Download or read book The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank written by Erma Bombeck and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “marvelously funny” and much-loved humorist explores the perils of suburban living in this New York Times bestseller (Vogue). For years, the Bombecks have heard rumors of a magical land called Suburbia where the air is clean, the grass is trimmed, and children don’t risk getting mugged on their walk to school. After watching their friends flee the city for subdivided utopias like Bonaparte’s Retreat and Mortgage Mañana, Erma and her family load up their belongings and cry, “Station wagons . . . ho!” But life on the suburban frontier is not as perfect as they had hoped. The trees are stunted, the house is cramped, and there’s no grass at all. But the Bombecks will make do, for they are suburbanites now—the last true pioneers! This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erma Bombeck including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.
Download or read book The Grass is Always Greener One Football Fan s Improbable Quest to Attend 500 NFL Games written by Brian Gushue and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 6, 2017, Brian Gushue attended his 500th NFL football game. He achieved this unlikely feat despite his lifelong battle with cerebral palsy. His devotion to football, especially its highest level, was borne out of his enjoyment of playing the sport as a child and his lifelong admiration for Miami Dolphins quarterback Bob Griese, who he got to see play in person only once. Eventually, Brian made it his mission to see a game in every NFL stadium with a grass field -- because he prefers the look, feel and smell of grass compared to artificial playing surfaces. Brian soon came up with a new goal. Sometime in the late 1990s, when he had witnessed fewer than 100 NFL games on grass, he set his sights on attending 500 of them. Late in the chase, he added a caveat to the quest: to see every NFL team play at least 10 times. Now he hopes to see every team play at least 25 times. The Grass Is Always Greener -- One Football Fan's Improbable Quest to Attend 500 NFL Games is full of football facts, commentary, and history intertwined with memories from Brian's incredible journey, which will awe and inspire not only fans of the game but anyone who has a dream and the determination to make it come true.
Download or read book The Grass Is Always Greener written by Jen Calonita and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who says you can't choose your family? Their shared sweet sixteen party is just around the corner, and half sisters Isabelle Scott and Mirabelle Monroe are ready to cut loose, even if they are the daughters of a prominent public figure. So when Izzie's estranged aunt, Zoe, breezes into town unannounced, it just might be the change that the Monroe family needs -- or not, depending on who you ask... Happy with her cute surfer boyfriend and a group of great girlfriends, Izzie has no interest in getting to know yet another long-lost family member. But Mira, who's on a mission to try new things and meet new people -- a handsome brooding painter in particular -- is drawn to Izzie's artsy aunt, who seems to the be the polar opposite of the uptight Monroe family. As the girls try to negotiate the unexpected paths their lives have taken, Zoe's laid-back attitude eventually charms them both. But when Zoe offers Izzie the chance to leave Emerald Cove and start fresh in California, Izzie and Mira are faced with bigger changes than they expected. Is a move to the West Coast what Izzie had in mind for her sweet sixteen? The heartwarming conclusion to Jen Calonita's Belles trilogy.
Download or read book Always Greener written by J. R. H. Lawless and published by Uproar Books. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 2072, new technology allows the television to be broadcast straight into?and out of?the human eye. When a reality show offers a lifetime of lazy luxury to the one person living the world?s worst life, everyone is out to prove just how bad they?ve got it. Eight contestants vie for the prize, allowing the whole world to see life through their eyes, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Only the show?s ever-smiling host, an equally hopeful and hapless former weatherman, seems to have any faith left in humanity. Each week, he struggles behind the scenes as he attempts to elevate the show and wring meaning out of his own unhappy existence.
Download or read book The Grass is Always Greener written by C.L. Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-01-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author C.L. Johnson makes a splash on the literary scene with an engaging story about faith, family, and friendship. The story is about friends Austin, Mark and Quincey as they travel the paths of manhood and spirituality. Quincey is a lawyer that has a rising star until he announces his calling to preach. That's when everything hits the fan. Austin is a self made entrepreneur that has a never-ending appetite when it comes to the ladies. That is until he meets one that wants to take him for everything he has. Finally there's Mark, a family man that's jobless and down on his luck. Despite his efforts, no one will hire him. His Fiery wife Terri will not let him think of touching her until he can make a financial deposit into the family bank account. During the tough times in our lives, it's sometimes hard to find God. We often think our lives would be better if we had it different. Sometimes that's everything but true. Follow these friend's as they see if The Grass is Always Greener on the other side.
