Author: Tom Rooney
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1481739808
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
The Gutless Wonder is a true story of a young man faced with terrific pressures from secrets about his family. He kept this within himself and sought out the venue of playing high school football. His determination and will to never quit made it possible for him to achieve success under great physical and mental barriers that could not be understood by most everyone around him. His tragedies and accomplishments are detailed in the story and would give others a path to imitate if faced with similar situations.
The Gutless Wonder
Author: Tom Rooney
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1481739808
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
The Gutless Wonder is a true story of a young man faced with terrific pressures from secrets about his family. He kept this within himself and sought out the venue of playing high school football. His determination and will to never quit made it possible for him to achieve success under great physical and mental barriers that could not be understood by most everyone around him. His tragedies and accomplishments are detailed in the story and would give others a path to imitate if faced with similar situations.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1481739808
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
The Gutless Wonder is a true story of a young man faced with terrific pressures from secrets about his family. He kept this within himself and sought out the venue of playing high school football. His determination and will to never quit made it possible for him to achieve success under great physical and mental barriers that could not be understood by most everyone around him. His tragedies and accomplishments are detailed in the story and would give others a path to imitate if faced with similar situations.
Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading Grd 5
Author: Ruth Foster
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
ISBN: 1420650351
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Quick, easy, effective activities support standards and help students improve skills they need for success in testing. Sound too good to be true? Not at all. Thats just what each book in this series offers.
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
ISBN: 1420650351
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Quick, easy, effective activities support standards and help students improve skills they need for success in testing. Sound too good to be true? Not at all. Thats just what each book in this series offers.
The Lingo
Author: Graham Seal
Publisher: UNSW Press
ISBN: 9780868406800
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A lively linguistic analysis of our distinctive forms of speech drawn from a range of everyday experiences, including work, relaxation, gambling, drinking, family life, sport, crime, war, politics and sexual relations.
Publisher: UNSW Press
ISBN: 9780868406800
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A lively linguistic analysis of our distinctive forms of speech drawn from a range of everyday experiences, including work, relaxation, gambling, drinking, family life, sport, crime, war, politics and sexual relations.
Lucky Stars
Author: Jane Heller
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312990060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Stacey Reiser left Cleveland for Hollywood to pursue an acting career—and to escape her lovable but meddlesome mother, Helen. But her plan backfires when the widowed Helen sells her house and follows Stacey to tinsel town, invades every aspect of her daughter’s world and drives her crazy. As in eye twitch crazy. Insomnia crazy. Acid reflux crazy. “If only Mom would get a life,” Stacey wishes after her mother has called for the zillionth time that day to nag her about her clothes, her hair, her lack of a wedding ring. “If only she’d get a life and stay out of mine.” How could Stacey ever imagine that Helen would get a life – the very life Stacey craves? Just as Stacey's career takes a dive, a twist of fate lands Helen in a television commercial that catapults her to stardom. Now it’s Helen who’s the media darling and Stacey who’s the meddler. And while Stacey is hoping for a commitment from her boyfriend, it’s Helen who snares the catch of the century. Or does she? Helen’s new beau isn’t what he seems, and it’s up to Stacey to expose his shady past before it's too late. But it’ll take the acting job of a lifetime to do it, not to mention a whole lot of heart. Lucky Stars is a novel that’s as keenly observed as it is entertaining, and it will have mothers and daughters laughing out loud and nodding in recognition.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312990060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Stacey Reiser left Cleveland for Hollywood to pursue an acting career—and to escape her lovable but meddlesome mother, Helen. But her plan backfires when the widowed Helen sells her house and follows Stacey to tinsel town, invades every aspect of her daughter’s world and drives her crazy. As in eye twitch crazy. Insomnia crazy. Acid reflux crazy. “If only Mom would get a life,” Stacey wishes after her mother has called for the zillionth time that day to nag her about her clothes, her hair, her lack of a wedding ring. “If only she’d get a life and stay out of mine.” How could Stacey ever imagine that Helen would get a life – the very life Stacey craves? Just as Stacey's career takes a dive, a twist of fate lands Helen in a television commercial that catapults her to stardom. Now it’s Helen who’s the media darling and Stacey who’s the meddler. And while Stacey is hoping for a commitment from her boyfriend, it’s Helen who snares the catch of the century. Or does she? Helen’s new beau isn’t what he seems, and it’s up to Stacey to expose his shady past before it's too late. But it’ll take the acting job of a lifetime to do it, not to mention a whole lot of heart. Lucky Stars is a novel that’s as keenly observed as it is entertaining, and it will have mothers and daughters laughing out loud and nodding in recognition.
The Stanolis
Author: Dr. Vincent M. M. Galici Sr.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 153201175X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 865
Book Description
Many families are comprised of the good and the bad, the cherished and the reprehensible, some change, others never intend to. This is the generational saga of the ups and downs of one such Mafia family, the Stanolis. The Stanolis, the third of four novellas in the series, follows the saga of the Stanoli family who originated from Mezzogiorno and Sicily and moved to America in the first decade of the twentieth-century. Involved in organized crime, they are steeled in learning from the past, and they often find better tomorrows. Filled with tales of crime and murder, as well as love, this story begins in 1932. The Stanolis, by author Dr. Vincent M.M. Galici Sr., deals with the main characters in greater depth in a complex storyline. Incidents and characters, both familiar and new, are reintroduced and advanced. The suspense rages on, and the scenic, historic, psychological, spiritual, and social crescendo continues to build.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 153201175X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 865
Book Description
Many families are comprised of the good and the bad, the cherished and the reprehensible, some change, others never intend to. This is the generational saga of the ups and downs of one such Mafia family, the Stanolis. The Stanolis, the third of four novellas in the series, follows the saga of the Stanoli family who originated from Mezzogiorno and Sicily and moved to America in the first decade of the twentieth-century. Involved in organized crime, they are steeled in learning from the past, and they often find better tomorrows. Filled with tales of crime and murder, as well as love, this story begins in 1932. The Stanolis, by author Dr. Vincent M.M. Galici Sr., deals with the main characters in greater depth in a complex storyline. Incidents and characters, both familiar and new, are reintroduced and advanced. The suspense rages on, and the scenic, historic, psychological, spiritual, and social crescendo continues to build.
Venus on the Half-Shell
Author: Philip Jose Farmer
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 1781163073
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Simon Wagstaff narrowly escapes the Deluge that destroys Earth when he happens upon an abandoned spaceship. A man without a planet, he gains immortality from an elixir drunk during an interlude with a cat-like alien queen. Now Simon must chart a 3,000-year course to the most distant corners of the multiverse, to seek out the answers to the questions no one can seem to answer.
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 1781163073
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Simon Wagstaff narrowly escapes the Deluge that destroys Earth when he happens upon an abandoned spaceship. A man without a planet, he gains immortality from an elixir drunk during an interlude with a cat-like alien queen. Now Simon must chart a 3,000-year course to the most distant corners of the multiverse, to seek out the answers to the questions no one can seem to answer.
Red Bloom
Author: James Malcolm Gilmore
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491776471
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Red Bloom is the code word for a 65 year program to destroy the U. S. Government by turning it against itself. The main characters are Yuri Menzhinsky, a Committee for State Security defector, Jack Koslow, the Presidents National Security Adviser, Bob Sears, the Presidents Chief of Staff, Val Koslow, Jacks Wife, Masha Ivanova, an interpreter at the Russian Embassy in Washington, Peter Moran, Moscow Internet News Anchor and correspondent for the Washington Times, Sara Gur a Mossad assassin, Lynn Griffin, Koslows Executive Assistant, and Vladimir Bourmin, Deputy Premier of Russia.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491776471
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Red Bloom is the code word for a 65 year program to destroy the U. S. Government by turning it against itself. The main characters are Yuri Menzhinsky, a Committee for State Security defector, Jack Koslow, the Presidents National Security Adviser, Bob Sears, the Presidents Chief of Staff, Val Koslow, Jacks Wife, Masha Ivanova, an interpreter at the Russian Embassy in Washington, Peter Moran, Moscow Internet News Anchor and correspondent for the Washington Times, Sara Gur a Mossad assassin, Lynn Griffin, Koslows Executive Assistant, and Vladimir Bourmin, Deputy Premier of Russia.
