One Thing or Your Mother
Title | One Thing or Your Mother PDF eBook |
Author | Kirsten Beyer |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2008-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1416951156 |
It's tough being a teenage Slayer. On the verge of failing her junior year -- thanks to annoying Principal Snyder, who seems to be acting even stranger than usual lately -- Buffy agrees to meet with a tutor. Not helping her studies is the fact that lately she's been exhausted, waking up each morning feeling more tired than she did the night before. To make matters even worse, she's tasked with investigating the disappearance of a child...a little girl who happens to have gone missing mere hours before a child vampire surfaced in Sunnydale, accompanied by a wheelchair-bound male who fits Spike's description perfectly. Fighting off exhaustion and uneasy at the prospect of staking a child vamp, Buffy learns that Principal Snyder is the target of a sleep-deprivation spell that has taken over Sunnydale. Putting aside her fear that her tutor is out to get her, and hoping that the sleeping spell is affecting both humans and demons, Buffy investigates Snyder's odd behavior. She follows him to his childhood home to discover that he has arranged to have his abusive mother banished to the demon dimension. Meanwhile, Drusilla, who has been playing mother figure to the child vampire, is learning how difficult it is to be a parent. As sleep takes hold of the citizens of Sunnydale, Buffy begins to realize that unless she breaks the spell soon, the nightmare is just beginning.
If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother
Title | If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother PDF eBook |
Author | Julia Sweeney |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2014-04-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1451674058 |
While Julia Sweeney is known as a talented comedienne and writer/performer of her one-woman shows, she is also a talented essayist--and the past few years have provided her with some rich material. Julia adopted a Chinese girl named Mulan and then, a few years later, married and moved from Los Angeles to Chicago. She writes about deciding to adopt her child, strollers, nannies, knitting, being adopted by a dog, The Food Network, and meeting Mr. Right through an email from a complete stranger. Some of the essays reveal Julia's ability to find that essential thread of human connection, whether it's with her mother-in-law or with an anonymous customer service rep during a late-night phone call. But no matter what the topic, Julia always writes with elegant precision, pinning her jokes with razor-sharp observations while articulating feelings that we all share.--From publisher description.
When You Say One Thing But Mean Your Mother
Title | When You Say One Thing But Mean Your Mother PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa Broder |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | American poetry |
ISBN | 9780984102549 |
Poetry. Who's the queen of kundalini bloopers, Emily Dickinson's attitude problem (that bitch) and California dreams? It's Melissa Broder, who will charm your pants off and show you a little tough love in this vivid, witty first collection of poems. Each poem is artisan-crafted in controlled couplets, weighty triplets, tight syllabics and assonance that will take the top of your head off. But you won't have the time to absorb the academic monkeyshine—so absorbed you'll be on the flip side of Bat Mitzvah stress-syndrome, Aunt Sheila's in Taos, vampires in absentia, and brand names, brand names, brand names. From junkie fetishism to a housewife with a special "thing" for laundry, Broder does dark with magnetic charisma and enchanting humor.
Things Your Mother Never Told You
Title | Things Your Mother Never Told You PDF eBook |
Author | Kim Gaines Eckert |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 173 |
Release | 2014-01-10 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0830843094 |
Why aren't Christian women talking about sex? In this frank exploration of all aspects of what it means to be a sexual being created by God, Kim Gaines Eckert explores myths about female sexuality that we have absorbed from both popular culture and distorted religious teaching.
Before I Was Your Mother
Title | Before I Was Your Mother PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn Lasky |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780152014643 |
A mother tells her own daughter what she was like and what she used to do when she was a little girl.
Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother
Title | Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother PDF eBook |
Author | Barry Sonnenfeld |
Publisher | Hachette Books |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2020-03-10 |
Genre | 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.
Things Your Mother Always Told You, But You Didn't Want to Hear
Title | Things Your Mother Always Told You, But You Didn't Want to Hear PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn Coats |
Publisher | Thomas Nelson Publishers |
Pages | |
Release | 1994-03-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780785280569 |