Any Small Goodness

Author : Tony Johnston
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780439233842
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Any Small Goodness written by Tony Johnston and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles is a place of movie stars and fast cars and people who are too rich and people who are too poor.

Author : Claire Keegan
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802158757
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Things Like These written by Claire Keegan and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize "A hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that transcends country, transcends time." —Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers Small Things Like These is award-winning author Claire Keegan's landmark new novel, a tale of one man's courage and a remarkable portrait of love and family It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. An international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.

Author : Joe Queenan
Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 9780786884667
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Goodness written by Joe Queenan and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2001-07-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years upon years of being unspeakably nasty to icons as diverse as Jimmy Carter, Barbra Streisand, and even Mother Nature herself had taken its toll on Joe Queenan. The man all editors turned to when they needed a book, film, or tv program savaged was tired of being so mean. He wanted to be more like Susan Sarandon. Or Sting. Determined to mend his ways, Queenan embarked on the most difficult task of his career: he decided to become a nice person. Now available in paperback, My Goodness is the side-splitting result of Queenans attempted transformation: from his use of animal-friendly Body Shop goods to his letter of apology to Jackie Collins after a scathing review of her latest book; from his quest to save the whales to his quest to save Linda Tripages.

Author : Mary Gaitskill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439148872
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bad Behavior written by Mary Gaitskill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-release of a National Book Award finalist debut collection by the author of Because They Wanted To follows such themes as dislocation and longing in a series of tales that reflect the experiences of a disenchanted and rebellious urban-fringe generation. Reprint.

Author : Victoria Piontek
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338662201
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Better With Butter written by Victoria Piontek and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A girl with anxiety disorder finds an unlikely friend -- and emotional support animal -- in the form of an adorable fainting goat. Twelve-year-old Marvel is afraid of absolutely everything -- amusement park rides, food poisoning, earthquakes, and that big island of plastic floating through the ocean. She also obsesses about smaller worries like making friends, getting called on by the teacher, and walking home alone. Her parents and the school therapist call her worries an anxiety disorder, but Marvel calls them armor. If something can happen, it will. She needs to be prepared. But when Marvel stumbles on a group of older kids teasing a baby goat that has mysteriously shown up on the soccer field, she momentarily forgets to be afraid and rescues the frightened animal. Only Butter isn't any old goat. She's a fainting goat. When Butter feels panic, she freezes up and falls over. Marvel knows exactly how Butter feels and precisely what Butter needs -- her. Twelve-year-old Marvel is afraid of absolutely everything -- amusement park rides, food poisoning, earthquakes, and that big island of plastic floating through the ocean. She also obsesses about smaller worries like making friends, getting called on by the teacher, and walking home alone. Her parents and the school therapist call her worries an anxiety disorder, but Marvel calls them armor. If something can happen, it will. She needs to be prepared. But when Marvel stumbles on a group of older kids teasing a baby goat that has mysteriously shown up on the soccer field, she momentarily forgets to be afraid and rescues the frightened animal. Only Butter isn't any old goat. She's a fainting goat. When Butter feels panic, she freezes up and falls over. Marvel knows exactly how Butter feels and precisely what Butter needs--her. Soon, the two are inseparable, and Butter thrives under Marvel's support. But Butter also helps Marvel. Everything is better with Butter by her side, and Marvel starts to imagine a life in which she doesn’t have to be so afraid . . . until she’s told she might have to give up Butter forever. Will Marvel find a way to fight for her friend? Or will she revert back to the anxious, lonely person she used to be?

Author : Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0804172706
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Little Life written by Hanya Yanagihara and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.

Author : Kristan Higgins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578778129
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crappy Friends written by Kristan Higgins and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All women have had at least one crappy friend...that one who left a mark and left us drained and confused. Why do we put up with it? How can we focus on the more positive friends in our lives and stop giving our energy to those who suck us dry? In this refreshing, often hilarious look at friendship, Kristan Higgins and Joss Dey (best friends and hosts of the podcast Crappy Friends) relate their own deeply personal experiences with toxic friends, detailing the red flags they missed or ignored, and the broken hearts they nursed back to health. Filled with down-to-earth wisdom, tips on weeding out the bad and making healthy friendships thrive, Crappy Friends is a guide for women of all ages.

Author : Bill Cummings
Publisher : Bill Cummings
ISBN 13 : 0999895117
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Starting Small and Making It Big written by Bill Cummings and published by Bill Cummings. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Fagenblat
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110668920
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Levinas and Literature written by Michael Fagenblat and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The posthumous publication of Emmanuel Levinas’s wartime diaries, postwar lectures, and drafts for two novels afford new approaches to understanding the relationship between literature, philosophy, and religion. This volume gathers an international list of experts to examine new questions raised by Levinas’s deep and creative experiment in thinking at the intersection of literature, philosophy, and religion. Chapters address the role and significance of poetry, narrative, and metaphor in accessing the ethical sense of ordinary life; Levinas's critical engagement with authors such as Leon Bloy, Paul Celan, Vassily Grossman, Marcel Proust, and Maurice Blanchot; analyses of Levinas’s draft novels Eros ou Triple opulence and La Dame de chez Wepler; and the application of Levinas's thought in reading contemporary authors such as Ian McEwen and Cormac McCarthy. Contributors include Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Kevin Hart, Eric Hoppenot, Vivian Liska, Jean-Luc Nancy and François-David Sebbah, among others.

Author : Richard Carrier
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452059268
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sense and Goodness Without God written by Richard Carrier and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-02-23 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If God does not exist, then what does? Is there good and evil, and should we care? How do we know what’s true anyway? And can we make any sense of this universe, or our own lives? Sense and Goodness answers all these questions in lavish detail, without complex jargon. A complete worldview is presented and defended, covering every subject from knowledge to art, from metaphysics to morality, from theology to politics. Topics include free will, the nature of the universe, the meaning of life, and much more, arguing from scientific evidence that there is only a physical, natural world without gods or spirits, but that we can still live a life of love, meaning, and joy.