You're Making Me Hate You: A Cantankerous Look at the Common Misconception That Humans Have Any Common Sense Left
You're Making Me Hate You: A Cantankerous Look at the Common Misconception That Humans Have Any Common Sense Left
New York Times bestselling lead singer of Slipknot and Stone Sour's hilarious trawl through the endless backwaters of human stupidityCorey Taylor has had it. Had it with the vagaries of human behavior and life in this postmodern digital blanked-out waiting room that passes for a world. Reality TV, awful music, terrible drivers, megamalls, airports, family reunions, bad fashion choices, other people's monstrous children, and badly-behaved "adult" human beings are warping life in the twenty-first century into an often-unbearable endurance test of one's patience, fortitude, and faith. Funny, profane, blasphemous, and above all right on target, You're Making Me Hate You is pure Corey Taylor unleashed, exposing the underbelly of human depravity in all its ragged glory.
- ASIN: 0306824507
- ISBN: 0306824507
- Brand: Da Capo Pr
- Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
John Grisham's The Rainmaker
John Grisham's The Rainmaker
- ASIN: B001P7HUF0
Toni Tennille: A Memoir
Toni Tennille: A Memoir
Since bursting onto the scene in the mid ‘70s, the pop duo Captain and Tennille have long defined the sparkling, optimistic idea of everlasting love, both in their music and through their image as a happy and, seemingly, unbreakable couple. They were an irresistible pair to millions of fans all over the world, further underscored by the rousing “yes, we can!” gospel of their biggest hit, “Love Will Keep Us Together.” But underneath the image was an entirely different story that the fans never saw: a woman who fought a lonely struggle against the controlling and often bizarre behavior of her emotionally inaccessible husband. Toni Tennille: A Memoir is a visceral account of Toni Tennille’s life from her childhood in the segregated South to her thrilling rise to fame in the world of pop music to where she is now: no longer one-half of a famed couple, but a stronger woman for all she has experienced—both the good and the bad. Toni hopes that her story will help anyone who feels trapped in a toxic relationship realize that it is never too late to break away from it.
- ASIN: 1630761745
- ISBN: 1630761745
- Brand: Natl Book Network
- Manufacturer: Taylor Trade Publishing
The Gift of Caring: Saving Our Parents from the Perils of Modern Healthcare
The Gift of Caring: Saving Our Parents from the Perils of Modern Healthcare
The desire to help our elders navigate health issues is clear and universal—how to assure proper care and a good ending is not. Combining adroit storytelling skills with expert advice, The Gift of Caring: Saving Our Parents from the Perils of Modern Healthcare brings the reader into all-too-familiar scenarios facing our aging parents and offers answers to questions we may not know to ask until it’s too late. Author and biologist Marcy Houle shares her personal journey of caring for her father, a surgeon, who developed Alzheimer’s, and later her mother, who succumbed to other medical conditions. Like many children of aging parents, Marcy often felt powerless traveling this sad trajectory—watching them fall through the cracks of a fragmented and confusing healthcare system, where professionals often wrote off their symptoms as “just old age.” Not having the understanding of the changes that come with aging, she was led to believe there was nothing she could do to help. The tragic secret? According to coauthor and geriatrics physician Elizabeth Eckstrom, these symptoms frequently are not “just old age.” Rather, the problem is that the current healthcare delivery model for older people is ill-equipped to provide the comprehensive, person-centered care seniors need. Today, thousands of aging people face unnecessary suffering, hospitalizations, nursing home stays, and even death due to complications that could have been prevented or treated. Even more troubling, many healthcare professionals have had little or no training in the care of older adults. The Gift of Caring reveals these pitfalls and provides families with tools they can use to avoid them. Interspersed with every few chapters of Marcy’s riveting story, Dr. Eckstrom shares professional medical insights, compiled from the latest research, into what Marcy could have done to safeguard her parents. She shows us how to navigate the system, how we can become our loved one’s best advocate, and what... [Read More]
- ASIN: B010S8Y3PQ
- Manufacturer: Taylor Trade Publishing
The Windsors I Knew: An American Private Secretary's Memoir of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Nassau, Bahamas 1940-1944
