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Author: Nicola Griffith Publisher: MCD x FSG Originals ISBN: 0374718342 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 118
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From the author of Hild, a fierce and urgent autobiographical novel about a woman facing down a formidable foe So Lucky is the sharp, surprising new novel by Nicola Griffith—the profoundly personal and emphatically political story of a confident woman forced to confront an unnerving new reality when in the space of a single week her wife leaves her and she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Mara Tagarelli is, professionally, the head of a multimillion-dollar AIDS foundation; personally, she is a committed martial artist. But her life has turned inside out like a sock. She can’t rely on family, her body is letting her down, and friends and colleagues are turning away—they treat her like a victim. She needs to break that narrative: build her own community, learn new strengths, and fight. But what do you do when you find out that the story you’ve been told, the story you’ve told yourself, is not true? How can you fight if you can’t trust your body? Who can you rely on if those around you don’t have your best interests at heart, and the systems designed to help do more harm than good? Mara makes a decision and acts, but her actions unleash monsters aimed squarely at the heart of her new community. This is fiction from the front lines, incandescent and urgent, a narrative juggernaut that rips through sentiment to expose the savagery of America’s treatment of the disabled and chronically ill. But So Lucky also blazes with hope and a ferocious love of self, of the life that becomes possible when we stop believing lies.
Author: Nicola Griffith Publisher: MCD x FSG Originals ISBN: 0374718342 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 118
Book Description
From the author of Hild, a fierce and urgent autobiographical novel about a woman facing down a formidable foe So Lucky is the sharp, surprising new novel by Nicola Griffith—the profoundly personal and emphatically political story of a confident woman forced to confront an unnerving new reality when in the space of a single week her wife leaves her and she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Mara Tagarelli is, professionally, the head of a multimillion-dollar AIDS foundation; personally, she is a committed martial artist. But her life has turned inside out like a sock. She can’t rely on family, her body is letting her down, and friends and colleagues are turning away—they treat her like a victim. She needs to break that narrative: build her own community, learn new strengths, and fight. But what do you do when you find out that the story you’ve been told, the story you’ve told yourself, is not true? How can you fight if you can’t trust your body? Who can you rely on if those around you don’t have your best interests at heart, and the systems designed to help do more harm than good? Mara makes a decision and acts, but her actions unleash monsters aimed squarely at the heart of her new community. This is fiction from the front lines, incandescent and urgent, a narrative juggernaut that rips through sentiment to expose the savagery of America’s treatment of the disabled and chronically ill. But So Lucky also blazes with hope and a ferocious love of self, of the life that becomes possible when we stop believing lies.
Author: Dawn O’Porter Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0008126089 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 348
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*Dawn O’Porter’s brand new novel, CAT LADY, is available to buy now! * *The Sunday Times bestseller and Richard and Judy Book Club pick* ‘A total joy’ Matt Haig ‘Unputdownable’ Marian Keyes
Author: Grace Wethor Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781985034433 Category : Languages : en Pages : 248
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16 year old Grace Wethor brings levity and a fresh young eye to the twists and turns of modern cancer survival through poems, art, excerpts and chapter takeovers from other survivors in this exhilarating debut book. "A lot of people tell me "you're so lucky" after they hear my story. Well okay, first they say "OMG, I'm so sorry" and then they say "you're so lucky." But what is luck anyways? Would you have told me I was lucky three years ago when I was literally given a death sentence?"
Author: James Doolittle Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 030742832X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 561
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After Pearl Harbor, he led America’s flight to victory General Doolittle is a giant of the twentieth century. He did it all. As a stunt pilot, he thrilled the world with his aerial acrobatics. As a scientist, he pioneered the development of modern aviation technology. During World War II, he served his country as a fearless and innovative air warrior, organizing and leading the devastating raid against Japan immortalized in the film Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. Now, for the first time, here is his life story — modest, revealing, and candid as only Doolittle himself can tell it.
