Righteous Fists

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1430308311
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (33 download)

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Book Synopsis Righteous Fists by : Frank Barry

Download or read book Righteous Fists written by Frank Barry and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Thro's wife is deathly ill with Nipah Virus. Formerly confined to animals, Nipah has infected two people in Shanghai's most prestigious hospital. Thro must find the cure and save his wife. Then he'll punish those responsible. The trail leads to a wealthy, mysterious businessman, Yang Rong, who runs the Fists of Righteous Harmony. He needs two more days before bioterrorism accomplishes his goal. Then all foreigners will be dead with Nipah. Thro has only one remaining option. He contacts Larry Fei of the CIA. With the minutes to worldwide bioterrorism counting down, Thro acts. Will he abort Yang's deadly attack, or will the free world perish in a Nipah Virus die-off?

The Fists of Righteous Harmony

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Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 0850524032
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)

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Book Synopsis The Fists of Righteous Harmony by : Geoffrey Pen

Download or read book The Fists of Righteous Harmony written by Geoffrey Pen and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1991-03-19 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900. The Boxers were a fanatical secret organization who were incited by anti-foreign elements in the Chinese Government to commit wide-scale deportations against foreign missionaries and their Chinese converts. The Boxers had the tacit support of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi who maintained all the while that they were beyond her control. The Boxer Rebellion came to a head with the 55-day siege of the Peking Legations and ended in total humiliation for the Chinese.

History Lessons

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Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595580824
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)

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Book Synopsis History Lessons by : Dana Lindaman

Download or read book History Lessons written by Dana Lindaman and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glimpse into how the world views American history is offered in a study that presents a wide range of conflicting takes on events from textbooks in which many are the only authorized source of American history in their respective countries.

Election Matters

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Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN 13 : 1682355861
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (823 download)

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Book Synopsis Election Matters by : Thomas Wm. Hamilton

Download or read book Election Matters written by Thomas Wm. Hamilton and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a 15-year-old, Parvin escaped her home planet of God’s Victorious Warriors, when its repressive government executed the rest of her family. Now living on the planet Universityworld, the former runaway teaches mathematics and is known as Professor Parvin Priddlikachorn. Her husband, Professor Siddithamon Priddikachorn, nicknamed Pretty, teaches planetary geology and hails from the planet Pradang. The couple have a 17-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter. Parvin thinks the time is right to run for office, so she seeks a seat in the third house of a four-house planetary legislature. Her son and his girlfriend help with her campaign, but Pretty tries to discourage his wife’s political ambitions. It happens that Parvin’s home world has a long-standing order of execution out on her. Universityworld is harboring a covert cell of its assassins, The Righteous Fists of God, which is headed by an officer in their planet’s secret police. One of its crew, Neto, is enrolled as a student, but unknown to everyone is that his professor is the subject of their search. Meanwhile, a controversial figure hopes to win control of the fourth house.

Shades of the Orient

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Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1449732569
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (497 download)

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Book Synopsis Shades of the Orient by : Stephanie Guerrero

Download or read book Shades of the Orient written by Stephanie Guerrero and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this action-packed suspense in the exotic Orient, a classic tale of good versus evilspies, smugglers, and betrayalwho will be unmasked? The Smuggler Black Jade is many things. Hiding behind a prominent name by day and a Chinese mask by night, he can be anyonejust not the man he wants to be. Trapped in an ever-tightening web of deceit and pursued relentlessly by the White Dragon, he must choose which man he wants to be. When a way out is offered from a surprising source, will he choose power or let it go? The Spy A Spanish officer, a black market dealer, a shipping executive, an intelligence officerPhilip Montero is skilled at wearing masks to defeat the enemy, but this time he must face the enemy within. Plagued by nightmares, he must unlock his past in order to survive. Time is running out, though, and Black Jade has targeted the woman of his heart. Betrayed by his family, his former fiance, and his fears, who can teach him how to trust again? The Senorita Shipping-heiress-turned-missionary-nurse Francesca McRae is a target everywhere she turns. Desired as an heiress by power-hungry men and hated by the Chinese Boxers for her interference in the culture, she is surrounded by deception and hatred. None of her suitors are who they seem, yet one has stolen her heart. When loving others becomes more than she can handle, who can she trust? Where do you turn when life is too much to handle?

