Author: Iain Hollingshead Publisher: Aurum ISBN: 1781311021 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 192
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The essential humour gift book of the year returns in the anticipated fourth volume of this bestselling series Ð guaranteed to provoke laughter and amazement. The first volume of unpublished letters to the Daily Telegraph, Am I Alone in ThinkingÉ?, not only became a Christmas bestseller but also established the paperÕs letter-writers as a uniquely waggish, eccentric and maverick institution. They can be relied upon,particularly in the letters slightly too pungent or off-the wall to print, to offer a new and memorable take on the great events of the day. Now, with the fourth book in the series, Iain Hollingshead collects together our favourite letterwriters on everything from this summerÕs Olympics to the QueenÕs Diamond Jubilee, as well as the rather more obscure concerns voiced by ÔMÕ, the habitual correspondent who believes himself to be the head of MI5 but writes from an internet cafŽ in Bristol. Trenchant, choleric and hilariously funny, this will once again be the humour book of the year.
Author: David Crane Publisher: Samuel French, Inc. ISBN: 9780573681240 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 100
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Musical revue Words by David Crane, Seth Friedman and Marta Kauffman. Music by William Dreskin, Joel Philip Friedman, Seth Friedman, Alan Menken, Steven Schwartz and Michael Skloff. Characters: 3 male, 3 female Unit set. This is a wonderful collection of songs about people who place lonely hearts ads: lonely people looking for that certain someone. In other words: Personals is about Most of Us, about the unending search for love in the Post Me Decade. "Are you
Author: Christopher R. Miller Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 0801455782 Category : Electronic books Languages : en Pages : 280
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Today, in the era of the spoiler alert, "surprise" in fiction is primarily associated with an unexpected plot twist, but in earlier usage, the word had darker and more complex meanings. Originally denoting a military ambush or physical assault, surprise went through a major semantic shift in the eighteenth century: from violent attack to pleasurable experience, and from external event to internal feeling. In Surprise, Christopher R. Miller studies that change as it took shape in literature ranging from Paradise Lost through the novels of Jane Austen. Miller argues that writers of the period exploited and arbitrated the dual nature of surprise in its sinister and benign forms. Even as surprise came to be associated with pleasure, it continued to be perceived as a problem: a sign of ignorance or naïveté, an uncontrollable reflex, a paralysis of rationality, and an experience of mere novelty or diversion for its own sake. In close readings of exemplary scenes--particularly those involving astonished or petrified characters--Miller shows how novelists sought to harness the energies of surprise toward edifying or comic ends, while registering its underpinnings in violence and mortal danger. In the Roman poet Horace's famous axiom, poetry should instruct and delight, but in the early eighteenth century, Joseph Addison signally amended that formula to suggest that the imaginative arts should surprise and delight. Investigating the significance of that substitution, Miller traces an intellectual history of surprise, involving Aristotelian poetics, Cartesian philosophy, Enlightenment concepts of the passions, eighteenth-century literary criticism and aesthetics, and modern emotion theory. Miller goes on to offer a fresh reading of what it means to be "surprised by sin" in Paradise Lost, showing how Milton's epic both harks back to the symbolic functions of violence in allegory and looks ahead to the moral contours of the novel. Subsequent chapters study the Miltonic ramifications of surprise in the novels of Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, Fielding, and Sterne, as well as in the poems of Wordsworth and Keats. By focusing on surprise in its inflections as emotion, cognition, and event, Miller's book illuminates connections between allegory and formal realism, between aesthetic discourse and prose fiction, and between novel and lyric; and it offers new ways of thinking about the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of the novel as the genre emerged in the eighteenth century.
