Tiny pep talks Bite-size encouragement for life's annoying, stressful, and flat-out lousy moments
Book - 2024
"A collection of humorous pep talks to encourage readers to face everyday challenges, in forms ranging from words of advice and fill-in-the-blank letters to songs and crosswords"--
- Subjects
- Genres
- Self-help publications
- Published
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Philadelphia :
Quirk Books
[2024]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Physical Description
- 175 pages : color illustrations ; 16 cm
- ISBN
- 9781683694441
- An introduction to Tiny Pep Talks: Frequently Asked Questions
- You at Home
- For When It's Time to Get Off the Couch and Goto Bed
- For When You Just Remembered Something Really Embarrassing You Said Years Ago
- For When You Should Probably Do Some Kind of Exercise
- For When You Can't Stop Checking WebMD: A Haiku
- For When It's Time to Do Your Taxes (Tiny Coddled Baby Edition)
- For When It's Time to Do Your Taxes (Tough Love Edition)
- For When Your Favorite TV Show Has Just Been Canceled: An Obituary
- For When You Want to Order Delivery but Should Cook
- For When Your Home Is (Really, Really) Messy and People Are Coming Over: A Pop Quiz
- For When You've Had Way Too Much Coffee
- For When Your Clothes Don't Fit
- For When Your Houseplants Are Dying of Thirst
- For When You Want to Leave the Dirty Dishes for Tomorrow: A Permission Slip
- For When It's Terrible Outside but Your Dog Needs to Pee
- For When You Woke Up at 2 AM and Can't Fall Back to Sleep: A Lullaby
- You in the World
- For When You're About to Sing Karaoke
- For When You Have to Make That Appointment You've Been Putting Off for Months
- For When You Have to Parallel Park
- For When You Left Late and Now There's Traffic
- For When You Agreed to Something Months Ago and Now It's Time to Actually Do It
- For When You're Overdressed
- For When You're Underdressed
- For When You're on Hour Six of an Eight-Hour Drive
- For When You're About to Leave fora Big Trip: An In-Flight Announcement
- For When You're Awkwardly Early
- For When Your Phone Battery Is at 5 Percent
- For When You're Really Bad at Something That You've Never Tried Before: A Very Sarcastic Pep Talk
- You & Other People: Strangers & Acquaintances
- For When You're Going to a Party and You Only Know One Person
- For When It's Time to Split the Bill: A Mathematical Equation
- For When You've Had Spinach in Your Teeth All Day and Nobody Told You
- For When Somebody Spoils Your Favorite Show
- For When You Just Spoiled That Show for Someone
- For When You Have to Tell the Server That's Not What You Ordered
- For When You 1,000 Percent Forgot That Guy's Name: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
- For When You Have a Big Juicy Secret That You Absolutely Cannot Share Under Any Circumstances: A Loophole
- For When You're Thinking of Telling Everyone About a Weird Dream You Had Once: A Crossword Puzzle
- For When You Need to Ask the Neighbors to Please, Please, Please Keep It Down
- You & Other People Friends & Family
- For When Your Friend Keeps Suggesting a Podcast That You Have No Interest in Listening To
- For When You're Gonna Have to See That One Cousin
- For When You Think You Might Hate Your Friend's Partner
- For When You're Worried Your Friends Are All Secretly Mad at You
- For When You Forgot Their Birthday
- For When Your Friend is Going Through It and You Don't Know What to Say
- For When You Leave Your Kid with a Babysitter for the First Time
- For When Your Parents Leave You with a Babysitter for the First Time
- For When You're Babysitting for a Family Who's Leaving Their Kid for the First Time
- For When Your Friends Start Having Kids
- For When You Have to Apologize
- For When You Can See Your Parents Gearing Up to Have a Big Conversation Before the End of the Visit
- For When You Forgot to Reply to That Text; A Template
- For When You're Throwing a Party and No One's Here Yet
- You & Work
- For When You Need to Get That Boring Work Thing Done
- For When It's Time for Your Annual Performance Review: A Fill-in-the-Blank
- For When You Have to Send a Scary Email: A Foolproof Checklist
- For When You Sent the Wrong Name in an Email: A Foolproof Checklist
- For When You're Asking for a Raise
- For When the Customer's Wrong
- For When You Know That One Coworker Wants to Chit-Chat: The Board Game
- For When Everyone at Work Apparently Took Stupid Pills Today
- For When You Want to Rage Quit: An Interactive Saga
- For When You Feel Like You're About to Get Fired
- For When You Actually Are Fired
- For When You've Already Asked What Everyone at Lunch Did Last Weekend and Now You're Out of Things to Talk About
- For When You're Out of Vacation Days
- You & Romance
- For When You Have a Little Crush; A News Alert
- For When You're Getting Back on the Dating Apps (Again)
- For When You're About to See Your Ex
- For When You Just Got Ghosted: A Spooky Tale
- For When You Want to Ask Someone Out on a Date: A Top-Secret Mission
- For When Your Crush Starts Dating Someone Else
- For When Everyone Seems to Be in a Relationship but You
- For When Everyone Seems to Be Single but You
- For When You Want to Say "1 Love You" for the First Time
- For When You're Introducing a New Partner to Your Friends
- For When Your Partner's Just Kind of Being Annoying
- For When You Get Dumped
- You & The Big Stuff
- For When It's Monday: An Op-Ed
- For When You Freak Yourself Out Thinking About How Big the Universe Is
- For When You're Living Smack-Dab in Anxiety City: A Real Estate Listing
- For When the News Is Too Much
- For When You're Grieving: Frequently True Clichés
- For When You Really Beefed It, Big Time
- For When You're Celebrating a Win (of Any Size)
- For When Something Is Ending: A Yearbook Sign-Off
- DIY Tiny Pep Talks
- About the Authors