Download or read book Flopping on the Deck written by Matt Kavan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-26 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 160 songs and poems about travel, water, experiences, struggles, drinking, jokers, myths and dreams, random thoughts, and writing.
Download or read book Joleen written by Ed Bach and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-04-14 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a ten-year absence, Ed Bach, author of the controversial collection of short stories, So Long, Charlie, delivers his latest and most complex novel to date, Joleen. Bachs latest work is an unsentimental look at two people struggling to make sense of the world, the beautiful but mentally unbalanced, Joleen Simmons and her clinging, colorless husband, Hush Simmons. Entering high school, Joleen becomes an immediate sensation. She is sweet, charming and very beautiful. But that sweet high school introduction abruptly ends when a lurid side of Joleen reveals itself and she is abruptly snubbed by her many friends. In college, Joleen joins a well-respected theatrical group where her natural gifts bring immediate success. She quickly maneuvers to the top only to blow it when she is given the lead in the schools featured play and is laughed from the stage. Rejected, she takes a job she hates. She becomes restless and marries a man she will soon regret. She torments her daughter yet confides in a sister who continually betrays her. She bullies her mother yet adores a womanizing, drunken father. She performs whorishly in bed with a husband she refuses to kiss. Reminiscent of April Wheeler in Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road, Joleen Simmons is a woman thrust into a life she neither wants nor accepts. No one can say for certain if Joleen is a complete nut case, mentally unbalanced, crazy, or simply someone so broken by the events of her past that she unashamedly torments and manipulates her way through life. And what of Hush Simmons, the fawning high school friend Joleen marries, divorces, then quickly lures back into bed? Is it her natural beauty that drives him to the limits of his own sanity? Her superior upbringing? Her familys wealth? Or is it Joleens raunchy behavior that steals his personal identity and turns him into a man he no longer recognizes, someone so corrupted by his wifes physical aggression that he loses sight of who he is and what he has become, a murderer? From the author of So Long, Charlie, Bach delivers an existential examination into the lives of two people at war with each other and themselves, a couple so riddled with childhood memories that their present actions only serve to drive them further and further apart. Bach offers no answers to lifes greater mysteries. Instead he brings to mind questions the reader may wonder about for years. While the story and its many characters are fictionalized, the storys central plot, is real.
Download or read book Altered Reflections written by Faces in the Mirror and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is my pleasure to share with you the culmination of a very long project. Faces in the Mirror is a group of 9th grade students at Webster Schroeder High School in upstate New York who spent about six months researching the Hero's Journey pattern as outlined by mythologist Joseph Campbell. Using references to mythology, literature, television, and film, the students began to see how the Hero's Journey permeates not only our culture, but all cultures across time and geographic location. From there, the students explored how the pattern is part of the human condition and how it can be used as a tool to examine their own lives. After completing The Sixty Day Sojourn and after reading a wide selection of cultural myths, each student modernized a myth or fairy tale of his/her choosing. By seeing these old stories through new lenses, the students' characters demonstrate that they are Altered Reflections of the originals.
Download or read book Pacific City written by Schubert Moore and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-07-14 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Where I'm from, I had a posse. My girls would do anything I wanted - fight, have sex, get high, vomit to stay skinny. I told my best friend her butt was too big. She quit eating and went down to eighty pounds. Then she burned herself alive." This is the story of one runaway girl's attempt to reclaim the soul she lost to image advertising. Her heroic journey spans the country and her culture, from the glitzy malls of Dallas to an isolated fishing village, the story of a girl trying to go home, a place she's never been. She found herself in Pacific City.
Download or read book A Tale of the Rat written by Frank C. Leonard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Field Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 1969-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIELD & STREAM, America’s largest outdoor sports magazine, celebrates the outdoor experience with great stories, compelling photography, and sound advice while honoring the traditions hunters and fishermen have passed down for generations.
Download or read book Emerald Sea written by John Ringo and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Talbot and Herzer Herrick are sent to the Southern Isles to enlist the aid of the mer-folk--people who had altered their bodies into the shape of mythical sea dwellers--in the battle against the fascist dictators of New Destiny.
