Author: Roz Varon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692912355
Category : Television journalists
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
For the past eight years Chicago television Traffic Anchor Roz Varon has been recording her travels in words and images. This book is designed to be a keepsake for those readers who enjoy vicarious adventures, and for those who seek ideas for their own trips across the U.S. and in foreign lands. Written with honesty, enthusiasm, and a grateful sense of wonder, Roz and her family enlighten her audience with little known facts, humorous anecdotes, and heartwarming insights into her personal life. We are Roz's awestruck travel companions at the inauguration of President Barack Obama, students of history while roaming the Jewish Deep South, and gleeful visitors to Walt Disney World - which our author considers "The Happiest Place on Earth." As we venture to other continents, we move through sacred places in Israel, joyous sites in Ireland, and legendary landmarks in the southern United Kingdom. Perhaps the most fun we have with Roz and her family is the traveling the famous Route 66, a treasured Americana road trip that will surely have readers packing their maps and bags. While all appears sunny and careful in these pages, we also learn that Roz Varon is a more than 10-year Metastatic Breast Cancer Survivor. This medical facts adds poignancy, courage, and inspiration for all those whose lives have been touched by the illness.
On the Road with Roz
Author: Roz Varon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692912355
Category : Television journalists
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
For the past eight years Chicago television Traffic Anchor Roz Varon has been recording her travels in words and images. This book is designed to be a keepsake for those readers who enjoy vicarious adventures, and for those who seek ideas for their own trips across the U.S. and in foreign lands. Written with honesty, enthusiasm, and a grateful sense of wonder, Roz and her family enlighten her audience with little known facts, humorous anecdotes, and heartwarming insights into her personal life. We are Roz's awestruck travel companions at the inauguration of President Barack Obama, students of history while roaming the Jewish Deep South, and gleeful visitors to Walt Disney World - which our author considers "The Happiest Place on Earth." As we venture to other continents, we move through sacred places in Israel, joyous sites in Ireland, and legendary landmarks in the southern United Kingdom. Perhaps the most fun we have with Roz and her family is the traveling the famous Route 66, a treasured Americana road trip that will surely have readers packing their maps and bags. While all appears sunny and careful in these pages, we also learn that Roz Varon is a more than 10-year Metastatic Breast Cancer Survivor. This medical facts adds poignancy, courage, and inspiration for all those whose lives have been touched by the illness.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692912355
Category : Television journalists
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
For the past eight years Chicago television Traffic Anchor Roz Varon has been recording her travels in words and images. This book is designed to be a keepsake for those readers who enjoy vicarious adventures, and for those who seek ideas for their own trips across the U.S. and in foreign lands. Written with honesty, enthusiasm, and a grateful sense of wonder, Roz and her family enlighten her audience with little known facts, humorous anecdotes, and heartwarming insights into her personal life. We are Roz's awestruck travel companions at the inauguration of President Barack Obama, students of history while roaming the Jewish Deep South, and gleeful visitors to Walt Disney World - which our author considers "The Happiest Place on Earth." As we venture to other continents, we move through sacred places in Israel, joyous sites in Ireland, and legendary landmarks in the southern United Kingdom. Perhaps the most fun we have with Roz and her family is the traveling the famous Route 66, a treasured Americana road trip that will surely have readers packing their maps and bags. While all appears sunny and careful in these pages, we also learn that Roz Varon is a more than 10-year Metastatic Breast Cancer Survivor. This medical facts adds poignancy, courage, and inspiration for all those whose lives have been touched by the illness.
