Author: Dean W Oliver
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499017235
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Early one February I was fortunate enough to be selected to make a short business trip to visit my company’s office in the Philippines. I was looking forward to see the faces and shaking the hands of several of the names I had been working with over the phone and through e-mail over the years. However since the trip was for only 4 days I thought the 24-hour plane flight was going to be the only adventure I had in store. Well the four-day trip turned out to be a 14-day trip, which ended up being a several month trip and eventually ended up almost a year in duration that spanned several countries. So I had plenty of time to get into trouble, experience a new culture and be a little adventurous. This is a collection of the short stories that I sent home during my assignments in Manila, Trinidad and Indonesia, I hope you enjoy them.
The Brown Shoelace Chronicles
Author: Dean W Oliver
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499017235
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Early one February I was fortunate enough to be selected to make a short business trip to visit my company’s office in the Philippines. I was looking forward to see the faces and shaking the hands of several of the names I had been working with over the phone and through e-mail over the years. However since the trip was for only 4 days I thought the 24-hour plane flight was going to be the only adventure I had in store. Well the four-day trip turned out to be a 14-day trip, which ended up being a several month trip and eventually ended up almost a year in duration that spanned several countries. So I had plenty of time to get into trouble, experience a new culture and be a little adventurous. This is a collection of the short stories that I sent home during my assignments in Manila, Trinidad and Indonesia, I hope you enjoy them.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499017235
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Early one February I was fortunate enough to be selected to make a short business trip to visit my company’s office in the Philippines. I was looking forward to see the faces and shaking the hands of several of the names I had been working with over the phone and through e-mail over the years. However since the trip was for only 4 days I thought the 24-hour plane flight was going to be the only adventure I had in store. Well the four-day trip turned out to be a 14-day trip, which ended up being a several month trip and eventually ended up almost a year in duration that spanned several countries. So I had plenty of time to get into trouble, experience a new culture and be a little adventurous. This is a collection of the short stories that I sent home during my assignments in Manila, Trinidad and Indonesia, I hope you enjoy them.
Possum Track Chronicles
Author: Donna Elks
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1546211888
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Imagine a time not so far away and yet so long ago . . . It is the 1970s, deep South, rural Eastern North Carolina, once the world capital of the tobacco farming industry. On the Coastal Plains, nestled along the Pamlico River, is a tiny town called Chocowinity. The characters are original and southern. Donnas father is a haunted artist and gifted carpenter. Her mother, Pam, a full-time mom, with three children by the age of twenty who attempts to keep it together in a poor family where alcohol and substance abuse became the norm. When her fathers alcoholism worsens, Donna begins to resent him. Finally, on a night when violence reached its terrifying worst, the young family is spirited away for protection, and her parents divorced. Soon her fathers demons re-emerge and he falls into depression characterized by more substance abuse. Several times, their loving extended family comes to the rescue. Among the layers and human elements of this story, there lies an ominous secret. Donna has known it as long as she can remember. She keeps it hidden, as this might change everything. What unfolds is a funny, touching story of a Generation X tomboy growing up in 1970s and 1980sbefore car seat belts were required and shoes were still optional in the grocery store. This unique story is autobiographical. Funny, original, and bittersweet, it is full of Southern culture and generational relevance. This is not just one girls story of growing up in a stormy relationship with her father, and their life in poverty. It is a story of coming of age. A must-read for everyone.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1546211888
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Imagine a time not so far away and yet so long ago . . . It is the 1970s, deep South, rural Eastern North Carolina, once the world capital of the tobacco farming industry. On the Coastal Plains, nestled along the Pamlico River, is a tiny town called Chocowinity. The characters are original and southern. Donnas father is a haunted artist and gifted carpenter. Her mother, Pam, a full-time mom, with three children by the age of twenty who attempts to keep it together in a poor family where alcohol and substance abuse became the norm. When her fathers alcoholism worsens, Donna begins to resent him. Finally, on a night when violence reached its terrifying worst, the young family is spirited away for protection, and her parents divorced. Soon her fathers demons re-emerge and he falls into depression characterized by more substance abuse. Several times, their loving extended family comes to the rescue. Among the layers and human elements of this story, there lies an ominous secret. Donna has known it as long as she can remember. She keeps it hidden, as this might change everything. What unfolds is a funny, touching story of a Generation X tomboy growing up in 1970s and 1980sbefore car seat belts were required and shoes were still optional in the grocery store. This unique story is autobiographical. Funny, original, and bittersweet, it is full of Southern culture and generational relevance. This is not just one girls story of growing up in a stormy relationship with her father, and their life in poverty. It is a story of coming of age. A must-read for everyone.
