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Top 5: Lists of Jewish Character and Characters
by Dovid BashevkinTop 5: Lists of Jewish Character and Characters A collection of Dovid Bashevkin's beloved columns in Mishpacha Magazine that highlight the comedic idiosyncrasies and nuances of Jewish life. In these pages, you'll discover your favorite characters from shul, the subtle dilemmas of Jewish life, and the joy and fun throughout the Jewish calendar. A new appreciation for Yiddishkeit is just a Top 5 list away. DOVID BASHEVKIN is the director of education for NCSY, the youth movement of the Orthodox Union. He has written several scholarly works about failure in Jewish thought. This is his first published work of narishkeit. When Dovid isn't writing about failure, he's trying to laugh about it. Dovid has been rejected from many prestigious fellowships and awards.
Top Elf
by Caleb HuettThese elves are off the shelves. Ollie and Celia think they know what the life of an elf is supposed to be like: Make toys. Help Santa. Make more toys. Help Santa. Try out a new ice-cream flavor. Help Santa. But then Santa rocks the North Pole with a surprise announcement! He's decided this is going to be his last year in the Big Red Suit--and instead of letting his oldest son, the unfortunately named Klaus Claus, take over, he's opening up the job to any kid who wants to apply--Claus or elf. The Santa Trials have begun! Ollie and Celia enter the contest, having no idea whatsoever that they'll soon have to squeeze through impossible chimneys, race runaway sleighs, sweet-talk a squad of rowdy reindeer, and consume cruel amounts of cookies and milk. It's both an adventure and a survival test, far beyond what any elf or Claus has been asked to do before. But whoever rises to the top will get a reward even bigger than Christmas . . .
Top Gear: Motor Mania
by Ivan Berg Nik BergDid you know that Jasons and Tracies crash more cars than Jacquelines and Damons? Or that a boomerang can be used to repair a knackered clutch? Have you ever wanted to visit a naked car show, wondered what it's like to drive on the world's most dangerous road, or receive the world's most expensive speeding ticket?Want to read about flying cars, amphibious cars, or atomic cars? What about the Accord that can actually strike a chord, or the love car park? Dip inside to find all these plus stacks of other stuff, including cars in films, cars on TV, cars in songs - even cars as coffins.Top Gear: Motor Mania is a car book like no other. It's full of the strangest stories, fascinating facts and spectacular stats - a must for any car nut.
Top Gear: My Dad Had One of Those
by Giles Chapman Richard PorterGood old Dad and his good old Dad's car. As solid and dependable as the man himself, if a little less balding, Dad's car was almost a member of the family, whisking you to exciting days out, or just to visit boring relatives in distant parts of the country to the chant of 'are we nearly there yet?' Like the man behind the wheel, Dad's car made you feel safe and secure, because it was as reassuring and sensible as he was. Maybe in an idle moment Dad dreamt of driving something rakish and fast, just like in idle moments he dreamt that your Mum was Twiggy, but the demands of family life meant soft tops, hard suspension and anything even remotely sporty were off the cards. Even anything less than four doors would have been wildly hedonistic. But although the family car may not have been the very essence of rock 'n' roll, Dad was proud of it. Spanning the 1950s to the '80s, this is a celebration of the heyday of the Dad car. From much loved family workhorses like the Ford Cortina and Vauxhall Viva to the rakish excitement and playground kudos of the Rover 3500 and Citroen CX, all the great Dad cars are here. Reflecting a time before people carriers and lifestyle off roaders, when the nearest thing to an airbag was hiding behind your fat brother, this is a celebration of simple, honest cars that were as flawed and as loveable as your Dad himself.
