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From the author of Thinning the Herd and Weirdly Beloved, here is a new and even more irreverent compendium about those who have filtered out of the gene pool, either by their own stupidity or dumb luck.
Book Synopsis Unlucky Stiffs by : Cynthia Ceilán
Download or read book Unlucky Stiffs written by Cynthia Ceilán and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Thinning the Herd and Weirdly Beloved, here is a new and even more irreverent compendium about those who have filtered out of the gene pool, either by their own stupidity or dumb luck.
This powerful and deeply inspirational handbook is for anyone coping with serious illness or injury--be it theirs or that of a loved one--who wants and needs to help themselves through the healing process. Offering her own experience with breast cancer, as well as stories from other authors who have suffered from illnesses or severe injuries--from Stephen King to Lance Armstrong--Abercrombie encourages readers to write what is in their hearts and to benefit from the power of shared experience. Using writing as therapy, Writing Out the Storm is a book about healing the soul.
Book Synopsis Writing Out the Storm by : Barbara Abercrombie
Download or read book Writing Out the Storm written by Barbara Abercrombie and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-10-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful and deeply inspirational handbook is for anyone coping with serious illness or injury--be it theirs or that of a loved one--who wants and needs to help themselves through the healing process. Offering her own experience with breast cancer, as well as stories from other authors who have suffered from illnesses or severe injuries--from Stephen King to Lance Armstrong--Abercrombie encourages readers to write what is in their hearts and to benefit from the power of shared experience. Using writing as therapy, Writing Out the Storm is a book about healing the soul.
The book title “A Telling Experience” has a double meaning: 1) something curious that you were part of, and 2) the sharing of your particular story. An experience becomes even more meaningful by being told. The thing may be familiar, or it may be as strange as The Twilight Zone but true. The idea of this book is that everybody’s life is somehow a Tall Tale. This book is my Tall Tale: my ordinary, strange, telling experience. A bewildered youth, a bumbling smitten young adult, a middle-age striver, finally a would-be philosopher. It’s a wild ride. You’ll laugh your head off and cry your eyes out, I promise! It’s a bizarre collection, every chapter a story of its own, and every story a very Tall Tale! Each story is somehow like your own story, and in some way like everybody else’s story too! We’re all in the same boat, it seems! That’s a comforting thought overall. Misery loves company and, especially, so does joy!
Book Synopsis A Telling Experience by : Richard M. Trask
Download or read book A Telling Experience written by Richard M. Trask and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book title “A Telling Experience” has a double meaning: 1) something curious that you were part of, and 2) the sharing of your particular story. An experience becomes even more meaningful by being told. The thing may be familiar, or it may be as strange as The Twilight Zone but true. The idea of this book is that everybody’s life is somehow a Tall Tale. This book is my Tall Tale: my ordinary, strange, telling experience. A bewildered youth, a bumbling smitten young adult, a middle-age striver, finally a would-be philosopher. It’s a wild ride. You’ll laugh your head off and cry your eyes out, I promise! It’s a bizarre collection, every chapter a story of its own, and every story a very Tall Tale! Each story is somehow like your own story, and in some way like everybody else’s story too! We’re all in the same boat, it seems! That’s a comforting thought overall. Misery loves company and, especially, so does joy!
Arthur Drake, a teenage gang leader in London, crosses the line and has to flee England. Shanghaied, he spends over two years aboard ship on the Downey Cruiser. Art and four friends escape into California and end up in the gold fields in 1848. Being some of the first, they strike it rich. The captain of the Downey Cruiser recaptures Big Mac and Arthur in Sacramento. They are taken back to England, in irons, to be hanged. Mabel and friends sail aboard a fast clipper ship, arrive ahead of them, and help them escape the noose. In their absence, things in California have gotten worse. Murder and thievery plague the mining camps. Art is seriously wounded as they try to bring law and order to the area.
