Stories of Little Women and Grown-up Girls

Stories of Little Women and Grown-up Girls Review

Stories of Little Women and Grown-up Girls is a wise book in which its protagonists, even in the most adverse of circumstances, whether gently or going against social conventions, actively participate in the creation of an alternative culture that is mestiza, feminist and cosmopolitan, as well as committed to a transformation of patriarchal society and the myths that it sustains about women. Through agile and precise language tender at times, scrawny when necessary erotism, and sometimes ironic and extremely bitter humor in some stories, take us through well elaborated plots with unpredictable endings that are impossible to put aside once we have started to read them. The book contains ten short stories in which the protagonists differ in age, nationality, the problems they face, and personality, but share several fundamental characteristics: they are the subjects of their destinies, not the objects, even when sometimes this decision comes from their unconscious and is expressed in the honesty and bravery with which they face life. The second characteristic that unites them is the way in which they reflect about themselves and their circumstances,which are sometimes heartwrenching. They are not sorry for themselves and do not feel guilty for their mistakes and misadventures that could hold them back from acting and making the decisions they need to make in order to change the situation that burdens them. They do what they have to do without sentimentalism and without lurking in their pain. They act with a sincerity that drives the reader to feel a profound empathy for these characters. In the Deepest Seed of the Lemon, during a discussion which concludes with a sentence which leaves the reader perplexed by its sagacity and bitter irony, Martirio, the woman from New York, and Rocío, from Habana, expose their reasons, which are legitimate in both cases, why they defend their decisions, one for living in Cuba, the other for living in the United States.

Claim Your Inner Grown-Up: 4 Essential Steps to Authentic Adulthood

Claim Your Inner Grown-Up: 4 Essential Steps to Authentic Adulthood Review

In Claim Your Inner Grown-up, Ashley Davis Prend stands a tried-and-true concept on its head by offering a revolutionary, four-pillar program that dares readers to become adults.

An inspirational guide that provides guidance beyond the scope of most self-help books, Claim Your Inner Grown-up shows us how we can develop and improve our lives by becoming more mature, loving, responsible, and spiritual. By incorporating the DARE system into our lives (Detach, Alert, Reorient, Enact), we can become happier and more productive in the long term, and discover the satisfaction and fulfillment that quick-fix solutions don't provide. Through Prend's unique, liberating approach, we gain insight into our psyches and begin to develop a solid sense of self without giving up the positive, childlike qualities that also make us who we are.

A much needed antidote to the indulgent trends of the '80s and '90s, this wise, compassionate handbook will help readers become authentic adults without losing the innocence, freedom, and beauty that also comprise our best selves.

Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists

Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists Review

Susan Neiman is a moral philosopher committed to making the tools of her trade relevant to real life. In Moral Clarity, she shows how resurrecting a moral vocabulary—good and evil, heroism and nobility—can steer us clear of the dogmas of the right and the helpless pragmatism of the left. In search of a framework for forming clear opinions and taking responsible action on today’s urgent political and social questions, Neiman reaches back to the eighteenth century, retrieving a set of virtues—happiness, reason, reverence, and hope—that were held high by every Enlightenment thinker. She shows that the pursuit of moral clarity is not a matter of religious faith but is open to all who are committed to these ideals, believers and nonbelievers alike. And she draws on literature, evolutionarytheory, and other contemporary research to show why, by keeping before us the distinction between the real and the possible, these ideals continue to guide and inspire.

The Whiz Quiz Book: For Children and Grown-Up Children (National Parents Council)

The Whiz Quiz Book: For Children and Grown-Up Children (National Parents Council) Review

The Whiz Quiz Book: For Children and Grown-Up Children (National Parents Council) Feature

• ISBN13: 9781903464984
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A quiz book specially compiled by members of Ireland's National Parents Council for primary school kids.

