(Life in the) Breakdown Lane

(Life in the) Breakdown Lane
Author: Paul Maurer
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2016-11-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1365248690

As a twenty-two year old dreamer, Mike Johnson bicycled across the country. Four decades later, bitter and haunted, he again seeks the solace of the open road. It is there both physical and emotional exhaustion battle redemption one pedal stroke at a time.

The Breakdown Lane

The Breakdown Lane
Author: Jacquelyn Mitchard
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061842095

An advice columnist and mother searches for vanished husband in this dramatic novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean. An advice columnist for a Wisconsin newspaper, Julieanne Gillis dispenses wisdom to her readers, but somehow missed the signs that something was amiss in her own home. Devoted to being a good mother and keeping her twenty-year marriage fresh and exciting, she is shocked by her husband’s surprise announcement that he needs a “sabbatical” from their life together—and devastated when he disappears, leaving Julie with no funds to raise two teenagers and a small daughter alone. But it is the discovery Julieanne suffers from a serious illness that truly crumbles her family’s foundation—setting her children on a dangerous, quixotic journey to locate their missing father before it’s too late. Praise for The Breakdown Lane “Rousing melodrama; fluid, often funny, dialogue; and the convincing portrayal of children involved in the collapse of a marriage add up to another page-turner from Mitchard.” —Publishers Weekly “An astute observer of family dynamics, Mitchard renders her characters flawlessly, endowing them with a humanity that is both accessibly grounded and astonishingly deep.” —Booklist “A compelling mix of suspense, humor, and abiding humanity.” —Boston Globe “A novel you will read once, then again and again.” —Tulsa World

Breakdown Lane Intl

Breakdown Lane Intl
Author: Jacquelyn Mitchard
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2005-04-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780060824853

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Twelve Times Blessed comes a novel of the breakdown of a family and of healing after a loss Giving advice is what Julianne Ambrose Gillis does for a living--every Sunday she doles it out to clueless people she doesn't know, in a column in her local Wisconsin paper. But when it comes to her personal life, Julie seems to have no insight whatsoever. She has worked hard to keep her marriage fresh and to be a good mother, so it's a mystery when Leo, her husband of twenty years, decides to defect from their life together and their three children: Gabe, Caroline and Aury. In his absence, Julie is diagnosed with a serious illness, which drives her children to undertake a dangerous journey to find Leo--before it's too late. But what they discover about their father is even more devastating than their mother's deteriorating health. As the known world sinks precariously from view and leaves them all adrift, the Gillis clan must navigate their way through the trenches of love, guilt and betrayal, back to solid ground and a new definition of family.

Love in the Breakdown Lane

Love in the Breakdown Lane
Author: Chris Larkin
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-01-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781034315773

Four characters in an upstate New York town begin new lives, and begin them again in this shocking story of love lost and found again.

Meditations from the Breakdown Lane

Meditations from the Breakdown Lane
Author: James Shapiro
Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2019-07-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781635618525

This inspirational book is the captivating true chronicle of author Jim Shapiro's epic 80-day, 3,026-mile run across America in the summer of 1980. Balancing vivid descriptions of the ever-changing physical landscape and candid explorations of his own mental state, Shapiro offers an essential volume in the library of classic American travelogues.

The Breakdown

The Breakdown
Author: B a Paris
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2017-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1489217118

From the bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust? It all started that night in the woods. Cass Anderson didn't stop to help the woman in the car, and now that woman is dead. Ever since, silent calls have been plaguing Cass and she's sure someone is watching her every move. It doesn't help that she's forgetting everything, too. Where she left the car, if she took her pills, the house alarm code – and whether the knife in the kitchen really had blood on it. Bestselling author B A Paris is back with a brand new psychological thriller full of twists and turns that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Life in the Fat Lane

Life in the Fat Lane
Author: Cherie Bennett
Publisher: Ember
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2011
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0385740069

Sixteen-year-old Lara, winner of beauty pageants and Homecoming Queen, is distressed and bewildered when she starts gaining weight and becomes a fat girl.

