Download or read book The Richard Peabody Reader written by Richard Peabody and published by Santa Fe Writer's Project. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filling an important gap in the literary world, The Richard Peabody Reader is a wide-ranging selection of this great writer's poetry and prose. As a publisher, Peabody's steadfast dedication to that which is new, challenging, innovative, and dynamic has won him a wide reputation among writers whose work he has championed. This volume demonstrates those same values, embodied in nearly four decades of fiercely smart, sophisticated, and often very funny writing. From his first collection of poems, I'm in Love with the Morton Salt Girl, to his most recent collection of short stories, Blue Suburban Skies, Peabody has established and developed a thoroughly unique voice, both warm and piercing, to deliver content that ranges from the hilarious, as in the short story "Flea Wars," to the bittersweet, as in the poem "The Other Man is Always French," to the elegiac, as in the poem in "Civil War Pieta," to the absurd, as in the rollicking farce of the short story, "Bad Day at Ikea." Peabody's aesthetic is all-embracing—strands of punk, beat, experimental, feminist, and political protest literary influences blend with the purely romantic to create a body of work that is both profound and pleasing.

Download or read book The m Jolly Boys written by Larry LaDell Robertson and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever observed the conventional antics or overheard the colorful conversation of a group of older and distinguished gentlemen at a sporting event, in a restaurant, or at a backyard barbecue and wondered about their relationship? How did they meet? How long have they been friends? What was the pivotal moment or event that transformed their connection from acquaintance to kinship? The(m) Jolly Boys is the awe-inspiring, insightful, and entertaining story about the mysterious, unique, and undercelebrated friendship between four men through the many iterations of our society. In this his first fiction novel, author Larry LaDell Robertson illustrates this dynamic through the personal experiences and challenges of a teacher, a garbage man, a train engineer, and a preacher all striving for sustained happiness for themselves and one another. Readers will embrace this captivating, funny, and real-talk page-turner, locking arms with Beauregard Jackson, Divine Oliver, Samaritan Ladeaux, and Arie Eubanks as they navigate through love, lust, fear, anger, heartbreak, and even fortune. With key historical markers juxtaposed with vivid and compelling messages, The(m) Jolly Boys delivers a touching prose about the curious and rarely-talked-about camaraderie and comradeship between men. The(m) Jolly Boys is a truly funny, intriguing, unique, heartwarming, unpredictable, inspiring love story. As you read this delightful story, you will immediately conjure up images of that brother, uncle, father, cousin, neighbor, or coworker who could easily be one of the four. That’s the power of this rarely told story.

Download or read book A Touch of Shabby written by M. L. Bullock and published by Monica L. Bullock. This book was released on with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arcadia Shabeaux can’t believe her luck. Aunt Mavis hands her the keys to the family business, the Shabby Hearts Trailer Park and Campground, but there’s a catch. It’s only two weeks before tourist season begins and the place is in major disrepair. Lake Dennis isn’t the hottest spot on the “Redneck Riviera,” but Arcadia has plans to change all that. That is, if she can keep her dysfunctional family, a nosy Bigfoot and an overbearing television reporter in check. Add to the madness Arcadia’s arrogant ex-boyfriend and an attractive newcomer who's caught her eye, and you've got a sure-fire recipe for disaster--and fun! When Pierre Ledbetter, the owner of the Happy Hooker Bait Shop, disappears, the residents of Shabby Hearts naturally blame it on the legendary cryptid. Everyone except the sheriff, who believes a Shabeaux has to be responsible. The tension rises when a resident of the trailer park dies mysteriously and the Lake Dennis community erupts into chaos. Arcadia isn’t sure how it will all play out, but she is determined to uncover the truth as quickly as possible. Immerse yourself in a humorous, small-town trailer park cozy mystery with a side order of the paranormal. This is the first book in the Shabby Hearts series by ML Bullock. Get shabby with Arcadia Shabeaux! Grab your copy now! SHABBY HEARTS (A Romantic Comedy Series) #1 A Touch of Shabby #2 Shabbier By the Minute #3 Shabby By Night #4 Shabby All the Way #5 Star Spangled Shabby

