Author: D R Standley
Publisher: America Star Books
ISBN: 1683944879
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Don't Be Like Mike is a comedic collection of short stories that may make you think twice before you choose to imitate Mike. Or that will at least help you learn how to deal with your Mike.
Author: D R Standley
Publisher: America Star Books
ISBN: 168394609X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 95
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Here in Volume Two, Mike takes things even further. Now going beyond bizarre and into the danger zone. Follow along as his whacky adventures pit him against everything from wildlife to the very laws of nature. It's bound to be a good time romp.
Author: Pat Williams
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0757395449
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time. But his pre-eminence is more than just extraordinary athletic ability: the lessons of his life-such as focus, passion, hard work, perseverance and accountability-have shaped him into one of the most revered celebrities of the 20th century. In this inspiring book Pat Williams, motivational speaker and senior vice president of the NBA's Orlando Magic, reveals Jordan's method for living a life of greatness that we can all incorporate into our lives. Fascinating anecdotes and quotes from those who know Michael best provide a glimpse into a persona as sweeping and immense as any generation has ever witnessed. Peppered with examples from Williams's life and those of other star athletes and celebrities, this uplifting book shows that we are, indeed, all capable of fulfilling our full potential. Readers from all walks of life can appreciate and aspire to living life like a champion.
Author: J Temple
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1460702603
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
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Toddlers love saying 'no!' and 'don't like!' This picture book zeroes in on this universal toddler stage in a funny, delightful way. Every parent will relate. Ages: 2+ I don't like lizards, big or small. I don't like barky dogs at all! If you like books, you'll like Mike I Don't Like. But chances are he won't like you. Another clever and funny picture book from the creators of Parrot Carrot and I Got this Hat. EXtRAS Website: www.mikeidontlike.com Hilarious trailer: http://vimeo.com/93911567 REVIEWS 'As with I Got this Hat and Parrot Carrot, [the authors] manage the difficult task of entertaining the kids without boring the adult reading to them. the rhymes aren't forced or clunky, the illustrations are bold and suitably quirky, and the combination makes for amusing storytime' Weekend West Magazine 'Verdict: I do like.' Herald Sun 'Galloping, rhythmic text nudges Seuss when it comes to clever rhyme, and a dry, funny ending neatly ties up a clever collection of book elements into a delectable book bundle, making it one of my favourite picture books of 2014.' Kids' Book Review
Author: M. Lauryl Lewis
Publisher: M. Lauryl Lewis
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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The undead. The reanimated. Monsters that walk the earth once Hell is full. Zombies. Call them what you want. No one was prepared for the end of the world to bring the impossible; the dead were never actually supposed to rise. War, plague, natural disaster maybe - but the dead rising to eat the living? That was never supposed to become reality. It began with sniffles, coughs, and fever. Once sick, the end came soon, but so did the beginning. Just as quickly as the sick begin to fall, so does Poppy’s world. As she loses everything she holds dear, she faces her new world head-on. Accompanied by strangers, she tries to make her way to safety, soon to realize that safety no longer exists. ROTTEN takes place in the same universe as the Grace Series. Get ready to follow Poppy and Ellis as they cross paths with a few names you might recognize. While the two series will eventually merge, you do not need to read one to follow the other.
