Author: Cheryl Peck
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0759509859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Naughty cats, quirky family members, and experiences as a large gay woman in the heartland of America: Cheryl Peck has a potpourri of poignant -- and laugh-out-loud hilarious -- stories to tell about growing up, love, and loss. With self-deprecating humor and compassionate insight, she remembers the time she hit her baby sister in the head with a rock, how her father taught her to swim by throwing her into deep water, and the day when -- while weighing in at 300 pounds -- she became an inspirational goddess at her local gym. Filled with universal stories about a daughter's love for her parents and the eternal quest for finding meaning in it all, this book reveals many seemingly unremarkable moments that make up a life -- the weighty events that, like fat girls sitting on lawn chairs, just won't let go.
Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs
Author: Cheryl Peck
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0759509859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Naughty cats, quirky family members, and experiences as a large gay woman in the heartland of America: Cheryl Peck has a potpourri of poignant -- and laugh-out-loud hilarious -- stories to tell about growing up, love, and loss. With self-deprecating humor and compassionate insight, she remembers the time she hit her baby sister in the head with a rock, how her father taught her to swim by throwing her into deep water, and the day when -- while weighing in at 300 pounds -- she became an inspirational goddess at her local gym. Filled with universal stories about a daughter's love for her parents and the eternal quest for finding meaning in it all, this book reveals many seemingly unremarkable moments that make up a life -- the weighty events that, like fat girls sitting on lawn chairs, just won't let go.
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0759509859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Naughty cats, quirky family members, and experiences as a large gay woman in the heartland of America: Cheryl Peck has a potpourri of poignant -- and laugh-out-loud hilarious -- stories to tell about growing up, love, and loss. With self-deprecating humor and compassionate insight, she remembers the time she hit her baby sister in the head with a rock, how her father taught her to swim by throwing her into deep water, and the day when -- while weighing in at 300 pounds -- she became an inspirational goddess at her local gym. Filled with universal stories about a daughter's love for her parents and the eternal quest for finding meaning in it all, this book reveals many seemingly unremarkable moments that make up a life -- the weighty events that, like fat girls sitting on lawn chairs, just won't let go.
Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs
Author: Cheryl Peck
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0759509859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Naughty cats, quirky family members, and experiences as a large gay woman in the heartland of America: Cheryl Peck has a potpourri of poignant -- and laugh-out-loud hilarious -- stories to tell about growing up, love, and loss. With self-deprecating humor and compassionate insight, she remembers the time she hit her baby sister in the head with a rock, how her father taught her to swim by throwing her into deep water, and the day when -- while weighing in at 300 pounds -- she became an inspirational goddess at her local gym. Filled with universal stories about a daughter's love for her parents and the eternal quest for finding meaning in it all, this book reveals many seemingly unremarkable moments that make up a life -- the weighty events that, like fat girls sitting on lawn chairs, just won't let go.
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0759509859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Naughty cats, quirky family members, and experiences as a large gay woman in the heartland of America: Cheryl Peck has a potpourri of poignant -- and laugh-out-loud hilarious -- stories to tell about growing up, love, and loss. With self-deprecating humor and compassionate insight, she remembers the time she hit her baby sister in the head with a rock, how her father taught her to swim by throwing her into deep water, and the day when -- while weighing in at 300 pounds -- she became an inspirational goddess at her local gym. Filled with universal stories about a daughter's love for her parents and the eternal quest for finding meaning in it all, this book reveals many seemingly unremarkable moments that make up a life -- the weighty events that, like fat girls sitting on lawn chairs, just won't let go.
The Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs
Author: Cheryl Peck
Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
ISBN: 9780942256147
Category : Lesbians
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
ISBN: 9780942256147
Category : Lesbians
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Revenge of the Paste Eaters
Author: Cheryl Peck
Publisher: 5 Spot
ISBN: 0446507091
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The author of Fat Girls and Lawn Chairsis back with a funny and poignant new collection of personal stories about growing up a misfit. A collection of stories for anyone who shuddered at the idea of senior prom, Revenge of the Paste Eaters is about the way the experiences of childhood stay with us and shape us into adults. Cheryl Peck applies her signature wit to more personal stories and reflections-about hurting people and getting hurt, about discovering who you are and who you want to be, about feeling "not good enough," and about being bigger-physically and mentally-than many of the people surrounding you. This is a wickedly funny view of what it's like to be a middle-aged woman in middle-America, and what really happened to the kids who were different.
