Best Selling Books by Maggie Smith

Explores the men behind what was once the largest industrial building in the world.

When Daisy comes down with chicken pox, Peter proves he’s a friend she can count on: On Monday, he makes her a get-well card–and his stuffed elephant comes to life to deliver it. On Tuesday, he sends two zebras with flowers. By the time five monkeys arrive with balloons on Friday, Daisy is feeling much better. So on Saturday, she delivers a gift of her own–an invitation to come over and play. With very few words, this story speaks volumes about the magic of having a very best friend.

Een prachtige memoir voor iedereen die een scheiding heeft meegemaakt

Logo após seu divórcio, a poeta norte-americana Maggie Smith começou a postar frases inspiracionais no Twitter como uma forma de lembrar a si mesma que poderia superar o término de sua relação. A humanidade contida em seus textos fez seus posts viralizarem, alcançando milhares de pessoas. Neste livro profundamente tocante, composto por frases e ensaios breves, Maggie escreve sobre recomeços serem oportunidades de transformação. Como o kintsugi – a arte japonesa de remendar com ouro a cerâmica quebrada –, Sempre em frente celebra a beleza e a força que existem no outro lado da perda. Este é um livro reconfortante para quem passou por momentos difíceis e agora tenta lidar com a própria dor.

Una mirada sincera y luminosa sobre el final de un matrimonio y el comienzo de una vida nueva. En 2018, la escritora y poeta estadounidense Maggie Smith, casada y madre de dos hijos, descubre que su marido tiene una relación con otra mujer. En cuestión de días, la realidad que había construido durante más de veinte años se derrumba y da paso a un dolor que convertirá, a través de la escritura, en un renovado compromiso consigo misma. A base de pequeñas viñetas, pieza a pieza, Smith traza una reflexión llena de empatía y humor sobre la desintegración de un matrimonio que es también un ajuste de cuentas con la feminidad contemporánea, los roles tradicionales de género y las dinámicas de poder que persisten incluso en las parejas más modernas. Página a página, estos fragmentos terminan erigiéndose en un interrogatorio a la familia, el trabajo y el amor. El resultado son estas memorias fragmentarias, una obra de descarnada sinceridad que nos cuenta cómo, tras la pérdida y la rabia, podemos redescubrirnos y hacer de todo ello algo nuevo y bonito. «Este libro es un regalo.» Leslie Jamison «Una metadisección del acto de escribir sobre un suceso desgarrador y en carne viva. Es también una excavación, la investigación de un asesinato, un intento de responder a preguntas que en sí mismas son difíciles de articular. ¿Qué ocurrió? ¿Por qué? ¿Hubo una sola causa? ¿Es posible hacer las paces con lo desconocido?» Sarah Lyall (The New York Times) «Un libro extraordinario.» Ann Patchett «Como crónica de un divorcio y meditación sobre la maternidad, es inquebrantable, revelador y está exquisitamente escrito.» Hannah Beckerman (The Guardian)

Desperate to reboot her life, Megan Barnes gets her chance when she meets Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jocelyn Jones. Before long, Megan is pulled into the heady world of fame and influence her charismatic new mentor represents.

Instant New York Times bestselling author and poet Maggie Smith returns with a new collection of poems on the sometimes-blurry distinction between mind and body, and how the self shifts and moves through time and space. The title of Maggie Smith’s new collection comes from the eponymous poem: You ask what I’ll miss about this life. Everything but cruelty, I think. But you want one specific thing, so here—I’ll miss my body. I’ll miss its companionship, how it’s traveled with me, never leaving me—& by me, I mean my mind. my body hasn’t traveled with me. I’ve traveled inside it. Do I wear it, or does it carry me? Is the body a suit, or a suitcase? Within, poems turn over the strange relationships between the body and the mind, the self and the world. With her signature tenderness and clarity of observation, and with stunning swoops of imagination, Smith considers—and reconsiders—what it is to be human: Does one life matter in the grand scheme of space and time? How can it be that we are the same people we were ten, twenty, or thirty years ago, but also different people? And could there be more to life, just beyond the borders of we can experience? Each poem is an ode to the power of our minds, and proof that both a life and a self, whether within a suit or a suitcase, is infinitely expandable.

