Download or read book Mattress Actress written by Annika Cleeve and published by Momentum. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mattress Actress is the story of Annika Cleeve's eighteen years as a sex worker. Her troubled childhood in Queensland led to working in a brothel on the Sunshine Coast at the age of fifteen, and from there Annika worked her way up to the high-end parlours, agencies and private work in various parts of Australia and internationally. In this book Annika reveals the truth of a sex worker's life; the clients, the girls, the parlour bosses, the rip-off merchants, the drug deaths, the white slavery, the discrimination, the corrupt police and politicians, the exotic travel and the money. Mattress Actress is a revealing and gutsy look at someone practising the world's oldest profession in the late twentieth century. From wide-eyed innocent to experienced and successful professional, Annika's story is both shocking and highly entertaining. "Annika Cleeve is not her real name but this is her real story: a raw and honest account of life in the raw as a new recruit to the oldest profession." – Andrew Rule Also published as Eve: Confessions of an International Call Girl by Monsoon Books

Download or read book Confessions of a Mattress Actress 2 written by The New Mizz Luvli Black and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zenobia is back and still boss as ever. Revisiting her past, Zenobia is focused on nothing but money and power as she gives a new meaning to the term "video vixen." And when love finds its way to her, she can't help but to fall; hard. Not expecting her new-found happiness, she falls in love with who she believes to be the man of her dreams. She's determined to keep her happiness, and her secrets at all costs. But nothing comes easy for Zenobia, not even love as she experiences heartbreaks that not even she can imagine. Zenobia's got answers for everything, and plans to make her name even bigger in the industry taking on a new role in front of the camera that would make Kim Kardashian bow down. But when her industry world strikes home, Zenobia soon learns that her biggest secret just may be her biggest downfall. Can she handle the pressures of being the beautiful girl whose name is on everyone's lips, or will she find that the very name that she has made for herself will destroy her livelihood as she knows it? The New Mizz Luvli Black will have the reader looking at adult entertainment in a brand new light in the second installment of Confessions of a Mattress Actress.

Download or read book Once Upon a Mattress written by Winnie Fred and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quote from the novel, motion picture, and theatrical musical, "Once Upon a Mattress." The play was written as an adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale "The Princess and the Pea." *** This journal alternates between 9 LINED pages for writing and 1 BLANK page for sketching throughout - Size 5.2" x 0.2" x 8" with 110 pages total. *** It can be used for show notes, as a simple diary, a mini class notebook, prayer journal, a place to write goals, dreams, and milestones, and more. Make the book even more special by tucking tickets, a gift card, or a little cash in the folds. When you want to wrap something that is more personal than a greeting card, this book does the trick. Check out our other selection of witty blank journals, musical theater quotes, and gag gifts all available at amazon.com at writerunbooks.com. Related terms: Prince Dauntless, Princess Winnifred, Lady Larken, King Sextimus, Cinderella, Snow White, princes and princesses, royal wedding, fairytale, Carol Burnett and Ken Berry (1972), Queen Aggravain, Wizard, Jester, Ladies-in-Waiting, the Minstrel. On the BACK COVER: Novel, Motion Picture, and Broadway Musical: "Once Upon a Mattress" ---- A musical comedy with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer, and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer. "Many moons ago in a far-off place..." ***** Also Available from WriteRunBooks.com ***** ---- "I want some happily ever after to happen to me" ISBN-13: 978-1729620304 ---- "I want some happily ever after to happen to me" ISBN-13: 978-1729622025 ---- "Goodbye, good luck, and get out!" ISBN-13: 978-1729622162 ---- "Cinderella Had Outside Help" .ISBN-13: 978-1729622421 ---- "Once Upon a Mattress" ISBN-13: 978-1729622681 ---- "Then Who Sir? Where Sir and When Sir?" ISBN-13: 978-1729631386

Download or read book The Myth Behind All Truth written by Kim Acrylic and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Australian Crime Fiction written by Stephen Knight and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian crime fiction has grown from the country's origins as an 18th-century English prison colony. Early stories focused on escaped convicts becoming heroic bush rangers, or how the system mistreated those who were wrongfully convicted. Later came thrillers about wealthy free settlers and lawless gold-seekers, and urban crime fiction, including Fergus Hume's 1887 international best-seller The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, set in Melbourne. The 1980s saw a surge of private-eye thrillers, popular in a society skeptical of police. Twenty-first century authors have focused on policemen--and increasingly policewomen--and finally indigenous crime narratives. The author explores in detail this rich but little known national subgenre.

