Download or read book Jailbird written by Kurt Vonnegut and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2010-07-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Kurt Vonnegut] has never been more satirically on-target. . . . Nothing is spared.”—People Jailbird takes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in government—and in the heart. This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentiary as Watergate’s least known co-conspirator. But the humor turns dark when Vonnegut shines his spotlight on the cold hearts and calculated greed of the mighty, giving a razor-sharp edge to an unforgettable portrait of power and politics in our times. Praise for Jailbird “[Vonnegut] is our strongest writer . . . the most stubbornly imaginative.”—John Irving “A gem . . . a mature, imaginative novel—possibly the best he has written . . . Jailbird is a guided tour de force of America. Take it!”—Playboy “A profoundly humane comedy . . . Jailbird definitely mounts up on angelic wings—in its speed, in its sparkle, and in its high-flying intent.”—Chicago Tribune Book World “Joyously inventive . . . gleams with the loony magic Vonnegut alone can achieve.”—Cosmopolitan “Vonnegut is our great apocalyptic writer, the closest thing we’ve had to a prophet since . . . Lenny Bruce.”—Chicago Sun-Times “Vonnegut at his impressive best. . . . His imaginative leaps alone . . . are worth the price of admission. . . . His far-reaching metaphysical and cultural concerns . . . are ultimately serious and worth our contemplation.”—The Washington Post

Download or read book Big Sky Cowboy and Big Sky Daddy written by Linda Ford and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lonesome cowboy's second chance Big Sky Cowboy The last thing Cora Bell wants is a distracting cowboy showing up on her family's farm seeking temporary shelter. Especially one she is sure has something to hide. Wyatt Williams just wants to leave his troubled past behind and make a new start. But there's something about Cora that he's instinctively drawn to. Dare this solitary cowboy risk revealing his secrets for a chance at a future with Cora? Big Sky Daddy Caleb Craig will do anything for his son, even ask his boss's enemy for help. Not only does Lilly Bell tend to his son's injured puppy, but she offers to rehabilitate little Teddy's leg. Caleb knows that getting Teddy to walk again is all that really matters, yet he wonders if maybe Lilly can heal his brooding heart, as well.

Download or read book Love Inspired Historical October 2014 Box Set written by Linda Ford and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Inspired Historical brings you four new titles for one great price, available now! This Love Inspired Historical bundle includes Big Sky Cowboy by Linda Ford, Married by Christmas by Karen Kirst, Suitor by Design by Christine Johnson and The Nanny Arrangement by Lily George. Look for four new inspirational suspense stories every month from Love Inspired Historical!

Download or read book Big Sky Cowboy written by Linda Ford and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JUST THE COWBOY SHE NEEDED? The last thing Cora Bell wants is a distracting cowboy showing up on her family's farm seeking temporary shelter. Especially one she is sure has something to hide. But she'll accept Wyatt Williams's help rebuilding her family's barn—and try not to fall once again for a man whose plans don't include staying around. Since leaving his troubled past behind, Wyatt avoids personal entanglements. He just wants to make a new start with his younger brother. But there's something about Cora that he's instinctively drawn to. Dare this solitary cowboy risk revealing his secrets for a chance at redemption and a bright new future with Cora by his side? MONTANA MARRIAGES: Three sisters discover a legacy of love beneath the Western sky

Download or read book 100 Cats Who Changed Civilization written by Sam Stall and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate gift for cat lovers everywhere—100 illustrated and unbelievably true tales of the remarkable felines who made their mark on science, history, art, government, and religion. If you don’t believe that one cat has the power to alter civilization, then you’ve obviously never heard of Tibbles, the cat who single-handedly wiped out an entire species. Or Ahmedabad, a Siamese kitten who sparked riots throughout Pakistan. Or Snowball, the cat who helped to convict dozens of murderers and criminals. Or Felix, the first cat to explore outer space. These are just 4 of the 100 Cats Who Changed Civilization, and this book honors their extra-ordinary contributions to science, history, art, government, religion, and more. Here, you’ll also meet cats who… • filed a lawsuit • were slapped with a restraining order • inspired great works of literature and classical music • telephoned the police to save the life of their owner These beautifully illustrated true stories are a tribute to the intelligence, bravery, and loving nature of cats all over the world.

