The Shyster's Daughter

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Publisher : Etruscan Press
ISBN 13 : 0983294437
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (832 download)

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Book Synopsis The Shyster's Daughter by : Paula Priamos

Download or read book The Shyster's Daughter written by Paula Priamos and published by Etruscan Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paula Priamos' detective noir memoir investigates a daughter's love for a father who drinks, hustles, and rages through life.

Packinghouse Daughter

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Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873513913
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (139 download)

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Book Synopsis Packinghouse Daughter by : Cheri Register

Download or read book Packinghouse Daughter written by Cheri Register and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The violence that erupted when the company "replaced" its union workers with strikebreakers tested family loyalty and community stability, and attracted national attention when the governor of Minnesota called in the National Guard, declared martial law, and closed the plant. Register skillfully interweaves her own memories, historical research, and first-person interviews of participants on both sides of the strike into a narrative that is thoughtful and impassioned about the value of blue-collar work and the dignity of those who do it. Packinghouse Daughter also testifies to the hold that childhood experience has on personal values and notions of social class, despite the upward mobility that is the great promise of American democracy.

A Great Big Girl Like Me

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252092627
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis A Great Big Girl Like Me by : Victoria Sturtevant

Download or read book A Great Big Girl Like Me written by Victoria Sturtevant and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of Marie Dressler, MGM's most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler's use of her body to challenge Hollywood's standards for leading ladies. At five feet seven inches tall and two hundred pounds, Dressler was never considered the popular "delicate beauty," often playing ugly ducklings, old maids, doting mothers, and imperious dowagers. However, Dressler's body, her fearless physicality, and her athletic slapstick routines commanded the screen. Although an unlikely movie star, Dressler represented for Depression-era audiences a sign of abundance and generosity in a time of scarcity. This premier analysis of her body of work explores how Dressler refocused the generic frame of her films beyond the shallow problems of the rich and beautiful, instead dignifying the marginalized, the elderly, women, and the poor. Sturtevant inteprets the meanings of Dressler's body through different genres, venues, and historical periods by looking at her vaudeville career, her transgressive representation of an "unruly" yet sexual body in Emma and Christopher Bean, ideas of the body politic in the films Politics and Prosperity, and Dressler as a mythic body in Min and Bill and Tugboat Annie.

Emilie's Song

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Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1438903324
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Emilie's Song written by Darlene Dauphin and published by Author House. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sally Langlois Against the backdrop of Prohibition, the Depression, and the jazz scene of the Big Easy, Sally reluctantly finds love again with the handsome Michael Tolliver, a well-educated northerner and colored former army officer. Despite his pre-occupation with a personal metamorphosis, he is immediately smitten with her. As they discover their love and establish their lives together, disaster strikes. Once more Sally faces the loss of someone important to her, this time with the added burden of another child, Emilie, a lovely and precocious little girl. Now only time will tell whether Sally and her family will be able to find happiness together. We are drawn into this compelling and classic American love story, journeying back in time to enter the world of this bright and lovely woman as she protects her family struggling to find happiness, love and success.

Outlook

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Outlook by : Alfred Emanuel Smith

Download or read book Outlook written by Alfred Emanuel Smith and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats

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Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1629634581
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (296 download)

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Book Synopsis Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats by : Iain McIntyre

Download or read book Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats written by Iain McIntyre and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats is the first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction. As the young created new styles in music, fashion, and culture, pulp fiction shadowed their every move, hyping and exploiting their behaviour, dress, and language for mass consumption and cheap thrills. From the juvenile delinquent gangs of the early 1950s through the beats and hippies, on to bikers, skinheads, and punks, pulp fiction left no trend untouched. With their lurid covers and wild, action-packed plots, these books reveal as much about society’s deepest desires and fears as they do about the subcultures themselves. Girl Gangs features approximately 400 full-color covers, many of them never reprinted before. With 70 in-depth author interviews, illustrated biographies, and previously unpublished articles from more than 20 popular culture critics and scholars from the US, UK, and Australia, the book goes behind the scenes to look at the authors and publishers, how they worked, where they drew their inspiration and—often overlooked—the actual words they wrote. Books by well-known authors such as Harlan Ellison and Lawrence Block are discussed alongside neglected obscurities and former bestsellers ripe for rediscovery. It is a must read for anyone interested in pulp fiction, lost literary history, retro and subcultural style, and the history of postwar youth culture. Contributors include Nicolas Tredell, Alwyn W. Turner, Mike Stax, Clinton Walker, Bill Osgerby, David Rife, J.F. Norris, Stewart Home, James Cockington, Joe Blevins, Brian Coffey, James Doig, David James Foster, Matthew Asprey Gear, Molly Grattan, Brian Greene, John Harrison, David Kiersh, Austin Matthews, and Robert Baker.