Download or read book Who Does That Bitch Think She Is written by Craig Seligman and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid new history of drag told through the life of the pioneering queen Doris Fish In the 1970s, queer people were openly despised, and drag queens scared the public. Yet this was the era when Doris Fish (born Philip Mills in 1952) painted and padded his way to stardom. He was a leader of the generation that prepared the world not just for drag queens on TV but for a society that is more tolerant and accepting of LGBTQ+ people. How did we get from there to here? In Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? Craig Seligman looks at Doris’ life to provide some answers. After moving to San Francisco in the mid-’70s, Doris became the driving force behind years of sidesplitting drag shows that were loved as much as you can love throwaway trash—which is what everybody thought they were. No one, Doris included, perceived them as political theater, when in fact they were accomplishing satire’s deepest dream: not just to rail against society, but to change it. From the rise of drag shows to the obsession with camp to the conservative backlash and the onset of AIDS, Seligman adds needed color and insight to this era in LGBTQ+ history, revealing the origins and evolution of drag.

Download or read book The Biz written by Joel Krupa and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-11-21 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Joel Krupa's off the wall venture of "THE BIZ, we find a man's special needs niece spending some time with her uncle. She is also of a clumsy sort, and manages to wreck just about everything she touches, so in a fit of rage, her uncle loses it and she runs off. As he calms back down and falls asleep, his niece quietly re-enters the home and returns to her guest bedroom. Soon, her uncle will discover what happened to his brother's daughter in his care. And it's honest to God awful. You know what they say about payback.

Download or read book Speller written by California. State Board of Education and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Crooked Smile written by Paul Barker and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who exactly, is Anna? Even more puzzling: where is she? Taylor, a close-lipped private investigator, searches for Anna and her crooked smile. In a high-wire act, he finds the stink of corruption and betrayal at all levels of British Society. Even death can come gilt wrapped, as more and more blood is spilled.

Download or read book Antkind written by Charlie Kaufman and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar®-winning screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Synecdoche, New York. LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • “A dyspeptic satire that owes much to Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon . . . propelled by Kaufman’s deep imagination, considerable writing ability and bull’s-eye wit."—The Washington Post “An astonishing creation . . . riotously funny . . . an exceptionally good [book].”—The New York Times Book Review • “Kaufman is a master of language . . . a sight to behold.”—NPR NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND MEN’S HEALTH B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer), stumbles upon a hitherto unseen film made by an enigmatic outsider—a film he’s convinced will change his career trajectory and rock the world of cinema to its core. His hands on what is possibly the greatest movie ever made—a three-month-long stop-motion masterpiece that took its reclusive auteur ninety years to complete—B. knows that it is his mission to show it to the rest of humanity. The only problem: The film is destroyed, leaving him the sole witness to its inadvertently ephemeral genius. All that’s left of this work of art is a single frame from which B. must somehow attempt to recall the film that just might be the last great hope of civilization. Thus begins a mind-boggling journey through the hilarious nightmarescape of a psyche as lushly Kafkaesque as it is atrophied by the relentless spew of Twitter. Desperate to impose order on an increasingly nonsensical existence, trapped in a self-imposed prison of aspirational victimhood and degeneratively inclusive language, B. scrambles to re-create the lost masterwork while attempting to keep pace with an ever-fracturing culture of “likes” and arbitrary denunciations that are simultaneously his bête noire and his raison d’être. A searing indictment of the modern world, Antkind is a richly layered meditation on art, time, memory, identity, comedy, and the very nature of existence itself—the grain of truth at the heart of every joke.

Download or read book Best Laid Plans written by Kathy Lette and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother searches for love for her autistic son with hilarious consequences in this laugh-out-loud novel from Kathy Lette. As a crossword-addicted English teacher, Lucy never expected to be arrested for kerb-crawling. But her autistic twenty-year-old son Merlin is desperate to lose his virginity, and a sex worker seems like the only option... only Lucy picks up an undercover policewoman instead. Let off with a suspended sentence, Lucy resigns herself to the fact that her son will never have sex, let alone find love... until the morning she miraculously discovers Merlin in bed with a girl. But is tough, tattooed Kayleigh just taking him for a ride? And what has brought Lucy's snake of an ex-husband wriggling back into their lives? As all her best laid plans for Merlin's happiness chaotically unravel, will Lucy ever be able to cut her son's psychological umbilical cord and start to live her own life? Praise for Best Laid Plans: 'An important and poignant subject – a mother's search for the perfect girlfriend for her grown-up son with autism – that is also a hilarious and entertaining page-turner, written with Lette's inimitable irreverence, brio and wit.' JILL DAWSON 'Deliciously rude and darkly funny, but with compassion and humanity at its heart. Read with relish.' NICOLE KIDMAN 'Kathy Lette can turn from raunchy farce to the most tender emotion in a trice: this unputdownable book wrenches the heart and the laugh muscles with stunning panache.' STEPHEN FRY

