The Man on the Washing Machine
The Man on the Washing Machine

Author: Susan Cox

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2015-12-15

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1466872799

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When former party girl and society photographer Theophania Bogart flees to San Francisco to escape a high-profile family tragedy, a series of murders drags her unwillingly out of hiding. In no time at all she discovers she's been providing cover for a sophisticated smuggling operation, she starts to fall for an untrustworthy stranger, and she's knocked out, tied up and imprisoned. The police are sure she's lying. The smugglers are sure she knows too much. Her friends? They aren't sure what to believe. The body count is rising and Theo struggles to find the killer before she's the next victim or her new life is exposed as an elaborate fraud. But the more deeply entangled she becomes, the more her investigation is complicated by her best friend, who is one of her prime suspects; her young protégé, who may or may not have a juvie record; her stern and unyielding grandfather, who exposes an unexpected soft center; and the man on her washing machine, who isn't quite what he appears, either. Susan Cox's Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning novel is a charming debut with wacky, colorful characters and a delightfully twisted mystery.

The Man in the Microwave Oven
The Man in the Microwave Oven

Author: Susan Cox

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2020-11-03

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 125011621X

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Following Susan Cox’s Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel award-winning debut, The Man in the Microwave Oven is her next delightfully quirky mystery featuring San Francisco transplant Theo Bogart. Fleeing from a murder and family tragedy in her native England, where she was the scandal du jour for the tabloid press, Theo Bogart changed her name and built an undercover life in a close-knit San Francisco neighborhood. She didn’t expect to find love and friendship there, and now she doesn’t know how—or if—to reveal the truth. After a confrontation with a difficult neighbor, Theo fears her secrets are about to be uncovered after all. When the woman who threatened to expose her is murdered, Theo is embroiled in the kind of jeopardy she crossed an ocean to escape. Worse yet, dangerous family secrets have followed her. Theo’s grandfather unveils a glimpse of the shadowy world he once inhabited as an agent for the British Secret Service, bringing an even bigger breed of trouble—and another death—to Theo’s doorstep. She finds herself fighting to protect herself, her family, and her new friends, aware that one of them might be a murderer. Susan Cox has once again painted a delightfully quirky portrait of a colorful San Francisco neighborhood and a woman finding her way through exactly the kind of scandalous mystery she was trying to leave behind.

Normal's Just a Cycle on a Washing Machine
Normal's Just a Cycle on a Washing Machine

Author: Len Bourland

Publisher: Epb Publishing

Published: 2016-09-01

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780997741506

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The witty memoir of local Dallas writer/mother Len Bourland as glimpsed through excerpts of her award winning columns from the Reagan Era to whatever this era is now. Sort through your laundry with hers as she begins in the Pre-soak halcyon days of a carpooling doctor's wife and her Normal years of raising two sons and a daughter to her Spin Cycle of divorce and depression. In her Second Cycle her load increases as she emerges as a working mother of adolescents who begins dating just as they do in the consumer 90?s and New Milennium. With poignancy and humor she deftly brings us full cycle in her concluding Gentle Wash. Her wry insights provide more than just a fast paced rollicking read as her recalibration of life reflects changes of society as a whole as we wash, spin, repeat. Len is the self described child of the international corporate move and has many readers as she often broadcast her columns on KERA, local Dallas NPR.

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

Author: Cory Doctorow

Publisher: Tor Books

Published: 2006-05-30

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1429989076

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Cory Doctorow's miraculous novel of family history, Internet connectivity, and magical secrets Alan is a middle-aged entrepeneur who moves to a bohemian neighborhood of Toronto. Living next door is a young woman who reveals to him that she has wings—which grow back after each attempt to cut them off. Alan understands. He himself has a secret or two. His father is a mountain, his mother is a washing machine, and among his brothers are sets of Russian nesting dolls. Now two of the three dolls are on his doorstep, starving, because their innermost member has vanished. It appears that Davey, another brother who Alan and his siblings killed years ago, may have returned, bent on revenge. Under the circumstances it seems only reasonable for Alan to join a scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet, spearheaded by a brilliant technopunk who builds miracles from scavenged parts. But Alan's past won't leave him alone—and Davey isn't the only one gunning for him and his friends. Whipsawing between the preposterous, the amazing, and the deeply felt, Cory Doctorow's Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is unlike any novel you have ever read. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Love What Matters
Love What Matters