Publisher: 5 Spot
ISBN: 0446507091
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The author of Fat Girls and Lawn Chairsis back with a funny and poignant new collection of personal stories about growing up a misfit. A collection of stories for anyone who shuddered at the idea of senior prom, Revenge of the Paste Eaters is about the way the experiences of childhood stay with us and shape us into adults. Cheryl Peck applies her signature wit to more personal stories and reflections-about hurting people and getting hurt, about discovering who you are and who you want to be, about feeling "not good enough," and about being bigger-physically and mentally-than many of the people surrounding you. This is a wickedly funny view of what it's like to be a middle-aged woman in middle-America, and what really happened to the kids who were different.
Animals, Deviance, and Sex
Author: Carmen M. Cusack
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443884707
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Animals, Deviance, and Sex proposes that “deviance” is a fluid term that advances cultural, gender, human, and societal norms, but “deviant” labels that presume unequivocally to segregate superior human morality from animal sexuality may fail to see the forest for the trees. A plain reading of the word “deviance” may suggest scientific or quantitative classifications. Indeed, animal species may be grouped and analyzed according to generalized norms for each species. However, “deviance” may indicate moral relativism, which is fundamentally tied to historical and contemporary understandings of human sexuality and human-animal relationships. Animals, Deviance, and Sex argues that traditional and progressive classifications, analyses, and implications of human deviance could authentically be reworked in consideration of animals’ anatomy, breeding, copulation, gender, mating, nonconsent, and sexuality. Morally and ethically gray areas voluntarily and knowingly traversed by human-animal sexual linkages have expanded and become increasingly normalized by popular culture. Animals, Deviance, and Sex’s treatment of these trends is amusingly complex, yet unpretentious, truthfully proficient, and careful. Each chapter assiduously and succinctly tethers animal science, anecdotes, behavior and social science, current events, human-animal relationships, law, and theory throughout dozens of exotically-themed subchapters. Animals, Deviance, and Sex is a well-organized oeuvre demonstrating professional expertise and experience.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443884707
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Animals, Deviance, and Sex proposes that “deviance” is a fluid term that advances cultural, gender, human, and societal norms, but “deviant” labels that presume unequivocally to segregate superior human morality from animal sexuality may fail to see the forest for the trees. A plain reading of the word “deviance” may suggest scientific or quantitative classifications. Indeed, animal species may be grouped and analyzed according to generalized norms for each species. However, “deviance” may indicate moral relativism, which is fundamentally tied to historical and contemporary understandings of human sexuality and human-animal relationships. Animals, Deviance, and Sex argues that traditional and progressive classifications, analyses, and implications of human deviance could authentically be reworked in consideration of animals’ anatomy, breeding, copulation, gender, mating, nonconsent, and sexuality. Morally and ethically gray areas voluntarily and knowingly traversed by human-animal sexual linkages have expanded and become increasingly normalized by popular culture. Animals, Deviance, and Sex’s treatment of these trends is amusingly complex, yet unpretentious, truthfully proficient, and careful. Each chapter assiduously and succinctly tethers animal science, anecdotes, behavior and social science, current events, human-animal relationships, law, and theory throughout dozens of exotically-themed subchapters. Animals, Deviance, and Sex is a well-organized oeuvre demonstrating professional expertise and experience.
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress
Author: Susan Jane Gilman
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 0446510580
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
From the author of Kiss My Tiara comes a funny and poignant collection of true stories about women coming of age that for once isn't about finding a date.
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 0446510580
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
From the author of Kiss My Tiara comes a funny and poignant collection of true stories about women coming of age that for once isn't about finding a date.
Eating Ice Cream With My Dog
Author: Frances Kuffel
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110151440X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
"A skilled blend of insight...and emotion" (Publishers Weekly), a memoir for every woman who has ever tried to lose weight. Frances Kuffel transformed her life by losing 188 pounds. Unfortunately, she gained over half those pounds back. But she also gained four new friends during this period, whom she met online. Frances, Lindsay, Katie, Mimi, and Wendy bonded quickly, dubbing themselves the Angry Fat Girlz. In Eating Ice Cream with my Dog, Frances Kuffel shares a candid and witty account of one year in which five women diet and eat, lose and gain, exercise and survive injury--and struggle to find their best selves. Previously published as Angry Fat Girls.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110151440X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
"A skilled blend of insight...and emotion" (Publishers Weekly), a memoir for every woman who has ever tried to lose weight. Frances Kuffel transformed her life by losing 188 pounds. Unfortunately, she gained over half those pounds back. But she also gained four new friends during this period, whom she met online. Frances, Lindsay, Katie, Mimi, and Wendy bonded quickly, dubbing themselves the Angry Fat Girlz. In Eating Ice Cream with my Dog, Frances Kuffel shares a candid and witty account of one year in which five women diet and eat, lose and gain, exercise and survive injury--and struggle to find their best selves. Previously published as Angry Fat Girls.
