Download or read book BULLSH T written by Jonathan Ancer and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outrageous miscellany of serious and light-hearted lies, myths, untruths, fibs and fabrications that tells the tall tale of South Africa. The fibs come thick and fast, like a burst sewerage pipe: • Why everything we've learnt about Shaka Zulu, 'Africa's Napoleon', is a pack of lies. • Back in the darkest of ages (the 1970s!), citizens were told that there were satanic messages if you played some of The Beatles songs backwards. • National icon Hansie Cronje was a paragon of virtue, and integrity ... until he wasn't. • President Nelson Mandela told us that we, as a nation, were 'special'. Turns out we aren't. Whether a fabulous fib, an artful con, a doctor's spin, or simply a bald-faced lie, there's something for everyone.
Download or read book Billy Bullsh t written by Steve Blakeman and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Bullshit is a self-proclamined marketing genius. In his role as 'Chief Guru of Imagineering" he only ever talks using the latest buzzwords, business idioms and bullshit phrases. Pop that in your mental microwave and see how it defrosts! We see Billy in 52 hilarious business scenarios--on a conference call, giving a speech at a conference, running a brainstorming session, etc. This ladders up the cliched business speak, takes it to the next level and knocks it out of the ballpark. Boom! Do you know someone like Billy in your office? Maybe you even see a little bit of Billy in yourself? Either way Billy Bullshit is going to make you laugh and cringe in equal measure. And that's no bullshit.
Download or read book written by Paul Sheckler and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Next Time written by Ron Ward Jr and published by Ron Ward Jr. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are consequences for changing the past." Jim Radcliffe thought he had a comfortable, easy life until a drug-addled stranger stumbles into his backyard during a family cookout and predicts a devastating tragedy that will befall Jim's loved ones. When a house fire confirms the madman's predictions, Jim's life is sent into a tailspin as he struggles to come to grips with the sudden loss of his closest family members. As Jim searches for answers behind the tragedy and his wife spirals into depression, he finds himself at his wits' end - until a strange tow truck driver named Mr Brimstone appears with an unusual offer. In exchange for Jim's soul, Mr Brimstone will give him the chance to go back in time to prevent the tragedy from occurring. But as Jim journeys through time, he faces increasingly difficult choices that challenge his beliefs and force him to question what he truly values. Torn between his own desires and the safety of those he loves, Jim must dig deep and find the strength to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to save his family and restore a sense of normalcy to his life. Along the way, he learns that the tricky path of redemption isn't always as clear-cut as it first appears, and that true happiness may come from unexpected places.
Download or read book Weapon of Choice written by Kevin Paul DeCoste and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin sat quietly in the two-man cell. His new cellmate was trying to whip up support among his inmate friends to "do something" about his new cellmate-me. This was definitely not going well. I could almost "feel" an assault or a knife attack coming. I made a decision. If I was going to die in prison, then I would take myself out rather than let some self-righteous, low-brow punk(s) do it. I could fight-the Army had trained me well-but how many would come at me? Would there be weapons? I quietly wrote a letter home and explained what I was going to do. After that, I placed the thirty-day supply of Atenolol in my pocket. Atenolol controls blood pressure by slowing your heart rate. If things went badly, I would take all of them at once- hopefully stopping my heart with a minimum of pain. I also spoke silently with God. I told Him, "If I have to do this, please don't send me to hell. I sincerely believe Lord that the guilt of this sin should be given to this animal, Doherty." This event was survived. There was a long road ahead. From false accusation to trial to false imprisonment then probation, this is a story of defeat and survival that nothing could prepare a person for.
Download or read book The Promised World written by Lisa Tucker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since childhood, Lila has been closer to her twin brother Billy than anyone in the world. They even took a vacation together when Lila and her husband Patrick got tenure. To Patrick, his wife's relationship with her twin has always been something of a mystery. He knows Lila and Billy's parents died when they were teenagers, but he doesn't understand why Lila never talks about her parents. He also doesn't understand why books have always been so crucially important to the twins. A math teacher, Patrick is particularly mystified by Lila's obsession with stories. Then one afternoon, Billy points a rifle out the window of a hotel across from an elementary school. Billy is shot, "suicide by police," Lila is told. Billy's death devastates her, but it his reason for wanting to die that both stuns and horrifies her: he'd been charged with child abuse, of endangering the life of his middle child and namesake, eight-year-old William. In the aftermath of her twin's death, Lila falls apart. Soon her job, her marriage, her carefully constructed past-and even her sanity-are put at risk, as she tries to make sense of her life with Billy and the long-buried secrets of their childhood. While Patrick attempts unsuccessfully to save his wife, Lila's slowly comes face to face with who her brother really was-only to realise that there may be another person in danger now. Billy's favourite child, her nephew William, may be about to re-enact the same story Billy taught her to believe in so many years ago: a story of betrayal and lost innocence that must be redeemed by a violent act that could destroy them all.
