. “Using her interviews as groundwork, she explores the benefits that result from surviving in a dysfunctional family, including resiliency, perseverance, a sense of humor, forgiveness, kindness, and the ability to discern real love.” —Publishers Weekly “You just can’t go wrong with Karen Casey.” —Earnie Larson, author of Stage II Recovery
Little Failure
Author: Gary Shteyngart
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812995333
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MORE THAN 45 PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • NPR • The New Yorker • San Francisco Chronicle • The Economist • The Atlantic • Newsday • Salon • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Guardian • Esquire (UK) • GQ (UK) Little Failure is the all too true story of an immigrant family betting its future on America, as told by a lifelong misfit who finally finds a place for himself in the world through books and words. In 1979, a little boy dragging a ginormous fur hat and an overcoat made from the skin of some Soviet woodland creature steps off the plane at New York’s JFK International Airport and into his new American life. His troubles are just beginning. For the former Igor Shteyngart, coming to the United States from the Soviet Union is like stumbling off a monochromatic cliff and landing in a pool of Technicolor. Careening between his Soviet home life and his American aspirations, he finds himself living in two contradictory worlds, wishing for a real home in one. He becomes so strange to his parents that his mother stops bickering with his father long enough to coin the phrase failurchka—“little failure”—which she applies to her once-promising son. With affection. Mostly. From the terrors of Hebrew School to a crash course in first love to a return visit to the homeland that is no longer home, Gary Shteyngart has crafted a ruthlessly brave and funny memoir of searching for every kind of love—family, romantic, and of the self. BONUS: This edition includes a reading group guide. Praise for Little Failure “Hilarious and moving . . . The army of readers who love Gary Shteyngart is about to get bigger.”—The New York Times Book Review “A memoir for the ages . . . brilliant and unflinching.”—Mary Karr “Dazzling . . . a rich, nuanced memoir . . . It’s an immigrant story, a coming-of-age story, a becoming-a-writer story, and a becoming-a-mensch story, and in all these ways it is, unambivalently, a success.”—Meg Wolitzer, NPR “Literary gold . . . [a] bruisingly funny memoir.”—Vogue “A giant success.”—Entertainment Weekly
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812995333
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MORE THAN 45 PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • NPR • The New Yorker • San Francisco Chronicle • The Economist • The Atlantic • Newsday • Salon • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Guardian • Esquire (UK) • GQ (UK) Little Failure is the all too true story of an immigrant family betting its future on America, as told by a lifelong misfit who finally finds a place for himself in the world through books and words. In 1979, a little boy dragging a ginormous fur hat and an overcoat made from the skin of some Soviet woodland creature steps off the plane at New York’s JFK International Airport and into his new American life. His troubles are just beginning. For the former Igor Shteyngart, coming to the United States from the Soviet Union is like stumbling off a monochromatic cliff and landing in a pool of Technicolor. Careening between his Soviet home life and his American aspirations, he finds himself living in two contradictory worlds, wishing for a real home in one. He becomes so strange to his parents that his mother stops bickering with his father long enough to coin the phrase failurchka—“little failure”—which she applies to her once-promising son. With affection. Mostly. From the terrors of Hebrew School to a crash course in first love to a return visit to the homeland that is no longer home, Gary Shteyngart has crafted a ruthlessly brave and funny memoir of searching for every kind of love—family, romantic, and of the self. BONUS: This edition includes a reading group guide. Praise for Little Failure “Hilarious and moving . . . The army of readers who love Gary Shteyngart is about to get bigger.”—The New York Times Book Review “A memoir for the ages . . . brilliant and unflinching.”—Mary Karr “Dazzling . . . a rich, nuanced memoir . . . It’s an immigrant story, a coming-of-age story, a becoming-a-writer story, and a becoming-a-mensch story, and in all these ways it is, unambivalently, a success.”—Meg Wolitzer, NPR “Literary gold . . . [a] bruisingly funny memoir.”—Vogue “A giant success.”—Entertainment Weekly
Dysfunctional One
Author: John Davies
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1634179056
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Dysfunctional One by John Davies __________________________________
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1634179056
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Dysfunctional One by John Davies __________________________________
Family Album
Author: Patricia Kay
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101204257
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101204257
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.
On Rock Bottom and Know Where to Turn
Author: Allan Jones
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490728716
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
This is my second book. The first one, The Book of Al, is my bio. On Rock Bottom and Know Where to Turn, my second book deals with the topic of suicide, the do-not-do of all things. I played chicken on the highway but was unsuccessful, and I thank the Lord for that.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490728716
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
This is my second book. The first one, The Book of Al, is my bio. On Rock Bottom and Know Where to Turn, my second book deals with the topic of suicide, the do-not-do of all things. I played chicken on the highway but was unsuccessful, and I thank the Lord for that.
