The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories
Author: Patrick McManus
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1626361177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of short and not-so-short stories from humorist Patrick F...
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The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories
Author: Patrick F. McManus
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1620877554
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Horse in My Garage and Other Stories is a hilarious addition to Patrick F. McManus’s existing work in humor. The author weighs in on his childhood, everyday life, and outdoor tales with his typical exaggerated commentary that will elicit a belly laugh from all types of readers. Read about the antics of Patrick’s friends Rancid Crabtree and Retch Sweeney in such stories as “Shaping Up for the Hunt” and “Bear Hunters.” McManus plays off the recent obsession with hoarders in his surprising story “The Lady Who Kept Things.” In the titular story, meet Patrick’s horse, Huckleberry, and enjoy the experience of all the problems that come along with owning your own horse—or keeping him in the garage. Other great stories include: “Catch-And-Eaters,” about the importance of a forked stick when fishing “$7000 TV Historical Extravaganza,” a look at one director’s loose interpretation of historical accuracy and political correctness “A Lake Too Far,” concerning the woes of Patrick and his wife, Bun, on a fateful birding trip in Australia “Chicken Chronicles,” which involves Patrick’s memory of wandering around naked in the chicken yard when guests came to call So pull up a chair, sit back, and enjoy laughing to the hilarious adventures of Patrick F. McManus in The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories.
A Horse in the House, and Other Strange But True Animal Stories
Author: Gail Ablow
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2007-09-25
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780763628383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStrange, but true, stories featuring animals from around the world.
Kerplunk!
Author: Patrick F. McManus
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-09-30
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0743280504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a collection of curmudgeonly tales on Pacific Northwest country living as enjoyed by both outdoorsmen and armchair enthusiasts, in a volume that explores the lighter side of such topics as gun safes, fly tying, and bird dog flatulence.
Gilgamesh to Gierach
Author: James W. White
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2024-08-02
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFish have figured profoundly in both human history and imagination for millennia. They are both gifts of the sea, drawing civilizations to the water, and terrors of the deep, holding revelations of the unconscious and the unknown. Today, fly fishing attracts millions looking to escape modern life and reconnect with some primal, meditative instinct to partake in nature’s offerings. Gilgamesh to Gierach is a collection of three hundred fishing, water, and fish tales spanning four millennia and numerous genres. More than a historical overview, White has distilled this immense topic into threads that flow through time, from legends and literature to nursery rhymes, poems, and humorous fish tales. Anglers will discover fly fishing’s ancient roots and spiritual seekers the fish’s religious and existential implications. Among the included voices are Homer, St. John, Ovid, Brendan the Navigator, Dame Juliana Berners, Shakespeare, Walton, Melville, Yeats, Thoreau, Hemingway, Rodrick Haig-Brown, and Norman Maclean. Whether told in full or, more often, condensed, these stories will leave the reader with a strong sense of the fish’s significance to many of the world’s greatest thinkers. Brimming with jokes, histories, simple folk tales, and great tragedies, this impressive work offers something for everyone.
Kid Camping from Aaaaiii! to Zip
Author: Patrick F. McManus
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 1979-01-01
Total Pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9780688419103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHumorous and practical advice on various aspects of camping, presented alphabetically.
Never Cry "Arp!" and Other Great Adventures
Author: Patrick F. McManus
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 1996-05-15
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 1466809477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerica's best-selling outdoor humorist for adults has a secret following: middle-grade and young-adult readers. Never Cry "Arp!" is a lively collection of twelve stories about young Pat's misadventures in the Great American Wilderness. All the McManus regulars are here: Crazy Eddie Muldoon, the best friend everybody wishes they had (and everybody's mother wishes they didn't); Rancid Crabtree, the good-hearted, if gamey, woodsman; Pat's skunk dog, Strange, who lives up to his name; and Pat's pal, Retch Sweeney, who does, too. This is a book for kids who love to start fishing at 4am (at least they say they do) or for those who prefer to experience the mighty outdoors in the safety of their homes. "Everybody should read Patrick McManus," said the New York Times. Now, everybody can.
50 More Stories and Songs
Author: James D. Wood
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2019-02-07
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1532066821
DOWNLOAD EBOOK50 More Stories and Songs is a continuation of Rev. James D. Wood’s delightful memoir, This Is My Story, This Is My Song. Remembering other “forgotten events” in his life, Reverend Wood writes about them and concludes each story with resonating words from a hymn. Readers will find these additional stories to be charming and engaging. Reverend Wood has served nine congregations during his fifty years with the United Methodist Church. Previously, he served in the US Navy and with the Port District of San Diego as a civil engineering draftsman. In ministry though, Reverend Wood discovered life to be even more meaningful and adventurous than he ever imagined. He is married to Martha, herself the author of Out of My Mind, has three children, seven grandchildren, and three great-granddaughters. They have lived in Arizona for the past forty-four years and currently reside in Sun Lakes, Arizona.
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Total Pages: 780
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Woman Who Wrote "King Lear," and Other Stories
Author: Louis Phillips
Publisher: PBS Publications
Published: 2018-02-21
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 1545722072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFiction. This wildly imaginative collection of fourteen short stories won't move you to tears, but will very likely move you to laughter. Phillips writes about a "committee of grief," about termites in Africa, about Lee Harvey Oswald's can opener. He tells of how an angry consumer shows his disdain for the telephone company by sending out false bills which, ultimately, leads to the withdrawal of the state of Iowa from the union. In one crazy piece, Phillips describes the chaos that occurs when a cat finds Thomas Hardy's heart, and, well, devours it, disrupting plans to put the heart on display. And he writes that amazing title story: Yes, it's true. "King Lear" was penned by Radcliffe Graduate Muriel B. Hopkins, not by the esteemed William Shakespeare. What is the theme connecting these stories? Madness, perhaps, but not only the madness of single characters - these stories are also about the "madness of crowds." Read these stories, but be prepared to confront new realities, some of which you may never entirely escape.