Download or read book Unstuck in Time written by Gregory D. Sumner and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Unstuck in Time, Gregory Sumner guides us, with insight and passion, through a biography of fifteen of Kurt Vonnegut’s best known works, his fourteen novels starting with Player Piano (1952) all the way to an epilogue on his last book, A Man Without a Country (2005), to illustrate the quintessential American writer’s profound engagement with the "American Dream" in its various forms. Sumner gives us a poignant portrait of Vonnegut and his resistance to celebrating the traditional values associated with the American Dream: grandiose ambition, unbridled material success, rugged individualism, and "winners" over "losers." Instead of a celebration of these values, we read and share Vonnegut’s outrage, his brokenhearted empathy for those who struggle under the ethos of survival-of-the-fittest in the frontier mentality—something he once memorably described as "an impossibly tough-minded experiment in loneliness." Heroic and tragic, Vonnegut’s novels reflect the pain of his own life’s experiences, relieved by small acts of kindness, friendship, and love that exemplify another way of living, another sort of human utopia, an alternative American Dream, and the reason we always return to his books.

Download or read book Critical Companion to Kurt Vonnegut written by Susan Farrell and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kurt Vonnegut is one of the most popular and admired authors of post-war American literaturefamous both for his playful and deceptively simple style as well as for his scathing critiques of social injustice and war. Criti.

Download or read book Harlequin Love Inspired June 2017 Box Set 2 of 2 written by Linda Goodnight and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. LONE STAR BACHELOR The Buchanons Linda Goodnight Content with his bachelor life, builder Sawyer Buchanon’s world is turned upside down when he meets pretty PI Jade Warren. Jade was raised to never trust a Buchanon, but when she’s hired to investigate the vandalism at Sawyer’s building projects, the Texan charmer soon sweeps her off her feet. FALLING FOR THE RANCHER Aspen Creek Crossroads Roxanne Rustand As a single mom, veterinarian Darcy Leighton would do anything for her daughter—including remaining at the clinic with rancher vet Logan Maxwell, the man who bought the place out from under her. As they work together, their truce turns to friendship—and to the discovery of a once-in-a-lifetime love. HOMETOWN HERO’S REDEMPTION Jill Kemerer When rugged firefighter Drew Gannon asks her to babysit troubled ten-year-old Wyatt, Lauren Pierce can’t help but recall their high school rivalry. Can the temporary single dad prove to the pretty former social worker he’s no longer the foolhardy teen she once knew—and he’s actually her perfect match?

Download or read book A Stone Creek Collection Volume 1 written by Linda Lael Miller and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Stone Creek, Arizona, where no secrets stay hidden for long and true love is just around the corner… Don’t miss a single fan-favorite story in this box set from #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller! The Man from Stone Creek Badge and gun hidden, Ranger Sam O’Ballivan heads to Arizona to pose as the new schoolteacher to capture rustlers and train robbers… but first must survive his unruly students. For that, he needs the help of Maddie Chancelor, the local postmistress and older sister of one of his most troublesome charges. Working undercover has always kept Sam isolated and his heart firmly in check—but something about the spirited Maddie tempts him to start down a path he swore he’d never travel…. A Wanted Man The past has a way of catching up with folks in Stone Creek. But schoolmarm Lark Morgan and Marshal Rowdy Rhodes are determined to hide their secrets—and deny their instant attraction. That should be easy, since each suspects the other of living a lie. As past and current troubles collide when a gang of train robbers threatens the town, Rowdy and Lark must surrender their pride to the greatest power of all—undying love. The Rustler Where does an outlaw go when he’s ready to turn straight? For Wyatt Yarbro, reformed rustler and train robber, Stone Creek is his place of redemption… and lovely Sarah Tamlin is the perfect angel to help him clean up his act. But Sarah keeps a dark secret behind her prim and proper facade, even as her heart is lost to charming, sexy Wyatt. When a vengeful enemy prepares to unleash havoc on their peaceful town, Wyatt and Sarah will need to trust each other to win the fight. Originally published in 2006 and 2008

Download or read book The Rustler written by Linda Lael Miller and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He survived his past, but this reformed outlaw is falling for a woman hiding secrets of her own… Don’t miss this beloved classic from #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller. Where does an outlaw go when he’s ready to turn straight? For Wyatt Yarbro, reformed rustler and train robber, Stone Creek is his place of redemption. Setting his sights on winning over the lovely Sarah Tamlin provides even more motivation to clean up his act as soon as possible. Men like him don’t usually get women like Sarah, but he’s determined to beat the odds. What he doesn’t know, though, is that Sarah keeps a dark secret behind her prim and proper facade, even as she starts falling for the charming, sexy Wyatt. When a vengeful enemy prepares to unleash havoc on their peaceful town, Wyatt and Sarah will discover that they can’t hide from the past. To win the fight, they must believe in something they never trusted before—the hope of tomorrow. Originally published in 2008

