Chump

Author : Rusty Reeves
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : African American families
ISBN : 0989414019

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Chump by Rusty Reeves Pdf

"Solid satire built on a deliciously farcical plot..." --Kirkus Reviews You can't save the world. Tell that to Beauregard Peebles, the Princeton-educated white medical student who makes it is his obligation to understand his black, drug-dealing, adolescent friend, Tyranius Roosevelt. By providing the Roosevelts his benevolent intervention - whether they ask for it or not - Beau hopes to stop them from doing the things they do to mess up their lives. It gets worse, as Beau spirals downward, donning blackface and dialect, and makes himself a nuisance with his racial antics, a modern-day Diogenes. Beau, for all his blundering, for all his arrogance, for all his obsessiveness and offensiveness, is honest - and funny. "Chump is a satirical look at American society, and it leaves no one unscathed. The poor welfare recipients, the liberals, and even the idealistic Chump and his doctor friends are all speared in this book. " --David D "Reeves forces us to accept that we deny our own thoughts and impulses via our politically correct defense mechanisms and herein lies a festering problem in race and class relations in America..." --AM in Park Slope "As an RN from LA County Hospital, the story was very believable. For many readers this may be tough to stomach, but I found their relationships very realistic..." --Ann Welton

Author : Tracy Schorn
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780762459056

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Leave a Cheater, Gain a Life by Tracy Schorn Pdf

Leave a Cheater, Gain a Life is a no-nonsense self-help guide for anyone who has ever been cheated on. Here's advice not based on saving your relationship after infidelity—but saving your sanity. When it comes to cheating, a lot of the attention is focused on cheaters—their unmet needs or their challenges with monogamy. But Tracy Schorn (aka Chump Lady) lampoons such blameshifting and puts the focus squarely on the-cheated-upon (chumps) and their needs. Combining solid advice that champions self-respect, along with hilarious cartoons satirizing the pomposity of cheaters, Leave a Cheater, Gain a Life offers a fresh voice for chumps who want (and need) a new message about infidelity. This book will offer advice on Stupid sh*t cheaters say and how to respond, Rookie mistakes of the recently chumped and how to disarm your fears, Why chumps take the blame and how to protect yourself, and more. Full of snark, sass, and real wisdom about how to bounce back after the gut blow of betrayal, Schorn is the friend who guides you through this nightmare and gives you hope for a better life ahead.

Author : Dan Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061959295

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Chump Change by Dan Fante Pdf

When he finds out his father is in a coma, aspiring writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante, fresh from the nuthouse, must head to Los Angeles for a fraught family reunion in Dan Fante’s Chump Change. Now back in print to coincide with the publication of his new novel, 86’d, Chump Change follows Bruno through the tension and stress of facing his family—and the inevitable, pain-dulling drinking that lands him naked in a stolen car with an underage hooker whose pimp has stolen his wallet. Chump Change is “an honest misfit’s view of America far too few know.” (John Fowles, author of The French Lieutenant’s Woman).

Author : Tracy Schorn
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Adultery
ISBN : 149355400X

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The Chump Lady Survival Guide to Infidelity by Tracy Schorn Pdf

The Chump Lady Survival Guide to Infidelity is for anyone who has ever been played for a fool, lied to, and left as carrion for the divorce lawyers. Here's a book about infidelity that is not about saving your marriage single-handedly -- it's about saving your sanity. Based on the writings from her popular blog "Chump Lady," Tracy Schorn's guide is the decoder ring you need to translate the manipulations of cheaters. Full of advice, gallows humor, and cartoons deflating the pomposity of cheaters, this is your step-by-step guide to navigate your way out of the infidelity nightmare.

Author : Barbara Park
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307797063

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Operation: Dump the Chump by Barbara Park Pdf

Poor Oscar Winkle! Ever since his little brother, Robert (not-so-affectionately known as Slobert), showed up seven and a half years ago, he's been specializing in ruining Oscar's life. So he comes up with Operation: Dump the Chump, a brilliant scheme to get even with the pesky creep.

Author : James McNicholas
Publisher : Headline
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781472280381

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The Champ & The Chump by James McNicholas Pdf

**WINNER OF BEST SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2022** 'Hard-hitting and hilarious' - James Acaster 'Funny, moving and compelling' - Mike Costello A heart-warming, hilarious true story about fighting and family, based on the acclaimed stage show. For fans of books by Dave Gorman, James Acaster and Danny Wallace, along with boxing tales from the likes of Tyson Fury and Ricky Hatton. THE CHAMP Terry Downes - the charismatic cockney known as 'The Paddington Express' - was a world champion boxer, US Marine, gangsters' favourite and later a film star and businessman. THE CHUMP James McNicholas' PE teacher once told him he was so unfit he'd be dead by the time he was 23. James has spent his life pursuing a career in acting and comedy. In reality, that has meant stints as a car park caretaker and river cruise salesperson. After Terry's death, James finds himself in reflective mood, comparing his story of underachievement against that of his world champ grandad. What follows is an increasingly colourful journey through post-war Paddington to the blood-soaked canvases of Baltimore and Shoreditch, via Mayfair parties with the Krays. Along the way, James begins to dig into his own story, confronting the dysfunctional elements of his childhood, describing his often hilarious efforts to make it in the world of showbiz, and attempting to recreate Terry's trials by enlisting in a brutal military boot camp and boxing gym. When James is diagnosed with a frightening and mysterious neurological condition, the two tales of the fighter and the writer suddenly collide, and what began as a nostalgic journey takes on a far more important significance altogether. 'A wonderfully funny and heartfelt story of what family and lineage means. Even made me like boxing' - Josh Widdicombe 'An extraordinary family history, told with warmth and wit. Two remarkable underdog stories - come for the cockney scrapper who conquered the world, stay for the grandson and the fight of his life' - Greg Jenner 'If you like comedy and boxing this is the perfect book. James McNicholas is a very funny man and a brilliant writer' - Rob Beckett

Author : Sandy White
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781435707559

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The Truth about Your Bad Home Loan by Sandy White Pdf

If every defaulting loan followed the advice in this book, this country could avoid increases in homelessness, crime, domestic abuse, broken neighborhoods, and so much more. Keeping these families in place as long as possible, and maintaining the property, is in the best interest of the borrower, lender, neighborhoods, law enforcement and government. Sandy White offers: * State specific resources for filing complaints; * The stages of foreclosure and eviction; * Foreclosure scam awareness and the law; * An understanding of options that may help save money; * How and why you should stay in your house as long as possible. The information in this book will help get your voice heard, document your position, and possible recourse against the people that violated your trust. This book is a must read for anyone with a bad mortgage loan, industry professionals, and those seeking a future mortgage loan.

Author : John Stephen Farmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Slang
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026092283

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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present by John Stephen Farmer Pdf

Author : John Stephen Farmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : English language
ISBN : UCAL:$B624050

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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: C to Fizzle by John Stephen Farmer Pdf

Author : J. J. Hespeler-Boultbee
Publisher : CCB Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771430302

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Mrs. Queen's Chump by J. J. Hespeler-Boultbee Pdf

Mrs. Queen's Chump is the military memoir of a young man who, naively acquiescing to a period of "adventure" after leaving boarding school, soon found himself enmeshed in the agonies of subjugated peoples caught in the turmoil of a collapsing British Empire and demanding restoration of their dignity and rightful human freedoms. Left to deal as best he could with his own transition from boy to man - somewhat before PTSD became a recognizable quantity - he realized as a born Canadian citizen he might easily have avoided service in Britain's army - but he had committed himself, so entered with his eyes open and became a keen observer. In stories that are sometimes funny, sometimes frightening, yet somehow tinged with the sadness that always jolts the loss of innocence, the author tells of experiences as an infantry officer fighting in the jungles of both Kenya and Malaya. They are incident of another time, yet hauntingly contemporary - soldiers sent to far off corners of the world to secure the privileges of tough and ambitious colonizers, themselves champions of Empire (no matter whose) who feel full entitlement over both people and resources. Bring up the troops! Despite clear dangers, thousands of bright-eyed and brainwashed young Brits whose invincible dads had recently thrashed Hitler were now, by the late 1940's and 1950's, keen to do their bit, to head abroad and "have a go" at running the Empire. They sallied forth into what they thought a halcyon sunset in need of some burnishing, but in reality dazzling in its madness. By the end their military weight and wallop proved insufficient to address the anger of millions of very "restless natives" - or to douse the frenzies of the likes of Idi Amin. The initial disease was Empire Myopia. Within a short time, and like Kurtz in Heart of Darkness, those who had come to impose order themselves succumbed to an Idi-like dementia that tumbled the whole wretched Empire to its knees. About the Author Born in Vancouver, Canada, Jeremy Hespeler-Boultbee started school in Australia, continued in the United States and Canada, and graduated from high school in Britain - this last giving rise to the military service described in these pages. A young and insightful officer, whose views often ran counter to those expressed by his superiors, he was in a unique position to observe the collapsing British Empire. Later, as a journalist living in Lisbon, Portugal, he was again witness - this time to the revolutionary shake-up and demise of another of Europe's entrenched old orders. Hespeler-Boultbee has worked on major assignments in Canada, the United States, Portugal and numerous countries in Africa. In addition to writing, he is an architectural historian specializing in Renaissance Portugal. He considers "home" to be Victoria, British Columbia, Barrancos, Portugal and Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.

Author : Janie Brockman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000550373

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Worth Doing by Janie Brockman Pdf

Author : Norman Baird
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136828171

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Q&A Criminal Law 2011-2012 by Norman Baird Pdf

Routledge Q&As give you the ideal opportunity to practice and refine your exam technique, helping you to apply your knowledge most effectively in an exam situation. Each book contains approximately fifty essay and problem-based questions on topics commonly found on exam papers, complete with answer plans and fully worked model answers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : UOM:39015049004222

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Puck by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cecil Hay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Clubs
ISBN : NYPL:33433071377448

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The Club and the Drawing-room by Cecil Hay Pdf

Author : Cecil Hay (pseud.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600059461

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The club and the drawing-room, pictures of modern life: social, political, and professional by Cecil Hay (pseud.) Pdf