Download or read book Sombrero Fallout written by Richard Brautigan and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartbroken American writer starts a story about an ice-cold sombrero that falls inexplicably from the sky and lands in the centre of a small Southwest town. Devastated by the departure of his gorgeous Japanese girlfriend, he cannot concentrate on his writing and in frustration he throws away his beginning. But as the man searches through his apartment for strands of his lost love's hair, the discarded story in the wastepaper basket - through some kind of elaborate origami - carries on without him. Arguments over the sombrero begin, one thing leads to another and before long all hell breaks loose in the normally sleep town. Brautigan's fertile imagination twists and pulls at the ensuing chaos to come up with a tender, moving, surreal and incredibly funny tale that is told by a writer at the very peak of his creative powers.
Download or read book The Sombrero written by University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears the Sombrero written by Clint Crockett and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jos Valdez IV is your average collegiate sports fan. That is assuming the average collegiate sports fan has been married three times, loves tequila and Salma Hayek, and is a Mexican Presbyterian. Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears the Sombrero features Joss unique take on Ole Miss athletics, its opponents within the Southeastern Conference and polite society in general. Nothing is sacred within these thoughts and chances are youve never read anything like what youll find here. Youll experience the highs and lows in Rebel sports from 2009-2013 just as Jos did, with no holds barred. Keep the tequila handy.
Download or read book Under My Sombrero written by Anne Schraff and published by Books for Young Learners. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too many friends want to share a little girls's hat.
Download or read book The Sombrero written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uncle Nacho s Hat written by Harriet Rohmer and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1993-06-01 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A folk tale from Nicaragua about a well meaning man who can't figure out how to make changes in his life.
Download or read book Cactus guitarist in a sombrero written by Max Marshall and published by Litres. This book was released on 2024-07-03 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initially in the scorching Texas desert, there stood a prickly but charming cactus named Xavier, who sported a vibrant sombrero and had a passion for playing the guitar. In Xavier the Musical Cactus, children will be enchanted by the heartwarming tale of how Xavier strummed his guitar and entertained weary travelers and locals alike at a lively desert bar. With his catchy tunes and infectious energy.
Download or read book The Corpse Wore a Sombrero written by MJ O'Neill and published by Red Adept Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHE WORE CHANEL FIT FOR REVENGE. Kat Waters, former socialite turned morgue employee, finds herself up to her Jimmy Choos in family drama when the Italian mob dumps a freezer housing a naked sombrero-clad corpse in her apartment. The mob’s head honcho believes this frosty stiff is the key to uncovering a rat in his family. He wants Kat to investigate the murder, and in return, he’ll share information that could spring Kat’s father from prison. HE WORE A KILLER SMILE. Kat knows that unraveling a murder is much trickier than choosing the perfect eyeliner shade. So she enlists some reinforcements: her pot-growing drama-queen BFF, a razor-sharp reporter who's also on the hunt for romance, and a security mastermind backed by a crew of quirky misfits. THE CORPSE WORE A SOMBRERO. As theories pile up like last season's runway rejects, everyone is pointing fingers. And just as Kat thinks she's getting a grip, the Russian mob crashes the party, demanding her assistance with a peculiar storage problem. In a whirlwind of family feuds, mobster mayhem, and fatal encounters, one thing is clear: the only hope she has of ever seeing her stylist again lies in cracking the case, saving her family, and out-strutting a killer with a vendetta.
Download or read book ChupaCarter and the Screaming Sombrero written by George Lopez and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Lopez does it again in his next laugh-out-loud ChupaCarter adventure! Jorge and his chupacabra chum Carter are hot on the trail of the legendary El Dorado gold . . . but so are some wicked treasure hunters who will stop at nothing to find it! A cursed Aztec dagger. A five-hundred-year-old witch's riddle. And a . . . screaming sombrero? These are the ancient artifacts that mysteriously hold the answer to the location of the priceless El Dorado treasure hidden in New Mexico—not far from where Jorge and Carter live. When their friend Ernie's dad is accused of stealing the artifacts, it's a race against time to clear his name. They find help from the unlikeliest—and loudest—source they've ever met: a sombrero that SCREAMS! Together with brainy Liza, the oddball heroes discover the real culprits are a devilish ring of thieves who are after El Dorado's treasure. The pals lay a cunning trap to make the thieves confess, but they realize too late that they're the ones being trapped . . . and there's no one left to save them!
Download or read book San Sombrero EBook written by Santo Cilauro and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proudly considered the birthplace of tinted sunglasses and sequins, this fascinating land is packed with things to see and do. Have your photo taken with a colourfully dressed ruhmero (drunk) while his accomplice steals your wallet. Sway to the steamy bababumba, one of the few dances in the world to routinely involve an exchange of body fluids. Try 'red-water rafting' your way down a river of boiling lava. Or simply sit back and sip a molitivo cocktail while listening to the hypnotic rhythm of government helicopters strafing a nearby rebel stronghold. Crammed with expert advice, this fully upd.
Download or read book Good Girls written by Glen Hirshberg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-time International Horror Guild and Shirley Jackson Award Winner Glen Hirshberg brings his flair for the grim, grisly, and emotionally harrowing to Good Girls, the standalone sequel to Motherless Child. Still in college, Rebecca is the “responsible one.” She keeps her friends from getting too crazy—though Human Curling is kind of out there. She’s a safety valve for Joel, her foster father, and helps out at Halfmoon House, which he runs with his wife, Amanda—Rebecca’s foster mother, who makes sure her children able to protect themselves. To take care of themselves. Mostly Rebecca takes care of everyone else. She works at the university’s crisis center, doing whatever she can to help the troubled souls who call the hotline. Until the night he calls. Jess has lost so much: her job, her home...her daughter Natalie, no longer human thanks to the creature who called himself the Whistler. She tried desperately to save Natalie, but in the end, Jess herself pulled the trigger and killed her child. Deep in mourning, Jess flees, with the remnants of her family: the man she loved, seriously injured; her infant grandson, somehow still innocent and pure. And Sophie. Natalie’s best friend, Jess’s almost-daughter, and a mother herself, though her son is dead. Sophie’s alive but not alive—half-mad, half vampire, half a person...and Jess’s responsibility. The Whistler is hunting Jess. She killed his Mother...and Natalie, who was his “destiny.” But he’s not so single-minded that he can’t have a little fun along the way, take what he needs from Rebecca’s friends and family...take Rebecca for his own.... Fates collide in a small town where fear and love are two sides of the same coin and life and death lie far too close together. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Apocalypse Taco written by Nathan Hale and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sid, Axl, and Ivan volunteer to make a late-night fast-food run for the high school theater crew, and when they return, they find themselves. Not in a deep, metaphoric sense: They find copies of themselves onstage. As they look closer, they begin to realize that the world around them isn’t quite right. Turns out, when they went to the taco place across town, they actually crossed into an alien dimension that’s eerily similar to their world. The aliens have made sinister copies of cars, buildings, and people—and they all want to get Sid, Axl, and Ivan. Now the group will have to use their wits, their truck, and even their windshield scraper to escape! But they may be too late. They may now be copies themselves . . .
Download or read book Blue Hat Green Hat written by and published by . This book was released on 1984-10-11 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humorous animal characters introduce the basic colors and familiar items of clothing. On board pages.
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Download or read book Metaphors of Coronavirus written by Jonathan Charteris-Black and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the metaphors used in public and media communication to ask how language shapes our moral reasoning about the global coronavirus crisis. The author offers insights into the metaphors, metonyms, allegories and symbols of the global crisis and examines how they have contributed to policy formation and communication. Combining metaphor theory with moral foundations theory, he places metaphors in their historical contexts, and then critically questions why certain tropes might be used in particular situations to persuade and convince an audience. The book takes an integrated approach, involving ideas from cognitive linguistics, history, social psychology and literature to produce a multi-layered and thematically rich interpretation of the language of the pandemic and its social and political consequences. It will be relevant to readers with a background in these areas, as well as anyone with a general interest in the language used to make sense of this global event.
Download or read book Cognitive Linguistics and Translation written by Ana Rojo and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers compiled in the present volume aim at investigating the many fruitful manners in which cognitive linguistics can expand further on cognitive translation studies. Some papers (e.g. Halverson, Muñoz-Martín, Martín de León) take a theoretical stand, since the epistemological and ontological bases of both areas (cognitive linguistics and translation studies) should be known before specific contributions of cognitive linguistic to translation are tackled. Several works in the volume attempt to illustrate how some of the notions imported from cognitive linguistics may contribute to enrich our understanding of the translation process in a general translation problem such as metaphor (e.g. Samaniego), the relationship between form and meaning (e.g. Tabakowska, Rojo and Valenzuela) or cultural aspects (e.g. Bernárdez, Sharifian/Jamarani). Others use translation as an empirical field to test some of the basic assumptions of cognitive linguistics such as frames (e.g. Boas), metonymy (e.g. Brdar/Brdar-Szabó), and lexicalisation patterns (e.g. Ibarretxe-Antuñano/Filipovi?). Finally, another set of papers (e.g. Feist, Hatzidaki) opens up new lines of investigation for experimental research, a very promising area still underdeveloped.
Download or read book Astronomy For Dummies written by Stephen P. Maran and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your updated guide to exploring the night sky Do you know the difference between a red giant and a white dwarf? From asteroids to black holes, this easy-to-understand guide takes you on a grand tour of the universe. Featuring updated star maps, charts, and an insert with gorgeous full-color photographs, Astronomy For Dummies provides an easy-to-follow introduction to exploring the night sky. Plus, this new edition also comes with chapter quizzes online to help your understanding. For as long as people have been walking the earth, those people have looked up into the night sky and wondered about the nature of the cosmos. Without the benefit of science to provide answers, they relied on myth and superstition to help them make sense of what they saw. Lucky for us, we live at a time when regular folks, equipped with nothing more than their naked eyes, can look up into the night sky and gain admittance to infinite wonders. If you know what to look for, you can make out planets, stars, galaxies, and even galactic clusters comprising hundreds of millions of stars and spanning millions of light-years. Whether you're an amateur astronomer, space enthusiast, or enrolled in a first year astronomy course, Astronomy For Dummies gives you a reason to look into the heavens. Includes updated schedules of coming eclipses of the Sun and Moon and a revised planetary appendix Covers recent discoveries in space, such as water on the Moon and Pluto's demotion from "planet" status Collects new websites, lists of telescope motels, sky-watching guides, and suggestions for beginner's telescopes and suppliers Provides free online access to chapter quizzes to help you understand the content Ever wonder what's out there in the big ol' universe? This is the book for you!