The Bar

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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A Pine Castle Anthology

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452095817
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis A Pine Castle Anthology by : William S. Morgan

Download or read book A Pine Castle Anthology written by William S. Morgan and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will Wallace Harney (1832-1912) came to the Central Florida frontier in the years immediately following the Civil War, and established a homestead south of Orlando on the shores of Lake Conway. There he used the native timber to construct a magnificent home which he dubbed, Pine Castle. Within a few years, the name was being applied to the entire neighborhood. Beyond Pine Castle, Harney was better known for his skills as a writer, though he only published one thin volume of poetry during his lifetime. Most of his works appeared in regular submissions to popular magazines and newspapers. In the century since his death, his words have occasionally appeared in local publications. But no comprehensive collection of his writings had ever been published before this present anthology. The collected poetry, fiction, and letters of Will Wallace Harney reveal the important regional writer as a complex character, as inconsistent and difficult to define as the times in which he lived.

Literary Digest

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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The Real Mandrake the Magician

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Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525534718
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Real Mandrake the Magician written by Linda Mandrake and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography not only gives you an idea of the brilliant career of Mandrake with over 100 show photos, but also provides a glimpse behind the scenes. What was it like to live on the road with small children while constantly performing magic shows? Mandrake's first son, Lon, at age 6 attended five different schools in grade one yet graduated from U.B.C. with a Bachelor of Science degree years later. Mandrake's performing partner and wife, Velvet, remembers: "One night we had a big show, with full orchestra and a packed house. At the end , the audience really liked us and they came up on stage and presented me with a bouquet of red roses. We took our bows and we felt like the toast of the town. Then back to the hotel room I went to relieve the sitter while Leon organized back stage. I rolled up my sleeves and thought what a contrast, as I spent the rest of the evening washing out dirty diapers in the bathroom sink." Then there was the time the elegant Vancouver hotel phoned Mandrake for help because another magician's doves had flown into the high chandeliers and no one could catch them. A banquet was planned for that evening and they were in a panic. Mandrake, with his great experience in magic, caught all the birds in no time. See the photo of Mandrake in Las Vegas in 1945 when the Last Frontier was one of only three casinos on the strip. Enjoy the adventures of Mandrake and the unusual people he met on the road. Meet the real Mandrake the Magician.

Worship Your Food

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 057804806X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Worship Your Food written by Quinn Montana and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From out of nowhere, one voice will shake you out of our national post-lunch food coma. It has become necessary that we rethink our very way of life in order to reclaim our health. Within these pages you will find the tools to begin. While working jobs as diverse as teacher, computer animator or cross-country truck driver, the author managed to maintain her 90/10 rule: eating a diet consisting of 90% organic foods. This book grew from a desire to help others realize that eating well was not only possible but necessary. Worship Your Food serves up food for thought and then maps out the means to put those thoughts into action.

Ida and Her Daughters

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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 166418502X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)

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Toward the Golden Age

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Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 048680609X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)

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Book Synopsis Toward the Golden Age by : Mike Ashley

Download or read book Toward the Golden Age written by Mike Ashley and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intriguing compilation of crime fiction from 1905 to 1921 includes G. K. Chesterton's "The Blue Cross," "The Ninescore Mystery" by Baroness Orczy, Mary Roberts Rinehart's "The Papered Door," plus 12 other tales.

Don't Kill the Dead

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Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434959066
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Don't Kill the Dead written by Vusi Gumb and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Literary Digest

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 976 pages
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Download or read book The Literary Digest written by Edward Jewitt Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Do You Remember Me?

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439138044
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Do You Remember Me? by : Judith Levine

Download or read book Do You Remember Me? written by Judith Levine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her award-winning book Harmful to Minors, Judith Levine radically upended our fixed ideas about childhood. Now, she tackles the other end of life in this poignant memoir of a daughter coming to terms with a difficult father who is sinking into dementia, presenting an insightful exploration of the ways we think about disability, aging, and the self as it resides in the body and the world. In prose that is unsentimental yet moving, serious yet darkly funny, complex in emotion and ideas yet spare in diction, Levine reassembles her father's personal and professional history even as he is losing track of it. She unpeels the layers of his complicated personality and uncovers information that surprises even her mother, to whom her father has been married for more than sixty years. As her father deteriorates, the family consensus about who he was and is and how best to care for him constantly threatens to collapse. Levine recounts the painful discussions, mad outbursts, and gingerly negotiations, and dissects the shifting alliances among family, friends, and a changing guard of hired caretakers. Spending more and more time with her father, she confronts a relationship that has long felt bereft of love. By caring for his needs, she learns to care about and, slowly, to love him. While Levine chronicles these developments, she looks outside her family for the sources of their perceptions and expectations, deftly weaving politics, science, history, and philosophy into their personal story. A memoir opens up to become a critique of our culture's attitudes toward the elderley. A claustrophobic account of Alzheimer's is transformed into a complex lesson about love, duty, and community. What creates a self and keeps it whole? Levine insists that only the collaboration of others can safeguard her father's self against the riddling of his brain. Embracing interdependence and vulnerability, not autonomy and productivity, as the seminal elements of our humanity, Levine challenges herself and her readers to find new meaning, even hope, in one man's mortality and our own.

The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: J-Z

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415259385
Total Pages : 1150 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: J-Z written by Eric Partridge and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entry includes attestations of the head word's or phrase's usage, usually in the form of a quotation. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).