Adult Children Secrets of Dysfunctional Families
Author: John Friel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0757393357
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
It is estimated that as many as 34 million people grew up in alcoholic homes. But what about the rest of us? What about families that had no alcoholism, but did have perfectionism, workaholism, compulsive overeating, intimacy problems, depression, problems in expressing feelings, plus all the other personality traits that can produce a family system much like an alcoholic one? Countless millions of us struggle with these kinds of dysfunctions every day, and until very recently we struggled alone. Pulling together both theory and clinical practice, John and Linda Friel provide a readable explanation of what happened to us and how we can rectify it.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0757393357
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
It is estimated that as many as 34 million people grew up in alcoholic homes. But what about the rest of us? What about families that had no alcoholism, but did have perfectionism, workaholism, compulsive overeating, intimacy problems, depression, problems in expressing feelings, plus all the other personality traits that can produce a family system much like an alcoholic one? Countless millions of us struggle with these kinds of dysfunctions every day, and until very recently we struggled alone. Pulling together both theory and clinical practice, John and Linda Friel provide a readable explanation of what happened to us and how we can rectify it.
The Penderwicks
Author: Jeanne Birdsall
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307541347
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
With over one million copies sold, this series of modern classics about the charming Penderwick family from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestseller Jeanne Birdsall is perfect for fans of Noel Streatfeild and Edward Eager. This summer the Penderwick sisters have a wonderful surprise: a holiday on the grounds of a beautiful estate called Arundel. Soon they are busy discovering the summertime magic of Arundel’s sprawling gardens, treasure-filled attic, tame rabbits, and the cook who makes the best gingerbread in Massachusetts. But the best discovery of all is Jeffrey Tifton, son of Arundel’s owner, who quickly proves to be the perfect companion for their adventures. The icy-hearted Mrs. Tifton is not as pleased with the Penderwicks as Jeffrey is, though, and warns the new friends to stay out of trouble. Which, of course, they will—won’t they? One thing’s for sure: it will be a summer the Penderwicks will never forget. Deliciously nostalgic and quaintly witty, this is a story as breezy and carefree as a summer day.
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307541347
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
With over one million copies sold, this series of modern classics about the charming Penderwick family from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestseller Jeanne Birdsall is perfect for fans of Noel Streatfeild and Edward Eager. This summer the Penderwick sisters have a wonderful surprise: a holiday on the grounds of a beautiful estate called Arundel. Soon they are busy discovering the summertime magic of Arundel’s sprawling gardens, treasure-filled attic, tame rabbits, and the cook who makes the best gingerbread in Massachusetts. But the best discovery of all is Jeffrey Tifton, son of Arundel’s owner, who quickly proves to be the perfect companion for their adventures. The icy-hearted Mrs. Tifton is not as pleased with the Penderwicks as Jeffrey is, though, and warns the new friends to stay out of trouble. Which, of course, they will—won’t they? One thing’s for sure: it will be a summer the Penderwicks will never forget. Deliciously nostalgic and quaintly witty, this is a story as breezy and carefree as a summer day.
Gateways
Author: J C Laird
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3748755104
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Take a Plunge Into the Ocean of the Supernatural As these twenty tales swam up from the depths of the imagination into the light of day or the dark of night, they landed in places from California to Florida and points between (with short layovers in London and the Middle East). The characters that inhabit them are a motley crew: a ghost, goddess, angel, demon, serial killer, zombie, prostitute, and, well, you must read these stories to uncover the stars, their stories, and their journeys. The tales all fall into the supernatural realm, some splashing around the edges of the water, others cannonballing right in. But be forewarned, much like a roiling tsunami, many have unexpected eddies and whirlpools. So, grab your life preserver and hold on... If you don't have the time or the inclination to immerse yourself in a full-length novel, sit down and spin through these shorter versions.
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3748755104
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Take a Plunge Into the Ocean of the Supernatural As these twenty tales swam up from the depths of the imagination into the light of day or the dark of night, they landed in places from California to Florida and points between (with short layovers in London and the Middle East). The characters that inhabit them are a motley crew: a ghost, goddess, angel, demon, serial killer, zombie, prostitute, and, well, you must read these stories to uncover the stars, their stories, and their journeys. The tales all fall into the supernatural realm, some splashing around the edges of the water, others cannonballing right in. But be forewarned, much like a roiling tsunami, many have unexpected eddies and whirlpools. So, grab your life preserver and hold on... If you don't have the time or the inclination to immerse yourself in a full-length novel, sit down and spin through these shorter versions.
Cooperman House
Author: Tim Brown
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666741779
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Ron and Connie McCall find almost everything in their lives new. They’re in a new city, at a new school and a new job, and occupying a new apartment in a home with a history – which is all very manageable until a neighbor is mugged, and supernatural visits complicate their lives. Neither of them has an interest in paranormal phenomena until they learn of the death of a previous resident. Her mysterious visits to their apartment confound police, landlords, and friends. One such friend is a thirty-year-old, developmentally delayed man who is a neighborhood favorite. Their affection for him becomes an endearing thread woven through a knotty fabric of paranormal challenges and a cast of quirky characters.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666741779
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Ron and Connie McCall find almost everything in their lives new. They’re in a new city, at a new school and a new job, and occupying a new apartment in a home with a history – which is all very manageable until a neighbor is mugged, and supernatural visits complicate their lives. Neither of them has an interest in paranormal phenomena until they learn of the death of a previous resident. Her mysterious visits to their apartment confound police, landlords, and friends. One such friend is a thirty-year-old, developmentally delayed man who is a neighborhood favorite. Their affection for him becomes an endearing thread woven through a knotty fabric of paranormal challenges and a cast of quirky characters.