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9781580084802 | Ten Speed Pr, August 31, 2010, cover price $15.99

Miscellaneous:

9781580086561 | Ten Speed Pr, August 31, 2010, cover price $14.99

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Product Description: Naked, Drunk and Writing is a funny, anecdotal and highly useful guide to writing personal essays and memoirs by Adair Lara, a popular columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle for 12 years.

Paperback:

9780578012452 | Lulu.Com, March 30, 2009, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Naked, Drunk and Writing is a funny, anecdotal and highly useful guide to writing personal essays and memoirs by Adair Lara, a popular columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle for 12 years.

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Product Description: This delightful guide gives new grandmas clear direction on how to navigate foreign territory. Celebrated columnist Adair Lara advises on how to choose a decent name (Oopsie? Boopsie?). She outlines how to give advice without getting a Dr...read more
By Adair Lara and Patricia Storms (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780811857321 | Chronicle Books Llc, December 27, 2007, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This delightful guide gives new grandmas clear direction on how to navigate foreign territory.

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Product Description: You know you're a writer when. . . You'll never forgive your parents for your happy childhood.. . . The doctor tells you that you have terminal cancer and you think, "I can use this.". . . You accidentally sign a check with your pen name...read more

Hardcover:

9780811860796, titled "You Know You're a Writer When…" | Chronicle Books Llc, September 27, 2007, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: You know you're a writer when.

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Product Description: With over 50,000 copies sold of Normal Is Just a Setting on the Dryer, award-winning writer Adair Lara returns with more heartfelt wisdom for, and by, real people. From wry advice on life's daily challenges: "If you wonder if your pants are too short, they are," to pithy confirmation on the good things in life: "Orange food rarely disappoints," and rife with aphorisms more honest than your friends: "No trip planned after the third bottle of pinot noir will ever happen...read more
By Roxanne Bikadoroff (illustrator) and Adair Lara

Hardcover:

9780811856133 | Chronicle Books Llc, May 10, 2007, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: With over 50,000 copies sold of Normal Is Just a Setting on the Dryer, award-winning writer Adair Lara returns with more heartfelt wisdom for, and by, real people.

A mother asks rhyming questions as she applies ice, bandages, and kisses to make her child's bumps and scrapes all better.
By Jennifer Herbert (illustrator) and Adair Lara

Hardcover:

9780811840514 | Chronicle Books Llc, October 1, 2004, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A mother asks rhyming questions as she applies ice, bandages, and kisses to make her child's bumps and scrapes all better.

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A collection of life lessons and practical advice, culled by the San Francisco Chronicle columnist from her readers, offers 200 bits of humorous and unconventional counsel on such areas as dating, aesthetics, and self-image. Original.
By Roxanna Bikadoroff (illustrator) and Adair Lara

Paperback:

9780811838245 | Chronicle Books Llc, April 1, 2003, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A collection of life lessons and practical advice, culled by the San Francisco Chronicle columnist from her readers, offers 200 bits of humorous and unconventional counsel on such areas as dating, aesthetics, and self-image.

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Product Description: A "San Francisco Chronicle" columnist celebrates the many ways people find peace in life's small, cherished moments, such as how her mother treasured the quiet time spent hanging the family's laundry on a clothesline, refusing a dryer even when she could afford one.

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9781573247726 | Conari Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A "San Francisco Chronicle" columnist celebrates the many ways people find peace in life's small, cherished moments, such as how her mother treasured the quiet time spent hanging the family's laundry on a clothesline, refusing a dryer even when she could afford one.

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An award-winning newspaper columnist provides a candid memoir of dealing with a teenage daughter whose rebellion is spinning out of control as she describes her daughter's transformation from loving child to angry, secretive adolescent involved in drinking, drugs, running away, failing school, and more, in a portrait of motherhood and the healing power of love and family. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780767905077 | Broadway Books, February 1, 2001, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A newspaper columnist provides a candid memoir of dealing with a a teenage daughter whose rebellion is spinning out of control as she describes her daughter's transformation from loving child to angry, secretive adolescent involved in drinking, drugs, and failing school.

Paperback:

9780767905084, titled "Hold Me Close, Let Me Go: A Mother, a Daughter and an Adolescence Survived" | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, March 1, 2002), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: An award-winning newspaper columnist provides a candid memoir of dealing with a teenage daughter whose rebellion is spinning out of control as she describes her daughter's transformation from loving child to angry, secretive adolescent involved in drinking, drugs, running away, failing school, and more, in a portrait of motherhood and the healing power of love and family.

Miscellaneous:

9780767909303, titled "Hold Me Close, Let Me Go: A Mother, a Daughter and an Adolescence Survived" | Crown Pub, July 3, 2001, cover price $19.00

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781575110905 | Abridged edition (Publishing Mills, October 1, 2001), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A newspaper columnist provides a candid memoir of dealing with a teenager whose rebellion is spinning out of control as she describers her daughter's transformation from loving child to angry, secretive adolescent involved in drinking, drugs, running away, and failing school, in a portrait of motherhood and the healing power of love and family.

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Product Description: La vida de todo el mundo se ha acelerado en los últimos tiempos. Este libro es el resultado de esa petición. Personas de diferentes condiciones explican sus trucos para relajarse. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9788489920064, titled "Como encontrar la serenidad en un mundo acelerado / How to Find Serenity in a Fast-Paced World" | Oniro, March 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: La vida de todo el mundo se ha acelerado en los últimos tiempos.

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Product Description: Adair Lara was a longtime San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. At Adair's house you might find chaos, but you'll also find a lot of laughter. San Francisco Chronicle's beloved Adair Lara is back with a new collection of the best of her columns, a compendium of adventures and tribulations that will not only make you giggle, but nod with recognition...read more

Paperback:

9780811804981 | Chronicle Books Llc, May 1, 1995, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Adair Lara was a longtime San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.

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Discusses some of the many ways individuals have discovered to slow down the hectic pace of their worlds and offers suggestions and inspirational quotes that can put readers on the road less trampled. Original. 35,000 first printing.

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9780943233574 | Conari Pr, February 1, 1994, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Discusses some of the many ways individuals have discovered to slow down the hectic pace of their worlds and offers suggestions and inspirational quotes that can put readers on the road less trampled.

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Product Description: Tales of a single mother

Paperback:

9780811800907 | Chronicle Books Llc, April 1, 1992, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Tales of a single mother

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