Download or read book Feckers 50 People Who Fecked Up Ireland written by John Waters and published by Constable. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which 50 People turned Ireland into the fecked-up country she is today? Bono? Haughey? Louis Walsh? de Valera? It's time to name and shame the great, the good and the gobshites... Conventional wisdom has it that Ireland, after a violent and tragic history, had began to get things right. But when the ill wind of recession cruelly snatched that self-satisfied achievement away, it all seemed like exceedingly back luck. In his 50 brilliantly acerbic portraits Waters reveals a consistent pattern of self-delusion, myopia, inferiority complex, bravado, defeatism, cynicism, sentimentalism and conceit. He traces Ireland's story from the paranoid insularism and cultural myopia that followed national Independence, though the post-Sixties obsession with a faux 'self-confidence', to the final, salutary meltdown of the Celtic Tiger, and strangely lacking either Celts or tigers. Once among the oldest civilization in Europe, Ireland has ended up as a second-rate version of the England it tried to discard. It threw out not merely the bathwater and the baby, but also the bathtub, the sponge and the rubber duck...

Download or read book Unmarriageable written by Soniah Kamal and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This inventive retelling of Pride and Prejudice charms.”—People “A fun, page-turning romp and a thought-provoking look at the class-obsessed strata of Pakistani society.”—NPR Alys Binat has sworn never to marry—until an encounter with one Mr. Darsee at a wedding makes her reconsider. A scandal and vicious rumor concerning the Binat family have destroyed their fortune and prospects for desirable marriages, but Alys, the second and most practical of the five Binat daughters, has found happiness teaching English literature to schoolgirls. Knowing that many of her students won’t make it to graduation before dropping out to marry and have children, Alys teaches them about Jane Austen and her other literary heroes and hopes to inspire the girls to dream of more. When an invitation arrives to the biggest wedding their small town has seen in years, Mrs. Binat, certain that their luck is about to change, excitedly sets to work preparing her daughters to fish for rich, eligible bachelors. On the first night of the festivities, Alys’s lovely older sister, Jena, catches the eye of Fahad “Bungles” Bingla, the wildly successful—and single—entrepreneur. But Bungles’s friend Valentine Darsee is clearly unimpressed by the Binat family. Alys accidentally overhears his unflattering assessment of her and quickly dismisses him and his snobbish ways. As the days of lavish wedding parties unfold, the Binats wait breathlessly to see if Jena will land a proposal—and Alys begins to realize that Darsee’s brusque manner may be hiding a very different man from the one she saw at first glance. Told with wry wit and colorful prose, Unmarriageable is a charming update on Jane Austen’s beloved novel and an exhilarating exploration of love, marriage, class, and sisterhood. Praise for Unmarriageable “Delightful . . . Unmarriageable introduces readers to a rich Muslim culture. . . . [Kamal] observes family dramas with a satiric eye and treats readers to sparkling descriptions of a days-long wedding ceremony, with its high-fashion pageantry and higher social stakes.”—Star Tribune “Thoroughly charming.”—New York Post “[A] funny, sometimes romantic, often thought-provoking glimpse into Pakistani culture, one which adroitly illustrates the double standards women face when navigating sex, love, and marriage. This is a must-read for devout Austenites.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Download or read book Dodge written by R.A. Barnes and published by Marble City Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His choices. Their lives. Released from maximum security prison, Gerard Mayes sits on a Dublin park bench, a blonde woman's fragrant head in a bag at his feet. He should have got the hell out of Dodge when D.I. Andy McAuliffe told him to. How has it come to this? And whose head is in the bag?

