Author: John Whitney
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: losing, finding, psychology, weight
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-04-13
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0595315739
ISBN-13: 9780595315734

Losing It? The Psychology of Losing Weight and Never Finding it Again is a step-by-step guide to solving a weight problem once and for all-without dieting-as well as author John Whitney’s personal story using this technique.Whitney was inspired to lose over 100 pounds after attending a course on the Cornerstone life management method in 1983. Using this approach, the author solved a lifelong weight problem, maintains the weight loss to this day, and even managed to do something previously as unimaginable as running The New York Marathon.In addition to assisting with the Cornerstone semin

Author: Nicci French
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Keywords: losing
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-03-03
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0312943164
ISBN-13: 9780312943165

It’s the morning of Nina Landry’s fortieth birthday. She’s supposed to have her kids ready to leave for the Christmas holidays with her new boyfriend. But her fifteen-year-old daughter, Charlie, is not yet home. She spent the night at a friend’s, and now she is nowhere to be found. As time passes slower and slower by the hour, Nina’s worry builds to panic. Has Charlie run away, or has something worse happened? And why won’t anyone—not the cops, not Charlie’s friends, not Charlie’s father—take her disappearance seriously? As day turns to night and a series of ominous revelatio

Author: Christopher Buckley
Publisher: Twelve
Keywords: memoir, pup, mum, losing
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2010-05-13
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0446540951
ISBN-13: 9780446540957

In twelve months between 2007 and 2008, Christopher Buckley coped with the passing of his father, William F. Buckley, the father of the modern conservative movement, and his mother, Patricia Taylor Buckley, one of New York’s most glamorous and colorful socialites. He was their only child and their relationship was close and complicated. Writes Buckley: "They were not - with respect to every other set of loving, wonderful parents in the world - your typical mom and dad." As Buckley tells the story of their final year together, he takes readers on a surprisingly entertaining tour throu

Author: Pat Conroy
Publisher: Bantam Books
Keywords: memoir, season, losing
Number of Pages: 402
Published: 2003-08-26
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0553381903
ISBN-13: 9780553381900

PAT CONROY—AMERICA’S MOST BELOVED STORYTELLER—IS BACK!“I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one. . . .There was a time in my life when I walked through the world known to myself and others as an athlete. It was part of my own definition of who I was and certainly the part I most respected. When I was a young man, I was well-built and agile and ready for the rough and tumble of games, and athletics provided the single outlet for a repressed and preternaturally shy boy to express himself in public....I lost myself in the beauty of sport and made my family proud while passi

Author: Alexs D. Pate
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Keywords: absalom, losing
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1566891701
ISBN-13: 9781566891707

Sonny Goodman may have hopped the “modern underground railroad called education” and arrived in far-flung Minneapolis, but with the impending death of his father, North Philadelphia is calling him home. Quickly caught in the web that inner-city life has woven around his family’s dreams, Sonny must find the strength to confront the toll urban corrosion has wrought upon the ones he loves. Named Best First Novel by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, winner of the Minnesota Book Award and compared to the work of James Baldwin and August Wilson, Alexs D. Pate’s highly abs

Author: Jonathan Hull
Publisher: Island Books
Keywords: julia, losing
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2001-02-06
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0440234859
ISBN-13: 9780440234852

In a world torn apart by war, one man would search a lifetime to find what he once lost: a woman named Julia....Losing JuliaPatrick Delaney was just a boy when he marched off to war in 1918. But on the stark battlefields of France, amid the horror and the chaos, Patrick forged a bond that would shape the course of his life. Daniel was Patrick’s best friend, his comrade-in-arms. But it was Daniel’s lover, Julia, who would change Patrick forever. Julia’s letters, shared by Daniel in the muddy trenches, touched Patrick in ways he never could have expected. But years would pass b

Author: Heather Clay
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: charlotte, losing
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2010-03-23
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0375415386
ISBN-13: 9780375415388

Raised on their parents’ Kentucky horse farm, Charlotte and Knox Bolling grow up steeped in the cycles of breeding, foaling, weaning, and preparation for sale that the Thoroughbreds around them undergo each year. As sisters, they are as tightly connected within that vast and beautiful landscape as their opposing natures—and the subtly shifting allegiances within their close family—allow.When Charlotte leaves Four Corners Farm, marries Bruce, and moves to Manhattan’s West Village, the sisters’ feelings for each other remain as intense and contradictory as ever, despite the distance be