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Author: Tim Eldred
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2008-02-19
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780765313263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMac Gimbensky is an eight hundred pound intelligent gorilla and expert fighter mechanic on the flagship Fist of Earth, where, with the help of his cadet assistant Robin Plotnik, he maintains the ships of the all-female Barbarian Squadron.
Author: Catherine Connor
Publisher: LifeRichPublishing
Published: 2014-09-17
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1489702946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTake a delightful romp back through time and see the world through the eyes of your inner child. Revisit the world in the years following the end of the Second World War, to the children of this country's "Greatest Generation," when innocence, wonder, and awe were alive and well. Go back to the days of two pieces of candy for a penny, the introduction of the Hula-Hoop, and Red Ryder BB guns, the gift that every little boy dreamed of finding beneath the Christmas tree. The world of the baby boomer was a simpler place and time, a time when telephone service meant that you were a part of a "party line," a handshake was better than a signed contract. It was a time when the family sat together to eat their meals and share their dreams and accomplishments, as well as their failures. There was a sweetness to life during those decades. This book offers the reader an intimate look into the daily lives of those who lived the wonder. Recall the memories of many historical events and people. Let the child in you free to explore and reconnect with the values and people of those magical years before the birth of computers, cell phones, and television. Your vacation back in time will be one that you will always remember. Be ready to laugh and cry, but most of all, be prepared to revisit your youth and your dreams. Yesterday awaits. The sock monkey will be your guide.
Author: Deborah Jane Ross
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2014-09-12
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 1499065329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Washington Territory family experiences love, loss, successes, challenges, and turbulent family dynamics in Tales from Schneiders Creek, the sequel to Deborah Jane Rosss novel Konrad and Albertina. Written as a set of nine tales, the book follows the lives, livelihood, and adventures of Schneider family at the end of the nineteenth century. Advance praise: Deborah Ross has pieced together an amazing collection of customs, property records, vital statistics, and news items to create very credible lives full of personal thoughts and interactions. Mark Foutch, former Mayor of Olympia and current President of the Olympia Historical Society and Bigelow House Museum. Praise for Konrad and Albertina: Ms. Ross has deftly integrated her historical research on the Schneider Family into a readable narrative written from different perspectives with a deeply human touch. Shanna Stevenson, historian and author.
Author: Edward Abbey
Publisher: Rosetta Books
Published: 2011-08-19
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 0795317360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA motley crew of saboteurs wreaks havoc on the corporations destroying America’s Western wilderness in this “wildly funny, infinitely wise” classic (The Houston Chronicle). When George Washington Hayduke III returns home from war in the jungles of Southeast Asia, he finds the unspoiled West he once knew has been transformed. The pristine lands and waterways are being strip mined, dammed up, and paved over by greedy government hacks and their corrupt corporate coconspirators. And the manic, beer-guzzling, rabidly antisocial ex-Green Beret isn’t just getting mad. Hayduke plans to get even. Together with a radical feminist from the Bronx; a wealthy, billboard-torching libertarian MD; and a disgraced Mormon polygamist, Hayduke’s ready to stick it to the Man in the most creative ways imaginable. By the time they’re done, there won’t be a bridge left standing, a dam unblown, or a bulldozer unmolested from Arizona to Utah. Edward Abbey’s most popular novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang is an outrageous romp with ultra-serious undertones that is as relevant today as it was in the early days of the environmental movement. The author who Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove) once dubbed “The Thoreau of the American West” has written a true comedic classic with brains, heart, and soul that more than justifies the call from the Los Angeles Times Book Review that we should all “praise the earth for Edward Abbey!” “Mixes comedy and chaos with enough chase sequences to leave you hungering for more.”—The San Francisco Chronicle
Author: Paul Kennedy Mueller
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 1770671749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA gas-station attendant waits wistfully for a mysterious young woman in a Mustang; astronauts find a promising, but curiously empty, planet; a modern corporation enjoys an eye-opening transformation; and an Irish lass gains enduring fame in post-colonial Pennsylvania: These and other "preposterous accounts" await readers who appreciate a wry angle and a wicked wit in this eclectic collection of stories....
