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Many of us have dog-eared copies of Mastering the Art of French
Cooking in our kitchens or fondly remember watching episodes of The
French Chef, but what was behind the enormous appeal of this
ungainly, unlikely woman, who became a superstar in midlife and
changed our approach to food and cooking forever? In the spirit of
The Gospel According to Coco Chanel and How Georgia Became
O'Keeffe, Julia Child Rules dissects the life of the sunny,
unpretentious chef, author, cooking show star, and bon vivant, with
an eye towards learning how we, too, can savor life. With her
characteristic wit and flair, Karen Karbo takes us for a spin
through Julia's life: from her idyllic childhood in California to
her confusing young adulthood in New York; her years working for
the OSS in Sri Lanka; her world class love affairs with Paris and
Paul Child; and her decades as America's beloved French chef. Karbo
weaves in her own personal experiences and stops for important life
lessons along the way: how to live by your whims, make the world
your oyster, live happily married, work hard, and enjoy a life of
full immersion. It celebrates Julia's indomitable spirit and
irrepressible joy, giving readers a taste of what it means to
master the art of living.
In this thrilling and candid memoir, world record-holding and
controversial Big Wave surfer Garrett McNamara chronicles his
emotional quest to ride the most formidable waves on earth. Garrett
McNamara-affectionately known as GMac-set the world record for the
sport, surfing a seventy-eight-foot wave in Nazare, Portugal in
2011, a record he smashed two years later at the same break.
Propelled by the challenge and promise of bigger, more difficult
waves, this adrenaline-fueled loner and polarizing figure travels
the globe to ride the most dangerous swells the oceans have to
offer, from calving glaciers to hurricane swells. But what
motivates McNamara to go to such extremes-to risk everything for
one thrilling ride? Is riding giant waves the ultimate exercise in
control or surrender? Personal and emotional, readers will know
GMac as never before, seeing for the first time the personal
alongside the professional in an exciting, intimate look at what
drives this inventive, iconoclastic man. Surfing awesome giants
isn't just thrill seeking, he explains-it's about vanquishing fears
and defeating obstacles past and present. Surfers and non-surfers
alike will embrace McNamara's story-as they have William Finnegan's
Barbarian Days-an its intimate look at the enigmatic pursuit of
riding waves, big and small. Hound of the Sea is a record of
perseverance, passion, and healing. Thoughtful, suspenseful, and
spiritually profound, McNamara reveals the beautiful soul of
surfing through the eyes of one of its most daring and devoted
disciples.
A modern look at the life of a legendary fashion icon--with
practical life lessons for women of all ages Delving into the long,
extraordinary life of renowned French fashion designer Coco Chanel,
Karen Karbo has written a new kind of self-help book, exploring
Chanel's philosophy on a range of universal themes--from style to
passion, from money and success to femininity and living life on
your own terms. Born in 1883 in a poorhouse in southern France,
Chanel grew up to be the woman who not only gave us the little
black dress and boxy jackets, but also bestowed upon women a chic
freedom that helped usher them into the modern era. Elegant,
opinionated, and passionate, she was the only fashion icon among
"TIME" magazine's 100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century.
"The Gospel According to Coco Chanel" is a captivating, offbeat
look at style, celebrity, and self-invention--all held together
with droll Chanel-style commentary and culled from an examination
of Chanel's difficult childhood and triumphant adulthood,
passionate love affairs, and eccentricities. Warner Brothers set to
release a major motion picture on this subject, "Coco"" Before
Chanel," in Fall 2009.
Now in paperback, this witty, irreverent narrative explores what we
can learn from the extraordinary legacies of 30 iconic women--from
Frida Kahlo and Liz Taylor to Nora Ephron and Lena Dunham--who
forged their own unique paths in the world. Smart, sassy, and
unapologetically feminine, this elegantly illustrated book is an
ode to the bold and charismatic women of modern history.
