Happy Hour

Happy Hour
Author: Marlowe Granados
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1839764031

With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, Marlowe Granados’s stunning debut brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York City. Isa Epley, all of twenty-one years old, is already wise enough to understand that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. She arrives in New York with her newly blond best friend looking for adventure. They have little money, but that’s hardly going to stop them. By day, the girls sell clothes on a market stall, pinching pennies for their Bed-Stuy sublet and bodega lunches. By night, they weave between Brooklyn, the Upper East Side, and the Hamptons among a rotating cast of celebrities, artists, Internet entrepreneurs, stuffy intellectuals, and bad-mannered grifters. Resources run ever tighter and the strain tests their friendship as they try to convert social capital into something more lasting than precarious gigs as au pairs, nightclub hostesses, paid audience members, and aspiring foot fetish models. Through it all, Isa’s bold, beguiling voice captures the precise thrill of cultivating a life of glamour and intrigue as she juggles paying her dues with skipping out on the bill. Happy Hour is a novel about getting by and having fun in a system that wants you to do neither.

Happy Hour in Hell

Happy Hour in Hell
Author: Tad Williams
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2013-09-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 144473864X

Bobby Dollar has a problem or four of epic proportions. Problem one: his best friend Sam has given him an angel's feather that also happens to be evidence of an unholy pact between Bobby's employers and those who dwell in the infernal depths. Problem two: Eligor, Grand Duke of Hell, wants to get his claws on the feather at all costs, but particularly at all cost to Bobby . Problem three: Bobby has fallen in love with Casimira, Countess of Cold Hands, who just happens to be Eligor's girlfriend. Problem four: Eligor, aware of Problem three, has whisked Casimira off to the Bottomless Pit itself, telling Bobby he will never see her again unless he hands over the feather. But Bobby, long-time veteran of the endless war between above and below, is not the type of guy who finds Hell intimidating. All he has to do is toss on a demon's body, sneak through the infernal gates, solve the mystery of the angel's feather, and rescue the girl. Saving the day should just be a matter of an eon or two of anguish, mutilation and horror. If only it were that easy.

The Happy Hour Choir

The Happy Hour Choir
Author: Sally Kilpatrick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2015
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 161773568X

Estranged from her family, Beulah supports herself by playing the piano at a honky-tonk, but when a dying friend asks her to take over as her church's piano player, Beulah finds herself butting heads with the deacon and a straight-laced choir.

Happy Hour with Einstein

Happy Hour with Einstein
Author: Melissa Hughes
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-09-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692785584

Over the last few decades, advances in neuroscience have illuminated important discoveries about our capacity for learning, problem-solving, creativity, success, and happiness. Happy Hour with Einstein won't get you a degree in neuroscience, but it will enlighten readers with recent research about how the brain functions and those factors which impact cognition, creativity, and memory with practical strategies for a smarter, happier YOU! Part one explores the regions of the brain and explains how laughter, doodling, movement, surprise, and gratitude have been proven to change the way we think and learn. Part two enables you to put that information to work in the form of a gratitude journal. Think of it as happy hour with Einstein and a few other brainiacs sharing their discoveries in "plain speak" over a few cocktails. So belly up to the bar for a few inspirational hors d'oeuvres and intellectual small plates that will change the way you see yourself and the world.

Happy Hour Is 9 To 5

Happy Hour Is 9 To 5
Author: Alexander Kjerulf
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2014
Genre: Happiness
ISBN: 9780991260911

"This book is for anyone who wants to enjoy work more--whether you are an employee or a manager, a new hire or a grizzled veteran, work in a small start-up, a huge corporation or the public sector. This book will give you the theory of happiness at work, simple, effective tools that you can use to create a better work life for yourself and a happier workplace, a massive dose of energy to get you to do something about it right here and now, [and] a specific plan to help you change your job for the better, find a new job where you can shine or to make your employees happy, motivated top-performers."--Page 4 of cover.

Happy Hour

Happy Hour
Author: Elissa Bass
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2024-04-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1665756756

Effervescent, poignant and full of hard-won humor, Elissa Bass’s HAPPY HOUR is everything you want from a summer (or fall, winter, spring) read. You’ll finish the last page with the warm glow of a “happy hour” well spent, but not soon forgotten. — Megan Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of DARE ME and THE TURNOUT HAPPY HOUR is a sparkling novel with one of the bravest, most fascinating heroines you’ll ever meet. KK Rhinehart faces heartbreak head-on, with humor to combat the self-doubt, with the help of amazing friends, and with a most unexpected and wildly exciting chance at new love. Elissa Bass has created indelible characters, psychologically rich and true. She writes with wit and irony, with an open heart, and with the ability to make this poignant story in a seductive seaside setting read like a thriller. I couldn’t stop turning the pages, and I’ll admit that I was beaming through tears more than once. HAPPY HOUR has just become one of my favorite novels! — Luanne Rice, New York Times bestselling author of 37 novels, including LAST NIGHT KK Rhinehart finds an unfamiliar iPhone in her husband’s car, and what she discovers on it ends her 25-year marriage. At the age of 55, and already feeling wrecked physically and mentally by menopause, she’s ready to give up. Desperate to hide, she retreats to her family’s Cape Cod summer beach house in the off-season. But KK’s two siblings and her two closest friends refuse to let her waste away on the couch. Their over-the-top support ranges from makeovers to hot yoga. Then, she meets bartender Jay. With beautiful eyes and big hands, KK calls the much younger man “Surfer Guy” and can barely string a sentence together around him, but what she thinks is a one-sided, silly crush turns into intense interest from Jay. KK might be able to find her joy again, but before that happens, she must navigate viral TikTok videos, a national debate on reverse age-gap dating, heartbreaking loss, and a whole lot of kitchen dancing. In this hilarious, inspirational take on love with a younger man, mid-life changes have never been this much fun.

Happy Hour

Happy Hour
Author: Marlowe Granados
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1839764023

With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, Marlowe Granados's stunning dbut brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York City Refreshing and wry in equal measure, Happy Hour is an intoxicating novel of youth well spent. Isa Epley is all of twenty-one years old, and already wise enough to understand that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. She arrives in New York City for a summer of adventure with her best friend, one newly blond Gala Novak. They have little money, but that's hardly going to stop them from having a good time. In her diary, Isa describes a sweltering summer in the glittering city. By day, the girls sell clothes in a market stall, pinching pennies for their Bed-Stuy sublet and bodega lunches. By night, they weave from Brooklyn to the Upper East Side to the Hamptons among a rotating cast of celebrities, artists, Internet entrepreneurs, stuffy intellectuals, and bad-mannered grifters. Resources run ever tighter and the strain tests their friendship as they try to convert their social capital into something more lasting than precarious gigs as au pairs, nightclub hostesses, paid audience members, and aspiring foot fetish models. Through it all, Isa's bold, beguiling voice captures the precise thrill of cultivating a life of glamour and intrigue as she juggles paying her dues with skipping out on the bill. Happy Hour is a novel about getting by and having fun in a world that wants you to do neither.

Happy Hour

Happy Hour
Author: Michele Scott
Publisher: ZOVA Books
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2011-03-15
Genre: Female friendship
ISBN: 0982788088

Four women meet regularly for conversation over food and wine. Four women share their lives, their struggles, and their hopes for the future. From the death of a loved one to battling ex-husbands and rebellious teenagers to budding romance, they share it all. Four women, four lives . . . four friends.