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Goldsmith, Olivia: MARRYING MOM, New York HarperCollins Publishers 1996
ISBN: 0-06-018652-6 Very Good Condition

Phyllis Geronomous is witty, blunt, razor sharp -- and the despair of her family. She's a senior citizen and an original, still trying to run the lives of her three grown children. As far as they're concerned, Phyllis' best attribute is that she's a Florida resident while they live in New York. Then Phyllis decides that she's going to move back to the Big Apple. Sigourney, Sharon, and Bruce just can't let crazy Phillis ruin their lives all over again. Christmas is unbearable enough with a visit from Mom -- and now she wants to stay? Only Sig has the ideal solution: they'll join forces and marry Mom off. They call the plan "Operation Geezer Quest." But where are they going to find an old, deaf, du,b, blind, and, above all, rich groom? Marrying Mom is more than just a family farce or senior romance -- it is a wickedly funny comedy of New York manners that puts a delightful new twist on the notion of holiday cheer. New York Daily News Witty... A quick read, full of funny New York moments and ready-for-the-big-screen charm... Perfect comic relief. Naples Daily News A raucous comedy... Goldsmith keeps readers laughing.... [She] has scored another hot book and showed us yet another side of her versatile personality. Herald Sun ...she(Goldsmith) does great justice to the humor and irony of her story. New York Daily News Witty... A quick read, full of funny New York moments and ready-for-the-big-screen charm... Perfect comic relief. Naples Daily News Naples A raucous comedy... Goldsmith keeps readers laughing.... [She] has scored another hot book and showed us yet another side of her versatile personality. Kirkus Reviews Goldsmith follows The Bestseller (p. 768) with a light, contrived romance about a Jewish mother and her three unsettled children. Mom is Phyllis Geronomous (nee Phyllis Steen, so Geronomous seems a big improvement), and she lives in South Florida. While at 69, she's no longer young, she finds little appealing about the lifestyle of her many elderly neighbors, who restlessly patrol the local boardwalk and look forward only to early-bird dinners at the Rascal House. Dedicated to finding something a little less terminal, Phyllis bids farewell to her dead husband Ira at the cemetery-he doesn't answer, but he never said a lot when he was alive either-and returns to New York City to get into the hair of her unhappy children: Sigourney (nee Susan), a 40ish stockbroker whose business and love life are falling apart; gay Bruce, whose "Queer Santa" greeting-card line is failing and whose lover won't commit to marriage; and fat, whiny Sharon, whose husband Barney is a deadbeat. Guilty because she never had time to go to PTA meetings, Phyllis now wants to fix their lives. At the same time, they want her out of their hair and back with the palm trees. So, the three launch Operation Geezer Quest to find Phyllis a rich husband, complete with a Bergdorf Goodman makeover and a suite at the Pierre. Along the way, with enough Yiddish for a whole season of The Nanny, Phyllis doles out tough love and wise words. Finally, everyone's life is improved, and Mom begins her eighth decade with good sex, a large sapphire ring, and an offshore bank account in the Caymans. Some laughs and refreshing senior-citizen romance, but more like the outline for a TV sitcom than a novel. Synopsis Phyllis Geronomous is witty, blunt, razor sharp -- and the despair of her family. She's a senior citizen and an original, still trying to run the lives of her three grown children. As far as they're concerned, Phyllis' best attribute is that she's a Florida resident while they live in New York. <P> Then Phyllis decides that she's going to move back to the Big Apple. Sigourney, Sharon, and Bruce just can't let crazy Phillis ruin their lives all over again. Christmas is unbearable enough with a visit from Mom -- and now she wants to stay? Only Sig has the ideal solution: they'll join forces and marry Mom off. They call the plan "Operation Geezer Quest." But where are they going to find an old, deaf, Hardcover 21 cm.

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Abrams, Rhonda: WEAR CLEAN UNDERWEAR, New York Random House Publishing Group 1999
ISBN: 0-375-50192-4 As New Condition

