Download or read book The Goddamn Bus of Happiness written by Stefan Laszczuk and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is at once hilarious and deeply moving. It sets a cracking pace and pins you to the page with its outrageous episodes, intriguing characters and provocative observations. Yet there is tenderness in the writing.
Download or read book The Goddamn Bus of Happiness written by Stefan Laszczuk and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Body written by Henry Ashley-Brown and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories and poetry published by the Wakefield Press, mainly resulting from the postgraduate Creative Writing Program of the Discipline of English at the University of Adelaide.
Download or read book Through the Clock s Workings written by Amy Barker and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world first! The first remixed and remixable anthology of literature. So how do you use a remixable anthology? Simple. Read. Re/create. Share.
Download or read book Girl in Pieces written by Kathleen Glasgow and published by Ember. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A haunting, beautiful, and necessary book."—Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she’s already lost more than most people do in a lifetime. But she’s learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don’t have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie’s heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts enough to not care anymore, which is sometimes what has to happen before you can find your way back from the edge. A deeply moving portrait of a girl in a world that owes her nothing, and has taken so much, and the journey she undergoes to put herself back together. Kathleen Glasgow's debut is heartbreakingly real and unflinchingly honest. It’s a story you won’t be able to look away from. And don’t miss Kathleen Glasgow's novels You’d Be Home Now and How to Make Friends with the Dark, both raw and powerful stories of life.
Download or read book Living Out Loud written by Larry Gross and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bus rides to bars, to encounters with friends and family and most importantly with strangers, Larry Gross lives his life out loud by drawing on the small slices of life, the little things most people don’t notice. “There is no artifice in Gross’s art. What distinguishes his writing is his knack for seeing and hearing things worth remembering. His pastiche draws on the commonality of urban life, with many of his stories set in downtown bars or on the buses that take him there. The main character is No One Special, a person who appears in various guises, capable of both unfettered generosity and burdensome peevishness.” Gregory Flannery, Managing Editor, Streetvibes
Download or read book Post Taste Strange Angles and New Fiction written by and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I m Just Happy to Be Here written by Janelle Hanchett and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A refreshingly raw, contrasting perspective on the foolproof idea of motherhood." -- POPSUGAR "By turns painful and funny... A searingly candid memoir." -- Kirkus "Far from your cookie-cutter story of addiction . . . [I'm Just Happy to Be Here] describes Hanchett's journey to recovery and sobriety in imperfect and unconventional ways." -- Bustle In this unflinching and wickedly funny memoir, Janelle Hanchett tells the story of finding her way home. And then, actually staying there. Drawing us into the wild, heartbreaking mind of the addict, Hanchett carries us from motherhood at 21 with a man she'd known three months to cubicles and whiskey-laden domesticity, from judging meth addicts in rehab to therapists who "seem to pull diagnoses out of large, expensive hats." With warmth, wit, and searing B.S. detectors turned mostly toward herself, Hanchett invites us to laugh when we probably shouldn't and to rejoice at the unconventional redemption she finds in desperation and in a misfit mentor who forces her to see the truth of herself. A story of ego and forced humility, of fierce honesty and jagged love, of the kind of failure that forces us to re-create our lives, Hanchett writes with rare candor, scorching the "sanctity of motherhood," and leaving beauty in the ashes.
Download or read book Settlers When It Comes To Love Never Settle written by Jessica T. Rogers and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brandon is a miserable rookie police officer who is torn between marrying the daughter of the town's wealthiest, most influential family and confessing his true love for his secret best friend, Porsha.Across town, retired soldier Dexter has settled a rent-a-girlfriend who is ready to cash out. When he receives devastating news from his doctors, Dexter proposes the sugar daddy contract of the century.Izzy has settled into a routine with her married lover until an unexpected family trip forces them to decide.Chris married Leon, the drug lord of St. Canaan at a young age to escape her life of poverty.Joy is an overweight young IT tech who desperately seeks attention from hook-up web sites. When her latest fling turns out to be another dramatic loss, Joy concocts a plan that will make all heads turn.All their lives become intertwined when the town suffers the most horrific crime in their history.
Download or read book The Man in the Dugout written by Donald Honig and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteen major-league managers interviewed in The Man in the Dugout represent six decades of baseball—men like Joe McCarthy of the New York Yankees and Walter Alston of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Each oral history, steeped in nostalgia and confidentiality, is a record of the triumphs and defeats of the man carrying the prime responsibility of a multimillion-dollar franchise. Here the manager is revealed as a strategist, tactician, peacemaker, politician, ego-soother, and builder of self-confidence. He holds the toughest, most gratifying, and most insecure job in baseball.
