Download or read book Tainted Luff written by Brian Luff and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From alien abduction to seeing an archangel in Lidl, from problems parking in London to troublesome shooting stars. This latest slim volume of verse by Brian Luff will leave you wondering if it's possible to use a poem to boil an egg and whether poets really are only as good as the type of hats they wear.
Download or read book Daddy s Curse written by Luke. G Dahl and published by Cedenheim Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Reader's Favorite 5-Star Award A Harrowing True Story of an Eight-Year-Old Girl Human Sex Trafficking and Organized Crime Survivor Have you ever experienced total despair? Yuna was just an eight-year-old girl when she experienced total devastation. Growing up in the Mongolian countryside, she wasn’t ready to face the darker side of the world. And yet she had to. After she was kidnapped by an organized crime gang, Yuna had to overcome her fears at a young age and start taking care of herself. She tried to escape from slavery, but everybody that she encountered wanted to take advantage of her. Yuna and other girls just like her were constantly abused, beaten, raped and sold as sex slaves. Human trafficking is the worst kind of humiliation, especially for a young woman. She tried to escape and find freedom, but it wasn’t easy. In this emotional and heart-shattering true story, author Luke G. Dahl will let you behind the curtains of sex trafficking gangs and into the soul of abused women, who try to glue the broken pieces of their soul together, in order to survive. By understanding what they have had to endure, you can find a new perspective and respect for life.
Download or read book She s The One written by Sarah Porter and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2013-02-24 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone can be a heroine. She's The One is a collection that celebrates the lives and achievements of just a few of them. From mothers and teachers to actors and activists, bringing together writers from across the country to pay tribute to the women who have shaped their worlds. Some are international icons. Others are personal heroines. Many you will never have heard of; but each one has made a difference, touched a life, and inspired others to do the same. Compiled in recognition of International Women's Day, She's The One showcases the winning entries from the She's The One National Writing Competition.
Download or read book Patches of Light written by Ian Seed and published by University of Chester. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short stories in this Cheshire Prize for Literature anthology provide glimpses into our hopes, dreams, joys, fears and frailties, leaving us changed in some way. Like shifting patches of light on water, they invite us to stop, look and linger for a short time, to take away something we felt we always knew, but didn't know that we knew before.
Download or read book Kick the Bucket and Swing the Cat written by Alex Games and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kick the Bucket and Swing the Cat takes a humorous tour through the fascinating, sometimes tragic, and often surprising history of the English language and its etymology. Author, humorist and word-sleuth Alex Games uncovers the trends, innovations and scandals that have shaped the meanings of our most popular words and expressions, from Chaucer to Internet jargon and Ancient Greek to American slang. Who was the original Jack the Lad, Gordon Bennett or Bloody Mary? Where do dodgy geezers and hooligans come from? What are skeldering, dithering and sabre-rattling? This amusing but rigorously researched account of English words and their origins combines the findings of the major BBC TV series and the nationwide Wordhunt, and is an entertaining treasure trove for English-language lovers everywhere.
Download or read book Balderdash Piffle written by Alex Games and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the fascinating stories behind the words and phrases we use every day. English is now the worlds most popular second language, understood by over 700 million people across the globe. Its use is amazingly broad: not only is it the language of Chaucer and Shakespeare, but also of hip-hop, international business and the internet (over 80% of home pages are in English). So where exactly do English words come from? They come from everywhere. English is a vast, rambling conglomeration of words and phrases from a huge variety of times and places, and every word has its own intriguing history. Balderdash & Piffle is a guidebook an entertaining look at what falls out of the chaotic family tree of English words when you uproot it and give it a damn good shake. Shaking the tree is writer, humourist and word-sleuth Alex Games. If youve ever wondered who first used cuppa in print, what language gave us shampoo, when we started saying window, where minging comes from, what Shakespeare had to say about geeks and why berk is really, really rude, youll find it all (and much more) inside. Youll also have the chance to do your own word-sleuthing, through the BBC Wordhunt appeal. Who knows if you have written evidence of a bouncy castle from before 1986, you could even re-write history
Download or read book Grumpy Old Women written by Judith Holder and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know what it means these days to be a grumpy old man, because part of that role is to be outspoken. Well, we've heard just about enough out of the men, thank you very much! Grumpy Old Women gives us the other perspective: the female take on the million irritations of today's world. So whats the difference? Surely what is irritating to the mature members of one sex is equally annoying to the other? Not necessarily, and this is precisely what Grumpy Old Women seeks to address. Body image, visitors, children, animals, shopping, careers, parties, holidays and, yes, grumpy old men themselves all are very much on the list of what today's mature woman finds a source of concern. From the series producer and stand-up comic Judith Holder, the book incorporates material from the television series Grumpy Old Women, which features a diverse, colourful and very grumpy group of celebrities, including Janet Street Porter, Jenny Eclair, Ann Widdecombe, Germaine Greer, Kathryn Flett and Jilly Cooper. Written with wit, style and sympathy, the book is a source of both amusement and comfort to women everywhere - grumpy, old or otherwise.
