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Great Second Acts

Author : Marlene Wagman-Geller
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1633538230
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Great Second Acts written by Marlene Wagman-Geller and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These inspiring true stories of women who’ve made the most of their mature years “will get you fired up” (Becca Anderson, author of The Book of Awesome Women and Real Life Mindfulness). The amazing women profiled in Great Second Acts refused to be defined by the dates on their birth certificates. Their lives are testimony that one can be feisty after fifty—and this book says in no uncertain terms to those who think otherwise, in the words of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “I dissent.” This isa fascinating collection of biographical sketches of dozens of women of a certain age who have excelled, inspired, and achieved. Learn how these women changed their respective fields of art, politics, science, mathematics, media, literature, business, activism, education, and more. Included are: · Biographies of influential women such as PM Margaret Thatcher, chef Julia Child, Mother Teresa, feminist Gloria Steinem, actress Rita Moreno, inventor Ruth Handler, Judge Judy Sheindlin, and many more · Empowering quotes from strong women who epitomize grit and persistence · Motivational, inspirational, and educational stories of ordinary older women who’ve accomplished extraordinary things

Women of Means

Author : Marlene Wagman-Geller
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1642500186
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Women of Means written by Marlene Wagman-Geller and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glimpse Behind the Façade of Rich and Famous Women If you liked The Last Castle and Lean In, you’ll love Women of Means. The Grass Isn't Greener on the Other Side. Heiresses have always been viewed with eyes of envy. They were the ones for whom the cornucopia had been upended, showering them with unimaginable wealth and opportunity. However, through intimate historical biographies, Women of Means shows us that oftentimes the weaving sisters saved their most heart-wrenching tapestries for the destinies of wealthy women. Happily Never After. From the author of Behind Every Great Man, we now have Women of Means, vignettes of the women who were slated from birth―or marriage―to great privilege, only to endure lives which were the stuff Russian tragic heroines are made of. They are the nonfictional Richard Corys―those not slated for happily ever after. Women of Means is bound to be a non-fiction best seller, full of the best biographies of all time. Some of the women whose silver spoons rusted include: • Almira Carnarvon, the real-life counterpart to Lady Cora of Downton Abbey • Liliane Bettencourt, whose chemist father created L’Oreal... and was a Nazi collaborator • Peggy Guggenheim, who had an insatiable appetite for modern art and men • Nica Rothschild, who traded her gilded life to become the Baroness of Bebop • Jocelyn Wildenstein, who became a cosmetology-enhanced cat-woman • Ruth Madoff, the dethroned queen of Manhattan • Patty Hearst, who trod the path from heiress... to terrorist

Your Second Act

Author : Patricia Heaton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 198214162X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Your Second Act written by Patricia Heaton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining book “filled with inspirational anecdotes” (People) about second acts in life and reinventing yourself from beloved television actress Patricia Heaton—Emmy Award–winning star of Everybody Love’s Raymond, The Middle, Patricia Heaton Parties, and most recently, Carol’s Second Act. Patricia Heaton is one of TV’s most recognizable and beloved moms. She’s won three Emmys, two for her starring role as Debra Barone on the long-running comedy Everybody Loves Raymond, and followed that career-making role with another gem as Frances Heck on the popular sitcom The Middle. She returned to television as the lead in the series Carol’s Second Act, which followed divorced fifty-year-old Carol Kenney (played by Heaton), who after raising two children and retiring as a teacher decides to finally pursue her dream of becoming a doctor. Patricia Heaton knows what it’s like to stage a second act and navigate pivotal transitions in life. When Heaton’s children left the nest, she found herself in a new and unfamiliar stage of life, compelling her to evaluate which direction to take next. Heaton discovered she had the time pursue passions that were previously placed on hold, both personally and professionally. She made her move and took a step forward in her career and for the first time, Heaton was not only the star of her own show, but also the executive producer. She now finds her greatest fulfillment in using her influence to support humanitarian efforts as a Celebrity Ambassador for World Vision, the world’s largest non-governmental organization. She and her husband support their work in poverty relief around the globe, something that was planted in her heart long ago. Through her own experience, Heaton became curious about other people’s stories of second-act transitions and ways to offer support in the process. Now, in Your Second Act, she shares wisdom from her own personal journey as well as insight from stories of numerous people across the country. From work to health, to love and more, the results are heartwarming, inspiring, and surprisingly relatable. “If you’ve been wanting to start your second act, Patricia Heaton may have just what you need” (Today). Filled with light-hearted anecdotes and pragmatic steps, Heaton shows us that midlife doesn’t have to be about crisis when you focus on the opportunity. After all, it’s never too late, or too early to stage your second act.

Second Act Trouble

Author : Steven Suskin
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557836311
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Second Act Trouble written by Steven Suskin and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These cautionary tales are provocative, highly instructive, occasionally brutal, and, from a safe distance, downright hilarious, making Second Act Trouble the perfect Broadway bedtime reader - unless you are prone to nightmares."--BOOK JACKET.