Author: LoveWhatMatters

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-05-02

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 1501169149

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In the bestselling tradition of The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Humans of New York comes a collection of authentic, emotional, and inspiring stories about life’s most important moments, as curated by the editors at Love What Matters. “90% of the reads bring me to tears. I just can't believe the love this world truly has when all we see is hate. This is so uplifting.” —Shelsea Where do you go when you want to feel inspired? When you want to forget about the divisiveness and the anger? For over five million people, that place is Love What Matters, a digital platform dedicated to finding and sharing the daily moments of kindness, compassion, and love that so often go overlooked. This curated collection of powerful stories features first person accounts and photographs that perfectly capture each moment: A husband learning he’s about to be a dad. A new mom embracing her body. A cashier inadvertently teaching a young girl a lesson about patience. A bagel from a stranger that saved a homeless man’s life. From long overdue adoptions to military heroes returning home; from a fireman’s touching 9/11 tribute to what an old dinner plate found at a bake sale can teach us all about life—these are the moments that matter. They are genuine. Authentic. Raw. And they are perfect in their imperfection—just like all of us. You will no doubt experience goosebumps and tears, but this mosaic of life’s moments will leave you with something even more profound: a reminder that, in the end, love always wins. “This really is the best page on Facebook. It renews your love of humanity. There are still good people. We need more reports of acts of kindness.” —Johnny

The Marvelous Mud Washing Machine
The Marvelous Mud Washing Machine

Author: Patty Wolcott

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman

Published: 1974-01-01

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9780201142464

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A young boy with a great affinity for mud also has a unique way of washing for dinner.

Mrs. Wishy-Washy's Scrubbing Machine
Mrs. Wishy-Washy's Scrubbing Machine

Author: Joy Cowley

Publisher: Puffin Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 15

ISBN-13: 9780143520139

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Another wipe-clean board book is about to be added to the well-loved Mrs Wishy-Washy series. Joy Cowley and Elizabeth Fuller have joined forces once again to tell the story of super-clean Mrs Wishy-Washy and her brand new scrubbing machine. When she turns it on the machine goes glop! Wishy-washy, wishy-washy. Bubble, bubble, plop! However, the scrubbing machine soon reveals it has a mind of its own and after scrubbing the table, chair and her hair the scrubbing machine rushes outside and starts scrubbing the flower bed and all the farm animals! This is another gem from that master storyteller/illustrator combo that is guaranteed to get toddlers giggling and begging for it to be read again!

The Washing Machine
The Washing Machine

Author: Nick Kochan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13:

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Taking readers deep inside the world of money laundering, this intriguing book shows it to be a highly sophisticated business that poses a threat to the world's financial institutions and global markets.

Dear Miss Metropolitan
Dear Miss Metropolitan

Author: Carolyn Ferrell

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company

Published: 2021-07-06

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 1250793629

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A finalist for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction A finalist for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Introducing an extraordinary and original writer whose first novel explores the intersections of grief and rage, personal strength and healing--and what we owe one another. Fern seeks refuge from her mother’s pill-popping and boyfriends via Soul Train; Gwin finds salvation in the music of Prince much to her congregation’s dismay and Jesenia, miles ahead of her classmates at her gifted and talented high school, is a brainy and precocious enigma. None of this matters to Boss Man, the monster who abducts them and holds them captive in a dilapidated house in Queens. On the night they are finally rescued, throngs line the block gawking and claiming ignorance. Among them is lifetime resident Miss Metropolitan, advice columnist for the local weekly, but how could anyone who fancies herself a “newspaperwoman” have missed a horror story unfolding right across the street? And why is it that only two of the three girls—now women—were found? The mystery haunts the two remaining “victim girls” who are subjected to the further trauma of becoming symbols as they continuously adapt to their present and their unrelenting past. Like Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys, Ferrell’s Dear Miss Metropolitan gives voice to characters surviving unimaginable tragedy. The story is inventively revealed before, during, and after the ordeal in this singular and urgent novel.

Washer Mouth
Washer Mouth

Author: Kevin L. Donihe

Publisher:

Published: 2009-04

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781933929835

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Roy is a washing machine messiah. Recently turned human, he must pave the way for the coming of the washer-men. Unfortunately, Roy is not a very good messiah. More obsessed with the daytime Soap Opera Sands of Eternity, Roy deviates from his mission in order to follow his dream of acting in a scene with its beautiful leading lady, before she is retired from the show. But Roy soon discovers that the rise to stardom isn't a simple task, especially for man whose mouth is an out-of-control washing machine. A menagerie of freaks, bukkake hair treatments, sexually deranged divas, super powered superstars, snuff films, gloop l unches, and a murderous washing machine man known only as The Dark Washer-all await Roy on his quest through the bowels of the day-time drama industry. It's The Little Mermaid meets O'Lucky Man, filtered through Futurama. Washer Mouth is a totally fucking insane satire of Soap Operas that could only come from the unbalanced mind of Kevin L Donihe.