Eat your vegetables. Share. Say you're sorry. We all remember familiar sayings and lessons from our mothers. Now Rhonda Abrams, one of the nation's most respected business writers and consultants, shows how these lessons - and the values they represent - serve as the foundation for building and running great companies. <P> In a time of cynicism about business and public life, Abrams offers examples of companies that excel by embracing Mom's timeless values. They know the bottom line is just that - the bottom. The key to greatness is building a business on a foundation of core values and running it in ways that would make Mom proud. In Wear Clean Underwear: Business Wisdom from Mom, Abrams interprets Mom's lessons for today's business climate. Based on in-depth research and in-person interviews, she builds each chapter around a saying we've all heard from Mom: <UL TYPE=DISC> "If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump, too?" Southwest Airlines bucked the trend of keeping wages and benefits low while competing on the basis of price-and became one of the ten most-admired companies in the country and one of the few consistently profitable airlines. "Don't judge a book by its cover." A severely dyslexic man realized he'd never get a good job, so he opened his own business, which was built on mutual trust and communication with his employees - a company called Kinko's, now with over nine hundred locations nationwide. "How doyou know you don't like it, when you've never triedit?" 3M became the most innovative company in America by encouraging all its employees to experiment - for instance, the rocket scientist who helped develop a billion-dollar product by designing a Barbie dress. Sprinkled throughout are sidebars that focus on famous figures and business leaders such as Scott Adams and Ben and Jerry, who share what they learned from their moms. Wear Clean Underwear: Business Wisdom from Mom offers a refreshing and lively combination of serious insights, solid advice, and heartwarming stories. If you have a business, a Mom, or a life, you'll find Wear Clean Underwear indispensable. People Magazine - Anne-Marie O'Neill ...[F]ascinating profiles of companies that have played nice and reaped rewards... Anne-Marie O'Neill ...[F]ascinating profiles of companies that have played nice and reaped rewards... -- People Magazine What People Are Saying John Whitacre Every day we're doing something wrong. We just want to know about it and deal with it, and learn from it, and use that as an opportunity for growth....We don't want to have too much spilt milk, but if something gets spilled around here, five people will rush to clean it up. Paul Saginaw I could motivate my employees with fear. I could motivate my employees with incentives. What I have chosen to do, though, is to motivate by offering the opportunity for growth and change. When you offer the...chance for someone to change his life, you have an employee who is working with you, someone who sees your goal and his goal as the same one. Such an employee brings an enthusiasm to the workplace that is hard to equal. Herb Kelleher What my mother taught me was...when you're right, don't let anybody else convince you you're wrong...She was a housewife but loved to talk about business. And how one should conduct oneself in business. You should never seek after money. Money was a by-product of being excellent. If you were excellent, the money would come, and if you were lousy, you shouldn't have the money. Synopsis Are you tired of hearing about the latest buzzwords and business fads? <P> Forget about what the so-called gurus say and instead turn to dear ol' mom for inspiration. In this refreshingly original book, Abrams argues that Mom's timeless lessons -- from "Eat your vegetables, or you don't get dessert," to "If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?" -- have practical application in today's business world. HARDCOVER 6 x 9" OVERSIZE

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Dees-Thomases, Donna: LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD MOMS: HOW ONE MOTHER RALLIED A MILLION OTHERS AGAINST THE GUN LOBBY, Emmaus, Pa. Rodale Press, Incorporated 2004
1579549977 As New Condition

Looking for a Few Good Moms: How One Mother Rallied a Million Others Against the Gun Lobby "Never underestimate the power of a mother!" --Beckie Brown, former national president, Mothers Against Drunk Driving In the summer of 1999, Donna Dees-Thomases was busy juggling the demands of two young children and a TV job promoting comedy gags. But one day she learned about a shooting, and in the space of just a few hours, everything in Donna's life changed . . . She decided to round up mothers -- a group even more formidable than the gun lobby -- to show Congress that mothers care about the gun-violence epidemic in America. She called her as-yet-unborn movement the Million Mom March, even though she was, at the time, launching a revolution of one. In an astonishingly short 9 months, on Mother's Day 2000, Donna fulfilled her mission -- and made history -- when she was joined by nearly a million other mothers, fathers, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and friends who were determined to let our government know that the time for enacting sensible gun laws is now. Not even the great marches of the Civil Rights movement drew as many people as the Million Mom March. How did one mother get the attention of our government -- and the world? Looking for a Few Good Moms shows how we all can make a difference if we are willing to take a stand. If she could gather a million moms just think about what you could do . . . "When I first became incensed over kids being killed with guns in America, I wanted to march on Washington to protest the insanity -- even if I had to organize the march myself. But I was clueless as to how to make that happen. "Without a guidebook to walk me through the mechanics, the logistics, and the politics of such an overwhelming journey, I kept getting lost. Thankfully, every time I was ready to quit and call the moving van, some extraordinary woman would appear and do for me what good mothers do for their kids . . . "I worked with dogged mothers who refused to take no for an answer; passionate mothers who were determined to protect their children; heartbroken mothers who had lost children to gun violence and who would not rest until there were laws in place to see that other mothers did not suffer what they had. Ordinary mothers: legions of good women who knew how to make a revolution happen . . ." --Donna Dees-Thomases, founder of the Million Mom March Donna Dees-Thomases is a public relations consultant who lectures frequently on grassroots organizing. Currently she is a consultant for the Million Mom March United with the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, which organized the second Million Mom March on Washington, held on Mother's Day 2004. She lives in New York City with her two daughters. This is her first book. Alison Hendrie is a writer whose feature stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times and the New York Post , as well as Parents, Parenting, Fitness, and other national magazines. She lives with her husband and four children in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. SYNOPSIS In 1999, following reports of a gunman's attack on a Jewish community center, a suburban New Jersey mother with no experience as an activist decided to take on the gun lobby. Her efforts would culminate in the Million Mom March on Washington on Mother's Day, 2000. In this text, Dees-Thomases recounts her experiences working with the thousands of mothers across the country who united to demand stricter gun control laws. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR FROM THE CRITICS Publishers Weekly "So much gun violence surrounds us, and unless we're caught in the crossfire, most of us don't pay much attention to it," writes Million Mom March founder Dees-Thomases in this call to arms (so to speak) for sensible gun laws. For the author, the decisive moment was watching children the age of her own two daughters shot at in a California Jewish Community Center summer camp in August 1999. Dees-Thomases's decision to structure her story month Hardcover 6 x 9"