Not Quite Lost
Author: Roz Morris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781909905924
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
As featured on BBC radio For Bill Bryson fans. An eccentric couple take the road less travelled through the English countryside and meet lovelorn tourist guides, pushy shopkeepers, ESP students, immortality seekers and weary bodyguards. Cornwall, Devon, Shropshire, Lincolnshire, Somerset, Suffolk,
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781909905924
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
As featured on BBC radio For Bill Bryson fans. An eccentric couple take the road less travelled through the English countryside and meet lovelorn tourist guides, pushy shopkeepers, ESP students, immortality seekers and weary bodyguards. Cornwall, Devon, Shropshire, Lincolnshire, Somerset, Suffolk,
Stop Drifting, Start Rowing
Author: Roz Savage
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 1401942636
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
In 2007, Roz Savage set out to row 8,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean—alone. Despite having successfully rowed across the Atlantic the previous year, the Pacific presented the former office worker with unprecedented challenges and overpowering currents—both in the water and within herself. Crossing Earth’s largest ocean alone might seem a long way removed from everyday life, yet the lessons Roz learned about the inner journey, the ocean, and the world are relevant to all of us. She shares tales of the ups and downs of her voyage across the waves, while offering insights on how to find happiness through a meaningful and rewarding life.
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 1401942636
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
In 2007, Roz Savage set out to row 8,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean—alone. Despite having successfully rowed across the Atlantic the previous year, the Pacific presented the former office worker with unprecedented challenges and overpowering currents—both in the water and within herself. Crossing Earth’s largest ocean alone might seem a long way removed from everyday life, yet the lessons Roz learned about the inner journey, the ocean, and the world are relevant to all of us. She shares tales of the ups and downs of her voyage across the waves, while offering insights on how to find happiness through a meaningful and rewarding life.
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
Author: Roz Chast
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620406381
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
#1 New York Times Bestseller 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST In her first memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial, avoidance, and distraction. But when Elizabeth Chast climbed a ladder to locate an old souvenir from the “crazy closet”-with predictable results-the tools that had served Roz well through her parents' seventies, eighties, and into their early nineties could no longer be deployed. While the particulars are Chast-ian in their idiosyncrasies-an anxious father who had relied heavily on his wife for stability as he slipped into dementia and a former assistant principal mother whose overbearing personality had sidelined Roz for decades-the themes are universal: adult children accepting a parental role; aging and unstable parents leaving a family home for an institution; dealing with uncomfortable physical intimacies; managing logistics; and hiring strangers to provide the most personal care. An amazing portrait of two lives at their end and an only child coping as best she can, Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant will show the full range of Roz Chast's talent as cartoonist and storyteller.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620406381
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
#1 New York Times Bestseller 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST In her first memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial, avoidance, and distraction. But when Elizabeth Chast climbed a ladder to locate an old souvenir from the “crazy closet”-with predictable results-the tools that had served Roz well through her parents' seventies, eighties, and into their early nineties could no longer be deployed. While the particulars are Chast-ian in their idiosyncrasies-an anxious father who had relied heavily on his wife for stability as he slipped into dementia and a former assistant principal mother whose overbearing personality had sidelined Roz for decades-the themes are universal: adult children accepting a parental role; aging and unstable parents leaving a family home for an institution; dealing with uncomfortable physical intimacies; managing logistics; and hiring strangers to provide the most personal care. An amazing portrait of two lives at their end and an only child coping as best she can, Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant will show the full range of Roz Chast's talent as cartoonist and storyteller.
