Author: Monte Schulz Publisher: Fantagraphics Books ISBN: 1606996827 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 441
Book Description
Based on a true story: Monte Schulz’s prose novel fictionalizes the hardboiled exploits of a real-life femme fatale, told from her hapless husband’s perspective. Veteran Joe Krueger is drifting in 1950s California, looking for work wherever he can find it. Tired after a long drive, he stops at a boardinghouse and meets sweet ― and sexy ― Ida, who rents him a room. That very night, Ida tells him “Mother” and “Father” have run their auto over a cliff, then seduces him in the teary aftermath. Smitten now, Joe starts helping out around the boardinghouse, and the two marry. The honeymoon is over when a shocking series of events force the Kruegers down to San Francisco, where Ida is injured in a bus accident. Soon enough, insurance investigators have chased them out of the city to another town where Ida schemes to swindle a motel owner out of her property. Next, the motel owner and her crippled husband are missing, a water softener salesman is shot, and workmen are digging holes in Joe Krueger’s basement. Schulz shifts gears from his recent Jazz Age Trilogy, combining the exquisitely wrought language of those novels and a straight-for-the-throat pulpy narrative. Imagine the pathology laid bare in Don DeLillo’s Libra fused with the sordid and desperate criminality of Jim Thompson’s The Getaway, and the black humor of Bruce Jay Friedman. Based on the true story of Iva Kroeger and her husband Ralph, who were indicted for the murders of Mildred and Jay Arneson in 1962, Naughtyculminates in a trial: Ida, whose crimes have (only just) begun to catch up to her, is at her zenith, pleading insanity and playing the part to the hilt. The reader learns Joe’s and Ida’s fates via excerpts from authentic court documents. Naughty explores exactly what happens when “a swell-looking babe” is unleashed on real life, leaving marks, patsies, and bodies in her wake.
Author: Bertha Gallegos Allen Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1646280326 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 96
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My name is Bertha Gallegos Allen. You will read how my husband and I took care of my mother and her husband's mother while we worked at the preschool. In the book, you will read parts that are sad, and you will also cry. You will laugh at what a child says and does. Some children are happy, some sad. Childcare is good for children because they are safe and they are loved. Some children are better at childcare than at home. I was thinking about writing this book a few years ago. My class at Murray High gets together twice a year with the girls Joyce Thompson Carter and Beryl Turner Morley, who work really hard at getting everything together so we can have lunch at different places. One of my classmates, Diane Barton Kuhre, got me going to write this book. She said, "You need to tell people about your life as a preschool and day-care provider. I know God had a plan for me. That was why I could not have children, and the plan to have a preschool to love hundreds of children.
Author: Lacy Wren Publisher: Gayrotica Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages :
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Ready to get hot and bothered? Lacy's sizzling explicit tales will get you excited in all the right places. A naughty taste of what Lacy has in store for you in several erotic stories: Best friends exploring new feelings. A tough cop on a deserted road and a sex-starved driver. The older guy across the street and a slutty cheerleader. An experienced vampire and an innocent college girl. A hairy security guard and a naughty shoplifter. The sultry secretary and a horny Wall Street businessman... Stories Included: Doing Her Hot Older Neighbor - Which will get "manhandled" more by the hunky new neighbor, the moving boxes or Brittany? Frisked (& More) by the Cop - Will Lori let the hot cop have his way with her in exchange for getting out of a speeding ticket? Friends To Lovers - When his best friend Jill asks Chad to rub tanning oil on her back, will passions explode? Naughty Nightclub Hookup - Horny slut Kady scopes out a nightclub to find the blue collar stud of her dirty dreams. Spanked by the Security Guard - When cheerleader Patrice gets caught shoplifting, the brutish security guard puts the college coed over his hairy knee. Submitting To Her Boss – Has Jasmine been harboring a secret desire to submit to her alpha male boss's kinky advances? Vampire Next Door - When college student Kendra spies on her hot, older neighbor, the vampire takes more from the innocent young woman than her blood! Double Spanked By Santa – A hairy mall Santa gives two best friends an over the knee spanking on their pretty bottoms.
