Download or read book Lou s Dirty Dozen written by Ranny Grady and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remarkable! You think I'm remarkable? Let me tell you about the most remarkable woman God ever put on this earth. I found myself tugging at his shoulder and insisting he sit down and listen to my story. Jessie, no one can be more remarkable than you, he kept insisting. Just sit down and listen. When I'm done telling you about my momma, you'll stop tooting my horn. Lou Crandall, a widow with a dozen kids during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl years, used God's Bible, Webster's Dictionary, and McGuffey's Readers, plus her ingenuity, to create her own form of 'spiritual' bailing wire, used to rear her brood from suckling babes to successful adults. Lou's Dirty Dozen, by Ranny Grady, is a saga of childrearing and family ties that will encourage hearty laughter, draw woeful tears, and cause readers to shout in victory as adversity is conquered, heartache is overcome, and each of Lou's Dirty Dozen is strengthened with integrity through the love only a mother can give. Stand up and cheer as Lou Crandall, a remarkable woman, inspires you to be your best...as she did for each one of her Dirty Dozen.

Download or read book Works written by François Rabelais and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Requiem for a Snappy Dresser written by Nicholas Nicholas and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his new collection of poetry, Requiem for a Snappy Dresser: Poems of Expiation and Conceit, author Nicholas Nicholas shares his attempt to reconcile his own life in terms of family, sex, love, loneliness, illness, death, and aging. This compilation of his work offers autobiographical, adult-themed poems, many of them explicit and on the subject of being gay. He presented some of these verses during his ongoing psychotherapy sessions in a Los Angeles, California Veterans Administration medical center, writing them as he fought paranoia, fear, disease, depression, and enormous self-doubt. Nicholas considers these and other issues with often brutal candor, shocking irreverence, sensitivity, defiance, and surprising humor. He writes with honesty about the danger, loneliness, and pain of self-isolation. With this collection of poems, he hopes to provide others with insight, understanding, and maybe some compassion for all peoplemale or female, gay or straightas they approach and experience their own inevitable final years of life. One More Poem One more poem to write About the old man and the little boy But the poem will write and right itself My hand the aging instrument joining the two It isnt time quite yet But soon the two must meet Embrace Merge And move to lifes next place A young boys resolution On an old mans wrinkled face

Download or read book Bohn s Extra Volume written by Henry George BOHN and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Works Translated from the French written by François Rabelais and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Very Nice Ways to Say Very Bad Things written by Linda Berdoll and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a loss for words, hockey puck? You can always quote Shakespeare... Or delve into this entertaining compendium of insults and verbal abuse, all couched in language of the most uplifting nature. Filled with common and not-so-common zingers that will both shock you and make you laugh your @$$! off. Includes: Exactly how to address individual mounds of foul, undigested lumps of donkey entrails That "F"-ing word and other intensives Many, many ways to refer to the part that goes over the fence last More euphemisms, synonyms, phrases and descriptions than you knew existed for sexual activities, proclivities, untoward incidents, accidents of nature and the beast with two backs Addressing the mentally incompetent, the cerebrally challenged, the absurdly bureaucratic, the impossibly rational and other instances of ineptitude, obfuscation or obstruction and much more!

Download or read book The Works of Francis Rabelais written by François Rabelais and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Per Se written by Tima Smith and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Edelstein knew how to teach the craft of fiction writing. He did it with intelligence, grace, humor, and authority. His knowledge of literature was vast, his understanding of the human condition profound, and his method of teaching unforgettable. Although many of his students went on to publish and receive recognition for their work, every person who studied with him was the better for it. This anthology is a compendium of all we learned from him and all we know and strive for as writers a tangible token of our admiration.

Download or read book The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English J Z written by Eric Partridge and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entry includes attestations of the head word's or phrase's usage, usually in the form of a quotation. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Download or read book Sunrise of Avalon written by Anna Elliott and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She is a healer, a storyteller, and a warrior. When Britain is faced with threats both old and new, the strength of her love may be the kingdom’s downfall . . . or salvation. Their love has overcome endless obstacles. Never ones to shy away from danger, former High Queen Isolde and Trystan, a mercenary with a lonely and troubled past, have already endured a perilous journey to keep the underhanded Lord Marche from the throne of Britain. But now a new traitor lurks amongst the kings on Britain’s High Council—and just when they’ve realized the depth of their love for each other, a new danger calls Trystan from Isolde’s side to test the strength of their secret marriage vow. Only Isolde knows that she is carrying Trystan’s unborn child. As Britain’s armies prepare for a final battle in which they will either turn back the tide of the invaders or see their kingdom utterly destroyed, Isolde must undertake yet another daring mission—one that will bring her even nearer to a secret that Trystan has kept for seven long years. As the clouds of war gather, Trystan and Isolde must once again fight to protect Britain’s throne. Together, they hold the key that can defeat the Saxon king, Octa of Kent, and Lord Marche. But the cost of Britain’s sovereignty may be their own forbidden love. Based on the earliest written version of the Arthurian tales, Anna Elliott’s Sunrise of Avalon breathes new life into an age-old legend and brings the story of Trystan and Isolde to an unforgettable end.

