Download or read book Hyperbole and a Half written by Allie Brosh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller “Funny and smart as hell” (Bill Gates), Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations. FROM THE PUBLISHER: Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices. This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than fifty percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and one wholly revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the website like, “The God of Cake,” “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving,” and her astonishing, “Adventures in Depression,” and “Depression Part Two,” which have been hailed as some of the most insightful meditations on the disease ever written. Brosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. We dare you not to. FROM THE AUTHOR: This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative—like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it—but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book: Pictures Words Stories about things that happened to me Stories about things that happened to other people because of me Eight billion dollars* Stories about dogs The secret to eternal happiness* *These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!

Download or read book The Practical Work of a Bank written by William Henry Kniffin and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book 101 Ways I Have Tried to Make Money or Things I Learned After It Was Too Late written by Diana Dunaway and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-03-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in short story format with self-depreciating humor, this memoir chronicles the enterprises both off-beat and mundane of a serial entrepreneur. Her efforts to make money to buy the good things in life start at age five when she sells rocks to the neighbors long before pet rocks became a fad and no one has heard of a new-age rock shop. The adventures continue from social worker to palm reader to hot air balloon pilot to bag lady with a mink coat selling frozen meat to computer programmer and beyond to retirement at age 68. The stories provide an easy to read “How To…” list of ways the author has tried to make money often with hilarious and unexpected consequences. The list also includes some ways how not to make money. Although she is not a financial consultant and makes not claims to be one, she shares her experience and offers opinions on what to do and not do based on her personal experience. 101 Ways to Make Money is both an inventive memoir and a money-making travelogue of adventures that are funny, insightful and informative. As you follow the trail of the author’s money-making life, you’ll laugh, you’ll cry and you’ll wonder – Why didn’t I think of that?

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Download or read book The Practical Work of a Bank written by William H. Kniffin, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Number9Dream written by David Mitchell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize “A novel as accomplished as anything being written.”—Newsweek Number9Dream is the international literary sensation from a writer with astonishing range and imaginative energy—an intoxicating ride through Tokyo’s dark underworlds and the even more mysterious landscapes of our collective dreams. David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious, globe-striding first novel, Ghostwritten, with a work that is in its way even more ambitious. In outward form, Number9Dream is a Dickensian coming-of-age journey: Young dreamer Eiji Miyake, from remote rural Japan, thrust out on his own by his sister’s death and his mother’s breakdown, comes to Tokyo in pursuit of the father who abandoned him. Stumbling around this strange, awesome city, he trips over and crosses—through a hidden destiny or just monstrously bad luck—a number of its secret power centers. Suddenly, the riddle of his father’s identity becomes just one of the increasingly urgent questions Eiji must answer. Why is the line between the world of his experiences and the world of his dreams so blurry? Why do so many horrible things keep happening to him? What is it about the number 9? To answer these questions, and ultimately to come to terms with his inheritance, Eiji must somehow acquire an insight into the workings of history and fate that would be rare in anyone, much less in a boy from out of town with a price on his head and less than the cost of a Beatles disc to his name. Praise for Number9Dream “Delirious—a grand blur of overwhelming sensation.”—Entertainment Weekly “To call Mitchell’s book a simple quest novel . . is like calling Don DeLillo’s Underworld the story of a missing baseball.”—The New York Times Book Review “Number9Dream, with its propulsive energy, its Joycean eruption of language and playfulness, represents further confirmation that David Mitchell should be counted among the top young novelists working today.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Mitchell’s new novel has been described as a cross between Don DeLillo and William Gibson, and although that’s a perfectly serviceable cocktail-party formula, it doesn’t do justice to this odd, fitfully compelling work.”—The New Yorker “Leaping with ease from surrealist fables to a teenage coming-of-age story and then spinning back to Yakuza gangster battles and World War II–era kamikaze diaries, Mitchell is an aerial freestyle ski-jumper of fiction. Somehow, after performing feats of literary gymnastics, he manages to stick the landing.”—The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Download or read book The Bank Job written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clint walks into a bank in the town of Truxton, Nebraska, performs a transaction with a bank teller he thinks he recognizes. It takes him about a day to realize that he once saw the teller robbing a bank in a Missouri town, several years before. Has the man gotten himself a job at this bank, planning to rob it? He then realizes that he also recognizes a woman who works in the saloon. They were all part of the same gang of robbers. He decided to approach the man in a saloon one night and tell him that he knows him. The man denies it at first, but then admits that they all used to be bank robbers, but now they live in this town, and have honest jobs. And he thinks it’s funny that he has a bank job. Still unsure, Clint goes to the local law, but the sheriff says he knows these people, they’ve lived in town several years, and he believes they’re honest. Clint decides to stay in town, watch the “former” gang members, and see what happens. Will they rob the bank? And if they do can he stop them, or catch them? And when someone tries to bushwhack him, he has to determine if it was them or someone else.