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Lovely Assistant

Author : Geoph Essex
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781468151374
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Lovely Assistant written by Geoph Essex and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jenny Ng missed her last appointment, was hit by a car, and was hired by a magician on the same day. And those aren't even remotely the strangest things that happened to her this summer. Jenny's a typical New Yorker, too jaded too early, struggling to get by in the big city. Of course, the typical New Yorker rarely has to deal with very large and sardonic horses, magic swords, severed limbs, and mirror images that refuse to cooperate with all that reflecting business. But Jenny learns to cope. With the help of a clever conjurer, a few feckless friends, and enough Grim Reapers to fill out a football league, it's up to Jenny to learn the finer points of Life and Death...and save the world while she's at it. Geoph Essex's fast and fearless prose combines the wit of Douglas Adams, the quirk of Christopher Moore, and the inventive mythology of Neil Gaiman in an adventure that spans galaxies without ever straying too far from the familiar.

Imperfections

Author : Bradley Somer
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0889712751
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Imperfections written by Bradley Somer and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Trench finds himself with no arms and no legs, reduced to a torso in the trunk of a car. There is a reason. It all makes sense. The point is there somewhere . . . Imperfections elucidates the private lives of supermodels and circus freaks, sheiks and designer dominatrixes and the metamorphosis of the body chic. These are lives where the importance of vehicular mephitis-cide, a charity lobster boil for burn victims, a grilled-cheese sandwich with the face of the Virgin Mary toasted on it and a prophecy about the uncanny deaths of the voice-actors for Tigger and Piglet, can not be overlooked. Set in the world of glittering photo shoots in exotic locations, extreme visions of beauty and raucous fashion shows, Imperfections is a genre-bending novel that sits solidly in the foggy area between fact and fiction.

Pricksongs and Descants

Author : Robert Coover
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780802136671
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Pricksongs and Descants written by Robert Coover and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2000-01-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author - already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel - as a writer of enduring power and unquestionable brilliance, a promise he has fulfilled over a stellar career. It also began Coover's now-trademark riffs on fairy tales and bedtime stories. In these riotously word-drunk fictional romps, two children follow an old man into the woods, trailing bread crumbs behind and edging helplessly toward a sinister end that never comes; a husband walks toward the bed where his wife awaits his caresses, but by the time he arrives she's been dead three weeks and detectives are pounding down the door; a teenaged babysitter's evening becomes a kaleidoscope of dangerous erotic fantasies-her employer's, her boyfriend's, her own; an aging, humble carpenter marries a beautiful but frigid woman, and after he's waited weeks to consummate their union she announces that God has made her pregnant. Now available in a Grove paperback, Pricksongs & Descants is a cornerstone of Robert Coover's remarkable career and a brilliant work by a major American writer.

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Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1515823962
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book written by and published by Capstone. This book was released on with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Comic Sense

Author : Thomas Pughe
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3034877463
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Comic Sense written by Thomas Pughe and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea for this study came to me in the course of my reading of innova tive US-American! fiction of the last three decades. I observed that much of it is cast in the comic mode - or, more precisely, that there seems to be in contemporary fiction an affinity between 'innovation' and 'the comic' and that this affinity, furthermore, appears to be characteristic of postmo dernism. It is obvious, at the same time, that comic has become an elusive and, more often than not, a disputable category. Frederick Karl, in his sur vey of American Fictions 1940-1980, maintains, for instance, that much comic writing consists in ridicule that lacks deeper intellectual and cul tural roots. "Wit and mockery," he notes, "by themselves have little lasting value. Even in the best of such fiction, Gravity's Rainbow, one is made aware of attenuated skits stiched onto previous segments, rather than baked in by a defined point of view. " (Karl: 27) Such assessments of course challenge my view that the comic is in significant ways connected with what is innovative in postmodernist US-American fiction. Yet the term comic -or related terms like humour, parody, irony and so fort- is regularly and heavily employed in discussions or reviews of con temporary fiction.

Fortune

Author : Aurelia Evans
Publisher : Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
ISBN 13 : 1784305464
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Fortune written by Aurelia Evans and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's the reason to be careful what you wish for. After her jealous boyfriend makes an angry, careless wish, Maya DeLuca finds herself trapped in a traveling demonic circus and at the mercy of a devious jinni, Bell Madoc. She joins the other lost souls of Arcanium who suffer in perpetual purgatory under the weight of their wishes, all making the best of a cursed situation. But Maya's not even cursed because of her own wish, which means she still has three for Bell to grant. He may be fond of her—the passion they share is as hellfire hot as it is wrong—but that doesn't mean she's safe from his endlessly inventive, wicked imagination. He might twist her wishes at his whim for his own pleasure. Or he might just give her what she wants...which could be even worse.

