Best known for her role as Rachel Green in the hit comedy series Friends, Jennifer Aniston has enjoyed a long career in the spotlight, including several starring roles in hit films. Aniston is also one of the most acclaimed actresses of the last generation, winning a Grammy, a Golden Globe, an Emmy, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and several People's Choices Awards, among others. This compelling volume provides a balanced biography of Jennifer Aniston. Chapters include a look at her childhood, her rocky start in show business, her breakthrough into stardom with Friends, and her start in films.
The past has come back to haunt P.I. Jack Carpenter, former head of the Broward County Missing Persons Unit. As a young cop he failed to stop the kidnapping of a college coed by a shockingly large assailant—and neither victim nor attacker was ever seen again. But eighteen years later, when his daughter, Jessie, asks him to bird-dog a creep who’s been shadowing her college basketball team, Carpenter’s pursuit of the voyeur leads him smack into another run-in with his old nemesis, who abducts one of Jessie’s teammates. With the assistance of the kidnap victim’s tycoon father and precious little time before the trail goes cold, Jack and his dog, Buster, hit the ground running—following a twisted trail from the ruins of a shuttered mental asylum with an infamous past to the streets of a sinister small town with a ghastly secret.
Unsatisfied with her life and looking for a hobby, the author enrolls her unruly Rhodesian ridgebacks into dog agility training and learns not only about her dogs, but stumbles upon a life-changing experience that helps her navigate her own obstacles. Original.
It’s February, Danielle Fulson’s favorite month of the year. She’s a vibrant soul, never afraid to wear her heart on her sleeve. This year, she can’t wait to plan her annual Valentine’s Day party and find the perfect dates for all her friends. Her first love match is between Elijah and Isabella, a laid-back sound technician and a jet-setting beauty. While she’s certain this matchup is one for the ages, there’s a creeping doubt in the back of her mind that she’s not ready to address yet. Along with her Cupid responsibilities, she’s starting a new dog walking business. Lucky for her, this means she’ll meet a date of her own, a handsome artist named Martin. Bonding over their love of positive energy, creativity, and their pet dogs, Danielle falls head over heels. She knows she’s a cliché, but when you know, you know, right? As the 14th approaches, her party transforms into something more than she expected. Unfortunately, she questions if Martin is truly the one for her. And what is up with her conflicting emotions about Elijah and Isabella finally getting along? With her cocker spaniel, Coco Puff, by her side, is she ready to face the truth about why she’s been feeling disappointed by her favorite holiday?
Do you sometimes wonder where you fit in this world or where the meaning of your life has gone? Simple truths and lessons learned by Kathryn Valentine, an expert in horsemanship and horse training, will help you set your life on a new coursea course for success rich with a sense of fulfillment. In Life According to Jag: Simple Truths and Lessons Learned, youll discover words that heal and words that forge a new attitude. Kathryn uses her personal and professional experiences working with horses and their owners. She shares encouraging anecdotes to awaken your positive life changes. Inspired by words like adaptability, courage, passion, and trust she offers a look into how her life has been transformed by unique experiences that influenced Kathryn to follow her passion, listen to her heart, and believe in others. Life According to Jag draws on the unspoken wisdom of horses, their riders, and the lessons they teach to those who are willing to listen. Learn the words that will change your life through the eyes of an internationally renowned expert and the stories she has to share.