Book Synopsis English by : Bruce Drake
Download or read book English written by Bruce Drake and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Drake, a teenage gang leader in London, crosses the line and has to flee England. Shanghaied, he spends over two years aboard ship on the Downey Cruiser. Art and four friends escape into California and end up in the gold fields in 1848. Being some of the first, they strike it rich. The captain of the Downey Cruiser recaptures Big Mac and Arthur in Sacramento. They are taken back to England, in irons, to be hanged. Mabel and friends sail aboard a fast clipper ship, arrive ahead of them, and help them escape the noose. In their absence, things in California have gotten worse. Murder and thievery plague the mining camps. Art is seriously wounded as they try to bring law and order to the area.
This award-winning book for reluctant readers is a fascinating collection of remarkable deaths--and not for the faint of heart. Over the course of history, men and women have lived and died. In fact, getting sick and dying can be a big, ugly mess--especially before the modern medical care that we all enjoy today. From King Tut's ancient autopsy to Albert Einstein's great brain escape, How They Croaked contains all the gory details of the awful ends of nineteen awfully famous people. Don't miss the companion, How They Choked!
Book Synopsis How They Croaked by : Georgia Bragg
Download or read book How They Croaked written by Georgia Bragg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning book for reluctant readers is a fascinating collection of remarkable deaths--and not for the faint of heart. Over the course of history, men and women have lived and died. In fact, getting sick and dying can be a big, ugly mess--especially before the modern medical care that we all enjoy today. From King Tut's ancient autopsy to Albert Einstein's great brain escape, How They Croaked contains all the gory details of the awful ends of nineteen awfully famous people. Don't miss the companion, How They Choked!
The Hells Angels. The Bandidos. Asian triads. Russian mobsters and corrupt cops. Even the KKK. Just part of a day's work for Alex Caine, an undercover agent who has seen it all. Alex Caine started life as a working-class boy who always thought he'd end up in a blue-collar job. But after a tour in Vietnam and a stretch in prison on marijuana-possession charges, he fell into the cloak-and-dagger world of a contracted agent or "kite": infiltrating criminal groups that cops across North America and around the globe were unable to penetrate themselves. Thanks to his quick-wittedness and his tough but unthreatening demeanor, Caine could fit into whatever unsavory situation he found himself. Over twenty-five years, his assignments ran the gamut from bad-ass bikers to triad toughs. When a job was over, he'd slip away to a new part of the continent or world, where he would assume a new identity and then go back to work on another group of bad guys. Told with page-turning immediacy, Befriend and Betray gives a candid look behind the scenes at some familiar police operations and blows the lid off others that law enforcement would much prefer to keep hidden. And it offers an unvarnished account of the toll such a life takes, one that often left Caine to wonder who he really was, behind those decades of assumed identities. Or whether justice was ever truly served.
Book Synopsis Befriend and Betray by : Alex Caine
Download or read book Befriend and Betray written by Alex Caine and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hells Angels. The Bandidos. Asian triads. Russian mobsters and corrupt cops. Even the KKK. Just part of a day's work for Alex Caine, an undercover agent who has seen it all. Alex Caine started life as a working-class boy who always thought he'd end up in a blue-collar job. But after a tour in Vietnam and a stretch in prison on marijuana-possession charges, he fell into the cloak-and-dagger world of a contracted agent or "kite": infiltrating criminal groups that cops across North America and around the globe were unable to penetrate themselves. Thanks to his quick-wittedness and his tough but unthreatening demeanor, Caine could fit into whatever unsavory situation he found himself. Over twenty-five years, his assignments ran the gamut from bad-ass bikers to triad toughs. When a job was over, he'd slip away to a new part of the continent or world, where he would assume a new identity and then go back to work on another group of bad guys. Told with page-turning immediacy, Befriend and Betray gives a candid look behind the scenes at some familiar police operations and blows the lid off others that law enforcement would much prefer to keep hidden. And it offers an unvarnished account of the toll such a life takes, one that often left Caine to wonder who he really was, behind those decades of assumed identities. Or whether justice was ever truly served.
