Dirty Eddie

Dirty Eddie PDF Author: Ludwig Bemelmans
Publisher: New York, Viking P
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Farcical story about Hollywood and its "characters."

Dirty Eddie

Dirty Eddie PDF Author: Ludwig Bemelmans
Publisher: New York, Viking P
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Farcical story about Hollywood and its "characters."

Why I Love the Ministry

Why I Love the Ministry PDF Author: Ronald Whitney
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1619043386
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Everyone has a story to tell. God loves good stories. That's why He has so many of them, and He is still working His purposes in people's lives today. The Whitneys have witnessed God's handiwork and experienced provision, rescues, healings and answers to prayer when things appeared hopeless. They've seen God bring good out of seemingly impossible situations. He is the Lord of fulfilled dreams and your small beginnings could lead you to paths of great adventure. Pastor Ron and Wanda have seen a great number of such events, some not even shared yet. They are still speaking, singing and writing. More adventure is coming! As you read these stories, you will learn why they love the ministry and you will also gain a greater understanding of the life-changing gospel of Christ. Ron Whitney was born in Kingston, Washington. He attended Northwest College in Kirkland, Washington where he met his wife, Wanda. Together they sponsored and directed Gospel MusicFests for five years at the Ocean Shores Convention Center. He has been a pastor for 40 years, author, singer, songwriter; missionary-evangelist to West Indies, South America, Uganda, W. Africa, Singapore and Malaysia; and currently is an evangelist and popular guest speaker. They now live in Ocean Shores, Washington.

The Oakdale Affair

The Oakdale Affair PDF Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1625588046
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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The THING moved down the hallway to the closed door. The dragging chain marked each foot of its advance. If it made other sounds they were drowned by the clanking of the links over the time roughened flooring. Within the room the five were frozen into utter silence, and beyond the door an equal quiet prevailed for a long minute; then a great force made the door creak and a weird scratching sounded high up upon the old fashioned panelling. Bridge heard a smothered gasp from the boy beside him, followed instantly by a flash of flame and the crack of a small caliber automatic; The Oskaloosa Kid had fired through the door. Edgar Rice Burroughs created one of the most iconic figures in American pop culture, Tarzan of the Apes, and it is impossible to overstate his influence on entire genres of popular literature in the decades after his enormously winning pulp novels stormed the public's imagination. The sequel to The Mucker, considered Burroughs' finest novel, The Oakdale Affair follows the continuing adventures of Mucker hero Billy Byrne's best friend, Bridge, in a tale of kidnapping, jewel thievery, and other nefarious acts in the devastated social and economic landscape of post-World War I America. Originally appearing as a serial in 1918, it did not appear first in book form until 1937.

The Oakdale Affair (橡樹谷事件)

The Oakdale Affair (橡樹谷事件) PDF Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher: Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Thirst

Thirst PDF Author: Christopher Pike
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442484683
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1240

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Drink deep from the first three volumes of the #1 New York Times bestselling Thirst series in this boxed set from Christopher Pike.Alisa has been a vampire for five thousand years, and she's always lived on the fringe of society in order to maintain her secret. But everything changes when she falls in love. Suddenly there is more at stake than her own existence. Her humanity is returning, and secrets from her past are coming back to haunt her. Alisa must quickly reconcile her new and changing identity, and figure out who to trust, before everything she's worked for in the past five millennia turns to ash.... In this boxed set containing Thirst No. 1, Thirst No. 2, and Thirst No. 3, follow Alisa's path from vampire to human to target of a covert organization, as she learns what it means to be truly alive.

Family Secrets

Family Secrets PDF Author: John Greco
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491791985
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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Its the early 1960s in Brooklyn, New York, when auto mechanic Michael Delagatta changes the course of his life in order to attain the same extravagant lifestyle as his cousin. As Michael embarks on a crime-filled journey orchestrated by members of the American Mafia, and rises within the organization, John F. Kennedy enters the political arena. As a favor to his father, Kennedy runs for President. The Mafia decides to rig the votes and help Kennedy win so he will hopefully ignore the family organization and its illegal money making operations. But when John appoints his brother, Bobby, to the position of Attorney General, all hell breaks loose as Bobby begins going after organized crime and the bosses. After the Mafia orders Michael to oversee the assassination of either John or Bobby, he soon discovers that the members of the mob are not the only ones who want Kennedy dead. As a history-making chain of events unfolds, Michael is left to harbor a dark secret for the rest of his days, leaving the possibility of an open-ended mystery to remain unsolved forever. In this historical thriller, a mobster who becomes intertwined in the controversy before, during, and after the assassinations of John and Bobby Kennedy sets out on a dangerous journey to save the family organization and hopefully himself from an untimely end.

