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Real Estate

Author : Lorrie Moore

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 44 pages

File Size : 42,64 MB

Release : 2016-05-23

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1101974362

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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection The classic, often-humorous, and lyrical short story from literary giant Lorrie Moore’s much-celebrated third collection of stories, Birds of America, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. In a comically disappointing attempt to revive their marriage, a seasoned couple moves into what appears to be a charming farmhouse near a nature conservatory and a zoo. But, not so. There, Ruth must desperately crusade against infestations of raccoons, crows, and teenagers that plague her new home. An ebook short.



You're Out and You're Ugly, Too!

Author : Durwood Merrill

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 306 pages

File Size : 41,27 MB

Release : 1998-03-15

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 9780312182373

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In the tradition of Ron Luciano's bestselling "The Umpire Strikes Back", Durwood Merrill, baseball's most outspoken umpire offers two decades' worth of his sometimes hilarious, always controversial opinions on managers, life on the diamond, the players, and more. of photos.





You're Wrong and You're Ugly

Author : Sid Rosenberg

Publisher :

Page : 224 pages

File Size : 10,45 MB

Release : 2010-04-01

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9781617490675

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You're Wrong and You're Ugly takes readers on an incredible journey whether or not they're a huge sports fan. Rosenberg is an equal-opportunity offender-starlets, Hollywood hunks, and "the next big thing" in entertainment have all felt the heat of Rosenberg's sharp barbs. Rosenberg shares all the stories listeners never got to hear when the microphones were turned off, and when he starts talking about the reasons he got fired from some of his jobs, Rosenberg leaves nobody unscathed. He calls out athletes and other self-important people in every profession. He's loud. He's crude. He may be tasteless at times, but through it all you'll find yourself agreeing with his opinionated takes more than you thought. He's got a rough (and funny) way of getting his points across, and once you read what he has to say, you'll agree with the millions of fans who have found themselves laughing hysterically at Rosenberg's insights.



Ugly

Author : Robert Hoge

Publisher : Hachette Australia

Page : 106 pages

File Size : 14,8 MB

Release : 2015-08-11

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0733634346

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A beaut story about one very ugly kid. Robert Hoge was born with a tumour in the middle of his face, and legs that weren't much use. There wasn't another baby like him in the whole of Australia, let alone Brisbane. But the rest of his life wasn't so unusual: he had a mum and a dad, brothers and sisters, friends at school and in his street. He had childhood scrapes and days at the beach; fights with his family and trouble with his teachers. He had doctors, too: lots of doctors who, when he was still very young, removed that tumour from his face and operated on his legs, then stitched him back together. He still looked different, though. He still looked ... ugly. UGLY is the true story of how an extraordinary boy grew up to have an ordinary life, and how that became his greatest achievement of all.



A Gate at the Stairs

Author : Lorrie Moore

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 337 pages

File Size : 33,14 MB

Release : 2009-09-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0307273210

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From “one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation” (The New York Times) comes a piercing novel of race, class, love, and war in America. Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the daughter of a gentleman farmer, has come to a university town as a student. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny for a mysterious and glamorous family, she finds herself drawn deeper into their world and forever changed. “An indelible portrait of a young woman coming of age in the Midwest in the year after 9/11…. Moore has written her most powerful book yet.” —The New York Times



Ugly Love

Author : Colleen Hoover

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 336 pages

File Size : 17,97 MB

Release : 2014-08-05

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1476753199

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From Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Us, a heart-wrenching love story that proves attraction at first sight can be messy. When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn't think it's love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her. Never ask about the past. Don’t expect a future. They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all. Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.



All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

Author : Bryn Greenwood

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 353 pages

File Size : 18,93 MB

Release : 2016-08-09

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1250074134

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"Struggling to raise her little brother Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star-gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold. By the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery"--



Like Life

Author : Lorrie Moore

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 193 pages

File Size : 41,58 MB

Release : 2012-03-07

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0307816869

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From the national bestselling author of Birds of America comes “a brilliant collection” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) of eight exquisite stories of men and women stumbling through their daily existence. In Like Life, Lorrie Moore’s men and women, unsettled and adrift and often frightened, can’t quite understand how they arrived at their present situations. Harry has been reworking a play for years in his apartment near Times Square in New York. Jane is biding her time at a cheese shop in a Midwest mall. Dennis, unhappily divorced, buries himself in self-help books about healthful food and healthy relationships. One prefers to speak on the phone rather than face his friends, another lets the answering machine do all the talking. But whether rejected, afraid to commit, bored, disillusioned or just misunderstood, even the most hard-bitten are not without some abiding trust in love.



How to Become a Writer

Author : Lorrie Moore

Publisher :

Page : 32 pages

File Size : 16,82 MB

Release : 2015-04-02

Category : Authorship

ISBN : 9780571323289

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Taken from award-winning writer Lorrie Moore's debut short story collection Self-Help (1985), How To Become a Writer is a wryly witty deconstruction of tips for aspiring writers, told in vignettes by a self-absorbed narrator who fails to observe the wrold around her. A modern classic, this story has been pulled out to accompany the launch of the Faber Modern Classics list.