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Maxine Schnall. FROM SUCKERMOTHER TO SMART MOM: Raising Great Kids Without Losing Your Mind, Money, and Love Life. AuthorHouse, 2005
1420868233 Product Description "I'm too stressed out and tired even to have sex with my husband any more!" That's the universal complaint of mothers with young children today. And no matter how much these mothers "schlep" their kids from one activity to another and shell out big bucks for extravagant birthday parties and every educational toy, they feel they are not doing enough.Maxine Schnall, executive director of Wives Self Help Foundation, Inc., and Leslie Levin, who between them have five kids, four step-children, and seven grand-children, are here to say that there's an easier, less costly way to raise your children than the current "extreme parenting" craze- a "smart mom" way that will turn out happier, even more successful kids! Not only will you be calmer, sexier, and able to enjoy life more fully when you stop overscheduling your kids and micromanaging their lives, but your children will feel less anxious, be more creative and have healthy values and a zest for life.Hip, funny, and loaded with eye-popping, well-researched information, FROM SUCKERMOTHER to SMART MOM gives you down-and-dirty strategies you won't find in any other parenting book. There's also a whole glossary of original terms that are bound to become part of everyday language. You'll learn: ¿ The truth about breast-feeding (versus what the "lactation Nazis" say)¿ How to resist being intimidated by "momsters"- self-appointed paragons of motherhood¿ How to use the "Husband Handoff Maneuver" and "bedtime brownie points" to get your husband to do more with the kids¿ How to develop the "mommy mojo" to deal with difficult children¿ How not to let the family income go down the "Money Drain"¿ and much, much more. FROM SUCKERMOTHER to SMART MOM is a terrifically liberating book no mother of young children should be without. It will deliver you from the "suckermotherhood" imposed by outside influences and restore balance in your life as a devoted mom and a fun-loving, sensual woman. About the Author Maxine Schnall Maxine Schnall is the author of six books and co-author of one and a nationally known self-help expert who appears frequently on television and radio, including six appearances on Oprah. Her 1981 book Limits: A Search for New Values (Clarkson Potter), was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Her other books include Every Woman Can be Adored (Coward-McCann, 1984), an astute guidebook for single women. Her most recent book, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger (Perseus, 2002; Da Capo Press, 2003), tells how to find the hidden benefits in any misfortune and make a new beginning in life (www.MakesYouStronger). Foreign editions of the book were published in the United Kingdom, Australia, Korea, Taiwan, the Arab world, and Spain. Schnall has been a contributing editor for Woman's Day and was a popular host of her own longtime radio show in Philadelphia and New York. In 1974, she founded Wives Self Help Foundation, Inc., the first marital hotline in America, now a full-scale professional counseling agency, and has served as its executive director ever since. She has been acknowledged by the Gallup Poll as a "leading authority" in her field and by In Touch Weekly as an "established self-help guru." Hundreds of women have learned strategies for success in their personal and work lives by attending nationwide workshops conducted by Schnall, including her lively and very funny B.I.T.C.H. (Being In Total Control of Herself) seminars. Leslie Levin Leslie Levin has a degree in interior design from Drexel University. This is her first book. Her contributions of text and illustrations are based on her personal experience as the recovering suckermother of three great kids. Every day she draws upon her mommy mojo to fight her ¿ber-mom inner demons and continue enjoying a full, productive life as a smart mom..

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