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 369 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 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 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 Igor s adventures in the Purple Pork Animal Farm of Swimdom island written by Laura Bernardeschi and published by Laura Bernardeschi . This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adventures of Igor in the Purple Pork Animal Farm of Swimdom Island is a book to read in only one night to discover the animals talking like humans after a nuclear accident. You will meet Freespirit the diabolic baboon, Tor the pangolin, Matt the 007 warthog greedy for chicken ribs, the odd chicken turtle couple, and the boring Lovemeless thinking to be a sexy chicken. Sonosemprebella, the super fat goose, is ready to play with the old but rich purple pigs who pay lots of golden coins to Rio the farmer, to take pictures of the sexy and naked chickens with purple feathers. A strange world that will change forever for the weird and predator instinct of the old Igor. Whether this world is better or not, the reader will decide.

Download or read book The Myth Behind All Truth written by Kim Acrylic and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-06-23 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Poems and Lyrics. Moody, Broody, Beat, and Surreal. Abstract with madness, sex, drugs, Rock 'N' Roll, bliss and a roller-coaster ride of intense images. I encourage everyone to buy this book at ONLY 70P for a limited time by my incredibly talented friend Kim Hoff-Acrylic - she is truly a goddess of the beat.....words that are sassy, sexy, dirty, pure, passionate, poisonous, penwomanship of the highest and most intensely intoxicating but super intellectual order! I could go on, but Kim is so much better with words than me. . . . check it out! -Sam Parr, English Artist

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 Mirror Mirror written by Trista Jordan and published by Mascot Books. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mirror, Mirror: Confessions of a Celebrity Makeup Artist is the story of a single mom in Hollywood leading up toƒ‚‚"ƒ‚‚€ƒ‚‚"and duringƒ‚‚"ƒ‚‚€ƒ‚‚"the #MeToo movement. Trista uses humor, grit, and her makeup brush to rise to the topƒ‚‚]ƒ‚‚€ƒ‚‚]and deal with the high-pressure demands that whipsaw her between drama, deadlines, and disasters while working with some of the most colorful characters on the planet.

Download or read book The Great Peace written by Mena Suvari and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir by award-winning actor Mena Suvari, best-known forher iconic roles in American Beauty, American Pie, and Six Feet Under. The Great Peace is a harrowing, heartbreaking coming-of-age story set in Hollywood, in which young teenage model-turned-actor Mena Suvari lost herself to sex, drugs and bad, often abusive relationships even as blockbuster movies made her famous. It's about growing up in the 90s, with a soundtrack ranging from The Doors to Deee-Lite, fashion from denim to day-glo, and a woman dealing with the lasting psychological scars of abuse, yet knowing deep inside she desires so much more from life. Within these vulnerable pages, Mena not only reveals her own mistakes, but also the lessons she learned and her efforts to understand and grow rather than casting blame. As such, she makes this a timeless story of girl empowerment and redemption, of somebody using their voice to rediscover their past, seek redemption, and to understand their mistakes, and ultimately come to terms with their power as an individual to find a way and a will to live—and thrive. Poignant, intimate, and powerful, this book will resonate with anyone who has found themselves lost in the darkness, thinking there's no way out. Ultimately, Mena's story proves that, no matter how hopeless it may seem, there's always a light at the end.

Download or read book Australian Crime Fiction written by Stephen Knight and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-06-28 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.

