Muffin The Rabbit’s Rockin’ New York City Adventure
From debut author J. E. Shipley comes Muffin the Rabbit's Rockin' New York City Adventure, a charming book for young children with a positive message about love, kindness and perseverance.This children's story set in New York City begins when Muffin the Rabbit wins the trip of his dreams to the Big Apple. While visiting iconic sights like Central Park, the Empire State Building, and Grand Central Station, Muffin becomes a star when he wins the hearts of the city folk through a catchy song with a message to love everyone and believe in yourself.This engaging story with a talking rabbit is a fun book for kids who love animals, but more than that, it's a much-needed children's book that teaches kindness. With its clever rhymes, exciting storyline, and wholesome themes, Muffin the Rabbit's Rockin' New York City Adventure is a story your child will want to read again and again.
Gecko Magic
Another island...another Key to try to beat my father to...So it turns out there's not one, not two, but four Elemental Keys we're chasing. "We" being me - Raney Meadows, half undine and out-of-work actress - along with my three Elemental teammates, and my father and the demon riding him. The Keys fit a Door behind which is a Tool of Ultimate Earthly Destruction, and it would be a Very Bad Thing if my father got them all. Right now, the good guys are 0-for-2. The demon tricked us out of the Water Key in West Virginia and the Earth Key in Ireland. But we are determined to beat him to the Fire Key in Hawaii - while staying out of my father's way, of course, so he doesn't snatch me and put me in his collection of singular things.Anyway, if we lose this one - which we won't, but if we do - we'll have one more chance: the Air Key is somewhere in Colorado. But I'm sure we won't have to go that far...
Road Trip
Hector's your average kinda guy. Nothing fancy. Not very ambitious. Never been out of his hometown. Fine by him. Then a disgraced, albeit well-dressed, Diet Coke-drinking demon who calls himself Art tries to sweet talk Hector into becoming his sidekick. Hector isn't interested. Art's method of persuasion includes blowing up Hector's place of employment and setting Hector up to be blamed. The plan? To stop a certain US president from unleashing some nasty bombs on the Canadians, thus triggering the premature end of the world, and-here's the important part-give Art more time to unredeem himself so he can earn his way back to hell. If Art has an actual plan, he's not sharing the details with Hector, who finds himself on a speedy cross-country road trip to ... somewhere. Along the way, he encounters a cat with dubious motives, a homicidal woman with lousy aim, and a nice old lady with a killer recipe for chili. "What could be better than saving the world?" the demon coos. "You'll be a hero." Hector's not so sure he wants to save the world. Well, humanity, anyway. Maybe it's time for a new dominant species. Walruses, perhaps. Or cats.
Midsummer Dreams
Midsummer Dreams is a lyrical history of the lives, loves and, in particular, the dreams of several of the inhabitants of the small village of Treddoch Harbour. Treddoch, as it's referred to locally, is a fictional, atypical, once fishing, now touristy, community situated on Cornwall's southern coast.Everybody has their dreams, though none more so than the inhabitants of Treddoch. In their case, and this is where they differ from the mainstream, as well as having their own, personal dreams, the residents of Treddoch Harbour also have the one dream, the overarching dream, that singular dream that binds them as a community. This is the dream of having a 'good Season'. For many of them, who rely on the tourists for their income, their money's only to be made in the summer, when the tourists are abroad. Winter months can be dire.The action is set on the one day, Midsummer's Day, starting at dawn and ending with dusk. The story's told through the voice of a tour guide as he takes the reader around the village, introducing the characters one by one, starting with the late Butcher and his Wife, now interred in the local cemetery!
When We Let Go
The only way to get what she wants is to let go of everything she thinks she knows. I never planned to live my life in a trailer in a tiny mountain town. Funny how divorce changes your plans for you. And I never planned to fall in love again. After Jack, I figured I was better off alone. But Connor Charles, with his dark red hair and glowering good looks, was as compelling as he was frightening, and I knew I should stay away from him. Especially if the rumors were true. The police were interested in Connor ... but the more I got to know him, the more I realized ... So was I.
River Magic
I thought I'd escaped my troubles when I fled Hollywood to hike the Appalachian Trail. But trouble keeps finding me...There I was - Raney Meadows, a sort-of-famous actress on a really long hike - when a river goddess left a kayaker's body right where I'd stumble over it.Well, not stumble, exactly. The guy was in the water. But then I'm half-undine - a Water Elemental - so I could have stumbled over him. I mean, it's possible.Anyway, then the dead guy's brother shows up and tells me he wasn't a kayaker. And because I play a homicide investigator on TV, he asks me to find the killer.Which, okay. But I think the brother might be an Elemental, too. And since then we've met two people who could also be Elementals. So what's with the Elementals convention? Why here in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia?And why has the dead guy's cat picked me, of all people, to bond with?
