Download or read book A Spot of Bother written by Mark Haddon and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood or of manly bonhomie. “The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely.” Some things in life can’t be ignored, however: his tempestuous daughter Katie’s deeply inappropriate boyfriend Ray, for instance, or the sudden appearance of a red circular rash on his hip. At 57, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden and enjoying the freedom to be alone when he wants. But then he runs into a spot of bother. That red circular rash on his hip: George convinces himself it’s skin cancer. And the deeply inappropriate Ray? Katie announces he will become her second husband. The planning for these frowned-upon nuptials proves a great inconvenience to George’s wife, Jean, who is carrying on a late-life affair with her husband’s ex-colleague. The Halls do not approve of Ray, for vague reasons summed up by their son Jamie’s observation that Ray has “strangler’s hands.” Jamie himself has his own problems — his tidy and pleasant life comes apart when he fails to invite his lover, Tony, to Katie’s wedding. And Katie, a woman whose ferocious temper once led to the maiming of a carjacker, can’t decide if she loves Ray, or loves the wonderful way he has with her son Jacob. Unnoticed in the uproar, George quietly begins to go mad. The way these damaged people fall apart — and come together — as a family is the true subject of Haddon’s hilarious and disturbing portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely. A Spot of Bother is Mark Haddon’s unforgettable follow-up to the internationally beloved bestseller The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Once again, Haddon proves a master of a story at once hilarious, poignant, dark, and profoundly human. Here the madness — literally — of family life proves rich comic fodder for Haddon’s crackling prose and bittersweet insights into misdirected love.
Download or read book Why Bother written by Jennifer Louden and published by Page Two. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why bother?" can be the most important question you'll ever ask yourself. After a few hellish years that included grief and divorce, personal growth expert Jen Louden found herself at an all-time low and asked herself, "Why bother?" This question dragged her down into meaninglessness until a scary coincidence snapped her awake and got her wondering: what if "why bother?" was actually a fierce and loving question to kick-start the next phase of her life? Jen found that "why bother?" is the essential question every woman must answer for herself. If you can't pretend anymore, it's the question you need to ask. How do we bother after heartbreak, after career and creative defeats, after giving up our own dreams to raise kids or take care of a sick parent? How do we bother when our lives have always been about doing the right thing, but never doing our thing? And what do we do after we've checked off most of the boxes on life's accomplishment list, and don't know if we have energy for anything more? Jen shows that "why bother?" is not a cynical or ungrateful question, but can crack open your mind, your heart, and your life. She guides you as you follow where the question leads, as no one wants the alternative--giving up, shutting down, or phoning it in. In this essential guide for all women, Jen Louden shows you why now is the perfect time to get your "why bother?" on.
Download or read book Why Bother written by S. Erdem Aytaç and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using surveys, experiments, and fieldwork from several countries, this book tests a new theory of participation in elections and protests.
Download or read book Oh Bother written by Hallie Marshall and published by Disney Press. This book was released on 2001-04-02 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As magical and timeless as the Hundred-Acre Wood may be, it is also a place of exploration and discovery. For Pooh and his friends to learn and grow, they must try new things. And trying something new can be difficult, even a little scary. Trying new things is often hard for children - and for adults, too. But trying something new with Winnie the Pooh always makes theh worries and bothers seem less threatening.
Download or read book BOTHER written by Richard L. Song and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a heart-warming story of a family that struggles through gut-wrenching situations. Their faithfulness and loyalty to each other give them the strength to survive the devastating chain of domestic violence. It is a gentle yet powerful story of love that is weaved through the dynamics of a modern family and has them coming out victors. It causes the reader to cheer for the protagonist as he holds firm to his trust in God while going through the challenges his family faces and while trying to keep his family intact. It is a rare opportunity to enjoy a story that ends in happiness, as the good overcomes the evil.
Download or read book Church Why Bother written by Philip Yancey and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insights from Philip Yancey's personal pilgrimage away from and back to the church—what made him walk away, and what drew him back. Why are there so many more professing Christians than churchgoing Christians? Is it because something is wrong with the church? In his candid, thought-provoking manner, award-winning author Philip Yancey reveals the reasons behind his own journey back from skepticism to wholehearted participation in the church. This book: Weighs the church's human failings against its compelling worth as the body of Christ. Looks into what God may have in mind for His church. Discusses how the church can reach beyond its walls and into the communities and lives around it to be more than just “Sunday worship.” Yancey does not whitewash the church's faults. He sets them against the overwhelming balance of its strengths: its heart for God, its care for the hurting, its outreach to the lost, and its value as family and community. This book is for anyone who’s ever wondered: Why bother with church?
