Author: Mark Rascovich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Intelligence service
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The story of a wild chase across Russia, involving a strange and fascinating group of people, including an American newsman, an animal trainer, a gorgeous young girl, her hotly pursuing suitor, and the leader of a mysterious underground organization. Right on their heels is the feared Soviet secret police, the MVD.
The Flight of the Dancing Bear
Author: Mark Rascovich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Intelligence service
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The story of a wild chase across Russia, involving a strange and fascinating group of people, including an American newsman, an animal trainer, a gorgeous young girl, her hotly pursuing suitor, and the leader of a mysterious underground organization. Right on their heels is the feared Soviet secret police, the MVD.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Intelligence service
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The story of a wild chase across Russia, involving a strange and fascinating group of people, including an American newsman, an animal trainer, a gorgeous young girl, her hotly pursuing suitor, and the leader of a mysterious underground organization. Right on their heels is the feared Soviet secret police, the MVD.
The Dancing Bear
Author: Ron McDole
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496212649
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
From the early sixties to the late seventies, defensive end Ron McDole experienced football’s golden age from inside his old‐school, two‐bar helmet. During an eighteen‐year pro career, McDole—nicknamed “The Dancing Bear”—played in over 250 games, including two AFL Championships with the Buffalo Bills and one NFL Championship with the Washington Redskins. A cagey and deceptively agile athlete, McDole wreaked havoc on football’s best offenses as part of a Bills defensive line that held opponents without a rushing touchdown for seventeen straight games. His twelve interceptions remain a pro record for defensive ends. Traded by the Bills in 1970, he was given new life in Washington as one of the most famous members of George Allen’s game‐smart veterans known as “The Over‐the‐Hill Gang.” Through it all, McDole was known and loved by teammates and foes alike for his knowledge and skill on the field and his ability to have fun off it. In The Dancing Bear McDole the storyteller traces his life from his humble beginnings in Toledo, Ohio, to his four years at the University of Nebraska, his marriage to high school sweetheart Paula, and his long, accomplished professional career. He recounts the days when a pro football player needed an off‐season job to pay the bills and teams had to drive around in buses to find a city park in which to practice. The old AFL and NFL blitz back to life through McDole’s straightforward stories of time when the game was played more for love and glory than for money.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496212649
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
From the early sixties to the late seventies, defensive end Ron McDole experienced football’s golden age from inside his old‐school, two‐bar helmet. During an eighteen‐year pro career, McDole—nicknamed “The Dancing Bear”—played in over 250 games, including two AFL Championships with the Buffalo Bills and one NFL Championship with the Washington Redskins. A cagey and deceptively agile athlete, McDole wreaked havoc on football’s best offenses as part of a Bills defensive line that held opponents without a rushing touchdown for seventeen straight games. His twelve interceptions remain a pro record for defensive ends. Traded by the Bills in 1970, he was given new life in Washington as one of the most famous members of George Allen’s game‐smart veterans known as “The Over‐the‐Hill Gang.” Through it all, McDole was known and loved by teammates and foes alike for his knowledge and skill on the field and his ability to have fun off it. In The Dancing Bear McDole the storyteller traces his life from his humble beginnings in Toledo, Ohio, to his four years at the University of Nebraska, his marriage to high school sweetheart Paula, and his long, accomplished professional career. He recounts the days when a pro football player needed an off‐season job to pay the bills and teams had to drive around in buses to find a city park in which to practice. The old AFL and NFL blitz back to life through McDole’s straightforward stories of time when the game was played more for love and glory than for money.
Another Celebrated Dancing Bear
Author: Gladys Scheffrin-Falk
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781930900509
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Max, a dancing bear with the Moscow Circus, teaches his friend Boris how to dance.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781930900509
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Max, a dancing bear with the Moscow Circus, teaches his friend Boris how to dance.
The Chautauquan
Author:
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Category : Chautauquas
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
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Category : Chautauquas
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
When Do I Start?