A Journal of the Plague YearAJournal of the Plague Year
The Great Plague of London instilled terror in the residents of London; a mysterious unseen enemy striking down a hundred thousand, no less than one in five citizens. Defoe goes to great pains to achieve an effect of verisimilitude, identifying specific neighbourhoods, streets, and even houses in which events took place. He provides tables of casualty figures and discusses the credibility of various accounts and anecdotes received by the narrator. In fact, A Journal of the Plague Year is often compared to the actual, contemporary accounts in the diary of Samuel Pepys. Defoe's account is far more systematic and detailed than Pepys's first-person account. All in all, A Journal of the Plague Year is a gripping realistic narrative.
Mauvaises pens矇es et autres
Dans ce livre, Paul Val矇ry nous livre ses Mauvaises pens矇es, parfois en vrac, des pens矇es courtes, dr繫les et percutantes: "Adieu dit le mourant au miroir qu'on lui tend, nous ne nous verrons plus", ou bien "Qu'est-ce qu'un sot ? - Peut-礙tre ce n'est qu'un esprit peu exigeant, qui se contente de peu. Un sot serait-il un sage ?"...
De liewe Gott im Saarland
Die K羹sterin von St. Marien, die gerade mit der Vorbereitung eines Festgottesdienstes besch瓣ftigt ist, sieht sich in der Marienkirche pl繹tzlich einer geheimnisvollen Erscheinung gegen羹ber. Dies l繹st ein au?ergew繹hnliches Erlebnis f羹r sie aus. Eine heitere und besinnliche Geschichte mit Mundartdialogen.
Siam Storm - A Thailand Adventure
First book in the popular four-part SIAM STORM SERIESFrom an isolated Thai monastery in the Cardamom Jungle to the glitz and glamour of Sin City, Pattaya. 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 treasure 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!
Attends-moi cinq minutes, j’en ai pour un quart d’heure.Nouvelles humoristiques
EXTRAIT: Un matin je me suis r矇veill矇, j'矇tais Dieu ! Oh, 癟a n'a pas 矇t矇 facile tous les jours, faut pas croire. Les anges, les anges, 癟a va un moment, mais on se lasse ? la fin (si j'ose dire) Alors, j'ai organis矇 une assembl矇e g矇n矇rale. J'ai dit: "- ?coutez, les cocos, vous 礙tes sympas, j'peux pas dire, Dieu par-ci, Dieu par-l?, Notre P癡re qui 礙tes odieux, z'avez besoin de rien, etc, etc; Mais bon! Alors voil?, j'ai eu une super id矇e; JE VAIS CR?ER LA TERRE ! Qu'est-ce que j'avais pas dit l? ! "- Oui, euh, si c'est pour 礙tre emmerd矇s avec des gens qu'on connait m礙me pas. En plus, 癟a va faire du bruit et si 癟a se trouve, m礙me des odeurs, protesta la cohorte ang矇lique. "- ?coutez, les mecs, ici c'est moi le Boss, alors je fais qu'est-ce que j'veux, ok ? Bon, ils l'ont tous ferm矇, y z'avaient int矇r礙t, j'矇tais pas d'humeur...
Les GaeljabsQui m’aime m’y lit
Les Gaeljabs sont un recueil de gal矇jades soumises ? l'imagination des lecteurs. Ce sont en quelque sorte les premiers mots d'humour crois矇s sans grilles qui ne sont faites que pour les prisons. Evadez vous donc dans la bonne humeur
I Used to Live on Banning Street
Take a wild and bizarre ride with this coming of age story set in Northwestern Ontario, Canada.Meet Danielle, a girl growing up in small-town Thunder Bay, as she struggles to find her way through life amidst the heavy party scene and drug culture of the 1980s. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll set the backdrop as a way of normalcy for Danielle and her friends and cohorts. Mired down in alcoholism and drug addiction, Danielle later proves to be an inspiration to us all. With a zany cast of characters thrown into the mix, the hilarious antics of I Used To Live on Banning Street will have you spellbound with every page.
Mitgefahren
Wer in fremden Autos mitf瓣hrt, kann was erz瓣hlen. So auch Peter Walbrun. Seit vielen Jahren nutzt er diese M繹glichkeit, von einer Stadt in die andere zu gelangen. W瓣hrend diesen Fahrten hat der Autor endlich erfahren, welches das langweiligste Bundesland ist, oder warum f羹r jemanden das K羹ssen enorm wichtig ist oder ...
Outsource Nation
Did some immigrant just take your job? Or did your job get sent overseas? Either way, it's called Globalization. And Globalization is going to make it impossible to find another job that pays as well as the one you just lost. What to do? Wake up and smell the coffee! In America, every problem is an oportunity. There's a whole new way of doing things here. It's all about keeping the best and dumping the rest. You want to keep with the best. Here's how. Follow trailblazers Dick and Jane and their family as they rise from the disaster and heartbreak of career termination to beating Globalization at its own game.
