Author: Larry the Cat
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0857207717
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 171
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It was the brazen cheek of the huge rat running across the front of No 10 on a live TV news broadcast that galvanised the government into action. Meetings were held at the highest level and, barely a week later, on 15 February 2011, Larry the tabby cat arrived in Downing Street to make his mark as the new rodent bouncer in residence. A secret source quickly made contact and has been working closely with Larry ever since to get the full story - in diary form - of his first 100 days in the job. In a swift-moving narrative that pits Larry against the evil King Rat and his legion of cheese-eaters, our hero still finds time to spill the beans on what life with Sam and Dave is really like. With the economy in crisis and anarchy on the streets of London, Larry has to use all his smarts to outwit the enemy and earn his keep. Gaining privileged access to Sam Cam's iPad he uses Google Maps to surpass the rats' knowledge of the local area. With a Royal Wedding on the horizon and a revolving door of visiting dignitaries to contend with, Larry is able to take a wry look at the machinations of coalition power that lurk behind the big black door.
Author: Larry Sultan
Publisher: Mack
ISBN: 9781910164785
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 167
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First published in 1992 to wide critical acclaim, Pictures From Home is Larry Sultan's pendant to his parents. Sultan returned home to Southern California periodically in the 1980s and the decade-long sequence moves between registers, combining contemporary photographs with film stills from home movies, fragments of conversation, Sultan's own writings and other memorabilia. The result is a narrative collage in which the boundary between the documentary and the staged becomes increasingly ambiguous. Simultaneously the distance usually maintained between the photographer and his subjects also slips in an exchange of dialogue and emotion that is unique to this work. Significantly increasing the page count of the original book, this MACK design of Pictures From Home clarifies the multiplicity of voices - both textual and pictorial - in order to afford a fresh perspective of this seminal body of work -- Provided by the publisher.
Author: Elizabeth C Radcliffe
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1800468881
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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A Meow-vellous, Hiss-terical Cat and Dog Tail with Oodles of Cat-itude. Paw-some Larry is Top Cat at Number 10 – that was until his boss, the Prime Minister, got a dog called Dilyn. A rat-iculous puppy who chases his tail, guzzles sausage-strings and chews things. How paw-thetic!
Author: Larry I. Palmerr
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
ISBN: 1589881451
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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"Palmer was fourteen years old in September 1958 when he made the unlikely journey alone by train to Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. It is impossible to read this boy’s story―‘ninth child of ten, and the sixth of seven sons’―without feeling the loneliness of that first passage away from home―a black boy crossing into a bastion of white privilege―and the scale of the transformation that awaited him."―Carrie Brown, author of The Stargazer's Sister "My friendship with Larry has been among the most enduring of my Exeter friendships, but―before I read his memoir of social and racial dislocation―I never knew the story that unfolded in the home Larry left when he came to Exeter. Larry’s remarkable family story gives me a deeper appreciation of someone I met as a teenager and have known all my life. As a teammate and a friend, I always loved Larry. Now I understand him more."―John Irving “Larry Palmer’s Scholarship Boy is a poignant exploration of family, longing, and cultural disorientation, seen through the eyes of an African American teenager sent to live and study at a prestigious New England prep school in the 1950s. This absorbing story reminds us that the questions of race and identity we wrestle with today are nothing new, and progress, when it comes at all, often comes at a snail’s pace.”―Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic & Desire “Near the end of Larry Palmer’s fine memoir Scholarship Boy his family tries to assemble for a family portrait. The picture is difficult to compose: the family members are moving hither and yon, reassembling in different configurations, struggling to honor the intricacies that govern the Palmer clan. And they are a rich and complex family, with Lear-like grand personalities. Scholarship Boy is also a book about a very brilliant young man who went to Phillips Exeter, Harvard College, and Yale Law School. It is a tale of his loneliness, his desire to honor his parents’ dictates, his difficulty in living in two worlds, and his ability, thank goodness, to find mentors, institutions, and friends to sustain him. It is also a very poignant narrative, full of pathos and love, about one family’s participation in recent African American history, including segregation, school integration, and dreams fulfilled and nullified. Honest, gracefully written, and uncompromisingly vulnerable, Larry Palmer’s book is unceremoniously generous. Palmer does not grandstand: He is never simply this or that. He is, in the best sense, simply himself: A man trying to stand in a furious whirlwind.” ―Kenneth A. McClane, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Literature Emeritus, Cornell University “On the surface, this is the story of a black boy’s adventure of finding his way in the all-white, blazers, ties and sports world of an all-boys boarding school in the 1950s. Its heart, however, is the family this boy comes from. As the next to the youngest of ten, it was the older brothers and sisters who gave this scholarship boy the chops to navigate the treacherous waters of an alien world with aplomb and make the best of his opportunities. What an apt tribute that each of them gets to step into the limelight of this luminous coming-of-age memoir.”―Annette Gendler, author of Jumping Over Shadows and How to Write Compelling Stories from Family History
Author: Ellen King Rice
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733827614
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Larry's Post-Rapture Pet-Sitting Service is the story of an imperfect man trying to build a business in the confusing days after a global rapture has taken good people up in funnels of feathers and evil people have turned to ashes. Larry, an ex-con, and his mother, Marjorie, start a website to register pets for After-Rapture care, hoping to collect insurance premiums but avoid actual work. Their plans go awry, and Larry is soon caring for fifteen cats. Larry would love to care for a dog, but all the dogs on earth have vanished. A call to pick up a cat from a deluxe country home changes Larry and Marjorie's lives. The homeowners have "gone up," leaving behind a yowling Siamese cat and a home full of amenities. Larry moves his mother, a friend and his cousins out to the Lucky Seven Ranch, only to turn up the world's last dog. As Larry and the bewildered dog become YouTube stars, a televangelist sees an opportunity to build a new empire, based on scripture, donations and possession of the Lucky Seven's canine. After a lifetime of losing, Larry must take on a smooth and accomplished media maven with all the world watching.
