G’day, Mate! shows us the unexpected situations that one can come across. Who knew when Victor S. Lavrov boarded the Eifuku Maru in Kobe, Japan, how Mrs. Satrapinsky would turn out to be? She was the exception to the rule. After all, Mr. Satrapinsky was a bachelor in Tokyo. There was no record or any word mentioned about a wife. Buta good, happy family life and education at Saint Joseph College taught Victor to uphold his trust in humanity, and he carried this unexpected burden without any trepidation.
Derrick finally feels like he’s getting the hang of Middle School. He’s in a band with his best friends and his dogs Bennie and Max are getting along. Even his Dead Max comics and advice columns are a hit, until Max’s cat-hating ways start raising hackles with his cat-loving readers. Then when Derrick’s cartoons protesting racism backfire, the Muslim kids turn against him and the paper is in danger of being shut down, along with Derrick’s cartooning career. Is Derrick a racist bully or trying to help some friends fight hatred? Luckily, Dead Max and some fishy characters are on the case, sleuthing out the real culprit and reuniting the students of Zachary Taylor Middle School with some long, lost friends.
'Morris, ' asked Wee Jimmy, 'do you remember when we a lot younger and used to play for Charlie Meechan's football team Neilston St. Thomas's and we won the forth division title of the Paisley and District League at the first attempt by beating Reid Gear Spurs on the final day of the season at home when Dougie Rennie crossed for big Tam Lannon to head the winning goal?' 'How could I forget that day Wee Jimmy because I had a stormer of a game and if it wasn't for me making at least four world class saves in that game then we wouldn't have been champions because in case you've forgotten we'd been neck and neck with Reid Gear Spurs the whole season and whoever won that game won the league.' 'I don't remember you making any world class saves at any time never mind on that day, ' joked Wee Jimmy, 'but I'll admit that you did have more great games than bad ones so maybe you did contribute a wee bit to our success that year so remind me again what we're looking for up here in this dusty loft
When Madge eventually woke, she had the feeling that she wasn't at home anymore not only because she was colder than cold but because her usual red tartan night light wasn't anywhere to be seen and she'd never ever have gotten to sleep without it being on so where were they but the most important question that needed an urgent answer was, where was Mo and was she okay?
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A wheeling meditation on the wired life, on privacy, on what being human in the age of binary code might mean” (The New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Netanyahus NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE WALL STREET JOURNAL “Shatteringly powerful . . . I cannot think of anything by anyone in [Cohen’s] generation that is so frighteningly relevant and composed with such continuous eloquence. There are moments in it that seem to transcend our impasse.”—Harold Bloom The enigmatic billionaire founder of Tetration, the world’s most powerful tech company, hires a failed novelist, Josh Cohen, to ghostwrite his memoirs. The mogul, known as Principal, brings Josh behind the digital veil, tracing the rise of Tetration, which started in the earliest days of the Internet by revolutionizing the search engine before venturing into smartphones, computers, and the surveillance of American citizens. Principal takes Josh on a mind-bending world tour from Palo Alto to Dubai and beyond, initiating him into the secret pretext of the autobiography project and the life-or-death stakes that surround its publication. Insider tech exposé, leaked memoir-in-progress, international thriller, family drama, sex comedy, and biblical allegory, Book of Numbers renders the full range of modern experience both online and off. Embodying the Internet in its language, it finds the humanity underlying the virtual. Featuring one of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction, Book of Numbers is an epic of the digital age, a triumph of a new generation of writers, and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do. Praise for Book of Numbers “The Great American Internet Novel is here. . . . Book of Numbers is a fascinating look at the dark heart of the Web. . . . A page-turner about life under the veil of digital surveillance . . . one of the best novels ever written about the Internet.”—Rolling Stone “A startlingly talented novelist.”—The Wall Street Journal “Remarkable . . . dazzling . . . Cohen’s literary gifts . . . suggest that something is possible, that something still might be done to safeguard whatever it is that makes us human.”—Francine Prose, The New York Review of Books
A direct and informative Wordbook of Idiom and Slang which is directed at giving explanation to the meaning of and the correct usage of the Australian English language. There are some words used that may offend as they have converse meanings to other English Speaking countries; however, there is no intent to offend or malign or denigrate anybody. This book is designed to be informative, educational, and full of humor and will give the reader insight to a unique and colorful language.
G Day is basically man’s attempt to murder God for leaving the world in such “dire” conditions. The team of assassins includes a Harvard educated Cyclops; his assistant, composed of ancient dust, named UGH; a mysterious woman with a somber history of sexual abuse name, None,; A woman employed by the C.I.A., previously a statue in a museum, named Ida; a scientist with a half omniscient mind, name Dr. Sseus; twenty-seven past presidents; and Dr. Pangloss the Programmer. God, not wanting to take any of the blame, assigns the devil to assume his role during the tribulation, only he must refer to himself as (“God”) The misadventures that occur only leave the world in an “utter mess” with absolutely no one in charge and the most unexpected resolution of all.
With the same light touch that made his Draw Squad a resounding success, PBS-TV's Mark Kistler enters the third dimension in these step-by-step drawing lessons for kids. As he explains artistic concepts, Kistler peppers his text with jokes, tips, and silly slogans.
