Terribly Strange and Wonderfully Real
Title | Terribly Strange and Wonderfully Real PDF eBook |
Author | Laurie Levy |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 2016-05-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781530103201 |
In 1967, she sang along with Paul McCartney, wondering what life would be like when she turned sixty-four. Now, at age seventy, Laurie Levy doesn't listen to that song anymore. After all, she's far from the old fogey described in the Beatles' lyrics. Following a lifetime of experience, she remains an educator, innovator, and advocate for a variety of causes. But after seventy years of experience on this earth, she knows one thing for sure: The journey is terribly strange-and often far too real. In Levy's debut collection of essays, you'll find a diverse and captivating selection of insights and personal experiences on everything from being a part of the baby boom generation to fighting for developmentally appropriate educational practices to advocating for children with special needs to coping with the loss of loved ones. Heartfelt and often humorous, these glimpses at a lifetime of experience incorporate issues we can all relate to-the process of growing older, learning to forgive, screwing up, and surviving all the same. Terribly Strange and Wonderfully Real is a portrait of the educator and advocate as a woman, with a decidedly human touch that will appeal to readers regardless of gender or generation.
Furiously Happy
Title | Furiously Happy PDF eBook |
Author | Jenny Lawson |
Publisher | Flatiron Books |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2015-09-22 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 125007701X |
In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best. As Jenny says: "Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an excuse to be stupid and irresponsible and invite a herd of kangaroos over to your house without telling your husband first because you suspect he would say no since he's never particularly liked kangaroos. And that would be ridiculous because no one would invite a herd of kangaroos into their house. Two is the limit. I speak from personal experience. My husband says that none is the new limit. I say he should have been clearer about that before I rented all those kangaroos. "Most of my favorite people are dangerously fucked-up but you'd never guess because we've learned to bare it so honestly that it becomes the new normal. Like John Hughes wrote in The Breakfast Club, 'We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it.' Except go back and cross out the word 'hiding.'" Furiously Happy is about "taking those moments when things are fine and making them amazing, because those moments are what make us who we are, and they're the same moments we take into battle with us when our brains declare war on our very existence. It's the difference between "surviving life" and "living life". It's the difference between "taking a shower" and "teaching your monkey butler how to shampoo your hair." It's the difference between being "sane" and being "furiously happy." Lawson is beloved around the world for her inimitable humor and honesty, and in Furiously Happy, she is at her snort-inducing funniest. This is a book about embracing everything that makes us who we are - the beautiful and the flawed - and then using it to find joy in fantastic and outrageous ways. Because as Jenny's mom says, "Maybe 'crazy' isn't so bad after all." Sometimes crazy is just right.
The Earthquake Catalogue of the British Association
Title | The Earthquake Catalogue of the British Association PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Mallet |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 770 |
Release | 1858 |
Genre | Earthquakes |
ISBN |
Report of the Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Title | Report of the Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science PDF eBook |
Author | Anonymous |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | 666 |
Release | 2023-04-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3382317788 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Title | Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Viorst |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 34 |
Release | 2009-09-22 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1416985956 |
Recounts the events of a day when everything goes wrong for Alexander. Suggested level: junior, primary.
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
Title | All the Ugly and Wonderful Things PDF eBook |
Author | Bryn Greenwood |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 353 |
Release | 2016-08-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1250074134 |
"Struggling to raise her little brother Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star-gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold. By the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery"--
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Title | The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | William Thomas Lowndes |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 630 |
Release | 1864 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |