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Normal Is Just a Setting on the Dryer - And Other Lessons from the Real Real World - cover

Normal Is Just a Setting on the Dryer - And Other Lessons from the Real Real World

Adair Lara

Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC

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Summary

When the self-help books just aren’t helping, it’s time to call in the experts: real people . . .  
 
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Adair Lara polled her readers for life lessons learned through experience, receiving thousands of heartfelt and irreverent responses. The best are compiled here in more than two hundred bits of priceless counsel, accompanied by witty, whimsical illustrations by award-winning artist Roxanna Bikadoroff.  
 
This handy little volume is filled with humor, unconventional insights, and the kind of common wisdom that will always bear repeating.
Available since: 02/01/2013.
Print length: 192 pages.

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