Hurry Please I Want to Know
Title | Hurry Please I Want to Know PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Griner |
Publisher | Sarabande Books |
Pages | 143 |
Release | 2015-04-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1941411010 |
An otherworldly short story collection that shines “a glaring light on the complexities of human personality and family relationships” (Kirkus Reviews). “Paul Griner is a daredevil storyteller. . . . Anyone who cares about the short story—or just loves good writing—should make a beeline for this remarkable collection.” —Tom Perotta, author of The Leftovers The stories in Hurry Please I Want to Know invite urgent curiosity as Paul Griner spins between quotidian worlds infused with the foreign and the familiar. A man brings his mother back from the dead, only to find her most irritating quirk magnified. A low-ranking soldier is forced to milk a cow within enemy range. A cartoonist’s daughter waits each morning to see how her father’s mood dictates how he will draw her face. Grieving siblings wait to inherit one of their father’s physical features after his death . . . Griner’s endings shift between the shocking and quiet. The result is a meditation on capturing the intangible, and the human fascination with realms that are not our own. Hurry Please I Want to Know gives us the sensation of falling into someone else’s world and an immediate future spent sorting out its thrilling peculiarities. “Griner approaches everyday tragedies by building elaborate machines and shaky structures in the hope of creating a facsimile of life that might somehow become real . . . A pleasure.” —The New York Times “Griner overlays tales of family, artistry, and parent-child relationships with elements of the surreal, in order to create, in the words of one character, ‘an undercurrent of mournfulness’.” —Publishers Weekly “The writing is careful, precise, shocking—stylistically brilliant.” —Bobbie Ann Mason, author of The Girl in the Blue Beret
Right Away & All at Once
Title | Right Away & All at Once PDF eBook |
Author | Greg Brenneman |
Publisher | Rosetta Books |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2016-02-09 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0795346530 |
An expert in business turnaround shares his inspiring approach to problem-solving: “A fascinating read” (Mitt Romney). Visionary leader Greg Brenneman believes that true business success and personal fulfillment are two sides of the same coin. The techniques that will grow your business will also help you achieve a rich, purposeful, and integrated life. Here, Brenneman takes what he’s learned from turning around or tuning up many businesses—including Continental Airlines and Burger King—and distills it into a simple, clear, five-step roadmap that anyone can follow. He teaches you how to: *prepare a succinct Go Forward plan *build a fortress balance sheet *grow your sales and profits *choose all-star servant leaders *empower your team For more than thirty years, Brenneman has seen these steps foster dramatic results in a variety of business environments. But he also came to realize that he could apply these same principles to improve his life and build a lasting moral legacy. He found he could make better decisions by carefully taking the most important facets of his life—faith, family, friendship, fitness, and finance—into consideration. Brenneman’s inspiring examples, from both his business and his life, demonstrate the astounding effects these steps can have when you apply them—right away and all at once.
Youth's Companion
Title | Youth's Companion PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 746 |
Release | 1892 |
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Don't Shoot the Dog!
Title | Don't Shoot the Dog! PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Pryor |
Publisher | Interpet |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Pets |
ISBN | 9781860542381 |
Includes a new section on clicker training.
The Other Mothers
Title | The Other Mothers PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Faulkner |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2024-10-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1668024799 |
A shocking murder rattles an exclusive London neighborhood in this “fast-paced, decadent skewering of upper middle-class motherhood” (Sarah Bonner, New York Times bestselling author) from the author of Greenwich Park. In this whip-smart novel that “pulls out all the psychological thriller stops—and then some” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), a young nanny is found dead under mysterious circumstances. New mom, Tash, is intrigued. She has been searching for a story to launch her career as a freelance journalist. But she has also been searching for something else—new friends to help her navigate motherhood. She sees them at her son’s new playgroup: the other mothers. A group of sleek, sophisticated women who live in a neighborhood of tree-lined avenues and stunning houses. The sort of mothers Tash would like to be. When the mothers welcome her into their circle, she discovers the kind of life she has always dreamt of—their elegant London townhouses a far cry from her cramped basement flat and endless bills. She is quickly swept up into their wealthy world via coffees, cocktails, and playdates. But when another young woman is found dead, it’s clear there’s much more to the tight-knit community than meets the eye. The more Tash investigates, the more she’s led uncomfortably close to the other mothers. Are these women really her friends? Or is there another, more dangerous reason why she has been so quickly accepted into their exclusive world? Who, exactly, is investigating who?
The Country
Title | The Country PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 788 |
Release | 1877 |
Genre | Sports |
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The Old Man and the Boy
Title | The Old Man and the Boy PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Ruark |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 1993-08-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780805026696 |
Journalist Robert Ruark tells of the friendship between a young boy and his grandfather as they hunt and fish in North Carolina