Old Baggage

Author : Lissa Evans
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409031632
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crooked Heart written by Lissa Evans and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Noel Bostock - aged ten, no family - is evacuated from London to escape the Blitz, he winds up in St Albans with Vera Sedge - thiry-six, drowning in debts. Always desperate for money, she's unscrupulous about how she gets it. The war's thrown up all manner of new opportunities but what Vee needs is a cool head and the ability to make a plan. On her own, she's a disaster. With Noel, she's a team. Together they cook up an idea. But there are plenty of other people making money out of the war and some of them are dangerous. Noel may have been moved to safety, but he isn't actually safe at all . . . Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, 2015

Author : Clara Bensen
Publisher : Running Press
ISBN 13 : 0762457252
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Baggage written by Clara Bensen and published by Running Press. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Dress, Three Weeks, Eight Countries—Zero Baggage Newly recovered from a quarter-life meltdown, Clara Bensen decided to test her comeback by signing up for an online dating account. She never expected to meet Jeff, a wildly energetic university professor with a reputation for bucking convention. They barely know each other's last names when they agree to set out on a risky travel experiment spanning eight countries and three weeks. The catch? No hotel reservations, no plans, and best of all, no baggage. Clara's story will resonate with adventurers and homebodies alike—it's at once a romance, a travelogue, and a bright modern take on the age-old questions: How do you find the courage to explore beyond your comfort zone? Can you love someone without the need for labels and commitment? Is it possible to truly leave your baggage behind?

Author : Alan Cumming
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062435809
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baggage written by Alan Cumming and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An intimate look at the making of a man, an actor, an advocate—and most importantly—a happy human being. A wonderful book that is funny, honest, fearless, and generous in its vulnerability." —Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain There is absolutely no logical reason why I am here. The life trajectory my nationality and class and circumstances portended for me was not even remotely close to the one I now navigate. But logic is a science and living is an art. The release I felt in writing my first memoir, Not My Father’s Son, was matched only by how my speaking out empowered so many to engage with their own trauma. I was reminded of the power of my words and the absolute duty of authenticity. But… No one ever fully recovers from their past. There is no cure for it. You just learn to manage and prioritize it. I believe the second you feel you have triumphed or overcome something – an abuse, an injury to the body or the mind, an addiction, a character flaw, a habit, a person – you have merely decided to stop being vigilant and embraced denial as your modus operandi. And that is what this book is about, and for: to remind you not to buy in to the Hollywood ending. Ironically maybe, much of Baggage chronicles my life in Hollywood and how, since I recovered from a nervous breakdown at 28, work has repeatedly whisked me away from personal calamities to sets and stages around the world. It is also about marriage(s): starting with the break-up of my first (to a woman) and ending with the ascension to my second (to a man) with many kissed toads in between! But in everything, each failed relationship or encounter with a legend (Liza! X Men! Gore Vidal! Kubrick! Spice Girls!), in every bad decision or moment of sensual joy I have endeavored to show what I have learned and how I’ve become who I am today: a happy, flawed, vulnerable, fearless middle-aged man, with a lot of baggage.

Author : Lillian Boraks-Nemetz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781553800576
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Brown Suitcase written by Lillian Boraks-Nemetz and published by . This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Slava Lenski recounts her family's adjustment to life in Montreal after fleeing Warsaw, Poland, in 1947.

Author : Brigid Keenan
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848546106
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diplomatic Baggage written by Brigid Keenan and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sunday Times fashion journalist Brigid Keenan married the love of her life in the late Sixties, little idea did she have of the rollercoaster journey they would make around the world together - with most things going horribly awry while being obliged to keep the straightest face and put their best feet forward. For he was a diplomat - and Brigid found herself the smiling face of the European Union in locales ranging from Kazakhstan to Trinidad. Finding herself miserable for the first time in a career into which many would have long ago thrown the towel, she found herself asking (during a farewell party for the Papal Nuncio): was it worth it? As this stream of it-really-happened-to-me stories shows, it most certainly was - if only for our vicarious bewilderment at how exactly you throw a buffet dinner during a public mourning period in Syria, remain viable as a fashion journalist when taste-wise you are three seasons out of it and geographically a world away, make people believe that there are actually terrible things going on in paradise, be a good mother and save some of the finest architecture in Damascus and Brussels from demolition - seemingly all simultaneously.

Author : Samuil Marshak
Publisher : Tate Publishing & Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 9781849761314
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baggage written by Samuil Marshak and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2013 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lady traveling by train from Kiosk to Tver checks a suitcase, a hatbox, a couch, a painting, a package, a pouch, and last but not least, one cute little pooch.

Author : Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486421945
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old-Fashioned Luggage Labels written by Carol Belanger Grafton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2002-07-24 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evocative of luxury ocean liners and steamer trunks packed with elegant evening clothes, this treasury of antique luggage labels reveals a glamorous bygone age. Fifty-three colorful, stylish stickers recall the grand hotels of Rome, Cairo, London, Amsterdam, Zürich, and other cities, as well as Air France, Matson Steamship Line, and other carriers.

Author : Helen Ellis
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0593081684
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light written by Helen Ellis and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with an “inspiring, hilarious, straight-to-the-point” (Entertainment Weekly) collection of essays on friendship among grown-ass women. "Ellis' prose is filled with so many laugh lines, you might want to go ahead and book the Botox.” —NPR When Helen Ellis and her lifelong friends arrive for a reunion on the Redneck Riviera, they unpack more than their suitcases: stories of husbands and kids, lost parents and lost jobs, powdered onion dip and photographs you have to hold by the edges, dirty jokes and sunscreen with SPF higher than they hair-sprayed their bangs senior year, and a bad mammogram. It's a diagnosis that scares them, but could never break their bond. Because women pushing fifty won't be pushed around. In these twelve gloriously comic and moving essays, Helen Ellis dishes on married middle-age sex, sobs with a theater full of women as a psychic exorcises their sorrows, gets twenty shots of stomach bile to the neck to get rid of her double chin, and gathers up the courage to ask, "Are you there, Menopause? It's Me, Helen." A book that reads like the best cocktail party of your life, Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light is alive with the sensational humor and ferocious love for her friends that won Helen Ellis legions of fans. This book has a raw vulnerability and an emotional generosity that takes this acclaimed author to a whole new level of accomplishment.

Author : Judith Sills
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142004197
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Excess Baggage written by Judith Sills and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-12-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maybe you always have to finish what you start—from a book to a dismal marriage. Or your mother is always there when you need her—but sometimes you wish she had somewhere else to go. Each of us has a little too much of our own good thing—it's excess baggage that's holding us back. As Judith Sills says in this exceptionally wise and refereshingly pragmatic book, everyone has baggage. It's the aspect of your personality that keeps getting in your way. Excess Baggage shines a light on our blind spots, defining five common obstacles to happiness that we create: • We need to be right • We feel superior • We dread rejection • We create drama • We cherish our anger Life doesn't have to be so hard. Using easy-to-follow but powerful psychological excercises, Dr. Sills helps you discover just what it is about yourself that keeps you from getting what you want. Then you can set your excess baggage down foerever—and get out of your own way.

Author : Wendy Phillips
Publisher : Coteau Books
ISBN 13 : 1550509713
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baggage written by Wendy Phillips and published by Coteau Books. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious young African turns up abandoned at the Vancouver airport. He speaks no English, but would he tell his whole story even if he could? An enthusiastic young woman throws herself into working for a cause. But whose cause is it that she’s actually working for? Her “boyfriend” finds a growing connection happening with her sister. Wendy Phillips again uses multiple voices and points of view to present a fraught situation from multiple angles, to allow a more complete picture to emerge. Using this technique she delves into the murky world of third world refugees and human trafficking. And the way young Canadian people respond to so foreign, literally, a situation. The concerns and preoccupations of Canadian teens are thrown into sharp relief in the glare of the truly dire circumstances of people from elsewhere in the world. With her keen eye for the emotional lives of teenagers, Wendy Phillips keeps us on the edge of our seats as secrets are revealed, alliances shift, true characters emerge under stress, and everyone has to find a way to cope with their baggage.