Rowing the Atlantic
Author: Roz Savage
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416583602
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
STUCK IN A corporate job rut and faced with an unraveling marriage at the age of thirty-six, Roz Savage sat down one night and wrote two versions of her own obituary -- the one that she wanted and the one she was heading for. They were very different. She realized that if she carried on as she was, she wasn't going to end up with the life she wanted. So she turned her back on an eleven-year career as a management consultant to reinvent herself as a woman of adventure. She invested her life's savings in an ocean rowboat and became the first solo woman ever to enter the Atlantic Rowing Race. Her 3,000-mile trial by sea became the challenge of a lifetime. Of the twenty-six crews that set out from La Gomera, six capsized or sank and didn't make it to the finish line in Antigua. There were times when she thought she had hit her absolute limit, but alone in the middle of the ocean, she had no choice but to find the strength to carry on. In Rowing the Atlantic we are brought on board when Savage's dreams of feasts are nourished by yet another freeze-dried meal. When her gloves wear through to her blistered hands. When her headlamp is the only light on a pitch-black night ocean that extends indefinitely in all directions. When, one by one, all four of her oars break. When her satellite communication fails. Stroke by stroke, Savage discovers there is so much more to life than a fancy sports car and a power-suit job. Flashing back to key moments from her life before rowing, she describes the bolt from the blue that first inspired her to row across oceans and how this crazy idea evolved from a dream into a tendinitis-inducing reality. And finally, Savage discovers in the rough waters of the Atlantic the kind of happiness we all hope to find.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416583602
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
STUCK IN A corporate job rut and faced with an unraveling marriage at the age of thirty-six, Roz Savage sat down one night and wrote two versions of her own obituary -- the one that she wanted and the one she was heading for. They were very different. She realized that if she carried on as she was, she wasn't going to end up with the life she wanted. So she turned her back on an eleven-year career as a management consultant to reinvent herself as a woman of adventure. She invested her life's savings in an ocean rowboat and became the first solo woman ever to enter the Atlantic Rowing Race. Her 3,000-mile trial by sea became the challenge of a lifetime. Of the twenty-six crews that set out from La Gomera, six capsized or sank and didn't make it to the finish line in Antigua. There were times when she thought she had hit her absolute limit, but alone in the middle of the ocean, she had no choice but to find the strength to carry on. In Rowing the Atlantic we are brought on board when Savage's dreams of feasts are nourished by yet another freeze-dried meal. When her gloves wear through to her blistered hands. When her headlamp is the only light on a pitch-black night ocean that extends indefinitely in all directions. When, one by one, all four of her oars break. When her satellite communication fails. Stroke by stroke, Savage discovers there is so much more to life than a fancy sports car and a power-suit job. Flashing back to key moments from her life before rowing, she describes the bolt from the blue that first inspired her to row across oceans and how this crazy idea evolved from a dream into a tendinitis-inducing reality. And finally, Savage discovers in the rough waters of the Atlantic the kind of happiness we all hope to find.
How to Build a Heart
Author: Maria Padian
Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers
ISBN: 161620849X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of 2020 Family isn't something you're born into — it's something you build. One young woman’s journey to find her place in the world as the carefully separated strands of her life — family, money, school, and love — begin to overlap and tangle. All sixteen-year-old Izzy Crawford wants is to feel like she really belongs somewhere. Her father, a marine, died in Iraq six years ago, and Izzy’s moved to a new town nearly every year since, far from the help of her extended family in North Carolina and Puerto Rico. When Izzy’s hardworking mom moves their small family to Virginia, all her dreams start clicking into place. She likes her new school—even if Izzy is careful to keep her scholarship-student status hidden from her well-to-do classmates and her new athletic and popular boyfriend. And best of all: Izzy’s family has been selected by Habitat for Humanity to build and move into a brand-new house. Izzy is this close to the community and permanence she’s been searching for, until all the secret pieces of her life begin to collide. How to Build a Heart is the story of Izzy’s journey to find her place in the world and her discovery that the choices we make and the people we love ultimately define us and bring us home.
Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers
ISBN: 161620849X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of 2020 Family isn't something you're born into — it's something you build. One young woman’s journey to find her place in the world as the carefully separated strands of her life — family, money, school, and love — begin to overlap and tangle. All sixteen-year-old Izzy Crawford wants is to feel like she really belongs somewhere. Her father, a marine, died in Iraq six years ago, and Izzy’s moved to a new town nearly every year since, far from the help of her extended family in North Carolina and Puerto Rico. When Izzy’s hardworking mom moves their small family to Virginia, all her dreams start clicking into place. She likes her new school—even if Izzy is careful to keep her scholarship-student status hidden from her well-to-do classmates and her new athletic and popular boyfriend. And best of all: Izzy’s family has been selected by Habitat for Humanity to build and move into a brand-new house. Izzy is this close to the community and permanence she’s been searching for, until all the secret pieces of her life begin to collide. How to Build a Heart is the story of Izzy’s journey to find her place in the world and her discovery that the choices we make and the people we love ultimately define us and bring us home.