Scarlett Johansson

Author : Kim R. Holston
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476642508
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Scarlett Johansson written by Kim R. Holston and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite her prominence as an actress, fashionista, social activist and the "sexiest woman in the world," Scarlett Johansson has kept her life private. Her work ethic has been strong since her film debut in North (1994) at age 10. Then in 2003, Lost in Translation brought kudos and launched her adult career. While she never abandoned the independents, Johansson became a leading lady in very big films, including eight outings as former Russian assassin Black Widow thwarting alien incursions in The Avengers and other films in the Marvel Universe. This book surveys Johansson's life and films from childhood to her 2019 Academy Award nominations for Jojo Rabbit and Marriage Story. Each film entry includes a plot synopsis, extracts from contemporary reviews, behind-the-scenes information, and the author's analysis of the film. Looked at in-depth are the three Woody Allen collaborations, her role as Black Widow, and the films in which she becomes "the other."

Frost Moon

Author : Anthony Francis
Publisher : BelleBooks
ISBN 13 : 1935661078
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Frost Moon written by Anthony Francis and published by BelleBooks. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an alternate Atlanta where magic is practiced openly, where witches sip coffee at local cafes, shapeshifters party at urban clubs, vampires rule the southern night like gangsters, and mysterious creatures command dark caverns beneath the city, Dakota Frost's talents are coveted by all. She's the best magical tattooist in the southeast, a Skindancer, able to bring her amazing tats to life. When a serial killer begins stalking Atlanta's tattooed elite, the police and the Feds seek Dakota's help. Can she find the killer on the dark fringe of the city's Edgeworld? Among its powerful outcasts and tortured loners, what kind of enemies and allies will she attract? Will they see her as an invader, as a seducer, as an unexpected champion ... or as delicious prey?

The Demon's Lexicon

Author : Sarah Rees Brennan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0857070045
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Demon's Lexicon written by Sarah Rees Brennan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick and his brother Alan are on the run with their mother, who was once the lover of a powerful magician. When she left him, she stole an important charm - and he will stop at nothing to reclaim it. Now Alan has been marked with the sign of death by the magician's demon, and only Nick can save him. But to do so he must face those he has fled from all his life - the magicians - and kill them. So the hunted becomes the hunter… but in saving his brother, Nick discovers something that will unravel his whole past… "The Demon's Lexicon is full of shimmery marvels and bountiful thunder." - Scott Westerfeld "Sarah Rees Brennan crafts a twisty tale full of surprises." - Holly Black "Witty, dark, and moving, this novel will keep your eyes glued to the pages." - Cassandra Clare Nonstop action, nail-biting supsense, clever rapartee, and a knockout secret involving the two brothers will keep readers on the edges of their seats. Fans of the paranormal and the Supernatural television series are going to enjoy the adventures of these demon-fighting brothers, but so will aficionados of sharp writing, complex characters, fast-paced plots, teen angst, and the struggle between good and evil. For fans of Supernatural comes a read-until-3am-book, the first in the series by acclaimed author Sarah Rees Brennan

The Absolute Book

Author : Elizabeth Knox
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593296745
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Absolute Book written by Elizabeth Knox and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bewitching epic fantasy about a revenge killing, a mysterious scroll box that has survived centuries of fires, and the book that changed everything "Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, The Absolute Book is a cinematic tale that is by turns dark and dreamlike, yet ultimately hopeful." --Deborah Harkness, New York Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches "An instant classic . . . It is everything fantasy should be." --The Guardian Taryn Cornick believes that the past--her sister's violent death, and her own ill-conceived revenge--is behind her, and she can get on with her life. She has written a successful book about the things that threaten libraries: insects, damp, light, fire, carelessness and uncaring . . . but not all of the attention it brings her is good. A policeman, Jacob Berger, questions her about a cold case. Then there are questions about a fire in the library at her grandparents' house and an ancient scroll box known as the Firestarter, as well as threatening phone calls and a mysterious illness. Finally a shadowy young man named Shift appears, forcing Taryn and Jacob toward a reckoning felt in more than one world. The Absolute Book is epic, action-packed fantasy in which hidden treasures are recovered, wicked things resurface, birds can talk, and dead sisters are a living force. It is a book of journeys and returns, from contemporary England to Auckland, New Zealand; from a magical fairyland to Purgatory. Above all, it is a declaration of love for stories and the ways in which they shape our worlds and create gods out of mortals.

Case of the Broken Bridge

Author : Shanna Swendson
Publisher : Shanna Swendson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Case of the Broken Bridge written by Shanna Swendson and published by Shanna Swendson. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locking the doors may not keep a killer out Lexie Lincoln hoped the Saturday outing Wes Mosby planned would be a date, a step toward defining their ambiguous relationship, but it turns out to be something better: a story. Wes fears there was something shady about the construction of a bridge that collapsed in a recent storm. It’s out of his jurisdiction, but he thinks Lexie’s just the person to dig into it. She suspects Wes might be right when the county engineer she calls about the bridge invites her to his house for a cookout instead of arranging an interview. There must be something he doesn’t want to discuss at the office. But when she arrives, he’s nowhere to be found. His family can’t get into the house because it’s locked from the inside. After the police resort to kicking in a door, they find him dead from an apparent suicide. Or is it? It doesn’t make sense for him to invite Lexie over, then kill himself before talking. On the other hand, there are those locked doors. How could the killer have left? Then again, this is Stirling Mills, where half the population can do seemingly impossible things. Getting in and out in spite of locked doors isn’t out of the question. If it was murder, was he killed because of the bridge, or was it something else? Either way, Lexie’s investigation into the bridge has made her a target of threats. If she’s dealing with someone willing to kill to keep her from finding and publishing the truth, and if that person can lock or unlock any door, she won’t be safe until she brings the killer to justice.

