One Perfect Day
Title | One Perfect Day PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca Mead |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 260 |
Release | 2008-07-29 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780143113843 |
Astutely observed and deftly witty, One Perfect Day masterfully mixes investigative journalism and social commentary to explore the workings of the wedding industry-an industry that claims to be worth $160 billion to the U.S. economy and which has every interest in ensuring that the American wedding becomes ever more lavish and complex. Taking us inside the workings of the wedding industry-including the swelling ranks of professional event planners, department stores with their online registries, the retailers and manufacturers of bridal gowns, and the Walt Disney Company and its Fairy Tale Weddings program-New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead skillfully holds the mirror up to the bride's deepest hopes and fears about her wedding day, revealing that for better or worse, the way we marry is who we are.
One Perfect Day
Title | One Perfect Day PDF eBook |
Author | Lauraine Snelling |
Publisher | FaithWords |
Total Pages | 195 |
Release | 2008-10-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0446544582 |
This is the story of two mothers, strangers to one another. The first has two children -- twins, a boy and girl, who are seniors in high school. She wants their last Christmas as a family living in the same home to be perfect, but her husband is delayed returning from a business trip abroad. And then there's an accident -- a fatal one involving a drunk driver. Meanwhile, the other mother has a daughter who needs a new heart, and so the loss of one woman becomes the miracle the other has desperately prayed for. While one mother grieves, and pulls away from her family, the other finds that even miracles aren't always easy to receive.
This Perfect Day
Title | This Perfect Day PDF eBook |
Author | Ira Levin |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 377 |
Release | 2010-11-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1605989363 |
By the author of Rosemary‘s Baby, a horrifying journey into a future only Ira Levin could imagine. Considered one of the great dystopian novels—alongside Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World—Ira Levin's frightening glimpse into the future continues to fascinate readers even forty years after publication. The story is set in a seemingly perfect global society. Uniformity is the defining feature; there is only one language and all ethnic groups have been eugenically merged into one race called “The Family.“ The world is ruled by a central computer called UniComp that has been programmed to keep every single human on the surface of the earth in check. People are continually drugged by means of regular injections so that they can never realize their potential as human beings, but will remain satisfied and cooperative. They are told where to live, when to eat, whom to marry, when to reproduce. even the basic facts of nature are subject to the UniComp's will—men do not grow facial hair, women do not develop breasts, and it only rains at night. With a vision as frightening as any in the history of the science fiction genre, This Perfect Day is one of Ira Levin's most haunting novels.
A Perfect Day
Title | A Perfect Day PDF eBook |
Author | Lane Smith |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 37 |
Release | 2017-02-14 |
Genre | JUVENILE FICTION |
ISBN | 1626725365 |
A perfect day means different things to different animals in Bert's backyard in this droll tale from bestselling, Caldecott Honor-winner Lane Smith.
One Whole and Perfect Day
Title | One Whole and Perfect Day PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Clarke |
Publisher | Boyds Mills Press |
Total Pages | 251 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1932425950 |
Summary: As her irritating family prepares to celebrate her grandfather's eightieth birthday, sixteen-year-old Lily yearns for just one whole perfect day together.
Ruby's Perfect Day
Title | Ruby's Perfect Day PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Hill |
Publisher | Zondervan |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 2010-10-05 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0310424771 |
A lesson in being content. Ruby's plans for a perfect day with friends ends up more special than she could have imagined!
Russ and the Almost Perfect Day
Title | Russ and the Almost Perfect Day PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Elizabeth Rickert |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 34 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN |
Russ, a student with Down syndrome, is having a perfect day until he realizes that the five-dollar bill he has found probably belongs to a classmate.