Dorothy's Derby Chronicles: Woe of Jade Doe
Author: Meghan Dougherty
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1492601489
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Second in a fun, empowering series featuring an all-girls roller derby team, the challenges they must overcome, and the unique qualities each character has that helps lead to victory. Ever since Dorothy joined the Slugs & Hisses Derby team, her life has been one adventure after another. Dorothy's onetime enemy Alex is now a friend, while her friend Jade keeps missing practices. Then the skating rink shuts down, and Dorothy's life becomes as jumbled as a derby jam. And that's not to mention the bizarre things happening to anyone who enters the rink (maybe it's haunted?)... Can Dorothy restore order to the new life she's finally settling into, or will her world become a crazy mess she can't skate away from?
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1492601489
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Second in a fun, empowering series featuring an all-girls roller derby team, the challenges they must overcome, and the unique qualities each character has that helps lead to victory. Ever since Dorothy joined the Slugs & Hisses Derby team, her life has been one adventure after another. Dorothy's onetime enemy Alex is now a friend, while her friend Jade keeps missing practices. Then the skating rink shuts down, and Dorothy's life becomes as jumbled as a derby jam. And that's not to mention the bizarre things happening to anyone who enters the rink (maybe it's haunted?)... Can Dorothy restore order to the new life she's finally settling into, or will her world become a crazy mess she can't skate away from?
The Boot & shoe trades chronicle [afterw.] The Shoe & leather trades chronicle
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Languages : en
Pages : 622
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The Mole Chronicles
Author: Andy Brown
Publisher: Insomniac Press
ISBN: 1897414153
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
In the spirit of Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor or Jonathan Lethem's Fortress of Solitude, Andy Brown's first novel follows a sibling relationship told through vignettes, each story centered around the removal of a mole. From this premise, Brown's novel expands the associations of moles from skin disease, to the burrowing animal, to secret societies and espionage, to tell the story of familial dysfunction, culture-jamming, eco-terrorism, and regret in the lives of young adults in the 1990s.
Publisher: Insomniac Press
ISBN: 1897414153
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
In the spirit of Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor or Jonathan Lethem's Fortress of Solitude, Andy Brown's first novel follows a sibling relationship told through vignettes, each story centered around the removal of a mole. From this premise, Brown's novel expands the associations of moles from skin disease, to the burrowing animal, to secret societies and espionage, to tell the story of familial dysfunction, culture-jamming, eco-terrorism, and regret in the lives of young adults in the 1990s.
The Chicken Chronicles
Author: Alice Walker
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595586458
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
For the past several years, on a farm north of San Francisco, the celebrated writer Alice Walker has diligently cared for a flock of chickens. Over time, her blossoming relationship with "her girls" became a source of inspiration, strength, and spiritual discovery, and helped Walker connect more profoundly with her own past as a girl in rural Georgia. Walker has recorded this journey in The Chicken Chronicles, an extraordinary document of personal discovery, political commitment, and the joys of relating to animals. Each of Walker's thirty-eight chronicles addresses her "girls" directly, sometimes from the intimate proximity of her yard, other times at a great distance, from her journeys to Bali and Dharamsala as a witness and activist for peace and justice. By turns uplifting and heartbreaking, The Chicken Chronicles is a new treat for Walker fans, a powerful touchstone for anyone seeking a deeper connection with the natural world, and a celebration of chickens everywhere
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595586458
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
For the past several years, on a farm north of San Francisco, the celebrated writer Alice Walker has diligently cared for a flock of chickens. Over time, her blossoming relationship with "her girls" became a source of inspiration, strength, and spiritual discovery, and helped Walker connect more profoundly with her own past as a girl in rural Georgia. Walker has recorded this journey in The Chicken Chronicles, an extraordinary document of personal discovery, political commitment, and the joys of relating to animals. Each of Walker's thirty-eight chronicles addresses her "girls" directly, sometimes from the intimate proximity of her yard, other times at a great distance, from her journeys to Bali and Dharamsala as a witness and activist for peace and justice. By turns uplifting and heartbreaking, The Chicken Chronicles is a new treat for Walker fans, a powerful touchstone for anyone seeking a deeper connection with the natural world, and a celebration of chickens everywhere
