The Pile of Stuff at the Bottom of the Stairs

2011-04-25
The Pile of Stuff at the Bottom of the Stairs

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  • Author: Christina Hopkinson
  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
  • ISBN: 1609418646
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 250

Hopkinson pens a hilarious and acutely-observed novel about marriage, motherhood, children, and work and readers everywhere will find Mary's trials hilariously familiar as they cheer her on in her efforts to balance home, work, children, and a clean bottom stair! What's the thing you hate most about the one you love? Mary doesn't know whether it's the way he doesn't quite reach the laundry basket when he throws his dirty clothes at it (but doesn't ever walk over and pick them up and put them in), or the balled-up tissues he leaves on the bedside table when he has a cold, or the way he never quite empties the dishwasher, leaving the "difficult" items for her to put away. Is it that because she is "only working part-time" that she is responsible for all of the domestic tasks in the house? Or, is it simply that he puts used teabags in the sink? The mother of two young boys, Mary knows how to get them to behave the way she wants. Now she's designing the spousal equivalent of a star chart and every little thing her husband does wrong will go on it. Though Mary knows you're supposed to reward the good behavior rather than punish the bad, the rules for those in middle age are different than the rules for those not even in middle school...

The Pile of Stuff at the Bottom of the Stairs

2012-02-16
The Pile of Stuff at the Bottom of the Stairs

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  • Author: Christina Hopkinson
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  • ISBN: 9781444783599
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  • Languages : en
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Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and Film

2017-07-03
Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and Film

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  • Author: Julie Chappell
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319472593
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 289

This collection of essays focuses on the representations of a variety of “bad girls”—women who challenge, refuse, or transgress the patriarchal limits intended to circumscribe them—in television, popular fiction, and mainstream film from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Perhaps not surprisingly, the initial introduction of women into Western cultural narrative coincides with the introduction of transgressive women. From the beginning, for good or ill, women have been depicted as insubordinate. Today’s popular manifestations include such widely known figures as Lisbeth Salander (the “girl with the dragon tattoo”), The Walking Dead’s Michonne, and the queen bees of teen television series. While the existence and prominence of transgressive women has continued uninterrupted, however, attitudes towards them have varied considerably. It is those attitudes that are explored in this collection. At the same time, these essays place feminist/postfeminist analysis in a larger context, entering into ongoing debates about power, equality, sexuality, and gender.

The Pile of Stuff at the Bottom of the Stairs

2011-03-03
The Pile of Stuff at the Bottom of the Stairs

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  • Author: Christina Hopkinson
  • Publisher: Hachette UK
  • ISBN: 1444710435
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 416

Mary doesn't know what makes her angrier - the way he doesn't quite reach the laundry basket when he throws his dirty clothes at it (but never walks over and picks them up and puts them in), or the balled-up tissues he leaves on the bedside table when he has a cold, or the way he never completely empties the dishwasher, but leaves the 'difficult' things for her to put away. Is it that because she is 'only working part-time' she is responsible for everything on the domestic front? Or is it, simply, that he puts used teabags in the sink? Mary is the mother of two young boys - she knows how you're supposed to get the behaviour you want. So now she's designing the spousal equivalent of a star chart. Every little thing her husband does wrong is going on it. And yes, she know you're supposed to reward the good behaviour rather than punish the bad, but obviously the rules for those in middle age are different than the rules for those not even in middle school...

Unclutter Your Home

1999-01-01
Unclutter Your Home

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  • Author: Donna Smallin
  • Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
  • ISBN: 1612125719
  • Category : House & Home
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 196

Organizing expert Donna Smallin gives you a simple 7-step plan for conquering clutter forever. Using a friendly tips-based format, she walks you through hundreds of small strategies that add up to big successes. She explains how to assess your situation (beginning with a great little quiz that helps you identify some of your core clutter issues), and then she helps you set your intentions and find profound, personal motivations for creating a more ordered life for yourself. You'll then move on to painlessly letting go of what you no longer need, creating a place for each of the things you decide to keep, and implementing simple systems that will KEEP your home clutter-free with a minimum of effort. The print edition of Unclutter Your Home has more than 100,000 copies in print, and this ebook has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the way we live today.

