Download or read book You re on the Crazy Train and I m Driving written by William Means and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You’re on the Crazy Train and I’m Driving By: William Means You’re on the Crazy Train and I’m Driving is a story of author William Means’s life so far (age sixty-seven). Means had a very tough time early in his years growing up in a big family in Pittsburgh, PA. In those years he encountered some very trying times. As Means met his future wife things turned for the better. His friends tell him that his stories seem not believable but he can assure you they are real. Means came close to making some very bad decisions along the way and took some wrong turns, but with help from his wife, he stayed on track. Everyone that has listened to his stories has told him to write a book about them, so that’s what he did! Means easily could have ended up on the wrong side of the law but something told him to go with what his wife was telling him and it worked. His stories remind him of the TV show This Is Us but his stories probably are a little juicier. Means is a hard guy Yinzer from Pittsburgh that somehow ended up in Cincinnati with a great family. His readers will learn the true meaning of the phrase

Download or read book Character A to Z written by Fred Tudor Jr. and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Character A to Z is a story which examines the character of an accused sports trainer at a large university. A string of character citizens testifies on his behalf. His character traits are spotlighted through scriptural lessons.

Download or read book Working Mother written by and published by . This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magazine that helps career moms balance their personal and professional lives.

Download or read book Welcome to Temptation Bet Me written by Jennifer Crusie and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2006-09-05 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Temptation Sophie Dempsey wants to help her sister film a video and then get out of Temptation, Ohio. Mayor Phin Tucker wants to play pool with the police chief and keep things peaceful. But when Sophie and Phin meet, they both get more than they want. Gossip, blackmail, adultery, murder, vehicular abuse of a corpse, and slightly perverse but excellent sex: all hell breaks loose in Temptation as Sophie and Phin fall deeper and deeper in trouble... and in love. Bet Me This is New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Crusie's novel about long shots, risk management, true love, and great shoes. . . . Minerva Dobbs knows how to work the odds. Calvin Morrisey always plays to win. But when they face off, neither one is prepared. Because when real life meets true love, all bets are off. . . . Minerva Dobbs knows that happily-ever-after is a fairy tale, especially with a man who asked her to dinner to win a bet, even if he is gorgeous and successful Calvin Morrisey. Cal knows commitment is impossible, especially with a woman as cranky as Min Dobbs, even if she does wear great shoes and keep him on his toes. When they say good-bye at the end of their evening, they cut their losses and agree never to see each other again. But fate has other plans, and it's not long before Min and Cal meet again. Soon they're dealing with a jealous ex-boyfriend, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, a determined psychologist, chaos theory, a freakishly intelligent cat, Chicken Marsala, and more risky propositions than either of them ever dreamed of. Including the biggest gamble of all---true love.

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 288 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 Tully written by Paullina Simons and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-04-15 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five young Midwestern women and men struggle to find their paths in the wake of a shared and life-altering tragedy.

Download or read book Living Up The Street written by Gary Soto and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a prose that is so beautiful it is poetry, we see the world of growing up and going somewhere through the dust and heat of Fresno's industrial side and beyond: It is a boy's coming of age in the barrio, parochial school, attending church, public summer school, and trying to fall out of love so he can join in a Little League baseball team. His is a clarity that rings constantly through the warmth and wry reality of these sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, always human remembrances.

Download or read book Life in the Balance written by Jen Petro-Roy and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veronica struggles to balance softball, friends, and family turmoil in this new honest and heartfelt middle grade novel by Jen Petro-Roy, Life in the Balance. Veronica Conway has been looking forward to trying out for the All-Star softball team for years. She's practically been playing the game since she was a baby. She should have this tryout on lock. Except right before tryouts, Veronica’s mom announces that she’s entering rehab for alcoholism, and her dad tells her that they may not be able to afford the fees needed to be on the team. Veronica decides to enter the town talent show in an effort to make her own money, but along the way discovers a new hobby that leads her to doubt her feelings for the game she thought she loved so much. Is her mom the only one learning balance, or can Veronica find a way to discover what she really wants to do with her life?