Adventurers, Pioneers and Misfits

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Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1761060538
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)

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Book Synopsis Adventurers, Pioneers and Misfits by : Jim Haynes

Download or read book Adventurers, Pioneers and Misfits written by Jim Haynes and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The petty thief . . . who escaped Van Diemen's Land, twice, stole the government brig and set sail for Japan, where, by the Shogun's decree, all foreigners were to be executed. The world's best cricketer . . . a champion of Aboriginal people who 'invented' Aussie Rules, survived the worst massacre of white settlers in Australia's history and killed himself with a pair of scissors. The eccentric musical genius . . . who played in the greatest concert halls in the world but pushed his favourite piano stool between venues in a wheelbarrow. Over the many years Jim Haynes has spent exploring and writing about the quirkier events and people in Australia's history, he has discovered characters who have amazed, surprised and simply ba?ed him. This is a book about some of those men and women and their remarkable, out-of-the-ordinary and almost unbelievable lives. As he always does, Jim has discovered that there is more to the story than ?rst meets the eye. Who knew that the ?rst man hanged in Australia made an artefact now valued at over one million dollars? Or that an Australian swimmer was the highest-paid act on the American vaudeville circuit and the star of the ?rst million-dollar movie ever made? And that the father of the ?rst Australian woman to serve in parliament was hanged for murder? With a light touch, a wry eye and his gifts as a master storyteller, Jim shares the tales and adventures of a group of heroic, feisty, ?awed and pioneering characters who have shaped our nation and introduced Australia to the world.

Mark Twain in China

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804794758
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Mark Twain in China by : Selina Lai-Henderson

Download or read book Mark Twain in China written by Selina Lai-Henderson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) has had an intriguing relationship with China that is not as widely known as it should be. Although he never visited the country, he played a significant role in speaking for the Chinese people both at home and abroad. After his death, his Chinese adventures did not come to an end, for his body of works continued to travel through China in translation throughout the twentieth century. Were Twain alive today, he would be elated to know that he is widely studied and admired there, and that Adventures of Huckleberry Finn alone has gone through no less than ninety different Chinese translations, traversing China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Looking at Twain in various Chinese contexts—his response to events involving the American Chinese community and to the Chinese across the Pacific, his posthumous journey through translation, and China's reception of the author and his work, Mark Twain in China points to the repercussions of Twain in a global theater. It highlights the cultural specificity of concepts such as "race," "nation," and "empire," and helps us rethink their alternative legacies in countries with dramatically different racial and cultural dynamics from the United States.

The Verso Book of Dissent

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Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784783080
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Book Synopsis The Verso Book of Dissent by : Andrew Hsiao

Download or read book The Verso Book of Dissent written by Andrew Hsiao and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully updated compendium of revolt and resistance Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest-rallying others around them or, sometimes, inspiring uprisings many years later. Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Greece, China and Egypt, via the dissident poets and philosophers of Islam and Judaism, through to the Arab slave revolts and anti-Ottoman rebellions of the Middle Ages. These sources were tapped during the Dutch and English revolutions at the outset of the Modern world, and in turn flowed into the French, Haitian, American, Russian and Chinese revolutions. More recently, resistance to war and economic oppression has flared up on battlefields and in public spaces from Beijing and Cairo to Moscow and New York City. This anthology, global in scope, presents voices of dissent from every era of human history: speeches and pamphlets, poems and songs, plays and manifestos. Every age has its iconoclasts, and yet the greatest among them build on the words and actions of their forerunners. The Verso Book of Dissent should be in the arsenal of every rebel who understands that words and ideas are the ultimate weapons.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Eastern Philosophy

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780028638201
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (382 download)

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Book Synopsis The Complete Idiot's Guide to Eastern Philosophy by : Jay Stevenson

Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Eastern Philosophy written by Jay Stevenson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You're no idiot, of course. You know Eastern philosophy encompasses many countries and concepts, but when it comes to breaking down the basics—to discuss with others or for your own enlightenment—you can't tell Confucius from Krishna. Don't nix nirvana just yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Eastern Philosophy is an extensive, reader-friendly guide that maps out the terrain along the various paths of knowledge. In this Complete Idiot's Guide®, you get:

The Way of The Tigress (Four Complete Historical Romance Novels)

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Publisher : ePublishing Works!
ISBN 13 : 1614176167
Total Pages : 2193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (141 download)

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Book Synopsis The Way of The Tigress (Four Complete Historical Romance Novels) by : Jade Lee