The Psychopath Chronicles
Author: TJ Lyons
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460275411
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Written like the great Stephen King suspense novels, The Psychopath Chronicles showcases the dark side of human behavior: premeditated murder, revenge killing, OCD, bi-polar depression, ongoing relationships and conversations with the dead, abuse of minor children, adolescent sexual practices, wartime stories from World War 2, deviant behavior by not-very-nice men, devious cross-dressers, Internet predatory behavior, deception, female infanticide, (murder of infant girls) divorce, spousal abuse, vengeance, greed, drug addiction, alcoholism, anorexia / bulimia, child kidnapping, and other bad human actions and behavior. Plus, it contains a wee bit of magic from an Irish good luck talisman.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460275411
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Written like the great Stephen King suspense novels, The Psychopath Chronicles showcases the dark side of human behavior: premeditated murder, revenge killing, OCD, bi-polar depression, ongoing relationships and conversations with the dead, abuse of minor children, adolescent sexual practices, wartime stories from World War 2, deviant behavior by not-very-nice men, devious cross-dressers, Internet predatory behavior, deception, female infanticide, (murder of infant girls) divorce, spousal abuse, vengeance, greed, drug addiction, alcoholism, anorexia / bulimia, child kidnapping, and other bad human actions and behavior. Plus, it contains a wee bit of magic from an Irish good luck talisman.
The Shoelace Book
Author: Burkard Polster
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 0821839330
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Crisscross, zigzag, bowtie, devil, angel, or star: which are the longest, the shortest, the strongest, and the weakest lacings? Pondering the mathematics of shoelaces, the author paints a vivid picture of the simple, beautiful, and surprising characterizations of the most common shoelace patterns. The mathematics involved is an attractive mix of combinatorics and elementary calculus. This book will be enjoyed by mathematically minded people for as long as there are shoes to lace.Burkard Polster is a well-known mathematical juggler, magician, origami expert, bubble-master, shoelace charmer, and "Count von Count" impersonator. His previous books include A Geometrical Picture Book, The Mathematics of Juggling, and QED: Beauty in Mathematical Proof.
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 0821839330
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Crisscross, zigzag, bowtie, devil, angel, or star: which are the longest, the shortest, the strongest, and the weakest lacings? Pondering the mathematics of shoelaces, the author paints a vivid picture of the simple, beautiful, and surprising characterizations of the most common shoelace patterns. The mathematics involved is an attractive mix of combinatorics and elementary calculus. This book will be enjoyed by mathematically minded people for as long as there are shoes to lace.Burkard Polster is a well-known mathematical juggler, magician, origami expert, bubble-master, shoelace charmer, and "Count von Count" impersonator. His previous books include A Geometrical Picture Book, The Mathematics of Juggling, and QED: Beauty in Mathematical Proof.
Blitz (Book 4 of The Poppy Chronicles)
Author: Claire Rayner
Publisher: MP Publishing
ISBN: 1849820716
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
London in the Blitz. Poppy is a mature and capable woman. She struggles to enable her family to lead normal lives. The problems they create are known to all mothers-a daughter torn between two men and a difficult and headstrong stepdaughter. It is a time of fear and uncertainty but love and passion grow amidst the devastation.
Publisher: MP Publishing
ISBN: 1849820716
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
London in the Blitz. Poppy is a mature and capable woman. She struggles to enable her family to lead normal lives. The problems they create are known to all mothers-a daughter torn between two men and a difficult and headstrong stepdaughter. It is a time of fear and uncertainty but love and passion grow amidst the devastation.
Sea Glass Chronicles
Author: C. S. Lambert
Publisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 146174489X
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Leads the reader through the worlds between the tides, with tales of the origins of each shard, whether glass or ceramic.
Publisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 146174489X
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Leads the reader through the worlds between the tides, with tales of the origins of each shard, whether glass or ceramic.