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Guy Trilby is a 40-year-old who finds a loophole in the rules of The Golden Quill national spelling bee and decides to cause trouble by hijacking the competition. While reporter Jenny Widgeon attempts to discover his true motivation, Guy finds himself forging an unlikely alliance with a competitor, awkward ten-year-old Chaitanya Chopra, who is completely unfazed by Guy's take-no-prisoners approach to life.
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Are the words that people use bad or are the people that use the words bad?The answer is in this book, which graduates to answering deeper, more life-fulfilling questions like, "When you are born again of God, can you sin?"Every answer includes the precise scripture of where it is found in the King James Version of the Bible.The reader will find that every problem and every question in life can be solved and answered by knowing God's words and obeying...
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F*ck the F*ckity F*ckin' F*cker. Readers of Katherine Dunn won't be surprised that this was her father's favorite sentence, or that, as a young girl, she heard it as a kind of profane poem, a secret song. For many of us, the language of Geek Love carries a similar staying power, born of Dunn's agile use of language and her strange, beautiful diction. And as a true exegete of the expletive, she remained undividedly devoted to obscenity both as scholar...
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Jeffrey Joseph Juliana, nee Geoffrey Giuliano, nee Jaganntha Dasa, is a man of many faces and adventures. A plumber's son from Western, New York now in his mid-sixties, this transient soul has experienced a wide swath of poverty, riches, fame, anonymity , hedonism and piety. At the same time 50% monk and 50% monkey, Giuliano is best known as the author of a shelfful of books on the Beatles and other rock icons, a well-known film actor, world traveler,...
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Our story begins on Planet Alphabet, the land where all the alien letters live and where the AlphaBeings enlist the help of their new friends whom they met on Planet Earth last year (which is a very long story). Princess C for Caylee and Prince M for Miles has vowed to help the AlphaBeings in their quest to rid their planet of bad words once and for all!
But can they do it, and how will they do it?
I can't wait to find out, can you? So come join...
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Baseball, Boys, and Bad Words reveals the hilarity and magic of Little League baseball.
Often called "the funniest tale ever told," this story will have you laughing until you cry, while warming your soul, reminding you of childhood and a simpler time.
In 1970, eleven-year-old Andy Andrews and a group of friends began a Little League season they would never forget. All the usual ingredients were there-well-worn gloves, freshly cut grass, and new...
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