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Without his adopted sister Gazra-tam, Zac Riggs would not have lasted very long in Ludus. Riggs is an engineering student from Earth who was transferred to Ludus, and Gazra-tam is a Mo'hali of the ocelot race. They make a strange team.

For over two million miles and the better part of twenty-five years, I rode around. All those years, I never knew what it was I wanted to do when I grew up, so I didn't. When I was young, big trucks and the call of the open road were all I could hear. It always seemed as if the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow was just beyond the next horizon. I chased many dreams over the years, but none of them were ever to be mine. A dream can never be...

For over two million miles and the better part of twenty-five years, I rode around. All those years, I never knew what it was I wanted to do when I grew up, so I didn't. When I was young, big trucks and the call of the open road were all I could hear. It always seemed as if the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow was just beyond the next horizon. I chased many dreams over the years, but none of them were ever to be mine. A dream can never be...

Both stories are based on the classic theme-- something has gone wrong and Christmas may have to be canceled if Santa can't fix it in time. In The Reindeer Shoe a reindeer has lost one of the magic shoes that enables the reindeer to fly and the little boy who finds the tiny shoe discovers the shoe gives its possessor magic powers and refuses to return the shoe to Santa.In the Great Reindeer Get-a-way, two of Santa's reindeer break out from the...

Set in a 21st century South Florida, Everyday Folks: A Short Story Collection, is a journey into the lives of everyday people. The eighteen-story collection provides an earnest and (at times) humorous outlook about life. In "Beware of Gremlins", an employee deals with the maniacal tendencies of a supervisor. In "Waiting for an Appointment", a young man's visit to the doctor proves to be anything other than regular. In "Miccosukee", a mother an...

Set in a 21st century South Florida, Everyday Folks: A Short Story Collection, is a journey into the lives of everyday people. The eighteen-story collection provides an earnest and (at times) humorous outlook about life.In "Beware of Gremlins", an employee deals with the maniacal tendencies of a supervisor. In "Waiting for an Appointment", a young man's visit to the doctor proves to be anything other than regular. In "Miccosukee", a mother and...

Eine Million Dollar. Eine Nacht. Keine Fragen.Demi Moore und Woody Harrelson sind Diana und David Murphy. Ein Kurztrip nach Las Vegas soll ihre finanziellen Probleme beseitigen. Sie hoffen auf eine Glückssträhne, besonders als der Milliardär John Gage (Robert Redford) eine attraktive Gewinnchance bietet - absolute finanzielle Unabhängigkeit.Der Einsatz? Eine leidenschaftliche Nacht mit Diana. Der Gewinn? Eine Million Dollar. Es scheint eine ei...

This timely work offers compelling facts and insights in a concise yet comprehensive format, bringing together the latest research and clinical practice related to these four distinct communities (self-identified lesbian women and gay men and bisexual and transgender individuals)

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Laughter changes our brain chemistries and sometimes gives us a more optimistic view of our world and our circumstances. This book is a perfect coffee table prescription for the stressful day and time in which we live, in that it provides us laughter, tears, and other expressions of sentiment. I have known Billy since our high school years. I know him to be an honorable man of unusually high integrity, and have no doubt that every detail is ho...

Der alternde Boxer Stag Bailey (George Bancroft) verliert seinen Kampf gegen den Neuling Buzz Kinney (John Wayne). Die Niederlage bedeutet das Karriereende für ihn und seinen Manager Pin Streaver (James Gleason), denn Promoter Cash Enright (Morgan Wallace) setzt sie beide vor die Tür. In der Nacht bricht Pin bei Enright ein, um das Kampfgeld aus dem Tresor zu stehlen. Er wird jedoch von einem Polizisten überrascht und erschossen. Stag Bailey u...

Who are we? We are hardworking and focused. We are winners or defeaters. We fall in and out of love. Some of us own nice cars while others take the bus. We are immensely rich or exceedingly broke. We're not in tabloids or on covers of magazines. "We're common, "Everyday Folks." "Everyday Folks: Short Stories on the Common People" takes a glimpse into the lives of people whose life stories would probably go unnoticed. The short stories warm our...

Who are we? We are hardworking and focused. We are winners or defeaters. We fall in and out of love. Some of us own nice cars while others take the bus. We are immensely rich or exceedingly broke. We're not in tabloids or on covers of magazines. "We're common, "Everyday Folks." "Everyday Folks: Short Stories on the Common People" takes a glimpse into the lives of people whose life stories would probably go unnoticed. The short stories warm our...

The founders of the Festival of Appalachian Humor now present an enoyable sequel to their popular Laughter in Appalachia--which continues to sell 7, 000 copies annually. Jones and Wheeler have also collaborated on Curing the Cross-Eyed Mule and Hometown Humor, U.S.A.

A sampling of the highlights of Appalachian humor, collected from the Festival of Appalachian Humor, with illustrations by Jacqueline Froelich.

Here are 300 jokes and stories heard on porch swings, in barber shops, corner cafes, and beauty parlors, told by famous and common alike, with chapters on marriage, aging, work, education, politics, and sports. Celebrities, everyday folks, and students of the Clinton County Elementary School in Clinton County, Kentucky serve up a feast of jokes and stories from oral traditions.

/Loyal Jones and Billy Edd Wheeler The more than 450 jokes included here are, like the best of Appalachian humor, dry, colorful and earthy, sometimes aimedat the mountaineer's own foibles, but often at t