The Slippery Year

Author : Melanie Gideon
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 030745486X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Slippery Year written by Melanie Gideon and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A disarmingly hilarious and honest memoir of marriage and motherhood by a woman who realized she was sleepwalking through life and decided she needed to do something about it. “A love song to family and to life.... One of the happiest books to cross our paths in a very long time.” —San Francisco Chronicle The Slippery Year chronicles her struggle to rediscover meaning and pleasure in life while navigating the comical ups and downs of cohabiting with a husband, a child, and a dog: mattress wars with her snoring mate, the psychological minefield of the school carpool line, and sending her son to sleep-away camp for the first time. Gideon manages to be laugh-out-loud funny while also reflecting beautifully and movingly on her quest to appreciate what she has.

Author : Melanie Gideon
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307273040
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Slippery Year written by Melanie Gideon and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A disarmingly hilarious and honest memoir of marriage and motherhood by a woman who realized she was sleepwalking through life and decided she needed to do something about it. “A love song to family and to life.... One of the happiest books to cross our paths in a very long time.” —San Francisco Chronicle The Slippery Year chronicles her struggle to rediscover meaning and pleasure in life while navigating the comical ups and downs of cohabiting with a husband, a child, and a dog: mattress wars with her snoring mate, the psychological minefield of the school carpool line, and sending her son to sleep-away camp for the first time. Gideon manages to be laugh-out-loud funny while also reflecting beautifully and movingly on her quest to appreciate what she has.

Author : Melanie Gideon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781409118251
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Slippery Year written by Melanie Gideon and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever sat across the breakfast table from your husband and wondered, How did I get here? Do the things that once made you complete--including your husband--now feel like a burden? Is the life you are leading an unrecognizable version of the one you imagined for yourself not so very long ago? Welcome to the world of Melanie Gideon. With wit, tenderness, and unsparing honesty, Gideon captures that moment in our lives when the magic starts to ebb, and when the things you have loved forever begin to fall away for the first time.

Author : Tracey Corderoy
Publisher : Nosy Crow
ISBN 13 : 1839941650
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam written by Tracey Corderoy and published by Nosy Crow. This book was released on 2020-05-10 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam are the world's most useless burglars, and their new master plan for a robbery is going hopelessly wrong! Will their neighbours catch them red-handed? Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam are two hapless robber dogs who can never seem to fill their swag bags. They've tried the bank, the bookshop, the bike shop . . . and even a plot to rob their neighbours is foiled! But when they decide on a career change and open up a café they realize that, although crime doesn't pay, cupcakes certainly do! Join the fun in this hilarious rhyming picture book adventure. Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam is a hugely successful, action-packed series about two baker-dogs who used to be robbers, but now solve mysteries and sniff out crimes! Tracey Corderoy is a multi-award-winning author and has written over 70 books for children including collaborations with Rosalind Beardshaw and Sarah Massini. Steven Lenton has created many books with Tracey Corderoy and also illustrates books by David Baddiel, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Peter Bently. His books have won awards such as the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award and have been selected for the WHSmith Children's Book of the Year and Tom Fletcher Book Club. Every Nosy Crow paperback picture book comes with a free "Stories Aloud" audio recording. Just scan the QR code and listen along! Read all the Shifty and Sam picture book adventures: Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: The Cat Burglar Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: The Diamond Chase Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: The Missing Masterpiece Have you read Shifty and Sam's two-colour early readers? Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: Jingle Bells! Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: Up, Up and Away! Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: The Spooky School Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: The Aliens Are Coming!

Author : Hans Meyer
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789016177
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 72 Years on the Slippery, Sloppery Gangway Called Life written by Hans Meyer and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a man who has really lived. Captain Hans Meyer grew up in Hamburg as Germany was emerging from defeat in World War II. On leaving school he trained to be an officer with the German Merchant Navy. Following his training, Captain Meyer worked on cargo ships all over the world. He also worked for shipping companies onshore, including Hapag Lloyd, before running his own business out of Darwin, Australia, selling his expertise of all things nautical. Not a man to be tied down, nor a man to be cowed by convention, Captain Meyer has travelled around the world multiple times, and has made his home in Germany, America, Australia, East Timor, Thailand, the Philippines and Peru, amongst other places. His varied experience of the world and his specialist knowledge of the shipping industry makes for entertaining reading, as he reflects back on his 72 years of adventures. Life has certainly never been dull for Captain Meyer on the slippery sloppery gangway!

