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Book Two Guys Read the Obituaries

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steve Chandler
  • Publisher : Author's Choice Publishing
  • Release : 2006-09-10
  • ISBN : 9781931741798
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Two Guys Read the Obituaries written by Steve Chandler and published by Author's Choice Publishing. This book was released on 2006-09-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each author combed the obituary pages for a calendar year. They wrote about the Reaper's usual harvest--the famous, the infamous and the fascinating.

Book Everybody s Jane

Download or read book Everybody s Jane written by Juliette Wells and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to investigate Jane Austen's popular significance today, Everybody's Jane considers why Austen matters to amateur readers, how they make use of her novels, what they gain from visiting places associated with her, and why they create works of fiction and nonfiction inspired by her novels and life.The voices of everyday readers emerge from both published and unpublished sources, including interviews conducted with literary tourists and archival research into the founding of the Jane Austen Society of North America and the exceptional Austen collection of Alberta Hirshheimer Burke of Baltimore.Additional topics include new Austen portraits; portrayals of Austen, and of Austen fans, in film and fiction; and hybrid works that infuse Austen's writings with horror, erotica, or explicit Christianity.Everybody's Jane will appeal to all those who care about Austen and will change how we think about the importance of literature and reading today.

Book The Hands Off Manager

Download or read book The Hands Off Manager written by Steve Chandler and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A liberating read that will cause you to act in your own best interests and the best interests of everyone working within your sphere of influence.” —John Hoover, New York Times–bestselling author of How to Work for an Idiot The number one reason cited in exit interviews for an employee quitting is “my manager.” This can be for multiple reasons—including one that many managers and executives aren’t even aware of: Today’s employees simply don’t respond to the old hands-on, militaristic management styles. They are highly independent, individual professionals with their own fully developed ideas. Leaders and managers who try to micromanage them will inevitably confront widespread disgruntlement, absenteeism, and turnover . . . and increase their own and their employees’ stress levels. The Hands-Off Manager offers a new vision for all managers. With stories, examples, and activities for the reader to practice, this book shows any manager—new or seasoned—how to coach and mentor employees rather than hover over their shoulders and goad them into action. In this system, each employee’s strength is honored and honed in a climate of partnership and mutual goal-setting—a powerful ingredient for organizational growth and success.

Book Heaven s Praise

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dwayne Moore
  • Publisher : Group Publishing, Inc.
  • Release : 2011-06-01
  • ISBN : 1470700964
  • Pages : 213 pages

Download or read book Heaven s Praise written by Dwayne Moore and published by Group Publishing, Inc. . This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible states that we should praise God for how wonderful and majestic he is. And we should. But is is possible that the God of the Universe desires to praise us? Could our awesome Creator actually want to praise his creation? During this six-week small-group Bible study, you'll explore Jesus' parable of the three servants in Matthew 25, and discover how to live well-invested life on this earth-one worthy of "heaven's praise." As we learn to carefully and humbly follow Jesus' teachings, God will respond with the praise he desires to give us. With God's help and grace, we'll honor and serve our Lord all the days and hours we have left on this earch, so that we can one day hear God say, "Well done!" So put your eyes toward heaven, and take the next steps towrad getting there!

Book Will I See My Grandmother Naked In Heaven

Download or read book Will I See My Grandmother Naked In Heaven written by Tom Weaver and published by Create Space. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humorous questions about God, Jesus and the Bible.

Book Two Guys Read Jane Austen

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steve Chandler
  • Publisher : Robert Reed Pub
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9781934759172
  • Pages : 126 pages

Download or read book Two Guys Read Jane Austen written by Steve Chandler and published by Robert Reed Pub. This book was released on 2008 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third book in the critically acclaimed Two Guys series by Steve Chandler and Terrence Hill. This time the two guys take on their biggest challenge yet-Jane Austen. Follow their wild and often hilarious exchanges as they fly through Pride and Prejudice and the darker, more complex Mansfield Park. Often veering off into the worlds of music, sports, and history, both of these accomplished writers draw upon their lifelong friendships and shared childhood memories to give dimension to their deeply personal responses to Jane Austen's writing. These same zany digressions and non sequiturs were widely hailed in their first two books in this series, Two Guys Read Moby-Dick and Two Guys Read the Obituaries. Terrence Hill and Steve Chandler share their humorous and touching commentaries and debates with their readers in a way unlike any other, a testimony to their 53-year friendship.

Book The Executioner s Song

    Book Details:
  • Author : Norman Mailer
  • Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
  • Release : 2012-05-08
  • ISBN : 1455510831
  • Pages : 978 pages

Download or read book The Executioner s Song written by Norman Mailer and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, a convicted killer becomes the first prisoner to be executed in the United States. The Executioner's Song follows the true story of cold-blooded murderer Gary Gilmore, who, after being tried and convicted, insisted on being executed for his crimes. To do so, he fought a system intent on keeping him alive long after it sentenced him to death. Norman Mailer tells Gilmore's story with impressive authority and compassion. The Executioner's Song is a trip down the wrong side of the tracks, right into the heart of American loneliness and violence–it is impossible to put down and difficult to forget.

Book Obit

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jim Sheeler
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2008-04-29
  • ISBN : 0143113836
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Obit written by Jim Sheeler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Everything I Really Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten, or Tuesdays with Morrie, Obit is a wise and deeply moving book that illuminates the human condition. For ten years, Jim Sheeler has scoured Colorado looking for subjects whose stories he will tell for the last time. Most are unknowns, but that doesn't mean they're nobodies. Their obituaries are sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking, and chock full of life lessons as taught by the people we all pass on the street every day. And thanks to Sheeler's brilliant and compassionate prose, it's not too late to meet them.

Book Dead Last

    Book Details:
  • Author : James W. Hall
  • Publisher : Minotaur Books
  • Release : 2011-11-22
  • ISBN : 1429982306
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Dead Last written by James W. Hall and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an acclaimed "master of suspense"(New York Times Book Review) comes a thriller in which Thorn must confront an assassin whose victims and methods are taken directly from the script of a popular TV show April Moss writes obituaries for the Miami Herald. Her son, Sawyer, also a writer, has been scripting a cable TV series called "Miami Ops" and has been using his mother's work as a central element of the show's storyline. In "Miami Ops," a serial killer is using obituaries published in the local paper as a blueprint for selecting his next victims. But midway through the season, a copycat appears off-screen, a real-life killer who is using the same strategy to select victims. When this serial killer crosses paths with the reclusive Thorn, he has no choice but to leave his sanctuary in Key Largo and join forces with a young policewoman from Oklahoma who is investigating the murders. In addition to the show's head writer, April's other son, Sawyer's twin brother, works on "Miami Ops" as the lead actor. Could one of them be involved in the killings? Or are they orchestrated by the director of the TV series, an aging mogul who badly needs a hit? And what about the female star of the show, a deliciously strange young woman who seems willing to do anything to promote her career. Thorn walks into this hotbed of entertainment business intrigue totally unprepared for the life-altering shocker he's about to face. This loner from Key Largo has brought down his share of killers, but he's never confronted one that was his own flesh and blood. With the pacing of a thriller, and the lyrical prose for which Hall is renowned, this story pits Thorn against a killer—or killers—whose motives are as elusive as their identities.

Book Orange Coast Magazine

Download or read book Orange Coast Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orange Coast Magazine is the oldest continuously published lifestyle magazine in the region, bringing together Orange County¹s most affluent coastal communities through smart, fun, and timely editorial content, as well as compelling photographs and design. Each issue features an award-winning blend of celebrity and newsmaker profiles, service journalism, and authoritative articles on dining, fashion, home design, and travel. As Orange County¹s only paid subscription lifestyle magazine with circulation figures guaranteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulation, Orange Coast is the definitive guidebook into the county¹s luxe lifestyle.

Book Obit

    Book Details:
  • Author : Victoria Chang
  • Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
  • Release : 2020-04-07
  • ISBN : 1619322188
  • Pages : 118 pages

Download or read book Obit written by Victoria Chang and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2020 Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 NPR's Best Books of 2020 National Book Award in Poetry, Longlist Frank Sanchez Book Award After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic obituaries for all she lost in the world. In Obit, Chang writes of “the way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking.” These poems reinvent the form of newspaper obituary to both name what has died (“civility,” “language,” “the future,” “Mother’s blue dress”) and the cultural impact of death on the living. Whereas elegy attempts to immortalize the dead, an obituary expresses loss, and the love for the dead becomes a conduit for self-expression. In this unflinching and lyrical book, Chang meets her grief and creates a powerful testament for the living. "When you lose someone you love, the world doesn’t stop to let you mourn. Nor does it allow you to linger as you learn to live with a gaping hole in your heart. Indeed, this daily indifference to being left behind epitomizes the unique pain of grieving. Victoria Chang captures this visceral, heart-stopping ache in Obit, the book of poetry she wrote after the death of her mother. Although Chang initially balked at writing an obituary, she soon found herself writing eulogies for the small losses that preceded and followed her mother’s death, each one an ode to her mother’s life and influence. Chang also thoughtfully examines how she will be remembered by her own children in time."—Time Magazine

Book The Economist Book of Obituaries

Download or read book The Economist Book of Obituaries written by Keith Colquhoun and published by Bloomberg Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 10 years, "The Economist" has included unique and original obituaries in a popular column. The selections are remarkable because of the people written about, the surprising lives they led, and the brilliant writing style. This volume gathers 200 of the best obituaries.

Book Cemetery Lake

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Cleave
  • Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
  • Release : 2010-09-01
  • ISBN : 1869792319
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Cemetery Lake written by Paul Cleave and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heart-thumping, no-holds-barred murder-mystery that keeps you guessing until the very last page. Some secrets won't stay buried . . . A standard exhumation becomes anything but for private investigator Theodore Tate when bodies begin bubbling to the surface of the cemetery lake. Tate knows he has to let it go and let his former colleagues in the police deal with it. But when the coffin is opened and its occupant is not the old man supposed to be inside, he knows he cannot walk away. But he cannot let the police keep digging, because they are getting dangerously close to digging up the real truth: the truth about him. With the evidence mounting against him, Tate must use his skills to stay ahead of the police and out of jail in order to find a killer. A killer on a mission - a person who will kill again and again - a person who will turn Tate into the very man he despises. From the author of The Cleaner and The Killing Hour, this is Cleave's most terrifying and chilling thriller to date. It will keep you guessing to the very last page.

Book Death Notice

    Book Details:
  • Author : Todd Ritter
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2010-10-12
  • ISBN : 1429941480
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Death Notice written by Todd Ritter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perry Hollow, Pennsylvania, has never had a murder. At least not as long as Kat Campbell has been police chief. And the first is brutal. George Winnick, a farmer in his sixties, is found in a homemade coffin on the side of the highway with his lips sewn shut and his veins and arteries drained of blood and filled with embalming fluid. Chilling as that is, it becomes even more so when Kat finds that the Perry Hollow Gazette obituary writer, Henry Goll, received a death notice for Winnick before he was killed. Soon after, the task force from the Pennsylvania Bureau of Investigation shows up and everything takes an irreversible turn for the worse. Nick Donnelly, head of the task force, has been chasing the "Betsy Ross Killer," so named because he's handy with a needle and thread, for more than a year. Winnick seems to be his fourth victim. Or is he? Kat has never handled a murder case before, but she's not about to sit by while someone terrorizes her sleepy little town or her own son. But will her efforts be enough to stop a killer and bring calm to Perry Hollow? A portrait of a small town in turmoil, where residents fear for their lives, Todd Ritter's Death Notice is a gripping debut from a terrific new talent in crime fiction.

Book The Send away Girl

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barbara Sutton
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780820326559
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book The Send away Girl written by Barbara Sutton and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of moving short stories thematically linked by the emotion of loneliness follows a collection of varied characters as they search for relationships, only to find meaningful connections in the unlikeliest places. Winner of the Flannery O'Connar Award for Short Fiction.

Book The Last Word

Download or read book The Last Word written by Marvin Siegel and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1997 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may not have heard of Julian Hill, for example, but he revolutionized our lives as the inventor of nylon, and you'll learn more about him in The Last Word.

Book Down on the Sidewalk

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ethan Laughman
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2020-03-01
  • ISBN : 0820357618
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Down on the Sidewalk written by Ethan Laughman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Front porches, family cars, playgrounds, swimming pools: from such familiar haunts of childhood, these stories look out on the world through young eyes and hearts. Wise beyond their years—or soon to be—Ruthie, Omar, J.J., and the other kids in these stories veer in and out of touching distance to hard lessons about trust, love, and mortality. However engaged or aloof, grownups are always nearby. Far-from-perfect emissaries to the realm of adulthood, they pose questions for children even as they offer answers.