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She may not be the Downton Dame, but Maggie Smith is also in her mid-eighties - and a writer whose first three decades encompassed World War II and massive post-war social changes. This is not a misery memoir but a tale of the survival of a bright girl from a family where only a boy would have been worthy of higher education. Written with energy and humour, it was intended originally only for her own family, but readers of all ages have enjoyed the more unusual anecdotes you won''t read in social history book. How many children do you know who were evacuated while sitting on crates of TNT in the back of an ammunition lorry? Did you know that in 1956 women in the Civil Service could on marriage forgo their pension and take instead a dowry of a month''s salary for every year they had worked? Or that Swedish furniture was trendy in the fifties, well before IKEA ? A fascinating read!

"A smart, twisty cat-and-mouse revenge tale." - Robert Dugoni, NY Times Best Selling Author of the Tracy Crosswhite series An ambitious district attorney. An enemy she can''t see. A daughter at risk. From the author of the award-winning Truth and Other Lies comes a gripping suspense novel about an ambitious prosecutor on the hunt for her sadistic stalker, only to find herself framed for murder when he turns up dead. Rachel Matthews is used to stress-from the cutthroat world of the district attorney''s office to her escalating clashes with her teenage daughter. So when a stranger sends a lavish bouquet with a macabre message and leaves a disturbing video on her doorstep, she''s quick to act. Teaming up with an old classmate turned private investigator, she wades through old case files, searching for someone harboring a grudge against her. But before she has time to pinpoint a suspect, her stalker issues a demand-he wants money, lots of it, or he''ll hurt her daughter. In a dangerous gamble, Rachel agrees to meet her stalker on an isolated beach, only to find herself fleeing from a shocking crime scene. Can she solve the puzzle of who wants to destroy her before she loses her family, her career, and her freedom? Fans of Scott Turow''s Presumed Innocent will embrace this taut tale of long-simmering revenge right up to its surprising and twisty climax.

A liberatory anthology of twenty-six writers—a community in book form—charting paths ahead for action and care in the face of political uncertainty, curated by Maggie Smith and Saeed Jones. Inspired by Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith’s conversations in the wake of the 2024 election, this is a collection of poems, essays, and visual art on what we—individually and collectively—can hold onto, and what we can work towards. In times of difficulty, with a government working against its own people, we must turn to our friends and loved ones to provide context, language, energy, and hope. The People’s Project offers a range of perspectives, drawing wisdom from their communities and histories: from know-your-place aggression to crip time as a way forward, from finding strength in nature to how trans people provide a guide for the future, and how hope has everything to do with survival. We hope these meditations and strategies will provide you with inspiration and fortitude for the years ahead. Featuring original and selected work from Alexander Chee, Chase Strangio, Tiana Clark, Hala Alyan, Aubrey Hirsch, Imani Perry, Abi Maxwell, Victoria Chang, Koritha Mitchell, Jason Silverstein, Alice Wong, Mira Jacob, Aruni Kashyap, Sam Sax, Ashley C. Ford, Marlon James, Eula Biss, Randall Mann, Danez Smith, Ada Limon, Kiese Laymon, Joy Harjo, Jill Damatac, and Patricia Smith.

"Tight and purposeful as a fable, The List of Dangers gives us sorrows and warnings from a world imbalanced by beasts and little beauties. The images are precise as a child''s playroom--keyholes, miniature candelabra, the ''trebly notes'' of wrens and gypsies-- but perilous in their tender transformations. Maggie Smith''s rich lyric gifts produce here a poetry of balancing composure in the face of peril and pretty chance." --David Baker, author of Midwest Eclogue "In Maggie Smith''s The List of Dangers, as in the Brothers Grimm, we learn early how hazardous life is and how eagerly our fate awaits us. In these inventive new poems, Smith borrows elements from folktales, fairy tales, and fables to remind us once again that ''Nothing stays good for long'' and ''No one [is] preserved.'' And just as before, we''re thrilled by each tale and tickled to death at our own imperilment." --Kathy Fagan, author of Lip

A worry settled deep into my claws. Attila the Hummer is the meanest, nastiest, toughest one of the bunch, and now he''s my group leader!