The Windsors I Knew: An American Private Secretary's Memoir of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Nassau, Bahamas 1940-1944
This memoir of an American private secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor provides a rare first-hand account of their day-to-day lives during their time as Governor and First Lady of the Bahamas during World War II. If you want to read about how the Duke, Duchess and their staff from Government House fought the disastrous Bay Street Fire in 1942, this is your book! You will also learn about the Duke's courage in dealing with the Labor Riots in Nassau that same year, and the bravery of the royal couple in a lifeboat for almost six hours between a reef and Atlantic surf when their yacht went aground off Great Abaco Island. Typed by the author in 1965, 20 years after she left the Windsors' service in Nassau, the memoir is (uniquely) not based upon second-hand accounts, gossip, rumors, or fabrications which were prevalent following the death of this famous and controversial couple. Rather, the author actually lived with the former British King (Edward VIII) and his American Duchess in Government House, Nassau, Bahamas from 1940-1944. Wallis Windsor was thus the first American duchess within the House of Windsor. America will have its second Duchess in the House of Windsor when HRH Prince Harry marries Ms. Meghan Markle in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, in May, 2018. Jean D. Hardcastle-Taylor (nee Drewes) observed her royal employers with a keen eye and gives witness to their abiding support for each other as they worked to improve the conditions of the Bahamian people and lead many projects in support of British war efforts. Her memoir is edited by the eminent English royal historian and author Hugo Vickers, who added the first sentence to the first chapter of the original typescript which reads, "A girl never knows how her life can suddenly change". As you will read, that was certainly true for Jean Drewes as she set off for The Bahamas in December, 1940! Jean was destined for a job only dreamed of by most executive secretaries in 1940's New York City.... [Read More]
- ASIN: B078MLB1QZ
Surviving Henry: Adventures in Loving a Canine Catastrophe
Surviving Henry: Adventures in Loving a Canine Catastrophe
Sometimes you seek out love. And sometimes it broadsides you.You don't always know what you're getting into when you bring home a puppy. You hope for laughs and cuddles, long walks and a wagging tail. And sometimes you get . . . Henry.Henry is a boxer who suffers from Supreme Dictator of the Universe Syndrome. He vandalizes his obedience school, leaps through windows, cheats death at every turn, and generally causes his long-suffering owner Erin Taylor Young to wonder what on earth she did wrong that God would send this dog to derail her life.But this rogue torpedo of a dog wasn't sent to torment his owner--well, not just to torment her. Through all the hair-pulling and questioning of her own sanity, Erin learns something very powerful from Henry, a dog who brings new meaning to the concept of unconditional love.Through his laugh-out-loud antics and jaw-dropping escapades, Henry will careen into your life and steal your heart.
- ASIN: 0800723562
- ISBN: 0800723562
- Brand: Baker Pub Group/Baker Books
- Manufacturer: Revell
I'll Have What She's Having: My Adventures in Celebrity Dieting
I'll Have What She's Having: My Adventures in Celebrity Dieting
A hilarious look at the eating habits of the fit and famous--from Gwyneth's goji berry and quail egg concoctions to Jackie Kennedy's baked potato and Beluga caviar regimen--Rebecca Harrington leaves no cabbage soup unstirred in her wickedly funny, wildly absurd quest to diet like the stars. Elizabeth Taylor mixed cottage cheese and sour cream; Madonna subsisted on "sea vegetables;" and Marilyn Monroe drank raw eggs whipped with warm milk. Where there is a Hollywood starlet offering nutritional advice, there is a diet Rebecca Harrington is willing to try. Facing a harrowing mix of fainting spells, pimples, and salmonella, Harrington tracks down illegal haggis to imitate Pippa Middleton, paces her apartment until the wee hours drinking ten Diet Cokes à la Karl Lagerfeld, and attempts something forbiddingly known as the "Salt Water Flush" to channel her inner Beyoncé. Rebecca Harrington risks kitchen fires and mysterious face rashes, all in the name of diet journalism. Taking cues from noted beauty icons like Posh Spice (alkaline!), Dolly Parton (Velveeta!), Sophia Loren (pasta!) and Cameron Diaz (savory oatmeal!), I'll Have What She's Having is completely surprising, occasionally unappetizing, and always outrageously funny.