Second Acts

Author : Stephen M. Pollan
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0061753726
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Second Acts written by Stephen M. Pollan and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second Acts is a guide to reinventing your life. Whether you wish to change careers, move to a more desirable part of the country, start a business, write a novel, or drop everything to pursue a life dream, Stephen Pollan offers a powerful message ofhope and guidance that has benefited his own clients. Through a series of exercises, you will develop a comprehensive "script" for your second act—a step-by-step action plan that will lead you to the life you've always wanted.

Three Uses Of The Knife

Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350129003
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Three Uses Of The Knife written by David Mamet and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, this is a classic work on the power and importance of drama by renowned American playwright, screenwriter and essayist David Mamet. In this short but arresting series of essays, David Mamet explains the necessity, purpose and demands of drama. A celebration of the ties that bind art to life, Three Uses of the Knife is an enthralling read for anyone who has sat anxiously waiting for the lights to go up on Act 1. In three tightly woven essays of characteristic force and resonance, Mamet speaks about the connection of art to life, language to power, imagination to survival, public spectacle to private script. Self-assured and filled with autobiographical touches Three Uses of the Knife is a call to art and arms, a manifesto that reminds us of the singular power of the theatre to keep us sane, whole and human.

My Old Dog

Author : Laura T. Coffey
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1608683419
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book My Old Dog written by Laura T. Coffey and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “No Dog Should Die Alone” was the attention-grabbing — and heart-stirring — headline of journalist Laura T. Coffey’s TODAY show website story about photographer Lori Fusaro’s work with senior shelter pets. While generally calm, easy, and already house-trained, these animals often represent the highest-risk population at shelters. With gorgeous, joyful photographs and sweet, funny, true tales of “old dogs learning new tricks,” Coffey and Fusaro show that adopting a senior can be even more rewarding than choosing a younger dog. You’ll meet endearing elders like Marnie, the irresistible shih tzu who has posed for selfies with Tina Fey, James Franco, and Betty White; Remy, a soulful nine-year-old dog adopted by elderly nuns; George Clooney’s cocker spaniel, Einstein; and Bretagne, the last known surviving search dog from Ground Zero. They may be slower moving and a tad less exuberant than puppies, but these pooches prove that adopting a senior brings immeasurable joy, earnest devotion, and unconditional love.

Incarnadine

Author : Mary Szybist
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1555976352
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Incarnadine written by Mary Szybist and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anticipated second book by the poet Mary Szybist, author of Granted, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award The troubadours knew how to burn themselves through, how to make themselves shrines to their own longing. The spectacular was never behind them.-from "The Troubadours etc." In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist.

The Crack-Up

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811219712
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Crack-Up written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-portrait of a great writer 's rise and fall, intensely personal and etched with Fitzgerald's signature blend of romance and realism. The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after F. Scott Fitzgerald's death, this revealing collection of his essays—as well as letters to and from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passos—tells of a man with charm and talent to burn, whose gaiety and genius made him a living symbol of the Jazz Age, and whose recklessness brought him grief and loss. "Fitzgerald's physical and spiritual exhaustion is described brilliantly," noted The New York Review of Books: "the essays are amazing for the candor."

Once Again to Zelda

Author : Marlene Wagman-Geller
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440633983
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Once Again to Zelda written by Marlene Wagman-Geller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at the stories behind the dedications of 50 literary classics. Mary Shelley dedicated Frankenstein to her father, her greatest champion. Charlotte Brönte dedicatedJane Eyre to William Makepeace Thackeray for his enthusiastic review of the book’s first edition. Dostoyevsky dedicated The Brothers Karamazov to his typist-turned-lover Anna Grigoyevna. And, as this collection’s title indicates, F. Scott Fitzgerald dedicated his masterpiece The Great Gatsby to his wife Zelda. Often overlooked, a novel’s dedication can say much about an author and his or her relationship to the person for whom the book was consecrated. Once Again to Zelda explores the dedications in fifty iconic books that are an intrinsic part of both literary and pop culture, shedding light on the author’s psyche, as well as the social and historic context in which the book was first published.

Fitzgerald: My Lost City

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521402392
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Fitzgerald: My Lost City written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-08 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume of the Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition includes the original nine stories selected by Fitzgerald for All the Sad Young Men, together with eleven additional stories, published between 1925 and 1928, which were not collected by Fitzgerald during his lifetime." "This edition of All the Sad Young Men is the first of the short-fiction collections in the Cambridge edition to be based on extensive surviving manuscripts and typescripts. The volume contains a scholarly introduction, historical notes, a textual apparatus, illustrations, and appendixes."--BOOK JACKET.