Author: Karl Malden
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 0879102721
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
"This memoir is a peripatetic selection of Malden's enounters with larger-than-life Broadway figures... like Kazan, Strasberg, and Brando. The 1950s were Broadway's heyday but also the time of blacklisting, and Malden paints a vivid picture here of those times. Moreover, the actor eschews the 'down-and-dirty tell-all memoir' so common now to offer his views on the various acting techniques and methods he came upon. Recommended." - Library Journal
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 0879102721
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
"This memoir is a peripatetic selection of Malden's enounters with larger-than-life Broadway figures... like Kazan, Strasberg, and Brando. The 1950s were Broadway's heyday but also the time of blacklisting, and Malden paints a vivid picture here of those times. Moreover, the actor eschews the 'down-and-dirty tell-all memoir' so common now to offer his views on the various acting techniques and methods he came upon. Recommended." - Library Journal
Paper Doll
Author: Jim Shepard
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504026683
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
During the air war over Germany, the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress tries to achieve some competence as a unit before their most catastrophic mission yet They call their plane “Paper Doll,” the joke being its suggestion of flimsiness, inconsequence, and perishability, and none of them, from the veterans to the newcomers, feel the bravery they’d like to project. But now, despite their myriad limitations, they’ve been tasked with living through the tension and boredom of base life, saving one another’s lives, and rejoicing at those missions they’ve survived—until they’re confronted by the shock of a mission directed against the ball-bearing factories in Schweinfurt, a mission that will outfly the capacities of their fighter escorts and take them hundreds of miles through the most heavily defended sectors of the German Air Defense. National Book Award finalist and author of The Book of Aron Jim Shepard brilliantly illustrates both the lunacy and intimacy of these young men’s lives on the ground as well as their growing disillusionment and terror at what lies ahead. Unsentimental and unsparing in its honesty, Paper Doll portrays with stirring clarity the realities of war and the bonds forged in the face of death.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504026683
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
During the air war over Germany, the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress tries to achieve some competence as a unit before their most catastrophic mission yet They call their plane “Paper Doll,” the joke being its suggestion of flimsiness, inconsequence, and perishability, and none of them, from the veterans to the newcomers, feel the bravery they’d like to project. But now, despite their myriad limitations, they’ve been tasked with living through the tension and boredom of base life, saving one another’s lives, and rejoicing at those missions they’ve survived—until they’re confronted by the shock of a mission directed against the ball-bearing factories in Schweinfurt, a mission that will outfly the capacities of their fighter escorts and take them hundreds of miles through the most heavily defended sectors of the German Air Defense. National Book Award finalist and author of The Book of Aron Jim Shepard brilliantly illustrates both the lunacy and intimacy of these young men’s lives on the ground as well as their growing disillusionment and terror at what lies ahead. Unsentimental and unsparing in its honesty, Paper Doll portrays with stirring clarity the realities of war and the bonds forged in the face of death.
The Emerald, or Miscellany of literature
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Light Shining Out of Darkness
Author: Hugh Hood
Publisher: Biblioasis
ISBN: 1771961899
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Like the paintings of Jan Vermeer and Edward Hopper, Hugh Hood’s short fiction looks hard at what some might call the surface of things. Like the finely wrought realism of those canvases, Hood’s super-realist style doesn’t just see—it sees into. While his early publications prompted his reputation as an originator of Canadian modernism, Hood’s work taken as a whole reveals a philosophy far older: that of the allegorist. Like Dante’s pilgrim, Hood’s narrator finds spiritual truths in recognizable forms, affirming again and again the imagination’s capacity for penetrating insight and the transcendental potential of art. As he wrote in 1971, “I have at all times endeavoured to look steadily at my subjects. I hope my gaze has helped to light them up.” With a foreword by John Metcalf, Light Shining Out of Darkness collects twenty-five of the best stories by this modern master of the form, whose sensibility set him apart from the writers of his generation and continues to distinguish his oeuvre as among the 20th century’s most enduring. Best understood as a suite of modern meditations, seemingly quotidian explorations of salvation, temptation, and damnation in an irreligious world, Hood balances insight into human failing with compassion for our shared condition.
Publisher: Biblioasis
ISBN: 1771961899
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Like the paintings of Jan Vermeer and Edward Hopper, Hugh Hood’s short fiction looks hard at what some might call the surface of things. Like the finely wrought realism of those canvases, Hood’s super-realist style doesn’t just see—it sees into. While his early publications prompted his reputation as an originator of Canadian modernism, Hood’s work taken as a whole reveals a philosophy far older: that of the allegorist. Like Dante’s pilgrim, Hood’s narrator finds spiritual truths in recognizable forms, affirming again and again the imagination’s capacity for penetrating insight and the transcendental potential of art. As he wrote in 1971, “I have at all times endeavoured to look steadily at my subjects. I hope my gaze has helped to light them up.” With a foreword by John Metcalf, Light Shining Out of Darkness collects twenty-five of the best stories by this modern master of the form, whose sensibility set him apart from the writers of his generation and continues to distinguish his oeuvre as among the 20th century’s most enduring. Best understood as a suite of modern meditations, seemingly quotidian explorations of salvation, temptation, and damnation in an irreligious world, Hood balances insight into human failing with compassion for our shared condition.
American Motherhood
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
In Search of a Villain
Author: Robert Gore-Browne
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description