Download or read book The Handbag of Happiness written by Alannah Hill and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbag of Happiness is a collection of rollicking, defiant, real-life stories where self-improvement is satire and life-changing moments are found in the absurdity of our mysterious little lives. From The Bathing Costume of Calamity to The Apron Strings of Lament and The Brassiere of Lovelessness, Alannah Hill shares hard-won wisdom from a career in the fashion world (along with the fine art of stickybeaking). Irreverent, provocative, self-depreciating and witty, Alannah tells us in her own imperfect way how she overcame adversity – and sometimes didn’t, despite her best intentions. In a world full of self-help clichés, contradictory messages and new-puritan rules, Alannah opens her bejewelled handbag of happiness, showing us how being a little bit wrong can sometimes be so very, very right.

Download or read book Happiness Is Being an Alannah written by Classic Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Gift idea UNDER 10 DOLLARS !limited time. Hurry and order now before this offer disappears! Do you have a Daughter, Sister, Niece, aunt named Alannah? Are You looking for a Gift idea for your friends or relatives named Alannah ?So this is The Perfect Gift You Are looking For: It's a Gift For Girls, Women and Kids Named Alannah.This journal that people will be jealous of!, lined, notebook is perfect for taking notes in class, journal writing and essays, recipes, to do lists, sketching, writing, organizing and drawing...Give your family or friends an inspiring gift that they will remember!♦Ideal gift idea for :* Gifts for the beautiful Alannah* Graduation gifts and the end of the school year* Teacher gifts* Diaries* Summer travel* Graduation gifts for the student* Retirement Gifts* Track the monthly project* Diary for children* Remembering book lovers* Gifts fellow / fellow / boss* New business gift* Birthday giftsAnd much more.... ♦Product Description: * 120 lined Pages of high quality paper * It can be used as a journal, notebook or just a composition book * 6" x 9" Paperback notebook, soft matte cover * Perfect for gel pen, ink or pencils * Great size to carry everywhere in your bag, for work, high school, college... Also check out our brand for more custom Journals/Notebooks of vintage birthday of any name by clicking on the ""Classic Vintage Publishing"" link just below the title.

Download or read book Butterfly on a Pin written by Alannah Hill and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Raw and real and funny and sad – I could not put this book down' – Jane Kennedy 'You might expect fluff and fashion ... what you get is harrowing, full-strength, funny and deeply satisfying' – Zoë Foster Blake Unflinching, funny, shocking, inspiring and tender: this is a story like no other. Alannah Hill, one of Australia’s most successful fashion designers, created an international fashion brand that defied trends with ornamental, sophisticated elegance, beads, bows and vintage florals. But growing up in a milk bar in Tasmania, Alannah’s childhood was one of hardship, fear and abuse. At an early age she ran away from home with eight suitcases of costumes and a fierce determination to succeed, haunted by her mother’s refrain of ‘You’ll never amount to anything, you can’t sew, nobody likes you and you’re going to end up in a shallow grave, dear!’ At the height of her success, Alannah walked the razor’s edge between two identities – the ‘good’ Alannah and the ‘mongrel bastard’ Alannah. Who was the real Alannah Hill? Reprieve came in the form of a baby boy and the realisation that becoming a mother not only changes your life, but completely refurbishes it, forever. Yet 'having it all' turned out to be another illusion. In 2013 Alannah walked away from her eponymous brand, a departure that left her coming apart at the seams. She slowly came to understand the only way she could move forward was to go back. At the heart of it all was her mother, whose loveless marriage and disappointment in life had a powerful and long-lasting effect on her daughter. It was finally time to call a truce with the past. This extraordinary book is the fierce and intelligent account of how a freckle-faced teenage runaway metamorphosed into a trailblazer and true original.

Download or read book Handbag of Happiness written by Alannah Hill and published by Hardie Grant Books. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part agony aunt, part moral philosopher and irrepressibly curious, Alannah Hill shares her unique take on how to fathom life's ticking timebombs of adversity with her inimitable blend of gothic hilarity and old-fashioned wisdom. Hilarious, often outlandish and always insightful, The Handbag of Happiness is a collection of essays that flout convention and celebrate the absurd. Evoking the classic humor of Nora Ephron and the modern sensibility of Sloane Crosley, author Alannah Hill shows us that perfection isn't all it's cracked up to be, and her hard-won wisdom from a career in the fashion world will charm and delight even (and especially) the most jaded of readers. From The Bathing Costume of Calamity to The Apron Strings of Lament and The Brassiere of Lovelessness, Alannah shares, in her own imperfect way, how she overcame adversity--and sometimes didn't, despite her best intentions. A breath of fresh air in a world full of self-improvement courses, wellness retreats and oppressive rules, Alannah says what other women are thinking. In this irreverent and fearlessly frank collection of advice, she flirts with trouble and finds the black humor in modern-day chaos--and, in doing so, shows readers that being a bit wrong can sometimes be a little bit right.