"Blood & Roses" is a tale of unspeakable acts of murder, misguided religious fervor and abject avoidance of anything human. A joint services Anti-Terrorist Special Operations Unit is ruthlessly slaughtered in the endless wild forests of Gray's Harbor County, Washington. The only calling card left behind by some murderous hoard is a wreath of blood-stained white roses next to the shredded remains of Yankee heroes! A Deputy Sheriff with an interesting history is asked by the Navy Judge Advocate General's Office, with permission from the Penatagon, to handle the investigation. He, along with fellow law enforcement and military specialists, chase shadows from coast to coast. A virtual quagmire of wild-goose-chases; false leeds, miss-information, miss-direction, attempts on thier lives, close calls, near misses and outright blackmail leads to the formation of a super-secret unit. Working surepticiously for the CIA, the Tyche Factor (Tyche - Greek and Roman mythological term for 'luck') follows fantical fundamentalist Islamic Jihadists from the waters of the Willapa Bay, Washington, to the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, to the Pasayten Wilderness back in Washington State, to Canada, and to Puget Sound. Eventually, the Factor uncovers a diabolical sceme to kill our President; the Prime Minister of Canada, two pro football teams, and some 70,000 fans at the Universtiy of Washington. In the process, a SEAL Vice Admiral's daughter, a Navy Lieutenant Commander and Tyche Factor member, is kidnapped by al-Quada mujahideens. The story then takes the Tyche Factor into the fires of hell going after their fellow unit agent. This is a tale of exactly how the shadow world of field operations Intelligence assets function. It ain't pretty; however, it is pretty accurate.
Book Synopsis Blood & Roses by : C. Edward Samuels
Download or read book Blood & Roses written by C. Edward Samuels and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Blood & Roses" is a tale of unspeakable acts of murder, misguided religious fervor and abject avoidance of anything human. A joint services Anti-Terrorist Special Operations Unit is ruthlessly slaughtered in the endless wild forests of Gray's Harbor County, Washington. The only calling card left behind by some murderous hoard is a wreath of blood-stained white roses next to the shredded remains of Yankee heroes! A Deputy Sheriff with an interesting history is asked by the Navy Judge Advocate General's Office, with permission from the Penatagon, to handle the investigation. He, along with fellow law enforcement and military specialists, chase shadows from coast to coast. A virtual quagmire of wild-goose-chases; false leeds, miss-information, miss-direction, attempts on thier lives, close calls, near misses and outright blackmail leads to the formation of a super-secret unit. Working surepticiously for the CIA, the Tyche Factor (Tyche - Greek and Roman mythological term for 'luck') follows fantical fundamentalist Islamic Jihadists from the waters of the Willapa Bay, Washington, to the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, to the Pasayten Wilderness back in Washington State, to Canada, and to Puget Sound. Eventually, the Factor uncovers a diabolical sceme to kill our President; the Prime Minister of Canada, two pro football teams, and some 70,000 fans at the Universtiy of Washington. In the process, a SEAL Vice Admiral's daughter, a Navy Lieutenant Commander and Tyche Factor member, is kidnapped by al-Quada mujahideens. The story then takes the Tyche Factor into the fires of hell going after their fellow unit agent. This is a tale of exactly how the shadow world of field operations Intelligence assets function. It ain't pretty; however, it is pretty accurate.
A hard-edged businessman and a beautiful art expert make a tantalizing mind-body connection at a new age resort until a killer threatens their piece of paradise in this “fun-filled and sensational tale by the incomparable Jayne Ann Krentz” (RT Book Reviews). Alexa Chambers has a flair for style, an eye for art, and a reputation in tatters after blowing the whistle on an employer who was selling fakes to wealthy clients. Now she runs a shop in her Arizona hometown, but she’s determined to rebuild her career even if it means taking risks. She begins secretly consults on an exquisite art collection being installed at the new Avalon Resorts. Her scheme might just work—if she can steer clear of the resort’s owner, the enigmatic and possibly dangerous J. L. Trask. Alexa was a scared teenager the last time she saw Trask, the man who accused her stepfather of murder. Insisting his dad’s fatal car crash had been no accident, Trask vowed one day he’d come back to Avalon for revenge. Now, twelve years later, their meeting is inevitable. Their attraction is immediate. And their chances of bliss are infinitesimal. Trask wants to piece together the past with Alexa’s help and get closer to this dazzling deco diva. Alexa wants to protect her family and figure out Trask’s real motivations. But when a killer emerges from the shadows, they have no choice but to team up to solve a deadly crime from long ago. As they trade sizzling sparks and snappy repartee, their trail leads to a trendy spa called the Dimensions Institute, whose flaky denizens and strange atmosphere suggest there is more hidden there than meets the eye. They don’t need a crystal ball to see that their survival—and relationship—depends on more than tantric breathing or a heavenly passion. They need a little help from a higher power: a true and trustworthy love.
