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Travis Simmons, aka The Big Funny, is working to change the world one joke at a time. Some people hug trees; others run for political office. Travis Simmons is dedicated to comedy for the sake of people. He makes them laugh by being honest, telling the truth, and sprinkling in an impression or two.

Sure, dragonslaying is heroic business. But some poor bastards have to handle the dirty work of cleaning up the god-awful mess the heroes leave behind. Gwill, the grizzled second-in-command of the fabled Iron Line, saw things go a little sideways at the end of their last adventure. After a successful dragonslaying, they might have forgotten to burn the dragon's body. Now Gwill needs a few warm bodies to take care of it. All they have to do is burn the body of the dragon and all's well that ends well. This is where the Novices come in....

No good deed goes unpunished. Detroit is a hole where even a werewolf's sins can be buried. Or so Jake Brennan hopes. Hiding from his hunters, shooting heroin to negate the effect of the full moon, he is beginning to turn things around. And the day he is witness to a brutal attack on ER doctor Gwen Cheevey, Jake is forced to transform into something new: a hero. But when a clip of his good deed goes viral, Jake's days of hiding are over. To keep Gwen safe, Jake will need to embrace the beast within.

Growing up on his father's ship was an adventure for young John. His world crumbled the day the Barbary Pirates took him away in chains, along with his mother and sister. Five years later, after a daring escape to America, John is eager to join the USS Philadelphia and meet the corsairs with steel. Then, one stormy night, a stranger brings word: His sister, Kaitlin, is alive. John must risk everything on a bold plan to sail to the Barbary Coast.

The life of an unscrupulous bastard can sometimes be fraught with difficulties. First, there was the sweet young thing who claimed he'd impregnated her. (Know what a condom is, Brett?) Then there was the desperate young man who wanted to take him to court. (One of the risks you run when you insist upon being so unscrupulous.) How about the guy who showed up at his apartment and threatened him at gunpoint? (Punching him out at that party might not have been such a good idea.)

"I don't believe in the term gang. Yes I've had a violent past and made reckless choices I'm not proud of but it's too easy (and lazy) to throw around this gang label. We were just a group of multi-cultural kids who lives on common ground and shared a similar struggle. I'm not trying to say I'm just some victim of circumstances, the truth is I became a victim of my excuses. There was a strong come-unity but we also came from broken families and had crime, drugs and violence all around us."

The D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe, launched on June 6, 1944, is widely referred to as the longest day of World War Two. Historian Victor Brooks argues that 1944 was, in effect, the longest year for Americans of that era both in terms of United States casualties and in deciding the outcome of war itself.

When Sunny Lytle is evicted for keeping her fur family of thirteen dogs, eight cats, two ferrets, and two rabbits in her apartment in Kentucky, she packs them into a converted school bus and returns to her hometown, DeLeon Springs, Florida. Her dream is to create a no-kill animal rescue, but survival soon takes top priority. Camping in the woods is no longer the peaceful haven of her teen years, and the brutal demands of nature and the threatening intervention of Rita, a well-meaning veterinarian, create an ongoing struggle.

In this striking and bleak, yet luminous debut collection, Nathan Ballingrud, winner of the inaugural Shirley Jackson Award, uses the trappings of the Gothic and the uncanny to investigate a distinctly American landscape: The loneliest and darkest corners of contemporary life. Ballingrud’s stories are love stories. They’re also monster stories. Sometimes the monsters collected here are vampires or werewolves.

We've all seen them - the stubborn tail-gater who follows too close, for too long...the wild driver who weaves through lanes on a crowded highway...the driver who causes accidents but is never a victim of one. These are the jackals, hunters who follow the nation's highways and byways, preying on the weak and unsuspecting. Jim Scott's been hunting jackals for some time now. They took someone he loved, once, and he's never forgiven them. And Jim doesn't fight alone.

Trade Minister Rlinda Kett seeks to reestablish contact with lost human colonies that have vanished in the chaos, and she travels to a planet called Happiness, site of an isolated neo-Amish colony where the treacherous Prince Daniel was exiled. As a civil war brews among the Roamer clans over the old ways versus new business methods, some brave clans venture back to skymining again, harvesting the restless clouds of huge gas giant planets - where the threat of the devastating hydrogue aliens always looms....

Discover what it takes to overcome and Win! Do you find it difficult to succeed? Is your past keeping you from having happiness? Does it seem impossible to find total fulfillment in life? Travis Wolfe answered Yes to these questions. Born into poverty, placed into foster care, abused, arrested, and told he'd never amount to anything in life - Travis defied all odds and survived the gauntlet. Today, he's the founder of his own company, a speaker, motivator, father, husband, and a success.

This Sumoreads summary and analysis offers supplementary material to Barking Up the Wrong Tree to help you distill the key takeaways, review the book's content, and further understand the writing style and overall themes from an editorial perspective. Whether you'd like to deepen your understanding, refresh your memory, or simply decide whether or not this book is for you, Sumoreads summary and analysis is here to help. Absorb everything you need to know in under 40 minutes!

Acuff takes the view of a casual observer, weaving into his narrative brief experiences from his life and the lives of other people to drive home his points about the evils of perfectionism in his book, Finish.

Nina Riggs' heartbreakingly beautiful book The Bright Hour recounts the small moments of her long journey with cancer, both watching it take her mother's life and the path from her own diagnosis to her deathbed. This SUMOREADS Summary & Analysis offers chapter synopses and analysis to help you understand the arc of grief, pain, and mortality, while providing a way to find beauty, solace, and even hope in those moments. This SUMOREADS Summary & Analysis offers supplementary material to The Bright Hour to help you distill the key takeaways, review the book's content, and further understand the writing style and overall themes from an editorial perspective.

In their book, Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-lived, Joyful Life Bill Burnett and Dave Evans offer practical, actionable advice on how to change the way you look at your life, and how to design the life you've always dreamed of. (This is a summary, analysis and review of the book and not the original book.)

Don't miss out on the unforgettable wisdom of Angela Duckworth's New York Times best-selling book, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. This Sumoreads summary includes key takeaways and analysis to help you quickly soak up the essence of her deep insight. The purpose of this Sumoreads Summary & Analysis is to help you decide if it's worth the time, money and effort listening to the original book (if you haven't already). This analysis is meant as a supplement to, and not a replacement for, Grit.

Don't miss this summary of holistic nutritionist Kelly LeVeque's book, Body Love: Live in Balance, Weigh What You Want, and Free Yourself from Food Drama Forever. LeVeque's book proposes an alternative to restrictive dieting that lets you lead a fuller, happier, and healthier life.

When Michael Blumlein's debut collection The Brains of Rats first appeared, it marked the arrival of a major new talent, earning widespread acclaim from mainstream critics as well as genre stalwarts Peter Straub, Harlan Ellison, Pat Cadigan and many others.

Seventeen years after it began, the interstellar war has taken its toll: the inhabitants of Earth are desperate to find a way to defeat the Argoni, a merciless and horrifying alien race. Light-years away from the fighting, mechanic Landry Stanton lives a peaceful, mundane life on the desolate planet Procyon One, and that's just the way he likes it. But when an unauthorized trip to the other side of the planet leaves him shipwrecked and stranded alongside a hostile alien that wants him dead, Landry discovers a terrifying secret.