Download or read book A s wish written by Jenna Ferraro and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A’s Wish The Blackout By: Jenna Ferraro Annabelle thought her life was relatively normal. Sure, her parents were divorced and her relationship with her mostly absent father wasn’t great, but that isn’t exactly an unusual story these days. All-in-all, Annabelle was just another teenage girl trying to figure out life and catch the eye of a cute boy or two. Then she meets Zac – and things start to get weird. During a sleepover with Zac’s sister, Zella, Annabelle has a blackout. It’s not the first she’s ever had, but it is the first one she has noticed. What’s causing these lapses in memory? Before finding out the whole truth, Annabelle will find herself living in Africa and struggling to escape the headquarters of a secretive organization with plans to take over the world – you know, normal teenage stuff.

Download or read book Summer Girls Love Boys written by Norma Fox Mazer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some loves last forever—others, only a summer The summer Mary turns fifteen, she meets an unsuitable boy with an even more unsuitable motorcycle. Who cares if he’s from the wrong side of the tracks? He’s fun, and that’s a risk Mary decides is worth taking. Before she got married and had three children, Zelda quit college to work in a factory because she thought it would impress her seriously political boyfriend. But it was in the factory that she found a sisterhood and a source of inspiration that would last a lifetime—considerably longer than the boyfriend. Lillian has lived all her life on Greene Street. She grew up there, got married there, raised two girls who went off to live their lives, and now—at her age!—she has the chance to leave it all behind and find love in sunny Florida. But can she, if it means living without Greene Street? There are many kinds of love, and you’ll find most of them in this collection of short stories by the extraordinary Norma Fox Mazer.

Download or read book Dirty Coach To Go written by S.E. Law and published by S.E. Law Romance. This book was released on with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coach Mason changed my life, and it’s time to show him exactly how much I appreciate it. Tessa: I used to be a klutz. I was the unpopular outcast with frizzy brown hair who was always picked last for softball. But Coach Mason was behind me every step of the way. He made me feel good. Wanted. Cherished. And now, I’m giving him something precious in return. Mason: Tessa’s been off limits for so long. She’s the proverbial high school tease with pouty pink lips and a sweet smile. But now, my old student is no longer a little girl. Tessa’s a curvy college co-ed, back in town to visit her old haunts. But when she tells me it’s her first time, will I resist? Or will I claim the gift she says is just for me? Bar the doors of the locker room because it’s getting steamy in here! It’s a wild ride for our heroine with the man she’s always craved from afar. If you’ve ever dreamed about athletic shenanigans, then this story will satisfy your filthiest fantasies with a story of forbidden love between an older man and a sassy, feisty girl who’s determined to explore. No cheating, no cliffhangers, and always an HEA my readers.

Download or read book Anywhere But Here written by Craig Parker and published by Funeral Bell. This book was released on with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If I had to pinpoint it, I'd say all my troubles started with a dildo." Rodney Grizzly is in trouble. All he ever wanted was to be a successful artist. Instead, here he is at twenty-six years old: unemployed with a felony drug conviction on his record, locked in a walk-in freezer with third-degree burns and an irate girlfriend. Outside the door are hired killers waiting to get the order to pull the trigger. And it's all Rodney's fault. His girlfriend, ex-junkie Beth, won't talk to him. So Rodney has nothing better to do than walk down memory lane while he waits to find out if he's going to be killed by the men who tortured and kidnapped him. How did it get to be like this? Rodney recounts his story- how he met the love of his life, how he lost her, and how he got her back. Why he and his brother decided to rob one of the biggest suppliers of methamphetamines in Alabama, kicking off the chain of events that led to this mess in the first place. When the freezer door opens, Rodney and Beth are in for the fight of their lives, and nothing will ever be the same afterwards. Anywhere But Here is a story about a man who never had anything finding the will to rise up from despair, only to find himself involved in infidelity, murder plots, robbery attempts, and an epic white trash feud between good and evil, while desperately trying to hold on to the love of his life.