Download or read book Vietnam and Cambodia Recalled written by Don Mercer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-09-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: September 26, 1970. I didn't know if I would come home. I was a pilot on my way to Vietnam as a Forward Air Controller, or FAC. I really had no idea what to expect. Without planning to do so, I jotted down a thought as my military charter flight headed west. I continued to record what I saw, heard, felt, and even smelled, as the planned one-year assignment progressed. When completed, the journal notes formed a history of a segment of the Vietnam War, which included Cambodia. There, I directed air strikes by U.S. jet fighters, as they were almost the sole support for the Cambodians, who fought invading North Vietnamese and insurgent communist forces.Guilt from living well and returning unscathed, sadness for friends lost, and anger and frustration at my generation's sacrifice in a war it wasn't allowed to win, kept my journal notes unopened for years. Over thirty years later, there is still much history to be told about thisremote, limited, unpopular conflict; so this journal is now written. It still hurts.

Download or read book Two Arms and a Hand written by David Monaghan and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-03-25 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun romp through one man's life's events with a quirky look at what he learned. The facts are pretty comedic and irreverent to the extent that he was constantly being lectured or dressed down for expressing his off the cuff opinion. You know that filter we're supposed to have that prevents us from saying really dumb things? Apparently, the author's filter is broken.

Download or read book Tomorrow and Tomorrow written by Tom Sweterlitsch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “wild mash-up of Raymond Chandler, Philip K. Dick, and William S. Burroughs”*, a man who uses virtual reality to escape the horror of his dystopian world becomes obsessed with a mystery that could drive him mad. Pittsburgh is John Dominic Blaxton’s home even though the city has been uninhabitable ruin and ash for the past decade. The Pittsburgh Dominic lives in is the Archive, an immersive virtual reconstruction of the city’s buildings, parks, and landmarks, as well as the people who once lived there. Including Dominic’s wife and unborn child. When he’s not reliving every recorded moment with his wife in an endless cycle of desperation and despair, Dominic investigates mysterious deaths preserved in the Archive before Pittsburgh’s destruction. His latest cold case is the apparent murder of a woman whose every appearance is deliberately being deleted from the Archive. Obsessed with uncovering this woman’s identity and what happened to her, Dominic follows a trail from the virtual world into reality. But finding the truth buried deep within an illusion means risking his sanity and his very existence... “Tomorrow and Tomorrow is many things: a near-future cyberpunk thriller in the tradition of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling; a funny, gloomy meditation on technology and mental illness in the tradition of Phillip K. Dick and J.G. Ballard; a cynically outrageous mystery less in the tradition of Chandler than that of James Ellroy. A bleak, gorgeous romp through a pornographic and political American id. If books like this are the future of fiction, I'm not afraid for books at all.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *Stewart O'Nan

Download or read book From Our House written by Lee Martin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-02-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Our House is the luminous and uniquely American memoir of Lee Martin, born into a farming family the same year his father unexpectedly lost both hands. Lee?s father, once known for ?doing a good turn for his neighbors,? changed that afternoon in the cornfields, becoming an embittered, hardened man. ?All our lives have private truths,? Martin writes, ?and the truth about my father was that after his accident he brought a deep and abiding rage into our home. I knew his hooks as intimately as I ever knew anything about my father.? ?How easily our bodies become us, our souls bound to the material, to the joy or grief or pain we feel through our skin,? Martin muses. Ultimately it is his mother?s quiet compassion that accounts for the grace that Lee and his father finally discover both within themselves and within their small family. Learning to live by the seasons and to fall asleep to the rumble of his father?s tractor, braving snowstorms to sell hogs or to visit an ailing grandmother, playing basketball, listening to baseball games, and stealing records, Lee endures the anger and shame that haunt his family?yet grows up to tell his tale with rare beauty and remarkable forbearance.

Download or read book It s Not Personal Sonny It s Business written by Steph Palermo and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steph Palermo, raised in a Sicilian family, taps into her experiences both at home and in Sicily to bring you simple wisdom to transform your life and business. Sicilians are passionate about family, food, love and respect. Steph tackles Sicilian traditions like the family dinner table, forgiveness, loyalty and generosity. She offers tips on incorporating these values and others into your life to strengthen familial bonds, inspire lives and ultimately positively affect the bottom line in your business. As a short story teller, Steph draws you into her world and demonstrates how adopting a Sicilian way of thinking and being, you will begin to value all you have. You will enjoy healthy relationships, inner peace and an increase in productivity at home and work, not to mention an increase in appreciation of mealtime. If you are of Italian or Sicilian descent, you will identify with Steph's stories as you stroll down memory lane. She will remind you of what you may have forgotten, or you will nod in agreement as a practicing Sicilian. This book is for anyone who wants to truly embrace life and enjoy every moment. Whether you are interested in positively influencing your family, a single person who desires to offer and receive value in relationships or a business owner who cares about employees and increasing productivity. You will learn what it takes to reach your desired outcomes. Steph Palermo melds old school values with our current, modern day world.