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Download or read book The Late Eight Third Edition written by Ken Mitchell Bleile and published by Plural Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Late Eight, Third Edition provides clinical resources to help clinicians, students, and academics evaluate and treat late-acquired sounds. The text is an ideal resource for anyone working with individuals whose speech contains errors affecting [θ], [ð], [s], [z], [l], [r], [ʃ], or [tʃ]. Additionally, vocalic [r] is included because it often serves as a step to reaching consonantal [r]. The third edition keeps (and slightly modifies) the clinical resources while expanding the toolkit to include new essential clinical concepts, including evidence-based practice, Spanish-influenced English, the curriculum, and a new treatment model. New to the third edition: 4 new chapters: Chapter 1: A Late 8 Update, Chapter 2: Using Evidence to Guide Clinical Practice, Chapter 3: The Late 8 en español, Chapter 4: Speech Sound Disorders, Literacy, and CurriculumContributing authors provide their expertise As in previous editions, resources for each late-acquired sound include: technical and nontechnical definitions;age of acquisition;common errors;key phonetic environments;useful metaphors;touch cues;initial screening tests;stimulability tests;demonstrations of place, manner, and voicing;phonetic placement and shaping techniques;speech exercises: language awareness and speech activities;lists of words divided by phonetic and word environments; andminimal pairs.*Disclaimer: Please note that ancillary content (such as documents, audio, and video, etc.) may not be included as published in the original print version of this book.

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 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.

Download or read book THE BIZ written by Joel Krupa and published by Joel Krupa . This book was released on 2010-11-21 with total page 145 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 Close up on Sunset Boulevard written by Sam Staggs and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2003-02-04 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, a classic film noir and also a damning dissection of the Hollywood dream factory, evokes the glamour and ruin of the stars who subsist on that dream. It's also one long in-joke about the movie industry and those who made it great-and who were, in turn, destroyed by it. One of the most critically admired films of the twentieth century, Sunset Boulevard is also famous as silent star Gloria Swanson's comeback picture. Sam Staggs's Close-Up On Sunset Boulevard tells the story of this extravagant work, from the writing, casting and filming to the disastrous previews that made Paramount consider shelving it. It's about the writing team of Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett-sardonically called "the happiest couple in Hollywood"-and their raucous professional relationship. It's about the art direction and the sets, the costumes, the props, the lights and the cameras, and the personalities who used those tools to create a cinematic work of art. Staggs goes behind the scenes to reveal: William Holden, endlessly attacked by his bitter wife and already drinking too much; Nancy Olson, the cheerful ingenue who had never heard of the great Gloria Swanson; the dark genius Erich von Stroheim; the once famous but long-forgotten "Waxworks"; and of course Swanson herself, who-just like Norma Desmond-had once been "the greatest star of them all." But the story of Sunset Boulevard doesn't end with the movie's success and acclaim at its release in 1950. There's much more, and Staggs layers this stylish book with fascinating detail, following the actors and Wilder into their post-Sunset careers and revealing Gloria Swanson's never-ending struggle to free herself from the clutches of Norma Desmond. Close-Up On Sunset Boulevard also chronicles the making of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical production of Sunset Boulevard and the explosive diva controversies that dogged it. The book ends with a shocking example of Hollywood life imitating Hollywood art. By the last page of this rich narrative, readers will conclude: We are those "wonderful people out there in the dark."

Download or read book Diana Dors written by David Bret and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dubbed the British Marilyn Monroe' or the British Bridget Bardot', Diana Dors finally proclaimed I'd rather be known as the hurricane in mink'. The actress was best known for her lavish lifestyle; she was a blonde bombshell with a penchant for flashy cars, opulent mansions, glitzy garb and jet-setting living. Diana Dors' rise to fame started with being a GI favourite during the war. However, she was keen to ditch her goody-goody image and announced that she wanted to be like Errol Flynn. It worked she became a huge star, working with the likes of Joan Crawford and famously starred in Yield to the Night, the movie that contributed to the abolition of the death penalty. But despite the glamour, her affairs, sex parties and OTT lifestyle, including an illicit affair with Rod Steiger left her branded as a scarlet woman, unwanted by the Studios. Undeterred, the indomitable Dors simply worked tirelessly to establish for herself a successful career in cabaret. Her life was didn't always smell of roses: her first husband cheated on her, stole from her, beat her and finally died of syphilis. Another lover who she considered faithful two-timed her with Rock Hudson. She finally found love with husband number three, who killed himself 5 months after her death. This is the amazing story of an actress who loved life and lived it to the full, told with compassion and vigour.