Download or read book Negro Folklore from Alabama written by Emma Ollie Wyatt and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hometown Hero s Redemption written by Jill Kemerer and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this contemporary inspirational romance, a firefighter a second chance at life and love with the help of a child in need and a woman from his past. When he becomes guardian to his friend’s troubled ten-year-old boy, firefighter Drew Gannon knows he needs help. But before he can get former social worker Lauren Pierce to agree, he’s got to prove he’s changed from the sports jock who gave her a hard time back in high school. Returning home, Lauren wants no part of her old profession. She only wants to forget the unspeakable tragedy she left behind. She can’t take responsibility for another child. Or a reunion with Drew—no matter how generous he’s become. But a desperate boy and his handsome guardian may be more than Lauren can resist . . .

Download or read book Jailbird Wyatt written by Sarah M. Hayes and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Wyatt as he goes on an imaginative adventure, in a lesson about doing as Mother asks and learning the right way to sit in time-out.

Download or read book The American Trap written by Frédéric Pierucci and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2014, France lost part of the control of its nuclear power plants to the United States. Frédéric Pierucci, former senior executive of one of Alstom's power company subsidiaries, found himself at the heart of this state scandal. His story goes to the very core of how he plotted the key features of the secret economic war that the United States is waging in Europe. And after being silenced for a long time, he has decided, with the help of journalist Matthieu Aron, to reveal all. In April 2013, Frédéric Pierucci was arrested in New York by the FBI and accused of bribery. The US authorities imprisoned him for more than two years - including fourteen months in a notorious maximum-security prison. In doing so, they forced Alstom to pay the biggest financial penalty ever imposed by the United States. In the end, Alstom also gave up areas of control to General Electric, its biggest American competitor. Frédéric's story unpacks how the United States is using corporate law as an economic weapon against its own allies. One after the other, some of the world's largest companies are being actively destabilised to the benefit of the US, in acts of economic sabotage that seem to be the beginning of what's to come...

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Download or read book Robert Taylor written by Gillian Kelly and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of his lengthy screen resume that includes almost eighty appearances in such movies as Camille and Waterloo Bridge, as well as a marriage and divorce to actress Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor was a central figure of Hollywood’s classical era. Despite this, he can be regarded as a “lost” star, an interesting contradiction given the continued success he enjoyed during his lifetime. In Robert Taylor: Male Beauty, Masculinity, and Stardom in Hollywood, author Gillian Kelly investigates the initial construction and subsequent developments of Taylor's star persona across his thirty-five-year career. By examining concepts of male beauty, men as object of the erotic gaze, white American masculinity, and the unusual longevity of a career initially based on looks, Kelly highlights how gender, masculinity, and male stars and the ageing process affected Taylor's career. Placing Taylor within the histories of both Hollywood’s classical era and mid-twentieth-century America, this study positions him firmly within the wider industrial, cultural, and socioeconomic contexts in which he worked. Kelly examines Taylor’s film and television work as well as ephemeral material, such as fan magazines, to assess how his on- and off-screen personas were created and developed over time. Taking a mostly chronological approach, Kelly places Taylor’s persona within specific historical moments in order to show the complex paradox of his image remaining consistently recognizable while also shifting seamlessly within the Hollywood industry. Furthermore, she explores Taylor’s importance to Hollywood cinema by demonstrating how a star persona like his can “fit” so well, and for so long, that it almost becomes invisible and, eventually, almost forgotten.

Download or read book The Mustard Seed Kids Praying for Rainbows Inspired by the Family of Jackie Carpenter written by Michael McClendon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six-year-old JJ Veitch is a sweet, curious boy who loves the Lord, helping others, and embarking on adventures in the woods. Unfortunately JJ has no idea that he is at the beginning of a journey that will push him to the brink of manhood and teach him that bullies come in all shapes and sizes. JJ's father, Jason, is battling bullies. His are the most fearsome kind: adults. Desperate for change, he has to somehow find a way to stop the copper thieves who are robbing him of his livelihood. But when he takes matters into his own hands, he lands in jail, a horrifying place he never thought he'd be. As his family battles on Jason's behalf, JJ is terrorized by neighborhood thugs and must make a difficult choice whether to turn the other cheek or stand tall and fight for his beliefs. Will he and his family realize they only need to have faith the size of a mustard seed before it is too late?