Book Synopsis Eye of the Beholder by : Jayne Ann Krentz
Download or read book Eye of the Beholder written by Jayne Ann Krentz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hard-edged businessman and a beautiful art expert make a tantalizing mind-body connection at a new age resort until a killer threatens their piece of paradise in this “fun-filled and sensational tale by the incomparable Jayne Ann Krentz” (RT Book Reviews). Alexa Chambers has a flair for style, an eye for art, and a reputation in tatters after blowing the whistle on an employer who was selling fakes to wealthy clients. Now she runs a shop in her Arizona hometown, but she’s determined to rebuild her career even if it means taking risks. She begins secretly consults on an exquisite art collection being installed at the new Avalon Resorts. Her scheme might just work—if she can steer clear of the resort’s owner, the enigmatic and possibly dangerous J. L. Trask. Alexa was a scared teenager the last time she saw Trask, the man who accused her stepfather of murder. Insisting his dad’s fatal car crash had been no accident, Trask vowed one day he’d come back to Avalon for revenge. Now, twelve years later, their meeting is inevitable. Their attraction is immediate. And their chances of bliss are infinitesimal. Trask wants to piece together the past with Alexa’s help and get closer to this dazzling deco diva. Alexa wants to protect her family and figure out Trask’s real motivations. But when a killer emerges from the shadows, they have no choice but to team up to solve a deadly crime from long ago. As they trade sizzling sparks and snappy repartee, their trail leads to a trendy spa called the Dimensions Institute, whose flaky denizens and strange atmosphere suggest there is more hidden there than meets the eye. They don’t need a crystal ball to see that their survival—and relationship—depends on more than tantric breathing or a heavenly passion. They need a little help from a higher power: a true and trustworthy love.
MEET DYLAN, a Mountie who is handcuffed and on the run with his beautiful but frustrating "pretend" wife, Lily. Rugged Mountie Dylan Wayburn goes undercover as a drifter in a stagecoach and is seated across from a gorgeous redhead from his past, Lily Cromwell. She doesn’t recognize him at first, but she was once his family servant. My, how her fortunes have turned—she’s struck gold and is now Klondike Lily, the richest woman in town. She’s too fancy for the likes of him now, and could blow his cover sky-high. All the gold in the world can’t help Lily find her missing sister. She dreams of a reunion while trying to ignore the obnoxious drifter in her stagecoach. When they’re ambushed by a notorious gang after Lily’s fortune, Dylan and Lily escape while shackled to each other in chains. To find the criminals undercover, they pretend to be married. A pretend lover is not what Dylan had in mind, especially to the uncompromising Lily who won’t let him forget his past mistakes, and stirs the heated passion in his soul. All of the books in this sexy historical romance series are standalone novels. Don't miss any of these exciting ALASKA COWBOYS and MOUNTIES, by USA TODAY bestselling author Kate Bridges! Book 1: COLT Book 2: LUKE Book 3: DYLAN Book 4: WESTON Book 5: QUINN Book 6: BRANT Book 7: HARRISON Book 8: JAMES Book 9: JOHN Book 10: WYATT Praise for DYLAN: “...masterful writing...” -Romance Junkies “Kate Bridges’ Mounties are some of the best heroes around. Strong, capable, and very sexy…” -CataRomance “Kate Bridges does for the Mounties what Jodi Thomas does for the Texas Rangers—she makes them come to life as full-blown heroes who risk their lives, and their hearts, every day.” -Romance Reviews Today
Book Synopsis Dylan by : Kate Bridges
Download or read book Dylan written by Kate Bridges and published by Cabin Lake Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MEET DYLAN, a Mountie who is handcuffed and on the run with his beautiful but frustrating "pretend" wife, Lily. Rugged Mountie Dylan Wayburn goes undercover as a drifter in a stagecoach and is seated across from a gorgeous redhead from his past, Lily Cromwell. She doesn’t recognize him at first, but she was once his family servant. My, how her fortunes have turned—she’s struck gold and is now Klondike Lily, the richest woman in town. She’s too fancy for the likes of him now, and could blow his cover sky-high. All the gold in the world can’t help Lily find her missing sister. She dreams of a reunion while trying to ignore the obnoxious drifter in her stagecoach. When they’re ambushed by a notorious gang after Lily’s fortune, Dylan and Lily escape while shackled to each other in chains. To find the criminals undercover, they pretend to be