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Civil War stories, tales of terror, and autobiographical pieces, as well as the subversive lexicon originally titled The Cynic's Word…
Book. Includes In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians); Can Such Things Be?; and Bits of Autobiography, which contains recollections of Shiloh and Chickamauga. Edited by S. T. Joshi. 2011It happened in church: stories of humor from the pulpit to the pews
Par Patti Webster, Patti S Webster. 2008
African American advertising executive relates anecdotes about church life along with funny moments found in the Bible. Also recounts family…
incidents, children's interpretations of religious teachings, and amusing incidents reported by famous preachers Billy Graham and Robert Schuller. 2008Somewhat saved
Par Pat G'Orge-Walker. 2008
At a Las Vegas conference, Sister Betty of Crossing Over Sanctuary Temple runs for president of Mothers Board against incumbent…
Sasha Pray Onn of the disbanded Ain't Nobody Right but Us--All Others Goin' to Hell Church. The face-off gives both women a deeper understanding of themselves and their faith. 2008Velcome
Par Kevin O'Malley. 1997
Collection of creepy and terrifying stories that also have humorous endings. A young boy is followed home by a coffin,…
and a young girl home alone keeps getting phone calls from the Viper, who says he is coming up to her apartment. For grades K-3Ruby, the rabbi's widow, knows she's in trouble when her longtime nemesis, Essie Sue, talks her into housing Essie Sue's…
twin cousins, Lester and Larry. The boys are in town for pre-Bar Mitzvah schooling from Rabbi Kevin Kapstein. Essie Sue's plans to orchestrate the grandest Bar Mitzvah feast in Temple Rita's history. The star attraction is sure to be Herman Guenther, master lox cutter. But when he meets an untimely death, Ruby investigates, tracing the victim's roots back to Nazi-era Denmark. Her investigation takes her from Eternal, Texas to Alaska to New YorkAfter the events of William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, a New Hope (DB 77244), Luke Skywalker and friends retreat to…
the ice planet Hoth. Darth Vader schemes to destroy them, but Luke begins training with Yoda, a reclusive Jedi master. In Cloud City, deception awaits Luke's compatriots. 2014Han Solo, entombed in carbonite at the end of The Empire Striketh Back (DB 79153), is artwork in the lair…
of Jabba the Hutt. Luke Skywalker and his band conspire to release Han. They then head to Endor, where they enlist the assistance of the native Ewoks. 2014William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, a new hope (William Shakespeare's Star Wars #4)
Par Ian Doescher. 2013
The story of Star Wars: Episode IV; a New Hope told in the format of a Shakespearean play. Luke Skywalker…
purchases two droids, one of which carries a secret message from a captured princess. They draw Luke into a battle with the Empire. Young adult appeal. Some violence. Bestseller. 2013Great-Grandpa's in the litter box (The zack Files Ser. #1)
Par Dan Greenburg. 1996
Ten-year-old Zack goes to the animal shelter to find a pet. He returns with a scruffy tomcat, who not only…
talks but claims to be the reincarnation of Zack's great-grandpa Julius. For grades 2-4. 1996Boom town: a Lake Wobegon novel (Lake Wobegon #12)
Par Garrison Keillor. 2022
"Return to America's most beloved fictional hometown! Lake Wobegon is having a boom year thanks to millennial entrepreneurship--AuntMildred's.com Gourmet Meatloaf,…
for example, or Universal Fire, makers of artisanal firewood seasoned with sea salt. Meanwhile, the author flies in to give eulogies at the funerals of five classmates, including a couple whom he disliked, and he finds a wave of narcissism crashing on the rocks of Lutheran stoicism. He is restored by the humor and grace of his old girlfriend Arlene and a visit from his wife, Giselle, who arrives from New York for a big love scene in an old lake cabin." -- Provided by publisherTheologygrams: Theology Explained in Diagrams
Par Rich Wyld. 2017
Rich Wyld is the author behind the popular Theologygrams blog, and here he has collected a selection of diagrams—in full…
color—that will appeal to the theologian and the non-specialist reader alike. Clever, cheeky, and genuinely instructive, this little book will be appreciated by anyone who doesn’t take too seriously our human efforts to explain the things of faith. Moving from the Old Testament to the New, covering historical figures and modern-day questions about the Bible, Theologygrams provides an amusing, intelligent, and visual way of thinking about theology. Laugh along as Wyld captures the reality of church life and makes theological truths accessible in a way you’ve never seen before.Poetry Slam: A Neurotica Short Story
Par D. B. Shuster. 2014
Neurotica SeriesAcademia has never been so naughty.The university men in Professor Melanie Stevenson's life pressure her to take her proper…
place--under them. While the proper professor indulges in daring daydreams of ... submitting to their will, her "evil" twin cracks the whip, so to speak, to work out the kinks in higher education.Poetry Slam Professor Melanie Stevenson's naughty twin crashes an open mic event and lets everyone there, including the stranger she seduces, imagine the racy woman reciting suggestive poetry is the unplugged version of the uptight professor.Note: This is a short story, approximately 5,000 words in length.Woman on Top: A Neurotica Short Story
