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Shalom Auslander was raised like a veal in a dysfunctional family in the Orthodox community of Monsey, New York: the son of an alcoholic father; a guilt-wielding mother; and a violent, overbearing God. Now, as he reaches middle age, Auslander begins to suspect that what plagues him is something worse, something he can''t so easily escape: a story. The story. One indelibly implanted in him at an early age, a story that told him he is fallen, broken, shameful, disgusting, a story we have all been told for thousands of years, and continue to be told by the religious and secular alike, a story called ''Feh.'' Yiddish for ''Yuck.'' Feh follows Auslander''s midlife journey to rewrite that story, a journey that involves Phillip Seymour Hoffman, a Pulitzer-winning poet, Job, Arthur Schopenhauer, GHB, Wolf Blitzer, Yuval Noah Harari and a pastor named Steve in a now-defunct church in Los Angeles. Can he move from Feh to merely meh? Can he even dream of moving beyond that? Auslander''s recountin

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Chapter 1 Idiomatic Expressions Chapter 2 Words Often Mispronounced Chapter 3 Expressions for Effective Communication Self Evaluation Words for Phonetic Transcriptions and Vocabulary Enrichment.

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From the creator of the iconic Cathy comic strip comes her first collection of funny, wise, poignant, and incredibly honest essays about being a woman in what she lovingly calls the panini generation.As the creator of Cathy, Cathy Guisewite found her way into the hearts of readers more than forty years ago, and has been there ever since. Her hilarious and deeply relatable look at the challenges of womanhood in a changing world became a cultural touchstone for women everywhere. Now Guisewite returns with her signature wit and warmth in this debut essay collection about another time of big transition, when everything starts changing and disappearing without permission: aging parents, aging children, aging self stuck in the middle. With her uniquely wry and funny admissions and insights, Guisewite unearths the humor and horror of everything from the mundane (trying to introduce her parents to TiVo and facing four decades'' worth of unorganized photos) to the profoun

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When you''re a walrus living on an island where the answer to every question is YES, life is pretty simple, especially when that''s all you''ve ever known. It''s great when you want a slice of birthday cake for breakfast... and not so great when someone asks you to wear an itchy shirt. But one day, a kid shows up, brandishing an entirely new word: NO. NO is heavy like a bookcase, solid as a boulder. It''s not shaped like YES, but somehow, it''s still an answer. The kid calls his friends to come visit the island too, and it''s not long before they''ve eaten up all of the yummiest food without sharing. What''s worse, none of them bring their own toothbrushes... It becomes clear that what the walruses all need is to find their own NO... not only to hold back the rampaging horde of children - but for their own sakes as well. The Island Before No is a hilarious new picture book that blends its zany fun with an important message about respecting and setting boundaries.

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