Download or read book I m Leaving You Simon You Disgust Me written by William Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spoken and written language is littered with cliches, but there are some usages - smug statements of secondhand opinion, grating nuggets of folk wisdom, toe-curling verbal flourishes of the would-be authoritative - that go beyond the bounds of cliche to enter more desperate linguistic territory. We encounter these verbal horrors every day of our lives - in conversations overheard on tube, train and bus and at suburban dinner parties, in the fictional dialogues of TV drama - and even in the glib formulations of TV sports commentators. They are disparate in nature - but have one thing in common: they all represent desperate attempts on the part of the speaker to persuade the listener that certainty of language mirrors certainty of thought and intellect, to project a verbal front of decidedness, authority and knowledge.Willie Donaldson has turned his finely tuned satirical ear to these verbal inanities to create a unique, offbeat and entirely hilarious dictionary of cringemaking Islingtonian phrasemaking. But the twist is this: lurking behind the A-Z facade is a dramatis personae of gabbling middle-class archetypes, including the Simon of the title - a Canonbury-based wine importer - and his overwrought partner, Susan, a university academic. Their excruciating dialogues - conversational nightmares of pat phrases, glib opinion and conjugal bitchiness played out in the fictional context of a Barnsbury tapas bar named the Goya - are brilliantly captured by the author, and make this most individual of books a candidate for humour title of the year.

Download or read book Learning How to be a Hero Boxset written by Taylor Ellwood and published by Taylor Ellwood. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Learning How to be a Hero series follows the adventures of Nelson as he learns what it takes to be a hero. Book 1: Learning How to Fly is now available! Nelson is a superhero with an embarrassing problem… He can't fly very well and he's been ordered to attend remedial flying school. If he doesn't pass the class he'll lost his superhero license and have to work at the weather bureau. But a class in remedial flying is just the beginning of his problems. His girlfriend thinks he's self-obsessed, and his mom won't get off his case about not living up to the family legacy. When Nelson is framed for a crime and sent to the Defining Center of Adjustments, the sinister warden Pretty Boy will challenge everything he thought he knew about being a hero. If Nelson can't get his act together and realize that what makes a superhero isn't the costume, but the actions the superhero takes, he might lose more than his career. He might lose his life and everyone important to him.

Download or read book The Banchory Conspiracy written by John Israel Bender and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Banchory Conspiracy is revealed in the diaries and journals of a catholic priest. It is 19th century England. The Pettarsons are the wealthiest aristocrats in the country. The priest is their pastor and confessor. The Banchory brothers, twins, have insinuated themselves into the good graces of the Pettarson family.eventually becoming the stewards and executors of their vast holdings. They are covert Satanists. Their association is a disaster for the family and the future of Christianity in Western Europe. The journals record the priests desperate struggle to thwart their catastr-ophic plans. The author found the diaries and journals in a junk shop in Tavistaock, Devon, England They were in a rusty deed-box and in very poor condition.With great diffi-culty he has assembled them into an acceptable literary form.. The conspiracy is truth-based and until recently the journals could have been inspected at the authors home.. They seemed to have had an unpleasant and life threatening presence which the author felt was affecting his health and so he has destroyed them The author John Bender is a retired professional, now in his 89th year. He has observed the disasters of the 20th century which have followed on relentlessly from The Banchory Conspiracy. The reader must decide whetherThe Conspiracy has achieved its ambitions. In 2011 John Israel Bender published The Converso.

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Download or read book The Man Who Found Himself Uncle Simon written by Margaret Robson Stacpoole and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Man Who Found Himself is a humorous story of a sober, renowned magistrate, Simon Pettigrews. The author makes the readers laugh with several comical events of Simon's recurring episodes of "youthful folly." The fact that he is left with no memory of these foolish episodes makes this story even more hilarious and adds to the excitement. The authors of the work, Margaret Robson Stacpoole, and H. De Vere Stacpoole, have described the events with remarkable vividness. The readers can visualize them happening in front of them. It's a delightful read with amusing characters portrayed beautifully. The unique story of a reputed older man acting cluelessly like a child will absorb readers.

Download or read book The Man who Found Himself Uncle Simon written by Margaret Robson Stacpoole and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Darkness at Noon written by Arthur Koestler and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newly discovered lost text of Arthur Koestler’s modern masterpiece, Darkness at Noon—the haunting portrait of a revolutionary, imprisoned and tortured under totalitarian rule—is now restored and in a completely new translation. Editor Michael Scammell and translator Philip Boehm bring us a brilliant novel, a remarkable discovery, and a new translation of an international classic. In print continually since 1940, Darkness at Noon has been translated into over 30 languages and is both a stirring novel and a classic anti-fascist text. What makes its popularity and tenacity even more remarkable is that all existing versions of Darkness at Noon are based on a hastily made English translation of the original German by a novice translator at the outbreak of World War II. In 2015, Matthias Weßel stumbled across an entry in the archives of the Zurich Central Library that is a scholar's dream: “Koestler, Arthur. Rubaschow: Roman. Typoskript, März 1940, 326 pages.” What he had found was Arthur Koestler’s original, complete German manuscript for what would become Darkness at Noon, thought to have been irrevocably lost in the turmoil of the war. With this stunning literary discovery, and a new English translation direct from the primary German manuscript, we can now for the first time read Darkness at Noon as Koestler wrote it. Set in the 1930s at the height of the purge and show trials of a Stalinist Moscow, Darkness at Noon is a haunting portrait of an aging revolutionary, Nicholas Rubashov, who is imprisoned, tortured, and forced through a series of hearings by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and betrayals of a merciless totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance. Koestler’s portrayal of Stalin-era totalitarianism and fascism is as chilling and resonant today as it was in the 1940s and during the Cold War. Rubashov’s plight explores the meaning and value of moral choices, the attractions and dangers of idealism, and the corrosiveness of political corruption. Like The Trial, 1984, and Animal Farm, this is a book you should read as a citizen of the world, wherever you are and wherever you come from.