Download or read book The Search written by Alannah Breen Dore and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all experience grief, loss and deep disappointment but what matters most is how we choose to respond when challenged: do we give up or go searching? What if you could use your pain to create something wonderful? This is the question explored through this story of one woman's journey of discovery as she overcame seemingly impossible odds to find holistic wellbeing. With three well recognised holistic elements - mind, body and spirit - Alannah Dore embraces a crucial gap in holistic healing: the emotions. This story speaks to our common struggles in life - loving relationships, parenting and how to find peace and purpose within ourselves. Like a friend, Alannah takes the reader's hand, sharing her truth and providing practical strategies to leverage for your own journey towards joyful living and emotional wellbeing. Read it in a few hours (though you will likely want to return to it again and again) or gift it to someone who needs some inspiration.

Download or read book This Happy written by Niamh Campbell and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A beautiful, wry love story' David Nicholls, author of ONE DAY 'I love this woman's writing. Golden sentences' Diana Evans, author of ORDINARY PEOPLE 'One of the year's most beautifully written books, THIS HAPPY traces the path to womanhood of Alannah from disastrous affair to no-less-comfortable marriage and beyond' The i, Best Books of 2020 So Far 'If you loved Sally Rooney's NORMAL PEOPLE, read this novel ... Darkly romantic ... Reminiscent of Eimear McBride's lyrical Joycean sentences' Vogue 'The best novel I have read all year' Sunday Business Post I have taken apart every panel of this, like an ornamental fan. But we stayed in the cottage for three weeks only, just three weeks, because it was cut short you see - cut short after just three weeks, when I'd left my entire life behind. When Alannah was twenty-three, she met a man who was older than her - a married man - and fell in love. Things happened suddenly. They met in April, in the first bit of mild weather; and in August, they went to stay in rural Ireland, overseen by the cottage's landlady. Six years later, when Alannah is newly married to another man, she sees the landlady from afar. Memories of those days spent in bliss, then torture, return to her. And the realisation that she has been waiting - all this time - to be rediscovered.

Download or read book Crownless written by Katie Appenheimer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My tale is a coming of age story where a girl must find herself whilst sent away from her parents into a feared and magical land. She struggles under the curse of a spell, the true purpose of which (unbeknownst to her) is to influence prophecy that names her as a key player of doom or deliverance. Accompanied by unlikely friends and mysterious acquaintances she adventures into the natural wonders of the unknown to discover an ancient race of people in dire need of her help. She races against time and destiny to free their souls battling against nature and struggling against her fate. In the end she must choose between a first love and an abiding friendship, what is right and what is easy, between loyalty and apathy for those who have turned against her, and learn to find her own happily ever after.

Download or read book The Search written by Alannah Dore and published by Balboa Press Australia. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motivated by the need for her children to have a healthy, stable, parent, author Alannah Dore broke through the despair of post-natal depression and the collapse of her immune system to find healing and ongoing empowerment through self-parenting on all levels. Now she recounts her journey in The Search, sharing the three habits that led her from symptoms of physical, emotional, and mental pain to holistic happiness. To succeed, it was critical for her to determine exactly what choices she needed to make in her own life. Her first momentous, life-changing choice was made when she was collapsed on her living room floor. She had just received the devastating news from her doctors that she would never get better. Even so, she was determined to find a way to improve her physical and emotional health, a decision that lead her to develop a personalized, nurturing and healing collection of strategies, that became a self-parenting system. Alannah explains that in order to achieve Holistic Happiness or true overall happiness, we must learn to care for ourselves emotionally and physically, in the same way we would effectively care for a child. The Search shares her foundation techniques for self-parenting, demonstrating how we can create miracles for health, better relationships, better parenting, and healing in order to triumph with humour and gentleness.

Download or read book The Good Life of Teaching written by Chris Higgins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Good Life of Teaching extends the recent revival of virtue ethics to professional ethics and the philosophy of teaching. It connects long-standing philosophical questions about work and human growth to questions about teacher motivation, identity, and development. Makes a significant contribution to the philosophy of teaching and also offers new insights into virtue theory and professional ethics Offers fresh and detailed readings of major figures in ethics, including Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and Bernard Williams and the practical philosophies of Hannah Arendt, John Dewey and Hans-Georg Gadamer Provides illustrations to assist the reader in visualizing major points, and integrates sources such as film, literature, and teaching memoirs to exemplify arguments in an engaging and accessible way Presents a compelling vision of teaching as a reflective practice showing how this requires us to prepare teachers differently

Download or read book The Collage Ideas Book written by Alannah Moore and published by Ilex Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collage allows your creativity to run riot. It lets you juxtapose disparate elements, styles and media against each other and create something entirely novel, bizarre, arresting, beautiful, ironic or unsettling. Old and new can be fused together; digital and handproduced can be combined. What you can create with collage knows no bounds. Expertly curated with an eye to the fresh, the exciting collection of new collage ideas will inspire collage artists at every level, from those dipping a toe in the art form to experts.

