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Download or read book Checkout Girl written by Anna Sam and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Anna. Im 31 years old with a degree in literature and a life story that is both completely ordinary and a little bit unusual Former cashier Anna Sam offers an insiders peek at what really goes on behind the register. In the wise and witty voice of the college-educated, underpaid retail worker, Sam comments on everything from ill-cut uniforms, to drunken customers, to Express Lane tricks. Filled with hilarious and hair-raising observations, Checkout Girl is a great gift for anyone who has ever been, or had an encounter with, a supermarket cashier.
Book Synopsis The Checkout Girl by : Susan Zettell
Download or read book The Checkout Girl written by Susan Zettell and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1970, and the optimism of Trudeaumania is starting to give way to fears of wage and price controls. In Varnum, Ontario, where the smell of industry is the smell of money, a lot of that money's heading south, just like Bobby Orr. The Checkout Girl is the story of Kathy Rausch, whose life these days is something that just seems to happen to her. After sneaking out on her boyfriend in Vancouver, Kathy moves back to Varnum and hides out in the basement of her high school buddy, Penny Lehman, in a room she shares with Penny's skittish boa constrictor, Freddie. When Kathy isn't checking out groceries, she practices hockey drills. And when she isn't practicing, she's warding off advances from fellow basement dweller "Little" Barry Bender, ignoring her well-meaning mother Connie, hanging out with her best friend, champion baton twirler Darlyn Smola, and dealing a bit of marijuana for Penny's husband Pete. But when Kathy stumbles upon a brutal murder she is finally driven to put her hockey stick where her heart is: on the ice.
Download or read book Checkout written by Anna Sam and published by Gallic Books. This book was released on 2009-10-07 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ode to the unseen supermarket checkout heroes is 'compelling reading’ [Daily Telegraph]. 'The checkout girls of Europe have found a figurehead' The Times Can you scan 800 barcodes an hour? Can you smile and say ‘thanks’ 500 times a day? Do you never need to go to the toilet? Then working at a supermarket checkout could be just the job for you. Anna Sam spent 8 years as a checkout girl. Checkout: A Life on the Tills is a witty look at what it’s really like to work in a supermarket: the relentless grind and less-than-perfect working conditions, along with people-watching and encounters with every kind of customer from the bizarre to the downright rude. Sam’s story has won her fans all over Europe, turning Checkout: A Life on the Tills into a huge international bestseller, published in 10 languages
Download or read book The Checkout Girl written by Tazeen Ahmad and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has spent 6 months working undercover at a major supermarket chain and in that time has seen pretty much everything there is to see. From the boring and mundane to the ridiculous and absurd. All human life is here.
Book Synopsis The Insatiables by : Brittany Terwilliger
Download or read book The Insatiables written by Brittany Terwilliger and published by Amberjack Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A young woman hustles to climb the corporate ladder in this darkly comedic, deeply insightful workplace drama . . . A humorous and thought-provoking tale about searching for the ever elusive brass ring.” —Kirkus Reviews Since she was a child, Halley has been desperate to escape her simple Midwestern town and reinvent herself. In Middleville, Ohio, the only way to do that is by landing a top-tier position at Findlay Global Manufacturing, Inc. Spending her days as a lowly assistant in a shared cubicle, Halley is ecstatic when a new job opening presents an extraordinary opportunity: a chance to relocate to Europe to launch a new product. For Halley Faust, this job is the epitome of the American dream, and she will do anything to get it. She soon begins to understand that ruthless guile is the only path to success, and the harder she chases after her dangerously decadent American dream, the more her dreams seem to elude her. Ultimately, Halley must decide how much she is willing to sacrifice in pursuit of a life that may very well be a fantasy. The Insatiables details a young woman’s climb up the corporate ladder and the irrevocable choices she must make to survive.
Book Synopsis Checkout 19 by : Claire-Louise Bennett
Download or read book Checkout 19 written by Claire-Louise Bennett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A NEW YORKER "ESSENTIAL READ" NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND VOGUE “Bennett writes like no one else. She is a rare talent, and Checkout 19 is a masterful novel.” –Karl Ove Knausgaard From the author of the “dazzling. . . . and daring” Pond (O magazine), the adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets–and dreams up–along the way. In a working-class town in a county west of London, a schoolgirl scribbles stories in the back pages of her exercise book, intoxicated by the first sparks of her imagination. As she grows, everything and everyone she encounters become fuel for a burning talent. The large Russian man in the ancient maroon car who careens around the grocery store where she works as a checkout clerk, and slips her a copy of Beyond Good and Evil. The growing heaps of other books in which she loses–and finds–herself. Even the derailing of a friendship, in a devastating violation. The thrill of learning to conjure characters and scenarios in her head is matched by the exhilaration of forging her own way in the world, the two kinds of ingenuity kindling to a brilliant conflagration. Exceeding the extraordinary promise of Bennett’s mold-shattering debut, Checkout 19 is a radical affirmation of the power of the imagination and the magic escape those who master it open to us all.