Magic

Author : Jeanette R. Lynton
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423604393
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Magic written by Jeanette R. Lynton and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will become master magicians of memories with the 35 patterns and interactive techniques featured in Magic. Each pattern features ingenious elements that pull, spin, or slide to reveal more photos or journaling.

Wild Wise Weird

Author : Quan-Hoang Vuong
Publisher : AISDL
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Wise Weird written by Quan-Hoang Vuong and published by AISDL. This book was released on 2024-09-28 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Wise Weird represents the latest updated version of The Kingfisher Story Collection, first published in 2022. When first released on September 21, 2022, The Kingfisher Story Collection had a total of 21 stories. Today, Wild Wise Weird has grown to house 42 stories in total. Although The Kingfisher Story Collection has been updated to include all the new stories, I still want to post this version with a shorter title Wild Wise Weird, to mark its second anniversary. Quan-Hoang Vuong September 28, 2024. Hanoi, Vietnam.

Misadventures in Tuscany

Author : David M. Addison
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1467005010
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Misadventures in Tuscany written by David M. Addison and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David M. Addison provides a refreshing, alternative perspective in travel writing. A bit like Mr Bean on holiday, picking up the wrong piece of luggage at the airport is just the first in a series of misadventures which bedevil the author and his long-suffering wife on this ill-starred trip to Tuscany. From the lesser-known Lucca, which serves as the epicentre for his disasters, to Pisa and Florence, the author takes the reader not only on a hilarious journey, but also on one of discovery as he lurches from one crisis to the next. His frequently toe-curling account of his misadventures with the wrong bag is the link that blows like a gale of laughter throughout this narrative. Yet, for all his bungling, the author is surprisingly knowledgeable about the art, architecture and the history of Florence, Pisa and Lucca - places famous on the tourist map but what attracts his attention in these places is the weird amidst the wonderful, the curious and the quirky details that pass unnoticed by the majority of tourists. In addition to this, the author takes the reader off the beaten track to places most tourists never venture. There are frequent laugh-out-loud moments at his technophobia, his blunders, his brushes with officialdom and those who just happen to cross his path, who either amuse him, intrigue him or as often as not, provoke his irritation. A word of sympathy however, must be mentioned for his long-suffering wife and travelling companion who, amidst all this mayhem, is an innocent and unwitting accomplice.

Read To Me ~ Stories of Christ-like Character

Author : Grammy Leigh
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0979461286
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book Read To Me ~ Stories of Christ-like Character written by Grammy Leigh and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read to me Stories of Christ-like Character was written for family reading time. Family togetherness time should start with the reading of books. Grammy Leigh wrote the stories so that you would have character building epics to read to your children when they want a story; and then for them to read to you when they are able. She hopes that you enjoy sharing them as much as she enjoyed writing them.

Chattahoochee

Author : Patrick Phillips
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610750942
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Chattahoochee written by Patrick Phillips and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. From the author of Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America and the National Book Award finalist Elegy for a Broken Machine: Poems, here is the first collection from award-winning poet Patrick Phillips. A river runs through Patrick Phillips’s collection Chattahoochee, and through a family saga as powerful and poignant as the landscape in which it unfolds. Here are tales of a vanished South, elegies for the lost, and glimpses of what Flannery O’Connor called the “action of grace in territory held largely by the devil.” In language delicate and muscular, tender and raw-boned, Phillips writes of family, place, and that mythic conjunction of the two we call home.

The Yokota Officers Club

Author : Sarah Bird
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307775755
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Yokota Officers Club written by Sarah Bird and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Bird’s gutsy, sharp, and touching new novel opens at full speed. Bernadette "Bernie" Root, military brat, speaks. She has never really noticed what a peculiar bunch of nomads her eight-member Air Force family is (with the exception of her Post Princess sister, Kit), until the summer after her first year of college when she joins them at their new assignment: Kadena Air Base, Okinawa. Just as Okinawa turns out to be a sorry version of the Japanese paradise Bernie knew in her childhood at Yokota Air Base, her family, especially her once-beautiful mother, Moe, and her former spy-pilot father, Mace, seems to have been in decline since those glory days of the American Raj. Days when her mother was happy and their best friend, Fumiko, now lost to them, was the family’s maid. The worst part of Okinawa for Bernie, though, is realizing how perfectly she fits with her oddball family and how badly she needs to get out. So when a dance contest first prize, a trip to Japan,offers a chance to escape, she takes it, playing second banana to a third-rate comedian on a tour of Japan’s military bases. At their grand finale at the Yokota Officers’ Club, Fumiko finally reappears, and Bernie discovers the terrible price that is paid when the secrets nations hide end up buried within families. A brilliantly appealing novel whose energy, wit, and feeling have won for it (see back of the jacket) extraordinary advance praise.