Download or read book I Won t Be Your ESCAPE GOAT written by David Carroll and published by Fresh Ink Group. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an avid social-media user and fan, I have enjoyed collecting misspellings, misinterpretations, and other mishaps, then including them in my blogs and newspaper columns. The response from readers has been encouraging. One might even call it a “title wave.” Thankfully, many readers began sending in more examples of AutoCorrect and texting fails, poorly worded signs, and embarrassing invitations. Cindy Lowery in particular is always on the hunt for me. This resulted in a series of columns, and the trend shows no signs of slowing down. You can blame it on voice-to-text, spellcheck, blunders or many other factors. No matter the reason, these social-media mistakes are a good source of laughter. (And my own smart-aleck comments are added in parentheses, like this.)
Download or read book Escape Goat written by Ann Patchett and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the international bestselling author of Bel Canto and The Dutch House, Ann Patchett, and the bestselling illustrator of the Fancy Nancy series, Robin Preiss Glasser, comes a hilarious and heartwarming story about a goat who keeps getting all the blame, but ultimately teaches one family about the importance of honesty and owning up to your mistakes. The Farmer family has a big problem! Every day their goat escapes, and every day, Mr. Farmer brings him back. So when things start to go awry on the farm, it must be the goat’s fault. Who’s to blame when Mrs. Farmer’s petunias are trampled? Or when all the cupcakes for Archie’s party disappear? And when the whole bucket of paint is spilled? Of course, everyone blames the goat! But is it really his fault? Find out in this epic collaboration between Ann Patchett and Robin Preiss Glasser, who create this perfect picture book about telling the truth.
Download or read book GoatMan written by Thomas Thwaites and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dazzling success of The Toaster Project, including TV appearances and an international book tour, leaves Thomas Thwaites in a slump. His friends increasingly behave like adults, while Thwaites still lives at home, "stuck in a big, dark hole." Luckily, a research grant offers the perfect out: a chance to take a holiday from the complications of being human—by transforming himself into a goat. What ensues is a hilarious and surreal journey through engineering, design, and psychology, as Thwaites interviews neuroscientists, animal behaviorists, prosthetists, goat sanctuary workers, and goatherds. From this, he builds a goat exoskeleton—artificial legs, helmet, chest protector, raincoat from his mum, and a prosthetic goat stomach to digest grass (with help from a pressure cooker and campfire)—before setting off across the Alps on four legs with a herd of his fellow creatures. Will he make it? Do Thwaites and his readers discover what it truly means to be human? GoatMan tells all in Thwaites's inimitable style, which NPR extols as "a laugh-out- loud-funny but thoughtful guide through his own adventures."
Download or read book Escapegoat written by Jo Reina Rhodes and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escapegoat : A Guide for Christian Women on Transforming Dysfunctional Relationships By: Jo Rhodes Follow Jo Rhodes as she shares her long struggles with relationship patterns that left her feeling trapped and a victim. Rhodes relates how her faith in God led her to discovering strategies for how to live victoriously. Using biblical scripture, she will place any reader on the path to deliverance from being and feeling like a scapegoat. Rhodes guides the reader through steps to find emotional and spiritual healing from past dysfunctional relationships. Escapegoat: A Guide for Christian Women on Transforming Dysfunctional Relationship Patterns will appeal to readers to are interested in spiritual self-help books.
Download or read book Revenge of the Scapegoat written by Caren Beilin and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Blackfishing the IUD, a darkly hilarious novel about familial trauma, chronic illness, academic labor, and contemporary art. In the tradition of Rabelais, Swift, and Fran Ross—the tradition of biting satire that joyfully embraces the strange and fantastical—and drawing upon documentary strategies from Sheila Heti, Caren Beilin offers a tale of familial trauma that is also a broadly inclusive skewering of academia, the medical industry, and the contemporary art scene. One day Iris, an adjunct at a city arts college, receives a terrible package: recently unearthed letters that her father had written to her in her teens, in which he blames her for their family’s crises. Driven by the raw fact of receiving these devastating letters not once but twice in a lifetime, and in a panic of chronic pain brought on by rheumatoid arthritis, Iris escapes to the countryside—or some absurdist version of it. Nazi cows, Picassos used as tampons, and a pair of arthritic feet that speak in the voices of Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pécuchet are standard fare in this beguiling novel of odd characters, surprising circumstances, and intuitive leaps, all brought together in profoundly serious ways.
Download or read book Scapegoat written by Dean Hale and published by Bloomsbury USA Childrens. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Choat family, you never have to look hard to find a culprit. Missing TV remote? Blame the goat! Lost coat? Keys in the moat? Broken boat? Blame the goat! But don't be surprised if the goat doesn't take it lying down. In this hilarious, rhyme-happy picture book, children will love to pore over the funny illustrations, picking up clues that all is not as it seems between Jimmy Choat and the goat, Petunia P. Oat. Because Petunia knows who's really to blame, and before long the whole family will too!
Download or read book The Scapegoat written by Sara Davis and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Scapegoat is a novel of disquiet and disturbance, with an atmosphere of perfect dread. Think Patricia Highsmith or Jim Thompson, that blend of menace and brilliance. Sara Davis had me shivering. This is the debut novel of a marvelous new talent." —Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling N is employed at a prestigious California university, where he has distinguished himself as an aloof and somewhat eccentric presence. His meticulous, ordered life is violently disrupted by the death of his estranged father—unanticipated and, as it increasingly seems to N, surrounded by murky circumstances. His investigation leads him to a hotel built over a former Spanish mission, a site with a dark power and secrets all its own. On campus, a chance meeting with a young doctor provokes uncomfortable feelings on the direction of his life, and N begins to have vivid, almost hallucinatory daydreams about the year he spent in Ottawa, and a shameful episode from his past. Meanwhile, a shadowy group of fringe academics surfaces in relation to his father’s death. Their preoccupation with a grim chapter in California’s history runs like a surreal parallel to the staid world of academic life, where N’s relations with his colleagues grow more and more hostile. As he comes closer to the heart of the mystery, his ability to distinguish between delusion and reality begins to erode, and he is forced to confront disturbing truths about himself: his irrational antagonism toward a young female graduate student, certain libidinal impulses, and a capacity for violence. Is he the author of his own investigation? Or is he the unwitting puppet of a larger conspiracy? With this inventive, devilish debut, saturated with unexpected wit and romanticism, Sara Davis probes the borders between reality and delusion, intimacy and solitude, revenge and justice. The Scapegoat exposes the surreal lingering behind the mundane, the forgotten history underfoot, and the insanity just around the corner.
Download or read book A Vaporous Collection of Moments written by Dominic Macchiaroli and published by Pneuma Springs Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have enormous difficulty with your clothing? My shoes and I are constantly at odds because they regularly kidnap my socks. In my house, all kinds of conspiracies abound. Does your cat think you’re stupid? If so, you should be concerned, and this book will tell you why. My cat insults me every day with his ‘I know better than you, idiot’ looks. So do the rabbits in the backyard. It’s hard not being liked by the house pets. Do you find history, holidays, travel, and even fruit funny? I’ve lost count of the times that I’ve sat in my car in the middle of a traffic jam, while pondering these subjects and many others, along with odd moments too numerous to count. And what is a moment? Here is my own description: A moment is technically ninety seconds. A minute is less than that. And a ‘New York Minute’ is the shortest measurable unit of time, with the possible exception of my own patience when someone tells me to “wait a second.” But read this book and find out more. Let me relieve you of a small sum of your vast wealth and leave you with a feeling of exhaustion brought on by nothing more than a bit of laughter and just a hint of incredulity….. A Vaporous Collection of Moments is an assemblage of seventy-five essays and mad rants on subjects too ridiculous to ignore. Dominic Macchiaroli is also the author of ‘My Parakeet was an Anarchist’ and ‘Skateboarding on the Appian Way’ What others would say about this book, if they were living: “I came, I saw, I read!” - G.J. Caesar “Sic semper tyrrific!!” - J.W. Booth “I am not a pastry!” - L.H. Oswald Book reviews online: PublishedBestsellers website.
Download or read book The Great Goat Chase written by Tony Bonning and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mr Farmer's three greedy goats get into his turnip field, it seems as though no one can ever get them out again. Mr Farmer tries first, then Dog, Horse, Cow and Pig. Mr Farmer is in despair. Then along comes a tiny bee, who has the answer to the problem.
Download or read book Scapegoat written by Charlie Campbell and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “brief and vital account” of humanity’s long history of playing the blame game, from Adam and Eve to modern politics—“a relevant and timely subject” (The Daily Telegraph). We may have come a long way from the days when a goat was symbolically saddled with all the iniquities of the children of Israel and driven into the wilderness, but has our desperate need to absolve ourselves by pinning the blame on someone else really changed all that much? Charlie Campbell highlights the plight of all those others who have found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, illustrating how God needs the Devil as Sherlock Holmes needs Professor Moriarty or James Bond needs “Goldfinger.” Scapegoat is a tale of human foolishness that exposes the anger and irrationality of blame-mongering while reminding readers of their own capacity for it. From medieval witch burning to reality TV, this is a brilliantly relevant and timely social history that looks at the obsession, mania, persecution, and injustice of scapegoating. “A wry, entertaining study of the history of blame . . . Trenchantly sardonic.” —Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book Scapegoat written by Katharine Quarmby and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every few months there's a shocking news story about the sustained, and often fatal, abuse of a disabled person. It's easy to write off such cases as bullying that got out of hand, terrible criminal anomalies or regrettable failures of the care system, but in fact they point to a more uncomfortable and fundamental truth about how our society treats its most unequal citizens. In Scapegoat, Katharine Quarmby looks behind the headlines to question and understand our discomfort with disabled people. Combining fascinating examples from history with tenacious investigation and powerful first person interviews, Scapegoat will change the way we think about disability - and about the changes we must make as a society to ensure that disabled people are seen as equal citizens, worthy of respect, not targets for taunting, torture and attack.
Download or read book Forgive to Live Devotional written by Dick Tibbits and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2007-02-20 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a scientific fact: anger kills-spiritually, emotionally, relationally and physically. Yet until Dr. Dick Tibbits' published Forgive to Live and the Forgive to Live Workbook, most of us had only been told to forgive; we'd never been told how. In those books-drawn from his groundbreaking research and popular The Heart of Forgiveness seminars-Tibbits revealed the clinically proven steps and tools every person needs to uncover their grievance story, eliminate their unresolved anger and forgive for good. Here he offers eight weeks' worth of thoughtful devotions, prayers and searching questions that focus on the importance of forgiveness to one's spirit and search for peace. It's a choice that can literally save your life!
Download or read book Escaped Goat written by Jonathan Malone and published by Jonathan Malone. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scapegoat has baffled scholars for ages. Did the Yom Kippur ritual originate in the worship of demons as modern scholars say? Journey with us through the Torah and the Dead Sea Scrolls as we trace the roots of these ideas. Leaving Qumran, we find our path littered with other extra-biblical documents. We examine the internal claims of pseudepigrapha as well as the commentary of paleographers. Will the vaunted wisdom and holiness of the God of Israel stand the test? Or critical theories crumble like the walls of Jericho?
Download or read book Raising Goats written by Jason Howard and published by Novelty Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2021-03-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the best-kept homesteading secrets to raising robust, healthy goats and learn how to leverage your little herd for fresh dairy products Are you thinking about raising your own goats right in your backyard, but don't know how to begin or are unsure what supplies and daily care they will need? Have you recently started a goat herd and everything seems to be going wrong? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you. Raising goats can seem overwhelming. They are stubborn, impulsive and frustrating if you don't know what you're doing. But it doesn't have to be that way. In this book, Jason Howard uncovers the secrets of raising goats for fun and profit. You'll discover information to help you purchase goats in peak condition, keeping them healthy and a ton of other useful advice to help you maintain a great herd. Here's a tiny snippet of what you're going to learn in Raising Goats: • Everything you need to get started raising goats in your backyard if you're a beginner • The 4 absolute best places to purchase your first or next healthy goat • 3 factors you need to consider before purchasing goats for your herd • How to buy registered goats and why it's important • 9 extremely important things you need to look out for when purchasing a goat • Common mistakes homesteaders make when trying to purchase a goat • Housing and shelter instructions for both baby goats (kids) and young goats • 8 surefire ways to keep your goats safe from diseases and predators • Proven ways to effectively train your goats without losing your sanity • ...and much more! Whether you want to raise a herd of milkers for fresh dairy or meat goats for farmer's market, the instructions contained in this guide will help you master the science and practice of raising healthy goats easily and quickly.
Download or read book The Scapegoat written by Sophia Nikolaidou and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing and richly panoramic novel from a major new writer, based on a true story... In 1948, the body of an American journalist is found floating in the bay off Thessaloniki. A small-time Greek journalist is tried and convicted for the murder...but when he's released twelve years later, he claims his confession was the result of torture. Flash forward to contemporary Greece, where a rebellious young high school student is given an assignment for a school project: find the truth. And as he begrudgingly takes it on, he begins to make a startling series of gripping discoveries--about history, love, and even his own family's involvement. Based on the real story of famed CBS reporter George Polk—journalism’s prestigious Polk Awards were named after him—The Scapegoat is a sweeping saga that brings together the Greece of the post-World War II era with the Greece of today, a country facing dangerous times once again. As told by key players in the story—the dashing journalist’s Greek widow; the mother and sisters of the convicted man; the brutal Thessaloniki Chief of Police; a U.S. Foreign Office investigator, and, finally, the modern-day student, in the novel's most stirring narration of all--The Scapegoat confronts questions of truth, justice, and sacrifice...and how the past is always with us.
Download or read book The Judas Goat written by Perry Stone and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2013 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The keys for handling and dealing with seasons of betrayal, disappointment, discouragement, and unforgiveness--especially from those we love most
Download or read book Once Upon a Goat written by Dan Richards and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twisted fairy tale about a king and queen who wish for a child of their own . . . and end up with a baby goat. Perfect for readers of Children Make Terrible Pets and Wolfie the Bunny. "A funny and redemptive fairy tale."--The Wall Street Journal Once upon a time, a very prim and proper king and queen begged their fairy godmother for a child. They'd prefer a boy, with glowing skin, bright eyes, and two roses for lips . . . but any kid will do. When they find themselves gifted with a baby goat (also known as a kid) instead, they can't imagine how he'll fit into their lives. But of course, it isn't long before he's part of the royal family. Readers will delight in this story's hilarity, confusion, and celebration of families that come in every shape and size. "A fresh, amusing, kindhearted picture book."--Booklist, Starred review "With its gentle morals of acceptance, not judging by appearances, and being open to outcomes different than expectations, this is a lovely family read-aloud."--Kirkus "The contrast between the royal couple's once-ordered existence and the cheerful mess at book's end is very funny, and the message about acceptance and the expanded definition of family is a bonus."--Horn Book