Book Synopsis Refereeing Identity by : Michael Buma
Download or read book Refereeing Identity written by Michael Buma and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What "national pastime" novels tell us about our country.
Download or read book The Red Thread written by Sarah Salmon and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Red Thread is the true story of an expat woman’s struggle to complete her family while living in India. After shunning infertility treatment and adopting her first child, Sarah knows that family is created from love not DNA, so she sets out to replicate the fairy-tale experience of her daughter’s adoption from Cambodia. But things are not as straightforward this time. After choosing a baby to adopt, Sarah comes up against the risks of child trafficking and an imminent Cambodian law change that will shut down all adoptions and potentially subject her baby to life in an orphanage for the years to come. As Sarah battles government bureaucracy to free her child, the only thing that binds them together is the Buddhist red threads tied to both their wrists that symbolise courage and bravery. The Red Thread is an emotional journey of a mother’s battle to get to her child. It is a tale about one woman’s commitment and perseverance to overcome hurdles, and her blind hope to help a child. It is a story of love.
Book Synopsis Behind Whispering Hands by : Linda Ruth Brooks
Download or read book Behind Whispering Hands written by Linda Ruth Brooks and published by Linda Ruth Brooks. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Belmores have it all. A beautiful family, wealth and status, but family secrets become harder to hide. Little by little, whisper by whisper, the past. It will only take one slip.
Download or read book Poker Madness written by Kevin Kozar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are a losing limit Texas hold 'em player and are tired of losing or if you make money playing limit Texas hold 'em, but you want to make more money or if you want to play limit Texas hold 'em for a living, this is the book for you! I was already a winning limit Texas hold 'em player when I decided to turn professional, but I was not prepared mentally nor was I good enough to make the kind of money I needed to play poker for a living. I learned in a hurry though. Most of what I needed to know to be really successful I learned at the "school of hard knocks." The lessons at this school are expensive ones. Fortunately, you are not going to have pay for these "hard knock" lessons like I had to, instead for the price of one small pot that you would have won if you had read this book first, you will learn what you need to know in order to become a successful professional limit Texas hold 'em player.
Book Synopsis Alice Asks the Big Questions by : Laurent Gounelle
Download or read book Alice Asks the Big Questions written by Laurent Gounelle and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers who love A Man Called Ove and the works of Alain de Botton comes the story of how a young woman's project to help a friend launches her on a journey of self-discovery, from international bestselling author Lauren Gounelle. Alice is very good at her job. She's on the rise at a prominent PR firm, and there is no image-management disaster she can't fix. But when her dearest friend, a parish priest in a charming French village, becomes depressed about his dwindling number of parishioners, she may finally have met her biggest challenge. Though an avowed atheist, Alice is determined to apply her skills to the problem. She plunges into research, immersing herself in the world of spirituality, from Christianity to Hinduism, from self-empowerment seminars to the Tao Te Ching. In her quest to understand how thinkers through the centuries have tried to answer the age-old questions of existence, Alice uncovers an astonishing truth--almost lost to time--that will forever change the way she thinks about humankind's place in the universe, and her own. In this moving and captivating novel, Laurent Gounelle takes us on a journey of spiritual and intellectual discovery that is sure to surprise and enlighten.
Download or read book Happy Cruelty Day! written by Bob Powers and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For everyone looking to find a little extra magic in a life with little to celebrate, Happy Cruelty Day! is here. Beginning on January 1, this book features 365 new holidays, each accompanied by a strange, dark and humorous short story explaining the day you woke up in and how to celebrate it. These 365 daily doses of delight, perversion, and nonsense include "Hire Someone Attractive To Pretend To Love You Day," "Hang on to Your Wide-Eyed Innocence Day," "Sit in Abject Terror Day," and, of course, "Cruelty Day." Far more than just a humor book, Happy Cruelty Day! is like a daily instructional manual written by a psychopath. On one page, the book has you joining a community crime watch group in an effort to make friends (it won't work). Flip the page, and you'll find the details of your attempt to rescue your husband from a POW camp (you'll fail). Flip it again, and Happy Cruelty Day! will have important insight into how best to befriend a runaway teen (offer her some soup). These holidays celebrate everything from that pivotal point in your life when everything changes, to the day you're not going to do anything but sit on the edge of your bed and get very drunk. When people realize they've fallen in love, or when they realize their love was just a lie. And of course, when love of whatever incarnation brings an index finger to clench tight around the trigger of a gun. Raw, ridiculous, and laugh-out-loud funny, this is a sharp-edged satire on the subtleties, shallowness, and stupidity of daily life.
