Nobody Move
Nobody Move

Author: Denis Johnson

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2010-04-27

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1429959711

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From the National Book Award–winning, bestselling author of Tree of Smoke comes a provocative thriller set in the American West. Nobody Move, which first appeared in the pages of Playboy, is the story of an assortment of lowlifes in Bakersfield, California, and their cat-and-mouse game over $2.3 million. Touched by echoes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, Nobody Move is at once an homage to and a variation on literary form. It salutes one of our most enduring and popular genres—the American crime novel—but with a grisly humor and outrageousness that are Denis Johnson's own. Sexy, suspenseful, and above all entertaining, Nobody Move shows one of our greatest novelists at his versatile best.

Inoculations
Inoculations

Author: Darren O'Donnell

Publisher: Coach House Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9781552450710

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These four plays - White Mice, Who Shot Jacques Lacan?, Radio Rooster Says That's Bad and Over - written by Darren O'Donnell for his theatre company, Mammalian Diving Reflex, will challenge your politics, your ontology and everything you hold to be safe, stable and sacrosanct. Inoculations documents O'Donnell's progress through the past decade, from the first presentation of Over in 1993 at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre's Rhubarb! festival to 2000's highly acclaimed, Dora-winning presentation of White Mice at Toronto's Theatre Passe Muraille. Covering subjects as diverse as racism and the light spectrum, these plays are provocative, innovative and riotously funny - as entertaining to experience on paper as on stage.

Nobody Moved Your Cheese!
Nobody Moved Your Cheese!

Author: Ross Shafer

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1553956583

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"Nobody Moved Your Cheese" is a fun, yet challenging look at the so called business and cultural "experts" of our time. Ross Shafer is a former pet shop manager turned comedian/TV talk show host who has spent nearly twenty years on the corporate lecture circuit as an after dinner speaker and entertainer. And most of the time, he is there with world famous authors and lecturers. This book dares to expose just how irrelevant their "expert advice" is to your life. Ross takes on some of our most revered cultural icons in the chapters, NOBODY MOVED YOUR CHEESE, THOSE CHICKEN SOUP BOOKS ARE FOR FOOLS, ANTHONY ROBBINS HASN'T DONE A DAMN THING, THE ONE-MINUTE MANAGER GOT LAID OFF, and 10 THINGS DR. LAURA SAYS TO GET YOU TO BUY HER BOOKS. Plus, Ross slaps conventional wisdom in the face in chapters like, YOUR JOB IS TERMINAL...AND OTHER GOOD NEWS, GOAL SETTING IS STUPID, BACK UP YOUR LIES WITH THE TRUTH, and GOOD CUSTOMER SERVICE CAN BANKRUPT YOU. This is a book about taking extreme responsibility. Ross promises that it will shock you and empower you at the same time. You'll never feel insecure about your job or career choices again.

WW III: Payback
WW III: Payback

Author: Ian Slater

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2005-03-29

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 0345481860

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Old soldiers never die. They just come back for more. Three terrorist missiles have struck three jetliners filled with innocent people. America knows this shock all too well. But unlike 9/11, the nation is already on a war footing. The White House and Pentagon are primed. All they need now is a target and someone bold–and expendable–enough to strike it. That someone is retired Gen. Douglas Freeman, the infamous warrior who has proved his courage, made his enemies, and built his legend from body-strewn battlegrounds to the snake pits of Washington. Using a team of “retired” Special Forces operatives and a top-secret, still-unproven stealth attack craft, Freeman sets off to obliterate the source of the missiles, a weapons stockpile in North Korea. Some desktop warriors expect Freeman to fail–especially when an unexpected foe meets his team on the Sea of Japan. But Freeman won’t turn back even as his plan explodes in his face and the Pacific Rim roils over–because this old soldier can taste his ultimate reward. . . .

Crow's Landing
Crow's Landing

Author: Brad Smith

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-08-07

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1439197539

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Jack-of-all-trades Virgil Cain gets tangled up in an old crime surfacing from the waters of the Hudson River, in this second novel in a series from Brad Smith. JACK-OF-ALL-TRADES VIRGIL CAIN GETS TANGLED UP IN AN OLD CRIME SURFACING FROM THE WATERS OF THE HUDSON RIVER IN THIS SECOND NOVEL IN A SERIES FROM BRAD SMITH. For Virgil Cain, a day of fishing on the Hudson River yields more than he bargained for when, while pulling up anchor, he hooks on to a mysterious steel cylinder. As word of Virgil’s strange catch spreads around the local marina, it draws the attention of a crooked city cop, who seizes both the cylinder and Virgil’s boat. Soon, an old drug deal gone sour surfaces, and to get to the bottom of it—and to get his boat back—Virgil teams up with a captivating single mom, Dusty, who knows far too much about the cylinder and the pure cocaine it contains. The landscape is soon cluttered with the dealer who claims ownership of the cylinder, his murderous sidekick, and a wild card in the form of a crazy Russian cowboy. Virgil and Dusty find themselves trapped in the middle and desperate for a way out.

Ain’thology
Ain’thology

Author: Seth Katz

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2015-06-18

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1443878723

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The word ain't is used by speakers of all dialects and sociolects of English. Nonetheless, language critics view ain't as marking speakers as ""lazy"" or ""stupid""; and the educated assume ain't is on its deathbed, used only in clichés. Everyone has an opinion about ain't. Even the grammar-checker in Microsoft Word flags every ain't with a red underscore. But why? Over the past 100 years, only a few articles and sections of books have reviewed the history of ain't or discussed it in dialect cont ...

African American English
African American English

Author: Lisa J. Green

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-08-08

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780521891387

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This authoritative introduction to African American English (AAE) is the first textbook to look at the grammar as a whole. Clearly organised, it describes patterns in the sentence structure, sound system, word formation and word use in AAE. The textbook examines topics such as education, speech events in the secular and religious world, and the use of language in literature and the media to create black images. It includes exercises to accompany each chapter and will be essential reading for students in linguistics, education, anthropology, African American studies and literature.

American Studies in Transition
American Studies in Transition

Author: Marshall W. Fishwick

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2017-01-30

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 151281590X

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Tough to Kill
Tough to Kill

Author: Matt Chisholm

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2011-09-28

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1448205646

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Markham ruled the land-with money and with guns. He also had two beautiful daughters and a sister. To these McAllister and his two henchmen were drawn like bees to a honeypot. To get Markham off their backs and the girls into their arms, they had to fight. And they fought with every weapon they knew of-guile, guns and fists. Matt Chisholm gives you another rioting, rampaging, full-blooded Western.