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Author : Michael Repasky
Publisher : Jim Corbin
ISBN 13 : 0615136508
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (151 download)
Download or read book A Pittsburgh Kid - A Memoir written by Michael Repasky and published by Jim Corbin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norm Macdonald
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812993632
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Based on a True Story written by Norm Macdonald and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Driving, wild and hilarious” (The Washington Post), here is the incredible “memoir” of the legendary actor, gambler, raconteur, and Saturday Night Live veteran. When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre “one step below instruction manuals.” Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada. When he emerged he had under his arm a manuscript, a genre-smashing book about comedy, tragedy, love, loss, war, and redemption. When asked if this was the celebrity memoir, Norm replied, “Call it anything you damn like.”
Author : Chris Preksta
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698182189
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book Pittsburgh Dad written by Chris Preksta and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Pittsburgh Dad debuted on YouTube, creators Chris Preksta and Curt Wootton little suspected their sitcom would receive more than sixteen million views and turn their blue-collar everyman into a nationally known figure. Illustrated with hilarious black-and-white photos, Pittsburgh Dad shares the best of the best, from rants about swimming pool rules to reflections on coaching little league to curmudgeonly movie reviews. With its heavy dose of nostalgia and pitch-perfect sensibility, Pittsburgh Dad will have readers laughing in recognition, especially those who love recent blockbusters like Sh*t My Dad Says and Dad Is Fat.
Author : Nioucha Homayoonfar
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426333684
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Taking Cover written by Nioucha Homayoonfar and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This coming-of-age memoir, set during the Iranian Revolution, tells the true story of a young girl who moves to Tehran from the U.S. and has to adjust to living in a new country, learning a new language, and starting a new school during one of the most turbulent periods in Iran's history. When five-year-old Nioucha Homayoonfar moves from the U.S. to Iran in 1976, its open society means a life with dancing, women's rights, and other freedoms. But soon the revolution erupts and the rules of life in Iran change. Religion classes become mandatory. Nioucha has to cover her head and wear robes. Opinions at school are not welcome. Her cousin is captured and tortured after he is caught trying to leave the country. And yet, in the midst of so much change and challenge, Nioucha is still just a girl who wants to play with her friends, please her parents, listen to pop music, and, eventually, have a boyfriend. Will she ever get used to this new culture? Can she break the rules without consequences? Nioucha's story sheds light on the timely conversation about religious, political, and social freedom, publishing in time for the 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution.
Author : Kate Boehm Jerome
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781439600955
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Pittsburgh and the State of Pennsylvania written by Kate Boehm Jerome and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects information about the land, history, and people of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania.
Author : Tanya Nicole Kach
Publisher : Booklocker.com
ISBN 13 : 9781634924436
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (244 download)
Download or read book Memoir of a Milk Carton Kid written by Tanya Nicole Kach and published by Booklocker.com. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir of a Milk Carton Kid is the story of a young girl, Tanya Kach, lost in the cracks of the system, forced to spend more than ten years as a prisoner of a manipulative captor. She tells her story of pain and triumph through her advocate, Lawrence H. Fisher.
Author : Joe Lafferty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733620802
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Justin Time written by Joe Lafferty and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe died for seven minutes in 2008. This came on the heels of beating cancer as an eight-year old, fighting diabetes, losing an eye, and a pulmonary embolism. Later, he experienced kidney failure, heart valve replacements, and a double organ transplant. His first 37 years were spent overcoming health issues while working alongside some of the biggest names in sports, including Dan Marino, Bucky Dent, and Rob Gronkowski. Read how these sports celebrities have come to admire this unstoppable man.
Author : Sharon Flake
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1423132513
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (231 download)
Download or read book The Skin I'm in written by Sharon Flake and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maleeka suffers every day from the taunts of the other kids in her class. If they're not getting at her about her homemade clothes or her good grades, it's about her dark, black skin. When a new teacher, whose face is blotched with a startling white patch, starts at their school, Maleeka can see there is bound to be trouble for her too. But the new teacher's attitude surprises Maleeka. Miss Saunders loves the skin she's in. Can Maleeka learn to do the same?
Author : Randy Pausch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780340978504
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (785 download)
Download or read book The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Author : Nancy McCabe
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 082626445X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Meeting Sophie written by Nancy McCabe and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2003-10-06 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The baby is screaming again. My baby. I hoist her off the narrow hotel bed--again--and try to cradle her as I rock my torso back and forth in an uncomfortable straight-backed chair. This baby does not cradle. She doesn't know how to cuddle, to be soothed in anyone's arms. She howls and arches away, squirms and flops, a sixteen-pound fish out of water. I'm not used to holding babies, and she's not used to be being held, but when I try to put her down, she wails. My arms feel chafed, raw, and my wrists ache from the hours of straining to hang on to her. Huge tears pool in her eyes. These tears could break my heart. These screams could break my eardrums. After years as a temporary college instructor with no real home—her family and longtime friends scattered—Nancy McCabe yearned to settle down, establish a place she could call home, and rear a child there. A tough academic job market led her to accept a position at a church-connected college in the deep South, a move that felt like an uneasy return to the conservative environment of her childhood that she thought she had left behind. McCabe had many reservations about rearing a child alone in this climate, but the desire to become a mother would not go away. Meeting Sophie tells the story of McCabe adopting a Chinese daughter and the many obstacles she faced during the adoption and adjustment process as she renegotiated her role within her family and fought difficulties in her job. Especially poignant is her struggle to bond with a sick, grieving baby while in a foreign country during political unrest—followed, upon her return to the U.S., by a devastating loss and a career crisis.