Naz & Roz
Author: Bethany-Kris
Publisher: Bethany-Kris
ISBN: 1988197678
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
The genius and the prodigy ... Nazio “Naz” Donati is brilliant, sinful, and criminal. A genius from the moment he was born, and a man who's still trying to learn how to navigate and balance this thing called life. He certainly wasn't expecting love to practically fall right into his hands, never mind for love to take the form of his best friend's little sister. Rosalynn "Roz” Puzza is talented, beautiful, and driven. A pianist prodigy from the second they sat her at a piano as a little girl, and a young woman who isn't sure if she's truly earned her spot on the stage. She wasn't expecting a man like him to take her focus and change her muse, never mind to distract her from the thing she thought she wanted the most. Sometimes, first love is intense. All-consuming. Crazy. And you just have to ride it out. When brilliance and talent crash together, it can make magic.
Publisher: Bethany-Kris
ISBN: 1988197678
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
The genius and the prodigy ... Nazio “Naz” Donati is brilliant, sinful, and criminal. A genius from the moment he was born, and a man who's still trying to learn how to navigate and balance this thing called life. He certainly wasn't expecting love to practically fall right into his hands, never mind for love to take the form of his best friend's little sister. Rosalynn "Roz” Puzza is talented, beautiful, and driven. A pianist prodigy from the second they sat her at a piano as a little girl, and a young woman who isn't sure if she's truly earned her spot on the stage. She wasn't expecting a man like him to take her focus and change her muse, never mind to distract her from the thing she thought she wanted the most. Sometimes, first love is intense. All-consuming. Crazy. And you just have to ride it out. When brilliance and talent crash together, it can make magic.
The Wild Robot
Author: Peter Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780316581097
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Soon to be a DreamWorks movie, coming to theaters 9/27/24! Includes 8 pages of full color stills from the movie! Wall-E meets Hatchet in this #1 New York Times bestselling illustrated middle grade novel from Caldecott Honor winner Peter Brown Can a robot survive in the wilderness? When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants. As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home--until, one day, the robot's mysterious past comes back to haunt her. From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed novel about what happens when nature and technology collide.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780316581097
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Soon to be a DreamWorks movie, coming to theaters 9/27/24! Includes 8 pages of full color stills from the movie! Wall-E meets Hatchet in this #1 New York Times bestselling illustrated middle grade novel from Caldecott Honor winner Peter Brown Can a robot survive in the wilderness? When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants. As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home--until, one day, the robot's mysterious past comes back to haunt her. From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed novel about what happens when nature and technology collide.
Heart of the Galaxy
Author: Cristina Grenier
Publisher: Monster Media LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Jessica thinks she is an ordinary girl living a rather dull, mundane life. That all changes when she is attacked by aliens and her childhood friend must reveal that he is also an alien sent to Earth to protect her. Jessica’s world is suddenly turned upside down when she discovers that her parents are not really her parents and she is forced to travel to an unknown world in order to assume a destiny that she wants no parts of. And to add more confusion to the mix, she realizes that she is in love with her best friend who is now an alien. Can Jessica make sense of her crazy world, fulfill her destiny and have the man she loves? She realizes that she must find a way if she is to know true happiness.
Publisher: Monster Media LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Jessica thinks she is an ordinary girl living a rather dull, mundane life. That all changes when she is attacked by aliens and her childhood friend must reveal that he is also an alien sent to Earth to protect her. Jessica’s world is suddenly turned upside down when she discovers that her parents are not really her parents and she is forced to travel to an unknown world in order to assume a destiny that she wants no parts of. And to add more confusion to the mix, she realizes that she is in love with her best friend who is now an alien. Can Jessica make sense of her crazy world, fulfill her destiny and have the man she loves? She realizes that she must find a way if she is to know true happiness.
