Cathy Guisewite
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"From the iconic creator of the "Cathy" comic strip comes a collection of funny, warm, and wise essays in the style of Nora Ephron and Erma Bombeck, centered around the particular challenge of caring for aging parents and growing children, all while trying not to lose oneself in the process. As the creator of the "Cathy" comic strip, Cathy Guisewite found her way into the hearts of readers over 40 years ago, and has been there ever since. Her deeply...
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English
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In this funny collection, America's favorite comic strip heroine balances the demands of life-love, family, career, food, and shopping.
Cathy has been woman's best friend in matters of love, food, and shopping, although maybe not always in that order! Here is a collection for the frazzled modern woman who is forever plagued by the innate love of chocolate, and who is constantly in search of at least a semi-decent romance in the midst of career...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
#1 The out-of-work explorer's situation is not a happy one. He is broke, and often worse than that. He longs to be off again, away from the fretting ties of civilization.
#2 I knew two of the men who died in the expedition: Mylius-Erichsen, a dauntless idealist, dreamer and poet, and the faithful Greenlander Jørgen Brønlund. I thought about their expedition and how they had tried...
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English
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The mother-daughter dance is a familiar waltz filled with ups and downs, twists, dips, and twirls. The only question is who's in the lead? The most beloved mother-daughter duo is back with a brand-new comic take on the difficult, wonderful, one-of-a-kind relationship between neurotic daughter Cathy and her caring, comforting, slightly interfering mother. Insightful observations, amusing advice, and comical proclamations are paired with Cathy...
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English
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America's favorite comic strip heroine navigates the perils of being a modern woman in this hilarious collection.
By now, we're all familiar with Cathy's battles among the four basic guilt groups: food, Mom, love, and career. Women can identify with Cathy Guisewite's hilarious portrayal of the universal struggles of modern femininity. A confirmed chocoholic, Cathy often consoles herself with one more trip to the fridge, then pays for it with frightening...
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English
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For years, Cathy and her mother have been working out their relationship on the comic pages in such an honest, relatable, humor-filled way that thousands of mothers and daughters have written to say the comic strip is the single thing that has helped them keep speaking to each other over the years.
In Confessions to My Mother, Cathy helps daughters speak to their mothers in an even more poignant way--with page after page of everything from embarrassing...
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English
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Here in one book, each woman will find a voice; each woman will find a recipe.
Cathy's fights with food are legendary. She battles the bag of chips, the last piece of cake, the chocolate that calls her name. Now, in this delightful cookbook, the creative cartoon figure finally puts her fondness for food to work for the benefit of all womankind. It's all about Girl Food!
Co-authored by cartoonist Cathy Guisewite and food writer Barbara Albright,...
Publisher
Andrews McMeel
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Like best friends who've been together year after year, through thick and thin, Cathy and her adoring public have created a solid and stable relationship. Faithful readers count on their cartoon heroine to tell it like it is, whether the subject's relationships, shopping, or parental responsibilities.
In Shoes: Chocolate for the Feet, women immediately comprehend this connection between two of Cathy's downfalls-food and shopping. Cathy continues...
Publisher
Andrews McMeel
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"The comic-strip character Cathy, one of America's most famous single career women, finally got married to her hapless longtime boyfriend, Irving--and on Valentine's Day, no less. It's the end of an era-or was it?" --USA Today
"YES."
Rarely has one word, one positive response, resonated so loudly from the world's comic pages. But when leading lady Cathy finally took the plunge--after nearly 30 interminable years!--and accepted boyfriend Irving's...
Publisher
Andrews McMeel
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Cathy has been woman's best friend in matters of love, food, and shopping, although maybe not always in that order! Here is a collection for the frazzled modern woman who is forever plagued by the innate love of chocolate, and who is constantly in search of at least a semi-decent romance in the midst of career demands and parents who always have advice.
Publisher
Andrews McMeel
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
By now, we're all familiar with Cathy's battles among the four basic guilt groups-food, Mom, love, and career. Women can identify with Cathy Guisewite's hilarious portrayal of the universal struggles of modern femininity. A confirmed chocoholic, Cathy often consoles herself with one more trip to the fridge, then pays for it with frightening excursions in department store dressing rooms. Mom pushes Cathy to find the man who will give her grandchildren....
Publisher
Andrews McMeel
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
For years, Cathy and her mother have been working out their relationship on the comic pages in such an honest, relatable, humor-filled way that thousands of mothers and daughters have written to say the comic strip is the single thing that has helped them keep speaking to each other over the years.
In Confessions to My Mother, Cathy helps daughters speak to their mothers in an even more poignant way-with page after page of everything from embarrassing...
18) Dancing through life in a pair of broken heels: extremely short stories for the totally stressed
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English