Tales from a Broad
Tales from a Broad is Holly Snow Sillau's twenty-first book. It's a collection of short stories based on the author's travels in the Caribbean, South America, Israel, and Europe. There's some sightseeing, adventure, humor, and heartwarming insights into the travel experience. Take a vacation from your daily routine, and join Holly as she describes her international encounters with a wide variety of people.
Bubbas of the Apocalypse
IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW ITSo kick back, grab a beer, fire up the grill, hunker down, and enjoy the ride. Eighteen of Sci-fi and Horror's mostinventive and -- dare we say demented -- minds have cometogether to compose a vision of the future which will scarethe "bejesus" out of most "normal" folk."Listen up! The world as we know it is going to end, just asyou thought -- only not for the reasons you predicted. It's notthe meek who're going to inherit the earth, or the rich, or thefamous, or the well-prepared. No, the folks who survive theend of civilization are those who never needed it muchanyway and for reasons... well, you're not likely to guesswhy, but I promise you, once you've read Bubbas of theApocalypse, you're going to have a whole new perspectiveon the real mainstays of South'm cuisine: Twinkies, Spam, and rot-gut red sauce."YARD DOG PRESS has collected nineteen of the darn strangestvisions of the apocalypse and every one's a keeper. So getyourself some Mountain Dew and settle in for a great read." Lynn Abbey, Author of Jerlayne and Sanctuary "Off the wall and unusual... Rosen does it again... A wildand creative blend of southern humor and fantasy." C.J. Cherryh, Author of Hammer FallWith stories by: Bill Allen, Garrett Peck, Robert Brown, MarkShepherd, Ed Cain, Selina Rosen, Gary Jonas, Laura Underwood, James Dorr, Mark Fewell, Everett Bell, Rob Gates, Lee Martindale, Bradley Sinor, Wiliam Gagliani, Keith Berdak, and poetry by Ajax.
Second Chance Spring
Sometimes love makes plans for you while you're busy making plans of your own... Finding myself over thirty and divorced, living in the same small town where I grew up, was not exactly the fast track to personal success. So I took action.I landed a job with a bigger practice in a big city where I'd find more opportunities at work, and hopefully in my social life. I was ready to move on.But when Cormac Whitewood and his adorable daughters came into my life, suddenly my big plans didn't seem so shiny and exciting. Suddenly, I was finding myself drawn to the lonely widower, wishing for more time with him.The thing is, Cormac made it clear he wasn't over his late wife--and I'd never force my way into someone else's family. Besides, I'd already made my plans.So why do they feel so wrong?Second Chance Spring is a full-length novel with an HEA about second chances, spring, and taxidermy. Okay, not really. It's about the plans life makes for us while we're busy making plans for ourselves, and it's full of snort laughs, touching moments, cake, and maybe a kangaroo or two.
Im Schneckentempo auf der ?berholspurSir Eljot III
Ein in die Jahre gekommener Suzuki LJ 80 Jeep erz瓣hlt von seinem Leben auf und abseits der Stra?en, die f羹r ihn die Welt bedeuten. Mit viel Witz l瓣dt er dazu ein, an den kleinen und gro?en Abenteuern, die er im Laufe von bisher 38 Jahren vor allem mit, aber auch ohne seine Chauffeuse erlebt hat, teilzuhaben. Dabei lernt er sich selbst von einer ganz neuen Seite kennen, denn er zeigt nicht nur Gef羹hle, sondern versucht sich obendrein als Philosoph und Therapeut auf vier R瓣dern! Eine etwas andere AUTObiografie!
Der Duft des Sussita
Sussita ist kein Cocktail, auch keine glut瓣ugige Sch繹nheit, Sussita ist der Trabi des Nahen Ostens. Welch ungeahnte Wirkung dieses Nationalauto auf Menschen und Kamele hat, wie Lothar Matth瓣us und Rabbi Avramoff am defensiven Mittelfeld scheitern und der erste Kibbuz privatisiert wird, davon erz瓣hlt Robert Scheer mit einem ganz eigenen Humor in seinem Deb羹t. In zw繹lf miteinander verbundenen Geschichten zeigt er Bilder eines zutiefst zerrissenen Gelobten Landes, Israel mit all seinen Widerspr羹chlichkeiten und Verwerfungen. Brillante Komik, eine dezidiert politische Weltsicht, kakanische Umst瓣ndlichkeit und orientalische ?ppigkeit - das alles ergibt eine umwerfende Melange!