Download or read book Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue 1 written by Ken Liu and published by Fantasy Scroll Press LLC. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, quarterly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction, Fantasy Scroll Magazine aims to appeal to a wide audience. Issue #1 brings you twelve short stories from authors such as Ken Liu, Seth Chambers, KJ Kabza, Alex Shvartsman, Hank Quense, and more. The magazine contains a well-balanced mix of original stories and reprints from new authors, bestsellers, and award-winning writers, plus a variety of nonfiction features, such as author and editor interviews, book reviews, and movie reviews. The magazine is open to most sub-genres of science fiction, including hard SF, military, apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, and humorous. Similarly for fantasy, we accept most sub-genres, including alternate world, dark fantasy, heroic, high or epic, historical, medieval, mythic, sword & sorcery, urban fantasy, and humorous. The magazine also publishes horror and paranormal short fiction.
Download or read book Prosthetic Player written by Michael James and published by Michael James. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prosthetic Player is a dark, tragi-comic, psychological thriller about a misogynistic bachelor's dating adventure with another player; a black widow. Spiritual possession was the last thing he expected!
Download or read book Spleen written by John G. Hall and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jumble Sales of the Apocalypse written by Simon Jenkins and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘What do you do when the Second Coming is scheduled for next Wednesday? . . . Assemble at your nearest church? Make sure you’ve got clean underwear on? Confess those last sins? Send some goodbye texts to unbelieving friends? Take Paracetamol in case the rapture gives you the bends?’ Those and other neglected theological questions are rigorously examined in this book. With its gently satirical take on some of the weird ways in which people express their beliefs, it’s a book that will help you appreciate the true value of religion by exploring the comedy of its wilder excesses. Whether you’re a believer or a non-believer, fond of religion or a more than just a bit suspicious of it, you’ll find your assumptions are far from safe after reading it!
Download or read book Hope Never Dies written by Mike Holden and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kim and Ned are the most unlikely pair of friends that one could meet but there is a bond between them. She is Chinese in her 20's and a qualified lawyer, He is in his 50's and owner of a business consultancy. After one of their lunch dates Ned accidentally takes a wrong bag from the restaurant. Before he can decide what to do, the owner of the bag pays them a visit and threatens them. A visit from the police convinces them that simply handing in the money implies complicity in its theft. They head for the idyllic Lake District unaware that there are desperate people determined to find them and will stop at nothing to get what they want, with disastrous and fatal results
Download or read book A Good Face for Radio written by Eddie Mair and published by Little, Brown Book Group. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eddie Mair is, by his own account, one of Britain's most beloved broadcasters. Born in Dundee, Scotland, he has worked in radio all his adult life. From the foothills of commercial radio in his hometown, through the sunlit uplands of the BBC in Scotland, he has reached the peaks of his profession, with BBC network radio in London. And he's never afraid to work a metaphor beyond endurance. In addition he's appeared on most of the BBC's TV channels, including ones that are no longer on TV. He witnessed the handover of Hong Kong and once asked Arnold Schwarzenegger a question - though he takes no responsibility for either. For nearly twenty years he has been at the helm of Radio 4's PM: a nightly news round up that means Eddie works for just one hour a day, giving him plenty time to knock together these diaries. Whether he's interviewing politicians, getting people to share their personal experiences, or just imparting his favourite zesty chicken recipes, Eddie is never happier than when he is at the microphone. Except when he is at the microphone with a large martini. In truth, his neediness is an irritation to everyone who knows him and if you buy this book he might get out of their hair. Eddie's other work, as a humanitarian and tireless, secret worker for charity is not mentioned in these pages.
Download or read book The Gospel According to Ali G written by Sacha Baron Cohen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-11-18 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hilarious and controversial collection written in the voice of Cohen's most famous character, Ali G, the comedian mocks the rap culture, religion, and homophobia.
Download or read book Contains Strong Language and Scenes of a Sexual Nature written by Cathy Bryant and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blood on the Veld written by S. A. McLain and published by Elevin Books Ltd. This book was released on 2024-07-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the blink of an eye, his whole life changed. Now he’s back in search of answers. But will the truth destroy him? When seventeen-year-old Christian Bekker killed a poacher, he claimed it was self-defense. But the judge disagreed. He gave Christian a choice: go to prison or leave his home in South Africa and never return. Following his father’s suicide, conservation director Dr. Christian Bekker uncovers a plea from the grave to find out what really happened on that fateful day more than twenty years ago. Suddenly, he’s on a plane headed for Johannesburg, leaving behind his life in London in search of answers. Were his father’s suspicions correct or the result of twenty years spent dreaming about what might have been? All thoughts of staying under the radar disappear as his past plunges him into a murky and profitable world where the police and government officials conspire with criminals to exploit what remains of South Africa’s wildlife. Soon he finds himself in the criminals’ sights… Blood on the Veld is the first book in the Christian Bekker Wildlife Crime Thriller series, featuring compelling characters, surprising plot twists and a man searching for the truth. If you like an action-packed adventure that delves into the depths of corruption, power and greed, then you’ll love the first installment in award-winning author S. A. McLain’s page-turning series. Harlan Coben meets Wilbur Smith with a touch of Carl Hiaasen.
Download or read book Cambridge National Level 1 2 Creative iMedia written by Kevin Wells and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 2019-05-27 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strengthen learners' grasp of the most challenging units and develop the skills required for success with this student book mapped to the Cambridge National Level 1 / 2 in Creative iMedia. Covering the mandatory and optional units, this textbook will help to build knowledge, reinforce classroom learning and test the students' understanding. · Builds students' knowledge with clearly-focused content to aid progression and activities to assess understanding. · Prepares your students for both internal and external assessment with opportunities to test and consolidate understanding. · Support your students' progress through the course with the only textbook published for the Cambridge National Level 1 /2 in Creative iMedia.