Author : Anthony McMahon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 35,84 MB
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429840403
First published in 1998, Anthony McMahon details the accounts of public agency child welfare dealing abused and neglected children and their families and the pressures on child welfare workers. Opening up the discussion on the ambiguities whilst dealing with balancing child welfare work whilst dealing with the societal pressure of the non-intrusion into family life.
Author : Workman Publishing
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 50,16 MB
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1523509643
Would you rather… Be rich and stupid or smart and poor? Have the CIA after you or have the Mafia after you? Be on vacation with your 60-year-old parents and have your mom insist on wearing a thong bikini or have your dad insist on wearing a tiny, Euro-style bathing suit? Warning! This book contains shocking content meant to inspire hilarious discussion. These field-tested conversation starters are guaranteed to provoke ridiculous fun, break the ice, and—if played correctly—open a unique window into the twisted imaginations of friends and family. It’s an addictive game in a book that challenges readers to ask—and answer—more than 100 questions that rank from the heinous to the outrageously funny.
Author : Peter L. Rice
Publisher : Fasa
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 1990-03-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781555600990
Author : Percival Everett
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 35,74 MB
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1035036444
Damned If I Do is a set of brilliantly postmodern short stories from Percival Everett, author of The Trees, Dr No and Erasure, now an Oscar-nominated film. An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in a high-speed chase with the cops after stealing the car that blocks the garbage bin at his apartment building. A stranger gets a job at a sandwich shop and fixes everything in sight: a manual mustard dispenser, a mouthful of crooked teeth, thirty-two parking tickets and a sexual identity problem. Everett skewers race, class, identity, surrealism and much more in this masterful short story collection from one of America's most inventive living writers. Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.
Author : Christopher Kalman
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 2021
Category :
ISBN : 9780578840970
A short, fictional book about how we love places to death... in spite of our best intentions.
Author : Chuck Palahniuk
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 32,65 MB
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385671113
Think adolescence is hell? You have no idea... Welcome to Dante's Inferno, by way of The Breakfast Club, from the mind of American fiction's most brilliant troublemaker. "Death, like life, is what you make out of it." So says Madison, the whip-tongued 11-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk's subversive homage to the young adult genre. Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas while her parents are off touting their new film projects and adopting more orphans. Over the holidays she dies of a marijuana overdose--and the next thing she knows, she's in Hell. This is the afterlife as only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine it: a twisted inferno inspired by both the most extreme and mundane of human evils, where The English Patient plays on repeat and roaming demons devour sinners limb by limb. However, underneath Madison's sad teenager affect there is still a child struggling to accept not only the events of her dysfunctional life, but also the truth about her death. For Madison, though, a more immediate source of comfort lies in the motley crew of young sinners she meets during her first days in Hell. With the help of Archer, Babette, Leonard, and Patterson, she learns to navigate Hell--and discovers that she'd rather be mortal and deluded and stupid with those she loves than perfect and alone.
Author : Aimee Ungersma
Publisher : Austin Macauley
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,29 MB
Release : 2022-01-31
Category :
ISBN : 9781398406094
We both stood there exhausted, looking at each other like they do in old western films. "I just need to talk to you Archer, please don't throw more stuff at me. I would never hurt you or your family." He glared at me while lifting his arm back up. I glanced to his sides to see what else he had to throw but didn't see anything. Then it sunk in that the only other thing around us both was my car. It was levitating above me as I looked at Archer who was glaring at me again. "Speak then, but when you are finished know that I will destroy your car and you under it." I could feel my eyes stinging as tears began to form. I wasn't ready to die but I was stuck at this point.
Author : J. C. Ryan
Publisher :
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 32,46 MB
Release : 2016-06-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781533582843
Everyone is guilty of something. Conrad Wilson, an ex-detective, had less than a month to live. The date of his execution, by lethal injection, was scheduled for the 1st June. All legal avenues have been exhausted - the Governor of New Hampshire refused to review his case. The only problem was; Conrad Wilson was innocent but no one cared or rather, everyone that cared wanted him executed. His only chance to escape certain death was Judge Regan St Clair and Jake Westley. Did they have enough time to stop the execution? Jake and Regan quickly discovered a number of holes in the Wilson case - tampering with forensic evidence, an alibi that stood up to scrutiny... It was evident, Wilson was innocent, he certainly didn't kill his mistress as was alleged. Someone has gone to great lengths to shift the blame onto an innocent man. But why were so many so desperate to see him dead - for a crime he didn't commit? Who was the real killer? Was Wilson framed in order to let the real killer get away? Or was there some truth in what Pavo, one of the Organization bosses said? Everyone is guilty of something. DAMNED IF YOU DO, DAMNED IF YOU DON'T is a full-length novel, a crime suspense-thriller about a man who is about to be executed for a crime he didn't commit but everyone wanted him dead. This fast-paced suspense-thriller is the second book in J C Ryan's Exonerated Series that started with Judgment Call.
Author : Michael Brandman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 16,86 MB
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101636483
Police Chief Jesse Stone returns in another outstanding entry in the New York Times-bestselling series. The woman on the bed was barely out of her teens. She wasn’t exactly beautiful, but she’d tried to make the most of her looks. And now, alone in a seedy beachfront motel, she was dead. Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone doesn’t know her name. Whoever she is, she didn’t deserve to die. Jesse starts digging, only to find himself caught in the crosshairs of a bitter turf war between two ruthless pimps. And more blood will spill before it’s over.
Author : Lynn Cronin
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 39,65 MB
Release : 2010-09-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 161614307X
This perceptive analysis exposes five paradoxes that put women in no-win professional situations and concludes with a new model for business, which the authors call a coed corporation.
