Download or read book What You Wish For written by Catherine Robertson and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny and poignant Gabriel’s Bay story from the bestselling Catherine Robertson. Dr Ashwin Ghadavi, the newly imported GP, is trying hard to fit into Gabriel’s Bay. His challenges include the immoveable force of his office manager, Mac, the ambiguities of the Kiwi idiom, and his unrequited attraction to Mac’s daughter, Emma. Having returned home, Emma is determined to help her old friend, Devon, whether he wants it or not. She’s also on a mission to right eco wrongs, and her targets include local farmer Vic Halsworth, who’s already neck deep in the proverbial and, to make matters worse, seems to be having visions of moose. Add in a former jailbird, a Norwegian recluse, and a woman struggling to foster a child, and you have the usual endearing and down-to-earth mix that can only occur in Gabriel’s Bay.
Download or read book The Religious Psycho Killer s Shit List written by The Psycho Killer's Shit List John Scott Ridgway and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-01-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revolutionary comedic short stories, rants, poems, loves and hates of one of the internets most read writers, the host of Peace and Pipedreams, and various other sites.
Download or read book The Economic Progress of Individual Farmers in Selected Southern Areas written by Jesse Thomas Sanders and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cassell s Dictionary of Slang written by Jonathon Green and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results
Download or read book Oh Great I was Reincarnated as a Farmer written by Benjamin Neihana Kerei and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you have when you blend a pinch of litrpg, a touch of farming simulator, a sprinkle of epic fantasy, a whole cup of Isekai, and a dash of Home Alone? You have Arnold's life. Accidentally murdered by a cleric in another universe during a botched resurrection, Arnold, a semi-pro gamer, wakes upon an altar to find himself incarnated into the overweight body of a farmer who could have been his fatter twin. He's not the hero. He's not the villain. He's certainly not the chosen one who is there to save the world. He's a clerical error. It could be a bad joke, but apparently, it happens so often that they have a standard procedure for returning you. That standard procedure doesn't apply to Arnold. Now stuck on a new earth, in a new universe, with no way home, Arnold must use his gaming skills to figure out how to level his farmer class to 100 and gain a second class which doesn't make him want to beat his head against the wall. There is just one small problem: farmers don't gain experience from killing monsters. Like at all. Follow Arnold on his hilarious journey as he stubbornly comes to grips with his new reality and tries to change his destiny from that of your typical farmer.
Download or read book Euphemania written by Ralph Keyes and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did die become kick the bucket, underwear become unmentionables, and having an affair become hiking the Appalachian trail? Originally used to avoid blasphemy, honor taboos, and make nice, euphemisms have become embedded in the fabric of our language. Euphemania traces the origins of euphemisms from a tool of the church to a form of gentility to today's instrument of commercial, political, and postmodern doublespeak. As much social commentary as a book for word lovers, Euphemania is a lively and thought-provoking look at the power of words and our power over them.
Download or read book Being Boss written by Emily Thompson and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creators of the hit podcast comes an interactive self-help guide for creative entrepreneurs, where they share their best tools and tactics on "being boss" in both business and life. Kathleen Shannon and Emily Thompson are self-proclaimed "business besties" and hosts of the top-ranked podcast Being Boss, where they talk shop and share their combined expertise with other creative entrepreneurs. Now they take the best of their from-the- trenches advice, giving you targeted guidance on: The Boss Mindset: how to weed out distractions, cultivate confidence, and tackle "fraudy feelings" Boss Habits: including a tested method for visually mapping out goals with magical results Boss Money: how to stop freaking out about finances and sell yourself (without shame) With worksheets, checklists, and other real tools for achieving success, here's a guide that will truly help you "be boss" not only at growing your business, but creating a life you love.
Download or read book Siam Storm written by Robert A Webster and published by Robert A Webster. This book was released on 2015-04-18 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First book in the popular four-part SIAM STORM SERIES The last surviving Warrior monk and two English scallywags leave no stone unturned and no mishap untouched as they inject chaos into every situation in the hunt for the oft-missing golden box that contains ancient dental remains of the Buddha. When a renegade monk now working for a ruthless arms dealer steals the irreplaceable box from a Thai monastery and murders its protectors, it falls upon the surviving monk to retrieve the relic. The monk's exhaustive searches take his from his secluded Thai monastery in the Cardamom jungle, into the seedy world of Cambodia underground, and on to Pattaya, the sin city of Thailand, where he pursues two lovable English rogues on holiday after learning that they now have the relic. Follow the adventures of a combatant monk and two unlikely heroes as they inject chaos into every situation in Siam Storm, a hilarious action-packed thriller! Grab a copy of Siam Storm today, because once you pick up this hilarious adventure and start reading it, you won’t be able to put it down - Dinorah Blackman, ‘Readers favorite’...5 star rating.
Download or read book Power Surge written by Ben Bova and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six-time Hugo winner Ben Bova brings us Power Surge, a gripping political thriller on the cutting-edge of science and technology Dr. Jake Ross came to Washington, D.C., to make a difference. As the science advisor to a newly-elected freshman senator, Jake has crafted a comprehensive energy plan that employs innovative new technologies to make America the world's leader in energy production while simultaneously boosting the economy and protecting the environment. The facts—and the science—are on Jake's side, but his plan soon runs afoul of entrenched special interests, well-funded lobbies, cynical bureaucrats, pork-barrel politics, and one very powerful U.S. Senator. To keep his plan alive and secure a sustainable future for America, Jake needs a crash course in the way Washington really works. Everyone keeps telling him that his plan has no hope of succeeding, but Jake is determined to prove them wrong even if it kills him . . . something that certain hostile parties may be all too happy to arrange. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Siam Storm The Series written by Robert A Webster and published by Robert A Webster. This book was released on with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timeless, Four-Book Comedy Collection Two English scallywags masquerading as hapless heroes and the last surviving warrior monk of an ancient Thai order, leave no stone unturned and no mishap untouched as they hunt for the oft-missing golden box that contains the dental remains of the Buddha. Their exhaustive searches and penchant for mayhem take them from an isolated Thai monastery in the Cardamom jungle to find a renegade monk in Thailand suspected of stealing the Buddha relic. Hunt an ex-Khmer Rouge soldier in Cambodia with ties to a family of scientists who want to clone the Buddha. Pursue an Iranian Mercenary and his team in Vietnam, who are funded by a ruthless sheikh seeking the Buddha relic for revenge, and ultimately, solve the mystery behind the deaths of the Buddha’s descendants. Follow the adventures of a combatant monk and two unlikely heroes as they inject chaos into every situation in Siam Storm, a hilarious high–octane thriller series!
Download or read book Practical Farmer written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Snake Rolling in Hot written by Bud Jones and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Snake, Rolling in Hot” is a historical novel about a squadron of Marine Corps helicopter pilots and their crews. It is a true accounting about flying and fighting in Vietnam as well as the training of aircrews before they were sent to Southeast Asia. The combat operations take place in I-Corps in Vietnam and from the decks of navy carriers in the South China Sea. The story also takes a look at some of the wild R & R escapades Marines experienced in Hong Kong, Bangkok, the Philippines and other hot spots around the world. There is also a provocative look at the political scene in the U.S. during the war in Vietnam and how it affected several of the characters in the book in a ways they never thought possible when the war began. With dialog that snaps with electricity and realism, “Snake, Rolling in Hot” takes the reader into the cockpits of Marine choppers during action packed missions flown against the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army. After reading this book, no one will ever feel the same about helicopters and their crews again.
Download or read book Cold Creek written by Jay Nelson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once each summer a morning breaks that tastes of fall. Despite a vault of unrelieved blue that promises equally unrelieved heat by late afternoon, some patch of Canadian tundra has airmailed southward a precursor of the coming season, full of sensory contradictions, like a good red wine. Tomorrow the Gulf will reassert itself, drowning the message from the cooling North, but for one morning the promise hangs there, summoning ragged, maddening memory-snippets and the bewilderment appropriate to falsely anticipating what is irretrievably past. Something about the harkening wind stitches a loop in time calling forth a history hindsight annually edits, as the forces that inform the authorship of memories work their disclosures and distortions. When fall really arrives, it will bring to our semitropical savannah, if not a genuine chill, at least welcome relief from summer's stunning heat, and the ordinary experiences of three months' time: school clothes to buy, schedules to keep, leaves to rake, all burdened with the wet colorless stretches National Geographic never features. It will bring, too, the evidence that local heroes and sweethearts belong to a new generation, and that what once seemed unforgettable has been forgotten. For these young people, Stanley Roger Simmons is a plaque on the wall at the high school; Jefferson Sands Mc Callister, a face on a football trading card; Charles Pendleton Drennan, Jr., a young trial lawyer just beginning to make a name for himself. Few of them ever heard of Mark Jansen or Candy Atchison. If they are unusually curious, they may be able to attach faces to these names by poring over old newspaper clippings and some of the memorabilia in the school library, but they can do no more. The faces and the names lie on the pages, and the story they tell is strange and sad, but sooner or later the young readers say to themselves that it was a long time ago, when things were really weird, and they go about the human business of cropping their own memories from the profusion of detail that is everyday life. Someday-- perhaps even now--some few, who by inclination or training tune themselves to the contrapuntal melody of the world, will recognize a summer morning as a false autumn, and taste its once-and future character. But that is all. Only for me, and for a few others whose victories and triumphs, whose clumsy acts and blind omissions appear on or just behind those pages, does that bright annual harbinger make the dead walk and fists clench helpless again, as if that fall lived in time as truly as the crisp taste of its revenant rests a while in the backs of our throats before the rest of summer bums it gone again. One such day arrived in August 1970, when I was sitting at my desk in the room I was to occupy my senior year in college. I had returned to school early, by special permission, to get a head start on my honors thesis. Before that day was done, I had put away forever my notes for that project and begun another, on which I wrote steadily for most of the year. The result of those labors was the document that follows. In the end, my thesis advisor accepted it in lieu of my original project--a gesture for which I was deeply grateful, as it enabled me to graduate with my class. He seemed to understand my need to write it, and write it then, not later. In a sense, he said, I had delivered what I promised: a work of history, written from original sources. And he invited me to consider the writer's dilemma, shared by all who try to capture the truth: when the sources are fresh, so are the passions that warp judgment; when time brings perspective, the materials have frozen into shapes that, like photographs, show only one side, and hoard their secrets always. Another such day arrived today, and, as I have done so many times before, I took the document from my drawer again and began to read.
Download or read book If Republicans Had Any Hearts written by Jon Fisher and published by Jon Fisher. This book was released on 2008-07-04 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a response to the Ann Coulter book - If Democrats Had Brains. It is also the story of 3 mass murders, preaching to Charles Manson, thoughts on Barack Obama and Socialism, growing up in a cult, the abuse of Veterans, and lots of election year topics like immigration, racism, gays, education, foreign policy, health care and lastly, the environment. This book is a comedy, but deadly serious, and will bounce you off the wall. For more information, see www.Krishna-Venta.com, read the first chapter and see the awesome photo gallery.
Download or read book Badger Bars Tavern Tales written by Bill Moen and published by The Guest Cottage, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relive the days when wisconsin was young and wild, when the tavern was the social hub of small towns across the state.
Download or read book Out On Your Feet written by Julie Welch and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For five years Julie Welch, a sports writer and marathon runner, edited the magazine of the Long Distance Walkers Association -a remarkably large group of people who meet up most weekends to undertake arduous walking challenges 20, 40 or 60 miles long. The highlight, (though others might well say nadir!) of the Walkers’ calendar has long since been the annual ‘Hundred’. First held in 1973, and every year since, its eclectic (but uniformly addicted) participants will walk a hundred miles, non-stop, within 48 hours – watching the sun set and rise again... twice. The annual Hundreds both beguiled and allured Julie until the sports journalist felt herself powerless to resist; she decided she had to have a go herself. Out On Your Feet is the story of what happened: of the 50-mile walks she took part in to build up to the big day; the singular, admirable, often eccentric and above all tough-as-old-boots members of the long-distance fraternity; and finally the full wonder, pain, horror, exhilaration, even hallucination of walking a Hundred. (With fatigue as a constant travel companion, the mind will play tricks...) This highly entertaining book delves into a fascinating sub-culture that will undoubtedly baffle and inspire in equal measure.