Download or read book The Little Book of Wisdom for Dealing with Frustration written by Dr. Adrian Manley and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Book of Wisdom for Dealing with Frustration:Godly Wisdom for Everyday Life Frustration is everywhere in life. It's within your family. It's where you work. It's even at church. How's a person to cope? This book gives you what you need to handle it all based on what God tells us in his book, the Bible.You will get all of these strategies to help you deal effectively with the harsh realities of life:· 7 assurances from God· 50+ tips on how to deal with frustration in all areas of life· 5-Step Cycle of Frustration Transformation In addition, you will learn· How to use every frustration you face to your own advantage· Let it go! But wait -- there's more! You will receive three easy forms that walk you through the process of making your life as low-stress as it can be:· the Frustration Transformation Form· the Weekly Goal Setting Exercise Form· the Weekly Progress Monitoring Form

Download or read book I Couldn t Love You More written by Jillian Medoff and published by 5 Spot. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this heartwrenching novel, a woman must come to terms with a decision no parent should ever have to make: which child can she save? Eliot Gordon would do anything for her family. A 38-year-old working mother, she lives an ordinary but fulfilling life in suburban Atlanta with her partner, Grant Delaney, and their three daughters. The two older girls are actually Eliot's stepdaughters, a distinction she is reluctant to make as she valiantly attempts to maintain a safe, happy household . . . Then Finn Montgomery, Eliot's long-lost first love, appears, triggering a shocking chain of events that culminates in a split-second decision that will haunt her beloved family forever. How Eliot survives -- and what she loses in the process -- is a story that will resonate with anyone who has ever loved a child. With hilarious honesty, emotional depth, and a knockout twist, I Couldn't Love You More illuminates the unbreakable bonds of family and reveals the lengths people will go to save one another, even if we can't save ourselves.

Download or read book The Serious Business of Laughing At Life written by Km Trees and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Love Inspired Suspense November 2021 Box Set 1 of 2 written by Dana Mentink and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. This box set includes: YUKON JUSTICE (An Alaska K-9 Unit novel) By Dana Mentink With her ruthless uncle sabotaging her family’s reindeer ranch, K-9 team assistant Katie Kapowski heads home to help—and thrusts herself into the crosshairs. She needs assistance, even if it comes in the form of Alaska State Trooper Brayden Ford and his furry partner. But with their rocky past, can they work together…and survive? YULETIDE COLD CASE COVER-UP (A Cold Case Investigators novel) By Jessica R. Patch When her sister’s remains are found, cold case agent Poppy Holliday is determined to solve the years-old murder. But someone’s willing to kill Poppy and her partner, Rhett Wallace, to keep the truth hidden. And it’s up to them to dig up the small town’s deadly secrets…without becoming the next victims. SMOKY MOUNTAIN AMBUSH (A Smoky Mountain Defenders novel) By Karen Kirst Someone wants Lindsey Snow dead by Christmas—and she doesn’t know why. The only person she can trust to help her is the man she betrayed, mounted police officer Silver Williams. But can they figure out who is trying to kill her…before the holidays turn lethal? For more stories filled with danger and romance, look for Love Inspired Suspense November 2021 Box Set – 2 of 2

Download or read book Arctic Rescue written by Dana Mentink and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deadly Alaskan mission Yukon Justice by Dana Mentink When her estranged uncle attempts to sabotage her family’s reindeer ranch, K-9 team assistant Katie Kapowski heads home to help save it—and becomes his target. With their rocky past, Alaska State Trooper Brayden Ford and his furry partner are the last team Katie wants assigned to protect her. But with the ranch under siege, they must work together…or risk falling victim to a killer. Blizzard Showdown by Shirlee McCoy After months of searching for Violet James, Gabriel Runyon and his K-9 partner finally track her down—just in time to rescue her from her ex-fiancé. Now they must safeguard the single mother and her newborn daughter. Leaving Violet’s Alaskan hideout is the safest option, but with a winter storm rolling in, it’s not just a murderer they have to escape… USA TODAY Bestselling Author Dana Mentink New York Times Bestselling Author Shirlee McCoy 2 Thrilling Stories Yukon Justice and Blizzard Showdown

Download or read book Alaska K 9 Unit Books 5 8 written by Jodie Bailey and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-10-30 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Inspired Suspense brings you four full-length stories in one collection! Enjoy action-packed stories in the Alaska K-9 Unit series featuring K-9 crime-stoppers solving thrilling mysteries that will keep you on the edge of your seat! This box set includes: DEADLY CARGO by USA Today bestselling author Jodie Bailey Following an anonymous tip, K-9 Trooper Will Stryker’s drug trafficking investigation has a new suspect—Jasmine Jefferson, an Alaskan bush pilot he’s convinced is hiding something. But when someone tries to kill them, Jasmine confesses she’s in witness protection. Are the attacks related to the case…or is someone out for revenge? ARCTIC WITNESS by Heather Woodhaven When his ex-wife goes missing, Alaska State Trooper Sean West and his K-9 partner rescue her from a kidnapper. Now the criminal is on their trail, and it’s up to Sean to protect Ivy and the little boy she plans to adopt…before they’re silenced for good. YUKON JUSTICE by USA Today bestselling author Dana Mentink With her ruthless uncle sabotaging her family’s reindeer ranch, K-9 team assistant Katie Kapowski heads home to help—and becomes his target. Alaska State Trooper Brayden Ford and his K-9 partner are the last team Katie wants assigned to guard her. With their rocky past, can they work together…and survive? BLIZZARD SHOWDOWN by New York Times bestselling author Shirlee McCoy After months of searching for Violet Jones, Gabriel Runyon and his K-9 finally track her down—just in time to save her from her ex-fiancé. Now they must keep the single mother and her newborn daughter safe. But with a storm rolling in, they’ll have to outrun a blizzard and an enemy who wants Violet dead… Look for the complete Alaska K-9 Unit series! From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.

Download or read book Yukon Justice written by Dana Mentink and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sabotage on a family ranch… this K-9’s on the case. When her estranged uncle attempts to sabotage her family’s reindeer ranch, K-9 team assistant Katie Kapowski heads home to help save it—and becomes his target. With their rocky past, Alaska State Trooper Brayden Ford and his furry partner are the last team Katie wants assigned to protect her. But with the ranch under siege, they must work together…or risk falling victim to a killer. From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith. Alaska K-9 Unit Book 1: Alaskan Rescue by Terri Reed Book 2: Wilderness Defender by Maggie K. Black Book 3: Undercover Mission by Sharon Dunn Book 4: Tracking Stolen Secrets by Laura Scott Book 5: Deadly Cargo by Jodie Bailey Book 6: Arctic Witness by Heather Woodhaven Book 7: Yukon Justice by Dana Mentink Book 8: Blizzard Showdown by Shirlee McCoy

Download or read book Bubba s Rules for Country Living written by Joseph R Miller and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2011-06-25 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story based on author's experiences a country store at Lake Kickapoo, Texas.

Download or read book Recipe for a Happy Life written by George Chichester and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this world we grow up and become a certain kind of person based on family influence and peer pressure as well as the choices we make. God sent Jesus Christ to teach the world how to live. His desire is for us to follow His rules. His way will get all of us into heaven when our time comes, through Him, Jesus Christ. He gave us the freedom to make choices and shows us how we should follow Him. I feel the need to tell all who read my story how very simple life can be when we follow these rules. I was the 11th born in a family of 12 children. This story gives most of the details in regard to the way I grew up and the choices I made. I also tell about the influence of my brothers and sisters. For the most part my family thought I turned out to be a rather unusual individual. I believe very strongly that I was led by God in the choices that I made. I do not profess to be perfect by any means, but I did have a beautiful and happy life. To this very day I still feel the same way. All I can say is read my story and give it a try. I think you will be very happy with your choice. However, it's not like trying on clothes to see how they fit. You need the Bible to give you all the rules and regulations. My story is only the map. George Chichester Author