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-Extraordinary encounters. Unexpected humor. Endless challenges. Life-threatening diseases. Unthinkable trauma.- Welcome to STAT: Crazy Medical Stories as told by the healthcare professionals themselves. From peculiar conditions and mysterious ailments to remarkable recoveries and perplexing medical mysteries, Stat: Crazy Medical Stories, draws from real-life accounts. Each chapter unveils crazy medical cases as narrated by the healthcare professionals themselves. The stories take you on a captivating journey across various disciplines, including general medicine, surgery, psychiatry, and ...

Andy and Danny boldly go where sensible people fear to tread. Just how stupid can two human beings be? Just Stupid! provides the answer to this vexing and important question. Winner of AudioFile's Earphones Award - 2005.

Eve has her own story, and she's been waiting millennia for Barbara McBride-Smith to tell it. It's the same for Mrs. Noah. Talk about misunderstood or under-appreciated women! McBride-Smith singles them out for her trademark feminist humor. And following Eve and Mrs. Noah's stories are four of McBride-Smith's retellings of Greek myths from her West Texas good-ole-girl perspective.

In "The Hypnotic Space Ooze," a colossal alien organism known as the Anathema drifts through space, shedding parts of itself into every habitable planet. As it enters the atmosphere, it melts into a thick, iridescent ooze that captivates the local wildlife with its irresistible pheromones. Creatures, overwhelmed by strange desires, willingly succumb to the ooze, experiencing a bizarre euphoria that leads to their assimilation into the growing mass. Meanwhile, on Earth, Dr. Zarah Zing, a military scientist in China, is abruptly called to a secret command center at 3:00 a.m. due to a “...

Iggy has one passion: building. His parents are proud of his fabulous creations, even though they're sometimes surprised by his materials - who could forget the tower he built out of dirty diapers? When his second-grade teacher declares her dislike of architecture, Iggy faces a challenge. He loves building too much to give it up! Andrea Beaty's irresistible rhyming will charm creative kids everywhere and will amuse their sometimes bewildered parents.

Thirty years after Douglas Coupland broke the fiction mould and defined a generation with Generation X, he is back with Binge, 60 stories laced with his observational profundity about the way we live and his existential worry about how we should be living: the very things that have made him such an influential and bestselling writer. Not to mention that he can also be really funny.

If a hot older man asked to restrain you and pleasure you all night long, would you agree? Judge Emily Jennings is thirty-seven when she realizes her life is going no where on Earth and she needs to make a major change. Hot tattooed men have always been her thing, so she chooses to marry a Zeylan and start over on a new planet. She’s paired with Judge Jared, a Zeylanian Judge, and quickly learns that he likes to control, not just a courtroom, but also in the bedroom. Jared wants to hear Emily beg, but she is a control freak who claims she never does. Will Emily be willing to submit and ...

The nine stories and one poem in this volume formed the basis for the astonishingly original film Short Cuts, directed by Robert Altman. Collected altogether in this volume, these stories form a searing and indelible portrait of American innocence and loss. With deadpan humor and enormous tenderness, this is the work of "one of the true contemporary masters" ( The New York Review of Books).

Classic warped and wonderful stories from a “genius” (The New York Times) and master storyteller. Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Etgar Keret’s stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. As with the best writers of fiction, hilarity and anguish are the twin pillars of his work. Keret covers a remarkable emotional and narrative terrain - from a father’s first lesson to his boy to a standoff between soldiers caught up in the Middle East conflict to a slice of life where nothing much happens.

Can old friends reuniting be the start of something new? Lily and Jasmine decide that it's time to get together with Anna Halwell, the attorney handling the vestiges of Sam's divorce paperwork. They were good friends in college but have lost touch since then. A night out reminds the three of them how much fun they used to have, and gets Anna thinking about how much more fun could be waiting. But she's a lawyer, and Sam's her client, and she can't do anything...unethical. Lily and Jasmine want Anna to be part of their relationship, but it's not going to be easy to pull off. The only way to ...