Download or read book We Fought the Road written by Christine McClure and published by Epicenter Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Fought the Road is the story of the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway during World War II. More than one third of the 10,607 builders were black; thought to be incapable of performing on a war front by many of their white commanding officers. Their task--which required punching through wilderness on a route blocked by the Rocky Mountains and deadly permafrost during the worst winter on record--has been likened to the building of the Panama Canal. Unlike most accounts that focus on the road's military planners, We Fought the Road is boots-on-the-ground and often personal, based in part on letters from the "Three Cent Romance," the successful courtship via mail discovered in the authors' family papers

Download or read book A Select Collection of Old English Plays written by W. Hazlit and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Download or read book The King of the Rainy Country written by Nicolas Freeling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was the end of the story that had started 'Once upon a time, in a rainy country, there was a king...' The end had not happened in a rainy country, but on a bone-dry Spanish hillside, three hundred metres from where Van der Valk had left a lot of blood, some splintered bone, a few fragments of gut, and a ten-seventy-five Mauser rifle bullet. No one had broken any laws. But a handsome, middle-aged millionaire had disappeared with a naked girl. And Van der Valk was given the job of finding out why.

Download or read book The Freedom Bunker written by James Porteous and published by Clipper Media. This book was released on 2022-08-06 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “War is not hell,” Hawkins Bay Freedom Bunker Chief Major Milton Stursberg once famously said. “Hell is hell. War is just war.” War is just war. And death is just death. Major Stursberg is equally infamous for his ‘service above and beyond’ when, in World War III, he demonstrated the feasibility of ‘limited nuclear attacks’ by wiping out a country the size of Switzerland. Because it was Switzerland. “Not since J. Robert Oppenheimer,” the newspaper headlines cried out with glee.” And so of course he was hand-picked to run the Hawkins Bay Freedom Bunker, the local version of the 1000 or so Freedom Bunkers designed to preserve the gold, stock options and DNA of the 1%. One day, God willing, Major Stursberg will lead the inhabitants of the Hawkins Bay Freedom Bunker into the glorified air of New World 2.0 and life on Earth will begin anew. And do they have God on their side? Or will He turn the other cheek and offer Eternal Redemption to Those Left Behind who have spent decades suffering and preparing for this final battle against The Ones? One thing is for certain: Those Left Behind will not go quietly into the night. Got a revolution.

Download or read book Whence Cometh My Help written by Darryl Perkins and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whence Cometh My Help - Sequel to Into The Night. Having lost his wife to a sniper's bullet, Dr Darryl Glenn tries to put his life back together. Getting involved in land and water disputes in southwest Kansas, brings him in contact with a former classmate who will have an profound affect on his life. Go with him from the campus of Winston-Salem State University to the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming.

Download or read book The Authority of the Word written by Celeste Brusati and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines scriptural authority and its textual and visual instruments, asking how words and images interacted to represent and by representing to constitute authority, both sacred and secular, in Northern Europe between 1400 and 1700. Like texts, images partook of rhetorical forms and hermeneutic functions – typological, paraphrastic, parabolic, among others – based largely in illustrative traditions of biblical commentary. If the specific relation between biblical texts and images exemplified the range of possible relations between texts and images more generally, it also operated in tandem with other discursive paradigms – scribal, humanistic, antiquarian, historical, and literary, to name but a few – for the connection, complementary or otherwise, between verbal and visual media. The Authority of the Word discusses the ways in which the mutual form and function, manner and meaning of texts and images were conceived and deployed in early modern Europe. Contributors include James Clifton, John R. Decker, Maarten Delbeke, Wim François, Jan L. de Jong, Catherine Levesque, Andrew Morrall, Birgit Ulrike Münch, Carolyn Muessig, Bart Ramakers, Kathryn Rudy, Els Stronks, Achim Timmermann, Anita Traninger, Peter van der Coelen, Geert Warnar, and Michel Weemans.

Download or read book Globalisation of Nationalism written by Liah Greenfeld and published by ECPR Press. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organised as an experiment testing the hypothesis that behind the hottest political issues of the quarter-century after the Cold War lies globalisation of national consciousness, this collection of essays unites authors from the four corners of the world. They focus on democratisation and its failure in Russia, transformations of identity in Eastern and Western Europe, Africa, North and South America, and South-East Asia, the rise of militant and political Islam, and the eruption of China onto the world stage. The volume makes the argument that globalisation we are witnessing is, for the most part, the globalisation of competitive and antagonistic nationalism, which spreads to areas where it was not known earlier and into the sphere of religion, ostensibly indifferent to it. Collectively, these essays prove that nationalism remains the organising principle of politics inside nations as well as at transnational and international levels.