The Baby Boom

The Baby Boom PDF Author: P. J. O'Rourke
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802193072
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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The New York Times–bestselling author looks at the sixties generation, and how he and his seventy-five million accomplices made America what it is today. A onetime editor-in-chief of National Lampoon who also spent years reporting for Rolling Stone and The Atlantic Monthly, P. J. O’Rourke is known as a conservative-minded political humorist and author of such bestsellers as Parliament of Whores. Not everyone knows that he was once a dedicated Marxist hippie type—living up to every stereotype of his postwar generation. In this book, at once a social history and a personal memoir (albeit with some impaired memory involved), he explores, with both fiercely biting wit and fondness, the mess that the baby boomers made, and the impact they’ve had on our world. “Dry wit that makes every chapter a delight . . . As a cultural analyst, O’Rourke’s ability and willingness to simultaneously lampoon and celebrate himself and his generation are unequaled.” —Publishers Weekly “A terrific American memoir, in tone a beguiling mix of Jean Shepherd and Animal House.” —Christopher Buckley, author of Boomsday “Simultaneously hilarious and brainy . . . holds a cracked magnifying glass up to the generation of Americans born between the end of World War II and the early 1960s. Sifting through demographic and economic data and combining the results with generous portions of personal memories, O’Rourke finds much to deplore in the boomer character, but even more to cherish and celebrate.” —Chicago Tribune “A comedic and caustic cautionary tale for future generations—and, for those of us who are Boomers, a nostalgic and hilarious diversion.” —NPR

Age and Guile

Age and Guile PDF Author: P. J. O'Rourke
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 1555847064
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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The political humorist shares his transformation from dirty hippie to conservative middle-aged grouch: “An incorrigible comic gift” (The New York Times Book Review). The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Give War a Chance was at one time a raving pinko, with scars on his formerly bleeding heart to prove it. In Age and Guile: Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut, P. J. O’Rourke chronicles the remarkable trajectory that took him from the lighthearted fun of the revolutionary barricades to the serious business of the nineteenth hole. How did the O’Rourke of 1970, who summarized the world of “grown-ups” as “materialism, sexual hang-ups, the Republican party, uncomfortable clothes, engagement rings, car accidents, Pat Boone, competition, patriotism, cheating, lying, ranch houses, and TV” come to be in favor of all of those things? What caused his metamorphosis from a beatnik-hippie type comfortable sleeping on dirty mattresses in pot-addled communes during his days as a writer for assorted “underground” papers? Here, O’Rourke shows how his socialist idealism and avant-garde aesthetic tendencies were cured, and how he acquired a healthy and commendable interest in national defense, balanced budgets, Porsches, and Cohiba cigars. From a former editor-in-chief of National Lampoon and frequent NPR guest, this hilarious essay collection shows that there’s hope for all those suffering from acute bohemianism.

Play the Way You Feel

Play the Way You Feel PDF Author: Kevin Whitehead
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190847573
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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"This book-both a narrative and a film directory-surveys and analyzes English-language feature films (and a few shorts and TV shows/movies) made between 1927 and 2016 that tell stories about jazz music, its musicians, its history and culture. Play the Way You Feel looks at jazz movies as a narrative tradition with recurring plot points and story tropes, whose roots and development are traced. It also demonstrates how jazz stories cut across diverse genres-biopic, romance, musical, comedy and science fiction, horror, crime and comeback stories, "race movies" and modernized Shakespeare-even as they constitute a genre of their own. The book is also a directory/checklist of such films, 66 of them with extensive credits, plus dozens more shorter/capsule discussions. Where jazz films are based on literary sources, they are examined, and the nature of their adaptation explored: what gets retained, removed, or invented? What do historical films get right and wrong? How does a film's music, and the style of the filmmaking itself, reinforce or undercut the story?--

The Golden Shovel Anthology

The Golden Shovel Anthology PDF Author: Terrance Hayes
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 168226095X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 341

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“The cross-section of poets with varying poetics and styles gathered here is only one of the many admirable achievements of this volume.” —Claudia Rankine in the New York Times The Golden Shovel Anthology celebrates the life and work of poet and civil rights icon Gwendolyn Brooks through a dynamic new poetic form, the Golden Shovel, created by National Book Award–winner Terrance Hayes. An array of writers—including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the National Book Award, as well as a couple of National Poets Laureate—have written poems for this exciting new anthology: Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Danez Smith, Nikki Giovanni, Sharon Olds, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Doty, Sharon Draper, Richard Powers, and Julia Glass are just a few of the contributing poets. This second edition includes Golden Shovel poems by two winners and six runners-up from an international student poetry competition judged by Nora Brooks Blakely, Gwendolyn Brooks’s daughter. The poems by these eight talented high school students add to Ms. Brooks’s legacy and contribute to the depth and breadth of this anthology.