My Year of Buying Nothing

2015-09-29
My Year of Buying Nothing

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  • Author: Lee Simpson
  • Publisher: Wood Lake Publishing Inc.
  • ISBN: 177064802X
  • Category : House & Home
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 216

Lee Simpson may seem like an unlikely candidate to don the mantel of anti-consumerist prophet. She is, after all, the former publisher of Canada’s most successful women’s lifestyles magazine, Chatelaine. But that is just the first of many surprising things about her new book My Year of Buying Nothing. In the 1980s and ’90s, Simpson oversaw the heady days of women’s magazine publishing. Although proud of the excellent journalism featured in her magazines, and of the pioneering work of the editors she worked with, her “primary role as senior executive was to ensure that a maximum number of advertising pages got sold.” “I was part of the data analysis and market research conglomerate that helped consumer predators know your weaknesses and exploit them mercilessly.” In My Year of Buying Nothing, Simpson invites readers into her world to witness first hand the struggles she faced, the decisions and compromises she had to make, and the epiphanies and wisdom she won during her year-long attempt to shed her “consumer” skin and live a more sustainable, more authentic, more earth-friendly life. Who better to choose as a guide to a new, healthier post-consumer lifestyle than someone who is intimately familiar with the pitfalls and dangers of the starting place, and the challenges of the way forward

A Path Called Alzheimer's

2022-05-15
A Path Called Alzheimer's

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  • Author: Christine Leys
  • Publisher: WestBow Press
  • ISBN: 1664263446
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 211

Offering a raw, honest account of what it means on a practical level to love and care for a spouse with Alzheimer’s Disease, A Path Called Alzheimer’s, by author Christine Leys, gives unflinching witness to losses that come relentlessly and to exhaustion that define her days. It records her conversations with the God she loves and trusts, who walks with her every step of the way. He doesn’t make the road of caregiving easy, but he does answer prayer and provide strength when all human strength is spent. Churches sometimes struggle with knowing how to support members with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers. As the disease progresses, these people are often more and more hidden. A Path Called Alzheimer’s brings them out of the shadows, helping people better understand the needs of those living with Alzheimer’s and the care they need. Leys shares a story of struggle and loss, but also a love story. It’s the story of a spouse’s love for her husband that persists even when she sees little of the man she married in the shell of his body. It’s the story of her love for her Lord who is her companion on the journey. But more importantly, it’s the story of God’s love and care for both, a love that gives meaning to the journey.

Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass

2015-06-01
Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass

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  • Author: Annita Perez Sawyer
  • Publisher: Santa Fe Writer's Project
  • ISBN: 1939650275
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 310

"A fiercely honest and beautifully written book." —Paul Austin, author, Beautiful Eyes and Something for the PainA cautionary tale of careless psychiatric diagnosis, treatment, and resilienceSawyer's memoir is a harrowing, heroic, and redeeming story of her battle with mental illness, and her triumph in overcoming it. In 1960, as a suicidal teenager, Sawyer was institutionalized, misdiagnosed, and suffered through 89 electroshock treatments before being transferred, labeled as "unimproved." The damage done has haunted her life. Discharged in 1966, after finally receiving proper psychiatric care, Sawyer kept her past secret and moved on to graduate from Yale University, raise two children, and become a respected psychotherapist. That is, until 2001, when she reviewed her hospital records and began to remember a broken childhood and the even more broken mental health system of the 1950s and 1960s.

Summer Crash (Zerralon 1.1)

2014-03-08
Summer Crash (Zerralon 1.1)

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  • Author: J.A. Marlow
  • Publisher: Star Catcher Publishing
  • ISBN: 1937042456
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 79

Summer comes to a crashing end… Ten-year-old Kevin Taggert prefers to stay home with his video games, but his parents insist he join a summer sports program. Exactly on the day the Vordac raid Earth. With his little sister depending on him for protection, Kevin must find the strength and wisdom to keep them both safe. Before they both end up dead, or even worse: as life-long slaves of the Vordac. A science fiction adventure novella. Keywords: Science Fiction Adventure, YA Science Fiction, Robots, Alien Invasion, Space Opera, Aliens, Boys Adventure, Young Adult, Human Wave Science Fiction

Super Boys

2013-06-04
Super Boys

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  • Author: Brad Ricca
  • Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
  • ISBN: 1250031672
  • Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 390

In time for the 75th anniversary of the Man of Steel, comes the first comprehensive literary biography of Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, creators of the DC Comics superhero Superman and the inspiration for Michael Chabon's Kavalier and Clay Drawing on ten years of research in the trenches of Cleveland libraries, boarded-up high schools, and secret, private collections, and a love of comic books, Brad Ricca's Super Boys is the first ever full biography about Superman's creators. Among scores of new discoveries, the book reveals the first stories and pictures ever published by the two, where the first Superman story really came from, the real inspiration for Lois Lane, the template for Superman's costume, and much, much more. Super Boys also tracks the boys' unknown, often mysterious lives after they left Superman, including Siegel's secret work during World War II and never-before-seen work from Shuster. Super Boys explains, finally, what exactly happened with the infamous check for $130 that pulled Superman away from his creators—and gave control of the character to the publisher. Ricca also uncovers the true nature of Jerry's father's death, a crime that has always remained a mystery. Super Boys is the story of a long friendship between boys who grew to be men and the standard that would be impossible for both of them to live up to.