Author: Lyn Marinello
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1602474125
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Franky, a fifth-grader, is eagerly awaiting a field trip to a single-cell ghost town. He's read all about Western outlaws and sheriffs and grabs the first spot in line to board the school bus. Franky's enthusiasm is quickly snuffed by his classmate's cruelty about the thick glasses that he has to wear. Over and over again, the jeers and taunting crack Franky's excitement and self-esteem. Determined to enjoy his field trip, he tries desperately to ignore the mean remarks and hurtful drama that enfolds. Nearly beaten, Franky clings to an inkling of an opportunity to do the right thing. Take a field trip with Franky Four-Eyes to see how this ruthlessly teased youngster rises to the occasion and becomes an unusual hero.
Author: Jerry DeCastro
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491767030
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 519
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In 1968, during the height of the Vietnam War, Dr. Blacktea travels with a group of scientists to a decrepit hospital in a remote part of South Vietnam in hopes of creating a new kind of super solider. He finds four perfect candidates: Four-eyes, Shades, Bullrider, and Yankee. These four young men wake to know something is different about them, but theyre not sure what. On a practice mission, their helicopter is shot down and crashes in the jungle. Somehow, the soldiers survive and eventually find their way back to Dr. Blackteas hospital only to find it destroyed. Theyre in need of answers, and their answers wait at Camp Eagle. Led by Four-eyes, the men trek through the jungle as an unsatisfied hunger for human blood threatens their sanity. The four super soldiers soon realize they must make a wartime choice: Samson versus Gunner. Samson hopes to become the next dictator of Vietnam with the help of Four-eyes and his men. Gunner has similar ambitions to rule the jungle, also with their assistance. Will Dr. Blackteas experiments choose sides or use their newfound power to establish a world of their very own?
Author: Barbara Sinatra
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307382346
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Barbara Sinatra’s first public love letter to the husband she adored, she celebrates the sensational singer, possessive mate, sexy heartthrob, and devoted friend that she found in Frank in Lady Blue Eyes. For more than two decades, Barbara was always by Frank Sinatra's side, traveling the globe and hosting glittering events for their famous friends, including presidents, kings, queens, Hollywood royalty, and musical legends. Among them were Sammy Davis, Jr., Princess Grace of Monaco, Bob Dylan, and Ronald Reagan. Each night, as Frank publicly wooed his bride with love songs from a concert stage, she’d fall in love with him all over again. From her own humble beginnings in a small town in Missouri to her time as a fashion model and her marriage to Zeppo Marx, Barbara Sinatra reveals a life lived with passion, conviction, and grace. A founder of the Miss Universe pageant and a onetime Vegas showgirl, she raised her only son almost single-handedly in often dire circumstances until, after five years of tempestuous courtship, she and Frank committed to each other wholeheartedly. In stories that leap off the page, she takes us behind the scenes of her iconic husband’s legendary career and paints an intimate portrait of a man who was variously generous, jealous, witty, and wicked. Coupled with revealing insights about many of Frank’s celebrated songs, this is much more than the story of a showbiz marriage. It is a story of passion and of a deep and lifelong love.
Author: Oklahoma Geological Survey
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Author: Michael Silano
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1639850120
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Based on actual events, The Gloves starts as a love story between a mother and her four daughters. She was the thumb, and her girls were the other fingers--a hand if you may. The year was 1910 when my grandfather immigrated from Italy and joined a Hell's Kitchen mob soon after. In 1925, he met an innocent girl from New Jersey who wrongly crossed a legendary block in midtown Manhattan and wound up outside a speakeasy. They would marry, but the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, and the ensuing War would change their lives forever. The story of her four daughters growing up in Brooklyn unfolds with equal measures of grace and tragedy, as life grants and takes away its greatest gifts over the years. The oldest daughter would marry first. Her husband would win the Silver Star for bravery during WWII, and his brother would come within one boxing match of challenging Joe Louis for the world title. The other daughters' lives would take different paths. All had families of their own as the tides of life ebb and flow. In 1990, Hollywood would write about one such incident in an Academy Award-winning movie loosely based on fact and fiction. Time transcends over five generations as we learn about loyalty and betrayal, joy and sadness while struggling through dyslexia and autism. Read about all sorts of mayhem and murder. Plus, alcohol and drugs, gambling, bookmaking, and racketeering. The Gloves starts as a tribute to a remarkable and selfless life. That life belonged to my mother, as she was one of the four daughters. It continues, however, as an autobiography of one not so gifted.
Author: J. David Spurlock
Publisher: Vanguard
ISBN: 9781887591317
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Heroic drawings and spirited animations have earned Frank Brunner a reputation as an illustration powerhouse. Influenced as much by the celebrated fantasy painter Frank Frazetta as by "Weird Science" legends Wally Wood and Al Williamson, Brunner carved his own niche, earning a reputation as an illustrator who could combine heroics, eroticism and whimsy in a single brush stroke. This is a showcase of classic and new art produced by this master illustrator of Doctor Strange, Howard the Duck, Creepy magazine, Red Sonja, Man-Thing and Elric. Foreword by Elric author Michael Moorcock.
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547572549
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
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A wry look at how different people see the world, told in the caustically fun style of award-winning science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick.
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Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Author: Joseph McBride
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1604738391
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 825
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Moviegoers often assume Frank Capra's life resembled his beloved films (such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life). A man of the people faces tremendous odds and, by doing the right thing, triumphs! But as Joseph McBride reveals in this meticulously researched, definitive biography, the reality was far more complex, a true American tragedy. Using newly declassified U.S. government documents about Capra's response to being considered a possible “subversive” during the post-World War II Red Scare, McBride adds a final chapter to his unforgettable portrait of the man who gave us It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, and Meet John Doe.
Author: A.A. Garrison
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304640523
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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n this collection of 14 speculative short stories, author A.A. Garrison takes us to Ford, North Carolina, a sleepy little mountain town named after a Civil War deserter. Though out of the way, the town seems to attract an immoderate share of the fantastic and the macabre. Amongst Ford's citizens are: -Blake ("The Fifty"), who purchases revenge with a fifty-dollar bill -Candy Patrice ("Cloyed"), a young woman who adopts a most unorthodox diet-plan -Mara Dees ("Additive Free"), star in a grisly scheme to appease visitors from outer space -Johannes Bitter ("Half Dead"), an undertaker with an exceptional case of lady trouble -The Doctor ("See Sick"), a roving voyeur who sees more than he bargains for -Frank Belmont ("Dead End"), who goes hunting for nostalgia and finds trouble -Brian ("Brian, Destroyer of Worlds"), who commits murder by coffee -Zedok Crane ("The Package"), amnesic serial killer extraordinaire -The Narrator ("The Center"), a man who saw the face of God And more ...
