The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog write by Dave Barry. This book was released on 2008-11-04. The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the warmest, funniest, and most delightful Christmas stories ever—from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dave Barry. With fond nostalgia, Dave Barry takes readers back to a simpler time: The year is 1960, and young Doug Barnes is playing a shepherd in the Christmas pageant at St. John’s Episcopal Church—which is a very big deal. But there are problems everywhere. His fellow shepherds are misbehaving, which makes their director, Mrs. Elkins, yell at all of them; the girl he likes is playing Mary opposite a Joseph who is depressingly smart, athletic, and cute; the family dog is doing very poorly, and they have no idea what they’re going to tell Doug’s little sister, Becky, who’s playing one of the Host of Angels and who loves the dog more than anything; and his dad’s just gotten a flat tire, which means they might not even get to the pageant after all. But Christmas is a time of miracles. And for Doug and his family, this will be the most miraculous Christmas of all.
Insane City
Insane City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Insane City write by Dave Barry. This book was released on 2013-01-29. Insane City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seth Weinstein always knew Tina was way, way, way out of his league. Which is why he’s still astonished that he’s on a plane heading for their wedding in Florida. The Groom Posse has already pulled an airport prank on him—and he’s survived! It should be easy going from now on. But Seth has absolutely no idea what he’s about to get into. A simple drink or two with the boys sparks a series of events that will pit Seth and his friends against everything and everyone imaginable, from his very powerful, very disapproving soon-to-be father-in-law to the federal government to a love-struck orangutan. Seth’s hope for smooth sailing is turning into a trip on the Titanic. And the water is getting deeper by the minute…
Howl
Howl - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Howl write by Bark Editors. This book was released on 2007-10-23. Howl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A pot roast left unguarded. An open bedroom door. An ill-timed squat. Dogs seem to have impeccable timing. Yet how quickly calamity turns to comedy in the company of a dog, and the wrong moment turns out to be just the right one. In this delightful follow-up to Dog Is My Co-Pilot, which won the Best Book of the Year award from the Dog Writers Association of America, the editors of The Bark bring together more stories, essays, and artwork that highlight the hilarity of dog behavior and the comical interactions between dog people and their four-legged friends. From playful puppies who wreak havoc in the home to dogs with a whole array of comic shticks and tricks, Howl celebrates the verve and the laughs pets offer their people. It includes laugh-out-loud reflections (and confessions), rib-tickling tales, and whimsical vignettes from well-known writers such as: • Dave Barry • Margaret Cho • Al Franken • Kinky Friedman • Pam Houston • Haven Kimmel • Neal Pollack • And many more!
Audiobooks as Artifacts
Audiobooks as Artifacts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Audiobooks as Artifacts write by David Seinberg. This book was released on 2024-06-19. Audiobooks as Artifacts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Their ever-evolving popularity notwithstanding, audiobooks remain a rather undertheorized phenomenon. The prevailing handful of existing studies seem to have adopted an inherently historicist approach, which fails to identify and scrutinize their aesthetic importance. Thus, rather than regarding them as mere recorded ‘versions’ of existing literary works, this book explores them as the unique products of a hitherto undefined artistic genre. As performance-based aural artefacts, the very act of listening to them is rendered an aesthetic experience in its own right. By effectively embracing an interdisciplinary approach and introducing a set of aesthetic questions and philosophical conundrums (ignited by a paradigmatic application of the New Institutional Theory of Art), this study establishes a new aesthetic category—which, in turn, not only classifies audiobooks as artworks to all intents and purposes, but also generates the criteria and parameters for evaluating their merit. Since the proof of the proverbial pudding is purportedly in the eating, in surveying a series of concrete case studies—each highlighting different degrees of complexities—this study mainly examines first-person narratives as the most natural medium for the aesthetics of the audiobook. As such, the investigation herein provides one with comparative close listenings, appropriately analyzing and debating their aesthetic properties. Finally, in exploring what this study identifies as one’s informed intuition and its role in the craft of casting audiobooks, this study also proposes a new understating of how aesthetic appreciation works in action.
Chew on Things
Chew on Things - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chew on Things write by Iris Bell. This book was released on 2007-12. Chew on Things available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides support and practical techniques for overcoming worries, as 'told' by a fretful soft-coated wheaten terrier dog, Casey B. Worrywart, Dogtor of Philosophy, to his human mom, a psychiatrist.