Download or read book The Rules of Poker written by Lou Krieger and published by Lyle Stuart. This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to comprehensively lay out all the rules of the game. Experts Lou Krieger and Sheree Bykofsky have the answer to every poker argument, standstill, or face-off imaginable and provide answers to hundreds of tough questions like: what is the minimum raise in a no-limit game? Can you bet and raise with a single chip? And can you cut a deal at the final table? Covers all the major games, including Texas Hold'em, Seven Card Stud, and Omaha and not only explains the official rules but also the rules of etiquette.
Download or read book Carried Away written by Jill Barnett and published by Bell Bridge Books. This book was released on 1996-08-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MacLachlan brothers Calum and Eachann need brides, but there are no women on the secluded island where they live. As the descendants of a displaced Highland clan, their lives are complicated, and their goals and methods for dealing with troubles are far from the same. Calum is the logical brother, solid and steady, while Eachann lives by his impulses. When widower Eachann's two rebellious children are thrown out of their mainland boarding school, he decides it's definitely time for a wife. Fate all but hands him two women on a silver platter, so he kidnaps two brides, one to help him with his uncontrollable children, and one for his all-too serious brother. Debutantes Georgina Bayard and Amy Emerson socially opposite, old money versus new, and both are the talk of the gossipy Four Hundred. While attending the same ball, they are swept away by a mad Scotsman. As captives on a misty island, these two social enemies find themselves with only each other for support. Then, before the women can successfully escape, winter sets in and there is no way back to the mainland. They are stuck with the MacLachlans--two brothers and two unruly kids. There, on that misty island, during a cold and blustery winter, Amy and Georgina must choose: to find some way to go back to their old lives, or take a chance and let their hearts get carried away....
Download or read book Fourteen written by Leslie Johansen Nack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of 5 independent book awards, including NIEA, Next Generation Indie, Independent Press Award, Beverly Hills Book Awards and Readers’ Favorites After her mother and father divorce at age seven, Leslie quickly learns the hard lessons of being Dad's favorite. The abuse begins at age nine and doesn't end until she begins to fight back, finally, at age fourteen. Her father, a larger-than-life Norwegian, assumed full custody of Leslie and her two sisters and moved the family from their 63-acre rustic ranch in Northern California to a 45-foot sailboat in Southern California. The family spent two years living aboard their boat preparing for the trip of their father's dreams: a trip around the world. On February 5, 1975, the family set sail for French Polynesia. Intense and inspiring, Fourteen is a coming-of-age adventure story about a young girl who comes into her own power, fights back against abuse, becomes an accomplished sailor, and falls in love with the ocean and the natural world. The outer voyage is a mirror of her inner journey, and her goal is to find the strength to endure in a dangerous world, and within a difficult family.
Download or read book The Never Pals written by Rocky Kuznik and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2009-02-13 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frenchy Mandril considered Frank Bingham his best salesman and top producer. Many times throughout their many years together.Frenchy would always and still be held spellbound and amazed by Frank’s natural ability to close deals when certain customers were just in shopping prices and not really prepared to buy anything. On many occasions he would step out to the curb of his sales lot and yell across the busy boulevard to his competitors and yell…..” I wish I had a hundred and twenty Frankie’s working for me! I’d sell out every hour…..!”
