Author: Paul Vakerics II
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1480967254
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Little Michael and Snappy in ‘Day Trip’ By Paul Vakerics II Going on a ‘day trip’ with grandparents is unforgettable fun. We all remember these trips, short or long distance, as very happy times in our childhood. Grandma Minnie takes Rosie and her friends, Little Michael and Snappy, on a ‘day trip’ to Uncle Steve’s farm. The train ride to Uncle Steve’s farm, the time spent on the farm and the trip back to the Village of Maple are exciting. You see, as on all ‘day trips’ unexpected events unfold. Come. Join the ‘day trip’ travelers on this new adventure. But, only join the ‘day trip’ if you like to smile and enjoy the innocent adventures of Little Michael and Snappy. Did you know that Little Michael and Snappy are friends with Huff and Puff and the team?
Author: Paul Vakerics II
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1480983608
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Little Michael and Snappy in “The Moving Stone Turtle Mystery” By: Paul Vakerics II This mystery begins when little Michael reaches down and picks up a small stone shaped like a turtle. The stone turtle is here and, then, suddenly gone! And, then, returns! Over and over, their courage is tested as little Michael and Snappy search for clues that will solve this mystery. Is it the day ghost or the eerie tree trunk that is behind this mysterious happening? A word to the wise: To read this story, you will need an extra pocketful of courage. So fill your pockets to the top and begin to read and solve ‘The Moving Stone Turtle Mystery’!
Author: Paul Vakerics II
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1480905992
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Remember as a child, when things did not go well for you? Remember what your mother did? She erased those things. And you felt her love. Her love made everything O.K. Little Michael and Snappy stepped off the front porch into a beautiful summer day. Little Michael had a plan. But things got in the way of Little Michael’s plan. We teach our children not to give up in difficult situations. Did Little Michael give up? How did Little Michael explain to his mother the things that happened? What did his mother say and do? Can you find love in the answers? You are just a few pages away from all the answers. Oh, by the way, how does The Adventures of Huff and Puff enter into this story? Little Michael and Snappy live in Huff’s village. It is named the Village of Maple. Have fun and enjoy the story.
Author: Dianne Briggs
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 081086228X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 179
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Research on early childhood brain development clearly shows the importance of storytime for toddlers. Toddler programs set the stage for the development of increased attention spans, superior language development, and a love of literature and libraries. The repetition of fingerplays, songs, and stories further enhance a child's cognitive development. Toddler Storytimes II is a source for books, games, fingerplays, puppet ideas, crafts, and other activities that make up a successful storytime. Each of the 25 themed programs presented contains approximately ten carefully chosen books, providing everything a librarian, teacher, or parent would need to plan storytimes. Also included are flannel board stories, poems, and songs with full-size reproducible patterns at the end of each section. A bibliography and discography are provided as well. Easy to use and practical, this book will inspire any reader to put on wonderful, creative programs children will love.
Author: Alan K. Rode
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813173965
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Academy Award--winning director Michael Curtiz (1886--1962) -- whose best-known films include Casablanca (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Mildred Pierce (1945) and White Christmas (1954) -- was in many ways the anti-auteur. During his unprecedented twenty-seven year tenure at Warner Bros., he directed swashbuckling adventures, westerns, musicals, war epics, romances, historical dramas, horror films, tearjerkers, melodramas, comedies, and film noir masterpieces. The director's staggering output of 180 films surpasses that of the legendary John Ford and exceeds the combined total of films directed by George Cukor, Victor Fleming, and Howard Hawks. In the first biography of this colorful, instinctual artist, Alan K. Rode illuminates the life and work of one of the film industry's most complex figures. He begins by exploring the director's early life and career in his native Hungary, revealing how Curtiz shaped the earliest days of silent cinema in Europe as he acted in, produced, and directed scores of films before immigrating to the United States in 1926. In Hollywood, Curtiz earned a reputation for his explosive tantrums, his difficulty communicating in English, and his disregard for the well-being of others. However, few directors elicited more memorable portrayals from their casts, and ten different actors delivered Oscar-nominated performances under his direction. In addition to his study of the director's remarkable legacy, Rode investigates Curtiz's dramatic personal life, discussing his enduring creative partnership with his wife, screenwriter Bess Meredyth, as well as his numerous affairs and children born of his extramarital relationships. This meticulously researched biography provides a nuanced understanding of one of the most talented filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age.
