Author: Cesare Casciato
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595455824
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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"Johnny Thirty-Two" is the story of the underdog in all of us. From his rural Italian village Johnny is transplanted to Canada when he's just eight years old. Her husband gone, Johnny's mother makes the decision to immigrate to give her son and daughter the better life they deserve. In Canada Johnny soon establishes lifelong friendships with Cole Strohm and Sandy Pesotto, two boys who couldn't be more different. We follow Johnny's life for three decades of adventures. He stumbles in and out of trouble, he overcomes obstacles, and he falls in love. You'll worry for him, you'll laugh with him, and you'll always root for him. Like his mother, Johnny doesn't accept the path that's been seemingly laid out before him. Johnny dares to dream. And in the end he achieves a prize greater than his imagination could have ever invented.
Author: Stephen Cox
Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
ISBN: 9781581822656
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Based on interviews with Johnny Carson and more than 50 major celebrities, this book provides a behind-the-scenes look at the longest-running late-night television show of all time and at the man who made it happen. 16-page color insert.
Author: Ed McMahon
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 1418530832
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Here's Johnny is like sitting with Ed and Johnny over lunch: The last time I saw Johnny, about a year before he died, we had chicken, a couple of glasses of red wine, and then we just sat there and reminisced, going back and forth the way we did on the show. We talked about our kids, and our careers and the state of America, just two lucky guys who loved each other and the good luck of our careers. Ed McMahon is the only person who was with Johnny Carson, even before The Tonight Show, when they both first appeared on Who Do You Trust. Now, with Johnny's blessing before he died, McMahon can finally share all the stories that only he knows. From the sofa at Johnny's right, to backstage, to their personal relationship - McMahon will provide a real view of the man who was so careful to only show one side of himself to the public. Brilliant in front of the camera, but shy in person, Carson seldom gave interviews. Only McMahon can tell the stories and provide the insights into the personality that made Johnny Carson more of a friend we invited into our home than a television star. This entertaining tribute will feature over 200 pictures, many never before published, from both McMahon's and Carson's private archives.
Author: Robin Yocum
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1633882640
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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After his unspectacular professional baseball career ends with a knee injury in Toledo, Ohio, Johnny Earl gets busted for selling cocaine. After serving seven years in prison, all he wants to do is return to his hometown of Steubenville, retrieve the drug money he stashed before he went to jail, and start a new life where no one has ever heard of Johnny Earl. However, before he can leave town with his money, Johnny is picked up for questioning in the murder of Rayce Daubner, the FBI informant who had set him up on drug charges in the first place. Then his former prison cellmate shows up--a white supremacist who wants the drug money to help fund an Aryan nation in the wilds of Idaho. Five memorable characters, each with a separate agenda, come together in this layered tale of murder, deceit, and political intrigue.
Author: Belinda Smith
Publisher: Booktango
ISBN: 1468907999
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Paradise Island, better known as the community, has become the new home of the stars. Most new comers to the entertainment world would have jump at the chance to live in this highly protected community without question, but one new comer, Samantha Lynn, dared to question the secrecy surrounding the community. Samantha Lynn is Sparkle records newest hit maker, and has become Bill Johnson’s’ Sparkle records owner’ personal choice to recruit to the community but she is uncertain about making the move without knowing more about the place; the smallest detail is reserved for those who agree to move there. Samantha’s best friend Ashley Michaels works for Sparkle records as Johnson’s secretary; her father was the architect who designed and built the community; He mysteriously died leaving his secret records hidden in the old farm house that Ashley inherited. She offered to go back to the old farm house and try to find her deceased father’s records in ordered to find as much information as possible that might help Samantha make the right decision. When Ashley’s daughter is injured in the backyard of the old farm house; and while laid up in the hospital, is visited by a community doctor at the request of a mysterious friend, the visit puts Ashley’s daughter into a coma, she is forced to hire private detective Ken Davis to investigate. But when Samantha turns up missing, Ashley believes she was taken to the community against her will and that Bill Johnson is behind it all now she and P I Ken Davis is in a race against time and danger to find out where the community is, find Samantha and bring her back safely, but they must blow the lid off the community’s deadly secrets to do so
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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Author: Joe Gores
Publisher: Mysterious Press
ISBN: 0446562343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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32 Cadillacs is the fourth novel in Joe Gores' delightful series about the San Francisco private eye firm Dan Kearny Associates. This time the squadmust recover 32 cadillacs stolen from their largest client by Gypsies to be a casket for their dying king. The result is a fast, furious, funny, nonstop action tale with esoteric Gypsy lore and hard-edged investigation.