Download or read book Being Various written by Various and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring brand new short stories from Kevin Barry, Eimear McBride, Belinda McKeon, Lisa McInerney, Danielle McLaughlin, Stuart Neville, Sally Rooney, Kit de Waal and many more.Ireland is going through a golden age of writing: that has never been more apparent. I wanted to capture something of the energy of this explosion, in all its variousness... Following her own acclaimed short-story collection, Multitudes, Lucy Caldwell guest-edits the sixth volume of Faber's long-running series of all new Irish short stories, continuing the work of the late David Marcus and subsequent guest editors, Joseph O'Connor, Kevin Barry and Deirdre Madden.

Download or read book Love and Let Bark written by Alanna Martin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's up to two rescue husky puppies to convince their owners it's never too late for a second leash on love. When Nate Porter left Helen, Alaska, to become a firefighter with the Forest Service, he claimed it was because he craved adventure. The truth was, he couldn't stand to hang around, pining for a girl the town's century-old feud meant he could never have. But Nate got over Lydia Lipin years ago, or so he thought until he learns that an old rival has come sniffing around. The solution—a trip home with his rescue puppies to prove to himself he completely extinguished that old flame. Lydia Lipin has always been satisfied being the "good" Lipin daughter—dutiful, practical, and always putting others before herself. But that role begins to chafe as Nate's return ignites old memories. No one in town knew about their secret friendship or those forbidden kisses they stole the summer after graduation. Suddenly, Nate and his puppies are everywhere, and sparks are flying. When Nate realizes he never got over Lydia, he'll risk everything for a second chance. But Lydia's not a risk-taker, and she has to make a choice—play it safe and pretend their summer fling was just puppy love, or step out of the family shadow and unleash her heart.

Download or read book Beatrice Young Cozy Cat Mysteries the Collection Books 1 5 written by Alannah Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4.4/5 Series Average Star Rating On Amazon! 55+ Reviews! "Just too much fun. I read to relax at night, and I love cat stories. This one is great." "These cats are amazing! This wonderful book came along at a time when I wanted a light read ... I really hope this will be just the first of many." "Go Beatrice, Matthew and 4-legged feline crime fighting gang! Fast moving cute cozy cat mystery." "If you haven't read a cozy mystery then The Beatrice Young Cozy Cat mysteries are a great way to start. Likable characters and cats, what more could you want?" Welcome to the small town of Ashbrook, New Hampshire where sixty-two-year-old Cozy Cat Café owner Beatrice Young solves crimes with the help of her three felines: Hamish, Lucky and Petunia. Featuring a beloved cast of characters including the grumpy Sheriff Roy, Beatrice's ex-husband and best friend Matthew and Zoe the zany pastry chef, this cozy cat mystery series is a paw-sitively delightful read for mystery fans and cat fanciers alike. This boxed set includes all five books in the Beatrice Young Cozy Cat Mysteries series: THE COUNTERFEITER-CATCHING CAT THE EXTORTION CAT-ASTROPHE THE TAIL OF THE SECRET IDENTITY THE PURRFECT HALLOWEEN PRANK THE SANTA CLAWS BANDIT ...PLUS A BRAND NEW SHORT STORY FEATURING BEATRICE & THE CATS ...PLUS ALL NEW BONUS MATERIAL 100,000+ words in total. BOOK DESCRIPTIONS THE COUNTERFEITER-CATCHING CAT: The leaves have turned and autumn has finally come to the small town of Ashbrook, New Hampshire. Beatrice Young, the sixty-two-year-old owner of the Cozy Cat Café, is busy slinging coffee for tourists. Yet when her ever-perceptive Maine Coon cat, Hamish, sniffs out a fake twenty-dollar bill, the hunt is on to find its maker. THE EXTORTION CAT-ASTROPHE: The Ashbrook Fall Fair is around the corner and Beatrice Young, the sixty-two-year-old owner of the Cozy Cat Café, is gunning to finally win the prestigious baking competition. Yet when her friend Nathan rushes in with a wild tale of extortion ten years in the making, it's up to Beatrice and her cats Hamish and Lucky to hunt down the culprit. THE TAIL OF THE SECRET IDENTITY: Bernie Sullivan is Ashbrook, New Hampshire's beloved mayor. That is, until he winds up dead. Such a paw-sitively dreadful event calls for the assistance of Beatrice Young, the sixty-two-year-old owner of the Cozy Cat Café, and her crime-solving cats Hamish and Lucky. As the truth about the mayor's past comes to light, they discover that Bernie was not at all who he pretended to be. To complicate matters further, there's a new cat on the scene-the pretty Petunia, who has Hamish and Lucky duking it out for her attention. Not to mention that Beatrice's ex-husband and best friend Matthew has a date. What's Beatrice to do? THE PURRFECT HALLOWEEN PRANK: It's almost Halloween in Ashbrook, New Hampshire and 62-year-old Beatrice Young is just as busy decorating the Cozy Cat Café as she is deciding on the purrfect costumes for her three crime-solving cats: Hamish, Petunia, and Lucky. But when a bomb narrowly misses blowing Beatrice's car to smithereens, it's time to turn her attention to tracking down the perpetrator. THE SANTA CLAWS BANDIT: Imagine Beatrice Young's surprise when she's shopping for Christmas presents with her three cats ... and Santa appears armed with a gun and makes off with a sack full of toys! The sixty-two-year old amateur sleuth and Cozy Cat Cafe owner had better get to the bottom of this crazy case, and quickly, because Santa's hitting up stores all over town ... and depositing his stash on the lawns of needy kids. With her crime-solving feline crew in tow, Beatrice tracks down the renegade Santa-all while trying to hold together a disastrous charity Christmas play and prepare the cafe for the holiday season. But she'd better be crafty, because this Santa definitely doesn't want to be caught!