Download or read book The Grass is Always Greener written by Timur Dadabaev and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-02 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book unpacks the nature of Central Asian migration to East Asia. This book uses the case of Uzbekistan, the most populous country of Central Asia, and demonstrates the migration channels and adaptation strategies of migrants to the realities of Japan. What are the foreign policy engagements of Japan in Central Asia? How do they relate to the intensifying educational mobility and labour migration from Central Asia (in particular, Uzbekistan) to Japan? By answering these two questions, this book aims to detail the social factors that play important roles in localizing foreign policy engagements and narrating them in terms easily understood by the public.
Download or read book The Grass is Always Greener written by Board Of Mission and published by Church House Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all have a connection with rurality, but there are many different perceptions of what rural life is like. This book of short stories looks at these perceptions and attitudes, and at what help and support the local church can provide.
Download or read book The Grass Is Always Greener On The Other Side written by Melissa Lavi and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you think the grass really is always greener on the other side? Let us take a look and see. Join us for this heart-warming story of friendship, perception and self-esteem, as we discover together if... THE GRASS REALLY IS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE.
Download or read book Never Greener written by Ruth Jones and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, PICKED FOR THE ZOE BALL TV BOOK CLUB 'Ruth Jones is excellent on human nature and why we make the mistakes we do. I felt for every character. Unputdownable.' Jojo Moyes The past has a habit of tracking us down. And tripping us up. When Kate was twenty-two, she had an intense and passionate affair with a married man, Callum, which ended in heartbreak. Kate thought she'd never get over it. Seventeen years later, life has moved on - Kate, now a successful actress, is living in London, married to Matt and mother to little Tallulah. Meanwhile Callum and his wife Belinda are happy together, living in Edinburgh and watching their kids grow up. The past, it would seem, is well and truly behind them all. But then Kate meets Callum again. And they are faced with a choice: to walk away from each other . . . or to risk finding out what might have been. Second chances are a rare gift in life. But that doesn't mean they should always be taken . . . - In her unmissable debut, actress and screenwriter Ruth Jones shows us the dangers of trying to recapture that which was once lost and failing to realise the beauty of what we already have. Praise for Ruth Jones: 'I love books about gnarly, messy relationships and this one kept me gripped from the beginning. A great read.' Jane Fallon 'Heart-rending, provocative and astutely written, Never Greener is a love story about getting what you want and losing everything you need. Ruth's characters will stay with me for a long time.' Cathy Bramley 'Easy to read and full of laughter - and truth.' Daily Mail Readers have fallen in love with Never Greener: ***** 'Loved this book from start to finish.' ***** 'I fell in love with all the characters and could not put it down.' ***** 'Brilliantly written, laugh-out-loud hilarious yet tear-jerking.' ****RUTH'S BRILLIANT NEW NOVEL LOVE UNTOLD IS AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW. COMING IN 2022****
Download or read book Avoiding the Greener Grass Syndrome 2nd Edition written by Nancy C. Anderson and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Green The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn written by Ted Steinberg and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-03-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ted Steinberg proves once again that he is a master storyteller as well as our foremost environmental historian.”—Mike Davis The rise of the perfect lawn represents one of the most profound transformations in the history of the American landscape. American Green, Ted Steinberg's witty exposé of this bizarre phenomenon, traces the history of the lawn from its explosion in the postwar suburban community of Levittown to the present love affair with turf colorants, leaf blowers, and riding mowers.
