Author : Maureen Stapleton
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,50 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This intimate, earthy, outrageously blunt memoir by one of the legendary stars of American theater and film is packed with anecdotes about many of Stapleton's associates, including Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Olivier, and Marlon Brando. Told in a voice so direct that it is startling, this compelling biography will be a revelation even to those who know this funny lady best. Photos.
Author : Edward Dmytryk
Publisher : Crown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 24,32 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Memoir of film director Edward Dmytryk's 54 years in Hollywood.
Author : Jason Mott
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 31,85 MB
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593330986
***2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER*** ***THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER*** Winner of the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize Finalist, 2022 Chautauqua Prize Finalist, Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing Shortlist, 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Shortlist, 2022 Maya Angelou Book Award Shortlist, 2022 Carnegie Medal Longlist A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! An Ebony Magazine Publishing Book Club Pick! One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction | One of Philadelphia Inquirer's Best Books of 2021 | One of Shelf Awareness's Top Ten Fiction Titles of the Year | One of TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books | One of NPR.org's "Books We Love" | EW’s "Guide to the Biggest and Buzziest Books of 2021" | One of the New York Public Library's Best Books for Adults | San Diego Union Tribune—My Favorite Things from 2021 | Writer's Bone's Best Books of 2021 | Atlanta Journal Constitution—Top 10 Southern Books of the Year | One of the Guardian's (UK) Best Ten 21st Century Comic Novels | One of Entertainment Weekly's 15 Books You Need to Read This June | On Entertainment Weekly's "Must List" | One of the New York Post's Best Summer Reading books | One of GMA's 27 Books for June | One of USA Today's 5 Books Not to Miss | One of Fortune's 21 Most Anticipated Books Coming Out in the Second Half of 2021 | One of The Root's PageTurners: It’s Getting Hot in Here | One of Real Simple's Best New Books to Read in 2021 An astounding work of fiction from New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott, always deeply honest, at times electrically funny, that goes to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans and America as a whole In Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and more urgent: Mott’s novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appears to the author on his tour. As these characters’ stories build and converge, they astonish. For while this heartbreaking and magical book entertains and is at once about family, love of parents and children, art and money, it’s also about the nation’s reckoning with a tragic police shooting playing over and over again on the news. And with what it can mean to be Black in America. Who has been killed? Who is The Kid? Will the author finish his book tour, and what kind of world will he leave behind? Unforgettably told, with characters who burn into your mind and an electrifying plot ideal for book club discussion, Hell of a Book is the novel Mott has been writing in his head for the last ten years. And in its final twists, it truly becomes its title.
Author : Dawn Fraser
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 33,36 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Swimmers
ISBN : 9780733613425
Autobiography of a living icon of Australian sport. Fraser won swimming gold medals at the Olympic Games held in Melbourne (1956), Rome (1960) and Tokyo (1964), including 3 successive golds for the 100-metre freestyle. Tells of her childhood in working-class Sydney, family tragedies, her illustrious sporting career, and the impact of a ten-year ban following controversy at the Tokyo Olympics. Also traces Fraser's subsequent experiences as a single parent and a publican, and her come-back as an international ambassador for sport. Foreword by John Singleton. Includes colour and black-and-white photographs, bibliography, timeline and sporting achievements, and index. In 1985, the author became the first Australian to be inducted into the American Women's Sports Foundation Hall of Fame, and was also inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame (and has served as its president). She was named World Female Swimmer of the Century in 1999, and received an Order of Australia in 1998 for her contributions to the environment, sport and disabled sports people.
Author : Robert Dugoni
Publisher : Center Point
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,28 MB
Release : 2023-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781638086901
Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called "Devil Boy" or Sam "Hell" by his classmates; "God's will" is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words were of little comfort, but Sam persevered, buoyed by his mother's devout faith, his father's practical wisdom, and his two other misfit friends.
Author : Matt Groening
Publisher : HarperCollins (UK)
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 2005-03-07
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 9780007191666
A second bumper collection of the classic Life in Hell cartoon strips from the 80s and 90s which were the basis for The Simpsons.
Author : Pierre Charette
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1532083653
“A HISTORICAL LIFE STORY OF “PIERRE “PETE” CHARETTE “A “DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION” AGENT, HIRED TO WORK UNDERCOVER IN FRANCE A ON THE “FAMOUS CORSICAN MOB! KNOWN AS “THE FRENCH CONNECTION” HIS CASES WERE HISTORICAL AND WORLDWIDE AND FILLED WITH “DANGER AND INTREAGUE”. BOYKIN ROSE Associate Deputy Attorney General in the United States Department of Justice. In today's society, the word "hero" is thrown around freely with little regard to the actions or circumstances involved. But Pete earned that title, although he'll never use that title or admit it. But isn't that one of the traits of a true hero? If you want to learn what life as a DEA Agent can be like, the dangers, the excitement, staying focused on your mission, this is the book for you. Pete doesn't tell stories about what others did while he sat back and watched. He lays out firsthand knowledge of how he worked undercover in a seedy and violent world when any day could realistically be his last. This isn't Hollywood, this is real life from a man who lived it!!! Steve Murphy DEA NARCOS
Author : Tucker Max
Publisher : Citadel
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0806535938
The “highly entertaining and thoroughly reprehensible” #1 New York Times bestseller—now with sixteen pages of photos and a new introduction (The New York Times). My name is Tucker Max, and I am an asshole. I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally act like a raging dickhead. But, I do contribute to humanity in one very important way: I share my adventures with the world. --from the Introduction Actual reader feedback: "I find it truly appalling that there are people in the world like you. You are a disgusting, vile, repulsive, repugnant, foul creature. Because of you, I don’t believe in God anymore. No just God would allow someone like you to exist." "I’ll stay with God as my lord, but you are my savior. I just finished reading your brilliant stories, and I laughed so hard I almost vomited. I want to bring that kind of joy to people. You’re an artist of the highest order and a true humanitarian to boot. I'm in both shock and awe at how much I want to be you."
Author : Stan Blackford
Publisher : Stan Blackford
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Anglo-Indians
ISBN : 9780646391045
"The heart-warming story of a backward boy, unable to talk at the age of four and sent to boarding school in order to learn to speak. Branded a moron and dragged through ten schools in seven years, he suddenly "finds his feet" and becomes dux of one of India's most prestigious colleges. Later he becomes an officer in one of the Indian Army's most famous regiments and Adjutant of its premier battalion. He comes from a dysfunctional family and a broken home. He is an Anglo-Indian, a much despised member of the human race in the days of the Raj, rubbing shoulders with British and Indian officers. Laugh at his misfortunes and exult in his successes; hold your breath as the four-year old barely escapes a kidnap attempt; enjoy travelling on the world's most famous mountain railway, Darjeeling's toy train, which was once chased by a wild elephant. Read of cobras, jaadu (Indian witchcraft) and schoolboys using toilet paper as currency to support their gambling habit. Accompany the author as he goes to catch a monkey and shoot a panther; as his brigade confronts the Russians over possession of the Iranian oilfields and as he reads fairy tales to a blood-thirsty Pathan warrior who asks if the stories are true! Feel the desperation of millions as murder and mayhem stalk the Indian sub-continent. See the refugee trains, ushered in by the granting of independence to India, when inter-communal violence spawned ten million refugees overnight and one million hapless men, women and children were slaughtered. For the old India wallahs, this is a trip down memory lane to savour the aura of Calcutta, of Chowringhee and Firpo's; of Darjeeling and Mussoorie, of Dehra Dun and Poona; of the railway institutes and the Auxiliary Force, and much much more." -- book cover.
Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 2011
Category :
ISBN : 1446176282
