Zipping My Fly

Zipping My Fly
Author: Rich Tosches
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2004-11-02
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780399529177

Imagine A River Runs Through It seen through the eyes of Dave Barry and you'll get an idea of Rich Tosches' sharp-eyed reflections on the art, hobby, and obsession of fly fishing. Armed with a rod, a pen, and an eccentric sense of humor, Pulitzer Prize-nominated sportswriter Rich Tosches headed for the Grand Teton Mountains, site of the World Fly Fishing Championship, and cast a keen eye on his fellow trollers from all over the globe. This encounter-and many others during a lifetime dedicated to the pursuit of fly fishing -are captured in a side-splitting collection of observations on every angle-and angler-of one of America's favorite pastimes.

Sew Over It

Sew Over It
Author: Lisa Comfort
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2012
Genre: Machine sewing
ISBN: 009194709X

Expert crafter, Lisa Comfort shares the secrets of her sewing passion. She guides you through all the basics of sewing by hand and machine, as well as providing you with the skills you need to follow her simple but stylish projects.

No More Meadows

No More Meadows
Author: Monica Dickens
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2011-09-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1448202787

'Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more bypath meadows where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave.' So wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. Christine feels bound to agree. 'My wife can do anything,' Vinson says. Struggling to comply with this statement, Christine has to adjust to life in America, whilst catering to Vinson's idea of a good spouse. She must force a sycophantic smile for the wife of Admiral Hamer (who wears patent-leather shoes like bananas) in an effort to ease his promotion. There must be a cold Turkey and a cold ham at every party and she must suffer her ridiculous mother-in-law. Bitter arguments are relieved by bleak silences. As the realities of married life wash away her rosy dream of it, Christine begins to wonder if Vinson is really what she wants. First published in 1953, No More Meadows unravels the threads of a very real marriage. Full of her inimitable warmth and sense of idiosyncratic character, Monica Dickens explores Christine's heart-warming – and at times heart-breaking – search for happiness.

Variations on Normal

Variations on Normal
Author: Dominic Wilcox
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2014-08-21
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1473521262

Ingenious and amusing illustrated inventions from the brilliant mind of Dominic Wilcox 'I love this book. Laugh-out-loud funny. I want a salty thumb lolly now!' Harry Hill As we go about our day-to-day business, we see the same stuff every day. The bath, the fridge, the lamp post, the bicycle, the tree... so far, so humdrum. But not if you are Dominic Wilcox. Dominic sees things a little differently. For him, inside each of these everyday things are hundreds of surprising ideas waiting to be discovered. The Portable Bottom Seat, the Sick Bag Beard, Wrist Nets for the Butterfingered – Dominic's unexpected inventions, conflations and modifications promise to make your life that little bit easier, or at least more amusing. Normal will never seem quite so normal again.

Apprentice Killers

Apprentice Killers
Author: Blak Rayne
Publisher: XinXii
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2017-10-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0988128497

When Brody receives a cryptic message from the newest of the Snuff program inductees, his memories are stirred. People and places, he hadn’t thought about in years awaken the most dormant of his emotions, and the present becomes blurred with the past. Not wanting to risk the life of the only person he cares about, he leaves Zeus behind to fight the pharmaceutical giant, for what he believes will be the last time.

Money Pizza Respect

Money Pizza Respect
Author: The Fat Jew
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2015-11-03
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1455534781

From the creator of the hugely popular @thefatjewish Instagram comes an outlandish collection of hilarious personal essays and images, which might be the most ridiculous book in the history of arts and letters. If Steven Seagal and Barbara Streisand had drunken sex and conceived a baby boy, he would have show business chops and be proficient in martial arts. That boy would become Josh Ostrovsky, often known as "The Fat Jew." Born and bred in New York City, Ostrovsky's overbearing mother entered him into "the biz" as an 8-year old with exquisite cheekbones and the singing voice of an angel. He appeared in a plethora of television commercials, and after his child-acting career fizzled, Ostrovsky took 20 years away from the limelight to focus on finding himself, eventually opening a yoga center in Toronto, and receiving his MFA in pottery at Middlebury College. JK, he mostly just did drugs. But in 2009, when social media became a thing, he triumphantly returned to a life in the spotlight. He exfoliates daily, plays the harp, bakes his own croutons for every salad he eats, once saved a baby deer with a broken leg who had fallen into a stream, and speaks fluent Portuguese. With an army of followers on social media that often border on fanatical and creepy, he is a "rising" "star" whose backup plan is to marry Suri Cruise when she's of legal consenting age. Channeling the brilliance of his online presence, Money Pizza Respect rolls out one ludicrous story after another-from puking on his grandfather after a debaucherous drunken night to saving his deaf neighbor from a burning building, to hiring prostitutes for the sole purpose of reenacting scenes from Mel Gibson's Braveheart. In this, the next milestone of his glorious life, Ostrovsky will attempt to reinvigorate the dying medium of print. Writer. Plus Size Model. Horseback riding enthusiast. Instagram Legend. Josh Ostrovsky: The Fat Jew.

Tales of Crime &Violence - Vol 2

Tales of Crime &Violence - Vol 2
Author: Paul White
Publisher: BookRix
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3743853949

Tales of Crime & Violence is a collective of three books of short, and not so short stories. The ideas and inspiration are many and as varied as each of the individual stories themselves. Although each tales in these books are about committing crime, or being involved in acts of violence, the real story is of those involved, why and how they came to be in this position, whether they were forced or coerced, willing participants or victims themselves. Not all is quite how it seems to the casual observer. Read on to find out why.

Herbie's Game

Herbie's Game
Author: Timothy Hallinan
Publisher: Soho Crime
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1616954299

"It's everyday business when Wattles, the San Fernando Valley's top "executive crook," sets up a hit. He establishes a chain of criminals to pass along the instructions and the money, thereby ensuring that the hitter doesn't know who hired him. Then one day Wattles finds his office safe open and a single item missing: the piece of paper on which he has written the names of the crooks in the chain. When people associated with the chain begin to pop up dead, the only person Wattles can turn to to solve his problem is Junior Bender, professional burglar and begrudging private eye for crooks. But Junior already knows exactly who took Wattles's list: the signature is too obvious. It was Herbie Mott, Junior's burglar mentor and second father--and when Junior seeks him out to discuss the missing list, he finds Herbie very unpleasantly murdered. Junior follows the links in the chain back toward the killer, and as he does, he learns disturbing things about Herbie's hidden past. He has to ask himself how much of the life he's lived for the past twenty years has been of his own making, and how much of it was actually Herbie's game"--

"Father" Who Are You..

Author: Matthew Van Dorn
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2019-09-30
Genre:
ISBN: 0359646093

Matthew Van Dorn, in fact, the writer of this book, was born and raised in #Amsterdam, but on first sight, clear of tropical origin, son of a white Dutch mother and a white Dutch #stepfather. After his turbulent youth years in the Amsterdam of the early fifties and sixties, plus an early marriage, he is becoming increasingly interested in his other, Indonesian, branch of origin. His mother Rosa plays a crucial role, in the spiritual development of his life: A kind of a #love-hate relationship. He decided to make a trip with a travel group through #Indonesia to hopefully find something of his roots. This book deals in particular with that journey and the ups and downs of that travel company, with flashbacks from his #childhood as the second story-line.