Author: Louise Wareham
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1888451637
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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From a Conneticut sanitarium, 24 year-old Betsy Scott tells her doctor a story about the destructive secrets in an outwardly successful family. Since You Ask is about the the origins of sexual compulsion, and the way in which one young woman attempts to overcome it. Born on the island of Antigua, Betsy and her brothers - the drug addict Raymond and the cool, detached Eric - are relocated to Manhatten. There, Betsy begins series of secret affairs that take her into increasingly dark situations.
Author: Louise Wareham
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617750948
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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From the author of 52 Men: “[An] intense and insightful new novel . . . portrays a complicated character and her multifaceted mind with deep empathy” (PopMatters). From a Connecticut sanitarium, twenty-four-year-old Betsy Scott tells her doctor a story about the destructive secrets in an outwardly successful family. Confusing love and sex, desire and fear, Betsy grows alienated, confused and desperate. She finally faces truths about herself and her family that enable her to move beyond them and into a new life. Since You Ask is about the origins of sexual compulsion, and the ways in which one young woman tries to overcome it. Winner of the James Jones Literary Society First Novel Award “Although it ends on a hopeful note, this is obviously a very dark book—and potentially a controversial one—but Wareham has created a compelling character who earns her readers’ attention.” —Booklist “A sustained and sustaining adventure . . . Reading this novel, I saw the substance (and substances) of unhappiness transformed into something even brighter than courage. This is a splendid debut.” —Donald Revell, author of Arcady
Author: Cary Tennis
Publisher: Cary Tennis Books, LLC
ISBN: 0979327008
Category : Advice columnists
Languages : en
Pages : 7
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Composed of his 96 most memorable columns, this outstanding collection is a dramatic testament to the quality of writing and thought of Salon.com’s Cary Tennis. For more than 6 years, Tennis has earned a name for himself as an advice-columnist extraordinaire, addressing issues like sexual rejection, marriage, and suicide with sensitivity and style. Long-term fans will be delighted to find nearly a hundred of their favorite columns—chosen according to their recommendations and gathered into one volume—and new readers will be inspired by the highly literate and passionate responses that Tennis provides for his troubled petitioners.
Author: Ann Landers
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787204871
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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Sensible, Entertaining Answers To Everyone’s Problems—Including Yours A fresh new look at: • The common-sense approach to marriage • Getting older • The importance of sex in marriage • The battle of the bottle • Teenagers and sex • And much more... Ann Landers’ warmth, wit and realistic wisdom have made her America’s most widely read human relations columnist—syndicated in more than 550 newspapers! Now, in this witty and thought-provoking book, she offers the sum and substance of her long experience with life’s oldest bugaboo—trouble! It deserves a place on everyone’s bookshelf. “This book is about trouble—that uninvited guest who visits us all. Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. “Trouble is no respecter of age, financial standing, social position or academic status. Trouble comes to people in high and low places alike. It is not a sign of stupidity, weakness, or bad luck. It is evidence that we are card-carrying members of the human race. As someone once put it, “Only the living have problems.” “This book is about how to prevent trouble and what to do about it when you can’t prevent it.”—Ann Landers
Author: Jason Reynolds
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481438271
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333
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“An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger.” —Booklist (starred review) “Astonishing.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A tour de force.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award An Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017 A Vulture Best YA Book of 2017 A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2017 An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds’s electrifying novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds—the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother. A cannon. A strap. A piece. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat. A hammer A tool for RULE Or, you can call it a gun. That’s what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching. Revenge. That’s where Will’s now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brother’s gun. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. He knows who he’s after. Or does he? As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. Buck tells Will to check that the gun is even loaded. And that’s when Will sees that one bullet is missing. And the only one who could have fired Shawn’s gun was Shawn. Huh. Will didn’t know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. Bigger huh. BUCK IS DEAD. But Buck’s in the elevator? Just as Will’s trying to think this through, the door to the next floor opens. A teenage girl gets on, waves away the smoke from Dead Buck’s cigarette. Will doesn’t know her, but she knew him. Knew. When they were eight. And stray bullets had cut through the playground, and Will had tried to cover her, but she was hit anyway, and so what she wants to know, on that fifth floor elevator stop, is, what if Will, Will with the gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, MISSES. And so it goes, the whole long way down, as the elevator stops on each floor, and at each stop someone connected to his brother gets on to give Will a piece to a bigger story than the one he thinks he knows. A story that might never know an END…if Will gets off that elevator. Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, Long Way Down is a fast and furious, dazzlingly brilliant look at teenage gun violence, as could only be told by Jason Reynolds.
Author: Alison Green
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0399181822
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together
Author: Magdalena Scopelitis
Publisher: BalboaPress
ISBN: 1452551847
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Be the master of your fear and you can rule over your life. Fear is the only obstacle between you and your dreams, between you and what you most love. So says Archangel Raphael, who, in this series of channelings, unravels the mysteries of fear and, through its darkest paths, guides you step by step up to the glade of love. He helps you tear away fears masks one by one till you come to know its real face; only then does he teach you the ways to transmute it into love, thus eliminating its disastrous implications. According to Archangel Raphael, fear shows that somewhere in the deepest part of your being, you have chosen hatred versus love, and your life cannot have real meaning. Only when your fear is transformed can real life happen to you. The end of your fear will signal the beginning of your life. Until that day comes, you will have just lived in a lie, in an illusion. I am only asking you to give me your fear, Archangel Raphael adds, and I will give back to you your love, the most precious gift you ever had.
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Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807876003
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Portugal enjoyed one of the richest and most sophisticated cultures of the Middle Ages, in part because of its vibrant secular literature. One popular literary genre of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries was the cantigas de amigo, love songs in which male poets wrote from a female perspective. More than five hundred of these mysterious poems depicting a young girl's love for an absent lover survive today. Until now, however, they have remained inaccessible except to a small circle of scholars. In her translation of nearly one hundred representative examples of the cantigas de amigo, Barbara Hughes Fowler recovers the beauty of these poems for the modern reader. Her accurate and elegant renderings capture the charming spontaneity of the lyrics and show them to be a uniquely appealing form of medieval literature. (excerpt of one of the poems) Lovely mother, I saw my friend but did not speak with him and so I lost him, but now I'm dying of love for him. I did not speak because of my disdain; I'm dying, mother, for love of him.
Author: Rafael Yglesias
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453206604
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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A suspenseful novel of ideas that explores the limitations of science, the origins of immorality, and the ultimate unknowability of the human psyche Rafael Neruda is a brilliant psychiatrist renowned for his effective treatment of former child-abuse victims. Apart from his talent as an analyst, he’s deeply empathetic—he himself has been a victim of abuse. Gene Kenny is simply one more patient that Dr. Neruda has “cured” of past trauma. And then Kenny commits a terrible crime. Desperate to find out why, Dr. Neruda must shed the standards of his training, risking his own sanity in uncovering the disturbing secrets of Kenny’s former life. Structured as actual case studies and steeped in the history of psychoanalysis, Dr. Neruda’s Cure for Evil is Yglesias’s most formally and intellectually ambitious novel. This ebook features a new illustrated biography of Rafael Yglesias, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
Author: Vanessa Kahlon
Publisher: Sqing Solutions
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 97
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Parenting is a difficult and rewarding task that comes with many challenges. No two children are alike, so what works for one may not work for another. The most important thing is to be open to what your children can teach you. As a parent, you will undoubtedly face many challenges. And you can't assume that you know or have it all to raise a well behaved, happy, healthy and successful child. Being open to learning from your children can help you become a better parent overall. Each child is unique and will require a different approach. The key is to be open to what they can teach you. This is the one area that has been consistent with a successful approach. In this pioneering book, “How To Do- Parenting With Confidence," Author Vanessa Kahlon offers a refreshingly honest and practical guide to the highs and lows of parenting. She draws on her years of experience as a parent and child development specialist to show how parents can build strong, confident relationships with their children. The book is a long overdue reminder that parenting is not about getting it right all the time, but about being open to learning from our children. With transparency and empathy, Kahlon guides parents through the challenges and joys of parenting, from dealing with tantrums to coping with sleep deprivation and picky eaters. She shows how even the most challenging situations can be turned into opportunities for growth and connection. Filled with practical tips, expert advice, and real-life examples, this is an essential guide for anyone who wants to build a strong, confident relationship with their children. As we explore the different aspects of parenting, the book takes you through the author's inspirations for writing the book, sharing personal stories and anecdotes from her own parenting journey. This book is an excellent resource for parents who want to build strong, confident relationships with their children. The theoretical and behavioural basis is evidence and research-based while written in clear and easy-to-follow tips and examples. The book introduces solutions that help children across developmental stages with varied behavioural-emotional needs. The author explains and makes it accessible for parents to understand their children's temperament, and how this impacts on parenting styles. Kahlon offers a comprehensive guide that will leave parents feeling equipped and inspired to approach parenting with confidence. The book comprises 40+ guides, divided into sections, that can be leveraged in different situations. Every phase is a complete exploration of the different aspects of parenting and provides parents with the tools they need to approach to communicate with children, set limits, and teach social-emotional skills while maintaining a strong relationship. Kahlon has laid clear and easy-to-follow concepts packed with age-appropriate strategies for parents of children across all developmental stages. By the end of this book, you'll find powerful mindfulness-based practices that will help you feel more connected to your child, as well as tips on how to better deal with difficult emotions. You'll also be better equipped to teach your children essential social-emotional skills like empathy, self-regulation, and gratitude while making parenting more enjoyable for both you and your child.