Lady Susan
Lady SusanJane Austen1871 Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871. This early complete work, which the author never submitted for publication, describes the schemes of the title character.Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful and charming recent widow, visits her brother- and sister-in-law, Charles and Catherine Vernon, with little advance notice at Churchill, their country residence. Catherine is far from pleased, as Lady Susan had tried to prevent her marriage to Charles and her unwanted guest has been described to her as "the most accomplished coquette in England".
The Hot Monkey Love Trial
Bert Gropes is a reclusive 26 year-old who lives at home with his mother in the farmlands of Woodland, California. He has no money, and he's about to get fired, again, from the job he loves: teaching social studies to middle schoolers. He knows about those problems. What Bert and his mother, Eugenia Gropes, don't know until it's too late is that before he was even born, someone genetically altered him in vitro, along with the course of his natural life. A single gene from a Libidoan monkey--an oversexed great ape native to the Caribbean's Isle Libido--was inserted into Bert when but a wee little bit of biomaterial. As destiny and history play out, Bert finds trouble of biblical proportions. He's accused of terrible crimes in Tennessee for his role in the death of a thrill seeker who downloads an app developed for sexless farm roosters but that's been repurposed by the real culprit, Dick Slayde of Internet giant Primal Urge, for human use as the ultimate electronic tonic: Hot Monkey Love. Making matters worse, Tennessee's favorite son, Senator Ray Hoffenworth, comes home to Dayton to be the prosecuting attorney and make an example of Bert. The defense, offered by Bert's celebrity animal rights activist lawyer, Clarene Eliza Dare, captures the world's attention: Can a defendant with a single nonhuman gene be tried for murder as a person, as that term is understood by our laws, any more than a dog or a cat?When the legal titans clash in court over the consequence of Bert's mixed-up genetic sequence, it's the Scopes Monkey Trial all over again. Except one thing: The story's DNA has been mutated--comically and dramatically recombined with strands harvested from today's news--and twisted into a tale that only the coming age of biotech could dish up.
A Journal of the Plague YearAJournal of the Plague Year
The Great Plague of London instilled terror in the residents of London; a mysterious unseen enemy striking down a hundred thousand, no less than one in five citizens. Defoe goes to great pains to achieve an effect of verisimilitude, identifying specific neighbourhoods, streets, and even houses in which events took place. He provides tables of casualty figures and discusses the credibility of various accounts and anecdotes received by the narrator. In fact, A Journal of the Plague Year is often compared to the actual, contemporary accounts in the diary of Samuel Pepys. Defoe's account is far more systematic and detailed than Pepys's first-person account. All in all, A Journal of the Plague Year is a gripping realistic narrative.
The Road to Nowhere leads Everywhere
Foregoing her usual opening in an attempt to control the middle of the board with her pawn, it was the Queen's Knight with which she made her first move. I glanced up from the Board to see a smug smile upon her face, as if she were expecting some confusion upon my part due to her change of tactics. Nodding my head slightly, I did not comment upon the unusual move on her part. Moving my gaze back to the board, I casually asked, "My Lady, do you know why the only piece which can open the game besides a pawn is the Knight?" Caught by surprise at my question, though she maintained her air of superiority, she eventually replied, "I believe it is due to being capable of jumping the pawn, Mr. Ainsley." Placing my hand upon the piece she assumed I would use for my opening move, I turned my attention away from the board to once again gaze upon her face. While changing to another piece entirely to make my play, I answered matter-of-factly, "Actually, that move is allowed by the rules, My Lady. I should have thought you would have been aware of what those were -- my mistake." Ever wonder what a smug expression looks like when it virtually melts off someone's face? Play chess with me sometime and find out.About the AuthorStephen B. Allen lives in Tennessee with his wife Brenda, their two spoiled dogs, and a million wonderful memories of time spent with their family. Having entered this life as a small child sixty-some years ago, in many ways he acts the same even to this day. He is the proud author of the soon to be released series of Middle-Age historical fantasy books Tales From the Lands of Arlington Green. He hopes you enjoy your visits to The Land of Arlington Green. It really is worth the trip.
How I Saved a Planet!
Grab your space boots, buckle up, and join me in a wacky, out-of-this-world journey you'll never forget!After finishing freshman year at college and returning to my depressingly tiny hometown at the butt-end of nowhere, all I'm expecting is a summer full of boredom. I'm certainly not anticipating an alien to show up in my bedroom and ask me to help save his planet.When Qarl the blue alien (not Carl, he hates that) demands my assistance, it's clear an adventure is in store. His planet is in danger of being destroyed by the Great Leaders, Asdf and Jkl, and it's up to me to travel to their lair and convince them otherwise.It won't be as simple as it sounds.