Locker Room Diaries
Author: Leslie Goldman
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN: 0738211818
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
I wish my thighs were smaller. "If only I could lose ten pounds." A wake-up call for any woman who has engaged in the "if only" wishing game, Locker Room Diaries uses the unique lens of the locker room to reveal what, exactly, goes into "shaping" not just a woman's body but her body image. The locker room can be a wondrous retreat, a place to toss aside the worries of the day, but it is also where our flaws become most apparent-and where most of us can't help but wonder how we "measure up." Often dressed in no more than a towel, Leslie Goldman spent five years talking with women of all shapes and sizes about their body image, from taut twenty-somethings to heavyset seniors. Why is it, she asks, that almost no one seems satisfied with her physique? From compulsive workouts to daily dates with the scale, from bikini waxes to body fat measurements, American women are swept up in a constant quest for the "perfect" body. Thankfully, more than one woman reveals how she halted her cycle of self-loathing and learned to like her body as is. Blending expert opinion with wonderfully intimate, often laugh-outloud, confidences, Locker Room Diaries will inspire anyone who knows the highs of exercise to leave the lows of self-esteem behind-and, most especially, once and for all, to step off that scale!
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN: 0738211818
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
I wish my thighs were smaller. "If only I could lose ten pounds." A wake-up call for any woman who has engaged in the "if only" wishing game, Locker Room Diaries uses the unique lens of the locker room to reveal what, exactly, goes into "shaping" not just a woman's body but her body image. The locker room can be a wondrous retreat, a place to toss aside the worries of the day, but it is also where our flaws become most apparent-and where most of us can't help but wonder how we "measure up." Often dressed in no more than a towel, Leslie Goldman spent five years talking with women of all shapes and sizes about their body image, from taut twenty-somethings to heavyset seniors. Why is it, she asks, that almost no one seems satisfied with her physique? From compulsive workouts to daily dates with the scale, from bikini waxes to body fat measurements, American women are swept up in a constant quest for the "perfect" body. Thankfully, more than one woman reveals how she halted her cycle of self-loathing and learned to like her body as is. Blending expert opinion with wonderfully intimate, often laugh-outloud, confidences, Locker Room Diaries will inspire anyone who knows the highs of exercise to leave the lows of self-esteem behind-and, most especially, once and for all, to step off that scale!
Eyes to See, Volume Two
Author: Bret Lott
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN: 1418575593
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
"Great stories pierce this present world in which we live and which we think we already understand, and through that piercing bring us to a deeper understanding of ourselves; the best stories reveal ourselves to ourselves, and ask us how then shall we live." - Bret Lott A story is not only a window into another person's life; it is also a glimpse into the complexities of the human heart. This new volume of Eyes to See presents a stellar collection of short stories by masters of the craft, gathered together by best-selling author Bret Lott. He has chosen stories that speak to the heart with passion and precision, offering moments of delight and insight that give us a glimpse of ourselves, no matter where we live or who we are. From such classic writers as Flannery O'Connor, Leo Tolstoy, G.K. Chesterton, and Charles Dickens to newer voices like Gina Ochsner and John Updike, Eyes to See offers those with "eyes to see" a wonderful collection of short stories with a shared Christian worldview of life, love, and transformation.
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN: 1418575593
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
"Great stories pierce this present world in which we live and which we think we already understand, and through that piercing bring us to a deeper understanding of ourselves; the best stories reveal ourselves to ourselves, and ask us how then shall we live." - Bret Lott A story is not only a window into another person's life; it is also a glimpse into the complexities of the human heart. This new volume of Eyes to See presents a stellar collection of short stories by masters of the craft, gathered together by best-selling author Bret Lott. He has chosen stories that speak to the heart with passion and precision, offering moments of delight and insight that give us a glimpse of ourselves, no matter where we live or who we are. From such classic writers as Flannery O'Connor, Leo Tolstoy, G.K. Chesterton, and Charles Dickens to newer voices like Gina Ochsner and John Updike, Eyes to See offers those with "eyes to see" a wonderful collection of short stories with a shared Christian worldview of life, love, and transformation.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
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