Download or read book Getting Dunn written by Tom Schreck and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When TJ Dunn enlisted in the US Army, she knew the combat and emotional risks. Six years earlier her father, an army veteran, killed himself. But TJ is tough, determined to carry her own weight as a soldier, until one day when her team is ambushed during a mission in Iraq. As the only survivor, TJ is left both physically and psychologically traumatized. Yet even as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of her friends, she receives another devastating blow: her fiancé, stationed in Afghanistan, has taken his own life. Discharged from the army and back in the States, TJ is unable to cope. She spirals into an emotional daze, spending her days working at a suicide hotline and her evenings moonlighting as an exotic dancer. Her only outlet for her anger is a punching bag at the local boxing ring where she works out with a handsome trainer, Duffy. Just when she thinks she’s reached her limit, an anonymous phone call shocks her back to life and gives her a new mission, justice for those she loves and she won’t stop at anything to do it. Getting Dunn is a tension-filled military thriller that brings the reader insight into the mind of a struggling soldier fighting for her life. Praise for Getting Dunn: “Schreck's hard-hitting, plot-driven conspiracy thriller provides nonstop action with a dizzying blur of weaponry and covert activity. The characters come out of central casting, but are perfect for NCIS: Los Angeles or JAG fans. Schreck takes a new direction in this entry, although his series character Duffy Dombrowski plays a cameo role as TJ's sparring partner. Recommend to Merry Jones and Christa Faust readers, i.e., those who like really tough female leads.” —Library Journal
Download or read book Surprise written by Robert Maxwell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Caught Up written by Irene and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-05-11 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught Up is a Hot and Steamy romance, with a little mystery. There are three main characters. Sherri, Lisa, and Sharmaine. All three women have unique personalities. They struggle, live, love and learn. In the process of growing they get caught up in lies and betrayal that changes the courses of their lives. "Sherri, likes to explore sexually. She seems timid but she spice things up when she need to. "Lisa, is strong, she think first then reacts. You have to be real smart to get over on her. "Sharmaine, doesn't think at all, she only think of herself. What about her children? This Romance story is one to keep youre mind intrigued and youre emotions out of control, enjoy the ride.
Download or read book Split written by Gregory Chadwick and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm Hepburn is a brilliant surgeon with a beautiful wife and a stellar career. He is also a vicious killer with a stunning gift. Detective Jacob Sparks is heading up the task force to take him down. But he knows he's going to need some rather unconventional help. Enter Billy Ray Dean, charming, witty, a real ladies man and a ruthless sociopath who happens to be immune to Malcolm's gifts. Detective Sparks uses one killer to hunt the other but when he loses control the body count rises and chaos and carnage become order of the day. Two very different killers . one goal. Destroy each other and anyone else that gets in the way.
Download or read book Greig Plays 1 written by David Greig and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of plays of one of Scotland's best-known contemporary dramatists EUROPE is set in a railway station at an unnamed border town where old and new Europeans weave a tale of love, loss and longing. "Fierce, compassionate, mightily ambitious drama...there is the sharp, analytic intelligence, the crackling inventiveness of a real writer buzzing about this gripping play" Scotsman THE ARCHITECT charts the rise and fall of Leo Black, once an idealistic and idolised designer, whose magnificent visions are now crumbling, along with his family, in the light of grubby reality. "Provides convincing evidence of David Greig's confident transition from a dramatist of promise to one of stature" Independent. Lyrical, soulful and darkly funny, THE COSMONAUT'S LAST MESSAGE weaves together the stories of a fraught Scottish couple whose TV is on the blink, a Norwegian UN peace negotiator, a young prostitute, a French UFO researcher, a pregnant police woman and two forgotten Cosmonauts who sadly orbit the planet."The most important playwright to have emerged north of the border in years" Scotsman
Download or read book The Triple Six written by J.R. Froemling and published by The Great Yarn Dragon, LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beer’s cold. The whiskey's strong. Secrets outweigh Sangria in this place. The Angels of Wrath biker gang fill the nights with raucous fun. Silus Baxter runs the bar and the gang with an iron fist. Jackson Pruitt is a dashing member of the Angels. He is ambitious. His eyes are set on the gang and Silus' youngest daughter, Shelley. A rocky road lies before him as he finds himself at odds with Silus. Shelley Baxter's life isn't perfect, but it's hers. She spends her days in school and nights working at her daddy’s bar. When she isn't working, she is on the back of Jackson's bike. Jackson vanishes one night, turning Shelley’s world upside down. Billy Coeh is a young man who enjoys his easy-going life. He spends his days riding with The Wolfpack, a rival biker gang to the Angels of Wrath. He spends his nights running through the deep woods as a were- wolf sworn to uphold The Accord, a pact forged by the supernatural world to live with humanity. When fate intervenes, Shelley finds herself torn between the handsome beast she just met and the dashing rogue who claims her for his own. All hell breaks loose, forcing the leaders of the supernatural world to step in. Is love strong enough to survive the war between man and beast?
