Operation Dimwit
Operation Dimwit

Author: Inman Majors

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2020-05-13

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 0807173169

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Penelope Lemon is back for more madcap mom adventures in Inman Majors’s hilariously unruly Operation Dimwit. It’s summertime, and son Theo is away at camp. Feeling frisky, free, and tired of living vicariously through nighttime trysts with erotic novels, Penelope can begin phase two of her postdivorce life. First on the agenda is a date with the mysterious Fitzwilliam Darcy, who lives in a mansion with his snobbish cat, Algernon, and who spends his spare time painting massive nude portraits. Meanwhile, back at the trailer-park office, Penelope’s boss, Missy, has become obsessed with getting rid of Dimwit, the backwoods interloper who may be stealing personal items from female residents. A sting operation to catch him in the act is planned, something so kooky and ill-advised that only a legendary goofball such as Missy could set it into motion. Throw in a bully trainer at Penelope’s new gym, plus an infestation of skunks that requires the services of a wildlife expert and homespun mystic known as the Critter Catcher, and it becomes clear that Penelope’s two weeks off from parenting won’t be as relaxing and incident-free as she hoped. Building on the comedic hijinks of Penelope Lemon: Game On!, Operation Dimwit is a warmhearted look at the challenges of being a single working mom trying to stay afloat in the middle class after a divorce. Zany, stylish, and uproariously funny, this southern comedy will have readers laughing out loud at familiar absurdities of life in the twenty-first-century USA.

On Education and Values
On Education and Values

Author: George David Miller

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9789051838817

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The educationally emaciated, suffering from intellectual and spiritual bilumia, binge on facts and linear thinking. The imprimatur of clarity and the infatuation with quantification are accoutrements of this affliction, often characterized by apathy. Chaos is introduced as the wrecking ball for the hierarchical skyscrapers that overcrowd the educational skyline. The type of chaos proposed can be explained by the neutron bomb analogy. Chaos destroys all that is inessential but leaves standing the essential and promotes holistic rather than compartmentalized learning. The authors further contend that one insight is better than a myriad of facts; in being vigilant of serendipity; that the value-aspect of facts is as important as the facts themselves. Such beliefs form a foundation for educational holism. Our goal is to popularize philosophy in the same way science has become popular without a mass understanding. Empiricism is criticized for creating the theoretical basis for fragmentation (forming the basis for an island ideology) by excising essence. Founded on inessential empirical ideology, efforts to teach multiculturalism merely exacerbate difference, promote alienation, and discourage tolerance. Within the framework of value hierarchies we favor, tolerance is not understood as open-armed acceptance of just anything, but the forbearance of an evil for the promise of greater good. Essence cannot be removed: even in the idiosyncratic we can find the essential. In the absence of chaotic methodology, critical thinking remains an apolitical, amoral, and atemporal process displaced from social and political reality. We propose a critical thinking that is not legalistic, but is action-oriented. The pipe dream for education is a political, moral, temporal, and decompartmentalized critical thinking that disseminates philosophy across the curriculum. Those who risk becoming pariahs and nomads are essential to the rejuvenation of the educational system.

The Dimwit's Dictionary
The Dimwit's Dictionary

Author: Robert Hartwell Fiske

Publisher: Marion Street Press, Inc.

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780966517675

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The perfect tool for writers who seek to eliminate stale, trite language. The entries in this reference are conveniently arranged to allow writers to quickly find the offending phrase and a sharp alternative.

Twenty-First-Century Southern Writers
Twenty-First-Century Southern Writers

Author: Jean W. Cash

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2021-03-19

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 149683335X

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Contributions by Destiny O. Birdsong, Jean W. Cash, Kevin Catalano, Amanda Dean Freeman, David Gates, Richard Gaughran, Rebecca Godwin, Joan Wylie Hall, Dixon Hearne, Phillip Howerton, Emily D. Langhorne, Shawn E. Miller, Melody Pritchard, Nick Ripatrazone, Bes Stark Spangler, Scott Hamilton Suter, Melanie Benson Taylor, Jay Varner, and Scott D. Yarbrough Twenty-First-Century Southern Writers: New Voices, New Perspectives, an anthology of critical essays, introduces a new group of fiction writers from the American South. These fresh voices, like their twentieth-century predecessors, examine what it means to be a southerner in the modern world. These writers’ works cover wide-ranging subjects and themes: the history of the region, the continued problems of the working-class South, the racial divisions that have continued, the violence of the modern world, and the difficulties of establishing a spiritual identity in a modern context. The approaches and styles vary from writer to writer, with realistic, place-centered description as the foundation of many of their works. They have also created new perspectives regarding point of view, and some have moved toward the inclusion of “magic realism” and even science fiction in their work. The nineteen essays in Twenty-First-Century Southern Writers feature a handful of fiction writers who are already well known, such as National Book Award–winner Jesmyn Ward, Tayari Jones, Michael Farris Smith, and Inman Majors. Others deserve greater recognition, and, in many cases, works in this anthology will be the first pieces of analysis dedicated to writers and their work. Twenty-First-Century Southern Writers aims to alert scholars of southern literature, as well as the reading public, to an exciting and varied group of writers, while laying a foundation for future examination of these works.