Frank Bingham being in his early forties held contrary views and opinions of his boss. This was evidenced by most of their senseless conversations where his ending thoughts would be something similar in effect to----“Why did his parents choose to drop that perfected moron and afford him breathing space on this planet?”…..!” January Thornton, also single for years and about Frank’s age, lived next door. This however did very little to develop any facet of their relationship for more than twelve years. In plain talk, they had nothing in common except for a hedge line dividing the properties. This held true for like kind of people they individually worked for and others they held in short term friendships. In addition, there was this incommon wayward thinking that kept both of them mired in their individual and dysfunctional circumstances. Jan was and has been employed by a national hotel chain for a number of years, at one of it’s northern Ohio locations. Here he was it’s head chef and restaurant manager. His director was a W.Wenchman, for whom Jan had less then a finger tip of respect. This was brought about by most of their so called business conversations, which were of the off the wall variety and applicable to very little. Whenever W.W. summoned him to his office, it always was verbal launch time, directed toward Jan. ----After knocking lightly and slowly opening the door, he said. “I’m here boss, is it okay for me to come in?”-----“Now what the hell do you think Thornton? Like maybe I should come out there? Another thing! I was getting tired of holding my breath waiting for your appearance!” (“Dam! I should have waited another five minutes and then no more Wenchman.”) Thought Jan. Will a two week vacation to Florida bring about change to the never pals stale lifestyles and personal relationships? Some reading of their exploits may find them a bit humorous or even hilarious. But these two main characters seem to accept them as a matter of fact occurrences.
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Download or read book Stumble Out On Deck written by and published by Plushwest Studio. This book was released on with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fixer Omnibus Volume One written by Andrew Vaillencourt and published by Andrew Vaillencourt. This book was released on with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roland Tankowicz wasn’t even legally a person anymore. The aging cyborg had never really recovered from being betrayed and enslaved by his superiors in the Army, and the final insult of being permanently classified as “defunct military ordnance” had been a bitter pill to swallow. For the last three decades, he's avoided dealing with this by drinking beer and working as a fixer for the crime families in 25th-century Boston. It's easy money when you're the kind of guy who is bullet-proof and can pick up a house. But then Lucia Ribiero stumbles into his favorite watering hole dragging a squad of bounty hunters behind her. Shadows from his own dark past, and old debts still unpaid conspire to drive the old war-horse out for one more mission. Like any good soldier, the mission is all that matters for Roland. What follows is action and adventure on a scale the galaxy may never recover from. In this volume be prepared to see Roland fight cyborgs, gangsters, mercenaries, crime lords, mutants and at least one angry corporate executive as he starts down the ugly path to redemption. The guns will blaze and fists will fly, but before the dust settles a whole galaxy's worth of mad science gone awry will learn a painful lesson about letting sleeping dogs lie. Collected here are the first three full-length novels in the critically-acclaimed tech-noir phenomenon known as: THE FIXER
Download or read book Our Navy the Standard Publication of the U S Navy written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wanderer written by Stanley Brown and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wanderer is the second part of a trilogy of romantic fantasy novels that began with The Quest. In this novel, the elf, Canar, near cousin to prince Caer is offered a position in the prince's personal guard which is called "Caer’s Companions.". He however, not ready yet to settle down, along with his blood brother, the gnome, Bayan, em set out on an adventure. They first go to The Western Mountain Kingdom to visit Canar's brother Colm, who is bonded with the kingdom's exotically beautiful queen. From there that two adventurers travel to The Shining Sea kingdom where they sign on the commercial sailing vessel, The Wanderer, as armed guards. During their voyage they both have both amorous and dangerous encounters, while visiting ports such as the island of Illurria, with its tragic inhabitants. The also sail to the home of the tewin princesses where Canr has a romantic evening with one of the princesses. Another port of csall is the kingdom of Meourn with its cat like inhabitants. Eventually their voyage completed, the pair returns back to their home in the woodland communities.
Download or read book Stranger on a Train written by Jenny Diski and published by Picador. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book about America de Tocqueville might have written had he spent some time in the nation's smoking sections Using two cross-country trips on Amtrak as her narrative vehicles, British writer Jenny Diski connects the humming rails taking her into the heart of America with the track-like scars leading back to her own past. As she did in the highly acclaimed Skating to Antarctica, Diski has created a seamless and seemingly effortless amalgam of reflection and revelation. Stranger on a Train is a combination of travelogue and memoir, a penetrating portrait of America and Americans that is at the same time an unsparing look in the mirror. Traveling and remembering both involve confronting strangers—those we have just met and those we once were—and acknowledging the play of proximity and separation. Diski has written a moving, courageous, and deeply rewarding book about who we are, and the landscapes through which we have passed to get there.
