Easy and Hard Ways Out
Easy and Hard Ways Out

Author: Robert Grossbach

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2013-01-22

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1453295348

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An underachieving engineer building a fighter plane faces a life-changing decision in this Vietnam-era novel perfect for fans of Kurt Vonnegut, Joshua Ferris, and Joseph Heller. This furious, slapstick tale has been praised by the New York Times as one of the “best and brightest” novels about the Vietnam War. We follow the travails of Harvey Brank and his fellow employees, all undrafted malcontents working in a spectacularly small-minded, almost Kafkaesque engineering company. Assigned to build a fighter plane and drawn into office intrigues, Brank faces impossible demands. His wife, despairing of his patchy employment history and restlessness, hopes against hope that Brank won’t get himself fired this time. But what do you do when everything conspires against your vision of a decent, peaceable life? Easy and Hard Ways Out is a blunt, freewheeling look at the men who stay home during wartime—a story about the everyday, with a timeless moral at its heart.

Easy Street (the Hard Way)
Easy Street (the Hard Way)

Author: Ron Perlman

Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0306823446

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The candid, revealing, hilarious, and inspiring memoir of the iconic star of the Hellboy movies, Beauty and the Beast, and Sons of Anarchy

A Hard Way to Make an Easy Living
A Hard Way to Make an Easy Living

Author: Corky Decker

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2011-02-24

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1426954816

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Its often been said that a bad day of fishing beats the best day at work. But what happens when fishing is your work? In A Hard Way to Make an Easy Living, author and career fisherman Corky Decker recaps his lifelong fishing adventures. From his start as a young boy intrigued by the sea working for tips on party sport fishing boats out of Ogunquit, Maine, to captaining a multimillion-dollar factory trawler that fished Alaskan waters, his stories of successes and failures provide an insiders look at the lives of men and women who go to sea to fish. The story demonstrates why commercial fishing is not just a job, but a way of life. In this memoir, Decker tells of trawling and harpooning bluefin tuna on the East Coast until the lure of Alaska found him walking the docks of Kodiak in 1985; he recounts his experiences of the fisheries he worked in Alaska. A Hard Way to Make an Easy Living underscores the continual controversy between the fishing industry and fisheries management and the influence of foreigners in US waters.

Hard Easy: A Get-Real Guide for Getting the Life You Want
Hard Easy: A Get-Real Guide for Getting the Life You Want

Author: Art Coombs

Publisher: Scrivener Books

Published: 2020-03-31

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9781949165173

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

You can live easy-hard or hard-easy. This law will inevitably play itself out, so why not stop sabotaging your goals and relationships and use it to your advantage? This book will help you thoroughly understand what's getting in the way of making the changes you want and how to apply this law when faced with tough decisions.

Out of The Easy
Out of The Easy

Author: Ruta Sepetys

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-02-12

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1101607807

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“A haunting peek at the life of a teenage girl in 1950s New Orleans.”--Entertainment Weekly It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer. She devises a plan get out, but a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie tangled in an investigation that will challenge her allegiance to her mother, her conscience, and Willie Woodley, the brusque madam on Conti Street. Josie is caught between the dream of an elite college and a clandestine underworld. New Orleans lures her in her quest for truth, dangling temptation at every turn, and escalating to the ultimate test. With characters as captivating as those in her internationally bestselling novel Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys skillfully creates a rich story of secrets, lies, and the haunting reminder that decisions can shape our destiny.

The Easy Way Out
The Easy Way Out

Author: C W Farnsworth

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Loss is nothing new to Lennon Matthews. With each hit her heart has taken, she's guarded it more closely. Except Caleb Winters smashed through her defenses in high school. Three years later, their relationship is stronger than ever. But aside from letting a boy in, little in Lennon's life has changed. Taking classes at a local community college while managing the horse farm that's been in her family for generations has been hard, but she's made it work. Options for her future still look limited. Caleb's are as endless as ever. They've made long distance work until now, but how much longer will Caleb wait for a girl tied to a town he isn't? How can Lennon justify choosing a boy over the only family she has left? Landry is home. So is Caleb. When your heart is torn between a place and a person, there's no easy way out.

The Midnight Library
The Midnight Library

Author: Matt Haig

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2023-05-09

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0525559493

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The #1 New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | Independent (London) Ten Best Books of the Year "A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."—The Washington Post The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well lived, from the acclaimed author of How To Stop Time and The Comfort Book. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.