Between the Acts

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Modernista
ISBN 13 : 9180949541
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Between the Acts written by Virginia Woolf and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a picturesque English village, residents prepare for an amateur production in the grounds of their manor house. Against the backdrop of World War II looming in the background, the play becomes a microcosm reflecting the anxieties, hopes, and societal changes of the time. Through Virginia Woolf's distinctive narrative style, each character's inner world is intricately woven into the fabric of the performance, blurring the lines between reality and theatricality. Between the Acts stands as Virginia Woolf's final novel, completing her exploration of experimental narrative techniques and modernist themes. Published posthumously in 1941, the novel continues Woolf's profound literary legacy of challenging conventional storytelling and delving into the complexities of human consciousness. VIRGINIA WOOLF [1882–1941] was an English author. With novels like Jacob’s Room [1922], Mrs Dalloway [1925], To the Lighthouse [1927], and Orlando [1928], she became a leading figure of modernism and is considered one of the most important English-language authors of the 20th century. As a thinker, with essays like A Room of One’s Own [1929], Woolf has influenced the women’s movement in many countries.

ICon Steve Jobs

Author : Jeffrey S. Young
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book ICon Steve Jobs written by Jeffrey S. Young and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-05-23 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the legendary success that Steve Jobs has had with Pixar and his rejuvenation of Apple through the introduction of the iMac and iPod.

The Long-lost Second Book of Acts, Setting Forth the Blessed Mary's Teachings about Reincarnation

Author : Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781863130301
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Long-lost Second Book of Acts, Setting Forth the Blessed Mary's Teachings about Reincarnation written by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Starstruck Romance and Other Hollywood Tails

Author : Julia Dumont
Publisher : Broadlit
ISBN 13 : 9780985540456
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Starstruck Romance and Other Hollywood Tails written by Julia Dumont and published by Broadlit. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As her Second Acts Dating Service truly takes off, Cynthia Amas discovers that in the heady world of high-end Hollywood romance, with success comes complexity. In this wildly seductive romp through the lush canyons and lavish neighborhoods of Los Angeles, the line between business and pleasure quickly blurs in a dizzying rush of sex and celebrity. Just as our heroine s uncanny genius for matching up her growing roster of exclusive love seekers continues to deepen, her own love life reaches a fever pitch. Things get complicated. And funny. And excruciatingly sensual. Cynthia s high-maintenance lovelorn mother, her maddeningly hot ex-fling Max, a long-lost high school crush, and of course her best friend, the libidinous, star-crazed Lolita and her mysterious pack of telepathic canines, are all along for the ride. Not to mention one very rich, very famous film producer. On top of everything else, her newest, most important client is literally the biggest movie star in the world. In more ways than one. When it comes to extra curriculars, he is the hardest-working stud in show business. Try as Cynthia may to hook him up with any number of gorgeous ladies in waiting, his notoriously one-track mind is set on her. She s determined to steer the dating service to the next level, but it s hard to focus, let alone keep your hands on the wheel, when you re hot, bothered, and nearly driven to distraction along the steamy highways and byways of love and lust. What a way to make a living."

Attrition

Author : S. G. Night
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781482712957
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Attrition written by S. G. Night and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They came by night. We couldn't stop them. Io burned. It is the 107th year of the Fourth Age. Our conquerors, the Demonic Dominion, have solidified their rule over our homeland. The Humans are in shackles. The Elves are in exile. And we, Io's proud Majiski battle-mages, are standing at extinction's edge. The mighty Grey Wall has sealed us all inside the Demons' cruelty...and after a hundred long years, the world beyond is all but forgotten. The Genshwin are all that remain of the Majiski: just a few hundred survivors sequestered in an underground fortress-masters of shadow and steel. In secret, they work against the Dominion. But how much can three hundred Majiski really expect to accomplish? Especially when their Patriarch is keeping more secrets than the Demons themselves. Racath Thanjel is the best the Genshwin have to offer. He's young, fast, strong, and brilliant...and constantly at odds with his Patriarch's rules of discretion. But something's changed. Soon, Racath finds himself swept up into a spider web of conspiracies, lost knowledge, and the prophetic pages of ancient scripture. And now, all his hopes depend upon a girl with golden hair, an aging Majiski warrior, and a sword wrought by God Himself....

Second Acts

Author : A. S. Breslauer
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595383769
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Second Acts written by A. S. Breslauer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1938, Jason Gilbert, a world famous composer, undergoes dangerous brain surgery to discover why he is suffering from debilitating headaches. The surgeons discover a brain tumor and remove it. To everyone's relief, the tumor is found to be benign. However, Gilbert soon discovers that the surgery has rendered him tone deaf. Bereft of his talent, he desperately searches for a new life. Gilbert travels to Paris-the scene of one of his many musical triumphs-where he gets caught up in a bizarre escapade involving famous journalists, Soviet secret police, an attractive divorcée, and desperate musicians. This leads to a chain of events that takes Gilbert and others to Marseilles, New York, Hollywood, Mexico City, Acapulco, Costa Rica, Lisbon, and the battlefields of France during World War II. He also meets an eclectic group of people: French painter Henri Matisse; German composer Arnold Schoenberg; Hungarian novelist Arthur Koestler; American journalist Bertram Wolfe; dictator Joseph Stalin; America's greatest code-breaker, William Friedman; and William Donovan, the head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), who makes Gilbert a charter staff member of the new organization. Working for the OSS makes Gilbert feel alive. But will music ever again play a part in his life?