Flirting After Fifty: Lessons for Grown-up Women on How to Find Love Again

Flirting After Fifty: Lessons for Grown-up Women on How to Find Love Again Review

Flirting After Fifty: Lessons for Grown-up Women on How to Find Love Again Feature

• ISBN13: 9780595428281
• Condition: New
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Why do some women always have a man in their lives, and others never do? We owe a debt of gratitude to those women who are successful in dating, in flirting, in meeting great guys. They have shown us the way. The older we get, the more set we are that t

Tommy Puke and the World's Grossest Grown-Up (Tommy Puke Adventures)

Tommy Puke and the World's Grossest Grown-Up (Tommy Puke Adventures) Review

Who's the grossest kid in the world? Tommy Puke, that's who! He fights off bullies with his mighty loogies...conquers jerks with his powerful farts...and sticks up for his pet skunk by driving off wild dogs with his blistering bad breath. But what happens when Tommy meets Rhino Man, a barfing hero who's grosser than he is? What happens when Rhino Man shows off stomach-churning fighting moves that even Tommy can't match? What happens is this: Tommy feels inferior and decides to hang up his puke. But Tommy's best friend, Josh, won't give up on him. Josh gets the god of vomit, Chonganda, to let Tommy peek at his future as a grown-up. Will grown-up Tommy convince little Tommy to get gross again? Even if Tommy gets his mojo back, can he hope to defeat the mighty hair-horned Rhino Man and his bag of sickening tricks? One thing is for sure: the puke, boogers, loogies, poop, and goop will fly! Join Tommy Puke for action, laughs, and more disgusting gross-outs than you can shake a booger at!

Don't miss this hilarious and action-packed gross-out adventure from award-winner Robert T. Jeschonek, author of the young readers' fantasy My Favorite Band Does Not Exist, selected as a Top Ten First Novel for Youth by Booklist.


Contents
Chapter book and previews, appropriate for young readers


About the Author

Robert T. Jeschonek is an award-winning writer whose fiction, comics, essays, articles, and podcasts have been published around the world. DC Comics, Simon & Schuster, and DAW have published his work. Robert was nominated for the British Fantasy Award for his story, "Fear of Rain." His young adult urban fantasy novel, My Favorite Band Does Not Exist, is now available from Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and was named one of Booklist’s Top Ten First Novels for Youth. Visit him online at www.thefictioneer.com. You can also find him on Facebook and follow him as @TheFictioneer on Twitter.


Review

"Robert Jeschonek is the literary love child of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman…" – Adrian Phoenix, critically acclaimed author of The Maker's Song series and Black Dust Mambo

"Robert Jeschonek is a towering talent..." – Mike Resnick, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning fantasy and science fiction author

"Jeschonek´s stories are delightfully insane, a pleasure to read…" – Fabio Fernandes, Fantasy Book Critic

Red Riding Hood and Her Big Bad Wolf - An Erotic Fairy Tale (Grownup Fairy Tales)

Red Riding Hood and Her Big Bad Wolf - An Erotic Fairy Tale (Grownup Fairy Tales) Review

Gina’s mad. Her boyfriend just dumped her to run off with a cheerleader, her best friend is off partying with her own boyfriend in Milan, and she hates her Halloween costume, but there’s no time to find another one. Determined not to let her night be ruined, she heads to the biggest Halloween party in town. After having too much to drink, she stumbles down a narrow path through the woods and runs into a clearing where she meets a gorgeous guy named Caleb.

Everything seems to be going well until Caleb begins to change. Is this all part of an elaborate Halloween prank, or is Gina about to encounter a real life Big Bad Wolf?

I'm Not Even a Grown-Up: The Diary of Jerzy Feliks Urman

I'm Not Even a Grown-Up: The Diary of Jerzy Feliks Urman Review

Cultural Writing. I'M NOT EVEN A GROWN-UP: THE DIARY OF JERZY FELIKS URMAN is edited and translated by Anthony Rudolf, whose second cousin Jerzy committed suicide in West Ukraine in 1943. The editor's introduction and notes attempt to portray the cataclysmic background and foreground to the dramatic and hopeless situation Jerzy found himself in. Rudolf includes a memoir written by Jerzy's mother, Sophie Urman who with her husband survived the war. Rudolf argues that in in circumstances where armed resistance was for the most part impossible or counterproductive, the child's death can be seen as an act of resistance of the noblest and most tragic kind. The diary has joined a growing literature of similar works written in hiding.

Help! I'm a grown-up: The Newspaper Columns of Michelle Morgan

Help! I'm a grown-up: The Newspaper Columns of Michelle Morgan Review

In 2007 Michelle Morgan was asked to write a weekly column for her local newspaper. Since then she has written over 200 columns about her life, her childhood, her young daughter, her family, her moans and her groans….

This book covers her newspaper columns from 2007-2011 in which she turns 40, watches her daughter grow from a pre-schooler to an almost Junior school big kid, and goes through life's various ups and downs. She'd like to share this book with readers new and old in the hope that everyone will find something to make them smile, maybe cry and hopefully even raise a chuckle or two.

How to Date Like a Grown-Up: Everything You Need to Know to Get Out There, Get Lucky, or Even Get Married in Your 40s, 50s, and Beyond

How to Date Like a Grown-Up: Everything You Need to Know to Get Out There, Get Lucky, or Even Get Married in Your 40s, 50s, and Beyond Review

"Witty and smart, this is a must-read for any woman ready to find Mr. Right. Or at least Mr. Right Now."
Christopher Hopkins, Oprah's Makeover Guy and author of Staging Your Comeback: A Complete Beauty Revival for Women Over 45

By the time you hit forty, you have a pretty good idea of what you want when it comes to dating, love, and romance. But how do you get it? HOW TO DATE LIKE A GROWN-UP will tell you everything you need to know to find the love you're looking for (even after a long marriage or other dating hiatus), how to get married (if that's what you're after), or how to just get lucky.

Dating expert, bestselling author, and TV personality Lisa Daily (Daytime) uses her hilarious and compassionate voice to offer up realistic, counterintuitive advice that will help you finally find the relationship (and the guy) you deserve, including:

• Where (and how) to meet better men
• 5 easy tips to chat up any stranger
• What you may be doing to make yourself a magnet for losers
• How to deal with the pitfalls and fringe benefits of dating younger men
• Little-known secrets to dramatically improve your dating odds
• How to break it to your kids that you have a better social life than they do
• A foolproof way to find the best dating site for you
• How to face getting naked in front of someone new for the first time
• How to accommodate changes in your body (and the little blue pill)
• The one simple thing you can do in the bedroom that will make a man speed up his marriage proposal
• Why men are rushing to the altar, and why you might just want to wait

Dating: It's Not Just For Kids Anymore

Queen of Your Own Life: The Grown-Up Woman's Guide to Claiming Happiness and Getting the Life You Deserve

Queen of Your Own Life: The Grown-Up Woman's Guide to Claiming Happiness and Getting the Life You Deserve Review

Discover the Seven Best Gifts You Can Give Yourself

Queen of Your Own Life is a philosophy, a decision and an invitation to happiness for women who have made the tough but rewarding journey to the midpoint in their lives. Kathy Kinney (best known as Mimi on The Drew Carey Show) and Cindy Ratzlaff (marketing genius behind the launch of The South Beach Diet) have been best friends for more than thirty years, and have helped each other navigate the ups and downs of their lives with humor and grace.

In this entertaining and inspiring book, they share the tried-and-true techniques they call "the seven best gifts a woman can give herself." They reveal how they learned to value themselves just the way they are—women in full bloom, sensual, vibrant, wise and more beautiful than ever—and they'll show you how you can, too.

With these seven gifts you'll discover how to:

• Claim your beauty and feel your power

• Clean your mental closet and find your queen voice

• Admire yourself for who you've become

• Build deep, fulfilling friendships with other women

• Establish firm boundaries that will strengthen all your relationships

• Learn the simple trick to finally being happy

• Place the crown firmly on your head

With humor, comfort and inspiration, Queen of Your Own Life offers easy step-by-step actions to blast away at the societal tall tale that young is beautiful and old is just old. If you've been feeling that the best part of your life may be behind you, then this book will prove to you just how untrue that is, and that the door to being happy is not only never closed, but just waiting for you to fling it open. Remember, you don't have to be twenty to have your whole life ahead of you. Now is the time to become Queen of Your Own Life!

