Download or read book Dear Dickhead written by Virginie Despentes and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Epic . . . Brash and provocative . . . [A] riveting exploration of feminism and sexism . . . Readers will be awed." ―Publishers Weekly (starred review) The French novel taking the world by storm: an ultracontemporary Dangerous Liaisons about sex, feminism, and addiction. Dear Dickhead, I read your post on Insta. You’re like a pigeon shitting on my shoulder as you flap past. It’s shitty and unpleasant. Waah, waah, waah, I’m a pissy little pantywaist, no one loves me so I whimper like a Chihuahua in the hope someone will notice me. Congratulations: you’ve got your fifteen minutes of fame! You want proof? I’m writing to you. Oscar is a B-list novelist in his forties. He used to be an alcoholic and a cokehead, but now he keeps himself busy by ranting on social media. When Rebecca, an actress whose looks he insulted, sends him an angry email, they strike up a combative correspondence—at the very moment that Oscar is accused of sexual harassment by his former publicist. What ensues is a no-holds-barred conversation about life under the patriarchy, and above all about addiction—to drugs, to alcohol, to the internet, to rage. Virginie Despentes, the celebrated author of King Kong Theory, has written her breakthrough book: a Dangerous Liaisons for our time. We follow Rebecca and Oscar as they develop an unlikely friendship and argue over questions of right and wrong in a city—Paris—where pleasure, excess, and freedom rule the day, or used to. Dear Dickhead is a guns-blazing novel about a culture that makes men and women sick, and about how the search for feeling leaves us addicted to what makes us feel. The result is a provocative and unmissable book from the author hailed by The Guardian as France’s “rock and roll Zola.”

Download or read book Dear Asshole written by Jillian Madison and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Asshole includes 101 letters to tell off all the assholes you encounter on a daily basis, each letter conveniently perforated so you can tear it out and give it to the desired offender. The world is full of assholes -- but now you can fight back! Ever wish you could leave a nasty note for that jerk meter maid who ticketed you, or the idiot who didn't clean up after his dog, or your asshole psychotic ex? Now you can! Whether it's the asshole landlord, the asshole cheapskate, the asshole backseat driver, or the constantly cheery asshole, you should never leave home without this useful book ever again! Letters include: Dear Asshole Who Stole My Parking Space Dear Asshole Who Doesn't Know How to Use Self-Checkout Dear Contagious Asshole Dear Constantly Broke Asshole Dear Online Dating Asshole Who Lied About Their Looks Dear Asshole Boss Dear Fanatically Religious Asshole at My Door And more!

Download or read book She s Just That Into You written by Linda Sunshine and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book for both women and men, She's Just That Into You! hilariously explains the naked truth about women's obsessions with men. If you're obsessing over a man, if you're the object of an obsession, if you have a friend in either camp, you need this book. For him, she's just that into you: If she spends more than six hours a day waiting for you to call. If her therapist wants to meet you. If she wants to kill herself only to hurt you. For her, some early warning signs you're obsessed: Are you spending more than fourteen hours a day in bed? Do you go to church or temple only to pray that he will come back to you? Are you frequently misplacing your keys, your wallet, your children and/or your sense of humor? Ex-girlfriend and author Linda Sunshine will keep you laughing as she divulges the secrets of obsessive love.

Download or read book A Book for a Dickhead written by Adam Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-17 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an ideal novelty gift for the dickhead in your life. Contains inspirational quotes to remind them that they are a dickhead.

Download or read book The Caretaker written by A. X. Ahmad and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is the caretaker hiding in the shadows of the Martha's Vineyard mansions he tends? Back in India, Ranjit Singh commanded an elite army squad. But that was years ago, before his Army career ended in dishonor, shattering his reputation. Driven from his homeland, he is now a caretaker on the exclusive resort island of Martha's Vineyard, looking after the vacation homes of the rich and powerful. One harsh winter, faced with no other choice, he secretly moves his family into the house of one of his clients, an African-American Senator. Here, his wife and daughter are happy, and he feels safe for the first time in ages. But Ranjit's idyll is shattered when mysterious men break into the house. Pursued and hunted, Ranjit is forced to enter the Senator's shadowy world, and his only ally is Anna, the Senator's beautiful wife, who has secrets of her own. Together, they uncover a trail of deception that leads from the calm shores of the Vineyard to countries half a world away. And when his investigation stirs up long forgotten events, the caretaker must finally face the one careless decision that ruined his life- and forced him to leave India. A gripping tale of hidden histories, political intrigue and dangerous attractions, A. X. Ahmad's The Caretaker introduces a new hero for our times: an immigrant caught between two worlds and a man caught between two loves.

Download or read book Darkness written by Ellena Restrick and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You wont recognize my world. Five billion of the population are dead. There are no survivors in London, so why do I feel that there is something I dont know? Elektra Daniels was born into a world that was no longer run by electricity. Her parents disappeared when she was nine years old, and she cant remember her life before then. As Elektras world begins to expand, her past becomes both clear and more shrouded than ever. After all, where do you turn when over half the population is dead?

Download or read book The Pick up written by Fiona Harris & Mike McLeish and published by Echo. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lizzie, Sam and Megan are very different people who became best friends over good coffee and good laughs at school drop-off. Single-mum Megan is contemplating a slightly scandalous relationship. Newly divorced Sam is navigating the 'delights' of online dating. And Lizzie is flat out juggling four kids and an absent husband. As if that wasn't enough, this year the trio have decided to embrace their inner parent helper and volunteer to go on the annual school camp. If they think their personal lives are chaotic, this camp's going to teach them what chaos really means ...

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Download or read book My White Best Friend written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's the one thing that you need to say but have never dared? And who needs to hear it? Based on the original concept by playwright Rachel De-Lahay, this follow-up volume to My White Best Friend (And Other Letters Left Unsaid) collects a series of personal letters, monologues and writings by 20 Black and ethnically diverse writers from across the North of England. Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, sometimes political and full of fire, these letters explore the personal and political of the things we don't dare say – even to those closest to us. Originally commissioned by Everyman & Playhouse theatres, Eclipse and the Royal Exchange in 2021, in response to The Bunker Theatre's critically acclaimed 2019 festival, this volume contains a foreword by Rachel De-Lahay, creator of the project and editor of the first volume, as well as writings from some of the most exciting voices in the North of England: Levi Tafari, Brodie Arthur, Kiara Mohamed Amin, Yasmin Ali, Chantelle Lunt, Dominique Walker, Keith Saha, Samuel Rossiter, Cheryl Martin, Nikhil Parmar, mandla rae, David Judge, Yusra Warsama, Nick Ahad, Malika Booker, Jamal Gerald, Khadijah Ibrahiim, Chanje Kunda, Marcia Layne and Naomi Sumner Chan.

Download or read book Sleepy Time Theater written by Jeff J Baker and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sleepy Time Theater By: Jeff J Baker Filled with philosophical, idiotically profound, and though-provoking takes on society, Jeff J Baker’s collection of quips and one-liners are full of humor while also sparking interesting discussions on today’s world. Baker reflects on issues of aging, adulthood, technological advances, and family dynamics using humor and blatant honesty about the world in which we live.

Download or read book IMPROBABLES a satire about very large numbers written by SC Marshall and published by Steve M. This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always the same destination… …an extinction event This is not the first version of the universe. Our technology brings us to an extinction event and we self-destruct, again and again. 1,142 times so far. Can we finally break the cycle? Or are we stuck in a simulation? A Prequel - NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY Mathematics professor Lawrence Chu is in love with professor Kassman. One night he made a drunken claim that the central tendency of the universe indicated they should kiss again. The seemingly nonsensical argument that followed resulted in a breakthrough mathematical model and a weapon. This is a history of that weapon. They are the Goodness Empire and they control 80% of the universe. Don't let the name fool you. It is an empire built on conquest and slavery. Five former enemies now navigate a bumpy new era of cooperation. Chiro is First Minister and head of the largest faction. He is a ruthless leader and 80% is not enough for him. Scientists are about to give him the weapon he needs to finally destroy the rebels in the outer spiral arms. Elaine McGee is a teacher in a slump. Dark clouds follow her everywhere. So she's making changes. She's broken up with her lying, cheating boyfriend and quit smoking for a start. She's in a tent out in the woods making a plan to turn her life around. A weekend of fresh air and fresh starts. Then the spaceship arrived. Welcome to the Final War, Earthling. RESET Behind the matter/anti-matter barrier it is just another quantum physics experiment. Remove the barrier and it will destroy the universe. Can the most improbable team ever created save us? What should you do? Use all your vacation and call your mother. THE FINAL WAR HAS BEGUN. Get IMPROBABLES now.

Download or read book Dix Dodd Mysteries Box Set 1 written by Norah Wilson and published by Norah Wilson. This book was released on 2015-09-20 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This box set contains Books 1-3 in the Dix Dodd Mystery Series. They include: The Case of the Flashing Fashion Queen Tired of getting no respect at the big PI firm where she’s worked for years, Dix Dodd has hung out her own shingle at the ripe age of 40. There are plenty of cheating husbands to go around, and Dix has a knack for busting them. Problem is, it doesn’t always pay so well. Conscious that the guys back at the old firm are laying bets about how soon she’ll come crawling back, she figures she’s got six months to make a go of it. The going gets even tougher when she hires Dylan Foreman. But when he told her about getting fired from his law firm and disbarred for putting common decency before the firm’s interests, she hired him on the spot. In addition to being smart, he’s gorgeous enough to remind her she’s a woman. And at 28, young enough to make her feel like a total cougar. Things start looking up when Dix gets hired by millionaire businessman Ned Weatherby’s wife Jennifer Weatherby, to tail Ned 24/7 for a week, for a cool ten grand. Easy-peasy, right? Wrong! The job lands Dix in the middle of a murder investigation - with her as the prime suspect and her arch-enemy Detective Richard Head (a.k.a., Dickhead, one of the cheating husbands she’d nailed) gunning for her. Dix will need all her ingenuity, as well as the help of Dylan and her oddball cast of supporters to extricate herself from this one. Family Jewels Dix Dodd rides again! This time, to rescue her mother. A resident of a Florida retirement community, Katt Dodd is a person of interest in not only a rash of jewel thefts, but in the disappearance of her boyfriend, Frankie Morell. Dix, the handsome-as-sin Dylan, and the irrepressible (okay, rude) Mrs. P head to Florida to solve the case of the Family Jewels before Dix’s mother gets railroaded. Of course, hilarious hijinks ensue when Dix goes into the Wildoh Retirement Complex (Motto: We provide the Wild, you supply the Oh!) undercover as Katt’s erotica-writing daughter. Multiply the fun when Dylan gets himself hired as the Wildoh’s newest employee, a slightly dim-witted security-cum-maintenance man. Death by Cuddle Club Vindication is Dix's when her nemesis Detective Richard Head (aka Dickhead) shows up at her door, asking for her help on a delicate matter. Delicate because he can't turn to his own PD without admitting he's a member of a newly opened Cuddle Club. There have been a couple of deaths of Club members, ostensibly of natural causes, but Detective Head wants to take a closer look. The task for Dix? Infiltrate the Cuddle Club, ferret out the truth, and report back to Dickhead. Simple. Well, except for the fact that Dix is about as cuddly as a porcupine. Good thing for her that her assistant, the handsome, much younger and infinitely more cuddle-friendly Dylan Foreman, is eager to go under the covers...er...under cover with her. Head was right, all is not as it seems at the club. As Dix has always maintained, cuddling can be dangerous to your health. In fact, it can be downright deadly.

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Download or read book With Our Dying Breath written by A.R. Kavli and published by A. R. Kavli. This book was released on 2019-08-31 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One starship commander’s decision will decide the fate of the human race. Colonel Pierce Oswald has given the last twenty years of his life to the war with the Proximans. It's a war Earth is losing. It's a war that has taken everything from him. Returning from a secret mission to recover an alien artifact, he finds the Sol system ominously silent. Realizing the enemy won the war while he was away, Oswald decides his crew’s final mission—vengeance at any cost. He must lead the divided crew of the starship Roland on their deadliest mission yet. Can Oswald achieve victory against a superior foe, mutiny, and his own overwhelming grief? With Our Dying Breath is a dark, military sci-fi adventure with an apocalyptic twist that explores the choices a desperate ace commander makes when he has nothing left to lose. If you like tales of starship warfare that explore the darkness of space, then you'll enjoy A.R. Kavli's grim sci-fi novel. Buy With Our Dying Breath today to fight alongside Pierce Oswald and the crew of the starship Roland on their final, deadly mission.

Download or read book Build a Rocket written by Christopher York and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This isn't the story of Icarus and Daedalus. It's Yasmin and Jack. And we won't fly too close to the sun. We'll fly through the f***er." Yasmin is young and feisty and lives on the edge. A young mum, her Scarborough isn't sandcastles, arcades and donkey rides. She's been dealt a rough hand and has to decide whether to give in or get smart. But can the thing which threatens to ruin her life be the one thing which saves her? Can she still be the architect of her own destiny? An explosive and passionate portrait of a young heroine of our times.

Download or read book Husbands Should Not Break written by Shane Clifton and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 2010, Shane Clifton had a serious accident that left him a quadriplegic. Husbands Should Not Break is a memoir that describes the challenges of adjusting to life with a disability. Shane is a theologian by trade, so the memoir explores the problem of pain--where is God when we suffer--weighing the sometimes-abstract categories of theology against the harsh realities of his experience. It is a brutally honest account, which does not shy away from the author's doubts and failures, and touches on rarely spoken-about topics, such as the impact of spinal cord injury upon sexuality. But while the narrative deals with sadness, it is a hopeful rather than depressing text, and often surprisingly funny, as it describes the comedic strangeness of struggling with a broken body. The memoir is an invitation into Shane's mind, providing readers with the opportunity to imagine what it might be like to experience the loss that comes with spinal cord injury and, thereafter, to think about life, loss, disability, and the possibility of happiness in the midst of the hardship and fragility of life.

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