This unique book celebrates a long-term, interracial relationship and details the everyday struggles of a surviving partner trying to carry on in a radically changed world. A Season of Grief chronicles the author's emotional descent after the violent death of his partner of 21 years. Bill Valentine's journal of fear, anger, denial, and loneliness captures the glimmers of hope, moments of serendipity, and mysterious coincidences that emerged from his full-time devotion to grief following the death of Joe Lopes. Lopes died along with 264 others when American Airlines Flight 587 crashed in November 2001 in route to the Dominican Republic. It was the second deadliest accident in U.S. aviation history. He is a word always on my lips as I try to work him into a conversation. He is a memory that I strive to keep alive. So yes, in this sense, he is not gone. But in reality, he is. He is gone as my lover. He is gone as my life partner. He is gone as my soul mate, the only person to whom I periodically bared my soul. He is gone as my best friend, the only person to whom I ever attached that label. So pardon me while I still hang on to the notion that he is not here with me. Pardon me while I cling stubbornly to the insistence that he is gone. Valentine's candid and thoughtful account of his heartbreaking efforts to make sense of his partner's deathand survive in a world without himis by turns, funny, frightening, sobering, and surprising. In the nine months following the tragedy of Flight 587, Valentine finds every waking moment of his life affected by his partner's absencefrom mundane household chores to major life decisions. A Season of Grief is a story told in darkness and light, of hurt and healing, love and loneliness, but mostly, of a man who learns to live with his partner's absence through the persistent, surprising evidence of his presence. Our job on earth is to live with uncertainty, ambiguity, and hope. We are given a limited tool set but one, in my opinion, that's sufficient for the job. Sufficient to allow us to be engaged in life-to love, grieve, work, play, celebrate, and despair. We have a remarkable ability to rebound and grow. We have been granted the capacity for wonder and laughterespecially at ourselves. These last two gifts were bestowed generously on Joe and he, in turn, taught me how vital they are. Making a strong case for gay marriage, A Season of Grief chronicles Valentine's struggles to be recognized as a surviving spouse, including a historic lawsuit with Lambda Legal Defense and Education fund against the New York State Workers Compensation Board. Valentine and Lopes took every conceivable step to formalize their relationship, including New York City Domestic Partnership, but the Workers Compensation Board and a New York State appeals court refused to recognize Valentine as a legal surviving spouse. Grief doesn't come with a set of instructions. But A Season of Grief can help guide you through the lonely journey that follows the death of a loved one. Valentine's memoir is a testament to the healing power of reality and the enduring nature of love.
Unforgettable Aussies deftly blends Australian Shepherd history and genealogy with heartwarming stories of beloved pets, and is a priceless resource for Aussie breeders. 200 pages, 438 color photos.
Look at the Hilzinger washing machine, costing £3 in 1880. It certainly seems rather primitive but did it get the clothes clean and how hard was it to operate? And what about Dr Allen’s belt, powered by the magic of electricity? Could it really help with rheumatism and lumbago, as its maker promised? Advertisements can reveal a great deal about an age. Gleaned from the pages of long forgotten publications, such as The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Australian Town and Country Journal and Australasian Sketcher with Pen and Pencil, together with dozens of regional newspapers, they paint an intriguing picture of the world of our great-great-grandparents. With over 450 images, this book is one to pore over and enjoy: perhaps that electric hairbrush really did cure baldness and wouldn’t it be wonderful of those strange cannabis cigarettes did relieve asthma? Advertisements for condoms? It was just a matter of knowing what to look for. In some ways it is striking how little has changed. It comes as no surprise, for example, to discover that colonial women found it hard to resist a ‘bargain’, nor that they worried a great deal about their complexions and the ‘sweetness’ of their breath. Colonial men had their own concerns, prominent among them those old bugbears of advancing baldness and retreating virility. For those seeking to revive flagging passions there were always the ‘racy’ tales advertised each week in the illustrated papers (price one shilling, posted in a sealed envelope). Equally striking are the many differences in attitude and outlook revealed by old advertisements. It is curious, for example, that for most of the nineteenth century nobody—except perhaps the very young—seem to have been much concerned about body shape. It was only in the 1880s and ’90s that advertisements began to appear offering products designed to deal with ‘unsightly’ corpulence or to plump out that ‘underdeveloped’ bosom. It cannot have taken advertisers long to realise that they were onto a good thing exploiting those particular anxieties. Emporium uses collections of advertisements as starting points in assembling a series of self-contained ‘snapshots’. Introduced by a section on shopping, a succession of double-page spreads, each with its eyewitness accounts and contemporary descriptions, work to paint a lively and entertaining picture of everyday life in the Australian colonies. Although this is a book about advertising, it is really also all about the everyday lives of nineteenth-century Australians. The focus throughout is on the lives of so-called ordinary people—the working men, women and children whose struggles all too often merit little more than a footnote or two in many of our national histories. How did they go about getting married? How did they plan their families? How did they keep clean? How did they cook their food? Advertisements can answer all these questions. Humorous – quirky – fascinating – you will find this book compulsive! Edwin Barnard is an author and designer with an enduring interest in the everyday lives of nineteenth-century Australians. His previous books include Exiled for the National Library of Australia. Edwin lives in Avalon NSW.