Author: Kathy Levine Publisher: Gallery Books ISBN: 9781451661903 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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After more than a decade of TV fame, fifty million fans, and the New York Times bestseller It's Better to Laugh, Kathy Levine is the one who's laughing. Kathy brings us up to date on her personal life by telling all, and she means all, in a book that's as irresistible as an intimate diary accidentally left open to a juicy part. Discover the naked truth about: Love after forty...the date from hell, the romantic fling with a much younger man, the truly terrifying mistake—and more!
Author: Melanie Florence Publisher: Second Story Press ISBN: 1772601055 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 211
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Lucky loves her grandparents, and they are all the family she really has. True, her grandma forgets things…like turning off the stove, or Lucky’s name. But her grandpa takes such good care of them that Lucky doesn’t realize how bad things are. That is until he’s gone. When her grandma accidentally sets the kitchen on fire, Lucky can’t hide what’s happening any longer, and she is sent into foster care. She quickly learns that some foster families are okay. Some aren’t. And some really, really aren’t. Is it possible to find a home again when the only one you’ve ever known has been taken from you?
Author: Dawn O’Porter Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0008126046 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 448
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*Dawn O’Porter’s brand new novel, CAT LADY, is available to pre-order now! * THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, shortlisted for best audiobook in the Specsavers National Book Awards 2018 Fearlessly frank and funny, the debut adult novel from Dawn O’Porter is the book that everybody needs to read right now.
Author: Richard Wiseman Publisher: Miramax Books ISBN: 9781401359416 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 0
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Is luck just fate, or can you change it? A groundbreaking new scientific study of the phenomenon of luckand the ways we can bring good luck into our lives. What is luck? A psychic gift or a question of intelligence? And what is it that lucky people have that unlucky people lack? Psychologist Dr. Richard Wiseman put luck under a scientific microscope for the very first time, examining the different ways in which lucky and unlucky people think and behave. After three years of intensive interviews and experiments with over 400 volunteers, Wiseman arrived at an astonishing conclusion: Luck is something that can be learned. It is available to anyone willing to pay attention to the Four Essential Principles: . Creating Chance Opportunities . Thinking Lucky . Feeling Lucky . Denying Fate Readers can determine their capacity for luck as well as learn to change their luck through helpful exercises that appear throughout the book. Illustrated with anecdotes from the lives of the famous such as Harry Truman and Warren Buffett, The Luck Factor also richly portrays the lives of ordinary people who have been extraordinarily lucky or unlucky. Finally Dr. Wiseman gives us a look into "The Luck School" where he instructs unlucky people and also teaches lucky people how to further enhance their luck. Smart, enlightening, fun to read, and easy to follow, The Luck Factor will give you revolutionary insight into the lucky mind and could, quite simply, change your life.
Author: Alethea Black Publisher: Little A ISBN: 9781503900592 Category : Authors, American Languages : en Pages : 0
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From the award-winning author of I Knew You'd Be Lovely comes an empowering and disarmingly funny memoir about grief and illness--and the wit and wisdom it takes to survive it. As a child, Alethea Black drifts between her father, a brilliant mathematician who is also her best friend, and her mother, a frank and outspoken woman on fire. After her father's death, Alethea is left unmoored, a young woman more connected to life's ethereal mysteries than to practical things such as doing laundry or paying taxes. And then, just when life seems to be getting back on track, she's suddenly racked by crushing fatigue, inexplicable pain, and memory loss. With her grasp on reality fading, and specialist after specialist declaring nothing is wrong, Alethea turns to her own research and desperate home remedies. But even as her frantic quest for wellness seems to lead to confusion and despair, she discovers more about her own strength than she ever could have imagined--and becomes a woman on fire herself.
Author: Nicola Griffith
Author: Nicola Griffith
Author: Dawn O’Porter
Author: Grace Wethor
Author: James Doolittle
Author: Kathy Levine
Author: Jackie Collins
Author: Melanie Florence
Author: Dawn O’Porter
Author: Richard Wiseman
Author: Alethea Black