Author: David Storey
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504055012
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
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Two award-winning novels—including This Sporting Life—from the Man Booker Prize–winning British novelist and “an absorbing writer” (The New Yorker). The son of a coal miner who went on to play professionally in the rugby league, British author David Storey drew heavily on his own background for his debut novel, This Sporting Life, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award. “The leading novelist of his generation,” Storey was also a playwright and screenwriter, going on to win the Man Booker Prize for his novel, Saville (The Daily Telegraph). The collected fiction gathered here includes This Sporting Life as well as his second novel, focusing on a female protagonist, also from a Yorkshire coal mining town. This Sporting Life: In a bleak Yorkshire mining town, an aggressive rugby league footballer finds fame, fortune, and countless women but cannot outrun the emptiness he feels inside. Storey also wrote the screenplay based on his “impressive first novel” for the award-winning film starring Richard Harris (The New York Times). “Classic . . . a revelation . . . Skeptical, belligerent, and acidly ironical.” —Edmund White, The Paris Review Flight Into Camden: Margaret, a miner’s daughter, leaves her oppressive family in Yorkshire, hoping to make a new life in London with a married teacher in this “love story written with seriousness and intensity” (The Observer). Storey’s second novel, told in Margaret’s voice, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award. “A tour de force of domestic oppression . . . Rises on occasions to a pitch of precise beauty which I can only . . . describe as poetry.” —The Guardian
Author: GORDON PLOTKIN
Publisher: Amazon Pro Hub
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 371
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Days before his 19th birthday, Grid awakes in the middle of the night screaming, “THE ELEVATOR! NO HANK!” He had just endured his first nightmare – his first of two. His dreams had been unusually pleasant to date – all of them. And until days before Grid’s 19th Birthday the protagonists were people he didn’t know, or so he thought. Every night since his second birthday, Grid would dream about Mike and Hank, The Brothers who weren’t really Brothers, the main characters of what played out like a series of movies in Grid’s head every night as he slept. He had wondered as a child what it was all about. When he asked his mother, Dolly, she became inexplicably cross and lashed out at her son. She convinced Grid that Hank and Mike weren’t real. And then Dolly warned her son sternly to never speak of it for fear that people would think Grid was crazy like his Grandfather. He had died the day Grid was born. She didn’t tell him Mike was that grandfather and Hank was his uncle, but not his real uncle. Grid only began to wonder anew what it was all about after his first nightmare, days before his 19th birthday on a Kibbutz in Israel. He decided to share his dreams for the first time with his roommate after waking from his second nightmare screaming, “NO HANK! DON’T LEAVE ME!” Here's what Lance Knight has to say: Genius with Overwhelming Imagination and Creativity Gordon Plotkin is unlike any writer I have ever read or edited. I have several self-published novels on Amazon.com, myself, But I must really work at it. Whereas this most unusual scribe is non-assuming and humble to a fault, as he cranks out his audacious stories. I am witness to the rich text and pages of his latest book, Memories, Dreams and the Grid Gordon’s writing and style is unlike any I have ever read. It’s rather unorthodox as compared to most formatting, But his method is so loaded with energy that it lends itself to addiction. The reader can hardly wait to turn the page. Mr. Plotkin is an over-achiever; rising early to begin his day of multiple tasks. That same energy, drive and thoroughness impacts the reader like a velvet bulldozer. As a long time writer, compared with Plotkin, I am lazy. The drive and determination that is the life of Gordon Plotkin, is somehow poured on the pages of his books. In conclusion I want all of you true readers to know this man; and get lost in the contagious worlds that Gordon Plotkin creates.
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520946995
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 775
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"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away—to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion—to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment"—meant that his thoughts could range freely. The strict instruction that many of these texts remain unpublished for 100 years meant that when they came out, he would be "dead, and unaware, and indifferent," and that he was therefore free to speak his "whole frank mind." The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press is proud to offer for the first time Mark Twain's uncensored autobiography in its entirety and exactly as he left it. This major literary event brings to readers, admirers, and scholars the first of three volumes and presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended. Editors: Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Myrick
Author: Salvatore Palmieri
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326458388
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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A vortex of obsession, hallucinations and fear...a crescendo of curiosity and suspense opens the first volume of the collection The Black Mind. These horror novels will generate a succession of terrible events, discovering painful surprises and striking without mercy, as possessed by an homicidal rage. Darkness and solitude will arise and what has been created by the author won't stop or leave before having completed its dark task. Who isn't scared as a child because of his own imagination, during a stormy night, of some unknown presence, that is hiding at the darkness of his own house? And who, played by his own mind, tired and confused, maybe sick, hasn't felt that sensation of being followed, persecuted and hunted down by evil? You will live three exciting and thrilling horror adventures, between the absurd and the unexpected, hanging between two worlds, reality and dream, dominated by the annoying impression of being observed by a stranger.
Author: Michael E. Wittmer
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310590531
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Must you believe something to be saved? Does the kingdom of God include non-Christians? Is hell for real and forever? These are big questions. Hard questions. Questions that divide Christians along conservative and liberal lines. Conservatives love their beliefs and liberals believe in their love. Each pushes the other to opposite extremes. Fundamentalists imply that it doesn’t matter how we live as long as we believe in Jesus, while some Emergent Christians respond that it doesn’t matter what we believe as long as we live like him. Theologian Michael Wittmer calls both sides out of bounds and crafts a third way that retains the insights of each. He examines ten key questions that confront contemporary Christians and shows why both right belief and right practice are necessary for authentic Christianity. Here is an urgent reminder that best practices can only arise from true beliefs. Genuine Christians never stop serving because they never stop loving, and they never stop loving because they never stop believing.