married. A pretend lover is not what Dylan had in mind, especially to the uncompromising Lily who won’t let him forget his past mistakes, and stirs the heated passion in his soul. All of the books in this sexy historical romance series are standalone novels. Don't miss any of these exciting ALASKA COWBOYS and MOUNTIES, by USA TODAY bestselling author Kate Bridges! Book 1: COLT Book 2: LUKE Book 3: DYLAN Book 4: WESTON Book 5: QUINN Book 6: BRANT Book 7: HARRISON Book 8: JAMES Book 9: JOHN Book 10: WYATT Praise for DYLAN: “...masterful writing...” -Romance Junkies “Kate Bridges’ Mounties are some of the best heroes around. Strong, capable, and very sexy…” -CataRomance “Kate Bridges does for the Mounties what Jodi Thomas does for the Texas Rangers—she makes them come to life as full-blown heroes who risk their lives, and their hearts, every day.” -Romance Reviews Today
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics, now with special bonus material by the author—soon to be a Showtime limited series “It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read.”—The Washington Post Book World Named one of the 10 Best Books of the Decade by Entertainment Weekly • Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize A “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book” (Newsweek), hailed as Chabon’s “magnum opus” (The New York Review of Books), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a triumph of originality, imagination, and storytelling, an exuberant, irresistible novel that begins in New York City in 1939. A young escape artist and budding magician named Joe Kavalier arrives on the doorstep of his cousin, Sammy Clay. While the long shadow of Hitler falls across Europe, America is happily in thrall to the Golden Age of comic books, and in a distant corner of Brooklyn, Sammy is looking for a way to cash in on the craze. He finds the ideal partner in the aloof, artistically gifted Joe, and together they embark on an adventure that takes them deep into the heart of Manhattan, and the heart of old-fashioned American ambition. From the shared fears, dreams, and desires of two teenage boys, they spin comic book tales of the heroic, fascist-fighting Escapist and the beautiful, mysterious Luna Moth, otherworldly mistress of the night. Climbing from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the Empire State Building, Joe and Sammy carve out lives, and careers, as vivid as cyan and magenta ink. Spanning continents and eras, this superb book by one of America’s finest writers remains one of the defining novels of our modern American age. Winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award and the New York Society Library Book Award
Book Synopsis The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content) by : Michael Chabon
Download or read book The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content) written by Michael Chabon and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics, now with special bonus material by the author—soon to be a Showtime limited series “It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read.”—The Washington Post Book World Named one of the 10 Best Books of the Decade by Entertainment Weekly • Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize A “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book” (Newsweek), hailed as Chabon’s “magnum opus” (The New York Review of Books), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a triumph of originality, imagination, and storytelling, an exuberant, irresistible novel that begins in New York City in 1939. A young escape artist and budding magician named Joe Kavalier arrives on the doorstep of his cousin, Sammy Clay. While the long shadow of Hitler falls across Europe, America is happily in thrall to the Golden Age of comic books, and in a distant corner of Brooklyn, Sammy is looking for a way to cash in on the craze. He finds the ideal partner in the aloof, artistically gifted Joe, and together they embark on an adventure that takes them deep into the heart of Manhattan, and the heart of old-fashioned American ambition. From the shared fears, dreams, and desires of two teenage boys, they spin comic book tales of the heroic, fascist-fighting Escapist and the beautiful, mysterious Luna Moth, otherworldly mistress of the night. Climbing from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the Empire State Building, Joe and Sammy carve out lives, and careers, as vivid as cyan and magenta ink. Spanning continents and eras, this superb book by one of America’s finest writers remains one of the defining novels of our modern American age. Winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award and the New York Society Library Book Award
