Please Excuse My Daughter

Author : Julie Klam
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101217693
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Please Excuse My Daughter written by Julie Klam and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look out for Julie's new book, The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters. From the author of Friendkeeping and Love at First Bark, one woman's hilarious, bittersweet account of growing up in a family of career-shunning, dependence-seeking women and her journey to a state of twenty-first-century self-reliance. Julie Klam was raised as the only daughter of a Jewish family in the exclusive WASP stronghold of Bedford, New York. Her mother was sharp, glamorous, and funny, but did not think that work was a woman's responsibility. Her father was fully supportive, not just of his wife's staying at home, but also of her extravagant lifestyle. Her mother's offbeat parenting style-taking Julie out of school to go to lunch at Bloomingdale's, for example-made her feel well-cared-for (and well-dressed) but left her unprepared for graduating and entering the real world. She had been brought up to look pretty and wait for a rich man to sweep her off her feet. But what happened if he never showed up? When Julie gets married to a hardworking but not wealthy man-one who expects her to be part of a modern couple and contribute financially to the marriage-she realizes how ambivalent and ill-equipped she is for life. Once she gives birth to a daughter, she knows she must grow up, get to work, and teach her child the self-reliance that she never learned. Delivered in an uproariously funny, sweet, self-effacing, and utterly memorable voice, Please Excuse My Daughter is a bighearted memoir from an irresistible new writer.

Author : Julie Klam
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735216444
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters written by Julie Klam and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post best nonfiction book pick of 2021 “It is biography as an expression of love.” – The New York Times New York Times–bestselling author Julie Klam’s funny and moving story of the Morris sisters, distant relations with mysterious pasts. Ever since she was young, Julie Klam has been fascinated by the Morris sisters, cousins of her grandmother. According to family lore, early in the twentieth century the sisters’ parents decided to move the family from Eastern Europe to Los Angeles so their father could become a movie director. On the way, their pregnant mother went into labor in St. Louis, where the baby was born and where their mother died. The father left the children in an orphanage and promised to send for them when he settled in California—a promise he never kept. One of the Morris sisters later became a successful Wall Street trader and advised Franklin Roosevelt. The sisters lived together in New York City, none of them married or had children, and one even had an affair with J. P. Morgan. The stories of these independent women intrigued Klam, but as she delved into them to learn more, she realized that the tales were almost completely untrue. The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters is the revealing account of what Klam discovered about her family—and herself—as she dug into the past. The deeper she went into the lives of the Morris sisters, the slipperier their stories became. And the more questions she had about what actually happened to them, the more her opinion of them evolved. Part memoir and part confessional, and told with the wit and honesty that are hallmarks of Klam’s books, The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters is the fascinating and funny true story of one writer’s journey into her family’s past, the truths she brings to light, and what she learns about herself along the way.

Author : Steven D. Price
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620873087
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Excuses for All Occasions written by Steven D. Price and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for ways to escape or shift blame is a fundamental part of life. Here’s a survival guide full of ready-made excuses, from the student’s classic “My dog ate my homework,” to the motorist’s “Was that sign the speed limit, Officer? I thought it was the town’s population,” to the dieter’s “I wasn’t getting enough to eat on one diet, so I had to go on three.” You’ll welcome these ready-made alibis and cop-outs for business, school, sports, family, romance, and other situations where you might find yourself in hot water.

Author : Herb Williams
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312383674
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Only the Faces Change (A High School Odyssey) written by Herb Williams and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-11-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only the Faces Change is a humorous, touching story of teachers, both good and bad, of students searching for truth in education and in their personal lives, and of failed bureaucratic attempts to improve the system. Herb Williams encourages students to speak for themselves through discussions and notes (Dear Herbies) from a coffee can; satirizes directives from principals, counselors, attendance supervisors, and parents; solicits contributions from colleagues (From the Campus Inn); incorporates the latest rumors from one who knows them all (The Ear With an Attitude); and integrates satirical columns from his newspaper days (Fiction and Fact from the Almanac). For over fifteen years, Herb Williams wrote a humor column, titled ?Life and Times, ? published in three different newspapers in Norwalk, Cerritos, and Redlands, California. This is his third book in addition to his travel memoir, North to Alaska with a No-Account Cat and his ?how to? booklet, Easy Writing Across the Curriculum or Anywhere Else.

Author : Richard Lederer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312334949
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revenge of Anguished English written by Richard Lederer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anguished language expert provides the latest collection of unfortunate typos, tragically misplaced modifiers, and other hilarious language snafus.

Author : Roz Chast
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1582343772
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Party, After You Left written by Roz Chast and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-04-24 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of cartoons, representing the last nine years of work that originally appeared in the The New Yorker and other publications, is brought together in zany book that takes on contemporary themes such as genetically altered mice. 20,000 first printing.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Communist Activities in the United States
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2434 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Investigation of Communist Propaganda written by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Communist Activities in the United States and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 2434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Communist Activities in the United States
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book (3 v. ) Hearings held in Seattle (Wash.), Portland, Or., San Francisco and Los Angeles written by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Communist Activities in the United States and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Lilly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1626723591
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geraldine written by Elizabeth Lilly and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's hard being the new kid. It's really hard being different. It's especially hard being a giraffe in a school of children. A debut picture book that stands above the crowd. Full color.

Author : Jennie Melamed
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316463671
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gather the Daughters written by Jennie Melamed and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never Let Me Go meets The Giver in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems. Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge and history. Only the Wanderers -- chosen male descendants of the original ten -- are allowed to cross to the wastelands, where they scavenge for detritus among the still-smoldering fires. The daughters of these men are wives-in-training. At the first sign of puberty, they face their Summer of Fruition, a ritualistic season that drags them from adolescence to matrimony. They have children, who have children, and when they are no longer useful, they take their final draught and die. But in the summer, the younger children reign supreme. With the adults indoors and the pubescent in Fruition, the children live wildly -- they fight over food and shelter, free of their fathers' hands and their mothers' despair. And it is at the end of one summer that little Caitlin Jacob sees something so horrifying, so contradictory to the laws of the island, that she must share it with the others. Born leader Janey Solomon steps up to seek the truth. At seventeen years old, Janey is so unwilling to become a woman, she is slowly starving herself to death. Trying urgently now to unravel the mysteries of the island and what lies beyond, before her own demise, she attempts to lead an uprising of the girls that may be their undoing. Gather the Daughters is a smoldering debut; dark and energetic, compulsively readable, Melamed's novel announces her as an unforgettable new voice in fiction.