Book
Happiness for beginners / Katherine Center.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250047304 (paperback) :
- Physical Description: 312 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2015.
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| Subject: | Brothers and sisters > Fiction. Camping > Fiction. Chick lit. Divorced women > Fiction. Self-actualization (Psychology) in women > Fiction. Self-realization in women > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | FIC Cente | 31681002499598 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother's even-more-annoying best friend is also coming on the trip, she can't imagine how it will be anything other than a disaster. Thus begins the strangest adventure of Helen's well-behaved life: three weeks in the remotest wilderness of amountain range in Wyoming where she will survive mosquito infestations, a surprise summer blizzard, and a group of sorority girls. Yet, despite everything, the vast wilderness has a way of making Helen's own little life seem bigger, too. And, somehow the people who annoy her the most start teaching her the very things she needs to learn. Like how to stand up for herself. And how being scared can make you brave. And how sometimes you just have to get really, really lost before you can even have a hope ofbeing found. "-- - Baker & Taylor
A year after getting divorced, thirty-two-year old Helen Carpenter signs up for a wilderness survival course as a chance to pull herself together again, but where she must instead survive mosquito infestations, a summer blizzard, and a group of sorority girls. - Baker & Taylor
Talked into a wilderness-survival course after her divorce, a 32-year-old woman embarks on a three-week stint in the Wyoming mountain wilderness, where she learns unexpected lessons about standing up for herself and confronting her fears. Original. - McMillan Palgrave
From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk Away and Things You Save in a Fire
Helen Carpenter canât quite seem to bounce back. Newly divorced at thirty-two, her life has fallen apart beyond her ability to put it together again. So when her annoying younger brother, Duncan, convinces her to sign up for a hardcore wilderness survival course in the backwoods of Wyomingâshe hopes itâll be exactly what she needs.
Instead, itâs a disaster. Itâs nothing like she wants, or expects, or anticipates. She doesnât anticipate the surprise summer blizzard, for exampleâor the blisters, or the rutting elk, or the mean pack of sorority girls. And she especially doesnât anticipate that her annoying brotherâs even-more-annoying best friend, Jake, will show up for the exact same courseâand distract her, derail her, and . . . kiss her.
But it turns out sometimes disaster can teach you exactly the things you need to learn. Like how to keep going, even when you think you canât. How being scared can make you brave. And how sometimes getting really, really lost is your only hope of getting found.
Happiness for Beginners is Katherine Center at her most heart-warming, captivating bestâa nourishing, page-turning, up-all-night read about how to get back up. Itâs a story that looks at how our struggles lead us to our strengths. How love is always worth it. And how the more good things we look for, the more we find. - McMillan Palgrave
An exuberant novel in which a thirty-something year old woman embarks on a wilderness survival course and discovers that sometimes you have to leave things behind in order to find yourself.
