All Grown Up Now

Author : Jami Attenberg
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0544824261
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Grown Up written by Jami Attenberg and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A national bestseller from the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins, All Grown Up is a wickedly funny novel about a thirty-nine-year-old single, childfree woman who defies convention as she seeks connection. Who is Andrea Bern? When her therapist asks the question, Andrea knows the right things to say: she’s a designer, a friend, a daughter, a sister. But it’s what she leaves unsaid—she’s alone, a drinker, a former artist, a shrieker in bed, captain of the sinking ship that is her flesh—that feels the most true. Everyone around her seems to have an entirely different idea of what it means to be an adult: her best friend, Indigo, is getting married; her brother—who miraculously seems unscathed by their shared tumultuous childhood—and sister-in-law are having a hoped-for baby; and her friend Matthew continues to wholly devote himself to making dark paintings at the cost of being flat broke. But when Andrea’s niece finally arrives, born with a heartbreaking ailment, the Bern family is forced to reexamine what really matters. Will this drive them together or tear them apart? Told in gut-wrenchingly honest, mordantly comic vignettes, All Grown Up is a breathtaking display of Jami Attenberg’s power as a storyteller, a whip-smart examination of one woman’s life, lived entirely on her own terms.

Author : Ellen Shea
Publisher : Natural Clarity
ISBN 13 : 9781450717816
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I'm All Grown Up-Now What? written by Ellen Shea and published by Natural Clarity. This book was released on 2010 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm All Grown Up-Now What? is a true story of learning to go within to find the courage to a make a dream a reality. Whether you are a baby-boomer, or in your 20's, 30's or even your 70's, it's never too late to live the life of your dreams and start living life from love and passion. If you catch yourself saying, "When I grow up I'll figure out what I want to do," then you need to read this book. When you find your true purpose in life and start to live it, you'll discover that growing old is an option. Start today on that journey of self discovery. You won't be sorry. It's what you have been working towards your whole life. It is your destiny to be all that you can be and to live your life with love in your heart.

Author : Kenneth D. King
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781477698884
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Grown Up Now written by Kenneth D. King and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Grown Up Now is an autobiographical novel about one man's journey from being a green kid on Oklahoma, to being "all grown up now".Two gay men in early 1980s Oklahoma find themselves in a lifelong friendship that transcends the simple label of “friends.” When domestic violence tears their world apart, a desperate act sets the course for healing and a profound new outlook on life. A tale of retail, revenge, re-invention, reckless behavior, and really good clothes, Kenneth D. King's debut is a rollicking coming-of-age story. Growing up as a young gay man in Oklahoma City, the capital city of Places To Not Grow Up Fabulous In, King is designing Barbie dresses by the age of four and knows that his destiny lies as a fashion designer in The Big City. Which Big City isn't necessarily named—it is more of an ideal, where pageantry, fabulous parties, and beautiful clothes are the staples of life. Working tirelessly to graduate from college with a degree in fashion merchandising, he takes his first job as a window display designer, where he meets colleague Mark and strikes up a friendship that will change them both forever.When Mark moves with his significant other, Victor, to San Francisco, he takes a job as a display manager for a chain of stores and hires Ken. Big City, here he comes! But Mark and Victor keep a dark secret of spousal abuse that strains the friendship to its limits. But when Mark needs to be rescued, Ken is there to execute an intricate—and dangerous—kidnapping to save his friend. What he doesn't fully realize, however, is how dramatically that act of friendship will change the course of both of their lives.Beginning as a collection of stories that helped King make sense of an important, tumultuous friendship in his life, this riveting, non-linear depiction of their relationship and the tragic pain caused by domestic violence is as heartbreaking as it is hilarious. Depicting moments in the author's life that sparkle individually, All Grown Up Now: A Friendship in Three Acts creates a jewel of a work that is funny, engaging, and powerful.Kenneth D. King is an haute couture designer in New York. His couture clothing and accessories are in many private collections, have appeared in music videos and television commercials, and are in the permanent museum collections of the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. You can view his design work at: www.kennethdking.com. A writer of books on different aspects of design and sewing technique, King's published works include various articles to Threads magazine, Designer Techniques (Sterling Publishing, 1996), Designer Bead Embroidery (Quarto Publishing, 2006), Cool Couture (Creative Publishing, 2008), and eleven self-published books on CD covering different couture garment construction topics. From 1994-1996 King appeared as the sewing expert on twenty-six episodes of the PBS television series "Sewing Today" and has appeared on a number of TV shows promoting his couture creations and sewing expertise.