Download or read book A Southern Sportsman written by Ben McC. Moise and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of pursuing turkeys, deer, ducks, and partridges through the fields, forests, and swamps of South Carolina Henry Edwards Davis (1879-1966) began his hunting adventures as a boy riding in the saddle with his father on foxhunts and deer drives in the company of Confederate cavalry veterans. Born on Hickory Grove Plantation in Williamsburg County, South Carolina, Davis developed his taste for the hunt at an early age. In later years he became a renowned sportsman and expert on sporting firearms. Published here for this first time after a four-decade-long hiatus, his collection of southern hunting tales describes his many experiences in pursuit of turkeys, deer, ducks, and partridges through the fields, forests, and swamps of South Carolina's Pee Dee region. His memoir offers a lucid firsthand account of a time before paved roads and river-spanning bridges had penetrated the rural stretches of Williamsburg and Florence counties, when hunting was still one of a southerner's chief social activities. With a sportsman's interest and a historian's curiosity, Davis intersperses his hunting narratives with tales of the region's rich history, from before the American Revolution to his times in the first half of the twentieth century. Davis, a connoisseur of fine sporting firearms, also chronicles his personal experiences with a long line of rifles and shotguns, beginning with his first "Old Betsy," a fourteen-gauge, cap-lock muzzleloader, and later with some of the finest modern American and British shotguns. He describes as well a host of small-bore rifles, many of which he assembled himself, bedding the barrels and actions in hand-carved stocks. Edited by retired lowcountry game warden Ben McC. Moïse and featuring a foreword by outdoor writer Jim Casada, Davis's memoir is a valuable account of hunting lore and historic firearms, as well as a record of evolving cultural attitudes and economic conditions in post-Reconstruction South Carolina and of the practices that gave rise to modern natural conservation efforts.

Download or read book Snuff written by Jay-Dee and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a boy with a dysfunctional upbringing, who faces depraved acts of violence and criminality and is saved by adoption in London and evacuation to Derbyshire to avoid the blitz of WWII. Thirty years on the searing drought of 1976 exposes two bodies under Ladybower reservoir. What’s the connection with the spate of murders in Sheffield? Police Inspectors Hawk and Tony D both have buried secrets of their own. Can they work together to stop a serial killer? One suspects, but the other knows the psychopath responsible. Both face the gravest consequences if they can’t cover up their past deeds. Just how far will two hardened streetwise detectives go to save themselves?

Download or read book The Mulocks of North America written by Peter John Mulock and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremiah Mulock (1711-1802) of County Down, Ireland, emigrated to Albany, New York around 1757 and lived at various locations in Orange Co. He married Sally Ward, who may have been his second wife. Other family members settled in Canada.

Download or read book Anti Hero written by Jonathan Wood and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it rains it pours… monster machines. That attack during a funeral and ruin everyone’s day. MI317—the government department devoted to defending Britain from cosmic horrors—is under siege, so Arthur Wallace and his team must travel to Area 51, ably—and oddly—assisted by Agent Gran. But their travels don’t end there, not when there’s an Arctic town populated entirely by spore zombies and the 2.0 version of Clyde has some funny ideas about how to save the world.

Download or read book The Hit written by Neil Harris and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heidi Fraumeister inherited her fathers business empire and became a millionairess overnight. While on a sailing holiday around the Canary Isles she is spotted by Jack Towney who assumes the alias of James De Villiers in order to impress her. They become entangled in a passionate relationship and are quickly married. Heidi insists on a pre-nuptial agreement to safeguard her fortune, which Jack gladly signs, but in the months that follow the gloss of the relationship suddenly tarnishes and Jack needs to find a way out without losing the lavish life-style being married to Heidi affords. Divorce would leave Jack back where he started, poor and lonely. He hatches a plan to have Heidi killed by a professional hit man and engages old friends Michael and Patrick Flannigan to provide the assassin. However with a huge sum of money on offer, greed takes over, and in the end the Flannigan brothers decide to carry out the kill themselves. "The Hit" follows the two bungling hit men as they try to kill off the millionairess to save their friend losing claim to her fortune. Despite numerous failed attempts they eventually manage to commit the murder they were being paid for, but not with the outcome they had anticipated.