November 123
November 1,2,3 is a satirical, possibly prophetic novel offering a surreal glimpse of the final three days leading to the 2020 Presidential Election. Readers gain unfettered access to the secrets of the White House, the Democratic challenger, a mysterious independent candidate (the elusive founder of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto), the Russian capital, and American households of every stripe. Intrigue, mercenaries, & billionaires at war litter this novelistic landscape.This humorous novel sheds light not just on the ambitions of those who would attain the highest office in the land, it also examines the possibilities of limitless wealth. How much of the world can be bought? What must a father sacrifice in the name of power? In the darkest channels beneath the Capitol's surface, where does power truly begin and end? And what, precisely, will happen in November of 2020 during the Presidential Election?
The RoadTheRoad
The Road Never taking her eyes from mine, Beth reaches out, touches my cheek, and says, "I want to know you, Win. I want to know it all. I want to know the road that brought you here. Then, maybe then, I can find what I need to stay here."So begins Win's road. Ranging from humorous to downright hilarious, and winding its way from childhood, through adolescence, to parenthood, Win's road is a maze of unintended consequences and laugh-out-loud twists, turns and dead ends. As Win matures through his stories, so does his secret relationship with Beth. Their story unfolds through their stolen minutes hidden anywhere from quiet nooks in a public library to darkened corners in a honky-tonk bar.Readers will hear echoes of Forrest Gump and Fried Green Tomatoes and will meet a cast of unforgettable characters in William A. Boyle's The Road. As Win's past moves inexorably toward the present, they will witness and feel the bittersweet rising and falling of one love story and the hopeful beginnings of another.
The RoadTheRoad
The Road Never taking her eyes from mine, Beth reaches out, touches my cheek, and says, "I want to know you, Win. I want to know it all. I want to know the road that brought you here. Then, maybe then, I can find what I need to stay here."So begins Win's road. Ranging from humorous to downright hilarious, and winding its way from childhood, through adolescence, to parenthood, Win's road is a maze of unintended consequences and laugh-out-loud twists, turns and dead ends. As Win matures through his stories, so does his secret relationship with Beth. Their story unfolds through their stolen minutes hidden anywhere from quiet nooks in a public library to darkened corners in a honky-tonk bar.Readers will hear echoes of Forrest Gump and Fried Green Tomatoes and will meet a cast of unforgettable characters in William A. Boyle's The Road. As Win's past moves inexorably toward the present, they will witness and feel the bittersweet rising and falling of one love story and the hopeful beginnings of another.
Die Hosen des Baron WerdauDieHosen des Baron Werdauund andere Berliner Humoresken
Wolfgang Kirchbach: Die Hosen des Baron Werdau und andere Berliner Humoresken Die Hosen des Baron Werdau: Erstdruck: Berlin, Bong und Co., 1893. Die Milch-Rose: Erstdruck in: Der Leiermann von Berlin, Heitere Romane aus dem Volksgeist, Dresden, Pierson, 1906. Drei alte Weiber von Berlin: Erstdruck in: Der Leiermann von Berlin, Heitere Romane aus dem Volksgeist, Dresden, Pierson, 1906. Der Kirchenchor: Erstdruck in: Der Leiermann von Berlin, Heitere Romane aus dem Volksgeist, Dresden, Pierson, 1906. Inhaltsverzeichnis: Die Hosen des Baron Werdau. Die Milch-Rose. Drei alte Weiber von Berlin. Der Kirchenchor. Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2020. Der Text dieser Ausgabe wurde behutsam an die neue deutsche Rechtschreibung angepasst. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage. Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.
Mantis Preying
Watch out for that deadly peacock mantis shrimp! Daniel O'Dwyer is back!Content to be unemployed and spend his days in the sun and sand of his Oak Island paradise, Daniel is once again drawn back to the local hospital and the mysteries that surround it. Construction on the hospital grounds unearths human remains, which are quickly dismissed as being part of a Native American burial ground. A young, clumsy medical resident who runs into Daniel, thinks otherwise. Meanwhile, Daniel's socially imbalanced sidekick, Willie, has a problem of his own. Willie's landlocked houseboat, the Silent Cow is haunted.Along the way, Daniel becomes involved with a beautiful veterinarian, assisting with a drug diversion problem in her office; a beautiful Amazonian construction forewoman, a yodeler and jammer on the local roller derby team; and a beautiful, deadly peacock mantis shrimp.Will Daniel become ensnared in the mystery of the human remains? Will Willie succeed in getting the Silent Cow exorcised? Will Daniel (gasp) have to go back to work? Will the peacock mantis shrimp break through the glass and run amok through the hospital halls?Loaded with new, quirky characters, "Mantis Preying" is a follow up to "Ripped Tide", a 2017 McGrath House Indie Book Award Winner in the Humor Category.