Author: Mark Chester Publisher: eBook Partnership ISBN: 0956836895 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 653
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In 1985, forty hooligan followers of Stoke City FC experienced a riotous trip to Portsmouth - and the Naughty Forty was born. It became one of the most notorious soccer gangs in Britain.Mark Chester was a founder member of the N40. Already a hardened fighter, he had been expelled from school after an unsettled childhood and joined the Staffordshire Regiment, only to be discharged for misconduct. Stoke City's emerging 'casual' mob became his family. 'Right or wrong, I was ready to be a committed football hooligan,' he says.He recounts tales of raucous coach trips from the Glebe pub and the pivotal clashes with the likes of Everton, Manchester United and West Ham that defined the new firm. Formidable characters came to the forefront, men like the giant Mark Bentley, Philler the Beast and the legendary Miffer, while hair-raising clashes with the likes of Millwall, Spurs, Aston Villa and Manchester City saw the gang's reputation spread.The N40 code was simple: whatever the odds, they would always make a stand. Many times they fought when heavily outnumbered yet often came out on top. They developed a closeness and cohesion rare among the football gangs. Loyalty was their watchword.Soon they were joined by the Under-Fives, a younger element determined to win acceptance from the terrace legends they admired and who carved out their own niche as well as fighting side by side with the old-school heads.Police operations, bans from the ground and the introduction of ID schemes have prevented many from attending games, but the author, long 'retired' from the scene, argues that in the new millennium the gangs are back - and as ferocious as ever. NAUGHTY is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the illicit but seductive lure of terrace combat, the emotional ties of a gang and the addictive buzz of Saturday afternoons.
Author: Celia Lee Publisher: Pen and Sword Military ISBN: 1526786591 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 487
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“A pleasure to read. It’s predominantly about the life of Jean Hamilton’s husband Ian as an officer during the Great War and life for both before and after.” —UK Historian Jean, Lady Hamilton’s diaries remained forgotten and hidden in the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King’s College, London, for fifty years. The story begins with the young couples’ wedding, a dazzling bride, Jean Muir, marrying a star-struck Major Ian Hamilton. The daughter of the millionaire businessman Sir John Muir, Jean had all the money whilst Hamilton was penniless. Having spent their early married years in India, the Hamiltons returned and set up house in the prestigious Hyde Park area of London, also eventually buying Lullenden Manor, East Grinstead, that they purchased as a country home from Winston Churchill when he could no longer afford it. Churchill in particular was like family in the Hamiltons’ home; he used to go there and practice his speeches, and painted alongside Jean to whom he sold his first painting. Jean chronicled Ian’s long army career that culminated in the Gallipoli campaign in 1915. The failure there ended her husband’s distinguished career and almost ended Churchill’s as he had to leave his job as First Lord of the Admiralty. This account is Lady Hamilton’s “attempt to chronicle her husband’s life as a top-flight but penniless soldier, this at a time when young Winston Churchill . . . was emerging from his own distinguished and very colourful military career to enter a life of politics . . . Jean Hamilton is one of those larger than life people of whom we know very little until a book such as Celia’s comes along” (Books Monthly).
Author: Mari Carr Publisher: Mari Carr Books LLC ISBN: 1962026345 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 140
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Dear Santa, I’ve been a very naughty girl… California born and bred, Paris only came to North Pole, Indiana to spruce up and sell the kitschy shop she inherited. But when she meets Joe the handyman and all of his country boy muscles, she just can’t help herself. He doesn’t do casual sex – but she’s determined to do him because Paris refuses to leave town without seeing his big package and spreading a little holiday cheer of the sexy variety. Dear Santa, I’ve been a very good man… Joe is an upstanding guy, who works hard, helps raise his nephew, and plays Santa at the town’s annual holiday party. But he can’t resist the hot brunette from L.A. and before he can say “ho ho ho” she’s got him throwing over all his rules and dragging her to his bed. Now all he wants for Christmas is every night in Paris... Naughty Santa was previously published as Big Package. It has been greatly revised.
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