Author : Maisie Paradise Shearring
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1529015782
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I'm Actually Really Grown-Up Now written by Maisie Paradise Shearring and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for fans of Shirley Hughes, I'm Actually Really Grown-Up now is a warm and funny story from the creator of Anna and Otis. "Inclusive illustrations are bright, busy and drawn with charming naivety" Praise for Anna and Otis – The Sunday Times The grown-ups are having a party, and Meena would really love to join in but instead she's sent to bed. Only grown-ups get to stay up late. So the next day she makes a very important announcement to her parents: "I'm actually really grown-up now!" In this very funny story we join Meena as she plans her very own grown-up party and explores what it REALLY means to be a grown up. She has a lot of fun experimenting with fashion, going to work and party planning, but she soon finds out that being grown-up might not always be as easy as it seems. I'm Actually Really Grown-Up Now by Maisie Shearring is the follow-up to the wonderful Anna and Otis. Maisie has a special talent for capturing the bittersweet highs and lows of childhood and the humour to be found in everyday situations.

Author : Claude Louis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781737895404
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I'm All Grown Now, Papa written by Claude Louis and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nickelodeon
Publisher : TokyoPop
ISBN 13 : 9781595327222
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Grown Up Volume 1 written by Nickelodeon and published by TokyoPop. This book was released on 2005-05-10 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susie meets a talent agent who promises to make her a pop star.

Author : Vi Keeland
Publisher : C. Scott Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1942215959
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Grown Up written by Vi Keeland and published by C. Scott Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, sexy standalone from #1 New York Times Bestseller, Vi Keeland. When I first encountered Ford Donovan, I had no idea who he was…well, other than the obvious. Young, gorgeous, successful, smart. Did I mention young? If I did, it bears repeating. Ford Donovan was too young for me. Let’s back up to how it all started. My best friend decided I needed to start dating again. So, without my knowledge, she set up a profile for me on a popular dating site—one that invited men ages twenty-one to twenty-seven to apply for a date. Those nicknamed Cunnilingus King were told they’d go straight to the top for consideration. The profile wasn’t supposed to go live. Another point that bears repeating—it wasn’t supposed to. Nevertheless, that’s how I met Ford, and we started messaging. He made me laugh; yet I was adamant that because of his age, we could only be friends. But after weeks of wearing me down, I finally agreed to one date only—my first after twenty years of being with my high school sweetheart. I knew it couldn’t last, but I was curious about him. Though, you know what they say…curiosity kills the cat. My legs wobbled walking into the restaurant. Ford was seated at the bar. When he turned around, he took my breath away. His sexy smile nearly melted my panties. But…he looked so familiar. As I got closer I realized why. He was the son of the neighbor at our family’s summer home. The boy next door. Only now…he was all man. I hadn’t seen him in years. I left the restaurant and planned to put the entire crazy thing behind me. Which I did. Until summer came. And guess who decided to use his family’s summer home this year?

Author : Nickelodeon
Publisher : TokyoPop
ISBN 13 : 9781595327239
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Grown Up Volume 2 written by Nickelodeon and published by TokyoPop. This book was released on 2005-08-09 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the Nickelodeon special spun-off from "Rugrats," which shows the babies all grown up. When a talent scout tells Susie she can be a singer, her parents object because they worry that being a star will affect her grades. Susie decides not to give up on her dreams. Full color.

Author : Tim Elmore
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118258061
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artificial Maturity written by Tim Elmore and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to raise kids who can handle the real world Today's Generation iY (teens brought up with the Internet) and Homelanders (children born after 9/11) are overexposed to information at an earlier age than ever and paradoxically are underexposed to meaningful relationships and real-life experiences. Artificial Maturity addresses the problem of what to do when parents and teachers mistake children's superficial knowledge for real maturity. The book is filled with practical steps that adults can take to furnish the experiences kids need to balance their abilities with authentic maturity. Shows how to identify the problem of artificial maturity in Generation iY and Homelanders Reveals what to do to help children balance autonomy, responsibility, and information Includes a down-to-earth model for coaching and guiding youth to true maturity Artificial Maturity gives parents, teachers, and others who work with youth a manual for understanding and practicing the leadership kids so desperately need to mature in a healthy fashion.

Author : Lisa Heffernan
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 1250188954
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grown and Flown written by Lisa Heffernan and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PARENTING NEVER ENDS. From the founders of the #1 site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster of academics, friends, first loves, first break-ups, driver’s ed, jobs, and everything in between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? Enter the co-founders of Grown and Flown, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington. In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, they launched what has become the largest website and online community for parents of fifteen to twenty-five year olds. Now they’ve compiled new takeaways and fresh insights from all that they’ve learned into this handy, must-have guide. Grown and Flown is a one-stop resource for parenting teenagers, leading up to—and through—high school and those first years of independence. It covers everything from the monumental (how to let your kids go) to the mundane (how to shop for a dorm room). Organized by topic—such as academics, anxiety and mental health, college life—it features a combination of stories, advice from professionals, and practical sidebars. Consider this your parenting lifeline: an easy-to-use manual that offers support and perspective. Grown and Flown is required reading for anyone looking to raise an adult with whom you have an enduring, profound connection.