The Lost Boys: A Complete Romance Series : 4 Book Box Set
Author: Karina Bliss
Publisher: Karina Bliss
ISBN: 0995112223
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Four contemporary love stories that will give you all the feels… “Bliss’s writing style is complex and enjoyable, thought-provoking and captivating.” Mr. Imperfect A second chance for love...or the last word? It's a tough choice when your sexy childhood sweetheart shows up in this award-winning rural romance. It takes a funeral to drag bad-boy millionaire Christian Kelly back to his rural New Zealand hometown. Now thanks to an ancient IOU, he's stuck there trying to save the inheritance of the only woman who ever dumped him. Can a loner find the courage to be vulnerable? Should a nurturer settle for a man who refuses to need her? Romantic Book of the Year (RuBY) winner Australia Mr. Irresistible A crusading journalist discovers appearances are deceptive when she's maneuvered into a river journey by a sexy millionaire playboy in this modern spin on Pride & Prejudice. To everybody else, millionaire Jordan King is a selfless philanthropist and most-eligible bachelor, but newspaper columnist Kate Brogan has inside information that he is a home wrecker—handsome and full of false promises. Just like her philandering father. Oh, how Jordan loves a good challenge… Mr. Unforgettable The widowed mayor of a small town struggles professionally and personally when her affair with an unsuitable man becomes so much more for both of them in this sexy romance. Reclusive millionaire Luke Carter can never forget that he’d been abandoned as a child. And that’s why he's driven to build his camp for underprivileged kids in small-town Beacon Bay. If only the coastal New Zealand community trusted his motives. His only ally is widowed mayor Elizabeth Light, a woman he wants to know better… Mr. Undeniable A businessman inherits custody of three children with his ex-wife, the woman he walked away from after a personal tragedy in this poignant story of second chances. Just when he has accepted that he’ll never be a father, Jack Galloway inherits not one, but three kids. He’s supposed to raise this family with his ex-wife, but Roz has her own ideas about parenting. She’s also got some crazy notion, that, thanks to their unexpected “family,” the two of them have been handed a second chance… Romantic Book of the Year (RuBY) finalist Australia
Publisher: Karina Bliss
ISBN: 0995112223
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Four contemporary love stories that will give you all the feels… “Bliss’s writing style is complex and enjoyable, thought-provoking and captivating.” Mr. Imperfect A second chance for love...or the last word? It's a tough choice when your sexy childhood sweetheart shows up in this award-winning rural romance. It takes a funeral to drag bad-boy millionaire Christian Kelly back to his rural New Zealand hometown. Now thanks to an ancient IOU, he's stuck there trying to save the inheritance of the only woman who ever dumped him. Can a loner find the courage to be vulnerable? Should a nurturer settle for a man who refuses to need her? Romantic Book of the Year (RuBY) winner Australia Mr. Irresistible A crusading journalist discovers appearances are deceptive when she's maneuvered into a river journey by a sexy millionaire playboy in this modern spin on Pride & Prejudice. To everybody else, millionaire Jordan King is a selfless philanthropist and most-eligible bachelor, but newspaper columnist Kate Brogan has inside information that he is a home wrecker—handsome and full of false promises. Just like her philandering father. Oh, how Jordan loves a good challenge… Mr. Unforgettable The widowed mayor of a small town struggles professionally and personally when her affair with an unsuitable man becomes so much more for both of them in this sexy romance. Reclusive millionaire Luke Carter can never forget that he’d been abandoned as a child. And that’s why he's driven to build his camp for underprivileged kids in small-town Beacon Bay. If only the coastal New Zealand community trusted his motives. His only ally is widowed mayor Elizabeth Light, a woman he wants to know better… Mr. Undeniable A businessman inherits custody of three children with his ex-wife, the woman he walked away from after a personal tragedy in this poignant story of second chances. Just when he has accepted that he’ll never be a father, Jack Galloway inherits not one, but three kids. He’s supposed to raise this family with his ex-wife, but Roz has her own ideas about parenting. She’s also got some crazy notion, that, thanks to their unexpected “family,” the two of them have been handed a second chance… Romantic Book of the Year (RuBY) finalist Australia