Top Gear: The Alternative Highway Code
by Ministry of Top GearAs everyone knows, there are three ways of doing things. The right way, the wrong way and the Top Gear way. Although, on reflection, that's usually just the wrong way, but faster and with more shouting. Anyway, the good news is that this third way of doing things can be applied to almost anything, and that includes motoring in general. All you need is the right guidance, which is where the brand new Top Gear Alternative Highway Code comes in. Top Gear's Altnernative Highway Code will show you how to bring the ambitious but rubbish philosophies of the world's most popular TV programme to your driving, containing advice on general motoring, as well as specific tips on how to deal with common eventualities like a rapidly sinking amphibious camper van, a caravan airship that's just crashed into a small bush, or a stupid home-made limousine that's snapped in half while transporting a top celebrity to an awards ceremony.Road users should not leave home without it.
Top Marks for Murder (A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery)
by Robin StevensDaisy and Hazel return to their beloved Deepdean School for Girls only for a murder to put the school under threat of closure in this gripping eighth novel of the Murder Most Unladylike series.Daisy and Hazel are finally back at Deepdean, and the school is preparing for a most exciting fiftieth anniversary celebration. Plans for a weekend of festivities are in full swing. But in the detectives&’ long absence, Deepdean has changed. Daisy has lost her popularity crown to a fascinating new girl, and many of the Detective Society&’s old allies are now their sworn enemies. Then the girls witness a shocking incident in the woods close by—a crime that they&’re sure is linked to the anniversary. As parents and alumni descend upon Deepdean, decades-old grudges, rivalries, and secrets begin to surface, and soon Deepdean&’s future is at stake. Can the girls solve the case and save their home?
Top Secret Smackdown (Mac B., Kid Spy #3)
by Mac BarnettMac B. is back on another madcap adventure -- this time a stolen raven threatens to topple the Queen and it's up to Mac to smackdown his KGB rival once and for all!Get the latest in the New York Times bestselling series, MAC B., KID SPY!Ravens have been stolen from the Tower of London! Mac B.'s top-secret mission? Travel to Iceland and retrieve the ravens... or Britain is ruined!In Iceland, Mac discovers secret submarines, hungry polar bears, mysterious blueprints... and his old archnemesis! Is the KGB man behind this birdnapping? Can Mac get the ravens to safety? It's time for an epic, top-secret smackdown between these two secret agents! With full-color illustrations on every page and fascinating historical facts woven throughout, this series offers adventure, intrigue, absurdity, history, and humor. Catch the latest in the totally smart and sidesplittingly funny series, Mac B., Kid Spy.
Top Secret Twenty-One: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Stephanie Plum #21)
by Janet EvanovichCatch a professional assassin: top priority. Find a failure-to-appear and collect big bucks: top score. How she’ll pull it all off: top secret. <p><p>Trenton, New Jersey’s favorite used-car dealer, Jimmy Poletti, was caught selling a lot more than used cars out of his dealerships. Now he’s out on bail and has missed his date in court, and bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is looking to bring him in. Leads are quickly turning into dead ends, and all too frequently into dead bodies. Even Joe Morelli, the city’s hottest cop, is struggling to find a clue to the suspected killer’s whereabouts. These are desperate times, and they call for desperate measures. So Stephanie is going to have to do something she really doesn’t want to do: protect former hospital security guard and general pain in her behind Randy Briggs. Briggs was picking up quick cash as Poletti’s bookkeeper and knows all his boss’s dirty secrets. Now Briggs is next on Poletti’s list of people to put six feet under. <p><p>To top things off, Ranger—resident security expert and Stephanie’s greatest temptation—has been the target of an assassination plot. He’s dodged the bullet this time, but if Ranger wants to survive the next attempt on his life, he’ll have to enlist Stephanie’s help and reveal a bit more of his mysterious past. <p><p>Death threats, highly trained assassins, highly untrained assassins, and Stark Street being overrun by a pack of feral Chihuahuas are all in a day’s work for Stephanie Plum. The real challenge is dealing with her Grandma Mazur’s wild bucket list. A boob job and getting revenge on Joe Morelli’s Grandma Bella can barely hold a candle to what’s number one on the list—but that’s top secret.
