This is my book for the Myspace junkies, the cafe freaks, the hard rockers and heavy metalists, the freaks, the geeks, the nerds, and everyone in between; the morbid and malevolent, the beautiful and benevolent. For anyone who's ever been screwed, shafted, cheated on, dumped, hurt, left out to dry, or left out to die. This is the little piece of me that lets me laugh at the world. Because I'm still here, despite their best wishes.

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Hobbled Stirrups is a no-holds-barred account of one of the few women to ride saddle broncs professionally. But the real fun, frolic and well bruised flesh happened in the whistle stop towns in between. A life lived by Burnett–as rich as the Comstock, as wild as a riot, as sad as an eight high poker hand.

Willie J. Wheeler began his career in writing at UMass Amherst from 1974 through 1979, where he graduated with a BA degree. For three of those years, he edited a campus newspaper named Nummo News. Since that time, he has self-published volumes of poetry and fiction. His life mission is to spread love and happiness to all mankind. He has had a lot of different jobs in his life, but the one job he enjoys the most is writing. He hopes by reading his fiction you come away a little bit sweeter and a lot lighthearted.

Lets face it: Theres no time like the present to learn English. Its the worlds most widely spoken language. It permeates nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Mastering pronunciation, figures of speech, and idioms are just a few of the challenges students may face. Even so, learning to actually use American English comfortably isnt among the easiest of tasks, Author Jeannie Yang hopes to help with that. Numbered lessons and regimented exercises only serve to make an already daunting task seem impossible. They dont help, so they arent welcome in this book. Professor Jeannie Yang has takes a new approach to learning conversational Englishinviting you to the conversation! Written in the form of a movie screenplay, these fictional scenarios innovatively invite you to actively engage in conversations on a variety of subjects and in a variety of settings. As you speak their words, you can imagine that you are one of the charactersand youll be learning at the same time. Youll meet Mi Heea sweet and spunky young woman from Korea who dreams of studying at an American university Kennyan intellectual from Hong Kong whos lived and studied in the United States for years RoyKennys best friend, whose liberal use of slang is in stark contrast to Kennys esoteric vocabulary Whether you are going on a cruise or heading for a job interview, this book serves as a practical and entertaining guide to getting more comfortable with conversational American English.