Confessions of Joan the Tall
Title | Confessions of Joan the Tall PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Cusack Handler |
Publisher | UPNE |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2012-12-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1933880376 |
Freedom and awakening of an adolescent, Bronx bred, Irish Catholic girl
The Red Canoe
Title | The Red Canoe PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Cusack Handler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Marriage |
ISBN | 9781933880082 |
The Red Canoe: Love in Its Making--poetry and memoir exploring the anatomy of a marriage--underbelly and crown
Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur
Title | Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart Skorman |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2007-03-07 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0787994537 |
Entrepreneur Stuart Skorman—the founder of Elephant Pharmacy, Hungryminds.com, Reel.com, and Empire Video—grew up in a retailing family in Ohio. He worked every kind of job, from cab driver to professional poker player to CEO. In this entertaining, personal account of his coming-of- age in the business world, Skorman gives an insider’s view of what it takes to start a business from the ground up. Stuart Skorman offers his hard-won lessons in business for any entrepreneur or small businessperson who wants to create a company that has a heart and soul. He reveals what he learned about marketing while working a stint as a rock band manager and bares his soul about his failure during the dot-com bubble. He describes in vivid terms the roller coaster ride of the entrepreneur in good times and bad and explains how to survive in today’s uncertain business environment.
Close to Famous
Title | Close to Famous PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Bauer |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2012-01-05 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0142420174 |
A novel full of heart, humor, and charm from Newbery Honor winner Joan Bauer! When twelve-year-old Foster and her mother land in the tiny town of Culpepper, they don't know what to expect. But folks quickly warm to the woman with the great voice and the girl who can bake like nobody's business. Soon Foster - who dreams of having her own cooking show one day - lands herself a gig baking for the local coffee shop, and gets herself some much-needed help in overcoming her biggest challenge - learning to read . . . just as Foster and Mama start to feel at ease, their past catches up to them. Thanks to the folks in Culpepper, though Foster and her mama find the strength to put their troubles behind them for good.
Primary Lessons
Title | Primary Lessons PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Bracey White |
Publisher | Cavankerry Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2013-11-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1933880538 |
Ripped from middle-class life in Philadelphia, and transplanted to a single-parent household in the segregated south, Sarah, a precocious black child struggles to be the master of her fate. She refuses to accept the segregation that tries to confine herÑa system her mother accepts as the southern way of life. A brave memoir that testifies to the authorÕs fiery spirit and sense of self that sustained her through family, social and cultural upheavals.
Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe
Title | Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2017-10-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004352376 |
How did people of the past prepare for death, and how were their preparations affected by religious beliefs or social and economic responsibilities? Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe analyses the various ways in which people made preparations for death in medieval and early modern Northern Europe, adapting religious teachings to local circumstances. The articles span the period from the Middle Ages to Early Modernity allowing an analysis over centuries of religious change that are too often artificially separated in historical study. Contributors are Dominika Burdzy, Otfried Czaika, Kirsi Kanerva, Mia Korpiola, Anu Lahtinen, Riikka Miettinen, Bertil Nilsson, and Cindy Wood.
Writing on the Moon
Title | Writing on the Moon PDF eBook |
Author | Bonnie Zindel |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2018-05-08 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0429910088 |
Writing on the Moon: Stories and Poetry from the Creative Unconscious by Psychoanalysts and Others is a collection of the best works published over the past fifteen years in the Creative Literary Section of Psychoanalytic Perspectives, along with imaginative introductions by the author. Some writings are raw and honest, some are dark and access our primal being. Others, filled with beauty, illuminate the internal life, the playful mind, and unconscious doodlings that might otherwise remain unformulated.