Top Tips For Life
by Kate ReardonFollowing the bestselling Top Tips For Girls, this book is brimming with more brilliant and essential suggestions on how to do absolutely anything.A compilation of the very best tips from the hugely popular website toptips.com, this book can help you out with everything from getting gum out of your hair to preventing wrinkles around your eyes, from beating cellulite to discovering the secret of happiness itself.Ever wondered....How to stop a ladder in your tights?How not to look tired?How to slice an onion without crying?How to find the joy in housework?How to survive Christmas?How to feel more confident?Then look no further! This is THE essential guide to life, those annoying things that men don't seem to notice, and everything.
Top Tips for Life
by David HarrisLife doesn’t come with an instruction manual. But if it did, and if that manual was cobbled together in five minutes by a drunken idiot-genius, then it might look something like these crowd-sourced tips and ill-thought-out ideas. Covering everything from how best to turn your cat into a fearsome stegosaurus to pre-empting jellyfish stings, this book presents the wealth of knowledge gleaned from the dusty vaults of twitter’s hugely popular @TwopTwips. From the profane to the ridiculous, these laugh-at-loud nuggets of advice, with absurd and informative illustrations, will change your life in a hugely insignificant way.Tips include:BORED of a friend's text messages? Reply with 'unsubscribe' and they'll get the hint.SPICE up a boring salad by replacing the vegetables with bacon and placing between two slices of bread.STOP your dog from pulling on its lead by walking a bit faster.PREPARE your children for office life by acting awkwardly around them in the kitchen.AVOID the hassle and expense of hair straighteners by not eating your crusts.
Toploader
by Ed O'LoughlinIn a novel compared by some reviewers to Catch-22 for its mix of humor and outrage, this brilliant send-up of modern military adventurism is an insightful and darkly comic anti-war masterpiece. Its setting is the Embargoed Zone (or "Easy"), headquarters to the coalition of western allies, somewhere in the Middle East.Spying inside the Easy is expensive and hazardous, and the "terrorist" double agent known as Cobra needs his wages paid in cash in order to survive. But his down-at-heels spymaster from the occupying forces, one Captain Smith, is broke and forced to pay his agent in kind--with a top-loading washing machine pilfered from the American compound. When it turns out that this piece of clothes-washing technology is in fact a critical piece of military hardware essential to the allied war effort, a frantic scramble to retrieve the device is unleashed.Packed with unforgettable characters--including a resourceful teenage girl from the occupied territory, an intrepid local reporter navigating the Easy in search of the truth, an egotistical western blogger with delusions of relevance, a hapless drone pilot with an itchy trigger finger, and at least one very unfortunate donkey--Toploader is a savage and hilarious indictment of remote-control warfare and imperialism by proxy.
Toppleton's Client
by John Kendrick BangsAn extravaganza that ranges all the way from dry Stocktonian humor to roaring farce. The central idea is that of the exchange of souls between bodies, and we may easily imagine the opportunities it offers a writer intent only upon the possible humorous complications. The "client" is an exiled spirit whose body is occupied by a usurping fiend, and who engages Toppleton (a lawyer whose chief work of reference is the "Comic Blackstone") to possess him once more of the bodily estate that he has lost. But the fiend is too sharp for the lawyer, and, preferring Toppleton's corporeal tenement to that in which he has been fraudulently dwelling, effects a substitution, and leaves Toppleton helpless, either to protect the rights of his client or to re-establish his own.
Topsy & Turvys
by Peter NewellQuirky, clever, and marvelously inventive, this book takes the reader into a world of imagination and adventure. It provides as much entertainment for adults as it does for the children for whom it was created. Topsys & Turvys Book 2 also available from Tuttle Publishing.
Topsy & Turvys
by Peter NewellQuirky, clever, and marvelously inventive, this book takes the reader into a world of imagination and adventure. It provides as much entertainment for adults as it does for the children for whom it was created. Topsys & Turvys Book 2 also available from Tuttle Publishing.
Topsys & Turvys Book 2
by Peter NewellQuirky, clever, and marvelously inventive, this book takes the reader into a world of imagination and adventure. It provides as much entertainment for adults as it does for the children for whom it was created. Topsys & Turvys Book 1 also available from Tuttle Publishing.
