Stiff: Text Classics

Stiff: Text Classics
Title Stiff: Text Classics PDF eBook
Author Shane Maloney
Publisher Text Publishing
Pages 297
Release 2012-04-26
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1921921854

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The fiddle at the Pacific Pastoral meat-packing works was a nice little earner for all concerned until Herb Gardiner reported finding a body in number 3 chiller. An accident, of course, but just the excuse a devious political operator might grab to stir up trouble with the unions. Enter Murray Whelan, minder and fixer for the Minister of Industry.

Death in Brunswick

Death in Brunswick
Title Death in Brunswick PDF eBook
Author Boyd Oxlade
Publisher Text Publishing
Pages 221
Release 2012-11-21
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1922148008

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Down on his luck and hard up for cash, Carl works in the kitchen of a seedy rock 'n' roll joint in ethnically diverse Brunswick. The bouncers and bosses terrify him, he's desperately in love with a much younger Greek waitress, and to make matters worse his mother has come down from Sydney to stay with him. Then a dead body turns up.

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Title Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers PDF eBook
Author Mary Roach
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 305
Release 2004-04-27
Genre Medical
ISBN 0393324826

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A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including research into new surgical procedures, space exploration, and a Tennessee human decay research facility.

Stiff

Stiff
Title Stiff PDF eBook
Author Stephanie Nicole Norris
Publisher
Pages 208
Release 2021-03-29
Genre
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Three friends experiencing life's uncertain changes decide they need relaxation beyond the usual girls' night out. A friend tells them about, The Den, an upscale male strip club. They find out the club is a shell of what really lies beneath--and soon, the ladies are venturing into their mind and body's wildest desires.This is Asia McClendon's story.

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Title Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers PDF eBook
Author Mary Roach
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 305
Release 2004-05-17
Genre Science
ISBN 0393069192

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Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach’s “acutely entertaining, morbidly fascinating” (Susan Adams, Forbes) classic, now with a new epilogue. For two thousand years, cadavers – some willingly, some unwittingly – have been involved in science’s boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They’ve tested France’s first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender confirmation surgery, cadavers have helped make history in their quiet way. “Delightful—though never disrespectful” (Les Simpson, Time Out New York), Stiff investigates the strange lives of our bodies postmortem and answers the question: What should we do after we die? “This quirky, funny read offers perspective and insight about life, death and the medical profession. . . . You can close this book with an appreciation of the miracle that the human body really is.” —Tara Parker-Pope, Wall Street Journal “Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting.” —Entertainment Weekly

Such Is Life

Such Is Life
Title Such Is Life PDF eBook
Author Joseph Furphy
Publisher BoD - Books on Demand
Pages 560
Release 2023-05-10
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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Such Is Life is an Australian novel written by Joseph Furphy under a pseudonym of “Tom Collins” and published in 1903. It purports to be a series of diary entries by the author, selected at approximately one-month intervals during late 1883 and early 1884. “Tom Collins” travels rural New South Wales and Victoria, interacting and talking at length with a variety of characters including the drivers of bullock-teams, itinerant swagmen, boundary riders, and squatters (the owners of large rural properties). The novel is full of entertaining and sometimes melancholy incidents mixed with the philosophical ramblings of the author and his frequent quotations from Shakespeare and poetry. Its depictions of the Australian bush, the rural lifestyle, and the depredations of drought are vivid. Furphy is sometimes called the “Father of the Australian Novel,” and Such Is Life is considered a classic of Australian literature.

Hard Rain Falling

Hard Rain Falling
Title Hard Rain Falling PDF eBook
Author Don Carpenter
Publisher New York Review of Books
Pages 337
Release 2010-06-23
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1590173902

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A hardboiled novel about life in the American underground, from the pool halls of Portland to the cells of San Quentin. Simply one of the finest books ever written about being down on your luck. Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary confinement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class—married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But neither Jack nor Billy can escape their troubled pasts, and they will meet again in San Quentin before their strange double drama comes to a violent and revelatory end.