[PDF] Funny How Things Turn Out eBook

Author : Julie Wakely
Publisher : Julie Wakely Enterprises
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 48,18 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Cancer
ISBN : 0975260618

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"An inside glimpse of one woman's personal journey with cancer seen through a series of letters written to her daughter"--Back cover

Author : Judith Bruce
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,49 MB
Release : 2012-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0857208209

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Part biography, part memoir, all brilliantly written, 'Funny How Things Turn Out' chronicles the long, long life of Muriel Newmarch and her daughter.

Author : Melissa Wyatt
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1429947020

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Remy Walker has it all: he found the love of his life at home in crumbling little Dwyer, West Virginia, deep in his beloved Appalachian Mountains where his family settled more than one hundred and sixty years ago. But at seventeen, you're not supposed to already be where you want to be, right? You've got a whole world to make your way through, and you start by leaving your dead-end town. Like his girlfriend, Lisa. Lisa's going away to college. If Remy goes with her, it would be the start of everything they ever dreamed of. So when a fascinating young artist from out of state shows Remy his home through new eyes, why is he suddenly questioning his future? The author vividly depicts a rich and beautiful place in this powerful novel about a young man who, over the course of a summer, learns how much he has to give up for a girl, and how much he needs to give up for a mountain.

Author : Michael J. Fox
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 32,48 MB
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1401395082

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Michael J. Fox abandoned high school to pursue an acting career, but went on to receive honorary degrees from several universities and garner the highest accolades for his acting, as well as for his writing. In his new book, he inspires and motivates graduates to recognize opportunities, maximize their abilities, and roll with the punches--all with his trademark optimism, warmth, and humor. In A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future, Michael draws on his own life experiences to make a case that real learning happens when "life goes skidding sideways." He writes of coming to Los Angeles from Canada at age eighteen and attempting to make his way as an actor. Fox offers up a comically skewed take on how, in his own way, he fulfilled the requirements of a college syllabus. He learned Economics as a starving artist; an unexpected turn as a neophyte activist schooled him in Political Science; and his approach to Comparative Literature involved stacking books up against their movie versions. Replete with personal stories and hilarious anecdotes, Michael J. Fox's new book is the perfect gift for graduates.

Author : Andrew Tarvin
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 26,58 MB
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Corporate culture
ISBN : 9780984889761

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The author presents a collection of ways to reap the proven human and corporate benefits of humor at work, organized by core business skill and founded on his own work as a business speaker and coach with the consulting company, Humor That Works.

Author : Randy Pausch
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,33 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Cancer
ISBN : 9780340978504

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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

Author : Jenny Allen
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,72 MB
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0374709505

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Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor "One of the funniest writers in America." That’s what The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz calls Jenny Allen—and with good reason. In her debut essay collection, the longtime humorist and performer declares no subject too sacred, no boundary impassable. With her eagle eye for the absurd and hilarious, Allen reports from the potholes midway through life’s journey. One moment she’s flirting shamelessly—and unsuccessfully—with a younger man at a wedding; the next she’s stumbling upon X-rated images on her daughter’s computer. She ponders the connection between her ex-husband’s questions about the location of their silverware, and the divorce that came a year later. While undergoing chemotherapy, she experiments with being a “wig person.” And she considers those perplexing questions that we never pause to ask: Why do people say “It is what it is”? What’s the point of fat-free half-and-half ? And haven’t we heard enough about memes? Jenny Allen’s musings range fluidly from the personal to the philosophical. She writes with the familiarity of someone telling a dinner party anecdote, forgoing decorum for candor and comedy. To read Would Everybody Please Stop? is to experience life with imaginative and incisive humor.

Author : David Hamilton
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,22 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1848508018

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Have you ever wondered why things happen the way they do? Whether some things are just meant to be? Or what role your free will plays in creating your destiny? These are questions we all ask ourselves, but it's hard to get past conjecture or gut feeling to find any definitive answers. Now, in this ground-breaking book, David Hamilton looks at hard scientific evidence to bring us closer to understanding the balance between the forces of destiny and the power of free will. Exploring new, cutting-edge scientific research into the nature of time, and drawing on fields such as quantum physics, epigenetics, solar cycles and even reports of near-death experiences, David explores how, rather than being a question of one versus the other, destiny and free will can in fact work simultaneously in his fascinating new theory, 'The Tree of Probable Life'. He shows how, ultimately, we create many of the conditions of our own lives and offers powerful yet practical principles that can bring amazing results.