Download or read book Stark Raving Naked written by A.L. Gordon and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2023-05-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael is a massage therapist faced with the prospect of offering extras to his clients. When he discovers his boyfriend had an affair during a vacation, Michael begins to reassess his outlook on life, love, and business. With the help of a friend, Michael starts advertising his business in a gay magazine. As the clients flood in, Michael realizes maybe happy endings are just what he, his clients, and even his relationship need.

Download or read book The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test written by Tom Wolfe and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-08-19 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test ushered in an era of New Journalism, "An American classic" (Newsweek) that defined a generation. "An astonishing book" (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, LSD, and the 1960s.

Download or read book Cooking Dirty written by Jason Sheehan and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE GRIT AND GLORY OF RESTAURANT LIFE, AS TOLD BY A SURVIVOR OF KITCHENS ACROSS AMERICA Cooking Dirty is a rollicking account of life "on the line" in the restaurants, far from culinary school, cable TV, and the Michelin Guide—where most of us eat out most of the time. It takes the kitchen memoir to a rough and reckless place. From his first job scraping trays at a pizzeria at age fifteen, Jason Sheehan worked on the line at all kinds of restaurants: a French colonial and an all-night diner, a crab shack just off the interstate and a fusion restaurant in a former hair salon. Restaurant work, as he describes it in exuberant, sparkling prose, is a way of life in which "your whole universe becomes a small, hot steel box filled with knives and meat and fire." The kitchen crew is a fraternity with its own rites: cigarettes in the walk-in freezer, sex in the basement, the wartime urgency of the dinner rush. Cooking is a series of personal challenges, from the first perfectly done mussel to the satisfaction of surgically sliced foie gras. And the kitchen itself, as he tells it, is a place in which life's mysteries are thawed, sliced, broiled, barbecued, and fried—a place where people from the margins find their community and their calling. With this deeply affecting book, Sheehan (already acclaimed for his reviews) joins the first class of American food writers at a time when books about food have never been better or more popular.

Download or read book HEART SOUL ROCK N ROLL written by Janet R. Stafford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lindsay Mitchell has hit forty - and hit it hard. Although she has a fulfilling vocation as an assistant minister at a central New Jersey church, she now finds herself wondering what the next twenty years of her life will be like. In particular, she looks fondly back on the good old days with her college band, the Poison Pen Society. "I just want to rock one more time before I die," she tells friends Sue and Patti. Someone must have been listening. When Patti invites Lins to spend her vacation at Point Pleasant Beach she meets Neil Gardner, front man for the Grim Reapers - and Neil is looking for a new female lead singer. But agnostic Neil and his complicated, messy life might just be more change than Lins has bargained for.

Download or read book The New York Yanquis written by Bill Branger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a delightful baseball fable, the owner of the New York Yankees decides to fire his over-priced ballplayers who make a sorry showing year after year and hire a team of hard-playing, baseball-loving Cubans.

Download or read book Frozen Stiff written by Annelise Ryan and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death is never pretty, and deputy coroner Mattie Winston's latest case is no exception. But this victim certainly was strikingly beautiful. . .before someone stuck that knife into her chest. Mattie knows everyone in the charmingly small town of Sorenson, Wisconsin, so the deceased is definitely a stranger from out of town. If a woman this attractive had moved into town, the news would have surely hit the gossip mill in record time. So what was the victim doing here, laid out in this desolate field? Things only get murkier with the arrival at the scene of the usually stoic and dependable detective Steven Hurley; one look at the body and he turns as white as the newly fallen snow. . .and excuses himself from the case. It turns out the victim was a top investigative reporter from Chicago, and Hurley not only knew her. . .they dated a year and a half ago, until she broke it off. While Mattie grapples with her jealousy of a gorgeous dead woman, Hurley swears her to secrecy and tells her. . .that knife in his ex's chest is his! It's a case with more twists than Mattie's own crazy love life, and it'll take all of her forensic skills to unravel the increasingly bizarre clues and find the killer. . .before she herself becomes just another cold case!

Download or read book Routledge Library Editions Psychiatry written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 7671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatry is a medical field concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental health conditions. Routledge Library Editions: Psychiatry (24 Volume set) brings together titles, originally published between 1958 and 1997. The set demonstrates the varied nature of mental health and how we as a society deal with it. Covering a number of areas including child and adolescent psychiatry, alternatives to psychiatry, the history of mental health and psychiatric epidemiology.

Download or read book Conduct Unbecoming written by Diane Chamberlain and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not just in recent years newspapers have carried headlines of those dishonoring the uniform by raping innocent civilians, fellow students at Academies, trainees, or fellow service members. Savage beatings, sodomy, rape, cruelty, mistreatment, and murder are just part of the headlines that reach all the way up to the top commanding officers and generals. When these heinous crimes are tolerated, unity and the very integrity of the services suffer. This historical account, Conduct Unbecoming, along with this author's own history will awaken a sleeping nation to how its women have continued to suffer in the Armed services. Follow this author through her expose of rape, torture, and corruption by her own military commanders, to her struggles with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the "Kabuki dance" with the adversarial veterans administration of denials, cruelty, and retraumatization. She courageously fought evil and prevailed A military culture that perpetuates Conduct Unbecoming causes a disconnect from the military's mission and those who would serve honorably. Allowing moral turpitude to go underground to the extent that it has, adversely affects good order and discipline and brings dishonor on the military organizations these men serve.This author refuses to be silenced for behavior that has continued nearly four decades unabated ...

Download or read book Hey Rube written by Hunter S. Thompson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of articles in which journalist Hunter S. Thompson reflects on politics, sex, and sports in the modern world.

Download or read book Double Bridges written by Scott Adair and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life isn't easy for the hardworking Jones family in the destitute, rural town of Double Bridges, Louisiana, but it becomes much harder after bitterly prejudiced Augustus Riley is elected sheriff. After making life a misery for Willie Jones, Willie sends for his life-long friend Benjamin Ford to help him resolve the situation.

Download or read book Temptation Metal Prodigy Series Book 4 written by J.S. Snow and published by JBSTSP Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 2296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: None of us are immune from a particular course of action in this lifetime, it surrounds us and is a constant presence. It all began with Eve in the garden and forever reminds us, it’s tough to resist. Our choices in this lifetime define who we are and how we are to be remembered, and Alex’s journey continues with five tattooed, foul mouthed, sexy and talented men comprising of the greatest Heavy-Metal band in the world. New surprises unfold with this gregarious bunch and even bigger choices now have to be made. When it comes down to it, it’s a huge bite of the apple for some, but for Alex, could it be too much? Succumbing and giving in to the urge to do the opposite of what you believe in is the ultimate test and for most, the easy way out. This continues to be Alex’s story, these continue to be her choices and now she comes face to face with… TEMPTATION Temptation is Book 4 in the Metal Prodigy Series and should be read after Redemption Book 1, Resurrection Book 2 and Reconciliation Book 3. The author also recommends reading Trepidation, the first novella in the series released after Book 2 as several references are made relating to it in this book. 199,171 Words

Download or read book Lonely Planet Unpacked written by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes travel doesn't go according to plan - but that's what gives you best stories! Around the world, these Lonely Planet writers encounter hurricanes, road accidents, secret police and nasty parasites - among other aspects of life onthe dark side of the road. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

Download or read book Mason Jars in the Flood Other Stories written by Gary Carden and published by Parkway Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gary Carden is a folklorist and storyteller. He was raised by his grandparents in a house filled with the past. He grew up listening to Grady Cole and Renfro Valley on the radio while his grandfather tuned musical instruments with a tuning fork and sang hymns from a shape-note songbook. He grew up with cows, June apple trees, comic books, the Farmers' Federation, and Saturday movies. He told his first stories to 150 white leghorn chickens in a dark chicken-house when he was six years old. His audience wasn't terribly attentive and tended to get hysterical during the dramatic parts."--

Download or read book The Sleep of Baby Filbertson written by James Leo Herlihy and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short story collection by the acclaimed author of Midnight Cowboy explores the desperate lives of outsiders with unflinching insight. In his first collection of short fiction, James Leo Herlihy examines the experiences of alienation and isolation while elevating the oddities and quirks that make up human nature. These seven tales tackle the anxieties of fragile people and get to the heart of a world inhabited by perennial outsiders. Agoraphobic Daisy Filbertson and her teenage son Rudy, both addicted to sleeping pills, find themselves frantically running from city to city fueled by Daisy’s manic paranoia. A lonely mother looking to start her life over finds a new father for her daughter on an Army base. An immigrant from Uruguay writes letters to his Mamacita while he tries to find himself in the US. And a staunch Baptist has her world challenged when she meets a handsome artist.

Download or read book Flight of the Intruder written by Stephen Coonts and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A smash bestseller that spent over six months on the New York Times bestseller list, Flight of the Intruder became an instant classic. No one before or since ever captured the world of Navy carrier pilots with the gripping realism of Vietnam veteran Stephen Coonts, who lived the life he wrote about. More than a flying story, Flight of the Intruder is also one of the best novels ever written about the Vietnam experience. It's all here—the flying, the dying, the blood and bombs and bullets, and the sheer joy—and terror—of life at full throttle. "Gripping...Smashing. —The Wall Street Journal Grazing the Vietnam treetops at night at just under the speed of sound, A-6 Intruder pilot Jake "Cool Hand" Grafton knows exactly how precarious life is. Landing on a heaving aircraft carrier, dodging missiles locked on his fighter, flying through clouds of flak—he knows each flight could be his last. Yet he straps himself into a cockpit every day. "Extraordinary!"—Tom Clancy Then a bullet kills his bombardier while they're hitting another ‘suspected' truck depot. Jake wonders what his friend died for—and why? Hitting pointless targets selected by men piloting desks just doesn't make sense. Maybe it's time to do something worthwhile. Something that will make a difference... "Superbly written." — Washington Times Jake and his new bombardier, ice-cold Tiger Cole, are going to pick their own target and hit the enemy where it hurts. But to get there and back in one piece is going to take a lot of nerve, even more skill, and an incredible amount of raw courage. Before it's over, they're going to fly into hell.

Download or read book Trippers written by Nick Choo and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-11-06 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was supposed to be the vacation of their lives: thirteen teenagers, no chaperones, in a mansion up on a hill. But their weekend of fun and enjoyment turns to one of horror and despair when bizarre occurences plague them and the house takes on a malevolent life of its own. Soon the gang realizes that their hilltop stay is indeed the vacation of their lives, as they wind up fighting to survive…

Download or read book The So So Gatsby written by Patrick Hipp and published by Wheelhouse Books. This book was released on 2021-03-28 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rising star struggles with the side effects of fame as he and a cast of characters film an adaptation of The Great Gatsby.