Butts-A-Workin’a colouring book of butts
Sick of depressing social media posts? Woes of life getting you down? Why not colour in some butts? In this Highly Relatable colouring book, you'll find nothin' but butts to help ease your mind and give you the giggles. Whether it's a gag-gift, a stress relieving exercise, or you just like a good old fashioned butt, Butts-A-Workin' can help! So have a sit back & relax, pull out the pencil crayons, and laugh your butt off at these 25 hand-drawn images!
Monkey and Blain
A collection of conversations between Monkey and Blain during the period of Monkey's split from Blain in 2012 to November 2019. Actual conversations between Blain and Monkey, who are the same 'person', about life, work, society, and general nonsense. A Non-fictional diary of conversations between two Fictional entities. The first in a series, more to come.
Three Men in a Boat
First published in 1889, "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome is the humorous story of three Englishman who find themselves in need of a vacation and decide to take a holiday boating on the Thames. The three friends, Jerome (referred to as "J"), George, and Harris, pile into a boat with food, clothes, and a fox terrier named Montmorency, and set off from London to see the English countryside. "Three Men in a Boat" is a first-class comic masterpiece, as the well-to-do upper-class gentlemen are beset by a series of comic mishaps, including unreliable weather forecasts, culinary challenges, and troublesome tow ropes. A commercial success and instant classic when published, "Three Men in a Boat" has been translated into numerous languages and continues to inspire fans to embark on a recreation of the trio's iconic boating trip, where they discover very little has changed in over a hundred years. Jerome K. Jerome's masterful tale is a hilarious critique of the self-centered behavior of the English upper classes typical of Victorian England and still continues to entertain and delight audiences until today. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.
A Perfect Christmas & Other Horse Stories
"Candle flames flicker in the lamps on the flanks of our governess cart as a silver moon and sprinkled stars illuminate the driveway ahead." This collection of short stories begins with a midnight cart drive through the snow to Midnight Mass. Other true and fictional tales of horses follow, based on Hilary's personal experiences with her son's naughty Welsh Mountain pony and a huge catalog of embarrassing incidents with her own equines. Included are: humorous accounts of what can go wrong at a show, swimming pool accidents, uninvited horse entry into church, rescuing an unwanted racehorse and how a skinny neurotic Thoroughbred mare became the author's equine soulmate. If there's one thing Hilary has learned, it's that you never know what might happen next with horses.
A Deadly Lesson
A cozy murder mystery with ghosts. Grace Abrahams helps ghosts - particularly those who were murdered. She meets the ghosts at storage locker auctions. In this story, Grace meets a young girl, Abbie Quill, who died on her eighteenth birthday. Abbie was the victim of a hit and run. Grace discovers that Abbie waved to the driver just before the car sped up and raced towards Abbie on purpose. Abbie can't remember who the driver was, but she knows she saw L-plates on the car. It's not long before Grace discovers several suspects - all with L-plates on their cars. But who killed Abbie? And why?
A Fatal Wedding
Karis Booth uses her psychic abilities to solve a murder which takes place at a wedding.Using money from her divorce settlement, Karis invests in her sister's caf矇. Not only are Karis and Erin planning to extend the caf矇 premises, they are going to hold regular craft evenings there too.A young woman, Bryony, asks if Karis and Erin can help her make a batch of wedding favours for her upcoming wedding. The sisters decide to use this as an opportunity to host their first craft evening, much to Bryony's delight.During the craft evening, Karis receives a vision concerning Bryony and the wedding favours. It unsettles Karis to know Bryony has an enemy who wishes her harm.Things get worse when Karis foresees a murder taking place at Bryony's wedding. Will Karis be able to stop the murder? Or will she be too late?
Jeeves and the King of Clubs
What ho! A new Jeeves and Wooster novel that is "impossible to read without grinning idiotically" (Evening Standard), penned in homage to P.G. Wodehouse by bestselling author Ben Schott -- in which literature's favorite master and servant become spies for the English Crown. The misadventures of Bertie Wooster and his incomparable personal gentleman, Jeeves, have delighted audiences for nearly a century. Now bestselling author Ben Schott brings this odd couple back to life in a madcap new adventure full of the hijinks, entanglements, imbroglios, and Wodehousian wordplay that readers love. In this latest uproarious adventure, the Junior Ganymede Club (an association of England's finest butlers and valets) is revealed to be an elite arm of the British secret service. Jeeves must ferret out a Fascist spy embedded in the highest social circles, and only his hapless employer, Bertie, can help. Unfolding in the background are school-chum capers, affairs of the heart, antics with aunts, and sartorial set-tos. Energized by Schott's effervescent prose, and fully authorized by the Wodehouse Estate, Jeeves and the King of Clubs is a delight for lifelong fans and the perfect introduction to two of fiction's most beloved comic characters.
