Wash Behind Your Ears, Billy


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Have you ever fantasized about pursuing a new career? Do you feel that a career change would be impossible given your personal responsibilities? Author Bill Cox has done it numerous times. Wash Behind Your Ears, Billy: The Greatest Story Ever Told About Me by Me is a memoir that chronicles the author’s time as a banker, real estate broker, building superintendent, criminal investigator, and journalist, among others. You’ll read how a teenager working at a major bank in downtown Montreal finds himself at one of its sub-branches, a twenty-by-twenty plywood building that includes the bank, post office, and sleeping quarters for three, at a mining camp on the Newfoundland and Labrador–Quebec border. Recalling the twenty-two moves with his family, Cox shares the successes and failures, the struggles and joys, that come with making significant career changes and how it can positively, or negatively affect, a family. This memoir includes published and unpublished stories and articles from Cox’s time as a journalist and columnist for The Sherbrooke Record and Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph. A blend of journalism and personal anecdotes, Cox shares the lessons he’s learned the hard way, so you don’t have to. With a strong sense of humour and laugh-out-loud moments, Wash Behind Your Ears, Billy is sure to entertain and even educate along the way.




Billy


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Billy/Amusing Memoirs from a Unique and Cherished Period in America By: William J. Keenan Billy/Amusing Memoirs from a Unique and Cherished Period in America is the historical account of one kid’s sometimes comical experiences growing up in a different time, and demonstrates just how much can change over the years. From the young to the old, there is a great value in listening to stories from a bygone era and taking a moment to appreciate a snippet in time. Others born during that quintessential time in American history, the period of that great BOOM of babies born, will reminisce and perhaps even find their own voice to share with others.




The Lincoln Highway


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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “Fantastic. Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope.” —Bill Gates “A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” —NPR The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. “Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. Towles is not a one-trick pony. Like all the best storytellers, he has range. He takes inspiration from famous hero’s journeys, including The Iliad, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. But, he suggests, when something (or someone) tries to steer us off course, it is possible to take the wheel.” – Bill Gates




The Lincoln Highway


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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” – NPR The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes.




Incest, Raped and Battered


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Pinking Shears


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Pinking Shears is the novel everyone has been waiting to read. Not only does Pinking Shears link Paul Dale Anderson’s classic Claw Hammer with the more recent Pickaxe, it introduces readers to rookie detectives Troy Nolan, Bill Bowers, Rich Pearson, and Betty Brooks. Homicide Lieutenant Carl Erickson and Deputy Coroner Dr. Marsha Wade are working the case in this exciting addition to the Instruments of Death series of police procedurals. Brooks goes undercover as a streetwalking prostitute to find a vicious serial killer, Nolan looks for a missing boy, and Carl becomes jealous when a handsome new doctor dates Marsha. Can a cop do his duty and have a personal life, too? How important is family and what constitutes a normal family in this day and age of shifting gender roles, rampant divorce rates, and neglected children?




The Sons of Big Bill Holston


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Big Bill Holston raised his sons to be respectful of the womenfolk, do a day's work for a day's pay, and never, ever, let a man raise a hand to you without gettin' his ass whooped. And if you had to draw your gun, make sure it wasn't you left lying on that cold hard ground. Down through the years, this advice served them well. Then one day, a cold-blooded killer came to town lookin' for victims to feed his lust for blood, and one by one, the people of Copper, Texas began to die. Will the Holstons be able to stop this evil before he adds one of them to his list?







Six Houses Down


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In this inspirational novel of family, friendship, and forgiveness, a mother of an autistic boy learns to trust God’s mysterious ways. Though Sharon Webster’s husband, Bill, is still in her life, he is becoming increasingly distant. After their son is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, Bill accepts a promotion that requires lengthy absences from home. But soon Sharon finds new faces entering her and her son’s lives. First, a red-headed little girl climbs over the backyard fence to play. Then an elderly couple who live close-by become reliable friends. But after Bill makes a surprise return, their son slips out of the house and is lost in Washington, DC. To find him Sharon must rely on the husband she believes no longer loves her. What she doesn’t realize is that her new friends recognize her unspoken hurts and, with God’s guidance, are determined to help. Inspired by her childhood foster brother, Kari Rimbey’s debut novel explores the disastrous consequences that can befall a family when communication breaks down. It serves as a reminder that God intends for people to reach out to others and that forgiveness is necessary for the heart to heal.




Collected Works


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This comprehensive collection - without images and optimized in file size for quick access - contains: A Modern Utopia A Short History of the World An Englishman Looks at the World / Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story Anticipations / Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought Bealby; A Holiday Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump / Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times Certain Personal Matters First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars" God, the Invisible King In the Days of the Comet In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace Joan and Peter: The story of an education Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul Little Wars (a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books) Love and Mr. Lewisham Mankind in the Making Marriage Mr. Britling Sees It Through Russia in the Shadows Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences Socialism and the family Tales of Space and Time Text Book of Biology, Vertebrata The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories The Discovery of the Future The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories The First Men in the Moon The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth The Future in America: A Search After Realities The History of Mr. Polly The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance The Island of Doctor Moreau The New Machiavelli The New Teaching of History / With a reply to some recent criticisms of The Outline of History The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind The Plattner Story, and Others The Red Room The Research Magnificent The Salvaging Of Civilization The Sea Lady The Secret Places of the Heart The Sleeper Awakes / A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes The Soul of a Bishop The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents The Time Machine The Undying Fire: A contemporary novel The War in the Air The War of the Worlds The War That Will End War The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman The Wonderful Visit The World Set Free This Misery of Boots Tono-Bungay Twelve Stories and a Dream War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War Washington and the Riddle of Peace What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War When the Sleeper Wakes Herbert George Wells wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and the publisher Hugo Gernsback - utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web. His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering...