Download or read book Cherise the Niece written by J. K. Benton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Gorey meets The Bunny Suicides in a murderously funny tale from the creator of It’s Happy Bunny From the creator of the hugely successful It’s Happy Bunny franchise comes a little piece of work named Cherise, who may be, it turns out, a not-so-nice niece. In the tradition of Edward Gorey’s The Gashlycrumb Tinies, Jim Benton’s first adult picture book, with hilarious rhymes and illustrations, is a darkly comic masterpiece of the macabre. “She was orphaned quite young In a mysterious way, Her parents just up and vanished one day.” The bloody footprints leading out of Cherise’s bedroom are the first clue that perhaps the little darling with the bow in her hair is not an angel. As Cherise is shuttled from one aunt’s home to another, her aunts vanish, meeting inventive and hysterical ends. With a killer punch line on its final page, Jim Benton’s Cherise the Niece will leave readers laughing.

Download or read book Hitler s Niece written by Ron Hansen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A textured picture of Hitler's histrionic personality and his insane mission for glory, presaging the genocide to come in the cold-blooded obliteration of one young woman." — Publishers Weekly Hitler's Niece tells the story of the intense and disturbing relationship between Adolf Hitler and the daughter of his only half-sister, Angela, a drama that evolves against the backdrop of Hitler's rise to prominence and power from particularly inauspicious beginnings. The story follows Geli from her birth in Linz, Austria, through the years in Berchtesgaden and Munich, to her tragic death in 1932 in Hitler's apartment in Munich. Through the eyes of a favorite niece who has been all but lost to history, we see the frightening rise in prestige and political power of a vain, vulgar, sinister man who thrived on cruelty and hate and would stop at nothing to keep the horror of his inner life hidden from the world.

Download or read book The Auntie and Niece Book written by C. L. David and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect gift book for both aunties and nieces! The Auntie & Niece Book celebrates the very special bond shared between auntie and niece!

Download or read book Top 10 Ways To Kill Your Uncle written by Steve Hudgins and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine the look on your uncle's face when they see you reading this book! If you're really looking for the top 10 ways to kill your uncle, stop what you're doing and seek psychiatric help immediately. For the rest of you, bring some dark, humorous comedy to your day! This book is all about the reaction you get when people see it sitting on your desk or witness you actually reading it. Take it on a trip. Relax with it in the living room. The creative possiblities of being seen with this book are endless! There is a funny short story within the book, but that's secondary to the response you'll get when people catch a glimpse of you with this. Great for a practical joke or some light hearted black humor, this prank book will surely bring a demented smile to the faces of those who share the same sick sense of humor as you. Also makes a great gag gift for friends, relatives, white elephant games and all that kind of stuff! Sick fun for the whole dysfunctional family!

Download or read book Miss Pen and her niece or The old maid and the young one written by Elizabeth Stone and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Intimate Frida written by Isolda P. Kahlo and published by Cangrejo Editores. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tradition rooted in the mythology of romanticism and its conception of the artist as a cultural hero would want to believe that everything pertaining to the life of a genius has to bear the mark of the sublime. Everything in their lives -gestures, decisions, personality traits, eccentricities, even the most dissonant mistakes- are thus transformed into esthetic substance. We would want their lives to be masterworks, a perfect coherence- and continuity between the work and its creator. Roland Barthes has criticized this conception as a basically bourgeois aberration - the perennial realism of the bourgeois culture, its need to identify the signified with the signifier. And then we learn about the real human dimension of these heroes- their pettiness, narcissism, avariciousness, arbitrariness, and childishness, all of which are no more than their human specificity. We are scandalized; either the work or the figure lies. A harmonious painting, a novel or masterful symphony cannot possibly be the product of a person capable of such spiritual smallness. Then we are left with two choices—to dismiss the work as an essentially hypocritical utterance, or to disqualify the creator as the accidental author of some work that happened to be marvelous but was simply by virtue of a great skill, not supported by an equally admirable human quality.

Download or read book Rameau s Niece written by Cathleen Schine and published by HMH. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “gem of a novel” that sends up marriage, academia, and literary stardom, by the New York Times–bestselling author of They May Not Mean To, But They Do (Publishers Weekly). In this delightful novel from an author who “has been favored in so many ways by the muse of comedy,” we meet Margaret Nathan, the brilliant but forgetful author of an unlikely bestseller (The New York Review of Books). Happily married to a benevolently egotistical, slightly dull but sexy professor, Margaret seems blessed—until she finds herself seduced by an eighteenth-century novel she discovers in the library. Wrapped in its lascivious world, Margaret begins to imitate its protagonist, embarking on a hilarious jaunt around Manhattan in search of renewed passion. Will she find fulfillment through her escapades or settle for her husband? Part romantic comedy, part intellectual parody, Rameau’s Niece is wise, affecting, and thoroughly entertaining.