The American Heretic's Dictionary
Author: Chaz Bufe
Publisher: See Sharp Press
ISBN: 1937276899
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This new edition includes over 650 mordant definitions by Bufe—twice as many as in the original edition—and 40 illustrations by San Francisco artist and filmmaker J. R. Swanson. The definitions skewer such targets as religion, the "right to life" movement, capitalism, marxism, the IRS, politicians of all stripes, and common euphemisms, as well as male-female relations and sexual attitudes, something which Bierce, writing in more conservative times, was not free to do. The book concludes with a lengthy appendix of the best 200 definitions from Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary.
Publisher: See Sharp Press
ISBN: 1937276899
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This new edition includes over 650 mordant definitions by Bufe—twice as many as in the original edition—and 40 illustrations by San Francisco artist and filmmaker J. R. Swanson. The definitions skewer such targets as religion, the "right to life" movement, capitalism, marxism, the IRS, politicians of all stripes, and common euphemisms, as well as male-female relations and sexual attitudes, something which Bierce, writing in more conservative times, was not free to do. The book concludes with a lengthy appendix of the best 200 definitions from Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary.
Slick Glickman, Unlikely Hero
Author: Charles Bailey
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456835289
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Its 1997 in Glickville, Texas, and twelve-year-old Charles Glickman is looking forward to his seventh-grade year: leaving the confines of the restrictive elementary school and experiencing the freedom that comes with middle school. When Charles walks into school the first day, he doesnt know that this will be one wild year. Charles deals with the typical middle school issues like adjusting to a strict principal, more demanding teachers, a beautiful Greek goddess, and a smarter younger sister. But during this seventh-grade year he also faces some nasty school bullies, an evil woman out to harm him, a life-threatening illness, and a scheme to blackmail his father. He earns a new nickname and the respect of his peers... Filled with adventure, drama, humor, and the human element that makes life special, Slick Glickman, Unlikely Hero will inspire middle school children who are experiencing difficulty coping with the changes in their bodies, minds, and social development. The story will also be of interest to adults as it will remind them of their middle school years, their childrens, and even their grandchildrens middle school experiences. This unlikely hero found the inner strength to turn negative experiences into positive outcomes. Young readers will learn the importance of developing the proper values and work ethic in middle school that stays with them for the rest of their lives.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456835289
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Its 1997 in Glickville, Texas, and twelve-year-old Charles Glickman is looking forward to his seventh-grade year: leaving the confines of the restrictive elementary school and experiencing the freedom that comes with middle school. When Charles walks into school the first day, he doesnt know that this will be one wild year. Charles deals with the typical middle school issues like adjusting to a strict principal, more demanding teachers, a beautiful Greek goddess, and a smarter younger sister. But during this seventh-grade year he also faces some nasty school bullies, an evil woman out to harm him, a life-threatening illness, and a scheme to blackmail his father. He earns a new nickname and the respect of his peers... Filled with adventure, drama, humor, and the human element that makes life special, Slick Glickman, Unlikely Hero will inspire middle school children who are experiencing difficulty coping with the changes in their bodies, minds, and social development. The story will also be of interest to adults as it will remind them of their middle school years, their childrens, and even their grandchildrens middle school experiences. This unlikely hero found the inner strength to turn negative experiences into positive outcomes. Young readers will learn the importance of developing the proper values and work ethic in middle school that stays with them for the rest of their lives.
The Trip
Author: George Papaellinas
Publisher: re.press
ISBN: 098066831X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
The story of Odysseus, an Olympian god. Homeric hero and Greek migrant who is mystically as old as Australia where he migrated and in whose history he participated.
Publisher: re.press
ISBN: 098066831X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
The story of Odysseus, an Olympian god. Homeric hero and Greek migrant who is mystically as old as Australia where he migrated and in whose history he participated.