Download or read book ALANNAH Slater Brothers 5 5 written by L.A. Casey and published by L.A. Casey. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Books #5.5 in the Slater Brothers series* Alannah Ryan is plagued by an old face haunting her dreams, turning her waking hours into a mess of worry. Talking it out with the person she loves the most isn’t a possibility, not when the same face haunts him, too. To protect the love of her life from another burden, she keeps her fear to herself, even as that fear begins to consume her. Damien Slater has the life he always wanted with the woman he adores by his side, but there’s a problem. His woman is keeping a secret, and they swore they would never let another secret come between them again. Breaking Alannah’s guard will be Damien’s greatest challenge yet as he proves once and for all that he is in it for the long haul. Alannah admires Damien, and what Alannah admires, Alannah watches over.

Download or read book Eating from the Ground Up written by Alana Chernila and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vegetables keep secrets, and to prepare them well, we need to know how to coax those secrets out. "What is the best way to eat a radish?" Alana Chernila hears this sort of question all the time. Arugula, celeriac, kohlrabi, fennel, asparagus--whatever the vegetable may be, people always ask how to prepare it so that the produce really shines. Although there are countless ways to eat our vegetables, there are a few perfect ways to make each vegetable sing. With more than 100 versatile recipes, Eating from the Ground Up teaches you how to showcase the unique flavor and texture of each vegetable, truly bringing out the best in every root and leaf. The answers lie in smart techniques and a light touch. Here are dishes so simple and quick that they feel more intuitive than following a typical recipe; soups for year-round that are packed with nourishment; ideas for maximizing summer produce; hearty fall and winter foods that are all about comfort; impressive dishes fit for a party; and tips like knowing there's not one vegetable that doesn't perk up with a sprinkle of salt. No matter the vegetable, the central lesson is: don't mess with a good thing.

Download or read book A Very Strange Man written by Alannah Hopkin and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a literary stylist, often cited as the heir to Ireland's great Modernist tradition. They wrote steadily during their twenty-nine years together, but their careers could not have been more different: while Aidan focused on fiction and memoirs, Alannah prioritised work that paid the bills. This gave Aidan the most stable and productive years of his life. But as his eyesight failed and his memory began to fade, Alannah became his carer and had to fight to keep her own writing career alive. Drawing from diaries and notebooks, and correspondence with writers such as Samuel Beckett, Alice Munro and Harold Pinter, this is a unique record of a major Irish writer. From the joyful honeymoon years - filled with launches, festivals and visits to their Kinsale home by Richard Ford, Edna O'Brien and other literary legends - to the increasingly difficult years of Aidan's decline, Hopkin tells their story candidly and without commentary. She shows us how, in spite of all, they remained the best of friends, in love until Aidan's very last breath.

Download or read book Teach Me to Live Teach Me Series Book One written by Alannah Carbonneau and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All I can do is wish for one more day... to fall in love with you. Madison Avery is the poster child for obedience. Ruled by anxiety and fear, she never expected Austin Weir. Everything about the tattooed blue-eyed boy shatters every well-configured law in the Avery house. Teaching Madison to live, Austin breaks through the prison of her anxiety. They spend the summer taking chances, making memories and falling in love. But love has no comprehension of time. It doesn't fade when summer bleeds into fall and time ends. Love, like life, must continue. Madison learns that love doesn't exist within time. It is endless and unfading and heartbreaking. But one lesson is learned: Love is living without regret. Love is life.