Book Description
Mothers.
Author : Jodie Hedley-Ward
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,20 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1458767159
Mothers.
Author : Alison Bechdel
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0547524366
The New York Times–bestselling graphic memoir about Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home, becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood…and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. It's a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel’s own (serially monogamous) adult love life. And, finally, back to Mother—to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers. A New York Times, USA Today, Time, Slate, and Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year “As complicated, brainy, inventive and satisfying as the finest prose memoirs.”—New York Times Book Review “A work of the most humane kind of genius, bravely going right to the heart of things: why we are who we are. It's also incredibly funny. And visually stunning. And page-turningly addictive. And heartbreaking.”—Jonathan Safran Foer “Many of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers. Alison Bechdel has written a graphic novel about this; sort of like a comic book by Virginia Woolf. You won't believe it until you read it—and you must!”—Gloria Steinem
Author : Kate Siegel
Publisher : Crown Archetype
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 15,15 MB
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1101907045
Based on the wildly popular Instagram account @CrazyJewishMom, Kate Siegel's essay collection about life with the woman who redefined the term "helicopter mom." There is nothing more wonderful than a mother’s love. There is also nothing more annoying. Who else can proudly insist that you’re perfect while simultaneously making you question every career, fashion, and relationship decision you have ever made? No one understands the delicate mother-daughter dynamic better than Kate Siegel—her own mother drove her so crazy that she decided to broadcast their hilarious conversations on Instagram. Soon, hundreds of thousands of people were following their daily text exchanges, eager to see what outrageous thing Kate’s mom would do next. Now, in Mother, Can You NOT?, Kate pays tribute to the woman who invented the concept of drone parenting. From embarrassing moments (like crashing Kate's gynecological exams) to outrageous stories (like the time she made Kate steal a cat from the pound) to hilarious celebrations (including but not limited to parties for Kate's menstrual cycles), Mother, Can you NOT? lovingly lampoons the lengths to which our mothers will go to better our lives (even if it feels like they’re ruining them in the process).
Author : Barry Sonnenfeld
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316415634
**A New York Times Editor's Choice selection!** This outrageous and hilarious memoir follows a film and television director’s life, from his idiosyncratic upbringing to his unexpected career as the director behind such huge film franchises as The Addams Family and Men in Black. Barry Sonnenfeld's philosophy is, "Regret the Past. Fear the Present. Dread the Future." Told in his unmistakable voice, Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother is a laugh-out-loud memoir about coming of age. Constantly threatened with suicide by his over-protective mother, disillusioned by the father he worshiped, and abused by a demonic relative, Sonnenfeld somehow went on to become one of Hollywood's most successful producers and directors. Written with poignant insight and real-life irony, the book follows Sonnenfeld from childhood as a French horn player through graduate film school at NYU, where he developed his talent for cinematography. His first job after graduating was shooting nine feature length pornos in nine days. From that humble entrée, he went on to form a friendship with the Coen Brothers, launching his career shooting their first three films. Though Sonnenfeld had no ambition to direct, Scott Rudin convinced him to be the director of The Addams Family. It was a successful career move. He went on to direct many more films and television shows. Will Smith once joked that he wanted to take Sonnenfeld to Philadelphia public schools and say, "If this guy could end up as a successful film director on big budget films, anyone can." This book is a fascinating and hilarious roadmap for anyone who thinks they can't succeed in life because of a rough beginning.
Author : Jodie Hedley-Ward
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,83 MB
Release : 2011-01-23
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1459609867
Now you can have your best body - ever! YSM Body Bible is a complete fitness guide for today's busy wife and mother.Written with the assistance of international figure champion and personal trainer Kelli Johnson, and endorsed by Terri Irwin, YSM Body Bible is the book today's busy mothers have been waiting for. Using the latest research findings...
Author : Remy Rose
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 2018-08-28
Category :
ISBN : 9781945340291
When faking it becomes aching for it... Damon They say a bachelor with a big "vessel" is a babe magnet. And you know what? They aren't wrong. But the CEO of the family yacht company (a.k.a. my mother) is rocking my boat, demanding I bed and wed the heiress of one of our biggest competitors. If my mother doesn't get her way and decides to fire me, I forfeit millions in trust fund money. So there's that. Salvation comes in the form of Delaney Brewster, who just happens to need an investor. In exchange, she agrees to help me stave off Mommie Dearest by pretending to be my girlfriend. It's a crazy faking idea, but even crazier? My heart is telling me that spunky, sexy Delaney could be the real deal. Delaney It's not an overstatement to say my 9-to-5 equates to lying underneath a hairy fat guy and faking an orgasm. I desperately want to start my own business, but my cash flow...isn't. Until Damon Cavanaugh makes me an offer my bank account can't refuse. Pretending to be his girlfriend should be easy, since I've sworn off serious relationships. And let's face it, he's easy on the eyes. But the more I get to know Damon, the less it feels like acting. And when his mother steps up the pressure, the gloves--and the masks--have to come off, exposing the one thing I swore to protect...my heart.
Author : Susan Barbara Shapiro
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 2012-07
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1434912671
¿Laughter is the best medicine¿ is a favorite cliché for many of us. Some take this literally while others realize that, yes, life has a lot of ills that we need laughter to take our minds away from misery.
Author : Suzanne Simard
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 0525656103
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. In this, her first book, now available in paperback, Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths--that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. Simard writes--in inspiring, illuminating, and accessible ways—how trees, living side by side for hundreds of years, have evolved, how they learn and adapt their behaviors, recognize neighbors, compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication, characteristics ascribed to human intelligence, traits that are the essence of civil societies--and at the center of it all, the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. And Simard writes of her own life, born and raised into a logging world in the rainforests of British Columbia, of her days as a child spent cataloging the trees from the forest and how she came to love and respect them. And as she writes of her scientific quest, she writes of her own journey, making us understand how deeply human scientific inquiry exists beyond data and technology, that it is about understanding who we are and our place in the world.
Author : Ian Boothby
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 2019-01-23
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :
Cate and Kate learn that the only thing worse than selling your soul to the Devil is selling it to someone you thought was the Devil. Can they save a soul from being saved? Also, their Mother returns, bringing the first-ever evil along with her.
Author : Ian Boothby
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 26,48 MB
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1534314539
Did you sign a deal with the devil? Has a loved one been dragged to Hell? Then Kate and Cate Harrow should be the first ones you call for timely soul removal at a reasonable rate. This collection is perfect for fans of case-solving procedurals like Veronica Mars, Netflix's Jessica Jones, and the CW's Supernatural, and introduces readers to the Harrows, who have to deal with the end of the world, fallen angels, demon worshipping ex-boyfriends, and their Mother. Collects EXORSISTERS #1-5