Tommy Catches a Cold
Title | Tommy Catches a Cold PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Willson |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780689821264 |
Tommy doesn't feel so good. His nose doesn't work right and his throat tickles. Then he gets really bad news: He's caught a bug. Now he and his friends have to find it so they can let it go. But in the meantime, will Tommy survive his parent's remedies of cod-liver oil and old-country soup complete with chicken feet? Find the answer in this original Rugrats story.
"Over the Top": by an American Soldier who Went
Title | "Over the Top": by an American Soldier who Went PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Guy Empey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN |
The Elephant in the Room
Title | The Elephant in the Room PDF eBook |
Author | Tommy Tomlinson |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2020-01-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1501111620 |
ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 A “warm and funny and honest…genuinely unputdownable” (Curtis Sittenfeld) memoir chronicling what it’s like to live in today’s world as a fat man, from acclaimed journalist Tommy Tomlinson, who, as he neared the age of fifty, weighed 460 pounds and decided he had to change his life. When he was almost fifty years old, Tommy Tomlinson weighed an astonishing—and dangerous—460 pounds, at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, unable to climb a flight of stairs without having to catch his breath, or travel on an airplane without buying two seats. Raised in a family that loved food, he had been aware of the problem for years, seeing doctors and trying diets from the time he was a preteen. But nothing worked, and every time he tried to make a change, it didn’t go the way he planned—in fact, he wasn’t sure that he really wanted to change. In The Elephant in the Room, Tomlinson chronicles his lifelong battle with weight in a voice that combines the urgency of Roxane Gay’s Hunger with the intimacy of Rick Bragg’s All Over but the Shoutin’. He also hits the road to meet other members of the plus-sized tribe in an attempt to understand how, as a nation, we got to this point. From buying a Fitbit and setting exercise goals to contemplating the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, America’s “capital of food porn,” and modifying his own diet, Tomlinson brings us along on a candid and sometimes brutal look at the everyday experience of being constantly aware of your size. Over the course of the book, he confronts these issues head-on and chronicles the practical steps he has to take to lose weight by the end. “What could have been a wallow in memoir self-pity is raised to art by Tomlinson’s wit and prose” (Rolling Stone). Affecting and searingly honest, The Elephant in the Room is an “inspirational” (The New York Times) memoir that will resonate with anyone who has grappled with addiction, shame, or self-consciousness. “Add this to your reading list ASAP” (Charlotte Magazine).
The Sense of an Ending
Title | The Sense of an Ending PDF eBook |
Author | Julian Barnes |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2011-10-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307957330 |
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
When the Spirit Bear Catches the Eagle
Title | When the Spirit Bear Catches the Eagle PDF eBook |
Author | William Henderson |
Publisher | William Henderson |
Pages | 77 |
Release | 2011-11-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 146613948X |
Chuckie Meets the Beastie Bunny
Title | Chuckie Meets the Beastie Bunny PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Willson |
Publisher | Simon Spotlight |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780689830662 |
Chuckie shows how brave he is by standing and facing a mechanical rabbit designed to decorate Easter eggs.
Story of a Girl (National Book Award Finalist)
Title | Story of a Girl (National Book Award Finalist) PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Zarr |
Publisher | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2008-03-01 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0316029173 |
Now a movie on Lifetime! I was thirteen when my dad caught me with Tommy Webber in the back of Tommy's Buick, parked next to the old Chart House down in Montara at eleven o'clock on a Tuesday night. Tommy was seventeen and the supposed friend of my brother, Darren. I didn't love him. I'm not sure I even liked him. In a moment, Deanna Lambert's teenage life is changed forever. Struggling to overcome the lasting repercussions and the stifling role of "school slut," Deanna longs to escape a life defined by her past. With subtle grace, complicated wisdom, and striking emotion, Story of a Girl reminds us of our human capacity for resilience, epiphany, and redemption.