Beating a Dead Horse
Author: Alexander Marshall
Publisher:
Published: 2010-03-01
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9780982506837
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Kicking a Dead Horse
Author: Sam Shepard
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9780822223368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE STORY: The play begins with a man alone in a desert landscape digging a grave. Hobart Struther's horse has just dropped dead. He stands there in the vast open desert trying to figure out what to do about his predicament. Every once in a while,
Four Dead Horses
Author: K. T. Sparks
Publisher:
Published: 2021-04-19
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781646030668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn May 1, 1982, eighteen-year-old Martin Oliphant watches a horse drown off the shore of Lake Michigan--the first of four equine corpses marking the trail that will lead Martin out of the small-minded small town of Pierre, Michigan, onto the open ranges of Elko, Nevada, and into the open arms, or at least open mics, of the cowboy poets who gather there to perform. Along the way, he nurtures a dying mother, who insists the only thing wrong with her is tennis elbow; corrals a demented father, who believes he's Father Christmas; assists the dissolute local newspaper editor; and serves stints as horse rustler and pet mortician. For thirty years, Martin searches for an escape route to the West, to poetry, and to his first love, the cowgirl Ginger, but never manages to get much farther than the city limits of his Midwestern hometown--that is, until a world famous cow horse dies while touring through Pierre, and Martin is tapped to transport its remains to the funeral at the 32nd Annual Elko Cowboy Poetry Confluence.
The 30-day Vegan Challenge
Author: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Publisher: Random House LLC
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780345526175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a step-by-step guide to adopting a vegan lifestyle, describing its health and environmental benefits while counseling readers on everything from stocking a kitchen and preparing vegan foods to understanding how to achieve complete nutrition.
All the Pretty Horses
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1993-06-29
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0679744398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
Grantville Gazette
Author: Eric Flint
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: 2004-11
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 0743488601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA story collection continues the saga that began in 1632 and 1633, describing life for the inhabitants of Grantville, an American town from West Virginia that finds itself hurtled back in time and into the middle of the Thirty Years War, as they struggle to bring their advanced technology to the seventeenth century. Includes a section of articles exploring different scientific questions and conundrums raised by the Eric Flint series.
New Home Sales Training
Author: Myers Barnes
Publisher:
Published: 2012-06-07
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781477617700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe United States is the top immigrant destination country in the world, with more than 40 million foreign-born residents living here in 2010. Over the next 50 years, nearly 90 percent of our population growth will come from the minority community.America has become more of a Mulligan stew than a melting pot!Minorities are becoming the majority. How do they fit into your sales plan?In Myers Barnes' latest book, New Home Sales Training: Selling New Homes in a Multicultural America", the country's premier visionary on new home sales delivers a guidebook packed with insight, facts, advice, and cautionary tales to equip you with the tools you need to succeed with today's New American homebuyers.Discover the faux pas-like crossing your legs, saying "no", smiling, pointing, or accepting a business card with the wrong hand-that can close the door on a new home sales opportunity.Seize the opportunity presented by a rapidly growing market of eager buyers, but start right here and learn the rules of the multicultural marketplace.
He Smokes Like a Fish and Other Malaphors (Unintentional Idiom and Word Blends)
Author: David Hatfield
Publisher:
Published: 2016-03-28
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780692652206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe term "malaphor," a combination of "metaphor" and "malaprop," was coined in 1976 by Lawrence Harrison, a senior executive in the State Department. Harrison found gems in endless bureaucratic meetings, such as "he said it off the top of his cuff" or "don't rock the trough." Author David Hatfield has been collecting malaphors for over thirty years. He Smokes like a Fish and Other Malaphors (Unintentional Idiom and Word Blends) is his offering to language enthusiasts everywhere. Malaphors know no bounds. From the man on the street to President Barack Obama, a truly diverse array of people is represented within these covers. Hatfield has mined for malaphors in every imaginable venue: movies, television, sports, music, the internet, at work, and on the street. People from all over the world have shared gems on Hatfield's website. So sit back, put your feet up, and enjoy this truly unique collection of verbal play and mix-ups.
Beat the Reaper
Author: Josh Bazell
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2009-01-07
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0316040304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr. Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan's worst hospital, with a talent for medicine, a shift from hell, and a past he'd prefer to keep hidden. Whether it's a blocked circumflex artery or a plan to land a massive malpractice suit, he knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men. Pietro "Bearclaw" Brnwna is a hitman for the mob, with a genius for violence, a well-earned fear of sharks, and an overly close relationship with the Federal Witness Relocation Program. More likely to leave a trail of dead gangsters than a molecule of evidence, he's the last person you want to see in your hospital room. Nicholas LoBrutto, aka Eddy Squillante, is Dr. Brown's new patient, with three months to live and a very strange idea: that Peter Brown and Pietro Brnwa might-just might-be the same person . . . Now, with the mob, the government, and death itself descending on the hospital, Peter has to buy time and do whatever it takes to keep his patients, himself, and his last shot at redemption alive. To get through the next eight hours-and somehow beat the reaper. Spattered in adrenaline-fueled action and bone-saw-sharp dialogue, Beat the Reaper is a debut thriller so utterly original you won't be able to guess what happens next, and so shockingly entertaining you won't be able to put it down.
Horse, Flower, Bird
Author: Kate Bernheimer
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 2011-03-29
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1566892821
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Each of these spare and elegant tales rings like a bell in your head. memorable, original, and not much like anything you've read."—Karen Joy Fowler “A strange and enchanting book, written in crisp, winning sentences; each story begs to be read aloud and savored.”—Aimee Bender "Horse, Flower, Bird rests uneasily between the intersection of fantasy and reality, dreaming and wakefulness, and the sacred and profane. Like a series of beautiful but troubling dreams, this book will linger long in the memory. Kate Bernheimer is reinventing the fairy tale."—Peter Buck, R.E.M. In Kate Bernheimer's familiar and spare—yet wondrous—world, an exotic dancer builds her own cage, a wife tends a secret basement menagerie, a fishmonger's daughter befriends a tulip bulb, and sisters explore cycles of love and violence by reenacting scenes from Star Wars. Enthralling, subtle, and poetic, this collection takes readers back to the age-old pleasures of classic fairy tales and makes them new. Their haunting lessons are an evocative reminder that cracking open the door to the imagination is no mere child's play, that delight and tragedy lurk in every corner, and that we all "have the key to the library . . . only be careful what you read."
