Author: Jonathan Franzen
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: history, personal, zone, discomfort
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-09-05
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0374299196
ISBN-13: 9780374299194

Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. The Discomfort Zone is his intimate memoir of his growth from a "small and fundamentally ridiculous person," through an adolescence both excruciating and strangely happy, into an adult with embarrassing and unexpected passions. It’s also a portrait of a middle-class family weathering the turbulence of the 1970s, and a vivid personal history of the decades in which America turned away from its midcentury idealism and became a more polarized society. The story Franzen tells here draws on elements as vari

Author: Tamara Leigh
Publisher: Multnomah Books
Keywords: series, discomfort, southern, carolina, leaving
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-09-15
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 1601421664
ISBN-13: 9781601421661

Piper Wick left her hometown of Pickwick, North Carolina, twelve years ago, shook the dust off her feet, ditched her drawl and her family name, and made a new life for herself as a high-powered public relations consultant in LA. She’s even “engaged to be engaged” to the picture-perfect U.S. Congressman Grant Spangler.Now all of Piper’s hard-won happiness is threatened by a reclusive uncle’s bout of conscience. In the wake of a health scare, Uncle Obadiah Pickwick has decided to change his will, leaving money to make amends for four generations’ worth of family misdeeds. But that wi

Authors:Kevin Merida, Michael Fletcher,
Publisher: Broadway
Keywords: clarence, thomas, soul, divided, discomfort, supreme
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2008-04-08
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0767916360
ISBN-13: 9780767916363

There is no more powerful, detested, misunderstood African American in our public life than Clarence Thomas. Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas is a haunting portrait of an isolated and complex man, savagely reviled by much of the black community, not entirely comfortable in white society, internally wounded by his passage from a broken family and rural poverty in Georgia, to elite educational institutions, to the pinnacle of judicial power. His staunchly conservative positions on crime, abortion, and, especially, affirmative action have exposed him to charges of heartless

Author: Vin Morreale
Publisher: Dramatic Pub.
Keywords: southern, scenes, short, twelve, discomfort
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 1998-04
List price: $5.50
ISBN-10: 0871298279
ISBN-13: 9780871298270

Author: Laurie M. Aesoph
Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
Keywords: arthritis, nature, remedies, discomfort, pain, gain, relief
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1996-10-04
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 013242892X
ISBN-13: 9780132428927

This revised and expanded edition of the perennially popular self-help book details how arthritis sufferers can improve their conditions with the foods they eat. Using the simple dietary procedures described in this book, readers can reverse some cases of osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis without expensive drugs or equipment.