Download or read book Faster Smarter Greener written by Venkat Sumantran and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A call to redefine mobility so that it is connected, heterogeneous, intelligent, and personalized, as well as sustainable, adaptable, and city-friendly. The twentieth century was the century of the automobile; the twenty-first will see mobility dramatically re-envisioned. Automobiles altered cityscapes, boosted economies, and made personal mobility efficient and convenient for many. We had a century-long love affair with the car. But today, people are more attached to their smartphones than their cars. Cars are not always the quickest mode of travel in cities; and emissions from the rapidly growing number of cars threaten the planet. This book, by three experts from industry and academia, envisions a new world of mobility that is connected, heterogeneous, intelligent, and personalized (the CHIP architecture). The authors describe the changes that are coming. City administrators are shifting from designing cities for cars to designing cities for people. Nations and cities will increasingly employ targeted user fees and offer subsidies to nudge consumers toward more sustainable modes. The sharing economy is coaxing many consumers to shift from being owners of assets to being users of services. The auto industry is responding with connected cars that double as virtual travel assistants and by introducing autonomous driving. The CHIP architecture embodies an integrated, multimode mobility system that builds on ubiquitous connectivity, electrified and autonomous vehicles, and a marketplace open to innovation and entrepreneurship. Consumers will exercise choice on the basis of user experience and efficiency, aided by “intelligent advisors,” accessible through their mobile devices. An innovative mobility architecture reconfigured for this century is a social and economic necessity; this book charts a course for achieving it.
Download or read book To Cut A Long Story Short written by Jeffrey Archer and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourteen short stories in To Cut a Long Story Short show Jeffrey Archer's great skills with a wide variety of character, of subject and of setting, but all with that trademark twist in the tale. Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from love at first sight across the train tracks to the cleverest of confidence tricks, from the quirks of the legal profession – and those who are able to manipulate both sides of the Bar – to the creative financial talents of a member of Her Majesty's diplomatic service – but for a good cause. The last story, The Grass is Always Greener, is possibly the best piece Archer has written, and will haunt you for the rest of your life.
Download or read book The Grass Is Always Greener written by Jeffrey Archer and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grass Is Always Greener is part of The Year of Short Stories and is one of several digital shorts released to celebrate the publication of Jeffrey Archer’s magnificent seventh collection, Tell Tale. Taken from Jeffrey Archer's fourth collection of short stories, To Cut a Long Story Short, comes The Grass Is Always Greener, an irresistible, witty and ingenious short read. Bill has had the same spot under the archway outside Critchley's Bank for years. He knows all the staff: the yuppies, the middle-management, the executives . . . perhaps better than they know themselves. Across the company, from lowest to highest ranking, each looks at what the other has. But with every rung further up the ladder problems become increasingly complex and more difficult to escape from . . . Be sure to look out for more from The Year of Short Stories collection, including One Man's Meat and The Endgame.
Download or read book The Secret River written by Kate Grenville and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year. After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children in tow, he arrives in a harsh land that feels at first like a de...
Download or read book The Slightly Greener Method written by Tonya Harris and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the foods you consume to the household and personal care products you buy, being just slightly greener can have a big impact on your health and happiness! Are you searching for a simple yet powerful way to create a healthier, toxin-free living space for you and your loved ones? Award-winning environmental expert Tonya Harris presents an approach to detoxifying your home that is easier, faster, and more budget-friendly than you ever imagined. In this must-have guide, Harris reveals her highly effective and slightly greener method for detoxifying your home. The Slightly Greener Method provides actionable steps, insightful tips, and valuable resources that will transform your home into a haven of wellness, including: Detoxify Your Home, Enhance Your Well-being: Learn how to eliminate harmful chemicals from your household products, ensuring a safer environment for your family and having a positive impact on our planet. Effortless and Fast Solutions: Effortlessly integrate toxin-free alternatives into your daily life no matter how busy your schedule is. Budget-Friendly Green Living: Find an array of practical and budget-conscious solutions that make detoxifying your home accessible to everyone. Embrace Eco-Friendly Living: Embrace eco-friendly practices that promote a cleaner, healthier planet for future generations and become a part of a global movement toward a sustainable and harmonious world. Take the first step toward a healthier, toxin-free lifestyle and unlock the secrets to creating a greener, cleaner, and more vibrant home for you and your loved ones.
Download or read book The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank written by Erma Bombeck and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1995-03-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Erma Bombeck] is marvelously funny, direct as a hypodermic, a virtuoso in the field of suburban living.”—Vogue It’s the exposé to end all exposés—the truth about the suburbs: where they planted trees and crabgrass came up, where they planted the schools and taxes came up, where they died of old age trying to merge onto the freeway and where they finally got sex out of the schools and back into the gutters.