Spooky Stitches is a black and white counted cross-stitch pattern book featuring 8 creepy designs, including a detailed Halloween calendar. This book of charts is sized for common Aida 14 and features DMC colors. Happy stitching!

Wonderful assortment of Christmas Gnome patterns perfect for ornaments, cards, and other small applications. Largest pattern: 75 crosses tall Finished size: Higher fabric count = smaller gnome (Aida 14 = 5 inches tall) Features: One Page Patterns!! Uses DMC Colors No fractional stitches No back-stitching Large detailed designs Easy to read symbol key Full-color pattern, key, and floss list

A little girl, given good tools and seeds, begins to grow a garden that needs water, sun, weeding, and her encouragement.

''Arriving Where I Started'', a memoir of my first three decades, ended a little cryptically with ''We were embarking on an awfully big adventure.'' And so it proved. Sadly, my marriage did not survive, but that is as much my children''s story as mine and our versions may differ. I have no interest in sharing the details. I was, however, faced with the need to build some kind of career while doing the best I could for three children nearing adolescence. I''ve reflected here on the opportunities and difficulties I, and many other women, faced in the 1970s and have explored the definition of ''work''. As a freelance, I worked in what in some ways resembled the current gig economy, though rather better paid. I''ve selected the more interesting and often amusing events, framed by major social developments, especially the growth of feminism. I have been lucky in needing fewer than the fingers of one hand to mark the times I''ve not looked forward to a working day. However, for many, equality and a fulfilled life are still a distant dream.

East Surry High School Senior Maggie Smith''s first book of poetry was her senior project in 2013.

An American original! This collection catches the life of a contemporary woman in the last five decades. It is a life lived with intensity & an awareness of the complexity of things. The language is simple & musical. Sudden, quirky images tumble through the lyrical internal rhymes & explode into a new awareness of the cultural shadows that inform our life. SONGS OF A FAR-WALKING WOMAN leads us to experience the dazzling whirl of snow on a frosty morning, to feel the call of the lost wilderness, to see the hidden human trauma in the business world & to find, in the deaths of three men from the Red Lake Reservation, the quiet acceptance of things as they are. Joined with these & informing it all is the quiet exploration of a deep religious faith which continues to question & discover. From her beginnings on a sheep ranch in western Canada, Maggie Smith has traveled far. She shares with us the beauty of that journey as well as the darker mysteries & forces that we know are there. She leaves us, as all poets should, with a new way of seeing & a sense of surprise.

This notebook has a gradient cover from pink to purple to blue. Has white stars that look like they''re raining down. Great for people in school. lined interior, 120 pages, 6'''' x 9''''

The best thing about this simple planner is that it is fully customizable to your needs. Use it for an appointment book, task tracking, organizing, to-do lists, nutrition tracking, and much, much more! This planner was designed with you in mind. It is logical and practical. Best of all, it is SIMPLE. Features: Yearly overview page Monthly view with task list space, tracking and notes section 2 page calendar spread Space for notes and reflection after every month Large 8.5 x 11 size High quality construction and premium gloss cover Pick yours up today!

"Inspirational Cross Stitch is a collection of motivational sayings intended to uplift and promote positive mental health. These carefully crafted charts were designed with the stitcher in mind. The patterns are clear and easy to read and the floss key makes planning your project easy. Designed by needlework artist Maggie Smith of Magpie Cross Stitch, these modern designs will make a wonderful addition to your pattern collection. Happy Stitching!" --