Author : Emily Jenkins
Publisher : Berkley Trade
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,85 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Domestic fiction
ISBN : 9780425186275
In this warmhearted novel, a thirtysomething woman looks back on the year she became the most notorious child in the history of the Cambridge Harmony PTA.
Author : Herbie J Pilato
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 13,33 MB
Release : 2012-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1589797507
Based on author Herbie J Pilato’s exclusive interviews with Elizabeth Montgomery prior to her death in 1995, Twitch Upon a Star includes insider material and commentary from several individuals associated with her remarkable life and career before, during, and after Bewitched, including her classic feature films The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955), Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed? (1963), and Johnny Cool (1963). Two of Montgomery’s many popular TV movies, A Case of Rape (which remains one of the highest-rated TV-movies of all time) and The Legend of Lizzie Borden (which will soon be remade as a feature film), were groundbreaking and remain classics. But Twitch Upon a Star also goes behind the scenes to explore Montgomery’s political activism, including her early advocacy for AIDS sufferers and the peace movement; her support for all minorities, including the gay community and the disabled; and her controversial participation as narrator of the1988 feature film documentary Cover-Up and its 1991 Oscar-winning sequel, The Panama Deception (both of which chronicled the Iran/Contra scandal of the 1980s). The book also explores Montgomery's tumultuous relationships with her father, screen legend Robert Montgomery (she was a liberal; he was a staunch conservative), and her four husbands (including actor Gig Young, who later died in a murder/suicide). Through it all—and to family and friends such as fellow performers Ronny Cox, Sally Kemp, and Florence Henderson—she was just Lizzie: down-to-earth and unaffected, just like Samantha, the "witch-with-a-twitch" Stephens, her most famous role.
Author : David Sheff
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780618683352
Sheff's story tells of his teenage son's addiction to meth, in this real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the family's gradual emergence into hope.
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Page : 466 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Arts
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Author : Emily Jenkins
Publisher : Anne Schwartz Books
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0375858830
A lemonade stand in winter? Yes, that's exactly what Pauline and John-John intend to have, selling lemonade and limeade--and also lemon-limeade. With a catchy refrain (Lemon lemon LIME, Lemon LIMEADE! Lemon lemon LIME, Lemon LEMONADE!), plus simple math concepts throughout, here is a read-aloud that's great for storytime and classroom use, and is sure to be a hit among the legions of Jenkins and Karas fans. "A beautifully restrained tribute to trust and tenderness shared by siblings; an entrepreneurship how-to that celebrates the thrill of the marketplace without shying away from its cold realities; and a parable about persistence." —Publishers Weekly, Starred
Author : Emily Jenkins
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 32,29 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0375982809
“A bit like the great movie Toy Story and a bit like the wonderful Kate DiCamillo book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. This is a great family book.” —The Washington Post on Toys Go Out, the companion to Toy Dance Party Here is the second book in the highly acclaimed Toys trilogy, which includes the companion books Toys Go Out and Toys Come Home and chronicles the unforgettable adventures of three brave and loving toys. Lumphy, Stingray, and Plastic are back! And this time the three extraordinary friends find that their little girl has left for winter vacation and taken a box of dominoes, a stegosaurus puzzle, and two Barbie dolls—but not them. Could she have forgotten them? As the girl starts to grow up, the three best friends must join together to brave a blizzard, save the toy mice from the vacuum, and make sure that they’ll always have the little girl’s love. (And they still have time to throw an all-out dance party with the washing machine!) "Poignant and compelling, this sequel sparkles." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred
Author : Stephen Wright
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 30,69 MB
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316427330
A Civil War novel unlike any other: the story of a young man's journey through a nation blasted apart. Born in 1844, Liberty Fish is the descendant of both Carolina slaveholders and New York abolitionists. In hopes of reconciling the warring strands of his heritage, he escapes his home in the North -- first into the cauldron of the Civil War, and then into the even more disturbing bedlam that follows. The Amalgamation Polka showcases not only the brutality of this tragic passage in American history, but also its surprising compassion and hope. In language both true to its time and completely modern, it is revelatory and mesmerizing, a novel that "will bring a smile to your own lips as it sets your brain on fire." (Jason McBride, the Village Voice).
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Page : 724 pages
File Size : 22,43 MB
Release : 2002
Category : American literature
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Author : Kathleen Ferris
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813149827
James Joyce's near blindness, his peculiar gait, and his death from perforated ulcers are commonplace knowledge to most of his readers. But until now, most Joyce scholars have not recognized that these symptoms point to a diagnosis of syphilis. Kathleen Ferris traces Joyce's medical history as described in his correspondence, in the diaries of his brother Stanislaus, and in the memoirs of his acquaintances, to show that many of his symptoms match those of tabes dorsalis, a form of neurosyphilis which, untreated, eventually leads to paralysis. Combining literary analysis and medical detection, Ferris builds a convincing case that this dread disease is the subject of much of Joyce's autobiographical writing. Many of this characters, most notably Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, exhibit the same symptoms as their creator: stiffness of gait, digestive problems, hallucinations, and impaired vision. Ferris also demonstrates that the themes of sin, guilt, and retribution so prevalent in Joyce's works are almost certainly a consequence of his having contracted venereal disease as a young man while frequenting the brothels of Dublin and Paris. By tracing the images, puns, and metaphors in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, and by demonstrating their relationship to Joyce's experiences, Ferris shows the extent to which, for Joyce, art did indeed mirror life.
Author : Kitty Burns Florey
Publisher : Berkley Trade
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
In this quirky, urban love story, Emily Lime's simple life becomes decidedly complicated when she gets involved with a man 16 years her junior--who happens to be the son of her paranoid, unsavory ex-husband.