Download or read book Why Bother written by Chris Butterworth and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focusses on the importance of creating an internal assessment program to periodically assess the maturity of the organizations transformation journey. It discusses the best approach to designing and implementing an assessment program by answering key questions posed when people resist. The book begins with selecting the positioning of the program not as an audit but as an opportunity to review strengths and opportunities, through to selecting senior leader support to design of the program and developing the assessors. More than 10 case studies are documented to show how organizations have approached their assessment programs, lessons learned, and successes and challenges faced. The book leads the reader through the process of selling the concept and importance of transformation and Lean assessments to embed the desired behaviors within workplace culture. With many case studies, the reader is guided to design their own programs and develop their own assessors. This increases the probability of sustainability of the transformation program by focusing on and maturing the behaviors the transformation programs are trying to drive. For example, one of the most well-known assessments is the Shingo prize -- This book explains the thinking behind the Shingo model and shares examples of assessments that support it. Other examples of assessments are covered, such as process maturity, quality and business assessments.
Download or read book Why Bother written by Orest Stocco and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, Jesus said: "Whoever finds the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death." In the Parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke's Gospel, Jesus gives us the key to breaking the code of his sayings. In Why Bother? The Riddle of the Good Samaritan, author Orest Stocco solves the riddle and gives us the key to interpreting the sayings of Jesus. At long last the mystery of Christ's secret teaching of eternal life has been revealed.
Download or read book Things That Bother Me written by Galen Strawson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original collection of lauded philosopher Galen Strawson's writings on the self and consciousness, naturalism and pan-psychism. Galen Strawson might be described as the Montaigne of modern philosophers, endlessly curious, enormously erudite, unafraid of strange, difficult, and provocative propositions, and able to describe them clearly—in other words, he is a true essayist. Strawson also shares with Montaigne a particular fascination with the elastic and elusive nature of the self and of consciousness. Of the essays collected here, “A Fallacy of Our Age” (an inspiration for Vendela Vida’s novel Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name) takes issue with the commencement-address cliché that life is a story. Strawson questions whether it is desirable or even meaningful to think about life that way. “The Sense of the Self” offers an alternative account, in part personal, of how a distinct sense of self is not at all incompatible with a sense of the self as discontinuous, leading Strawson to a position that he sees as in some ways Buddhist. “Real Naturalism” argues that a fully naturalist account of consciousness supports a belief in the immanence of consciousness in nature as a whole (also known as panpsychism), while in the final essay Strawson offers a vivid account of coming of age in the 1960s. Drawing on literature and life as much as on philosophy, this is a book that prompts both argument and wonder.
Download or read book Oh Bother written by Nikki Grimes and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look-Look Books feature popular characters in a great paperback format. These storybooks contain magnificent full-color illustrations both toddlers and beginning readers will love.
Download or read book Don t Bother written by Pyramid and published by Bounty Books. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put the 'pro' in procrastinate with this guided anti-journal. For people who like themselves just the way they are. Featuring: AN INGRATITUDE JOURNAL For when you just want everyone to f**k off A MINDLESSNESS GUIDE For being anywhere but in the bloody moment A PROCRASTINATION PLANNER For helping distracted people avoid everything essential A DEMOTIVATION DIARY For lazy people who just can't be bothered A BAD-HABIT BULLET JOURNAL For all the things you'll never change
Download or read book Oh Bother Someone Won t Share written by Betty G. Birney and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbit won't share his carrots with Pooh and Piglet, but when a frost threatens to ruin the crop, he realizes how important sharing is.
Download or read book Why Bother with History written by Beverley C. Southgate and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: .Why Bother With History? argues for an increasingly important role for a revitalised historical study. Examining the motivations of past historians, the author rejects the ancient aspiration to a 'history for its own sake' and argues that historians' importance lies in their own adoption of a moral standpoint, from which a story of the past can be told, that facilitates the attainment of a future we desire. Inevitably controversial, in that it challenges many of the assumptions of modernist history, this is an interdisciplinary book, which draws in particular on psychology and literature.
Download or read book Why Bother written by Sam Smith and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where are the seekers, the free thinkers, the advocates, the rebels?
Download or read book Big Bother written by Toni Johnson-Woods and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 2002 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the "Big Brother" phenomenon, revealing behind-the scenes information on the housemates and the programme's extraordinary popularity. What did the series reveal about Australian culture?
Download or read book A Spot of Bother written by Jonathan Emmett and published by . This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pig is very proud of his neat appearance, so he's horrified to discover a spot of squashed cherry on his side. But when his farmyard friends try to help - with disastrous results - the spot of bother soon becomes a truly calamitous catastrophe! Children will love following the exploits of Cow, Goat, Sheep and Pig in this hilarious pig-ture book romp. Brilliantly entertaining follow-up to the acclaimed The Pig's Knickers ; "An entertaining and funny story with a joyous message about sharing your feelings with friends and learning that it is what is on the inside that counts." - The Bookseller on The Pig's Knickers.
Download or read book No One s Listening written by Betty Birney and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winnie the Pooh and his friends celebrate the first day of spring with a party.