Lime in Salt
Red Brooking puts together Boca Raton beach chaise lounge chairs for a living. He has had a limited number of what he describes as real moments in his life. Red defines real moments as vivid memories or unforgettable experiences. His time with the opposite sex hasn't left him with much to think back on either. This self-proclaimed loser never gets the girl. Anne, an acquaintance and former love interest, signs Red up for a vacation getaway that may give him the real moment he has always been looking for: a trip to Fog Post Rest, a reclusive hideaway just inside the Canadian border. On the trip to this exclusive resort Red encounters the Rainbow Harrier, a bird rarely seen by man. This is something he will never forget. While there, Red chases women and gets to know the local folk. He spends long nights down at the Old Canadian Ice Tavern and splashes a little life on his arid, barren existence. But does he get the girl? The guy always has to get the girl, right?
Shirley
"Shirley" is Charlotte Bronte's second novel and is set against the backdrop of the Luddite uprising against the Yorkshire textile industry in England during the industrial depression that followed the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. First published in 1849, the novel is the story of mill operator Robert Moore, whose business is troubled by the economic climate; his distant cousin Caroline Helstone, for whom Robert has affections; rich heiress and landowner Shirley Keeldar; and Robert's brother Louis, a poor tutor, whom Shirley has fallen in love with. "Shirley" is a classically romantic tale that deals with the timely themes of industrial unrest in Britain at the beginning of the 19th century and the role of women both at home and in business. The shy and timid Caroline and the independent and headstrong Shirley are both deeply affected by the decisions of the men in their lives and by changing social roles and expectations for women. They both must grapple with whether they are free to marry for love or if money will control yet another aspect of their lives. Bronte's popular novel is both an insightful social commentary and a mature and touching portrait of women trying to follow their romantic desires in an increasingly complicated world. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.
Norman Smith's Hobbies
Who is Norman Smith and why on earth are we reading about his latest impulsive hobby? Why is he under investigation? Are the characters he interacts with real people or merely figments of the author's fevered imagination? Most importantly, how would he manage without his long suffering wife, Mrs G? Norman Smith's Hobbies explores the carnage that a maverick hobbyist can unwittingly unleash, creating disastrous side-effects on family, friends and foes alike.
Getting New Mexico
Aaron Schuyler is a ne'er-do-well, a cheat, an exploiter, a drunk, and a lifelong New Yorker. New Mexico is about to change everything about Schuyler, in this fresh and witty comedy about second chances and redemption.At 52, Aaron Schuyler has destroyed his life and doesn't care. Professionally ruined, flat broke, and estranged from his ex-wife and children, Schuyler's only concerns are sponging free drinks by crashing funerals and staying on the good side of his primary money supply, his formidable British mother, Clementine.But Clementine has a plan. Praying for divine aid from her personal god, Winston Churchill, Clementine creates a Winston-inspired scheme to reform her worthless son. Clementine presents Schuyler with an ultimatum--she'll bail him out one last time, if he moves from New York to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and takes a job at the local Sam's Club.In New Mexico, Schuyler meets people unlike any he's ever known--the enigmatic Indian artist Lone Goose, the blue collar Sam's Club workers who accept him as one of their own, and the beautiful and no-nonsense Anita Chatterjee, with whom Schuyler is immediately smitten.For the first time in his life, Schuyler wants to be a better person--and as he rereads his diary of his past life, he realizes the extent of his failures and his misdeeds. Can Schuyler adapt to a life of responsibility? To a mature relationship? To New Mexico? To shaking scorpions out of his boots? Winston help him!
Invasion of the Space Crabs
The Cousins and Pets take a break at the beach, but, of course, a distant ancient supernova foils their fun. So they must crack a cryptic clue to cure a mad mob of mutant man-crabs - before Hurricane Anus hits -- and THEN escape the robot SHARKs in Area 51. Yep, it's just another Gooneybird week at the beach.
Fireworks, Forensics and Felonies
It was the perfect date night... ...until they saw their friend's house explode. Was it an accident with the July 4th fireworks? Brandy and Jiff barely have time to catch their breath. The house destroyed, the mystery began, no bodies were discovered in the rubble.... where were Sophie and Ian? Fearing foul play, Brandy gets to work. As she starts to dig... ...newly issued insurance policies are discovered. It smells like motive, but much isn't adding up. The more she presses, the more her old friend, now Captain of Detectives, Dante, tries to get her off the case. Is he just doing his job or is he trying to protect her? Could there a hint of jealousy about Jiff? Does Ian and Sophie's new business figure into the mi? Brandy had her hands full on this one. You'll love this next cozy mystery in the series, because nothing is as it seems, and the real crime may be the key to solving it all.Grab your copy now.