Download or read book The Camera Store and Other Stories As Times Pass written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Little Fecker written by Noel Kelly and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in Ireland, one of ten kids with Daddy off in England, Ned has to live by his wits. And his fists. He goes to school, occasionally, but education doesn't put food on the table. Daddy's cheques stop coming, and the family has to eat. Ned steals a potato here, a loaf there. Oh, and a tree. A big tree. He leaves school at 12, works in the fields - honest graft. But Mammy dies; Ned goes to England. More graft, more wits. More fists. Eventually he builds a successful business. Suddenly Ned is Chairman of a football club. New challenge, fantastic time. He trains with Barry McGuigan, entertains George Best and Muhammad Ali. Far from scraping for crusts of bread, Ned is someone. For now. Little Fecker, the Rise of Noel Kelly, is the first half of a two part autobiography.

Download or read book 22 Caliber Rifle Shooting written by Charles Singer Landis and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Way Home written by Cindy Gerard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Believing her husband had been killed in action in Afghanistan four years earlier, Jess Albert must let go of the new love in her life and try to heal her physically and emotionally broken husband, who has no memory of their history together.

Download or read book Beatrice s White Horse written by Elaine Campbell and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ominous night on the Burke’s ranch, the song of throbbing thunder scathing the marrow of her bone.Beatrice worried about Carletta in the stable. Charlie and Bessie ‘s third daughter was given an extraordinary white horse with a solid gold-plated heel on her ninth birthday. Beatrice has a dream one night when an unusual voice visits her and declares, “Destiny will open a window”. What does that mean? You will find out... She was taunted and nearly drowned by the malicious Feckers in a ravine, and contracted meningitis with sketchy hope for recovery. Despite these life-threatening obstacles, Beatrice resolved and prevailed possibly by fate and the supernatural. Beatrice participates in the International White Horse Show, an annual event. At the event the Feckers’ tried to take Carletta out. The Feckers family was arrested and put in jail. Then at the end, there were fifty gold-plated white horses and only one had the triple plated gold. Everyone was confused but the real gold-plated horse won. Who will be crowned?

Download or read book Escape Route written by John Parker and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is an escape route? An escape route is essential if you want to stay scot-free and not end up in prison or worse. This is a story about myself and the many tight spots I have got myself into and how I managed to escape scot-free. Indeed I am a Scot and know the origin and meaning of the expression. So I have always known to make sure that I had an escape route to prevent me from ending up in the quicksand. In the course of this book, I intend to give you my outlook on life, how Ive spent it and my opinions on many subjects. The vast majority of this book is true and the few exaggerations I have included for a laugh, you will be able to spot, but there are very few. I will not be caring if I offend anyone nor will I be politically correct in any way. If you are easily offended, dont read it. I was born in the sixties, so my sense of humour came into being in the seventies when things werent quite so politically correct as they are now. Those were the days when Warren Mitchells character Alf Garnett was the biggest comedy star on the television, so the sense of humour in this book will not be to everyones taste. But if you enjoy a good laugh . . . read on.

Download or read book Devil s Acre written by Mel Croucher and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's largest building collapses as terrorists launch weapons of mass destruction against the civilian population. Except this time the target is His Majesty's Royal Dockyard. The superpower is England. The terrorists are American. And it's 1776. Shock and awe, as a media war sows the seeds of fear, and panic sweeps the nation. The conspirators behind the atrocities are revealed to include a transvestite aristocrat, a crippled media baron and an alcoholic child, all holed up in the navy's favourite brothel. Welcome to Devil's Acre.

Download or read book Iced written by Karen Marie Moning and published by Dell. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning picks up where Shadowfever leaves off with Iced, the sixth book in her blockbuster Fever series. The year is 1 AWC—After the Wall Crash. The Fae are free and hunting us. It’s a war zone out there, and no two days are alike. I’m Dani O’Malley, the chaos-filled streets of Dublin are my home, and there’s no place I’d rather be. Dani “Mega” O’Malley plays by her own set of rules—and in a world overrun by Dark Fae, her biggest rule is: Do what it takes to survive. Possessing rare talents and the all-powerful Sword of Light, Dani is more than equipped for the task. In fact, she’s one of the rare humans who can defend themselves against the Unseelie. But now, amid the pandemonium, her greatest gifts have turned into serious liabilities. Dani’s ex–best friend, MacKayla Lane, wants her dead, the terrifying Unseelie princes have put a price on her head, and Inspector Jayne, the head of the police force, is after her sword and will stop at nothing to get it. What’s more, people are being mysteriously frozen to death all over the city, encased on the spot in sub-zero, icy tableaux. When Dublin’s most seductive nightclub gets blanketed in hoarfrost, Dani finds herself at the mercy of Ryodan, the club’s ruthless, immortal owner. He needs her quick wit and exceptional skill to figure out what’s freezing Fae and humans dead in their tracks—and Ryodan will do anything to ensure her compliance. Dodging bullets, fangs, and fists, Dani must strike treacherous bargains and make desperate alliances to save her beloved Dublin—before everything and everyone in it gets iced. Look for all of Karen Marie Moning’s sensational Fever novels: DARKFEVER | BLOODFEVER | FAEFEVER | DREAMFEVER | SHADOWFEVER | ICED | BURNED | FEVERBORN | FEVERSONG Praise for Iced “Moning returns to the heady world of her Fever series, and the results are addictive and consistently surprising. . . . The best elements of Moning’s sensual, shadowy epic are still here, from the sensual and enigmatic Fae to the super-alpha heroes and the breathless pace of their escalating conflicts. At its heart is a heroine whose development is likely to become the stuff of legends as this unforgettable, haunting series continues to evolve.”—RT Book Reviews “This is one of my favorite 2012 reads . . . It’s engaging, hilarious, amazing and Dani is going to be one heck of a woman.”—USA Today “A gripping story that combines excellent storytelling with believable characters that are rendered both superhuman and superbly human, with emotional fragility and psychological vulnerability in an unstable world fraught with danger . . . Fast-paced, with nonstop action set in a fascinating urban fantasy world of Dublin under siege, this is a smart, bold and textured success.”─Kirkus Reviews “Moning is a master storyteller. I don’t know how she does it, but she begs me to get on my knees and pay worship to the woman who has brought me the best, most labyrinthine stories and characters I’ve ever had the privilege to get to know. She weaves brilliantly, unapologetically, and without exception, and she has threaded the needle into me and I’ve been pulled, over and over, into her tapestry, and I don’t think I’m ever getting out. Iced is no exception.”—The Bawdy Book Blog (five-starred review)

Download or read book Shadowfever written by Karen Marie Moning and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good.” MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever. Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister’s murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, Mac is plunged into a secret history: an ancient conflict between humans and immortals who have lived concealed among us for thousands of years. What follows is a shocking chain of events with devastating consequences, and now Mac struggles to cope with grief while continuing her mission to acquire and control the Sinsar Dubh—a book of dark, forbidden magic scribed by the mythical Unseelie King, containing the power to create and destroy worlds. In an epic battle between humans and Fae, the hunter becomes the hunted when the Sinsar Dubh turns on Mac and begins mowing a deadly path through those she loves. Who can she turn to? Who can she trust? Who is the woman haunting her dreams? More important, who is Mac herself and what is the destiny she glimpses in the black and crimson designs of an ancient tarot card? From the luxury of the Lord Master’s penthouse to the sordid depths of an Unseelie nightclub, from the erotic bed of her lover to the terrifying bed of the Unseelie King, Mac’s journey will force her to face the truth of her exile, and to make a choice that will either save the world . . . or destroy it. BONUS: This edition contains a deleted scene from Shadowfever and an excerpt from Karen Marie Moning's Iced. Karen Marie Moning’s explosive Fever series continues DARKFEVER • BLOODFEVER • FAEFEVER • DREAMFEVER • SHADOWFEVER • ICED • BURNED • FEVERBORN • FEVERSONG • HIGH VOLTAGE • KINGDOM OF SHADOW AND LIGHT