The original Smart Aleck Chronicles was published to little, if any notice in 2007. This was followed five years later with the release of a second volume. As noted in the prefaces to both these collections, their intended purpose was ...

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Author: Mike Robertson

Publisher: AuthorHouse

ISBN: 9781491849934

Category: Fiction

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The original Smart Aleck Chronicles was published to little, if any notice in 2007. This was followed five years later with the release of a second volume. As noted in the prefaces to both these collections, their intended purpose was to present to readers a series of literary entertainments on a range of issues, activities, personalities and phenomena. In this, the third volume, these observations and commentaries continue, combined once again with short works of fiction. The author hopes, as he did with respect to the two previous volumes, that this edition is faithful to the lofty standards and possible amusements of those books.

The original Smart Aleck Chronicles was published to little, if any notice in 2007. As noted in the preface to that volume, it had neither plot or identifiable structure, its intended purpose being to present a series of entertainments ...

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Author: Mike Robertson

Publisher: AuthorHouse

ISBN: 9781468524291

Category: Fiction

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The original Smart Aleck Chronicles was published to little, if any notice in 2007. As noted in the preface to that volume, it had neither plot or identifiable structure, its intended purpose being to present a series of entertainments on a wide range of ridiculous activities that constitute everyday life. Whether it was faithful to that lofty purpose remains a mystery, even to the author that made that bold declaration. Four years later, a second volume of the Smart Aleck Chronicles appears, its intent no less high minded than the standards of lunacy reached by its predecessor, its implementation no less laughable. This time, as in the previous volume, there are pithy and pointless observations that may have appeared in previous publications for which the author may have had responsibility, fictitious biographies of friends and colleagues, several short works of fiction and top ten lists of observations that may be symptomatic of clinical insanity. Further, just to ensure that the reader is not entirely dismayed, there are also several courageous attempts at poetry.

... and if he had an idea that he was smart enough to find the pea every time , to string up the cash . ... to one side and informed them that if he only had the money , he could break the smart Aleck who was running that shell game .

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Author: Martyn W. Strouse

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ISBN: MINN:319510016340275

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Old Prod gave him half of all he had , and the Smart Aleck shot into the city the NOTTINGHAM SECULAR SOCIETY .-- On Wednesday first thing He was green , you know , and the appers spotted February 3 , at Mr. North's Temperance Hotel ...

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We know Sarah Jean has been itching to get him started talking, and now she's trying not to appear to be a brazen smart aleck. This is at lunch at Alethea's, in the Inn of Cape May, where they've given us a separate dining room.

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Author: David Huddle

Publisher: Tupelo Press

ISBN: 9781936797585

Category: Fiction

Page: 294

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A work of uncanny originality, David Huddle's nineteenth book is the account of an extraordinary death trip taken by a charismatic and beloved woman, her husband, and an astonishing number of offspring, from infants to young adults. The Faulkes Chronicle explores how children grieve, and shows how the wit and courage of even the littlest brothers and sisters can be a source of resilience. Familial conversation composes an intimate requiem, transforming loss into comprehension. Only one of our finest writers could manage this delicate material. The Faulkes Chronicle is a brief, autumnal novel— made of momentary details yet with an encompassing grandeur.

“A smart aleck with an unpleasant tinge of arrogance,” I saw with a glance at an email that made Doreen guffaw. Much as this irritated me, I couldn't contest it. Even you seemed to have had enough of me. I don't know if it was because ...

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Author: Wayne V. Miller

Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc

ISBN: 9781312891876

Category: Fiction

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The uncertainty of what we don’t know about our universe, once accepted, can lead us arbitrarily far. What we know about this chronicle: The narrator is John Densch, a frustrated husband, father and low-level technocrat who starts the whole ball rolling with a joke about a “bog monster.” We meet his wife, Doreen, who wants so badly for John to move beyond the imaginary ensnaring him, but finds that everything comes with a price; Bollum, a voice in young John’s head that told him tales of alien abduction and of a technological utopia for humanity, albeit one with an expiration date; and Derek, an abductee trapped on Bug World, at first a character in Bollum’s tales, but in time an alternate existence for John. As John is jolted from one conflict to another, on earth and in his head, he encounters questions big and small about faith and self-reliance, meaning and trust. Like Derek, he must decide to return to his normal life, or not; both know what they must swallow to get there.

“But I didn't.” “Why not?” He took a swig of the whiskey. “Because it felt like a violation of trust.” “I wasn't aware you worried about keeping my trust.” It was a smart-aleck comment, but it was after two am, and I was past caring.

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Author: Alyssa Rose Ivy

Publisher: Alyssa Rose Ivy

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Category: Fiction

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Some secrets are meant to be shared... Derrik Ray is angry. He’s been sent to guard supernatural secrets on a remote island populated mostly by inmates at a high security prison. His plan is to keep his head down and find a way out of the mess—until he meets Dinah. Dinah is tired. She’s tired of convincing herself she did the right thing taking the blame for a murder in order to protect a friend. She’s made it five years believing her freedom was worth the sacrifice—until she meets Derrik. When a science experiment goes haywire and another body is found on the mainland, Derrik and Dinah must turn to each other in order to save what they hold most dear. *New Adult Paranormal Romance*

He donned a smart-aleck grin. “She'll be pleased you asked after her.” When she entered the saloon's rear door and saw Devereux waiting at a table, her shoulders tightened defensively. Refusing to look at him again, she swiped a bottle ...

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Author: Dakota Kincaid

Publisher: Lulu.com

ISBN: 9781847284143

Category: Fiction

Page: 320

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Monday's Brutal Bastard rides the Arizona Territory murdering innocent young women, each kill more vicious than the last... And the clock is ticking. On Monday, he strikes again. Kate McCoy, a whiskey-drinking clairvoyant, and her even-tempered partner, Federal Marshal Trace Morgan, search for a sadistic butcher in Genesis, a small town run by a brooding sheriff. Is the killer the enigmatic preacher from McCoy's past? The secretive, fugitive tracker? The saloon's owner? Or the town's own Sheriff Devereux, a man intent with more on his mind than death? Genesis is the first Morgan & McCoy chronicle. It is followed by Hard Bargain, Lazarus, Hand of Justice, Brimstone, and Trigger. The seventh in the series, Dead Reckoning, is due in 2007.

“Hmmm.” McCoy clucked to her horse and moved out. “Why, you ornery little . . .” Morgan goosed Token. When he slowed next to McCoy, she wore a smirk. Smirking in return, Morgan said, “Much obliged, smart aleck ...

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Author: Dakota Kincaid

Publisher: Lulu.com

ISBN: 9781411677494

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Lying on the bed, Morgan turned a smart-aleck grin on Devereux. “Told you she wouldn't like it.” “I don't care if she does or not,” Devereux said. “Half the country is looking for a woman wearing a gun.

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Author: Dakota Kincaid

Publisher: Lulu.com

ISBN: 9780557153077

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