Download or read book My Niece s Album By the author of A brief Memorial etc Short pieces in verse collected by Emma G written by Emma G- and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The General s Niece written by Paige Bowers and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My dear Uncle Charles," twenty-two-year-old Genevieve de Gaulle wrote on May 6, 1943. "Maybe you have already heard about the different events affecting the family." The general's brother Pierre had been taken by the Gestapo; his brother Xavier, Genevieve's father, had escaped to Switzerland. Genevieve asked her uncle where she could be most useful—France? England? A French territory? When no response came immediately, she decided to stay in France to help carry out his call to resist the Nazis. Based on interviews with family members, former associates, prominent historians, and never-before-seen papers written by Genevieve de Gaulle, The General's Niece is the first English-language biography of Charles de Gaulle's niece, confidante, and daughter figure, Genevieve, to whom the legendary French general and president dedicated his war memoirs. Journalist Paige Bowers leads readers through the remarkable life of this young woman who risked death to become one of the most devoted foot soldiers of the French resistance. Beginning with small acts of defiance such as tearing down swastikas and pro-Vichy posters, she eventually ferried arms and false letters of transit to fellow resistants and edited and distributed the nation's largest underground newspaper, until she was arrested and sent to the infamous Ravensbuck concentration camp. The General's Niece reveals the horrors the young de Gaulle witnessed and endured there that could have broken her spirit but instead inspired her many remaining years of activism on behalf of former prisoners and of France's neediest citizens. Finally emerging from the shadow of her famous uncle, the life of this little-known de Gaulle adds a fascinating layer to the history of the second world war, including the French resistance, the horrors of and unshakeable bonds formed at Ravensbruck, and the issues facing postwar France and its leaders.

Download or read book Aunt Jane s Niece Abroad written by L. Frank Baum and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in the series by author L. Frank Baum, ‘Aunt Jane’s Nieces Abroad’ follows the continued adventures of three nieces Louise Merrick, Elizabeth de Graf, and Patsy Doyle. Their wealthy Uncle John decides to take the girls on a trip to Europe, but the group are in for an eventful holiday as they witness a volcanic eruption, deal with thieves, and even encounter the mafia. An exciting tale of peril and adventure from the popular author. Lyman Frank Baum (1856 – 1919) was a prolific and well-known American writer. He is best known for his famous series of modern fairy tales set in the imaginary land of Oz. The first of the books, ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ is widely considered to be the first true American fairy tale and was the basis for the hugely popular 1939 classic musical ‘The Wizard of Oz’ starring Judy Garland. Born and raised in New York, Baum held a range of jobs including as a poultry farmer, clerk, and storekeeper before pursuing his talent for writing at the age of 41. He wrote 14 novels in the Oz series, as well as over 40 other novels and over 80 short stories. He died in California in 1919.

Download or read book Mrs Boss s niece by the author of Stories on proverbs written by mrs. Boss and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book St Simon s Niece A novel written by Frank Lee Benedict and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Download or read book Auntie s Book of Memories for My Niece written by Nancy Simms Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aunts will have a grand time preserving and sharing memories with their Niece in this beautiful journal. Water color illustrations decorate the borders of the pages destined to be filled with your memories, photos and mementos of the special relationship between an Aunt and her Niece! Family history, shared experiences, and words of wisdom will be handed down from one generation to the next with all the hopes and love only an Aunt can give!

Download or read book Miss Pen and Her Niece Or The Old Maid and the Young One written by Sutherland Menzies and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Too Much and Never Enough written by Mary L. Trump and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric. Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents’ large, imposing house in the heart of Queens, New York, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse. She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald. A firsthand witness to countless holiday meals and interactions, Mary brings an incisive wit and unexpected humor to sometimes grim, often confounding family events. She recounts in unsparing detail everything from her uncle Donald’s place in the family spotlight and Ivana’s penchant for regifting to her grandmother’s frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump’s favorite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer’s. Numerous pundits, armchair psychologists, and journalists have sought to parse Donald J. Trump’s lethal flaws. Mary L. Trump has the education, insight, and intimate familiarity needed to reveal what makes Donald, and the rest of her clan, tick. She alone can recount this fascinating, unnerving saga, not just because of her insider’s perspective but also because she is the only Trump willing to tell the truth about one of the world’s most powerful and dysfunctional families.

Download or read book The moat house or Sir Jasper s favourite niece written by Eleanora H. Stooke and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The moat house : or "Sir Jasper's favourite niece."" by Eleanora H. Stooke. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Download or read book Perfect in Memory written by Rick D. Niece and published by . This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in the award-winning Fanfare for a Hometown series, Perfect in Memory: A Son's Tribute to His Mother, is a gift Rick D. Niece wishes he had started sooner. Gathering with his family at his mother's bedside, Rick prepares to say goodbye to the woman who shaped his life and will live on through his memories. During the last four days of her life, Rick remembers his mother's legacy with tenderness. Savoring the "little moments" of life, he reflects upon his childhood in DeGraff, Ohio, and shares the carefully pocketed memories readers will wish were their own.