- ASIN: B00LRIXKXI
- Manufacturer: Vintage
Going Hungry: Writers on Desire, Self-Denial, and Overcoming Anorexia
Going Hungry: Writers on Desire, Self-Denial, and Overcoming Anorexia
Here, collected for the first time, 19 writers describe their eating disorders from the distance of recovery, exposing as never before the anorexic's self-enclosed world. Taking up issues including depression, genetics, sexuality, sports, religion, fashion and family, these essays examine the role anorexia plays in a young person's search for direction. Powerful and immensely informative, this collection makes accessible the mindset of a disease that has long been misunderstood. With essays by Priscilla Becker, Francesca Lia Block, Maya Browne, Jennifer Egan, Clara Elliot, Amanda Fortini, Louise Glück, Latria Graham, Francine du Plessix Gray, Trisha Gura, Sarah Haight, Lisa Halliday, Elizabeth Kadetsky, Maura Kelly, Ilana Kurshan, Joyce Maynard, John Nolan, Rudy Ruiz, and Kate Taylor. www.anchorbooks.comwww.goinghungry.com
- ASIN: 0307278344
- ISBN: 9780307278340
- Manufacturer: Anchor
The Dead Celebrity Cookbook: A Resurrection of Recipes from More Than 145 Stars of Stage and Screen
The Dead Celebrity Cookbook: A Resurrection of Recipes from More Than 145 Stars of Stage and Screen
If you've ever fantasized about feasting on Frank Sinatra's Barbecued Lamb, lunching on Lucille Ball's "Chinese-y Thing," diving ever-so-neatly into Joan Crawford's Poached Salmon, or wrapping your lips around Rock Hudson's cannoli – and really, who hasn't? – hold on to your oven mitts! In The Dead Celebrity Cookbook: A Resurrection of Recipes by 150 Stars of Stage and Screen, Frank DeCaro—the flamboyantly funny Sirius XM radio personality best known for his six-and-a-half-year stint as the movie critic on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart—collects hundreds of recipes passed on from legendary stars of stage and screen, proving that before there were celebrity chefs, there were celebrities who fancied themselves chefs. Their all-but-forgotten recipes—rescued from out-of-print cookbooks, musty biographies, vintage magazines, and dusty pamphlets—suggest a style of home entertaining ripe for reexamination if not revival, while reminding intrepid gourmands that, for better or worse, Hollywood doesn't make celebrities (or cooks) like it used to.StarringElizabeth Taylor's Chicken with Avocado and MushroomsFarrah Fawcett's Sausage and PeppersLiberace's Sticky Buns Bette Davis's Red Flannel Hash Bea Arthur's Good Morning Mushroom Tomato Toast Dudley Moore's Crème BrûléeGypsy Rose Lee's Portuguese Fish ChowderJohn Ritter's Famous Fudge Andy Warhol's Ghoulish Goulash Vincent Price's Pepper SteakJohnny Cash's Old Iron Pot Family-Style Chili Vivian Vance's Chicken Kiev Sebastian Cabot's Avocado Surprise Lawrence Welk's Vegetable Croquettes Ann Miller's Cheese SouffléJerry Orbach's TrifleTotie Fields's Fruit MellowIrene Ryan's Tipsy Basingstoke Klaus Nomi's Key Lime TartRichard Deacon's Bitter and BoozeSonny Bono's Spaghetti with Fresh Tomato Sauce And many others from breakfast to dessert.
- ASIN: 0757315968
- ISBN: 0757315968
- Brand: Health Communications Inc
- Manufacturer: Health Communications Inc
Life on the Loose
Life on the Loose
*Life on the Loose: My Journey from Suburban Housewife to Outdoor Guide* explores Cari Taylor-Carlson*s thirty-two year adventure with Venture West as she and her customers traveled the world with backpacks, canoes and kayaks. This was a risky business with an unexpected learning curve--from the first backpacking trip to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore to the final hiking trip in Zion National Park. She experienced the highs and the pits of the outdoor travel world as she navigated the unknown with her trusting customers following behind. In the book, Taylor-Carlson held nothing back as she somehow survived her own occasional negligence. She learned the art of the fake smile when things fell apart as she stuffed her panic because it was her job to set the tone for the group. In the beginning, a painful divorce led Taylor-Carlson to recognize her need for wilderness, her safe place. That s what gave her courage to pursue her dream and start her business. *Life on the Loose* explores two journeys--the internal angst of the guide and the external beauty of the places she traveled. People who look for inspiration, or enjoy an unvarnished insider s account of the outdoor adventure travel business, or simply like a good story told with complete honesty, will want to read *Life on the Loose.*
- ASIN: 0962945269
- ISBN: 0962945269
- Manufacturer: HenschelHAUS Publishing / Serendipity Ink