Best Selling Books by Emma McLaughlin

The bestselling authors of The Nanny Diaries introduce a new heroine to root for: Jesse O''Rourke, coffee barista, high school senior, and unwitting reality TV star. Imagine there was never a Laguna Beach, a Newport Harbor, the shimmering Hills. Imagine that your hometown—your school—is the first place XTV descends to set up cameras. Now imagine they''ve trained them on you. When Jesse O''Rourke gets picked for a "documentary" being filmed at her school in the Hamptons she''s tempted to turn down the offer. But there''s a tuition check attached to being on the show, and Jesse needs the cash so she can be the first in her family to attend college. All she has to do is trade her best friend for the glam clique she''s studiously avoided, her privacy for a 24/7 mike, and her sense of right and wrong for "what sells on camera." . . . At least there''s one bright spot in the train wreck that is her suddenly public senior year: Jesse''s crush has also made the cast. As the producers manipulate the lives of their "characters" to heighten the drama, and Us Weekly covers become a regular occurrence for Jesse, she must struggle to remember one thing: the difference between real and the real real.

During the last two years, I had my first experience in working with people with cancer. After 25 years of clinical practice, a PhD, and 8 years working as an academic, I was suddenly immersed in a caseload I did not feel comfortable with. I was not comfortable because I did not feel like an u201cexpertu201d. I soon learned that the u201cexpertsu201d were my patients.I am a speech pathologist working in a rural area of Victoria, Australia. After specialising in working with people with a neurological diagnosis, I now was also working with people with cancer. The tables had turned.Talking to people that had had treatment for head and neck cancer opened my eyes to the things that really mattered: u201csounding normalu201d, u201chaving a beeru201d, u201cbeing able to get up onto the tractoru201d, u201ceating pork cracklingu201d, and u201cbeing OK with dyingu201d.I also received referrals for people with breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, brain cancer, and other malignancies. Difficulties with word finding, remembering names, swallowing, and wanting to be a u201cJazz Singeru201d once again were recognised by my team as a flag to refer to speech pathology. The Speech Pathologist plays a vital role in the cancer survivorship team. From preventing aspiration pneumonia, to giving survivors a voice. A loud voice.

Nanny strever med å beholde sin dyre, men mikroskopiske leilighet i New York samtidig som hun tar eksamen ved universitetet. For å spe på inntektene blir hun barnepike for enebarnet i den rike familien X. Det tar ikke lang tid før hun forstår av det skal en stor porsjon innsats til for at en kvinne på Park Avenue, som verken kan arbeide, lage mat, vaske eller oppdra sitt eneste barn, skal kunne ha en fin dag. Romanen viser hvordan Amerikas rikinger oppdrar sine unge håpefulle og daglig bruker sine barn som trofeer og synlige bevis på sin egen vellykkethet. Boka er skrevet av to tidligere barnepiker som med humor og satire avdekker hulheten til den glamorøse overklassen på Manhattan. Serien "Peaches" er chick-lit for jenter som liker å lese om humor, intriger, kjærlighet, vennskap og glede. Fortelling for ungdomstrinnet.

A young NYU graduate takes a job as a nanny, caring for the overprivileged four-year-old son of a wealthy Manhattan family.

Na dertien jaar ontmoet een vrouw haar ex-schoolvriendje en blijkt opnieuw als een blok voor hem te vallen.