Download or read book Comanche Sundown written by Jan Reid and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comanche Sundown is the story of the great war chief Quanah Parker, a freed slave and cowboy named Bose Ikard, and the women they love. In 1869 Quanah and Bose do their best to kill each other in a brutal fight on horseback in West Texas. But over several years, through the flash and chaos of war and killing they discover that they are friends, not enemies. They change from violent unformed youths into men of courage and decency. The son of the ferocious warrior Nocona and the tragic captive Texan Cynthia Ann Parker, Quanah suffers the wound of being slurred and rejected by many Comanches as someone of impure blood and certain bad luck. When told he cannot marry his youthful love Weckeah, he rides off and joins another band of his people in the canyonlands and plains of the Texas Panhandle. Later, when Quanah has just emerged as a war chief in a daring rout of army cavalry, in defiance of elders and tradition he elopes with Weckeah and leads a following of the wildest Comanche bunch of all. The enslaved son of a white physician, Bose is freed by the Civil War and rides on trail drives of longhorns into New Mexico Territory that are led by the pioneering Charles Goodnight. Bose winds up captured, utilized, and eventually valued by Quanah and his people. That period in young Bose’s life brings him into intoxicating friendship with Quanah’s other wife, To-ha-yea, a Mescalero Apache and born heart-breaker. Comanche Sundown lays out a sprawling and plausible recast of Southwestern history that brings Pat Garrett, Billy the Kid, Bat Masterson, Colonel Ranald “Bad Hand” Mackenzie, and General William T. Sherman into one fray. In the tradition of Thomas Berger’s Little Big Man, William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner, Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove, and Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses, Jan Reid’s novel offers a rich blend of historical detail, exquisite eye for the terrain and the animals, and insight into the culture, customs, poetry, and dignity of Native Americans caught up in a desperate fight to survive.
Download or read book Am I Sane Yet written by John Scully and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-05-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning journalist John Scully has been committed to mental institutions seven times. He has been locked up. He has attempted suicide. Am I Sane Yet? is essential reading for anyone interested in depression and mental illness. John Scully is getting better.
Download or read book Dress Rehearsal written by Sandra Alex and published by Sandra Alex. This book was released on 2021-04-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An affecting love story of two strangers finding each other at exactly the right moment." - Kirkus Reviews The tormented guitarist. The fearless security guard. The kiss that’s seen globally. The razor blade that threatens to end everything. Billy Nestor has everything he’s always wanted: a band, the best guitar skills, a creative edge like no other, a thick skin, and the chops to climb the charts. The one thing he’s missing is a supportive father. While his mom is his biggest fan, his father has chided him since the day he picked up an instrument, slating that the boy would never amount to anything unless he applied himself to something other than heavy metal. Michelle Parsons has seen the world through the eyes of the battlefield. She’s determined, tough as nails, and has enough brains and drive to get her anywhere she wants to go in the world. Until she gets shot in combat and has to take a backseat job as a security guard for a nothing band, and what’s worse, she gets the job after her dad calls on a friend for a favor. Despite the disappointment, she quickly learns that protecting a band is almost as exhilarating as dodging landmines behind enemy lines. In the band’s third month of touring as an opening act, the city that they play in is riddled with an unexpected, potentially life-threatening situation. Michelle has to put her life on the line once again, only this time, without her hard hat and camouflage. After getting the band on the stage safely, a certain band member seeks her out once the applause quiets, and a fast friendship evolves. Billy finds himself seeking Michelle out, escaping the sheltered life inside the hotel room, until Michelle and Billy come to an impasse on a serious topic, one close to Billy’s heart. But little does Billy know that Michelle has also become close to his heart, and he doesn’t realize it until she climbs onto the shuttle bus to go back to the airport…out of his life forever. A heartbreaking, true-to-life story about the trials and tribulations of being a rock star, and falling in love unexpectedly, with someone you would never have expected to fall for. A story that covers sensitive subject matter, readers will see rock stars in a whole different light, and the people that love them, too. Dress Rehearsal has sensitive scenes, violence, course language, drug use and graphic sex, so please be forewarned. Billy and Michelle’s story is a standalone that will leave you