Author: John Galsworthy
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 4809
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Step into the intricate world of human relationships and societal change with John Galsworthy's ""The Complete Works of Galsworthy."" This comprehensive collection encapsulates Galsworthy's profound understanding of the human spirit, offering readers a remarkable exploration of life, love, and the struggle for justice. As you navigate through Galsworthy's masterful narratives, experience the emotional depth of his characters and the social intricacies of their lives. His storytelling will transport you to the heart of early 20th-century England, where personal dilemmas and societal pressures collide. But what timeless lessons can Galsworthy's works impart on our modern lives? Are the struggles of his characters reflections of our own challenges today? This complete anthology not only highlights Galsworthy's literary brilliance but also invites you to reflect on the enduring themes of class, morality, and the quest for identity. Each story is a window into the complexities of human existence and societal expectations. Are you prepared to unravel the rich tapestry of life as depicted by one of literature's greats? This is your opportunity to dive into the complete works of a literary icon. Will you join the journey through ""The Complete Works of Galsworthy""? Seize the chance to enrich your library with this extraordinary collection. Purchase ""The Complete Works of Galsworthy"" now, and embark on a literary adventure that will leave a lasting impression.
Author: United States Military Academy. Association of graduates
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Author: Joseph Harris
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1613460945
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Everyone wants to be successful in life, but success and how to achieve it are different for each of us. Joseph Harris has spent over twenty-five years in management positions helping others achieve success. Drawing on his extensive experience and close study of the Bible, Harris shares his secrets in Achieving Success through Effective Business Relationships. Harris begins with an examination of mankind's needs and shows that the best way to meet our own needs is to focus on meeting the needs of others. Sources from the Bible to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs demonstrate that a person can only achieve success through interpersonal relationships. Using man's relationship with God as an example, Harris focuses mainly on leader-follower relationships to show how we can be more effective at work, at home, and in church and civic groups. A concise, inspiring guide drawing from personal anecdotes and Scripture, Achieving Success through Effective Business Relationships will help you in all your relationships and set you on the path to achieving success.
Author: Colin Clark
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 1602861501
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Imagine sneaking away to spend seven days with the most famous woman in the world. In 1956, fresh from Oxford University, twenty-three-year-old Colin Clark began work as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that united Sir Laurence Olivier with Marilyn Monroe. The blonde bombshell and the legendary actor were ill suited from the start. Monroe, on honeymoon with her new husband, the celebrated playwright Arthur Miller, was insecure, often late, and heavily medicated on pills. Olivier, obsessively punctual, had no patience for Monroe and the production became chaotic. Clark recorded it all in two unforgettable diaries -- the first a charming fly-on-the- wall account of life as a gofer on the set; the other a heartfelt, intimate, and astonishing remembrance of the week Clark spent escorting Monroe around England, earning the trust and affection of one of the most desirable women in the world. Published together here for the first time, the books are the basis for the upcoming major motion picture My Week with Marilyn starring Michelle Williams, Judi Dench, and Kenneth Branagh. England was abuzz when Monroe arrived to shoot The Prince and the Showgirl. She hoped working with the legendary Olivier would give her acting further credibility, while he hoped the film would give his career a boost at the box office and some Hollywood glamour. But Monroe, feeling abandoned when Miller left the country for Paris, became difficult on the set. Clark was perceptive in his assessment of what seemed to be going wrong in Monroe's life: too many hangers-on, intense insecurity, and too many pills. Olivier, meanwhile, was impatient and condescending toward her. At a certain point, feeling isolated and overwhelmed, Monroe turned her attention to Clark, who gave her comfort and solace. Before long, she escaped the set and a remarkable true adventure took place. Monroe and Clark spent an innocent week together in the English countryside and Clark became her confidant and ally. And, like any man would be expected to, he fell a bit in love. Clark understood how best to handle Monroe and became Olivier's only hope of getting the film finished. Before long, young Colin was in over his head, and his heart may well have been broken by the world's biggest movie star. A beguiling memoir that reads like a fable, My Week with Marilyn is above all a love letter to one of our most enduring icons.
Author: John Galsworthy
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 97
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'Six Short Plays' is, as the title puts it, a collection of short plays written by John Galsworthy. The six titles that can be found within this volume are the following: 'The First and The Last', 'The Little Man', 'Hall-marked', 'Defeat', 'The Sun', and 'Punch and Go'.