Download or read book Between the Lines written by Jodi Picoult and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy-tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.

Download or read book Love You Wild written by Becka Mack and published by Nielsen. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shattered. That's the best way to describe Claire Thompson after the ultimate betrayal. When her long-term boyfriend cheats on her, Claire decides she's done with men. Maybe forever. Healing the pieces of her broken heart seems like too impossible a task. Rumor has it the best way to get over someone is to get under someone new, but a rebound is the last thing she wants or needs, and she's definitely not letting her guard down for anyone, especially not for charming, sexy-as-sin, multi-millionaire playboy Avery Beck. Avery Beck, womanizer extraordinaire, prefers his women with no strings attached. Until he sets his eyes on Claire. As fiery and feisty as her hair, with stubbornness and tenacity to match, he's sure he's never worked harder for anything. Avery is determined to tear her walls down one piercing gaze, one lingering touch, one sweeping kiss at a time. He's never given up before, and he doesn't plan on starting now. Will Avery's wild heart finally be tamed? Or will this be the one time the relentless millionaire doesn't get what he wants?

Download or read book It Takes Balls written by Josh Wolf and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josh Wolf--one of the stars and writers of Chelsea Lately and After Lately--delivers a hilarious collection of essays that reminds us all what it takes to conquer fatherhood without sacrificing manhood. Struggling to make it as a stand-up comic didn't always fit with being a single parent. But Josh figured out his own set of rules--through trial and (frequent) error. Early picking up kids from school? The nearby strip club is a great place to kill time and bond with some like-minded dads. Want a drunken heart-to-heart with your son? First make sure there's no Sharpie around in case you pass out. Wondering where to take that special someone at the end of the night? Remember that no sane woman will have sex with you in a one-bedroom apartment where your kids are sleeping--even if you promise to be really, really quiet. Whether it's revealing the secrets to limitless hookups (hint: it's single moms) and getting rid of your children's friends that you just can't stand (hint: it's not single moms), or blackmailing PTA members and ignoring health codes, Josh is sure to impart some parenting wisdom along the way. Or at least have a good time trying.

Download or read book Western Weird written by Mark Todd and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2015-08-02 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 2015 theme for Manifest West’s annual anthology is “Western Weird.” The works in this collection reflect both myths and suspected truths about the part of the United States we call “the West.” But this year’s edition focuses entirely on the tradition of the strange. To borrow from Jeff VanderMeer’s definition for speculative fiction’s “New Weird,” this volume creates a new parallel genre for work that subverts the traditional romanticized ideas about place, playing with clichés about the West in order to put these elements to discomfiting, rather than consoling, ends.Topics included in this collection of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction range from the West’s numinous fascination with E.T., Bigfoot, and ghosts and its celebration of its indigenous fauna and deadly landscapes to its uncomfortable relationships with its own marginalized peoples and its unforgiving and sometimes violent traditions. The tone of these works ranges from light—even campy—to chilling, but all allow readers to gaze straight into the many faces of what makes the West a weird place.For the first time in the series, this volume includes solicited work as well as open submissions, including a number of established and award-winning writers and serving its mission by giving voice to brand-new writers."

Download or read book Every Man in This Village is a Liar written by Megan K. Stack and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shattering account of war and disillusionment from a young woman reporter on the front lines of the war on terror. A few weeks after the planes crashed into the World Trade Center, journalist Megan K. Stack was thrust into Afghanistan and Pakistan, dodging gunmen, prodding warlords for information, and witnessing the changes sweeping the Muslim world. Every Man in This Village Is a Liar is her riveting story of what she saw in the combat zones and beyond. She relates her initial wild excitement and slow disillusionment as the cost of violence outweighs the promise of democracy; she records the raw pain of suicide bombings in Israel and Iraq; and, one by one, she marks the deaths and disappearances of those she interviews.