Relax Girl You Got This

Hey there, Freshman! You've got your locker assignment, class schedule, and ASB card. This high school thing is getting real. You're stepping into new territory. New school, different friend groups, harder classes, higher expectations. Cue panic attack. But, what if it didn't have to be that way? What if you could rock this high school gig stress free and confident? Now you can. With her straight forward talk and easy to follow advice, Michelle A. Hansen gives you the tools to make the transition into high school painless and fun. You will learn how to release your fears, ditch stress and anxiety, set personal boundaries, and play to your strengths while transforming your goals into a vision for your future. After years of teaching and coaching high school students, Michelle dishes secrets from the other side of the desk, so you can master this high school game before the bell rings on the first day of school.

Loretta LaRoche has been called "the Erma Bombeck of stress reduction"—and in the helpful and hilarious pages of this entertaining book, her enormous talent for finding the funny detail to defuse even the most difficult situation has never been sharper. Relax—You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left is filled with practical exercises, hilarious anecdotes, and specific advice for coming to terms with today’s ever-increasing stress levels—it’s a remedy for anxiety and a prescription for laughter. In sections such as "If You Don’t Have to Suffer—Don’t Practice," "My Mother the CEO," and "I’m Not Afraid of Heights, Just Widths," Loretta dismantles our American predilection for taking ourselves too seriously and shows us how to live longer, happier lives using the healing power of the absurd.

Tina the beaver and her family constantly rush off in different directions, until a storm keeps them snowbound at home.

“George’s rip-snorting Southern-fried paranormal debut delivers hilarious one-liners, sexy alpha males, and plenty of mayhem.” —Publishers Weekly A warrior, a demon, and the girl next door . . . Addy Corwin is a florist with an attitude. A bad attitude, or so her mama says, ’cause she’s not looking for a man. Mama’s wrong. Addy has looked. There’s just not much to choose from in Hannah, her small Alabama hometown. Until Brand Dalvahni shows up, a supernaturally sexy, breathtakingly well-built hunk of a warrior from—well, not from around here, that’s for sure. Mama thinks he might be European or maybe even a Yankee. Brand says he’s from another dimension. Addy couldn’t care less where he’s from. He’s gorgeous. Serious muscles. Disturbing green eyes. Brand really gets her going. Too bad he’s a whack job. Says he’s come to rescue her from a demon. Puh-lease. But right after Brand shows up, strange things start to happen. Dogs talk and reanimated corpses stalk the quiet streets of Hannah. Her mortal enemy Meredith, otherwise known as the Death Starr, breaks out in a severe and inexplicable case of butt boils. Addy might not know what’s going on, but she definitely wants a certain sexy demon hunter by her side when it all goes down . . . “A not-to-be-missed Southern-fried, bawdy, hilarious romp.” —Beverly Barton, New York Times–bestselling author “A demonically wicked good time.” —Angie Fox, New York Times–bestselling author “A steel magnolia meets Conan the Barbarian in one of the best books I have ever read . . . Amazingly hilarious.” —Fresh Fiction

An isolate, protracted surrealism attaches languidly to objects, animals, and emotion in Michael E. Craig's poems of semi-rural outlandishness. Profundity takes its rightful place in the shallow arena: "You can't step out of your tragedy, it wouldn't be a tragedy./ Neither can I./ Together we walk/ and think thoughts in a cornfield. . . ./ A thing cries out from the interior of corn." The reader is embroiled in textural exposition, encountering dark recessions of realism against the relief of interior truth: "Today you strike me as needing something./ So take my ten-thousand-pound typewriter . . . / . . . For here is an older,/ other world, taking almost forty sheep to make one sock./ A serious mist fills my eye. You/ have made me cry." Winsome, ominous vapors arise from the combustion of "dreamish, autobiographical thoughts" with their counterpart, the cosmic laughter provoked by close observation. "A man had been out walking with a very long cigar./ As he passed by me, closely, I could see it/ was actually an eight-inch-long ash/ that he had, perched beautifully between his/ fingers. And that he had passed away./ And that his eyes were gone from his head."

Psyche Middleton%u2019s life has gone from ordinary-to-extraordinary-to just plain crazy. First she traveled to Italy for a summer modeling gig. Though she promised her dad there%u2019d be no nudity, there was that one risqué shot%u2026and it ends up on a billboard in the middle of her hometown, where everyone %u2013 especially her dad %u2013 will see it. Oddly enough, that quickly becomes the least of her worries when she falls unexpectedly, head-over-heels in love with Erik, a mysterious young man who can make himself invisible. As strange as this may seem, it%u2019s about to get even stranger. When Erik takes her to his palace in an idyllic kingdom, Psyche is swept into the beauty and culture of his world, but his affection has one condition: she may not see him. Overtaken, intrigued, and not wholeheartedly believing he%u2019s real, she is going to have to decide if she can love him blindly. Because if she can%u2019t, she may lose him forever. %u2013cover verso.

** A New York Times Bestseller ** NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time • The New Yorker • NPR • GQ • Elle • Vulture • Fortune • Boing Boing • The Irish Times • The New York Public Library • The Brooklyn Public Library "A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto."—Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book Review One of President Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of 2019" Porchlight's Personal Development & Human Behavior Book of the Year In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can seem impossible to escape. But in this inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy, artist and critic Jenny Odell shows us how we can still win back our lives. Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. And we must actively and continuously choose how we use it. We might not spend it on things that capitalism has deemed important … but once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book will change how you see your place in our world.

"Darling narrates Jane's misadventures with empathy and irony in equal measure...A light, funny account of a woman's attempt to make it in New York."--Kirkus Reviews "We have all had Jane Desmond moments; dreams squashed under the weight of just paying the rent. Helen Darling gives us permission to laugh as Jane falls ALL. THE. WAY. DOWN. You will see yourself in her worst battles and cheer for her tiniest wins. It's a little Bridget Jones's Diary mixed with Let's Pretend This Never Happened. Delightful!" --Amy Lyle Author of The Amy Binegar-Kimmes-Lyle Book Of Failures and We're All A Mess, It's OK An ambitious single woman. A lifelong goal within reach. Will Manhattan’s unexpected challenges turn her fantasy into a disaster? After ten lackluster years in a dead-end job, Jane Desmond can’t wait to pursue her enduring ambition of a career in the glittering NYC literary scene. But the city starts throwing her curveballs the moment she arrives and what’s worse, her nervous mother, petrified for Jane’s safety, won’t stop texting her. Determined to reclaim her sanity, Jane posts a selfie challenge to prove to her mom she’s living the dream. As she struggles to find an apartment and blows critical interviews, her online pics tell a very different tale. Caught up in a web of social lies, Jane digs herself deeper with every update. Worried that she doesn’t have what it takes to make it in the city and on the verge of calling it quits, she races the clock to get her life together before her parents and friends learn the sad truth. Can Jane get comfortable in her own skin before the deception comes crashing down around her? Witty and endearing, Terms and Conditions follows Jane as she discovers the thrill, the challenge, and ultimately the joy of living truly for herself.