Author : Brian Broome
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 0358439108
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (584 download)
Download or read book Punch Me Up to the Gods written by Brian Broome and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2021 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playful, poignant and wholly original, this coming-of-age memoir about Blackness, masculinity and addiction follows the author, a poet and screenwriter, as he recounts his experiences, revealing a perpetual outsider awkwardly squirming to find his way in. --
Author : Frank Santoro
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681374048
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Pittsburgh written by Frank Santoro and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving graphic memoir about home, childhood, and family by the author of Storeyville and Pompeii. Pittsburgh is the story of a family, and a city. Frank Santoro faces a straightforward yet heart-rending reality: His parents, once high-school sweethearts, now never speak to each other—despite working in the same building. Stuck in the middle, he tries to understand. The result is this book. Using markers, pencils, scissors, and tape, with a variety of papers, drawing in vivid colors and exuberant lines, Santoro constructs a multi-generational retelling of their lives. Framed by his parents’ courtship and marriage, and set amid the vital but fading neighborhood streets, the pages of Pittsburgh are filled with details both quotidian and dramatic—from his childhood mishaps to his father’s trauma in Vietnam—interspersed throughout with the mute witness of the family dog, Pretzel. Santoro, the acclaimed author of Storeyville and Pompeii, has created his masterpiece. Pittsburgh is an extraordinary reimagining of the comics form to depict the processes of memory, and a powerful, searching account of a family taking shape, falling apart, and struggling to reinvent itself, as the city around them does the same.
Author : Mark Whitaker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451627564
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book My Long Trip Home written by Mark Whitaker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a dramatic, moving work of historical reporting and personal discovery, Mark Whitaker, award-winning journalist, sets out to trace the story of what happened to his parents, a fascinating but star-crossed interracial couple, and arrives at a new understanding of the family dramas that shaped their lives—and his own. His father, “Syl” Whitaker, was the charismatic grandson of slaves who grew up the child of black undertakers from Pittsburgh and went on to become a groundbreaking scholar of Africa. His mother, Jeanne Theis, was a shy World War II refugee from France whose father, a Huguenot pastor, helped hide thousands of Jews from the Nazis and Vichy police. They met in the mid-1950s, when he was a college student and she was his professor, and they carried on a secret romance for more than a year before marrying and having two boys. Eventually they split in a bitter divorce that was followed by decades of unhappiness as his mother coped with self-recrimination and depression while trying to raise her sons by herself, and his father spiraled into an alcoholic descent that destroyed his once meteoric career. Based on extensive interviews and documentary research as well as his own personal recollections and insights, My Long Trip Home is a reporter’s search for the factual and emotional truth about a complicated and compelling family, a successful adult’s exploration of how he rose from a turbulent childhood to a groundbreaking career, and, ultimately, a son’s haunting meditation on the nature of love, loss, identity, and forgiveness.
Author : Annie Dillard
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006184313X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)
Download or read book An American Childhood written by Annie Dillard and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An American Childhood more than takes the reader's breath away. It consumes you as you consume it, so that, when you have put down this book, you're a different person, one who has virtually experienced another childhood." — Chicago Tribune A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s and 60s. Dedicated to her parents—from whom she learned a love of language and the importance of following your deepest passions—Dillard's brilliant memoir will resonate with anyone who has ever recalled with longing playing baseball on an endless summer afternoon, caring for a pristine rock collection, or knowing in your heart that a book was written just for you.
Author : William A. C. Polk
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595161332
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of an Oreo written by William A. C. Polk and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-01-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Oreo? Me? No! I've been just an average guy who's had a pretty good life. SO-Who wants to read my autobiography? If I'm an unknown, almost nobody right? Well this autobiography is different, because it has a unique and illuminating story to tell. Its primary task is to explore the social climate and the dynamics of social change in the U.S. during most of the 20th Century. It also explores the idiosyncratic needs of individuals and groups that create and/or resist social change. I had always felt the imperfections in how whites and blacks interacted in our country. But not until the assassination of Martin Luther King my uneasiness in a segregated society suddenly re-ignite my awareness of the disparities. That startling realization sparked and fueled my efforts to rectify the social ills. Taking advantage of my love of people, my life experiences and my education, I write this to help bring about an inclusive, more diverse society. My background has helped me realize that all people have the same concerns in life. That background and knowledge didn't make me an OREO. It made me a human being. Bill's story is fascinating. It is captivating simply as an autobiography but it also presents a unique insight into race relations in America from the view of an "Oreo." I think readers, both black and white, will find it interesting edifying and inspiring." Roy Armstrong II Editor & Advisor "You've told quite an amazing and touching stroy here." "Characters are real people and have been well defined throughout the story." "Realistically presented." "--its fascinating to view this part of our national heritage throngh his eyes." Comments by: P. Elizabeth Collins President/ Gardenia Press
Author : Connie McNamara
Publisher : It Books
ISBN 13 : 9780062203632
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book My First Pittsburgh Words Go Pitt written by Connie McNamara and published by It Books. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go Pitt is an introduction to the University of Pittsburgh for little ones. Colorful pages, combined with simple words, enhance a learning atmosphere for both child and parent. Early association with the spirit of Pittsburgh provides knowledge and excitement for future years.
Author : Stefan Lorant
Publisher : Authors Edition, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pittsburgh written by Stefan Lorant and published by Authors Edition, Incorporated. This book was released on 1980 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
