[PDF] Blow Your House Down eBook

Author : Gina Frangello
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 31,78 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1640093176

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A Good Morning America Recommended Book • A LitReactor Best Book of the Year • A BuzzFeed Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A Rumpus Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A Bustle Most Anticipated Book of the Month "A pathbreaking feminist manifesto, impossible to put down or dismiss. Gina Frangello tells the morally complex story of her adulterous relationship with a lover and her shortcomings as a mother, and in doing so, highlights the forces that shaped, silenced, and shamed her: everyday misogyny, puritanical expectations regarding female sexuality and maternal sacrifice, and male oppression." —Adrienne Brodeur, author of Wild Game Gina Frangello spent her early adulthood trying to outrun a youth marked by poverty and violence. Now a long-married wife and devoted mother, the better life she carefully built is emotionally upended by the death of her closest friend. Soon, awakened to fault lines in her troubled marriage, Frangello is caught up in a recklessly passionate affair, leading a double life while continuing to project the image of the perfect family. When her secrets are finally uncovered, both her home and her identity will implode, testing the limits of desire, responsibility, love, and forgiveness. Blow Your House Down is a powerful testimony about the ways our culture seeks to cage women in traditional narratives of self-sacrifice and erasure. Frangello uses her personal story to examine the place of women in contemporary society: the violence they experience, the rage they suppress, the ways their bodies often reveal what they cannot say aloud, and finally, what it means to transgress "being good" in order to reclaim your own life.

Author : Pat Barker
Publisher : Virago
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 19,3 MB
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0349009236

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'Blow Your House Down is swift, spare and utterly absorbing - you'll probably read it, as I did, in one tense sitting' NEW YORK TIMES 'A courageous and disturbing novel' ELIZABETH WARD, WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD 'Despite its black humour, it is a deeply political book' BELINDA WEBB, GUARDIAN A serial killer stalks prostitutes with profound and unexpected consequences in this riveting novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Ghost Road. A city and its people are in the grip of a killer who is roaming the northern city, singling out prostitutes. The face of his latest victim stares out from every newspaper and billboard, haunting the women who walk the streets. But life and work go on. Brenda, with three children, can't afford to give up while Audrey, now in her forties, desperately goes on 'working the cars'. And then, when another woman is savagely murdered, Jean, her lover, takes desperate measures . . .

Author : Pat Barker
Publisher : Virago
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0349009228

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'Vivid, bawdy and bitter' THE TIMES 'A first-rate first novel . . . pungent, raunchy dialogue . . . passages of fine understated wit' IVAN GOLD, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Pat Barker's first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, meeting the harsh challeges of poverty and survival in a precarious world. There's Kelly, at eleven, neglected and independent, dealing with a squalid rape; Dinah, knocking on sixty and still on the game; Joanne, not yet twenty, not yet married and already pregnant. Old Alice is welcoming her impending death whilst Muriel helplessly watches the decline of her stoical husband. And linking them all, watching over them all, mother to half the street, is fiery, indomitable Iris.

Author : Claudia Rueda
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,50 MB
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1613123019

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Children play the role of the big bad wolf in a classic fable in this “wonderfully expressive . . . beautifully designed and wholly engaging picture book.”(Booklist) This interactive retelling of the Three Little Pigs story allows the reader to play the part of the big bad wolf. Three interior die-cut holes invite readers to huff, puff, and blow the pigs’ houses down! This fractured fairy tale ends sweetly when, rather than blowing down the third pig’s brick home, the wolf/reader blows out the candles on a cake baked by the pigs! A satisfying and engaging read for every young Three Little Pigs fan. “A good chance for youngsters to relish enacting the wicked role while still getting a friendly reconciliation at the end.” —Kirkus Reviews “Very young readers will get a kick out of taking the wolf’s part, and their parents will appreciate that the scariest bits of the original tale have been omitted.” —School Library Journal

Author : Jennifer Pastiloff
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1524743577