Author: George Fischbeck
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826353339
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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For twenty-three years, George Fischbeck was a schoolteacher in Albuquerque, and for the last thirteen of those years taught science on a public television station that was beamed all over New Mexico. He also served as a weatherman on Albuquerque’s top-rated TV newscast where he was so popular that the general manager of a competing station sent tapes of his weather forecasts to all the top ABC Network stations nationwide in hope that one would hire George and get him out of New Mexico. When KABC-TV in Los Angeles responded, it was the start of a love affair between Dr. George and the City of Angels that continues to this day. Not only has Fischbeck had a long career as an awardwinning journalist and educator, he has also helped raise millions of dollars for a variety of charitable causes. His story is all here, and the best part is what the fewest people know: the heartwarming memories of a family man.
Author: Andrew K. Milton
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1475806590
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Much of the current debate about education too often resembles the blind men describing an elephant--apprehending only a particular part of the situation or the process, many analysts tell an evocative but incomplete story. The so-called ‘reform’ discussion proceeds with a lack of depth about the nuances and realistic limitations in the institutional order of school. This book argues that as regulation of schools moves further up the bureaucratic hierarchy (first to state departments of education then to the national department of education) the legal and institutional requirements get more intensive but less concretely useful in class rooms. This bureaucratization serves to ‘tighten’ the organizational environment, thereby increasing the risk of normal accidents. The increasing governmental management, in other words, makes it more likely that schools will ‘fail’ to meet their goals. Analyses of education are too often developed for public consumption in a fast-moving political world. This book examines some of the deeper organizational reasons why things don’t work so well in school, as well as a look at some of things that do work. Most importantly, the book will explain how the social and cultural expectations of what schools can do may create unrealistic hopes. We, as a society, and schools, as institutions, embrace these unreasonably high hopes at our collective peril.
Author: Gene Lees
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307489698
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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An intimate biography of the great songwriter, this is also a deeply affectionate memoir by one of Johnny Mercer’s best friends. “Moon River,” “Laura,” “Skylark,” ”That Old Black Magic,” “One for My Baby,” “Accentuate the Positive,” “Satin Doll,” “Days of Wine and Roses,” “Something’s Gotta Give”—the honor roll of Mercer’s songs is endless. Both Oscar Hammerstein II and Alan Jay Lerner called him the greatest lyricist in the English language, and he was perhaps the best-loved and certainly the best-known songwriter of his generation. But Mercer was also a complicated and private man. A scion of an important Savannah family that had lost its fortune, he became a successful Hollywood songwriter (his primary partners included Harold Arlen and Jerome Kern), a hit recording artist, and, as co-founder of Capitol Records, a successful businessman, but he remained forever nostalgic for his idealized childhood (with his “huckleberry friend”). A gentleman, a nasty drunk, funny, tender, melancholic, tormented—Mercer was a man immensely talented yet plagued by self-doubt, much admired and loved but never really understood. In music historian and songwriter Gene Lees, Mercer has his perfect biographer, who deals tactfully but directly with Mercer’s complicated relationships with his domineering mother; his tormenting wife, Ginger; and Judy Garland, who was the great love of his life. Lees’s highly personal examination of Mercer’s life is sensitive as only the work of a friend of many years could be to the conflicts in Mercer’s nature. And it is filled with insights into Mercer’s work that could come only from a fellow lyricist (whose own lyrics were much admired by Mercer). A poignant, candid, revelatory portrait of Johnny.