Most of us grew up having always known when to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone, yet sadly some of these things are beginning to be forgotten. Legends, myths, and fairy tales: Our world is made up of the stories we told ourselves about where we came from and how we got here. It is the same on Discworld, except that beings, which on Earth are creatures of the imagination - like vampires, trolls, witches and, possibly, gods - are real, alive and, in some cases kicking, on the Disc.

Gathered here in one volume are five stories from The Blissful Short Story Series: Cinderfella and the Flowered Shoe: One reviewer says this is about "the mishaps on the way to love," and that sums it up nicely. Tattoos: The moral of this tale is to think before you ink. The Art Of Parking: Sometimes a romance begins with a simple little road trip on a moonlit night. Breaking Up: Marilee helps others find the right words to say goodbye, but this time her client asks for something extra. Does This Dress Make Me Look As Fat As I Think I Am?: Not everything you see in the mirror is real. All ...

What do you get when you combine a chicken named Elvis, a locked diary, and a secret Violet Parker does not want share with her daughter? Seeing Trouble is the first of many short stories involving the characters of the Deadwood Mystery series.

A cozy mystery short story. Honorable mention in NYC Competition. In, The Missing Butler, Inspector Nigel Brown faces his first case as Chief Inspector with determination and a fresh batch of brownies. When the plump and cheerful Miss Abigail Rochelle proclaims her butler robbed her before meeting an untimely demise, Inspector Brown dives headfirst into the mystery. The case seems insurmountable, given Miss Rochelle’s eccentricities and the lack of tangible evidence. Yet, as Inspector Brown meticulously unravels the threads of Miss Rochelle’s life, from her lonely existence to her ...

If you’re a thirty-year-old, Southern male from a Christian family and have never brought a girl home to meet Momma, then you must secretly be up to no good. And if you also happen to be an only son with five older, happily married sisters, the pressure to find the one and only love of your life is like digging through a pile of leaves for the pin to the grenade you’re holding. Those were the first two lines of the first video post of Mark Griffin’s to go viral, and his popularity has steadily risen over the two years since. He decides to use his platform to find someone to share ...

Douze histoires variées, pleines d'émotions ou d'humour, pour les plus grands (8-12 ans). Au sommaire : "Émile et le microbe", "Le bracelet d'Anna", "Mes trois araignées", "Grenouille en prison", "Amour et chewing-gum", "L'anniversaire d'Alex", "Un chat toujours à l'heure", "Le mystère de la poubelle du 16 bis", "Adriane", "Qui a effacé mes exercices d'anglais ?", "Conversation avec un escargot", "Mon 'six cents pattes' ".

Innocence Blake needs a mentor. Fate provides Irving Burns and his casebook. He's spent four decades in Japan and, oh, the cases he's seen. The series traces their humorous and heartwarming friendship over the course of three years and takes them from Yokohama and Mt. Fuji to the Zen temples of Kamakura and snowy Sapporo. The trilogy includes Thursdays in Yokohama, Fridays in Kamakura and Saturdays in Sapporo.

This is a collection of the fourth six short stories in the Caverns and Creatures series.

Being older doesn’t always mean wiser, at least not when lust takes over… A visit with a psychiatrist leads to some unconventional therapy. A married man gives his college student cleaning lady a bonus that she wasn’t expecting. And a priest helps a young woman forget about her grief by breaking his vow of celibacy. It’s lust at first sight when these dominant silver foxes hook up with off-limits younger women, leading to some very inappropriate quickies. “Silver Fox Secrets” is a collection of three quick and steamy stories of people getting down and dirty with strangers while ...

This book was previously published as "Divorce Recovery Team" by Reba Bale She's getting over a painful divorce with another kind of pain — the kind that will make it hard to sit! Reeling from the break-up of her twenty year marriage, middle aged divorcee Amy Johnson is ready for a fresh start. Unsure how to move on, she enlists the Divorce Recovery Team, a group of strong, dominant men with unusual methods for helping people move on. Soon Amy is giving herself over to creative punishments. But will spanking and humiliation really help her become the woman she longs to be? This collection...