Author: Meg Wolitzer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439103658
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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From the bestselling author of The Wife—Meg Wolitzer’s “hilariously moving, sharply written novel” (USA TODAY), hailed by critics and loved by readers worldwide, with its “dead-on observations about sex, marriage, and the family ties that strangle and bind” (Cleveland Plain Dealer). Crackling with intelligence and humor, The Position is the masterful story of one extraordinary family at the hilarious height of the sexual revolution—and through the thirty-year hangover that followed. In 1975, Paul and Roz Mellow write a bestselling Joy of Sex-type book that mortifies their four school-aged children and ultimately changes the shape of the family forever. Thirty years later, as the now dispersed family members argue over whether to reissue the book, we follow the complicated lives of each of the grown children and their conflicts in love, work, marriage, parenting, and, of course, sex—all shadowed by the indelible specter of their highly sexualized parents. Insightful, panoramic, and compulsively readable, The Position is an American original.
Author: Matthew Bernstein
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472071033
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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Indispensable perspectives on America's top documentary filmmaker and political commentator
Author: Sam Gifford
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438997752
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Slow Dancing in the Kitchen Peter Wallace is, to all appearances, a success. Handsome, intelligent, educated, and talented. He is the quintessential success story: vice president and genius-in-residence for the biggest ad agency in town. But in the shadow of this facade is a haunted house of insecurity. A detractor calls him "the quintessential cliché." Peter's marriage is dysfunctional for some reasons he doesn't comprehend and for others he knows well. His fragile self-esteem had always forced him to seek the affections of women. Now, with his marriage crumbling, what had been recreational becomes nearly a clinical necessity. Laura is a beautiful, Southern country girl; a fashion model. Her good looks and apparent attraction to Peter create a scenario in which Peter doesn't love her, but becomes addicted to her beauty and her sometimes-trashy ways. He views her as a bauble to be worn until he becomes bored. His wife Katherine is aware of the affair and has a college friend move him from the house in a violent but humorous scene. The friend, while somewhat foppish, is better-looking and stronger than Peter. The court stuns Peter by imposing huge alimony payments and child support. He marries Laura to fulfill his need to be worshiped, but the two are left with little. He faces the necessity of selling his prized possession, his boat. This seems superficial, but Peter measures his own worth by status and possessions. While he temporarily savors his freedom from Katherine, he mourns the loss of his two children. Myrna Jacobi, his attorney, counsels him to clear his mind and to find himself. She recounts her own breakup, telling Peter that she found herself dancing alone in the kitchen one evening and knew then that she had discovered the answer. Find out who you are, she counsels. Katherine is murdered. It is assumed that her new lover, an alcoholic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, did it in a fit of anger. Lack of evidence results in his release, but he is known on the street as the perpetrator. The real murderer, Laura, has become an alcoholic, and the marriage is over, even though they live in the same house. She meets the photographer at an AA meeting, and they fall in love. She leaves Peter, who is, by this time, completely in love with Myrna Jacobi. But Myrna is unavailable for a surprising reason. Peter is recruited by a Fortune 500 - size private firm headed by Martin Mendel, an offensive, insulting, second-generation owner. The company is falsely seen as having Mafia ties. Peter realizes, later in his employment, that Mendel could easily sell his company for more than a billion dollars and be rid of the allegations. Peter recognizes one night that Myrna has mapped the course to his soul, and that Marty Mendel taught him character and strength on a level where Peter had never before traversed. Mendel chose to clear his family name over easy money. Peter settles into a life of satisfying work and relationship with his children. One evening, as he is cooking dinner and enjoying music and a glass of good wine by himself, the phone rings. Slow Dancing In The Kitchen is the story of spiritual metamorphosis. It is a modern-day Pilgrim's Progress. On another level, Slow Dancing In The Kitchen is the story of the relationships between fathers and sons and fathers and daughters and the ways in which these interactions affect life. Some characters are forever prisoners of early relationships, but Peter Wallace ultimately gathers the strength to escape.
Author: MARK A. SOMMER, JR.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365720810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Now that Project Looking Glass has been fully activated, and is once again under her expert control, Mace won't let anything stop her. The general knows that her boy, Masters, is on the verge of figuring it all out. For both of them, it will take one final trip to the bottom of the planet where a terrifying truth awaits.
Author: David Caute
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Wanneer een jongeman steeds hoger stijgt op de maatschappelijke ladder, gaat zijn verleden, waarin hij incest heeft gepleegd met zijn halfzusje, hem achtervolgen.