Author: Ethel McMilin
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2010-09-17
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1450255833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJonathon often babysat the neighbors' daughter, Lisa. Her hair was never comb and she was always dirty from playing in the dirt. He wondered what she would look like when she grew older. She was pitiful looking now. He often took her to his garage because the neighbors' needed a baby sitter. Lisa was a pest with more questions to ask than he had time to answer but she became interested in washing and cleaning cars. Perhaps she would be worth something since she could clean cars so well. He called her his grease monkey and he often wondered if she would still want to work around cars when she was older.
Author: Deshka Peneff
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2013-03-19
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 1475961448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThirteen-year-old Eric Larson is a brainiac willing to do anything to become popular, even telling a lie the size of an elephantor in his case, a monkey. Determined to reinvent himself and not live in the shadow of his brother, Eric returns to high school after summer vacation tanned, muscular, and confident. But when he spontaneously brags to his classmates that he has a pet monkey, everything changes. Just as Erics geek-o-metre levels start to decrease and the supper-hot Stacie Hansen begins to notice him, his science teacher volunteers Erics fictitious pet primate as the latest class project. With the help of a zoo webcam, Eric frantically begins researching what monkeys eat, how they sleep, and their natural habitats. Forced to relay his findings to his science class, Eric unintentionally discovers the dangers that jeopardize not only his fabricated monkey, Blue, but also the rain forest as a whole. Suddenly, his mission to achieve social success is replaced by his zeal to teach others about the critical depletion of this important and fragile ecosystem. Now, a teenager unwittingly caught between a lie and his conscience must decide whether hes willing to sacrifice his new social success and relationship with Stacie in order to do whats right.
Author: Mahmoud Hirji
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 2022-07-20
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 103912965X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMonkey Tales and other Short Stories is a collection of 14 short stories based on the author’s life growing up in East Africa, his global travels, experiences working in Canada and abroad, and more. Hirji deftly blurs the boundaries between memoir and fiction, creating vivid characters such as Aziz, who stars prominently in many stories, along with nefarious biker and monkey gangs, a gruesome toilet cleaner, a beautiful haunted spirit, endearing old women, sexy girlfriends, nudes and others who leap off the pages in their largesse. Stories come to life with Hirji’s vivid prose: you can practically smell the puri bubbling in oil and feel the victim’s terror when he takes on an unlikely intruder in a riotous showdown. Although Monkey Tales teases out humour and suspense in its stories, there’s plenty of poignancy in the collection, too. Whether facing financial hardship or racial bias, the characters demonstrate resilience and good nature as they struggle for survival between both humankind and the animal kingdom. This book is registered with the US Copyright Office
Author: Clifford R. Roberts
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2008-06
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0595508367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStories From the Riverbank is a collection of published newspaper columns and personal writings that offer glimpses of the cultural, personal, and natural history of northern Michigan through the eyes of a lifelong resident. Clifford R. Roberts of Onaway shares stories and observations infused with local color and history from the Depression era to the present. Born and raised in sight of Onaway's grain elevator, Roberts shares personal and family stories of growing up in a small town whose claim to fame in the early 1900s was "Onaway Steers the World" by making wooden steering wheels for cars. Fishing and boating on Michigan's lakes, rivers, and streams figure largely in these tales, as do stories of hunting, school, and family life. Roberts' keen observations of nature-especially wildlife and birds-from his vantage point living on the banks of the Black River and Black Lake comprise the major portion of these writings. As a columnist for his hometown's paper The Onaway Outlook for more than twenty years, he shares the best of his writings from columns entitled From the Riverbank, From the Lakeshore, and On the Road.
Author: Scott D. Gottschalk
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2011-11-28
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1465306749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTerrifying Tales Unleashed is a menagerie of short stories covering many popular genres including horror, science fiction, and suspense/thriller. Cover the gamut in this gripping narrative by way of buried alive, rats, bats, vampires, werewolves, zombies, aliens, ghosts, demons, and cannibals. Th e unleashing of each twisted account will bombard ones thoughts with impending shock waves. Will you be able to hold on to your own reality? Can you make yourself believe that what you are about to read is nothing more than a few tall-tales? Are you prepared to partake in a remedy for peaceful slumber and succumb to fitful nights of insomnia? The stories within this book are nothing more than pure fiction and certainly could not have really happened. OR COULD THEY!