Best-selling author Karen Karbo (The Gospel According to Coco
Chanel) spotlights a group of spirited rule breakers who charted
their way with little regard for expectations: Amelia Earhart,
Helen Gurley Brown, Carrie Fisher, Hillary Clinton, Amy Poehler,
and Shonda Rhimes, among others. Their lives--imperfect, elegant,
messy, glorious--provide inspiration and instruction for the new
age of feminism we have entered. Karbo distills these lessons with
empathy and humor, examining the universal themes that connect us
to these mesmerizing personalities today: success and style, love
and authenticity, daring and courage. Being "difficult," Karbo
reveals, might not make life easier. But it can make it more
fulfilling--whatever that means for you.
What does your family consist of? Stepdaughter? Stepson? Ex-wife?
Ex-husband? This book contains stories of a group of women who
gather periodically to blow off steam, and have a few laughs about
the impossible and stubbornly persistent phenomenon that is the
ex-relationship.
So you got the guy on the big white horse, and the beautiful little
mermaids, and the picket fence, and your life isn' t . . . perfect
in every imaginable way?
You're not alone. In 1997, Gabrielle Reece married the man of her
dreams--professional surfer Laird Hamilton--in a flawless Hawaiian
ceremony. Naturally, the couple filed for divorce four years later.
In the end they worked it out, but not without the ups and downs,
minor hiccups, and major setbacks that beset every modern family.
With hilarious stories, wise insights, and concrete takeaways on
topics ranging from navigating relationship issues to aging
gracefully to getting smart about food, "My Foot Is Too Big for the
Glass Slipper "is the brutally honest, wickedly funny, and deeply
helpful portrait of the humor, grace, and humility it takes to
survive the happily ever after.
The author of the acclaimed, bestselling In Praise of Difficult
Women delivers a hilarious feminist manifesto that encourages us to
reject "self-improvement" and instead learn to appreciate and
flaunt our complex, and flawed, human selves. Why are we so
obsessed with being our so-called best selves? Because our modern
culture force feeds women lies designed to heighten their
insecurities: "You can do it all--crush it at work, at home, in the
bedroom, at PTA and at Pilates--and because you can, you should. We
can show you how!" Karen Karbo has had enough. She's taking a stand
against the cultural and societal pressures, marketing, and media
influences that push us to spend endless time, energy and money
trying to "fix" ourselves--a race that has no finish line and only
further increases our send of self-dissatisfaction and loathing.
"Yeah, no, not happening," is her battle cry. In this wickedly
smart and entertaining book, Karbo explores how "self-improvery"
evolved from the provenance of men to women. Recast as "consumers"
in the 1920s, women, it turned out, could be seduced into buying
anything that might improve not just their lives, but their sense
of self-worth. Today, we smirk at Mad Men-era ads targeting 1950s
housewives--even while savvy marketers, aided and abetted by social
media "influencers," peddle skin care "systems," skinny tea, and
regimens that promise to deliver endless happiness. We're not
simply seduced into dropping precious disposable income on empty
promises; the underlying message is that we can't possibly know
what's good for us, what we want, or who we should be. Calling BS,
Karbo blows the lid off of this age-old trend and asks women to
start embracing their awesomely imperfect selves. There is no one
more dangerous than a woman who doesn't care what anyone thinks of
her. Yeah, No, Not Happening is a call to arms to build a posse of
dangerous women who swear off self-improvement and its peddlers. A
welcome corrective to our inner-critic, Karbo's manifesto will help
women restore their sanity and reclaim their self-worth.
Minerva Clarke is thirteen. She worries about having a Gigantor
butt and being a Freak Show Loser. Or worse, if that's possible.
She wants to be just a fraction as gorgeous as her cousin Jordan
but has begun to accept that this may never happen, when events
take a turn for the peculiar. Minerva is (accidentally)
electrocuted by her brother and survives mostly unscathed, but for
one strange side effect. She doesn't have hang ups. In fact, she
can't remember what she even used to worry about. So when Minerva's
perfect cousin Jordan is arrested under bizarre circumstances, the
new, bold Minerva finds herself investigating a murky murder
mystery.
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