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Do you dream of ditching the day job, doing your own thing, and being your own boss? Are you ready to Boss It? In this invigorating and highly practical book, serial entrepreneur Carl Reader provides exactly the fire and guidance you need to get started. Designed to cut through the business jargon, this handy guide will take you through everything you need to establish and run your own business - from the mindset it takes to turn a dream into a plan, to the need-to-know practical stuff for running and growing a business.

After a ghost is refused entrance to heaven he's kicked down to earth by a gigantic blue angel with the flu. He's been dead for ten years and has nowhere to go but home. Once there he discovers he can re-materialize if he wishes hard enough. Seeing his two adopted children does the trick, but they're grown and have a daughter, an albino girl who becomes one of the lovers of the concrete castle.

The story of William Penn is one of great personal tragedy as well as great ability and courage in the face of religious persecution. In England in the seventeenth century, Penn was jailed six times for his beliefs as a Quaker, yet through his connections at court and his deep understanding, good will and intelligence, he managed to establish Pennsylvania as a free, democratic colony. This book tells in the form of his personal testimony of the hangings, beatings, intimidation and imprisonments suffered by those in England, and of how Penn transformed the political and religious oppression ...

Dirty Presidents and Me is a comical sexual romp through the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s starring Lauralee Bramble, the official White House courtesan and nymphomaniac. After learning her trade at Woodstock, Lauralee applies her talents to servicing one president after another, from Nixon to Ford to Carter to Reagan to Bush and Clinton. It's a satirical sexual autobiography to make the Lewinsky scandal blush.

In A Circle of Stars is an epic adventure revolving around the aftermath of one of the most famous battles in American History, The Battle of the Little Bighorn, only this time it's told as fiction from the point of view of the Native Americans who won the battle. Custer is dead, Sitting Bull is fearful about what revenge the U.S. Army is about to take on his people and Fallen Hawk, the fictional young warrior who killed Custer in the book, is still not satisfied his revenge is complete. Days later, it appears to Fallen Hawk that it's the U.S. Army that's taken revenge when he discovers his...

Gatsby Girls, a sequel to the classic novel The Great Gatsby, continues the saga of a Jazz Age dream gone wrong, that of Jay Gatsby for Daisy Buchanan. The dreamer is dead, but Daisy is unrepentant and plans an abortion before leaving her drunken, abusive husband, Tom. She enlists the help of a gangster, a drugged friend, and Nick Carraway, but her scheme fails and another deadly tragedy ensues.

When his son is caught in the Delaware River, Sam, a shad, deals with Al, a human, to allow himself to be caught every year for the town's annual prize for the biggest fish. In other tales, Sam recounts his adventures in the seven seas - Al learns of Sam's love affairs and his fight with a great white shark. Fish and man go drinking, fight evil and learn the lessons of a lifelong friendship.

When a boy from Ireland finds a little man dragging a chest of gold across a forest floor, he mistakes him for a leprechaun. He is granted wishes, but all the wishes go terribly wrong, so wrong that the two of them end up on the moon chased by a crocodile. They blast off and return to a crash landing on earth, where one comes to a sad ending and the other learns about friendship and courage.

On a campaign against Persia in the late third century A.D. the Praetorian Guard prefect, Mucapor, is summoned by Roman Emperor Aurelian to his tent. He is informed of the emperor’s concerns about his private secretary and operative, Mnestheus, who has become violently and murderously out-of-control. Aurelian tells Mucapor to take control of the situation, but does not elaborate on what to do. He is unclear about what he wants done with Mnestheus, much to Mucapor's confusion. Mucapor meets with Mnestheus, who convinces Mucapor that Aurelian plans to have him tortured and killed. With ...

Nothing but odd news comes out of Pineville, as these short, satirical pieces of fake journalism prove. If you visit these pages, you'll read of a place where birds abduct obese children and put them on enforced diets, where the President of the United States comes to visit and lunches on a dog he happens to spot, and where the ancient practice of knee-sniffing is a cherished tradition. The illegal aliens here really are aliens, long-time residents from outer space who do the menial labor of the town and sometimes become lunch for the construction workers, since they are delicious entities ...

