Welcome to author Rebecca Wambo Coopers extraordinary world, where humor and eccentricity color everyday occurrences. In her collection of short stories, essays, and verses, Cooper approaches daily life armed with wit and charm, explaining why she thinks everyone should own a pink rocking chair, why toilet paper should be kept in baskets, and her plan to patent a bat catcher! With wholesome and engaging writing, Cooper helps ordinary people appreciate the mundane in their lives, and opens the door to seeing unexpected blessings. Spend some time in Coopers storytelling; her words will dance off the page and into your heart.
The day after the author piloted a jet past the sound barrier, he was told he had six months to live. This is Goss' account of the extraordinary events that followed his skin cancer diagnosis.
From the poor duck that was mystified by her own egg-laying abilities to finding snow ghosts, The Squirrels Goblet is a heart-warming collection of 56 true-life stories of natures wonders and antics. Highlighted by photos, the tales include funny, often touching, anecdotes about drunken birds, a disappearing rope, fireflies, a delicate loop of snow, thunderstorm sideshows, a frog and his feather and much more. In the tradition of Aesops Fables, each story is followed by a modern-day moral. A relaxing book for adults and young adults; easy to read to and enjoy with children.
A couple years back, I was at the Phoenix airport bar. It was empty except for one heavy-set, gray bearded, grizzled guy who looked like he just rode his donkey into town after a long day of panning for silver in them thar hills. He ordered a Jack Daniels straight up, and that's when I overheard the young guy with the earring behind the bar asking him if he had ID. At first the old sea captain just laughed. But the guy with the twinkle in his ear asked again. At this point it became apparent that he was serious. Dan Haggerty's dad fired back, "You've got to be kidding me, son." The bartender replied, "New policy. Everyone has to show their ID." Then I watched Burl Ives reluctantly reach into his dungarees and pull out his military identification card from World War II. It's a sad and eerie harbinger of our times that the Oprah-watching, crystal-rubbing, Whole Foods-shopping moms and their whipped attorney husbands have taken the ability to reason away from the poor schlub who makes the Bloody Marys. What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we now settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers. Adam Carolla has had enough of this insanity and he's here to help us get our collective balls back. In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks is Adam's comedic gospel of modern America. He rips into the absurdity of the culture that demonized the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, turned the nation's bathrooms into a lawless free-for-all of urine and fecal matter, and put its citizens at the mercy of a bunch of minimum wagers with axes to grind. Peppered between complaints Carolla shares candid anecdotes from his day to day life as well as his past—Sunday football at Jimmy Kimmel's house, his attempts to raise his kids in a society that he mostly disagrees with, his big showbiz break, and much, much more. Brilliantly showcasing Adam's spot-on sense of humor, this book cements his status as a cultural commentator/comedian/complainer extraordinaire.
Don and Louise decide to move to the north woods of Wisconsin, sixty miles south of Lake Superior, and build their dream retirement home on a lake. They had spent forty years in the corporate world of Chicago, and knew nothing of the environment or culture of the great north. Construction proceeded slowly, and one year later they moved into their beautiful home. Friends and relatives came from out of the woodwork to enjoy the area. As time went on, however, animals, culture and the environment played into their lives and created a situation that made their lives unbearable.
No Emotions Allowed breaks the silence of modern slavery existence in the Western world. This fascinating true story is written in straightforward language to portray the cold truth of life of an emigrant in Ireland. Find out how life choices and decisions made lead to discovery of crafty characters in the hidden presence of forced labor. Prepare yourself for a captivating diary filled with unexpected emotional tribulations, bitter-sweet moments filled with raw emotions and failed expectations. Learn how vulnerability, humour and bravery breaks barriers to find solutions in the most helpless life's situations. This is a compassionate story of a triumph against all odds. It will pull Your triggers to pursue Your dream life and guide You on the way to it.
‘Squirrels of Destiny’ is the sequel to ‘Plan 103f’, forming the first two parts of a Trilogy Project. Here, ‘The Crew’ are a close-knit group of intrepid associates and friends. Charting their tumultuous and adventurous lives in the modern era 2010-2020. We explore their philosophy, psychology, theology, enterprise, Olympic sport, music, relationships, food and drink, popular culture, and life experiences. On the whole this work is an intriguing blend of reality and fiction (hence: Faction). With full compliments bestowed upon many and varying people within the literature, the phrase ‘Squirrels of Destiny’ takes us on an emotional journey; given chance to grow, there may even be something new for you, or otherwise encountering the unexpected?! Adopted from a profound vision and series of life experiences in 2006, Squirrels of Destiny became the very essence of desire. One wish I would have for this book is that it may save someone’s life If Hope can be discovered within these pages. We all have a Destiny; life is for the living, and better find meaning in our lives, for once we arrive at our destination, what better than having had an adventure – a journey of extraordinary proportion? Squirrels of Destiny – could this in fact be You?!
VERONICA SPARKS IS hitting the road and she is going to shake the dust of her little town off her shoes and see the world! Well, someday. For now, she’s hitting the road in an RV with her cantankerous grandfather and her hyperactive little brother. Ronnie’s grandfather is a wind prospector, and they are heading across Kansas in search of a good stiff breeze. Okay, so it’s not the trip of her dreams. But with her newly affirmatized attitude, Ronnie figures that traveling somewhere is better than traveling nowhere. That is, until her little brother manages to disappear into thin air. On one weird, windy, wild ride across the prairie, Ronnie discovers that there are some things you just can’t plan for or seize control of—but that sometimes a little chaos is just what a girl needs.
From a fierce voice in American literature, a psychological drama that combines gripping suspense and unforgettable characters in a story of murder, love, violent passion, and moral responsibility. Seventy years old, ill, and bent by the ravages of time and loss of self-respect, Old Jerry wants to die. Charlie Simpkins, Old Jerry's grandson, is a petty crook with a taste for trouble, alcohol, and the wrong sort of women; his older brother, P. T., is sweetly naive and very troubled and could just possibly be convinced that such a death would be a kindness. But when Old Jerry fails to show up for his birthday party and later turns up dead, Charlie wants to deflect attention from P. T. serves in Vietnam to avoid prison time. Several years later, Charlie returns, angry and dangerous with a new wife and lingering nightmares from the war. He finds that his brother is living happily in a half-way house, his ex-girlfriend is gone, and another friend is married. But family harmony eludes Charlie--he is torn between living straight with his new wife and returning to the familiar comfort and excitement of his criminal friends. this is one crime he had nothing to do with. his friends for the murder when he learns that, yet again, all evidence points to P.T.A small and isolated world-a world where laws and taboos are broken on a daily basis, and family loyalty replaces moral accountability. Lisa Reardon's new novel is a deeply involving and satisfying story that illustrates just how far fear can drive us, and where love can sometime send us.
