You Blew It!

You Blew It!

Author: Josh Gondelman

Publisher: Plume

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0147515807

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A hilarious examination of faux pas for readers of Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half and Jenny Lawson’s Let’s Pretend This Never Happened Humankind is doomed. Especially you. It’s already too late. From overstaying your welcome at a party, to leaving passive-aggressive post-its on your roommate’s belongings, to letting your date know the extent of the internet reconnaissance you did on them—you're destined to embarrass yourself again and again. In You Blew It!, Josh Gondelman, comedian and co-creator of the “Modern Seinfeld” twitter account, teams up with Joe Berkowitz, an equally wry and ruthless social-observer, to dissect a range of painfully hilarious faux pas. Breaking down the code violations of modern culture—particularly our fervent, ridiculous addiction to technology—Gondelman and Berkowitz will keep you laughing as they explore how social blunders are simply part of the mystery that is you.


Wish It. Want It. Do It.

Wish It. Want It. Do It.

Author: Brian H. Griffin

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2013-03-30

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781483998589

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"Wish it. Want it. Do it." is the ultimate self help book. Do you wish something? Do you want something? Then Do something! Take the steps necessary to change your life. Only you can wish it. Only you can want it. You are the only one who can do it.


How It All Blew Up

How It All Blew Up

Author: Arvin Ahmadi

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2020-09-22

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0593202880

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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda goes to Italy in Arvin Ahmadi's newest incisive look at identity and what it means to find yourself by running away. Eighteen-year-old Amir Azadi always knew coming out to his Muslim family would be messy--he just didn't think it would end in an airport interrogation room. But when faced with a failed relationship, bullies, and blackmail, running away to Rome is his only option. Right? Soon, late nights with new friends and dates in the Sistine Chapel start to feel like second nature... until his old life comes knocking on his door. Now, Amir has to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth to a US Customs officer, or risk losing his hard-won freedom. At turns uplifting and devastating, How It All Blew Up is Arvin Ahmadi's most powerful novel yet, a celebration of how life's most painful moments can live alongside the riotous, life-changing joys of discovering who you are.


No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook Or Pay the Rent You Blew It Cauze Bill Bailey Ain't Never Coming Home Again

No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook Or Pay the Rent You Blew It Cauze Bill Bailey Ain't Never Coming Home Again

Author: Edgardo Vega Yunqué

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 662

ISBN-13: 0312424027

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A Washington Post Best Book of Year Winner of the 2004 Latino Book Award This sweeping drama of intimately connected families-black, white, and Latino-boldly conjures up the ever-shifting cultural mosaic that is America. At its heart is Vidamia Farrell, half Puerto Rican, half Irish, who sets out in search of the father she has never known. Her journey takes her from her affluent suburban home to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where her father Billy Farrell now lives with his second family. Once a gifted jazz pianist, Billy lost two fingers in the Vietnam War and has since shut himself off from jazz. While Billy's colorful new family draws Vidamia into their fold, so she determines to draw her father back into the world he left behind.


The Wind Blew

The Wind Blew

Author: Pat Hutchins

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-02-21

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1442454024

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A rhymed tale describing the antics of a capricious wind. The wind blew, and blew, and blew! It blew so hard, it took everything with it: Mr. White’s umbrella, Priscilla’s balloon, the twins’ scarves, even the wig on the judge’s head. But just when the wind was about to carry everything out to sea, it changed its mind! With rhyming verse and colorful illustrations, Pat Hutchins takes us on a merry chase that is well worth the effort.


How They Blew It

How They Blew It

Author: Jamie Oliver

Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers

Published: 2010-07-03

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0749459654

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How They Blew It is a series of eye-popping tales of entrepreneurs and business leaders who went from corporate gurus to financial disaster zones in rapid and humiliating fashion. Full of surprising details and mind-blowing sums of money, it looks at the characteristics of these leaders and the fine line between hero and zero.How They Blew It is about the people at the heart of these business catastrophes. It is about what drives them to succeed and then to fail. It is a compelling examination of the rights and wrongs of each case and it seeks to get into the minds of the people behind the business disasters and ask "Why the hell did they do that?" By examining how business ventures can go so badly wrong, you can learn to avoid those mistakes in the first place.