So brilliant and quirky is the future's leading genius, Mithrose, that he believes he's become an all-powerful God. As a personality trait, that belief is bad enough, but then he reports to the Impersator, the galaxy's current tyrant and mass murderer, for a second round of torture. There's method to his madness, though, as he's found a way to revive the rightful leader, the Chingress, through the technological magic of a robe,and now must deliver her to her people to begin the revolution. The Impersator has burned the Chingress to death in Plasmine once, and will not hesitate to do so ...

As the title suggests, this offering contains three stories of the strange and grotesque. In "His Angels He Charges With Error" a priest is determined to discover why his brother, also a priest, committed suicide. He's forced to confront a bloody ghost who turned out to be someone he did not expect. In "The Euthanasians" a unique method of disposing of the terminally ill is depicted. Clients take turns in murder. And in "My Father's Watch" an ancient curse attempts to avenge a horrific massacre. The subject stirs up something better left forgotten.

Babbit Rabbit, Jr. lives alone with his mother and has to learn to be a big rabbit all by himself. In these stories, he mistakes a snake for a carrot, helps build a garden of delicious vegetables, falls in love, eats too much carrot pie and learns valuable lessons. Babbit, Jr. is just like you were when you were young.

Only once in a millennium does a fake news outlet come along that is so fake and disreputable that it matches the president it covers. Such an outlet is the WTF Network News, where lies, fantasy and chicanery dominate the coverage of the current dangerous charlatan that masquerades as our Chief Executive. WFT Network News promotes tawdry absurdist journalism as the perfect mirror held up to the Oval Office occupant. So laugh along (or cry) as President Donald J. Trump, as the greatest president ever, solves the immigration crisis, lands Air Force One on Buckingham Palace, eats bees in Japan...

If you dare, pay a visit to the White House for one day to experience the wondrous gross magic taking place as we speak with the GREATS PRESIDENT EVER, or so he says. From dawn to midnight, this book gives in insider look at the madness, sleaziness, pornographic orations and just about every other tit-twisting and ball-busting endeavor of this GREATEST PRESIDENT EVER! See how he plans to erect (yes, erect) his personal tower in Washington, how he bullies his staff with sexual temptation, how he plays twisted rounds of golf one after the other and many other humorous, side-slapping ...

Helen has a face and figure that could launch a thousand ships, but a sexual disposition that could sink them all. An illness reveals to her the bland life she's been leading, and she transforms into a new raucous sexual being, a horny comedian intent on passion. A bland boyfriend, a crazy horse racing writer and her lifeless father stand in her way, as she laughs and loves her way to the grave.

Dirty Girl, Broken Woman is an erotic tragedy set in Ronald Reagan’s 1980s America, when the Sexual Revolution was dying and the AIDS epidemic drove a final spike into love’s heart. Narrated by Tucker Brophy, a confused bartender/journalist/writer, it tells the story of Kay Weatherby, a stunning and highly sexual figure who is the dirty girl and broken woman of the tale. She breathes life into Tucker and brings him hope, as the flame of an orgiastic affair ignites between them in the small artists’ town of New Hope, Pennsylvania. Kay, a teacher, is about to receive her master’s in ...

Allie Slayton might be a feminist detective, but the situation he faces in Mamba In A Basket forces him to make use of all the dark skills he learned as a Vietnam veteran and former college football player. An ancient African woman brings a body part to his office in North Philadelphia and commands him to find the rest of the anatomy. Sickened, he immediately gets the police involved, who suspect him of cannibalism. He's hopelessly in love with his former wife, a health-food store owner, and he is the farthest thing from a cannibal, but circumstances force him out of his self-protective ...

With Christmas fast approaching, Santa sends three of his most trustworthy and talented elves off on a mission to save the twelfth elf of kindness from an evil giant. The three elves, Jumper and Sneezer and Snorter, depart immediately, despite the late hour and the hopelessness of their task. They arrive at the giant's castle without a clue on how to proceed, and are nearly taken captive, threatened and worse. They apply their considerable talents to the task of saving Elias, but in the end it's luck and fate that decide the issue.

A Shadow and A Silhouette is a memoir of the riotous 1970s taking place at the Bucks County Playhouse in the artist's colony of New Hope, Pennsylvania. A neurotic young writer and a scurrilous young actor find they have loves and fears and ambitions in common and strike up a friendship based on imbibing, art and women. While the writer is recovering from a violent end to his college career and early love life, the sodden actor is escaping from an overwhelming fear of imaginary gigantic spiders, as both find relief in the local gin mills and one sordid affair after another. Old-time movie ...