Download or read book Drive written by Clayton Lachmund and published by TightWriters Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Big Jiggety written by Michael Kent and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-11-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more of Michael Kent's works, please visit www.michaelkentwriterartist.com. THE BIG JIGGETY, a picaresque, romantic, humorous, philosophical, sociological, (mostly autobiographical) novel, relates the travels and travails of Albert Nostran. An 18-year old American born and raised in the country outside 25 miles east of Paris, his quest is to find America, a woman, and himself. Lugging his guitar, Don Pedro, fleeing his cantankerous father, well-meaning mother and a brother he wants to turn into a fellow musician, he braves disease, fatigue, cold and angst to land in Big Sky University in Missoula, Montana, to sink his teeth into the frozen American west. Many aspects of US/Montana life intrigue the protagonist, yet Nostran retains a European sense of history and critical mind; arguably a Tocqueville of the late 1970s, he never misses an opportunity to comment on the local societal oddities and contradictions. "Perhaps you were more French than you thought," Damian his childhood friend tells the homesick hero in chapter one. Before they launch off in an exploration of a bleak, wintery, nocturnal Paris, during which Nostran loses his innocence in the arms of a prostitute. After whom our hero believes he has contracted something nasty, yet another little inconvenience he must face when flying back to Chicago via London. And matters do not improve in the endless yet at times magical bus ride between Salt-Lake-City and Butte, and he comes close to freezing trying to hitch-hike along the wide open spaces between Butte and Missoula. A few pills later, the sex quest resumes. Undaunted, Nostran in his diaspora flirts with one woman and then another with precious little of the supposed Gallic related savoir faire. Life at the university does harbor the excitement of weekends and dormitory life, with its freshman friendships and naïveté as well the tedium and occasional enlightenment of classes. And extra curricular activities, such as teaching dorm-mates how to strum a guitar. Against this background vivid characters are etched: Threats, the homophobic narcissistic football player; Rotch, another jock, who after having learned guitar from Albert begins to ridicule his former mentor. Up in Polson, Mt., we encounter Montcarlson and his wife, the curious couple who originally recommended the university. In Dubois, Wyoming, we meet Lancelot Wolf, owner of the Salamander Ranch, and Jim, the bisexual bartender, who reveals unexpected secrets about women the eager Nostran very quickly applies to Tweets, the stocky femme fatale in the blue car he more than befriends on yet another glacial return to Missoula. Bags repacked, the last U.S. trek takes him and two others back east to Chicago and New York--one American city whose intensity captivates him. If the USA experience at times mystified the adolescent, returning to France in the summer proves anticlimactic. At first. What the old country appears to lack in razzle-dazzle, it gradually makes up in terms of simplicity and deep-rooted friendships. Besides, after a stint with translations Nostran cannot sit still for long. Driving from his boyhood home in Seine-et-Marne (a little east of Paris), first up to Amsterdam with three rambunctious of old high school mates, then down to the Spanish border, via the Loire valley, with the equally lust-ridden Lecoq-Hasien, Nostran once again rediscovers the virtues of Europe and home. At the very last minute when all sexual hope has been abandoned, a young lady on the Saint-Jean-de-Luz boardwalk asks him for a light. She is not a prostitute and agrees to meet him the next day...

Download or read book Bristol s Bastards written by Nicholas P. Maurstad and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minnesota’s toughest farm boys take on Iraqi insurgents in one of the most irreverent and outrageous memoirs to come out of the Iraq War. When they deployed for Iraq, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 136th Infantry Regiment of the Minnesota National Guard, was mostly composed of farm kids from the Midwest. But make no mistake—these boys could replace a tank track on the side of the road using nothing but a crescent wrench, Zippo lighter, and a two-by-four. Once they arrived, they fought alongside the Marine Corps in Anbar province through the deadliest period of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Bravo Company earned the nickname “Bristol’s Bastards” after USMC Colonel George Bristol, commanding officer of the IMEF Headquarters Group, adopted this band of fierce warriors as one of his own. Specialist Nick Maurstad, a member of Bristol’s Bastards, brings to life the experience of fighting in Iraq: kicking down doors, dodging IEDs, battling insurgents in the small towns surrounding Fallujah, and trying to help one another survive in the deadliest place on earth.

Download or read book Cash written by Cassia Leo and published by Gloss Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kara needs fast cash to pay her ailing father’s gambling debt. Working as a blackjack dealer at the Billionaire Club is her last resort. Until a one-night-stand with notorious bad boy Cash Westbrook changes her luck. Cash has offered to pay her father’s debt…for a price. I can’t believe my luck when I land a job dealing blackjack at the new Billionaire Club in Las Vegas. And it keeps getting better when I meet bad boy billionaire Cash Westbrook my first night on the job. Despite the fact that he uses his flirtatious charms to make me look slightly incompetent, the $10,000 tip he leaves will go a long way toward paying off my father’s gambling debts. So when I walk out to the employee parking lot after my shift and find Cash leaning against my car, I know I’m about to be taken for a wild ride. What I don’t expect is for him to proposition me after a single one-night stand. If I pretend to be his fiancée and we convince the board at Westbrook Oil that Cash is ready to settle down, I’ll get one million dollars. Sounds easy enough, until I quickly find myself falling for him. And when it comes to love, all bets are off.

Download or read book The Offset Smoker Cookbook written by Chris Grove and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how to make authentic, competition-quality BBQ with your offset smoker Serving up flavor-packed recipes and step-by-step techniques, this handy how-to guide and cookbook will have you smoking like a true pitmaster in no time. It features everything from pro tips on flavoring with smoke to little-known tricks for maintaining perfect temperature control. The easy-to-follow recipes and helpful color photos guarantee you’ll be making the best barbecue of your life, including mouth-watering meals such as: Green Chile Crusted Flank Steak Tacos Beef Chorizo Stuffed Peppers Pineapple Habanero Baby Back Ribs Your offset smoker is the best appliance for taking your barbecue to the next level. So open this book, fire up your smoker and start impressing family, friends and neighbors with your delicious barbecue.

Download or read book The Playboy Collection written by Cassia Leo and published by Gloss Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2021-03-14 with total page 867 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scorching hot collection of alpha playboys from New York Times bestselling author Cassia Leo. Five stand-alones included in this bundle (can be read in any order): RAISE YOUR GAME New York's most notorious playboy has just offered her a raise and promotion...if she pretends to be his wife. This raise is going to cost her. ABANDON Sexy playboy and rock star Tristan decides to settle down with a long-time friend and one-time fling. But an accidental pregnancy complicates matters for this cocky bad boy. CASH A scorching hot one-night fling turns into a million-dollar bet with a billionaire playboy. But resisting her new fake fiancé is more difficult and dangerous than she anticipated. BREAK The tattooed playboy next door is her brother's best friend. And her first love. After a messy breakup, he’s also her sworn enemy. Now he's back, and he'll stop at nothing until she’s his again. TEMPERANCE As therapist and patient, their love is forbidden. Will she risk her career for the seductive playboy billionaire she’s supposed to be counseling for a sex addiction?

Download or read book Vicky Valentine s Erotic Adventures Volumes 1 4 Collection Bonus Prequel written by Anonymous and published by Sublimation Pressworks. This book was released on 2023-02-18 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIVE SEXY STORIES - ONE LOW PRICE! This collection contains Volumes 1 - 4 plus a bonus prequel titled "Dalisay's Wish." Gambling debts, blackmail, microfilm, a bottle of rye. Tongue on the roof of her mouth, hard-boiled exotic dancer Vicky Valentine loves solving a mystery. A scream. A dead stiff. A nymph giggling. Black and white chiaroscuro shadows represent Vicky's world. She's a globetrotting babe who fucks with abandon and rocks out, while still finding the time to paint her nails. With her bisexual sidekick and double-agent ex-boyfriend mucking up the production, Vicky dances her way to erotic ecstasy. In Volume 1, Vicky Valentine masturbates while prepping for a sultry dance at a Portland strip club. Later, she engages in a steamy lap dance with her troublesome ex-boyfriend Wilhelm Wilder. As a double-agent he’s burned her before, but his charms are difficult to resist. He offers an easy job worth fifty grand. Vicky reluctantly accepts and starts a tense cross-country motorcycle journey with her bisexual girlfriend True. After an orgasm or two, the duo discovers two mysterious G-men lurking in the shadows, but are they friend or foe? In Volume 2, Vicky Valentine and True continue their bisexual escapades through Utah. First, the desirable duo seduces two strangers into group sex. Next, they play with a large strap-on dildo in a kitschy Salt Lake City motel room. Later in New Orleans, they meet a mysterious voodoo mistress and her blind chauffeur. After a lesbian lickety-split ménage à trois, the voodoo mistress leads Vicky to an underground sex-club called Le Malaise. Without warning, Vicky faces an undead army and their diabolic master, but will Vicky survive to lick another day? In Volume 3, Vicky Valentine discovers clues to a beloved friend’s whereabouts in a New Orleans bookstore. An impromptu bookshelf blowjob leads to a flight to Seoul, South Korea. Vicky descends into Seoul’s pulsing underworld with lipstick lesbian temptations, lovers abound, and assassins sent to kill her. Bewitched, Vicky falls for a transsexual nightclub singer who gives new meaning to “Drop dead gorgeous.” Vicky enlists the help of a sexy Interpol agent, screws a handsome stud in a Korean love motel, and discovers a terrible surprise in a nightclub’s washroom. With betrayal around every corner, will K-pop best Vicky once and for all? In Volume 4, Vicky Valentine journeys through a carnal odyssey on a mysterious island. Like Dante’s hell, the subterranean complex displays sexual depravity as one moves through the levels and corridors. Sneaking around like a cat in heat, Vicky indulges in a dominatrix training day, masturbates to group sex on voyeuristic computer monitors, and slides herself into a massive oil orgy. Reaching the top of the secret base, she faces her archenemy, the nefarious Don Diab. As he unveils the crux of his occult power, the dark magician brings down the heavens and reveals a terrible reality. Will this truth shatter Vicky’s heart now and forever? In the "Dalisay's Wish" prequel, Vicky Valentine works as a bar girl in Angeles City, the Philippines, the sex capital of Southeast Asia. Expatriate lowlifes and criminals abound in this dark world of steamy sex for profit. Voyeurism draws Vicky into the treacherous underbelly of Manila. Vicky befriends an amnesiac call girl trying to escape a pimp’s clutches. In walks a mysterious German stranger who offers help, romance, and an impromptu ménage à trois. Even with help absconding from the Philippines proves difficult. Vicky escapes this den of debauchery, but at what cost? * Warning: This is a serialized story with massive cliffhangers.

Download or read book Living the Dream written by Tim Baker and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Living the Dream" is a semi-humorous crime story about a loser named Kurt who thinks that his ticket to Easy Street lies in a half-baked kidnapping plot. After the road trip from hell he arrives in Florida to find that Vicky, his intended victim, is out of town. Vicky's husband, Jimmy, is thinking of divorcing her and probably won't pay the ransom anyway. And Leslie, Jimmy's mistress, wants a piece of Kurt's action. Just to make matters worse, Kurt has a bookie, a biker and an ex-Navy SEAL all wanting a piece of his hide. Kurt had no idea that kidnapping was such hard work. His plan might work if it doesn't get him killed first. Tim Baker was born and raised in Warwick, Rhode Island. After graduating from The Wentworth Institute of Technology in 1980 he embarked on a career in Architecture and Engineering. Along the way he has also worked in the natural gas industry, construction and ice cream sales In his spare time he enjoys a wide variety of activities including sports of all kinds, music, photography, model building and, of course, writing. An avid dog lover, Tim was a volunteer puppy raiser for Guiding Eyes for the Blind, raising and socializing potential guide dogs. He has also studied and taught martial arts. Living the Dream is his first published novel, his next novel Water Hazard will be published in the fall of 2009. Currently, Tim is enjoying life in Palm Coast, Florida. To contact Tim or find out about upcoming works please visit his website at www.blindoggbooks.com

Download or read book The Origin of the Brunists written by Robert Coover and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1969, Robert Coover's first novel instantly established his mastery. A coal-mine explosion in a small mid-American town claims ninety-seven lives. The only survivor, a peculiar man subject to religious visions, is adopted as a prophet and quickly gains a following. Rapidly disseminated through the magic of media exposure, the cult spreads across America, and as its members gather on the Mount of Redemption to await the apocalypse, Robert Coover lays bare the madness of religious frenzy and the sometimes greater madness of normal citizens. The Origin of the Brunists is vintage Coover -- comic, fearless, incisive, and brilliantly executed.

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Download or read book Empire s Proxy written by Meg Wesling and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series In the late nineteenth century, American teachers descended on the Philippines, which had been newly purchased by the U.S. at the end of the Spanish-American War. Motivated by President McKinley’s project of “benevolent assimilation,” they established a school system that centered on English language and American literature to advance the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon tradition, which was held up as justification for the U.S.’s civilizing mission and offered as a promise of moral uplift and political advancement. Meanwhile, on American soil, the field of American literature was just being developed and fundamentally, though invisibly, defined by this new, extraterritorial expansion. Drawing on a wealth of material, including historical records, governmental documents from the War Department and the Bureau of Insular Affairs, curriculum guides, memoirs of American teachers in the Philippines, and 19th century literature, Meg Wesling not only links empire with education, but also demonstrates that the rearticulation of American literary studies through the imperial occupation in the Philippines served to actually define and strengthen the field. Empire’s Proxy boldly argues that the practical and ideological work of colonial dominance figured into the emergence of the field of American literature, and that the consolidation of a canon of American literature was intertwined with the administrative and intellectual tasks of colonial management.

Download or read book A Condition of Experience written by Derek R. Audette and published by Derek R. Audette. This book was released on 2006 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek R. Audette has been called one of Canada's most promising and potentially important young artists. CultureCentric has recently included him in their list of Prominent Gen-Xer Celebrities - naming him as a prominent leader in the field of art. His musical compositions have appeared in hundreds of films and television, radio and Internet broadcasts and he has performed in front of audiences across the continent. His paintings have been shown all over the globe and his conceptual art pieces have gained him widespread notoriety. Audette has also gained recognition for his extensive work as an outspoken political activist fighting for the protection and expansion of civil liberty. It has been said that as an artist Audette possesses one of the broadest and most diverse ranges of talent among Canadian artists today. A Condition of Experience is Derek R. Audette's second published volume of collected works of poetry.

Download or read book Peep Show written by Joshua Braff and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Arbus will be graduating from high school in the spring of 1975. His divorced parents offer two options: embrace his mother’s Hasidic sect or go into his father’s line of work, running a porn theater in the heart of New York’s Times Square. He joins the family business. What else would a healthy seventeen-year-old with an interest in photography do? But he didn’t think it would mean giving up his mother and sister altogether. Peep Show is the bittersweet story of a young man torn between a mother trying to erase her past and a father struggling to maintain his dignity in a less-than-savory business. As David peeps through the spaces in the screen that divides the men and the women in Hasidic homes, we can’t help but think of his father’s Imperial Theatre, where other men are looking at other women through the peepholes. As entertaining as it is moving, Peep Show looks at the elaborate ensembles, rituals, assumed names, and fierce loyalties of two secret worlds, stripping away the curtains of both.

Download or read book All Purpose written by Apostoly P. Kouroumalis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fragments, word salads, comprise the body of “All Purpose,” a collection of short stories and poems by Toly A. K. that sometimes delve into the paranormal, ethereal, and the eccentricities of everyday life. Some stories are drawn from an iconoclast/cartoonish satire side of the author’s drama self. —painter’s perspective

Download or read book Corona Rapture written by James Robb and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shannon Parke has little to look forward to in his young life. The prisoner of a broken home, his childhood is marked by fear, hunger, and desperation. He forms a new family with his two best friends, Jamie and Luca, and they become his heroes and protectors. The three boys become the only real family each of them has ever known, and together they finally feel brave enough to face their turbulent world. But when the games of childhood are replaced by drugs and increasing violence, Shannon feels pulled in different directions than his friends. They find themselves in a deadly war with a dangerous Mexican gang, and Shannon's loyalty is needed more than ever. But Shannon wants an escapeand he wants his best friends to be a part of his new life. Can change happen without sacrifice? Is the love they all have for each other enough? After all, when you take up a life of crime, caring can be what makes everything fall apart.

Download or read book Antkind written by Charlie Kaufman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar®-winning screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Synecdoche, New York. LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • “A dyspeptic satire that owes much to Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon . . . propelled by Kaufman’s deep imagination, considerable writing ability and bull’s-eye wit."—The Washington Post “An astonishing creation . . . riotously funny . . . an exceptionally good [book].”—The New York Times Book Review • “Kaufman is a master of language . . . a sight to behold.”—NPR NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND MEN’S HEALTH B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer), stumbles upon a hitherto unseen film made by an enigmatic outsider—a film he’s convinced will change his career trajectory and rock the world of cinema to its core. His hands on what is possibly the greatest movie ever made—a three-month-long stop-motion masterpiece that took its reclusive auteur ninety years to complete—B. knows that it is his mission to show it to the rest of humanity. The only problem: The film is destroyed, leaving him the sole witness to its inadvertently ephemeral genius. All that’s left of this work of art is a single frame from which B. must somehow attempt to recall the film that just might be the last great hope of civilization. Thus begins a mind-boggling journey through the hilarious nightmarescape of a psyche as lushly Kafkaesque as it is atrophied by the relentless spew of Twitter. Desperate to impose order on an increasingly nonsensical existence, trapped in a self-imposed prison of aspirational victimhood and degeneratively inclusive language, B. scrambles to re-create the lost masterwork while attempting to keep pace with an ever-fracturing culture of “likes” and arbitrary denunciations that are simultaneously his bête noire and his raison d’être. A searing indictment of the modern world, Antkind is a richly layered meditation on art, time, memory, identity, comedy, and the very nature of existence itself—the grain of truth at the heart of every joke.

Download or read book Salmon Fishing from Alexander Gurman Angler 2013 written by Alexander Gurman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fishing for Salmon chinook, angler adviceAbout author: Alexander Gurman is an avid fisherman. Fisherman since age 7 under with his father and grandfather tutelage in the Black Sea, Odessa, at what is now Ukraine, fish for goby fish, and glosik from small boat. Fished most of the fish discussed here in the book mostly in NY, NJ, PA, SC, FL. Biology major in Odessa State University. Alexander is a member of number fishing clubs and associations. Alexander and his wife and step daughter resides in Brooklyn, NY. Alexander is frequent ice fishing, salt water, fresh water and fly fishing angler.