Topsys & Turvys Book 2
by Peter NewellQuirky, clever, and marvelously inventive, this book takes the reader into a world of imagination and adventure. It provides as much entertainment for adults as it does for the children for whom it was created. Topsys & Turvys Book 1 also available from Tuttle Publishing.
Tor.com Bundle 2 - October 2015
by K. J. Parker Angela Slatter Matt WallaceTor.com Publishing's second ebook bundle contains all of our novellas published in October 2015: The Last Witness by K. J. Parker, Of Sorrow and Such by Angela Slatter, and Envy of Angels by Matt Wallace.
Tor.com Bundle 4 - January 2016: The Drowning Eyes, Patchwerk, and Lustlocked
by David Tallerman Emily Foster Matt WallaceTor.com Publishing's fourth ebook bundle contains all our novellas published in January 2016: The Drowning Eyes by Emily Foster, Patchwerk by David Tallerman, and Lustlocked by Matt Wallace.
Torbellino de pasión: destino Montecarlo (Ladronas de corazones #Volumen 3)
by Marian ArpaSony sabe que se tiene que mantener bien lejos de Daniel Collado, sin embargo, parece encontrárselo por todas partes. Tercera entrega de la trepidante, divertida y apasionante serie Ladronas de corazones. Sony Logan es una ingeniera informática, que vive Innsbruck, su ciudad natal y adora las montañas que la rodean. Vive en una casa en las alturas y adora practicar el parapente. Lo hace siempre que puede, o cuando necesita desconectar de su trabajo para aclararse las ideas. En uno de estos vuelos, un hombre se la lleva por delante cuando toca el suelo y ella le dice de todo menos bonito. ¡Hay personas a las que no se les debería permitir volar! Daniel Collado es socio de la aseguradora Erlington, de París. Ha trabajado mucho para tener un despacho en la última planta, la de los ejecutivos. Es un hombre satisfecho de su vida, no cree en el amor, pero no le hace falta nunca compañía femenina. Una mala experiencia del pasado lo hace desconfiar de todas las mujeres, y no deja que ninguna se le acerque demasiado. Se muestra ante el mundo como si fuera su dueño, además es prepotente. Hasta que encuentra una mujer que le canta las cuarenta. Como está acostumbrado a que todas le dediquen caídas de pestañas, no sabe cómo reaccionar ante aquella que le grita. Sony recibe la llamada de su amiga, que la convoca a Formentera porque necesita su ayuda para llevar a cabo una misión: recuperar los objetos que un desalmado ha robado antes de que estallara la Guerra Civil española y devolverlo a sus legítimos dueños. La hazaña no le resultará nada fácil. Mucho menos, cuando Daniel se dedica a perseguir a Sony. A él le atrae a la vez que le intriga esa mujer que parece quererlo bien lejos de ella. No está acostumbrado a que le den calabazas y Sony no para de dárselas, lo que la hace más deseable a sus ojos. ¿Logrará Daniel salvar las barreras que ella ha construido alrededor de su corazón? ¿Será Sony capaz de alejarse de ese hombre que la atrae como ninguno? * ¿Hasta qué punto reparar un agravio justifica cometer otro? ¿Es la venganza una forma de justicia? Las ladronas de corazones tienen claro que harán lo necesario para recuperar las reliquias robadas a sus familias años atrás. Tienen un elaborado plan, dividido en cinco fases. Una por cada objeto a rescatar. Y, sin saberlo, una por cada corazón a conquistar. Cinco mujeres que se unieron para ser ladronas de tesoros robados terminarán siendo ladronas de corazones.
Torched
by John BrosnanFirst, you feel uncomfortably hot. But it's no use turning up the air conditioning or reaching for a long, cool drink. Whatever you do, the temperature inside you keeps rising. And rising. Soon you're in agony beyond your wildest nightmares as your whole body is engulfed in searing, unbearable heat. You go mad briefly with the pain. Then, with luck, you black out. If your luck holds, you're dead soon after. Very dead. But your involuntary cremation continues. Your blood boils in your veins for a few seconds - before it bursts them. As your tortured corpse dries out from the horror-heat inside it, your skin blisters, pops, bursts - and then flares into scorching flame fueled by your own melding body-fat. Clouds of choking, greasy smoke join the searing blaze consuming what's left of you. You have become your own funeral pyre...
