Author: John Roberts
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1446753484
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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A humourous insight into the antics of a Yorkshire lad let loose into the hills and dales at the weekends, when luck just is not on his side!
Author: Calvert Render
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244665265
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Electric Arc To the Past is a time travel novel, set primarily in the industrial North of England in the 1970s. In 2016, Vinnie Johnson is a printer from the Northern steel town of Rotherham. His life is changed forever when he sets out on a journey across time, leaving the world of the internet and social media far behind. Vinnie goes back to a place where steel is king and the fashions are fun. A world of big cars and reel-to-reel tape recorders, and beer at 20 pence a pint. In this Land of Ago, Vinnie falls in love with Lizzie, a beautiful laboratory technician. Life is good, but how long can it last? Vinnie is changing things just by being in the past. When time gradually becomes more resistant to that change, Vinnie tries desperately to repair the damage he has done, setting out on an insane but possible mission to stop the evil that he has created.
Author: Mikey Pikey
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1847282342
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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The complete Diamond Tree, (episodes 1-3). In a world within a world, there exists a small kingdom called Flairyland. A realm born out of a love for wide-flaired jeans like the hippies used to wear. Flairies love those jeans. Years ago the flairies adored everything about the hippies. They loved the flowered headbands, cheesecloth smock-tops, tie-dye T-shirts and daisy chains. Moreover, the very essence of hippy lifestyle was peace and harmony. That's what the flairies wanted the most. A lengthy period of calm and peace endured, until the king's reign came to its end. The younger generation was then due its turn and the king's daughter selected as the next queen. No sooner is Chubina crowned, than her land is thrown into danger. Her first task as ruler therefore, must be to save Flairyland.
Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415259378
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
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Entry includes attestations of the head word's or phrase's usage, usually in the form of a quotation. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author: Tom Dalzell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317372522
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.
Author: Hobson Tarrant
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1452091706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267
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The back streets of Peckham were but a playground to Raymond Wild (Oscar) and all he wanted from life was to play snooker, drink beer and marry his childhood sweetheart Stacey, but unfortunately for Oscar he was just one of those characters for whom the twists of fate always have a different agenda. Close to winning the prestigious Salesman Of The Year competition he is let down by his biggest sales prospect and under pressure races to find another order. Alas the fickle finger of fate added to his day such joys as traffic jams, learner drivers, accidents and finally a speed camera which ultimately cost him his driving licence, job and patience of Stacey for whom this was the last straw. Aided and abetted by his snooker chums he set about getting his own back on society by jousting with speed cameras but attracts the ever watchful eye of the dreaded Detective Sergeant Douglas Fowler who would like nothing better than to put this handsome young upstart away behind bars. Alas Oscar find himself incarcerated but not before he's become the local hero under the self assumed guise as The Peckham Quixote. After release from prison Oscar's past continues to haunt him as the local champion and fate does her best to grind him down at every turn. With three rich story lines and highly colourful characters this unique story combines a light touch of humour with sadness and almost a happy ending.
Author: Harriet Dyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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From dying twice to wanting to be a boy, her Dad leaving her Mum for a man and once doing so many drugs she thought she was Kat Slater from Eastenders... It's been eventful.Of course there was the abuse too.A funnier than it should be, honest tale of a bipolar, working class girl from Cornwall who overcame an awful lot of trauma to become an award winning comedian and mental health advocate.
Author: Wayne Michael Dunwell
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1528988825
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123
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“Ronni’s mind fell completely silent. She stopped being aware of the room around her, there was only the hateful figure of a bully and an abuser ahead of her, all else was a blur.” You’re in a strange city. Your friend is missing. Could you find the courage to do what is necessary? Would you even know where to start? These are the questions faced by law graduate Ronni Wong when her friend Jenny disappears after a date with a man she met online. Finding evidence suggesting that Jenny’s internet lover hides the darkest of secrets, Ronni is forced to embark on a journey through social media to discover the identity of a kidnapper, and then a dangerous race against time through the streets of Metro Manila to save her friend’s life. The clock is ticking, can Ronni make it in time? Join Ronni as her investigation into one disappearance leads her into mortal danger. Social Murder will keep you on the edge of your seat, and at the same time challenge you to think about how you use social media. Are you safe online?
Author: Grace Eckley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0761869182
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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At risk of life and reputation, the reform journalist W. T. Stead (1849-1912) exposed child vice and white slavery in London and established age 16 for statutory rape. Concluding the 1914 Portrait, Joyce saluted the “Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead” and set the path of future works. The exemplary life and devotions of Stead provided James Joyce with a model, a theme, and a purpose. Joyce integrated Steadfacts with his own personal emerging autobiography and interpretation of the ongoing Irish national, international, and even cosmic events. In this book Eckley uses new sources to unravel forgotten languages, motifs, and metaphors and recognizes “obscurity” as a “chrysalis factor” in Joyce’s Finnegans Wake to illuminate Stead’s influence on Joyce. This book of Finnegans Wake criticism will open paths for exciting new efforts in studying Joyce.
Author: Lynne Murphy
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524704881
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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CHOSEN BY THE ECONOMIST AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR An American linguist teaching in England explores the sibling rivalry between British and American English “English accents are the sexiest.” “Americans have ruined the English language.” Such claims about the English language are often repeated but rarely examined. Professor Lynne Murphy is on the linguistic front line. In The Prodigal Tongue she explores the fiction and reality of the special relationship between British and American English. By examining the causes and symptoms of American Verbal Inferiority Complex and its flipside, British Verbal Superiority Complex, Murphy unravels the prejudices, stereotypes and insecurities that shape our attitudes to our own language. With great humo(u)r and new insights, Lynne Murphy looks at the social, political and linguistic forces that have driven American and British English in different directions: how Americans got from centre to center, why British accents are growing away from American ones, and what different things we mean when we say estate, frown, or middle class. Is anyone winning this war of the words? Will Yanks and Brits ever really understand each other?
