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Author: Andrew Cull Publisher: Vermillion2one Press ISBN: 9780648731559 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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"We'd been in the house two weeks when Tommy pulled the first bones from the garden."When Cassie Baker buys the house on Cedar Street, it's partly because it reminds her of the house she grew up in in the '80s. It reminds her of happier times, when her Mom was still alive, before the cancer had taken her. It seems like the perfect place to raise her baby boy, Sam.That is, until a friend unearths the remains of a dog, buried in a shallow grave in the backyard. After the bones come the cockroaches...THE COCKROACH KING is a new novella written by Andrew Cull, the award-winning author of REMAINS and BONES.
Author: Andrew Cull Publisher: Vermillion2one Press ISBN: 9780648731559 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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"We'd been in the house two weeks when Tommy pulled the first bones from the garden."When Cassie Baker buys the house on Cedar Street, it's partly because it reminds her of the house she grew up in in the '80s. It reminds her of happier times, when her Mom was still alive, before the cancer had taken her. It seems like the perfect place to raise her baby boy, Sam.That is, until a friend unearths the remains of a dog, buried in a shallow grave in the backyard. After the bones come the cockroaches...THE COCKROACH KING is a new novella written by Andrew Cull, the award-winning author of REMAINS and BONES.
Author: Ian McEwan Publisher: Knopf Canada ISBN: 0735280487 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 70
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A brilliant, of-the-moment political satire like no other, from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement. Kafka meets the world of Brexit in this bitingly funny novel centered on a cockroach transformed into the prime minister of England. That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a giant creature. Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain--and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way; not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy. In this bitingly funny Kafkaesque satire, Ian McEwan engages with scabrous humor a very recognizable political world and turns it on its head. Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons.
Author: Daniel Evan Weiss Publisher: ISBN: 9781852427467 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 260
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When Ira Fishblatt's girlfriend, Ruth Grubstein, moves into his appartment, he cleans up his act and his kitchen much to the repulsion of the hoards of cockroaches who also inhabit his flat. This grubby army who, up until now, had happily existed on the food debris littering his flat, now face a harsh future: eviction or death from starvation. Driven into a frenzy by their dark fate, a leader cockroach, Numbers, devises a diabolical plan which will forever rid them of Ruth and her damnable tidiness. Enlisting the unwitting help of Rufus, the local cocaine dealer, Elizabeth and his hot-blooded ex-girlfriend, the Gypsy, they act out a masterplan to save their home? and their lives.
Author: Bob Mortimer Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1398505307 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 213
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The number one bestseller and Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year by national treasure Bob Mortimer. ‘The most life-affirming, joyful read of the year’ - Sunday Times ‘Winningly heartfelt’ – The Guardian ‘A triumph’ – Daily Mail Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a heart condition that required immediate surgery and forced him to cancel an upcoming tour. The episode unnerved him, but forced him to reflect on his life so far. This is the framework for his hilarious and moving memoir, And Away… Although his childhood in Middlesbrough was normal on the surface, it was tinged by the loss of his dad, and his own various misadventures (now infamous from his appearances on Would I Lie to You?), from burning down the family home to starting a short-lived punk band called Dog Dirt. As an adult, he trained as a solicitor and moved to London. Though he was doing pretty well (the South London Press once crowned him ‘The Cockroach King’ after a successful verdict), a chance encounter in a pub in the 1980s with a young comedian going by the name Vic Reeves set his life on a different track. And now, six years on, the heart condition that once threatened his career has instead led to new success on BBC2’s Gone Fishing. Warm, profound, and irrepressibly funny, And Away… is Bob’s full life story (with a few lies thrown in for good measure.)
Author: William M. Hutchins Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers ISBN: 9780894108853 Category : Languages : en Pages : 298
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The book also includes plot summaries, a chronology of Al-Hakim's life, and a comprehensive annotated bibliography of his oeuvre."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Joseph Granda-padron Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1411656857 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 256
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Carlos has survived a childhood of both physical and mental abuse. Working for the New York Board of Education he has become a drug addict searching for an outlet to his life. Meeting his twin little brother he is thrust through a realm of rape, sex, drugs, masturbation, madness, and murder. No longer able to tell reality from dreams, he must come to terms with who he is and what he has done, he must decide what he will sacrifice to be set free of the demons haunting his existence.
Author: Marion Copeland Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 1861894856 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 204
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The cockroach could not have scuttled along, almost unchanged, for two hundred and fifty million years – some two hundred and forty-nine before man evolved – unless it was doing something right. It would be fascinating as well as instructive to have access to the cockroach’s own record of its life on earth, to know its point of view on evolution and species domination over the millennia. Such chronicles would perhaps radically alter our perceptions of the dinosaur’s span and importance – and that of our own development and significance. We might learn that throughout all these aeons, the dominant life form has been, if not the cockroach itself, then certainly the insect. Attempts to chronicle the cockroach’s intellectual and emotional life have been made only within the last century when a scientist titled his essay on the cockroach "The Intellectual and Emotional World of the Cockroach", and artists as radically different as Franz Kafka and Don Marquis created equally memorable cockroach protagonists. At least since Classical Greece, authors have brought cockroach characters into the foreground to speak for the weak and downtrodden, the outsiders, those forced to survive on the underside of dominant human cultures. Cockroaches have become the subjects of songs (La Cucaracha), have competed in "roachraces" and have even ended up in recipes. In this accessible, sympathetic and often humorous book, Marion Copeland examines the natural history, symbolism and cultural significance of this poorly understood and much-maligned insect.
Author: Mats Alvesson Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 019163672X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 254
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In this book, Mats Alvesson aims to demystify some popular and upbeat claims about a range of phenomena, including the knowledge society, consumption, branding, higher education, organizational change, professionalization, and leadership. He contends that a culture of grandiosity is leading to numerous inflated claims. We no longer talk about plans but 'strategies'. Supervisors have been replaced by 'managers', managers are referred to as executives. Management is about 'leadership'. Giving advice is 'coaching'. Companies become 'knowledge-intensive firms'. The book views the contemporary economy as an economy of persuasion, where firms and other institutions increasingly assign talent, energy, and resources to rhetoric, image, branding, reputation, and visibility. Using a wide range of empirical examples to illuminate the realms of consumption, higher education, organization, and leadership, this provocative and engaging book challenges established assumptions and contributes to a critical understanding of society as a whole.
Author: Sheets Josh Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1628382260 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 362
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In his novel, Night Shift Stories, Josh Sheets leads the reader through a compilation of twenty-one mystifying and horrific tales of grizzly death and destruction. Sheets' masterful use of dialogue and shocking semantics will keep readers enthralled in suspense, tempting them to turn pages to discover just what evil befalls the tragic characters he's woven into the bone-chilling tales. Sheets' frightening stories will cause the reader to think twice about going out in the dark, closing doors, hearing voices in the night, killing bugs, or even going swimming, as he creates a sense of "what if?" in the reader's mind. The compilation is eerily written and a true page-turner. Don't read it before going to bed!
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