![]() ![]() Jenny's first book, Let's Pretend This Never Happened, was ostensibly about family, but deep down it was about celebrating your own weirdness. And terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.Īs Jenny says: 'You can't experience pain without also experiencing the baffling and ridiculous moments of being fiercely, unapologetically, intensely and (above all) furiously happy.' It's a philosophy that has – quite literally – saved her life. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. ![]() In Furiously Happy she explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. In Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson regaled readers with uproarious stories of her bizarre childhood. For fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey and Caitlin Moran comes Furiously Happy from Jenny Lawson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Let's Pretend This Never Happened. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Can Em embrace the magic of the holidays and find the perfect boy to kiss under the mistletoe?Ībout the Author Suzanne Nelson has written several children's books, including Cake Pop Crush, Macarons at Midnight, Hot Cocoa Hearts, You're Bacon Me Crazy, Donut Go Breaking My Heart, Sundae My Prince Will Come, Shake It Off, Pumpkin Spice Up Your Life, and A Tale Magnolious. Soon, a blizzard, a Secret Santa surprise, and a family disagreement throw Em's world upside down. But the more time Em spends with Alex, the more she realizes that she may not be the Grinch she always thought she was. Alex is cute, but he's nothing like Em's real crush - the brooding and artistic Sawyer Kade. There, Em meets Alejandro Perez, who works at the hot cocoa shop next door and is always full of holiday spirit. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, this year, Em is forced to work - as an elf! - at her parents' Santa photo booth at the mall. She's so over the tinsel, the shopping, and all the other trappings of the season. for heartbreak?Emery Mason is not a fan of the holidays. About the Book While working at her parents' Santa photography booth at the mall, Emery meets Alex and begins to question her crush on Sawyer, the moody lead singer of a band.īook Synopsis A charming and delicious tale of first crushes and hot cocoa, perfect for tween readers. ![]() ![]() Diffenbaugh narrates Victoria and Grant’s present-day involvement, over which the cloud of the past hangs heavy, in parallel with the history of Elizabeth’s foster care, which we know ended badly. But a florist gives her casual work and then, at a flower market, she meets Grant, Elizabeth’s nephew, another awkward soul who speaks the language of flowers. Now graduating out of state care, Victoria must make her own way and starts out by sleeping rough in a local San Francisco park. ![]() Scarred, suspicious and defiant, she has nothing: no friends, no money, just an attitude, an instinct for flowers and an education in their meaning from Elizabeth, the one kind foster parent who persevered with her. Cleverly combining tender and tough, Diffenbaugh’s highly anticipated debut creates a place in the world for a social misfit with floral insight.Īfter more than 32 homes, 18-year-old Victoria Jones, abandoned as a baby, has given up on the idea of love or family. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Perfect Feet includes: home remedies for many common foot problems as well as ways to avoid them in the future basic information about surgical procedures and how to descide if one is needed instructions for a simple home pedicure and several recipes for creating soothing foot soaks for weary feet a guide to choosing properly fitting, non-crippling footwear. This easy-to-use guide presents everything we need to know to treat our feet right. Feet may be fashion's victims, but there's hope. All from 2.65 New from 3.46 Used from 2. ![]() Just in time for barefoot season, Perfect Feet is the one book that offers the combined knowledge of. Just in time for barefoot season, 'Perfect Feet' is the one book that offers the combined knowledge of a podiatrist and a beauty expert to help everyone achieve gorgeous, healthy, feel-good feet. Magazine layouts lavish attention on beautiful, almost bare feet embraced by sensational, stylish, pointy- or open-toed, sling-backed, strappy, high-heeled shoes. Perfect Feet: Caring and Pampering by Stuart Mogul. Right now, feet are the trendy focus of the beauty and fashion industries. more » shoes leaves them overexposed and under-supported. Our feet work hard for us every day, but we only notice them when they hurt, when summer sandal season comes along, or when the latest fashion in. AHHHHHH Sooth those feet Perfect Feet: Caring and Pampering by Mogul, Dr. Just in time for barefoot season, Perfect Feet is the one book that offers the combined knowledge of a podiatrist and a beauty expert to help everyone achieve gorgeous, healthy, feel-good feet. : Perfect Feet: Caring and Pampering: First Printing - As New. ![]() ![]() Several white characters, mainly clergy, are also members of the community Erdrich describes. The characters are mostly Chippewa (also known as Ojibwe or Ashinaabe). ![]() Love Medicine is set on an unnamed Native American reservation near the Canadian border of North Dakota. ![]() Erdrich revised Love Medicine over time and issued reprints in 19 in each of these new editions, she added and excised chapters and introduced further elements of the Chippewa language. ![]() Initially, Erdrich wrote "The World's Greatest Fisherman" after she earned her master's degree in creative writing, and this short story later became the basis for the entire novel. Originally released in 1984, Love Medicine is Louise Erdrich's first published novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Read by Stephen Fry himself, Mythos captures these extraordinary myths for our modern age - in all their dazzling and deeply human relevance. Listen with joy as the legendary love affair between Eros and Psyche unfolds. Shiver in fear when Pandora opens her jar of evil torments. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling, we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld. No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. STEP INTO ANOTHER WORLD - OF MAGIC, MAYHEM, MONSTERS AND MANIACAL GODS - IN STEPHEN FRY'S MOMENTOUS SUNDAY TIMES AND AUDIBLE BESTSELLER, MYTHOSĭiscover Stephen Fry's magnificent retelling of the greatest myths and legends ever told. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve covered several of her other books in previous issues, Temper and Escaping Exodus, and I’m pleased to be able to talk about her new novel, Escaping Exodus: Symbiosis, which is the sequel to Escaping Exodus.įor those who haven’t read Escaping Exodus (go read it, it’s pretty darn good), the setting of Escaping Exodus: Symbiosis continues Drayden’s story about a group of human spacefarers who have made their home in the guts and internal structures of a giant space creature called a Zenzee (which isn’t exactly a spacewhale, but in my head it’s totally a spacewhale) and have to navigate various societal and environmental problems created by their not-quite-parasitic not-quite-symbiotic relationship with their host. Greetings, readers! For this month’s review, I’d like to talk about an author whose work I’ve grown to greatly admire, and it is the wonderful Nicky Drayden. Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe.Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide.People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Johns - especially when she’s got ex-boyfriends crawling out of the woodwork who want more than just a photo op a sister who is headed to the high school cheerleading championships a company she represents that seems to be turning to the dark side… How can Em balance all that with school, runway shows, and weekend jaunts to St. Because that supermodel could turn out to have a mother who’s gone mysteriously missing, a brother who’s shown up on her doorstep demanding answers, a former best friend who’s intent on destroying Stark Enterprises to avenge the death of his lost love, and a British heartthrob who’s written a song about her that’s topping the charts. ![]() Now I was starting to get jealous of myself.Įm was sure there couldn’t be anything worse than being a brainiac in the body of a teenaged supermodel.īut it turned out she was wrong. They’re slippery as a glacier, but I can’t let go or I’ll fall into that frigid water, in which-no exaggeration-sharks are swimming beneath me. Waves are crashing against the backs of my legs, and the water, which this afternoon had been a warm turquoise, has turned an icy black.The rocks to which I’m clinging are cutting into my fingertips and the bottoms of my feet. ![]() ![]() Hawk's Hexworld series, following the adventures of witch policemen and the familiars they bond with. ![]() But as their hunt for the murderer carries them from teeming slums to Fifth Avenue mansions, Owens begins to realize Malachi commands his heart as well as his body.With dark forces drawing ever closer around them, Owen must decide whether to bow to the demands of duty, or to risk everything for the man he loves.Hexmaker is the second book in Jordan L. Even worse, Malachi threatens to unleash Owen's deepest desires?desires Owen can't act upon, as he's destined for an arranged marriage to secure the Yates family fortuneTheir agreement: Malachi will be Owen's lover as well as his partner, until the day of the wedding. Owen Yates, forensic hexman for the Metropolitan Witch Police and Malachi's witch.Owen is horrified to discover his familiar is an uneducated thief. But when he witnesses the murder of a millionaire, the only person who can keep him safe is Dr. ![]() ![]() A murdered millionaire.Fox shifter Malachi steals for one of the biggest crime rings in New York City. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Beautiful inside and out, Thornton begins to wonder if she’s his chance at true love – and to fulfill the challenges his father issues to his sons to marry for love. ![]() Facing his own complicated challenges, Thornton cannot help an interest in Elise. Once there, a wealthy entrepreneur, Thornton Quincy, hires her as cook. Leaving her family in the capable hands of a kind-hearted woman trying to start a mission, Elise sets out for unknown territory: Illinois. Housed by an uncle who cruelly demands more money from them, Elise decides she must strike out on her own before her family is torn apart. Following the recent death of their mother, the three girls become orphans. STORY: The New York streets are brutal to Elise Neumann and her young sisters. ![]() |