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An inspirational memoir about how Jennifer Pastiloff's years of waitressing taught her to seek out unexpected beauty, how hearing loss taught her to listen fiercely, how being vulnerable allowed her to find love, and how imperfections can lead to a life full of wild happiness. Centered around the touchstone stories Jen tells in her popular workshops, On Being Human is the story of how a starved person grew into the exuberant woman she was meant to be all along by battling the demons within and winning. Jen did not intend to become a yoga teacher, but when she was given the opportunity to host her own retreats, she left her thirteen-year waitressing job and said “yes,” despite crippling fears of her inexperience and her own potential. After years of feeling depressed, anxious, and hopeless, in a life that seemed to have no escape, she healed her own heart by caring for others. She has learned to fiercely listen despite being nearly deaf, to banish shame attached to a body mass index, and to rebuild a family after the debilitating loss of her father when she was eight. Through her journey, Jen conveys the experience most of us are missing in our lives: being heard and being told, “I got you.” Exuberant, triumphantly messy, and brave, On Being Human is a celebration of happiness and self-realization over darkness and doubt. Her complicated yet imperfectly perfect life path is an inspiration to live outside the box and to reject the all-too-common belief of “I am not enough.” Jen will help readers find, accept, and embrace their own vulnerability, bravery, and humanness.

Author : James Lee Burke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 39,13 MB
Release : 2008-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1416548505

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Follows the adventures of detective Dave Robicheaux, who struggles with alcoholism and rage while fighting to protect lives in Katrina-devastated New Orleans.

Author : Charles Tolchin
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 2000-07-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0595005586

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What is it like to receive a life-saving organ transplant? On April 13, 1997, I received new lungs. Blow the House Down details my story. It illustrates how Cystic Fibrosis affected my life and how I fought it. This book reflects the immense generosity of so many people, including my donor and her family; my family and friends; people who donate to Cystic Fibrosis research and drive major scientific breakthroughs; and doctors, nurses, and physical therapists who toil hard day in and day out to restore our health. Together, we each have the power to cure disease. Charles Tolchin received a double lung transplant in April of 1997. He now works in advertising for OgilvyInteractive, a division of Ogilvy & Mather. He has been published in National Lampoon Magazine, CBS Healthwatch.com, and the Congressional Record. For fun, he skis, plays ice-hockey, and lifts weights.

Author : Gina Frangello
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 18,23 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1616203498

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The friendship between Mary and Nix had endured since childhood, a seemingly unbreakable bond, until the mid-1980s, when the two young women embarked on a summer vacation in Greece. It was a trip initiated by Nix, who had just learned that Mary had been diagnosed with a disease that would cut her life short and who was determined that it be the vacation of a lifetime. But by the time their visit to Greece was over, Nix had withdrawn from their friendship, and Mary had no idea why. Three years later, Nix is dead, and Mary returns to Europe to try to understand what went wrong. In the process she meets the first of many men that she will spend time with as she travels throughout the world. Through them she experiences not only a sexual awakening but a spiritual and emotional awakening that allows her to understand how the past and the future are connected and to appreciate the freedom to live life adventurously.

Author : Mark Teague
Publisher : Cartwheel Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338157741

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A funny twist on the traditional tale, The Three Little Pigs. The pigs are in their usual trouble with a somewhat bad wolf but there is a focus on character building in this story.

Author : Steve Smallman
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 39,4 MB
Release : 2014-08-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781781716465

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It's your favourite classic fairy tales...with a twist. QED delivers an encouraging message about good health and hygiene in this new series. The charming artwork highlights all the positives of your favourite characters. In Blow Your Nose, Big Bad Wolf! the three little pigs learn a lesson about spreading germs. When they won't lend the wolf a tissue, their houses are blown down by his sneezes! And to make matters worse, they then catch his cold. The Fairy Tales Gone Wrong series include: Eat your Greens, Goldilocks - 978-1-78171-644-1 Blow your Nose, Big Bad Wolf - 978-1-78171-646-5 Give us a Smile, Cinderella - 978-1-78171-648-9 Keep Running, Gingerbread Man - 978-1-78171-650-2