Download or read book Dam Diligent written by Ian T. Walker and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dam Diligent grew up in a city of asphalt where nature struggled to survive, crushed between cracks of metal and pavement. Despite these harsh surroundings, Dam discovered a talent for creativity and innovation. When his parents first gave him a skateboard, for instance, he found the little piece of wood on wheels too small, which is why he thought a limousine-sized skateboard would be preferable. Dam Diligent is part one of a series written over fifteen years and encompassing over ninety short stories. Each story exposes the meek foibles of humanity with Dam at the center. The simplicity of day-to-day life, boring to some, only brews invention for Dam as he seeks to expand the minutiae of normal human existence. He dyes his hair strange colors to stand out. He makes up words to keep things interesting. He explores deep, dark caves, but also the world at large. Dam is always inspired and sometimes ridiculous as he clings to the joys of youth and refuses to grow up. His life is one of discovery and escape as he discovers the wonder of being alive and escapes taking himselfor other peopletoo seriously.
Book Synopsis Children's Learning in a Digital World by : Teena Willoughby
Download or read book Children's Learning in a Digital World written by Teena Willoughby and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's Learning in a Digital World presents exciting and challenging new ideas from international scholars on the impact of computers, the Internet, and video games on children's learning. Features exciting new research which reassesses the threats posed by technology to the social, emotional, and physical development of children Examines the impact of technology in both formal and informal learning contexts, covering a range of technologies relevant to students and researchers, as well as professional educators Presents key information on the social and cultural issues that affect technology use, in addition to the impact on children’s learning Includes research from an international range of contributors
Download or read book This Good Book written by Iain Hood and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Sometimes I wonder, if I had known that it was going to take me fourteen years to paint this painting of the Crucifixion with Douglas as Jesus, and what it would take for me to paint this painting, would I have been as happy as I was then?’ Susan Alison MacLeod, a Glasgow School of Art graduate with a dark sense of humour, first lays eyes on Douglas MacDougal at a party in 1988, and resolves to put him on the cross in the Crucifixion painting she’s been sketching out, but her desire to create ‘good’ art and a powerful, beautiful portrayal means that a final painting doesn’t see the light of day for fourteen years. Over the same years, Douglas’s ever-more elaborately designed urine-based installations bring him increasing fame, prizes and commissions, while his modelling for Susan Alison, who continues to work pain and suffering on to the canvas, takes place mostly in the shadows. This Good Book is a wickedly funny, brilliantly observed novel that spins the moral compass and plays with notions of creating art. 'A novel about Glasgow, about art, and about obsession. This Good Book will have you gripped from the opening chapter to its disturbing conclusion. Iain Hood is an original new voice in Scottish fiction.' Colette Paul
Book Synopsis Momaya Annual Review 2004 by : Momaya Press
Download or read book Momaya Annual Review 2004 written by Momaya Press and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring collection of new short stories from writers around the globe, this year's Annual Review features fiction in a variety of categories from the winners of the Momaya Short Story Competition and winners of Momaya Awards, as well as a stunning collection of photographs, poems and short stories exploring the sensational, sensual topics food and nourishment.
Download or read book Fracture written by Andrés Neuman and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically acclaimed, prize-winning author Andrés Neuman’s Fracture is an ambitious literary novel set against Japan’s 2011 nuclear accident in a cross-cultural story about how every society remembers and forgets its catastrophes. Mr. Yoshie Watanabe, a former electronics company executive and a survivor of the atomic bomb, has always lived like a fugitive from his own memories. He’s spent decades traveling the world, making a life in different languages, only to find himself home again, living in Tokyo in his old age. On the afternoon of March 11, 2011, Watanabe, like millions of others, is stunned by powerful tremors. A massive earthquake has struck to the north, triggering the Fukushima nuclear disaster—and a stirring of the collective past. As the catastrophe unfolds, Watanabe’s mind, too, undergoes a tectonic shift. With his native land yet again under nuclear threat, he braces himself to make the most surprising decision of his nomadic life. Meanwhile, four women who have known him intimately at various points in time narrate their stories to a strangely obsessive Argentinian journalist. Their memories, colored by their respective cultures and describing different ways of loving, trace sociopolitical maps of Paris, New York, Buenos Aires, and Madrid over the course of the twentieth century. The result is a metalingual, border-defying constellation of fractures in life and nature—proof that nothing happens in only one place, that every human event reverberates to the ends of the earth. With unwavering empathy and bittersweet humor, and facing some of the most urgent environmental concerns of our time, Andrés Neuman’s Fracture is a powerful novel about the resilience of humankind, and the beauty that can emerge from broken things.