Download or read book The Way of The Tigress (Four Complete Historical Romance Novels) written by Jade Lee and published by ePublishing Works!. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 2193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA Today bestselling author Jade Lee comes four highly-acclaimed novels in one box-set. Join Jade on unique journey as she opens the door to historic China—her very own heritage—and embark upon a sensual historic romance of a life-time. WHITE TIGRESS: Englishwoman Lydia Smith is drugged and sold as a Tantric slave. But the dark-eyed dragon of a man who purchases her doesn't want her virginity. He wants her Yin—the essence of her ecstasy—and to put her on the path of the White Tigress. HUNGRY TIGRESS: Westerner Joanna Crane is captured in China by political rebels with a taste for white flesh. Her rescuer: a Shaolin master with fists of steel, eyes like ice, and ideas of his own. But protection comes at a price... for both of them DESPERATE TIGRESS: Shi Po, Shanghai's most famous abbess and leader of the Tigresses, faces death and disgrace. Only one man can save her. But first he must prove he can master her demons. BURNING TIGRESS: A Chinese man's only hope of survival is luring a western woman into his way of life. But the white woman he chooses wants more than bedsport. REVIEWS: "...an exotic, unique, and sensual journey to a wholly interesting time period and culture." ~All About Romance "Elegant complexity.... beautifully rendered." ~Booklist STARRED review "An exotic story of... visiting Heaven during oneness." ~Romance Reviews Today AWARDS: Romantic Times BOOKclub TOP PICK PEARL Best Erotic Romance, finalist THE WAY OF THE TIGRESS, in series order White Tigress Hungry Tigress Desperate Tigress Burning Tigress Cornered Tigress Tempted Tigress

The Ruling Elite

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Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466918578
Total Pages : 781 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book The Ruling Elite written by Deanna Spingola and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. government, complicit with the well-connected corporations, since the so-called Civil War, continues to wage war and destruction. Lincoln's revolutionary war, supported by Marx and Engels, caused at least 618,222 and perhaps as many as 700,000 deaths, including about 50,000 Confederate civilians. Soldiers who were fighting, dying and killing during that war were in training for future wars. If Americans could kill fellow citizens, then they would use force against foreign citizens, in behalf of the government. That war foreshadowed the devastating global warfare that followed with the Spanish American War, two World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, the First Gulf War and the current wars in the Middle East. They do not include the bombings in the Baltic and elsewhere or the CIA's covert warfare wherein millions of people died. In the First World War, soldiers killed 9,911,000 people in action, and wounded 21,219,500 people, while 7,750,000 people were missing in action for a total of 38, 880,500. In the Second World War, there were over 24,000,000 military deaths and 49,000,000 civilian deaths totaling 73,000,000 deaths, not including the number of wounded or missing. That is 82,911,000 deaths in two world wars. The real question is WHY?

Double Ten

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Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789125820
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Double Ten written by Carl Glick and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggle in China between the Manchus and the old Ming Dynasty had been going on for over three centuries when Captain Ansel O’Banion signed his name in blood to the secret oath with the Po Wong Wui and became involved in the Chinese revolutionary movement. The book reveals how O’Banion commanded the secret-training of Chinese in some 21 cities in the United States; how he was initiated into the secret society of the Po Wong Wui; how the Royalists in this country try to take over the revolutionary movement and attempted to assassinate Dr. Sun Yat-Sen; how he smuggled Dr. Sun into this country; how he obtained for General Homer Lea the secret war plans of Japan, upon which Lea based his book, The Valor of Ignorance; how the Chinese trained in this country as officers were smuggled into China where they enlisted as privates in the Royal Manchu Army, ready to take over when the revolution occurred and why, when the revolution finally happened at Double Ten Day (October 10, 1911) as the Chinese call the Tenth Day of the tenth Month, this revolution was the first great, practically bloodless revolution in the history of the world.

Empire and the Meaning of Religion in Northeast Asia

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131673885X
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)

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Book Synopsis Empire and the Meaning of Religion in Northeast Asia by : Thomas David DuBois

Download or read book Empire and the Meaning of Religion in Northeast Asia written by Thomas David DuBois and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-24 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manchuria entered the twentieth century as a neglected backwater of the dying Qing dynasty, and within a few short years became the focus of intense international rivalry to control its resources and shape its people. This book examines the place of religion in the development of Manchuria from the late nineteenth century to the collapse of the Japanese Empire in 1945. Religion was at the forefront in this period of intense competition, not just between armies but also among different models of legal, commercial, social and spiritual development, each of which imagining a very specific role for religion in the new society. Debates over religion in Manchuria extended far beyond the region, and shaped the personality of religion that we see today. This book is an ambitious contribution to the field of Asian history and to the understanding of the global meaning and practice of the role of religion.

History's Daybook

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Publisher : Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 0857899279
Total Pages : 857 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)

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Book Synopsis History's Daybook by : Peter Furtado