Download or read book Flight of the Fantail written by Steph Matuku and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A busload of high school students crashes in bush in a remote part of Aotearoa New Zealand. Only a few of the teenagers survive; they find their phones don’t work, there’s no food, and they’ve only got their wits to keep them alive. There’s also something strange happening here. Why are the teenagers having nosebleeds and behaving erratically, and why is the rescue effort slow to arrive? To make it out, they have to discover what’s really going on and who or what is behind it all.
Download or read book Odd Man Out written by Matt McCarthy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilairious inside baseball account of year in the minor leagues Odd Man Out captures the gritty essence of our national pastime as it is played outside the spotlight. Matt McCarthy, a decent left-handed starting pitcher on one of the worst squads in Yale history, earned a ticket to spring training as the twenty-sixth-round draft pick of the 2002 Anaheim Angels. This is the hilarious inside story of his year with the Provo Angels, Anaheim's minor league affiliate in the heart of Mormon country, as McCarthy navigates the ups and downs of an antic, grueling season, filled with cross-country bus trips, bizarre rivalries, and wild locker-room hijinks.
Download or read book Let the Wild Grasses Grow written by Kase Johnstun and published by Torrey House Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beautiful and expansive…in Johnstun's Let the Wild Grasses Grow, Colorado has a successor to Kent Haruf." —SEAN PRENTISS, author of Finding Abbey Let the Wild Grasses Grow chronicles the lives of Della Chavez and John Cordova, childhood friends separated by a tragic accident, who find each other again during World War II after leading separate lives of struggle through the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and, for John, abuse at the hands of his grandfather. This sweeping American love story celebrates the power of home landscapes, family heritage, and first love.
Download or read book I Dream of Magda written by Stefan Laszczuk and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."" Tolstoy wasn't thinking specifically of the Harrison family when he wrote those words, but maybe he should have been. George Harrison is 28 and afraid of the dark. His father is dead and his mother lives in la-la land. Reeling from a broken heart, and still coping with the trauma of a childhood home invasion, George works in a dead-end job in a bowling alley and finds rare solace in the giant painting of an alien that sits outside his room. His brother Matthew isn't much better off. After losi.
Download or read book Shadows of Evil the vampires among us written by Patrick Thomas and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are vampires among us in a shadow world that has its subtle hooks into organized crime itself, as well as practically every major business, governmental, cultural, and religious institution in existence. Subtle, influencing rather than controlling, and ancient, it predates most if not all of the present-day institutions it influences. And evil. No shades of gray here. No redeeming social merit. Most of these vampires are educated, refined and charming, but as pure in their evil as the foulest of their bloodsucking kindred whose transformed faces match their twisted souls. A world of shadows; shadows of evil. When a maverick who prefers the twisted, bloodsucking condition of the classical vampire becomes too powerful to be controlled, a wave of evil is unleashed.
Download or read book Happy Hour of the Damned written by Mark Henry and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amanda Feral, a newly turned zombie trying to make her way through Seattle's undead scene while satisfying her craving for human flesh, discovers that someone or something is determined to turn the underworld into a place of true terror. Original.
Download or read book The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert written by Elizabeth Gilbert and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time the complete works of the award-winning author Elizabeth Gilbert are collected together, highlighting her talents as a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. In the international best-seller Eat, Pray, Love, Gilbert narrates her struggles after a bitter divorce and turbulent love affair, beginning her quest to rediscover how to be happy. In Rome, she indulges herself and gains nearly two stone. In India, she finds enlightenment through scrubbing temple floors. Finally, in Bali a toothless medicine man reveals a new path to peace, leaving her ready to find love again. In Committed, Gilbert is about to wed the man she fell in love with at the end of Eat, Pray, Love and with wit and intelligence contemplates marriage, trying with all her might to discover what this stubbornly enduring old institution actually is. In The Last American Man, Gilbert presents a fascinating, intimate portrait of the American naturalist and brilliant modern hero Eustace Conway, who at the age of seventeen ditched the comforts of his suburban existence to escape into the wild. Attempting to instil in people a deeper appreciation of nature, Conway stops at nothing in pursuit of bigger, bolder adventures. In Gilbert's first novel Stern Men, the eighteen-year-old irredeemably unromantic Ruth Thomas returns home from boarding school determined to join the 'stern-men'. Throwing her education overboard, this feisty and unforgettable American heroine helps work the lobster boats and brushes up on her profanity, eventually falling for a handsome young lobsterman. In Pilgrims, Gilbert's sharply drawn and tenderly observed collection of twelve short stories, tough heroes and heroines, hardened by their experiences, struggle for their epiphanies and seek companionship as fiercely as they can.