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Download or read book Knights of the Borrowed Dark written by Dave Rudden and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This imaginative fantasy about the monsters that lurk in the dark will thrill fans of Ranger’s Apprentice and Rick Riordan. Denizen Hardwick is an orphan, and his life is, well, normal. Sure, in storybooks orphans are rescued from drudgery when they discover they are a wizard or a warrior or a prophesied king. But this is real life—orphans are just kids without parents. At least that’s what Denizen thought... On a particularly dark night, the gates of Crosscaper Orphanage open to a car that growls with power. The car and the man in it retrieve Denizen with the promise of introducing him to a long-lost aunt. But on the ride into the city, they are attacked. Denizen learns that monsters can grow out of the shadows. And there is an ancient order of knights who keep them at bay. Denizen has a unique connection to these knights, but everything they tell him feels like a half-truth. If Denizen joins the order, is he fulfilling his destiny or turning his back on everything his family did to keep him alive?

Download or read book A Crack in Time written by Chris Marker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the brink of a lonely, undeserved death, Simon Hoffert is saved by a dark visitor from his hospital bed. Reborn into the world of the undead, Simon struggles with the challenges and wonders of his new immortal life as he stumbles through a fledgling existence where his world is literally turned inside out. After defying his Sire, he soon discovers that danger and death have as much meaning to a vampire as a mortal, and seeks solace in a lady vampire whose intentions could be as deadly as the sun. In order to survive the daylight hours, mercenary hunters seeking his teeth, and a master intent on revenge, Simon must first come to grips with the poisoned memories and realities of a past that refuse to go away. A dark tale of obsession, desire, and love, A Crack in Time is a fable about the dangers of holding on to what has already passed and losing what could be.

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Download or read book Hangman Island written by Kate Rhodes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pre-order THE STALKER, a new standalone cat-and-mouse thriller from Kate Rhodes, coming Autumn 2024! THE ISLES OF SCILLY MYSTERIES #7 ‘An absolute master of pace, plotting and character’ ELLY GRIFFITHS ON A REMOTE ISLAND When Jez Cardew’s boat is found drifting empty on the Atlantic Ocean, DI Ben Kitto and his fellow lifeboat crew members immediately fear the worst. After an extensive search yields no results, the team are forced to retreat to dry land as darkness sets in. THE OCEAN IS MERCILESS But Kitto can’t let it go. Why would Jez – an experienced sailor – get into difficulty when the sea has been calm for weeks? Unless his disappearance was no accident. BUT SO ARE THE PEOPLE . . . The gruesome discovery of a hand washed ashore on the beach confirms his hunch. Because a medal is attached to the index finger, and it can only have been placed there by the killer. This strange clue is the only lead to an agenda as cold as the ocean itself. Kitto must work fast, before the small, isolated community closes ranks. And it’s only a matter of time before the murderer among them strikes again . . . Perfect for fans of Lucy Foley, Ann Cleeves and Elly Griffiths, this gripping new locked-island mystery will keep you on the edge of your seat until the bitter end. ‘Beautifully written and expertly plotted’ GUARDIAN ‘Kate Rhodes directs her cast of suspects with consummate skill, keeping us guessing right to the heartbreaking end’ LOUISE CANDLISH

Download or read book The Fallen Leaves written by Wilkie Collins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience of the reception of "The Fallen Leaves" by intelligent readers, who have followed the course of the periodical publication at home and abroad, has satisfied me that the design of the work speaks for itself, and that the scrupulous delicacy of treatment, in certain portions of the story, has been as justly appreciated as I could wish. Having nothing to explain, and (so far as my choice of subject is concerned) nothing to excuse, I leave my book, without any prefatory pleading for it, to make its appeal to the reading public on such merits as it may possess. -- Wilkie Collins, GLOUCESTER PLACE, LONDON, July 1st, 1879

Download or read book 90 Day Geisha written by Chelsea Haywood and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introspective journey into the glamorous world—and temptations—of Japanese nightlife, by former model Chelsea Haywood. The hard-drinking, drug-taking, all-night culture that dominates Tokyo’s Roppongi district can be a surreal place. Overworked Japanese business men will pay handsomely for the services of a hostess—someone to talk to, someone to provide hot towels and drinks, and sometimes just a companion with whom to sing karaoke with all night. Intrigued by rumors of this strange subculture and armed with her 90-day work visa and new husband, Matt, Chelsea throws herself into the lion’s den. Yet what she discovers about herself and about the inhabitants of this nocturnal life far exceeds her expectations. Hostessing, she comes to find, has “very little to do with sex, quite a lot to do with psychology, and nothing to do with prostitution.” Her personality and conversation skills are her top commodity, and Chelsea quickly finds herself charmed by these billionaire men, many of whom are funny, intelligent, even kind, and often, very lonely. But as she becomes more and more attached to her clients, Chelsea soon finds herself getting burned at her own game, as the endless presents, compliments, and destructive atmosphere of alcohol and drugs threaten to take both her marriage, and her sanity, to the edge.