Author: Allison Allen Publisher: Revell ISBN: 1493411039 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 226
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It's time you stepped into the light of God's role for you Actors aren't the only ones who play characters. Many of us do, much of the time. We walk into a room, figure out who we're supposed to be in this context, slip into character, and say the lines we know we should say. We become someone else. Maybe we tell ourselves it's some version of us, but deep down we know this inauthentic character is not what God wants for our lives--and it's not what we want either. With fascinating personal stories and sharp insight into human nature, former actor Allison Allen calls you to drop the brave act and step into the role of a lifetime--being your real self in Christ, no matter what the critics might say. She gives you permission to talk about, rather than around, the things you feel, freeing you to step out of the shadows and into the light of God's true calling. "The life-giving content on these pages has the power to fill your sails with holy wind and literally change the trajectory of your story!"--Lisa Harper, bestselling author and Bible teacher "In this book, Allison shares stories of conquering fear, pain, and rejection that uniquely paved the way toward growth, joy, and wisdom. She teaches us to rise above it all and experience God's beautiful light. You will most definitely be inspired."--Scott Hamilton, Olympic figure skating champion; sports commentator; inspirational speaker; cancer survivor "Through Allison's beautifully transparent story, you and I are encouraged to step out of the shadows of fear and self-doubt and, in Jesus's name, shine!"--Sheila Walsh, bestselling author of In the Middle of the Mess; co-host of LIFE Today
Author: William Carroll Publisher: Coda Publications ISBN: 9780910390248 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 134
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A comfortable book about San Marcos, from the time its minister/schoolteacher/store clerk/newspaper publisher was the most vocal man in town, to the city's growth to a population of over 50,000. There's little that's dull here.
Author: Patricia Meyer Spacks Publisher: Associated University Presse ISBN: 9780874130126 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 336
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The 13 essays in this title, most of which focus on the 18th century, survey diverse cultural artefacts that include memoirs, histories, plays, poems, courtesy manuals, children's tales, novels, paintings and even resin! The essays explore relationships between character, context and text and engage various genres and geographies.
Author: Kevin Provance Publisher: Kevin Provance ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages :
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Who are we? Where do we come from? Is there other life in the Universe? Is there a God? What happens after we die? Is time travel real? In 2006, Kev Pearson discovered a quarter mint stamped in the year 2025. His search for the origin of this quarter led him to those answers, and more. What if you could have those answers, too? Would you want to know? Are you ready to know? The final pieces of this ad hoc temporal adventure begin to come together. The FCA moved the 2025 quarter from 1981 to 1989, where the seventeen-year-old version of Kev Pearson finds it and holds onto it. Meanwhile, a temporal accident stranded the FCA mole, Martin Wexler, and his best friend, Victor Merrick, in 1981. Martin has played both sides due to The Corporation lying to him about keeping Victor captive for over two years. During the incident at Liberty Reservoir in 1989, Dan Wilson takes the 2025 quarter from Kev during his abduction. Martin uses Spiritual Displacement to program Dan into forgetting he has the quarter. Martin then goes back into hiding and waits for the day he can finally have it decoded. Connor helps the older version of Dan find Martin and Victor. With Dan is SAIN, the artificial intelligence bore of the Internet. SAIN wants to merge with Victor Merrick, who is the only suitable candidate. Connor needs the hybrid to help solve the mystery of the time stoppage in December of 2095. Under duress, Martin facilitates the merging of the two. The result is Vincent Rettori, who provides Martin the location of Bruder-4. The race is on to stop Martin from stealing the hidden Brüder-4 ship and using its gravity drive to invade the Brüder home world of Oberen. Who will get there first? Who will live, and who will not? The endgame may not be what you think; it might only be just the beginning.
Author: Vicki Baylis Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1644163810 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 118
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You know how I can tell God has a sense of humor? Just follow Vicki for a few days. You will see for yourself. Travel with her into the world of growing up in a trailer park, raising kids in the South, and being married to the poster child of ADD. Because there is never a dull moment in her family, it leads to a journey filled with laughs, tears, a little chaos, and precious memories. Just a Little More Southern is a continuing look into the life of an ordinary Southern family who chooses to laugh at the misadventures of their crazy world. Hopefully, you will laugh along with her too. Vicki always says that no matter what happens in life, love your family, learn from your mistakes, laugh out loud, and know that God is walking with you every step of the way. In addition to the laughs you will find in this witty memoir, you may enjoy her other books: Just a Little Southern, Daddy's Money, and Garden Club Secrets.
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