Dirty Birds
***IPPY: INDEPENDENT VOICE AWARD - WINNER*** ***LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2021*** ***APMA BEST ATLANTIC PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD: WINNER*** ***STEPHEN LEACOCK MEADAL FOR HUMOUR: SHORTLIST*** ***THOMAS RADDALL ATLANTIC FICTION AWARD: SHORTLIST*** ***MARGARET AND JOHN SAVAGE FIRST BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION: SHORTLIST*** ***FOREWORD INDIES HUMOUR AWARD: SILVER*** ***THE GLOBE AND MAIL SUMMER'S HOTTEST READS*** ***2021 RELIT AWARD: LONG SHORTLIST*** In late 2008, as the world's economy crumbles and Barack Obama ascends to the White House, the remarkably unremarkable Milton Ontario - not to be confused with Milton, Ontario - leaves his parents' basement in Middle-of-Nowhere, Saskatchewan, and sets forth to find fame, fortune, and love in the Euro-lite electric sexuality of Montreal; to bask in the endless twenty-something Millennial adolescence of the Plateau; to escape the infinite flatness of Saskatchewan and find his messiah - Leonard Cohen. Hilariously ironic and irreverent, in Dirty Birds, Morgan Murray generates a quest novel for the twenty-first century--a coming-of-age, rom-com, crime-farce thriller--where a hero's greatest foe is his own crippling mediocrity as he seeks purpose in art, money, power, crime, and sleeping in all day.
The Columnist
In Brandon Sladder, author Jeffrey Frank has created one of the most memorable rogues in contemporary fiction. A prominent Washington columnist, Sladder has known just about everyone of importance. He has spoken on intimate terms with world leaders, been a witness to enormous change, and expressed weighty opinions on important matters of state. When former President Bush encourages him to write his memoirs, Sladder believes that his life story could add much more than a footnote to our age and attempts to burnish his image for posterity. What emerges instead is the story of an irresistibly loathsome man and the misadventures that got him to the top. Self-important, social climbing, and dangerously oblivious, Brandon Sladder is the type of character everyone loves to hate. By turns hilarious and dismaying, The Columnist is a dead-on, elegantly written portrait of the media and politics of the second half of the twentieth century.
The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Stranger Things meets the South. Chilling, hilarious, and suspenseful--I loved it!"--Felicia Day From the authors of Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality and creators of Good Mythical Morning . . . It's 1992 in Bleak Creek, North Carolina--a sleepy little place with all the trappings of an ordinary Southern town: two Baptist churches, friendly smiles coupled with silent judgments, and an unquenchable appetite for pork products. Beneath the town's cheerful fa癟ade, however, Bleak Creek teens live in constant fear of being sent to the Whitewood School, a local reformatory with a history of putting unruly youths back on the straight and narrow--a record so impeccable that almost everyone is willing to ignore the suspicious deaths that have occurred there over the past decade. At first, high school freshmen Rex McClendon and Leif Nelson believe what they've been told: that the students' strange demises were all just tragic accidents, the unfortunate consequence of succumbing to vices like Marlboro Lights and Nirvana. But when the shoot for their low-budget horror masterpiece, PolterDog, goes horribly awry--and their best friend, Alicia Boykins, is sent to Whitewood as punishment--Rex and Leif are forced to question everything they know about their unassuming hometown and its cherished school for delinquents. Eager to rescue their friend, Rex and Leif pair up with recent NYU film school graduate Janine Blitstein to begin piecing together the unsettling truth of the school and its mysterious founder, Wayne Whitewood. What they find will leave them battling an evil beyond their wildest imaginations--one that will shake Bleak Creek to its core. Praise for The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek "The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek is like your best friend from high school--kind of weird and a little twisted, but no matter how much trouble they caused, they always made you laugh. You don't have to be a GMM fan to realize . . . The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek, Will It Awesome Book? F@*# yeah!"--Kurt Sutter, creator of Sons of Anarchy "Most people don't read books, let alone write them. That puts Rhett and Link in the top 1% of smart people in the world. Read this book."--Rachel Bloom, co-creator of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend "It's scary, it's fun, and it's one hell of a carnival ride."--Kirkus Reviews
Gerald Saul
Gerald Saul: Legend in His Own Mind tells a story that spans the first forty years of life with mystery, adventure, sadness, love, philosophy, and travel of a person who is a legend in his own mind. It begins with the family background of a single parent mother of five, goes on to tell of the life on a small West Indian island, continues into England, travels to German then to the endurance and the struggle of life on a kibbutz in Israel, and ends on the continent of Australia. It delves into the working life of an individual from being a paperboy to factory worker, salesperson, student, banker, police officer, youth worker, businessman, and teacher. The individual is not politically correct, uses women for pleasure, is immoral but charming, and is a villain and a hero. Gerald Saul: Legend in His Own Mind tackles the challenges of growing up without guidance, questioning one's morals, coping with discrimination, and reasoning the experiences in life and the hardships of loneliness, and much more.