Body Problems

Body Problems
Author: Ben Agger
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2012-08-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 113616524X

This book addresses the relationship between the body and society in a fast-food society. Agger focuses on issues of food, exercise, work, dieting and eating disorders, fashion, bariatric and cosmetic surgery, and health. He addresses the dilemma that we have ample access to abundant calories but lead lifestyles and have jobs that for the most part do not enable us to expend those calories. He proposes solutions, both individual and structural, that involve re-orienting ourselves to exercise as play. The book can be used in introductory sociology, social problems, work, sociology of sport, gender, health and illness. The goal of this new, unique Series is to offer readable, teachable "thinking frames" on today’s social problems and social issues by leading scholars, all in short 60 page or shorter formats, and available for view on http://routledge.customgateway.com/routledge-social-issues.html For instructors teaching a wide range of courses in the social sciences, the Routledge Social Issues Collection now offers the best of both worlds: originally written short texts that provide "overviews" to important social issues as well as teachable excerpts from larger works previously published by Routledge and other presses.

Indian Computer Science (CS) & Information Technology (IT) Academic Reform (Past) Activism Blog Book

Indian Computer Science (CS) & Information Technology (IT) Academic Reform (Past) Activism Blog Book
Author: Ravi S. Iyer
Publisher: Ravi S. Iyer
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2020-03-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

Main author Ravi S. Iyer created the eklavyasai.blogspot.com blog and used it from September 2011 to play a part-time, peaceful and amicable, Indian Computer Science (CS) and Information Technology (IT) academic reform, Internet-based activist role. His focus was on improving the practice of software development in Indian CS & IT academia. But he thought that it is such a vital part of the CS & IT field and that it is so poor in many parts of Indian CS & IT academia, that he referred to his efforts as Indian CS & IT academic reform activism. Other contributors to the blog have given their views on certain topics. Main work period has been from 2011 to 2014 with a little work later, off & on. The main author is no longer active in this area. This book is aimed at helping other activists involved in improving the practice of software development in Indian CS and IT academia to get the views of the blog in a convenient form. The book may also be of interest to similar activists in other countries. About the author: Main author Ravi S. Iyer is a Physics graduate from Ruia college, University of Bombay (Mumbai) who was industry trained and later self-taught in software development. He worked in the international software industry (US, Europe, Japan, South Korea, India etc.) developing systems as well as applications software (CS & IT) for over 18 years after which he retired from commercial work. Later, mainly as a "visiting faculty", he offered free service of teaching programming courses (lab. courses) and being a "technical consultant" for student projects in a Maths & Computer Science department of a deemed university in India for 9 years.

This Thought's on Me

This Thought's on Me
Author: Coronella Steve Coronella
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2009-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1440169004

When Steve Coronella moved to Ireland in the early 1990s, he thought he knew what to expect - double-digit unemployment, a pub on every corner and weather only a duck could love. In his entertaining memoir This Thought's On Me, Coronella shares a humorous and insightful collection of anecdotes about his new life in Dublin and the Boston upbringing he left behind. Soon after Coronella arrives, the Celtic Tiger economy springs to life. Ireland is suddenly importing workers rather than shipping people out. And as the money and the good times flow, a profound self-contentment causes the Irish to forget - almost - the hard decades that preceded the boom. Coronella discovers that this is an ideal setting for a writer with a fresh outlook and an interesting turn of phrase. In his dispatches home - which have appeared previously in the Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor and Cape Cod Times - Coronella brings his dual identity to life in such wide-ranging and revealing essays as "Why Europe Doesn't Get Patriotism," "No Blarney, I'm Raising A Dub!" and "The Summer Of My Irish Commune." These thoughtful reflections from a misplaced American provide an intriguing and witty glimpse into what life is really like on the Emerald Isle.