Par D. B. Shuster. 2015
Neurotica SeriesAcademia has never been so naughty.The university men in Professor Melanie Stevenson's life pressure her to take her proper…
place--under them. While the proper professor indulges in daring daydreams of ... submitting to their will, her "evil" twin cracks the whip, so to speak, to work out the kinks in higher education.Woman on Top Professor Melanie Stevenson's "evil" twin decides the Department Chair needs to be punished for his... misdeeds in the library. While her kinky tease is designed to render poetic payback, another university woman takes Simon...in hand with a far more sinister and sophisticated version of "woman on top."Note: This is a short story, approximately 5,000 words in length.Scholarly Pursuit: A Neurotica Short Story
Par D. B. Shuster. 2014
Neurotica SeriesAcademia has never been so naughty.The university men in Professor Melanie Stevenson's life pressure her to take her proper…
place--under them. While the proper professor indulges in daring daydreams of ... submitting to their will, her "evil" twin cracks the whip, so to speak, to work out the kinks in higher education.Scholarly Pursuit Professor Melanie Stevenson's chairman would like to continue the liaison Melanie's evil twin started while impersonating her. She has no knowledge of what took place during that heated encounter, but Simon wants more and will stop at nothing in his scholarly pursuit.Note: This is a short story, approximately 5,000 words in length.Tongue-Lashing from the Chair: A Neurotica Short Story
Par D. B. Shuster. 2014
Neurotica SeriesAcademia has never been so naughty.The university men in Professor Melanie Stevenson's life pressure her to take her proper…
place--under them. While the proper professor indulges in daring daydreams of ... submitting to their will, her "evil" twin cracks the whip, so to speak, to work out the kinks in higher education.Tongue-Lashing from the ChairProfessor Melanie Stevenson doesn't know what her naughty twin did with her department chair while impersonating her, but her own encounters with Simon take an erotic turn and uncover an inner wildness she hopes her steady boyfriend can tame.Note: This is a short story, approximately 5,000 words in length.The Essential Max Brooks
Par Max Brooks. 2006
"Brooks [is] America's most prominent maven on the living dead...Gripping reading." --Hartford CourantThis collection, available exclusively as an ebook, brings…
together two New York Times bestselling titles from Max Brooks: The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, The Zombie Survival Guide is the key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. In World War Z, Brooks delivers an invaluable chronicle of the Zombie War, told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand.The Amalgamated Brotherhood of Spooks
Par John Kendrick Bangs. 2012
John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) has earned comparison with Mark Twain and L. Frank Baum for his humorous fantasies, including "A…
Houseboat on the Styx" and these wildly adventurous "Andiron Tales" -- featuring talking andirons, bellows and fire-pokers . . . and a voyage to the crescent MoonSpanking the Chair: A Neurotica Short Story
Par D B Shuster. 2014
Neurotica SeriesAcademia has never been so naughty.The university men in Professor Melanie Stevenson's life pressure her to take her proper…
place--under them. While the proper professor indulges in daring daydreams of ... submitting to their will, her "evil" twin cracks the whip, so to speak, to work out the kinks in higher education.Spanking the ChairProfessor Melanie Stevenson's verbally abusive department chair needs to be schooled, and her naughty twin is just the person to slap him with a punishment he'll never forget.Note: This is a short story, approximately 5,000 words in length.Fun with Toys: A Neurotica Short Story
Par D B Shuster. 2014
Neurotica SeriesAcademia has never been so naughty.The university men in Professor Melanie Stevenson's life pressure her to take her proper…
place--under them. While the proper professor indulges in daring daydreams of ... submitting to their will, her "evil" twin cracks the whip, so to speak, to work out the kinks in higher education.Fun with Toys Angry about their breakup, Professor Melanie Stevenson's ex-boyfriend shows up at her office with a box of sex toys he claims are hers, and her student, Hunter, is all too eager to encourage her to perform a show-and-tell during their one-on-one lesson.Note: This is a short story, approximately 5,000 words in length.Sex in the Stacks: A Neurotica Short Story
Par D B Shuster. 2014
Neurotica SeriesAcademia has never been so naughty.The university men in Professor Melanie Stevenson's life pressure her to take her proper…
place--under them. While the proper professor indulges in daring daydreams of ... submitting to their will, her "evil" twin cracks the whip, so to speak, to work out the kinks in higher education.Sex in the Stacks When Professor Melanie Stevenson submits to her department chair's...wishes during a private encounter in the library stacks, she never imagines she might actually be caught in a compromising position. Yet, with colleagues eager to find evidence of the Chair's misconduct, the suddenly very real threat of discovery forces her to consider whether she's prepared for the potential career consequences of her lust-driven decisions and whether she's still the "good" twin.Note: This is a short story, approximately 5,000 words in length.