Author : Donald J. Sobol
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0307783529
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Slippery Salamander written by Donald J. Sobol and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new title in the bestselling series about the world's greatest supersleuth in sneakers! A slippery salamander, a banana burglar, a judge who's run away, and a presidential toothbrush . . . these are just some of the clues that the world's greatest young detective must use to solve 10 all-new mysteries. Young readers can try to solve the cases alongside Encyclopedia--the answers to all the mysteries are in the back of the book.

Author : Liam Carroll
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781512273601
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slippery written by Liam Carroll and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liam Carroll's debut novel, Slippery, shines a blowtorch on the fundamental truths of the finance industry and the hedonistic world of the expatriate lifestyle in Southeast Asia. Flynn James, a young man from the Sydney beachside suburb of Manly, previously content to live his life as a physiotherapist and surfer on Australia's east coast, is awakened to the big bonuses on offer in the trading game. He abandons health sciences, embraces the greed is good mantra and manages to flare past thousands of candidates in a Geneva simulation trading day exercise, ushered through the shady doors of a fiercely private Swiss commodities trading company and set on the path to oil trading superstardom. Based in Singapore and Shanghai, Flynn learns the ropes of commodities dealing at breakneck haste. With the arrival of his first seven-figure bonus, the glossy veneer of his overpaid world crumbles, setting the stage for a shattering finale. Much more than another mere exposé on the world of trading, Slippery is an adventure/thriller. It explores the gritty realities of successful commerce in the corporate maelstrom of Southeast Asia, the inevitable moral compass decimation when you place money above all else and is done so with a side-splitting, bitter self-loathing, terminal awareness. You won't be able to put it down.

Author : James Allanson PICTON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slippery places: a new year's address to the young, etc written by James Allanson PICTON and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Melanie Gideon
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345527968
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wife 22 written by Melanie Gideon and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A skillful blend of pop-culture references, acidic humor, and emotional moments. It will take its rightful place . . . alongside Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary, Anna Maxted’s Getting Over It, and Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It.”—Library Journal (starred review) Alice has been married to her husband, William, for twenty years. Though she can still remember the first time they met like it was yesterday, these days she finds herself posting things on Facebook that she used to confide to him. So when she’s invited to participate in an anonymous online survey on marriage and love, she finds that all her longings come pouring out as she dutifully answers questions under the name “Wife 22.” Evaluating her responses is “Researcher 101,” who seems to listen to her in a way that William hasn’t in a very long time, and before she knows it, she finds herself trying hard not to e-flirt with him. Meanwhile, her elderly father is chatting on Facebook, her fifteen-year-old daughter is tweeting, and everything in her life is turning upside down. Wife 22 is a hilariously funny, profoundly moving, and deeply perceptive novel about the ways we live and love in this technological age, from a dazzling new voice in fiction. “An LOL Instagram about love in a wired world.”—People “Vibrant, au courant, and hilarious . . . brilliant!”—Adriana Trigiani

Author : Melanie Gideon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982142170
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Did I Say You Could Go written by Melanie Gideon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suspenseful, gripping novel about families and friendships torn apart at the seams by obsession, secrets, and betrayal with relentless twists and turns that hurtle forward to a shocking confrontation. When Ruth, a wealthy divorcé​e, offers to host the Hillside Academy kindergarten meet-and-greet, she hopes this will be a fresh start for her and her introverted daughter, Marley. Finally, they’ll be accepted into a tribe. Marley will make friends and Ruth will be welcomed by the mothers. Instead, the parents are turned off by Ruth’s ostentatious wealth and before kindergarten even begins, Ruth and Marley are outcasts. The last guest to arrive at the meet-and-greet is Gemma, a widow and a single mother to her daughter, Bee. Ruth sets her sights on the mother-daughter duo, and soon the two families are inseparable. Ruth takes Gemma and Bee on Aspen vacations, offers VIP passes to Cirque du Soleil, and pays for dinners at Michelin-starred restaurants. For Gemma, who lives paycheck to paycheck, Ruth’s largesse is seductive, but as the years go by, she can’t shake the feeling that she’s accruing an increasingly unpayable debt. When Ruth’s affair with a married Hillside dad is exposed, and she’s publicly shunned, Gemma uses it to sever ties with Ruth. Six years later, when Gemma finds herself embroiled in a scandal of her own—Ruth comes to her defense. Their renewed friendship rehabilitates their reputations, but once again, Gemma starts to feel trapped as Ruth grows more and more obsessed with their relationship. A relentless page-turner, Did I Say You Could Go is the story of friendships steeped in lies and duplicity. It’s about two families who, when pushed to extremes, cross the line with devastating results.