Seduction Under Fire
Seduction Under Fire

Author: Melissa Cutler

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2012-10-16

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0373278004

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What's worse? Being held hostage by a Mexican drug cartel or being held hostage by that cartel with the one man you passionately hate? Camille Fisher, a brainy, tough-as-they-come cop, can't believe she's daring to escape with her too-hot nemesis, Aaron Montgomery. But once she outsmarts their brutal captors, the danger's just beginning. Racing across the Mexican desert, Camille begins to glimpse the surprisingly decent man behind the boorish cad. With cartel hit men closing in, she tries hard to ignore her needful heart—and harder to resist the temptation threatening to do them both in….

Ghost
Ghost

Author: Christina Maraziotis

Publisher: Existential Publishing

Published: 2023-10-21

Total Pages: 917

ISBN-13: 1959776088

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Completing the initial Loveletting trilogy of Haunt and Curse, Ghost ties it...all together? Dive deeper into the characters you know. Meet dramatis personae you wish you hadn’t. Go places with both, you’d never imagined. More questions will arise for each that is answered; as the world-building unfurls, nothing is as it seems. The Loveletting saga picks up in Ghost right after the cliffhanger events of Curse, although not straight away, as new characters merge into the story along with old favorites. A gripping plot that doesn’t stray away, but intertwines instead, stretching across the whole series for readers to bond, explore, and abhor. Powerfully developed characters that will inspire, amuse, provide answers, and pose new questions; introducing riddles along the way and beguiling enigmas you may have to piece together for the upcoming books. Great mysteries will be revealed within the pages, as backstories and secrets that are unraveled only to challenge both the mind and the morals. The world explored in Ghost will not see the shadows wane, instead new ones will be cast with a touch of magical realism and a heavy dose of sinister psychological horror, all intertwined with the overarching storyline of a deeply gothic romance. This journey will draw you in with the inception of a true evil that festers the mind, and a new character that will have your skin crawling until the very end. Ghost is gut-wrenching, unapologetic, raw, and honest, depicting the most elementary mistakes of mankind to be made, but also the most convoluted. But above all, the question will be answered...whose eyes locked with Charlotte’s, before the world dissolved into a blank void? Whose face was marred to the skull? And, whose mask will be the last to fall…

The Watchman of Ephraim (Cris De Niro, Book 1)
The Watchman of Ephraim (Cris De Niro, Book 1)

Author: Gerard de Marigny

Publisher: JarRyJorNo Publishing

Published: 2011-01-21

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1456575406

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Cris De Niro worked his way up to the top of the hedge fund world. Yet, all of his money couldn't protect him from losing his wife on 9/11. 10 years passed since the tragedy. De Niro and his sons relocated to a sprawling ranch near Las Vegas. Turning to his faith to overcome his anguish, De Niro now lives for a higher purpose. From a biblical passage, he reads about the "Watchman of Ephraim," a defender who kept watch over the land. De Niro decides to acquire a lackluster counter-terrorism agency in order to transform it into a modern-day version of The Watchman for the United States but there's not a moment to lose. Aref Sami Zamani is planning a terrorist attack on American soil - codenamed "Antioch," a plot to detonate a nuke over the city of Las Vegas. The Watchman uncovers a connection between Zamani and a Mexican drug cartel but their agent goes missing before they can learn more. That’s because Zamani has a spy working for The Watchman. Strange events start to unfold near the Nogales border crossing. References are discovered to something the Mexicans are calling "Noche Del Espantada” …Fright Night,” but can it mean something else September 11, 2011 and the sun hasn't risen yet in Las Vegas or Nogales. Antioch is in motion! At the border, Noche Del Espantada has begun and there are intruders at De Niro’s ranch. De Niro has to protect his sons and someone new in his life, Dr. Moriah Stevens. She too, lost her spouse on 9/11. Moriah finds herself in love with De Niro but his devotion to his wife is proving too powerful for him, even after 10 years. It’s the 10th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on American soil and unless De Niro and his new team are successful, the day will be known as “The 2nd 9/11.”

Bunyip
Bunyip

Author: Nigel Marsh

Publisher: Booktango

Published: 2015-05-07

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1468959409

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Nothing exciting ever happened in the small Australian country mining town of Coolagoola, that is what four ten-year-old friends - Paul, Ben, Sophie and Ari - thought until they discovered a strange creature at a remote billabong. While searching for a meteor the four friends, along with Paul’s younger sister Jenny, entered a dark cave and encountered a scary creature covered in spines, claws and horns. They believe that they have discovered a Bunyip, a mythical Australian Aboriginal creature, and so began an adventure that the children would never forget involving monsters, monster hunters, a gold mine and mangos.