Oh, Crapper!
Oh, Crapper!

Author: J.D. Richard

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2003-08-19

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1462821545

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It is the end of the booming 90s. Because of decreased sales, earnings and a sluggish stock price, the CEO of Crapper Companies, a Fortune 500 manufacturing conglomerate, is forced to resign. An outsider is appointed his replacement causing conflict, confusion and anxiety among employees who fear losing their jobs. Oh, Crapper! is the story of people hoping to survive in a big business thats going through a change of life. Many voices reveal its secrets - from officers at the top to the wannabes trying to get there.

I Think the Nurses are Stealing My Clothes: The Very Best of Linda Smith
I Think the Nurses are Stealing My Clothes: The Very Best of Linda Smith

Author: Edited By Warren Lakin

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Published: 2012-02-16

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1444718371

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Linda Smith was the brilliant mainstay of Radio 4's The News Quiz, Just a Minute, and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue for many years. She was just establishing her career on TV through blistering performances on Have I Got News for You, QI and Room 101, when she died of ovarian cancer in 2006. Linda was one of the few women to conquer the male dominated world of comedy and she had the wit and the charm to win over millions of male and female fans in equal measure. She had an eye for the absurdities of modern life and loved to prick the egos of the pompous and the vain. When she called David Blunkett 'Satan's bearded folk singer', it was a simple statement of fact. No wonder then Linda was voted the 'wittiest person alive' by Radio 4 listeners in 2002. This collection of her material, from her early stand-up to her radio days is a must-have for any comedy fan.

Reality Boy
Reality Boy

Author: A.S. King

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2024-10-08

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0593855485

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A new edition of Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King's stunning portrait of a life lived on reality TV. "A.S. King is one of the best Y.A. writers working today."—New York Times Book Review Gerald Faust knows exactly when he started feeling angry: the day his mother invited a reality television crew into his five-year-old life. Twelve years later, he’s still haunted by his rage-filled youth—which the entire world got to watch from every imaginable angle—and his anger issues have resulted in violent outbursts, zero friends, and clueless adults dumping him in the special education room at school. Nothing is ever going to change. No one cares that he’s tried to learn to control himself, and the girl he likes has no idea who he really is. Everyone’s just waiting for him to snap…and he’s starting to feel dangerously close to doing just that.

Bad Girls and Other Perils
Bad Girls and Other Perils

Author: Mike Strobel

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2010-11-08

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1554887860

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Come and walk the offbeat world of Mike Strobels popular column in the Toronto Sun. Meet legendary panhandler Shaky Lady, the secretive swinger Sexy Boots, and the notorious Bicycle Bandit. Each column in this collection is a mini-world, tight and bright.

Lucky's Ladies
Lucky's Ladies

Author: Katy Berritt

Publisher: Edgecombe Publishing

Published: 2024-01-18

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13:

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Once upon a time, Aiden (Lucky) Burke loved Lindsay Shepard with all his heart, and so they were married—for all of twelve minutes. Then he opened his big fat mouth and told the love of his life it wasn’t necessary for her to go to college now. Nobody said eighteen-year-old guys were smart. Needless to say, Lindsay left town to become a doctor and Lucky went away to become a veterinarian. And consoled himself by getting married again...and again...and again... Now Lindsay has returned to her home town of Guthrie to open her new practice. Unfortunately, Aiden still wants her as his wife. But why would she want to fall in love again with the twice...thrice...four times? philandering Aiden Burke?

Tales of Mentara: Book One: The Portal
Tales of Mentara: Book One: The Portal

Author: Ashley Uzzell

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-03-13

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1387648608

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Five children find themselves stuck in a beautiful jungle on a strange planet. But all is not as peaceful as it first appears... Twelve-year-old Charlotte has been different all her life. It isn't just that her father left when she was a child, or her mother ignores her. What really makes her an outsider is the fact that she has strange abilities that she can't explain and struggles to control. Everything changes in the summer of 1993 when she feels drawn to a certain spot outside of town. Unfortunately, she isn't alone when things go sideways. When the children realize they are definitely not on Earth anymore, they have to learn not only how to fend for themselves, but how to get along. The problem is, even Charlotte has no idea how to get off the alien planet. And, perhaps, she doesn't want to. It doesn't take long for the five to realize they aren't alone in this strange land and that life here is more dangerous than they could have imagined.

Chasing Avenues
Chasing Avenues

Author: Karen Campion

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2011-01-31

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 145028728X

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Aeryn Murphy is 28 years old, single and living in Chicago. Her dead-end advertising job comes to an abrupt halt when she tells the higher-ups where they can stick it. Seeing as she has burned every bridge in the industry, Aeryn decides to finally open the purse boutique she has been dreaming of for years. But, with what money? With limited options to make cash fast, Aeryn ends up driving a cab! Not really the choice job for an attractive woman, but in the city of Chicago a cabdriver is a hot commodity. Except to Aeryns super successful new boyfriend, that is. Aeryns cab chases avenues of the city, and chases the avenues of her and her four best girlfriends lives. Aeryn, Kaleigh, Olivia, Stacey and Bridget Jones embark on a journey of love, life, happiness and career. What if the twists and turns these women face destructively alter their lives forever They, especially Aeryn, are running out of Plan Bs.

Tales of Mentara: Book Two: The Ritual
Tales of Mentara: Book Two: The Ritual

Author: Ashley Uzzell

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-04-24

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 035950535X

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Five children stranded in a strange world continue their adventures in the land known as Mentara. Twelve-year-old Charlotte feels the weight of her mistake in bringing her friends here. The local tribe of children who call themselves The Orphans are in a constantly warring state with a neighboring tribe, The Bomen. Drawn into this fight because of her magical abilities, Charlotte struggles to keep her friends safe while defending a group of strangers she is starting to see as family. Tomas, the leader of The Orphans, is drawn to the kind and motherly Lena, impressed by the strong and intelligent Fred, and bewildered by the ever-moody Charlotte. He has his own personal issues to deal with while he prepares for a ritual that will change his status in the eyes of his people forever. But is this path he has chosen, this future he has worked and planned for what he really wants? Is it too late to change his mind and explore these newfound feelings of wanderlust?

Setting Free the Bears
Setting Free the Bears

Author: John Irving

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2018-05-15

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1984800086

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“Truly remarkable . . . encompasses the longings and agonies of youth . . . a complex and moving novel.”—Time “Astonishing . . . a writer of uncommon imaginative power. Whatever [John Irving] writes, it will be worth reading.”—Saturday Review It is 1967. Two Viennese university students, Siggy and Hannes, roam the Austrian countryside on their motorcycles—on a quest: to liberate the bears of the Vienna Zoo. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences in this first novel from John Irving, already a master storyteller at twenty-five years old. “Imagine a mixture of Till Eulenspiegel and Ken Kesey . . . and you've got the range of the merry pranksters who hot rod through Mr. Irving's book . . . tossing flowers, stealing salt shakers, and planning the biggest caper of their young lives.”—The New York Times

My Wicked Aunt Leonora
My Wicked Aunt Leonora

Author: Christina Godley

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2018-12-10

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 1728381835

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Kathryn Shaw has had an eventful and unusual life considering she is only 25 years old. She is feisty, wired and generous to a fault. After spending most of her childhood in a Care Home, she convinces herself that romance is not on the cards for her. Unable to sleep from a recurring nightmare of drowning, she takes nighttime work in a bistro, just off the King’s Road in London, which enables her to paint seascapes during the day. Sharing a house with other weird tenants reinforces her suspicions that they also prefer nocturnal activities.