Torneo de magia (Jugando con Aby #Volumen 2)
by Jugando con Aby¿Te imaginas participar en un torneo de magia? ¡Es mi oportunidad para demostrar que ya soy una gran bruja! Estoy convencida de que puedo ganar, pero primero tengo que solucionar un problemita: me he equivocado con un hechizo... ¡y he convertido a mi mejor amiga en un gato! ¿Conseguiré hacerme con el premio?
Torpe de mí: Como la vida misma
by Pati Ramos¿Qué haces cuándo te das cuenta de que te has estancado en algún punto en tu vida? Una novela llena de risa, diversión, locuras y amor. El mundo perfecto de Damien se verá patas arriba con la llegada de Abi. Voy a cumplir treinta años y sigo soltera y sin un buen trabajo en el que valoren mis conocimientos y profesionalidad... Y en el ámbito amoroso, ¡ni qué decir!, ¡estoy más sola que mi tía y su gata Gertudris! Estoy a punto de perder mi apartamento y volver a vivir en la casa de mis padres, de donde solo quería salir para progresar, ser alguien independiente y demostrarle a mi familia que sí podía comerme el mundo, que no me importaba la opinión de nadie, porque era mi vida y la de nadie más... Y ahora me lamento escuchando opiniones que no me ayudan en nada. Pues sí, en eso se ha convertido mi existencia en estos últimos dos años. ¿Y acaso todo esto no es ya lo suficientemente malo como para que otra desgracia más me ocurriese? Oh... vale... está claro que el destino me odia.
Torpedo Juice
by Tim DorseyThe drinks are on Sunshine State historian/spree killer Serge A. Storms, who's decided it's high time he got married. So he's motoring down to the Florida Keys -- the ultimate end of the line -- in search of Ms. Right . . .and finding his doped-up basket case bud Coleman along the way. But for Serge, "getting hitched" doesn't necessarily mean "settling down" -- not when South Florida is crawling with slimeballs, swindlers, unrepentant jerks, and annoying bystanders whose ranks need some serious thinning.
Total Access: A Journey to the Center of the NFL Universe
by Rich EisenFootball fans are tired of lame memoirs or technical fantasy football books. Rich Eisen's Total Access gives them what they want—a chance to share in his world of a never-ending football season.It's about eating, living, and breathing the most popular sport in the history of America. The passion. The pageantry. The pigskin. Thanks to his role as host of NFL Total Access, Eisen gets to go to virtually every event on the NFL calendar—the Super Bowl, the Pro Bowl, the Scouting Combine, the NFL Draft, and the Hall of Fame Weekend. You name it, Eisen is there. And thanks to this book, you can go along for the ride with him—in front of the camera interviewing league MVPs or behind the scenes with some of the game's all-time greats.Total Access is the ultimate football book for fans everywhere.
Total D*ck
by Christina Saunders Celia AaronFrom the author of Kicked and the co-author of the Cleat Chaser duology comes the third book in the BAD BITCH trilogy by Celia Aaron.I'm your classic skirt chaser. A womanizer. A total d*ck. My reputation is dirtier than a New Orleans street after a Mardi Gras parade. I take unwinnable cases and win them. Where people see defeat, I see a big fat paycheck. And when most men see rejection, it's because the sexiest woman at the bar has already promised to go home with me.But Scarlett Carmichael is the one person I can't seem to conquer. This too-cool former debutante has it all--class, attitude, and a body that begs to be worshiped. I've never worked with a person like her before--hell, I've never played nice with anyone before in my life, and I'm not about to start with her. This woman wasn't meant to be played nicely with. It's going to be dirty. It's going to be hot. She's about to spend a lot of time with the biggest d*ck in town. And she's going to love every minute of it...