Download or read book The Lullaby of Polish Girls written by Dagmara Dominczyk and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes an interview featuring Dagmara Dominczyk and Adriana Trigiani A vibrant, engaging debut novel that follows the friendship of three women from their youthful days in Poland to their complicated, not-quite-successful adult lives Because of her father’s role in the Solidarity movement, Anna and her parents immigrate to the United States in the 1980s as political refugees from Poland. They settle in Brooklyn among immigrants of every stripe, yet Anna never quite feels that she belongs. But then, the summer she turns twelve, she is sent back to Poland to visit her grandmother, and suddenly she experiences the shock of recognition. In her family’s hometown of Kielce, Anna develops intense friendships with two local girls—brash and beautiful Justyna and desperately awkward Kamila—and their bond is renewed every summer when Anna returns. The Lullaby of Polish Girls follows these three best friends from their early teenage years on the lookout for boys in Kielce—a town so rough its citizens are called “the switchblades”—to the loss of innocence that wrecks them, and the stunning murder that reaches across oceans to bring them back together after they’ve grown and long since left home. Dagmara Dominczyk’s assured narrative flashes from the wild summers of the girls’ youth to their years of self-discovery in New York and Europe. Her writing is full of grit and guts, and her descriptions of the emotional experiences of her characters resonate with honesty. The Lullaby of Polish Girls captures the passion and drama of friendship, the immigrant’s yearning to be known, and the exquisite and wistful transformation of young women coming of age. Praise for The Lullaby of Polish Girls “A coming-of-age tale of three young Polish women [that is] brimming with teary epiphanies, betrayal and love, as well as the grit of both New York and Kielce. [It’s] Girls with a Polish accent.”—The New York Times “The Lullaby of Polish Girls will make you swoon. Dagmara Dominczyk has written a glorious debut novel inspired by her own emigration from Poland to Brooklyn with depth, intensity, humor, and grace.”—Adriana Trigiani “An ennui-stricken actress returns to the old country—and to the friends of her youth—in Dagmara Dominczyk’s The Lullaby of Polish Girls, in which solidarity is all about summer evenings under the stars with a vodka bottle and a radio playing ‘Forever Young.’ ”—Vogue “Compelling . . . an original portrait of friendship and identity . . . Dominczyk uses a fresh, confident style.”—People “In this arresting debut novel, Polish American film and TV actress Dominczyk pays homage to her native city of Kielce while capturing the joys, insecurities, and struggles of three girlfriends coming of age. Spanning thirteen years, Dominczyk’s absorbing story is a triptych of tsknota (Polish for a kind of yearning) and a profound desire for acceptance, freedom, and home.”—Booklist (starred review) “The Lullaby of Polish Girls is sexy and sensitive, with a raw, openhearted center. Dominczyk’s love for her complicated characters is apparent from the first page to the last, and by the novel’s end the reader cares for them just as deeply.”—Emma Straub Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader's Circle for author chats and more.

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Download or read book Confessions of a Mattress Actress 3 written by The New Mizz Luvli Black and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zenobia is back in this epic finale with more drama, more tears, and more confessions. After being kidnapped and taken against her will, Zenobia is determined to walk away from the bad; for good. Starting over, she is making a name for herself and this time, it's positive, especially when it lands her a new man. After falling in love and major life events, Zenobia finds that happiness is actually within reach but, she will have to fight to get it. But Zenobia always gets what she wants. Long overdue, Zenobia has everything that she's wanted and more. But as she continues her journey, she discovers a few things about her past that she never saw coming and it forces her to revisit the world that she wanted so desperately wanted to leave behind. But there isn't a challenge that Zenobia can't and won't take head on, and this challenge is one that she will win no matter what. As she continues on her journey to her new life, Zenobia Lovely will have the readers grabbing tissues to wipe their tears and going through every emotion and then some in this jaw dropping finale, Confessions of a Mattress Actress 3.

Download or read book I Don t Belong to You written by Keke Palmer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "singer and actress in Scream Queens, Akeelah and the Bee, and Grease: Live, writes a ... guide for young women, with color illustrations throughout, on such topics as identity, anxiety, peer pressure, and body image ... and encourages them towards greater confidence and freedom"--

Download or read book Cocky s Cold War written by Christopher Jarman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth book in the adventures of Admiral Sir Geoffrey Cockburn RN. In this volume, however, we go back in time to when 'Cocky' Cockburn was a mere Lieutenant during the cold War of the 1950s. While serving in the aircraft carrier HMS Cerberus, he becomes friends with another Lieutenant, a Fleet Air Arm Observer called David Phillips. After being kidnapped and freed during a Far East cruise, Cocky becomes a secret agent spying on the Russians. The story moves rapidly from Gibraltar, Malta, Singapore and Australia and thence to Japan with many twists and turns all the way. Readers of the three previous books in this series will be delighted to find how the mature Admiral reacted to danger when he was a young and relatively inexperienced naval officer.