laughing, crying, and rooting for the main characters as they take you through their journey of love, heartbreak, success and triumph. HEA (Happily Ever After) Rock star romance Military romance Best friends to lovers romance Drug use Attempted rape Violence Self-harm Medium heat Course language First book in a standalone series Sneak peek into 'Opening Night' "This feel-good romance includes just the right amount of danger to propel the action but rewards the reader with all the perks of a solid storyline." - Four Stars from Lisa McCombs, Readers' Favorite reviewer "An emotional ride full of alarming twists. A wonderful read." - Five Stars from bmhercule, Bookbub reviewer "There are many twists and turns along the way and I couldn't put this book down. Throw in the emotional situations and you have a book that is so addictive. What a great start to a series!" - Five Stars from Jean Rall, BookSprout reviewer "This book packed a powerful punch with the feelings. I would highly recommend reading this book. It was so wonderful!!! I also love the cover for this book!! Billy is so good looking!!" - Five Stars from Cheripka, BookSprout reviewer " A carousel of emotions! This story will catch you and you will not be able to let it go! I love the characters, twists and turns! This seems to be a wonderful series!" - Five Stars from BookAddict, Goodreads reviewer
Download or read book FrontierWorld written by Bob Nosler and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FrontierWorld follows Tommy Ray and Willie Parker and a half dozen other characters as they meet in Seattle to begin their wagon train adventure. Once they arrive at the wagon camp, the group meets Brad Jefferson, the young wagon master who will lead the neo-pioneers through their fourteen day journey. Jefferson gives the group strict instructions that everything from the twenty first century must stay at the base camp. From this point on, everything will be just as it was in the early eighteen hundreds. Julia Hopper had a host of personal reasons for joining the wagon train vacation but, somehow, the very idea of giving up her contact lenses was unacceptable. Just one day into the journey, Julia loses her precious lenses and is forced to deal with life on a primitive wagon train without clear vision. Jack Bramson is another character who needed a fresh start in life. As a middle aged investment banker, Jack was bored with his life. He describes his daily routine as a scene from the movie Groundhog Day. Charlie Caruthers came to the wagon train vacation after thirty years as a steward in the United States Navy. As the only African-American on the vacation, Charlie becomes an interesting figure as the story develops. Jimmy Three-Bears Donovan is a young man who has never spent time in the great outdoors. Jimmy is caught between his Native American roots, his Harvard education, and the Irish Catholic parents who adopted him as an infant. The wagon train vacation was a gift from his dad and was intended to give Jimmy a better view of his roots. Emma Braunstien is a behavioral scientist with the world famous Global Center for the Study of Human Behavior. To elevate her work to the highest level, she devised an experiment that places ordinary people into stressful situations. Of course, a wagon train in the Canadian wilderness is the perfect setting for Emma's experiment. Jorg Lindstrom is the managing director of the Global Center for the Study of Human Behavior. While Jorge gave Emma full authority to pursue ground breaking science, he was taken back by the very idea of observing different personality types during periods of extreme stress. Jorg described Emma's experiment as "playing God". After the death of one of the campers, a rattlesnake bite, and finally the death of Brad Jefferson, Tommy-Ray takes charge. Jorg orders Emma to get the pioneers out of the wilderness and back home to Seattle. In the end, Jorg also orders Emma to do whatever is necessary to make certain that the Center is not connected with FrontierWorld or Time Trek, LLC. Keywords: Wagon Train, Wagon, Western, Psychological, Thriller, Time Travel, New Age Experience, Mind Experiment, Time Trek
Download or read book Storm Riders written by Ed Gorman and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Simply one of the best Western writers of our time”—Rocky Mountain News When a man lives by his reputation he has to pay the price... The governor of New Mexico territory has a plan to end the range war in Furner County: offer amnesty to all criminals involved. U.S. Marshal Earle Conlon—acting in place of the recently deceased sheriff—is ordered to ride out to the Tunstall Ranch and sell the governor’s plan to the most wanted man in the country: Billy Pecos. To Mae Roberts this plan is unacceptable. She knows Billy is a stone-cold killer. Knows it firsthand. She has quietly dedicated her life to seeing him dead by her bullet. But when Billy is caught at the scene of a brutal murder, Mae will have to wait in line. Suddenly, the whole town is thirsty for a lynching. Marshal Conlon is the one man more interested in justice than revenge. And only he will risk defending the despicable outlaw in order to find the true killer... The storm clouds are gathering…