Grown-Up Girlfriends: Finding and Keeping Real Friends in the Real World (Focus on the Family)

Grown-Up Girlfriends: Finding and Keeping Real Friends in the Real World (Focus on the Family) Review

Grown-Up Girlfriends: Finding and Keeping Real Friends in the Real World (Focus on the Family) Feature

• ISBN13: 9781414308098
• Condition: New
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Even when life is hectic and harried, every woman has a God-given longing for relationship, and her female friends play an important role in filling that. Oliver and Smalley help women distinguish between self-centered, insecure, childish relationships and other-centered, healthy, “grown-up” relationships. Using personal anecdotes and scriptural principles, they explain ten characteristics of a grown-up friend and offer ideas on how readers can develop these attributes in themselves. Finally, they tackle the tough issues of friendships, such as how to support a friend in crisis, how to work toward forgiveness when a friend has injured you, and how to determine when it is best to let a friendship go.

The Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-up

The Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-up Review

Sooner or later, each of us must face the day we develop a disturbing new interest in lawn care; the day we order sauvignon blanc instead of Rolling Rock; the day we refuse to see any concert where we cannot sit down. Sooner or later, each of us must face the day we turn uncool.

Dan Zevin, who “was never exactly Fonz-like to begin with,” is having a hilariously hard time moving from his twenties to his thirties, and he confesses everything in these comic not-coming-of-age tales. As he shamefully employs his first cleaning lady, becomes abnormally attached to his dog, and commits flagrant acts of home improvement, Dan’s headed for an early midlife crisis—and a better-late-than-never revelation: Growing up is really nothing to be reluctant about. In fact, it’s very cool.

Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists (Revised Edition)

Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists (Revised Edition) Review

For years, moral language has been the province of the Right, as the Left has consoled itself with rudderless pragmatism. In this profound and powerful book, Susan Neiman reclaims the vocabulary of morality--good and evil, heroism and nobility--as a lingua franca for the twenty-first century. In constructing a framework for taking responsible action on today's urgent questions, Neiman reaches back to the eighteenth century, retrieving a series of values--happiness, reason, reverence, and hope--held high by Enlightenment thinkers. In this thoroughly updated edition, Neiman reflects on how the moral language of the 2008 presidential campaign has opened up new political and cultural possibilities in America and beyond.

Grown-Up Children Who Won't Grow Up

Grown-Up Children Who Won't Grow Up Review

For every child who's a successfully independent young adult, there's another who can't quite get it together. This book provides a nonjudgmental and highly effective approach to dealing with children who won't grow up.

Grown-up Games (Dick Tricks)

Grown-up Games (Dick Tricks) Review

[This is a work of fiction depicting homosexual acts between consenting adults.]

It's summer vacation, and Bradley and his brothers are all relaxing at their cousin Max's house after a long college semester. When the power goes out, things heat up in the dark of the summer night. When the lights come back on, everyone in the house is in for a steamy surprise.

Continued from "Tent-Mates"
Continued in "College Break Buddies"

The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization

The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization Review

“WHERE HAVE ALL THE GROWN-UPS GONE?” That is the provocative question Washington Times syndicated columnist Diana West asks as she looks at America today. Sadly, here’s what she finds: It’s difficult to tell the grown-ups from the children in a landscape littered with Baby Britneys, Moms Who Mosh, and Dads too “young” to call themselves “mister.” Surveying this sorry scene, West makes a much larger statement about our place in the world: “No wonder we can’t stop Islamic terrorism.  We haven’t put away our toys!” As far as West is concerned, grown-ups are extinct. The disease that killed them emerged in the fifties, was incubated in the sixties, and became an epidemic in the seventies, leaving behind a nation of eternal adolescents who can’t say "no," a politically correct population that doesn’t know right from wrong. The result of such indecisiveness is, ultimately, the end of Western civilization as we know it. This is because the inability to take on the grown-up role of gatekeeper influences more than whether a sixteen-year-old should attend a Marilyn Manson concert. It also fosters the dithering cultural relativism that arose from the “culture wars” in the eighties and which now undermines our efforts in the “real” culture war of the 21st century—the war on terror. With insightful wit, Diana West takes readers on an odyssey through culture and politics, from the rise of rock ‘n’ roll to the rise of multiculturalism, from the loss of identity to the discovery of “diversity,” from the emasculation of the heroic ideal to the “PC”-ing of “Mary Poppins,” all the while building a compelling case against the childishness that is subverting the struggle against jihadist Islam in a mixed-up, post-9/11 world. With a new foreword for the paperback edition, "The Death of the Grown-up," is a bracing read from one of the most original voices on the American cultural scene.