Primates of Park Avenue: A Memoir, Martin Wednesday

Автор: Schmidt Gary D.
Название: The Wednesday Wars
ISBN: 054723760X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780547237602
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
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A 2008 Newbery Honor Book

In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero. The Wednesday Wars is a wonderfully witty and compelling story about a teenage boy's mishaps and adventures over the course of the 1967-68 school year in Long Island, New York.

Meet Holling Hoodhood, a seventh-grader at Camillo Junior High, who must spend Wednesday afternoons with his teacher, Mrs. Baker, while the rest of the class has religious instruction. Mrs. Baker doesn't like Holling--he's sure of it. Why else would she make him read the plays of William Shakespeare outside class? But everyone has bigger things to worry about, like Vietnam. His father wants Holling and his sister to be on their best behavior: the success of his business depends on it. But how can Holling stay out of trouble when he has so much to contend with? A bully demanding cream puffs; angry rats; and a baseball hero signing autographs the very same night Holling has to appear in a play in yellow tights As fate sneaks up on him again and again, Holling finds Motivation--the Big M--in the most unexpected places and musters up the courage to embrace his destiny, in spite of himself.

Автор: Swiatkowska Gabi
Название: Queen on Wednesday
ISBN: 0374374465 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374374464
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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On Wednesday, Thelma is bored so she decides to become a queen. She makes the royal announcement on Thursday and chooses the royal pets on Friday. But she needs a castle to keep the pets, and royally qualified trainers to tame them, and of course someone to clean up after the messes. It's enough to give a queen a royal headache. And when Thelma realizes that there aren't enough beds to hold her royal staff, she flings off her crown and decides that maybe being a regular girl isn't so boring after all.

Filled with playful humor and stunning artwork, "Queen on Wednesday" marks renowned illustrator Gabi Swiatkowska's debut as a picture book author.

A Frances Foster Book"

Автор: Nicci French
Название: Waiting for Wednesday
ISBN: 0241950341 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241950340
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Psychotherapist Frieda Klein finds she has an unusually personal connection with DCI Karlsson`s latest case. She is no longer working with him in an official capacity, but when her niece befriends Ruth Lennox`s son, Ted, she finds herself in the awkward position of confidante to both Karlsson and Ted.

Автор: Kietzman, Susan
Название: Every Other Wednesday
ISBN: 1617735515 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781617735516
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Three women, each facing an empty nest, come together to cheer and challenge one another in this insightful, poignant new novel from acclaimed author Susan Kietzman.
For years, Ellie, Alice, and Joan enjoyed a casual friendship while volunteering at their children's Connecticut high school. Now, with those children grown and gone to college, a local tragedy brings the three into contact again. But what begins as a catch-up lunch soon moves beyond small talk to the struggles of this next stage of life.
Joan Howard has spent thirty years of marriage doing what's expected of Howard women: shopping, dressing well, and keeping a beautiful home. Unfulfilled, her boredom and emptiness eventually find a secret outlet at the local casino. Meanwhile, Ellie's efforts to expand her accounting business lead to a new friendship that clashes with her family's traditional worldview. And Alice, feeling increasingly distant from her husband, and alienated from her once fit body, takes up running again. But a terrifying ordeal shatters her confidence and spurs a decision that will affect all three women in different ways.
Over the course of an eventful year, Ellie, Alice, and Joan will meet every other Wednesday to talk, plan--and find the freedom, and the courage, to redefine themselves.
Praise for the novels of Susan Kietzman
"Beautifully written and closely observed...captures the deep and complicated love of family. Reading this lovely novel, I felt the embrace of summer on the shoreline." --New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice on The Summer Cottage
"Readers will find themselves drawn into the tragedies and triumphs of this fictional family--distinct and yet utterly relatable." --Hartford Books Examiner on The Good Life

Автор: French Nicci
Название: Waiting for Wednesday
ISBN: 0718156986 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780718156985
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 1200.00 р.
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Автор: Martin Wednesday
Название: Primates of Park Avenue: A Memoir HB
ISBN: 1476762627 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476762623
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
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Описание: Instant #1 "New York Times" Bestseller
The book that has outraged the social elite
Eye-popping. " People"
Amusing, perceptive and deliciously evil. " The New York Times Book Review"
Juicy, sexy, bawdy stuff. " New York Daily News"
Think "Gossip Girl," but with a sociological study of the parents. InStyle.com
An instant #1 "New York Times" bestseller, "Primates of Park Avenue" is an amusing, perceptive and deliciously evil ("The New York Times Book Review") memoir of the most secretive and elite tribe Manhattan s Upper East Side mothers.
When Wednesday Martin first arrives on New York City s Upper East Side, she s clueless about the right addresses, the right wardrobe, and the right schools, and she s taken aback by the glamorous, sharp-elbowed mommies around her. She feels hazed and unwelcome until she begins to look at her new niche through the lens of her academic background in anthropology. As she analyzes the tribe s mating and migration patterns, childrearing practices, fetish objects, physical adornment practices, magical purifying rituals, bonding rites, and odd realities like sex segregation, she finds it easier to fit in and even enjoy her new life. Then one day, Wednesday s world is turned upside down, and she finds out there s much more to the women who she s secretly been calling Manhattan Geishas.
Think "Gossip Girl," but with a sociological study of the parents (InStyle.com), Wednesday s memoir is absolutely eye-popping ("People"). "Primates of Park Avenue" lifts a veil on a secret, elite world within a world the strange, exotic, and utterly foreign and fascinating life of privileged Manhattan motherhood."