The Bag Lady

Author : Alexandra Penney
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 140139499X
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bag Lady Papers written by Alexandra Penney and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 2008, my worst nightmare came true . . . How do you pick yourself up after the one thing you most feared happens to you? Alexandra Penney's revealing, spirited, and ultimately redemptive true story shows us how. Throughout her life, Alexandra Penney's worst fear was of becoming a bag lady. Even as she worked several jobs while raising a son as a single mother, wrote a bestselling advice book, and became editor in chief of Self magazine, she was haunted by the image of herself alone, bankrupt, and living on the street. She even went to therapy in an attempt to alleviate the worry that all she had worked for could crumble. And then, one day, that's exactly what happened. Penney had taken a friend's advice and invested nearly everything she had ever earned--all of her savings--with Bernie Madoff. One day she was successful and wealthy; the next she had almost nothing. Suddenly, at an age when many Americans retire, Penney saw her worst nightmares coming true. Based on her popular blog posts on The Daily Beast, this memoir chronicles Penney's struggle to cope with the devastating financial and emotional fallout of being cheated out of her life savings and illuminates her journey back to sanity, solvency, and security. "I will work harder than I ever have before--which was pretty hard indeed--and see what happens. I have the feeling something good will come of it: tough, challenging work and laserlike focus have always paid off for me. . . . Was it better to have it and then lose it? Yes, yes, yes! Even though I lived with horrible bag lady fears of losing it all, now that those financial fears have materialized, I'm in pretty good shape and looking to what's next. Experiences -- good and bad, exciting and boring, tragic and absurd -- make up a life. Not to have lived to the fullest is the saddest, most irresponsible life I can think of." --- from The Bag Lady Papers

Author : Dina Dove
Publisher : Health Communications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0757307221
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Baglady's Guide to Elegant Living written by Dina Dove and published by Health Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary and empowering story of how a woman trapped in perpetual despair and self-pity is transformed by a little old lady and her shopping bag of tricks inspires individuals to become more conscious of the way they lead their daily lives. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Author : Carol Leonard SeCoy
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450220568
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bag Lady War written by Carol Leonard SeCoy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of fending off street thugs and worried about the day they can no longer take care of themselves, three elderly widows, Josie, Mabel and Mil, concoct the perfect plan for ensuring their safety, which will also guarantee them free room and board for life. As grocery bag-covered bodies begin turning up in Southern California, police and the media are stumped. Detectives assigned to the case, Paige Turner and Mark Wisneski, wonder what weird new serial killer is on the loose. The victims are mostly drug addicts and small-time crooks, but why the grocery bags? The bodies pile up until the widows invite Turner and Wisneski to tea, where they tell all. What they reveal shocks the world and could lead to the widows' master plan seriously backfiring. Life on the streets and in prison will never be the same.

Author : Liela Fuller
Publisher : Jadora's Child Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780996128995
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bag Lady written by Liela Fuller and published by Jadora's Child Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-14 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has a reason they are where they are. Everyone has a story and this is the story of Bag Lady, a successful woman eager to enter into the next dimension of life holding onto the baggage she picked up along the way. The question is how will she ever make it to the next dimension carrying the weight of so much and so many? Bag Lady is a short story written by author and journal creator Liela Marie Fuller.

Author : Jean Claude Van Itallie
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822200901
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bag Lady written by Jean Claude Van Itallie and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1980 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The play takes place on the streets of New York, where this bag lady calls home. On this day, she goes about her business, stuffing her shopping bags with assorted oddments. Suddenly assailed by voices of passersby, she responds to them both humorously and belligerently. She ruminates on the past and present, proclaiming her sovereignty as the quintessential urbanite. She is the city, with all its terrors, loneliness, filth and, in the final essence, its special majesty and unquenchable individuality.

Author : Robert Sell
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1644624192
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bag Lady written by Robert Sell and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book depicts a woman who, because of a tragic event and unfortunate circumstances, is forced to eat from dumpsters and sleep under overpasses.

Author : Lavern O. Staten
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1490828060
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bag Lady written by Lavern O. Staten and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bag Lady was created out of the many little stories told to me down through my career dealing with young adults who lack God in their lives. Listening and telling young people about Jesus and choices motivated me to write this book, in hopes that it would help them understand that man may let them down but God won't. The Bag Lady is filled with little stories of young, struggling women who put themselves in danger, looking for love and desperately seeking ways to get on the right path of life. This book also teaches that looking for love in the wrong places and then trying to get revenge can lead to destruction. Finally, it teaches that you must be true to yourself and have faith in God and depend on Him only to take you through the storms of life. Why settle for less, when God can give you more that you need, if only you would trust Him?

Author : Yolanda E. Bonner
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449095135
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bag Lady written by Yolanda E. Bonner and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. malouf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781540360472
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bag Lady written by J. malouf and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-25 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people don't look at bag ladies. To many passers-by, they seem more a part of the environment than distinct people. Michelle Murray, however, isn't simply a part of her surroundings. She is a distinct person-with hopes, dreams, and plenty of regrets. As Michelle sits on a bench in the Boston Common, she looks back at her life. If she had made one decision differently, many years ago, how would her life be different? For Michelle, this decision was applying to Harvard. She thought she never had a chance of getting in, but when she does, she leaves her cookie-cutter life in suburbia behind for one of intellectual challenge and adventure. At Harvard, she meets and marries Robert Murray. Her life seems ideal; a successful husband, a beautiful home, children, and a career. She feels very lucky, until when after twenty-five years of marriage, she is blindsided by Robert's infidelity. Her world is turned upside down. It is revealed that Robert not only wants her out of his life, he wants her dead. Michelle teams up with Private Detective Tony Columbado; and Tony's good witch of a mother, Sophia, to escape Robert's clutches. In this tense thriller, author j.d. malouf shows the surprising connections between the Michelle of the past and the bag lady she will eventually become.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shopping-bag Lady written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The children laugh at the lady who pokes into all the trash around until the day they find out why.