Download or read book History's Daybook written by Peter Furtado and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day of the year carries the memory of great and terrible events. From the founding of Rome to the 21st century's war on terror, History's Daybook presents a vivid, day-by-day perspective on 2,500 years of human history through the medium of 366 quotations, each of which is tied to the anniversary of a celebrated historical event, capturing its essence with the immediacy of the eye-witness or the narrative flair of the chronicler. In History's Daybook, every day becomes a window on the past: on March 15, 44 BC, blood flows in the Roman Senate as Julius Caesar falls victim to the thrusting daggers of Brutus and his co-conspirators; May 1, 1851 brings a visit to London's Great Exhibition in the company of the novelist Charlotte Bront&ë; on June 28, 1919, in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles, brokenspirited, German delegates sign the Treaty that brings the Great War to its fateful conclusion; on August 16, 1665, we walk the silent streets of plague-ravaged London with the diarist Samuel Pepys; and on September 11, 2001 we watch in horror as the Twin Towers topple and the world changes forever. History's Daybook embraces a wide range of voices, moods, and registers, from the powerful to the impoverished, the revolutionary to the reactionary, the propagandist to the idealist, and the joyful to the grief-stricken. Both engrossing anthology and informative overview of world history, History's Daybook offers the reader entertainment and instruction in equal measure: it is the ideal gift book for the history buff.

History Day by Day: 366 Voices from the Past

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Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500774552
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book History Day by Day: 366 Voices from the Past written by Peter Furtado and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling day-by-day glimpse of highlights from 2,500 years of human history through 366 quotations. History Day by Day presents an original perspective on over two millennia of human history through 366 quotations, one for each day of the year, including leap years. Each quotation, tied to the anniversary of a significant historical event, captures that moment with the immediacy of an eyewitness or the narrative flair of a chronicler. Every day becomes a window to the past: on March 15, 44 BCE, Julius Caesar falls victim to Brutus and his coconspirators; on May 1, 1851, novelist Charlotte Bront visits London’s Great Exhibition; on June 28, 1919, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, broken-spirited German delegates sign the treaty that brings World War I to its fateful conclusion; and on September 11, 2001, people across the globe watch in horror as the Twin Towers topple and change the world forever. History Day by Day embraces a wide range of voices, moods, and mediums, from the powerful to the impoverished, the revolutionary to the reactionary, the joyful to the grief-stricken, and the eyewitness to the diarist. Both engrossing anthology and informative overview of world history, History Day by Day offers readers entertainment and information in equal measure.

Pao

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408817845
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Pao by : Kerry Young

Download or read book Pao written by Kerry Young and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _______________ 'A pacy but absorbing saga of domestic struggle and gangland manoeuvring set against the violent backdrop of postwar Jamaican politics' - Independent on Sunday 'A blindingly good read ... both for its mesmeric story-telling and the quality of its prose' - Observer 'Young's heartfelt, sparky and affecting debut novel is a chronicle of multicultural Jamaica ... The complexity of Jamaican society in Pao is fascinating and bewildering' - Guardian _______________ SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD _______________ A richly imagined, wholly engrossing and utterly captivating novel that tells the remarkable history of twentieth century Jamaica I was just a boy when I come to Jamaica. Kingston, 1938. Fourteen-year-old Yang Pao steps off the ship from China with his mother and brother, after his father has died fighting for the revolution. They are to live with Zhang, the 'godfather' of Chinatown, who mesmerises Pao with stories of glorious Chinese socialism on one hand, and the reality of his protection business on the other. When Pao takes over the family's affairs he becomes a powerful man. He sets his sights on marrying well, but when Gloria Campbell, a black prostitute, comes to him for help he is drawn to her beauty and strength. They begin a relationship that continues even after Pao marries Fay Wong, the 'acceptable' but headstrong daughter of a wealthy Chinese merchant. As the political violence escalates in the 1960s the lines between Pao's socialist ideals and private ambitions become blurred. Jamaica is transforming, the tides of change are rising, and the one-time boss of Chinatown finds himself cast adrift. Richly imagined and utterly captivating, Pao is a dazzling tale of race, class and colour, love and ambition, and a country at a historical crossroads. _______________ 'With grace, authenticity and humour, Young lets Jamaica's political history shine through the life story of her charming yet fallible hero. Brilliant' - Daily Mail

It'll Be Fun You'll See

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Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803412968
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book It'll Be Fun You'll See written by Guy J. Jackson and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yeah, so, no one's really precisely sure what to make of all this. The promotional blurbs here and herein are from people more eloquent than this person right now writing this, so the blurbs are actually where you want to look for an approximate spin on this book's supposed contents, a supposed collection of supposed short stories. But is it really a collection, per se...? Are they really short stories...? A.F. Harrold once pointed out that technically speaking the "short stories" of Guy J. Jackson aren't always quantifiable as “short stories”, and sometimes they are just “things”. Whereas Gwyneth Herbert, if we recall semi-correctly, once advised to simply drink Jackson's "stories" out of a diamond-studded high heel with someone you prefer while lingering in lucidity on a country road at dusk. But at least it's been firmly postulated, by experts the world over, that if one consumes these so-called “short stories” of Jackson's at the rate of one “story” per day, with skipped days being acceptable, one will feel infinitesimally better about, and ever-so-slightly more able to handle, the fundamental inanities of living Life itself.