From Sawdust to Stardust
From Sawdust to Stardust

Author: Terry Lee Rioux

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2005-02-28

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1416500049

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In the forty-year history of Star Trek®, none of the television show's actors are more beloved than DeForest Kelley. His portrayal of Leonard "Bones" McCoy, the southern physician aboard the Starship Enterprise™, brought an unaffected humanity to the groundbreaking space frontier series. Jackson DeForest Kelley came of age in Depression-era Georgia. He was raised on the sawdust trail, a preacher's kid steeped in his father's literal faith and judgment. But De's natural artistic gifts called him to a different way, and a visit to California at seventeen showed a bright new world. Theater and radio defined his early career -- but it was a World War II training film he made while serving in the Army Air Corps that led to his first Paramount Studios contract. After years of struggle, his lean, weathered look became well known in notable westerns and television programs such as You Are There and Bonanza. But his work on several pilots for writer-producer Gene Roddenberry changed his destiny and the course of cultural history. This thoroughly researched actor's life is about hard work and luck, loyalty and love. It is a journey that takes us all...from sawdust to stardust.

From Sawdust to Stardust
From Sawdust to Stardust

Author: Terry Lee Rioux

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2005-02

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9780743457620

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This life story of DeForest Kelley, best known for his role as Dr. "Bones" McCoy in the classic "Star Trek" television series and subsequent feature films, takes readers into the story of his tragedies and triumphs.

The Year of the Sawdust Man
The Year of the Sawdust Man

Author: A. LaFaye

Publisher: Milkweed Editions

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781571316790

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Eleven-year-old Nissa's life has never been perfect. Living in the small town of Harper, Louisiana, with a mama like hers, circa 1933, has led to lots of mean rumors. But now Mama is gone, and all the townsfolk talk about is who she might have run off with. Nissa's memories of the Sundays her mama would come home smelling of sawdust lead her to suspect the rumors could be true. Did her mama go away with the Sawdust Man? And if so, does it mean she's never coming back? A. LaFaye's powerful first novel beautifully explicates the world of a child in distress and how she copes with something beyond her understanding.

Beyond Uhura
Beyond Uhura

Author: Nichelle Nichols

Publisher: Boxtree

Published: 1996-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780752202389

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For nearly 30 years Nichelle Nichols, African American granddaughter of a former slave-owner, has been part of the Star Trek myth as Lieutenant Uhura, Communications Officer on the Starship Enterprise. In this autobiography she recounts her personal and professional life.

Brown Sunshine of Sawdust Valley
Brown Sunshine of Sawdust Valley

Author: Marguerite Henry

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-12-18

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1442488093

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One of the most beloved of all children’s book writers tells the story of a seemingly worn-out mare, owned by Molly’s family, who is carrying a secret: a baby mule! Young Molly thinks the new creature is the most beautiful thing she’s ever seen. She calls him Brown Sunshine of Sawdust Valley, and as the years go by, Molly discovers that, just like his mother, her mule is full of wonderful surprises.

Rust & Stardust
Rust & Stardust

Author: T. Greenwood

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2018-08-07

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1250164214

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“Greenwood’s glowing dark ruby of a novel brilliantly transforms the true crime story that inspired Nabokov’s Lolita. Shatteringly original and eloquently written....So ferociously suspenseful, I found myself holding my breath.” —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You Camden, NJ, 1948. When 11 year-old Sally Horner steals a notebook from the local Woolworth's, she has no way of knowing that 52 year-old Frank LaSalle, fresh out of prison, is watching her, preparing to make his move. Accosting her outside the store, Frank convinces Sally that he’s an FBI agent who can have her arrested in a minute—unless she does as he says. This chilling novel traces the next two harrowing years as Frank mentally and physically assaults Sally while the two of them travel westward from Camden to San Jose, forever altering not only her life, but the lives of her family, friends, and those she meets along the way. Based on the experiences of real-life kidnapping victim Sally Horner and her captor, whose story shocked the nation and inspired Vladimir Nabokov to write his controversial and iconic Lolita, this heart-pounding story by award-winning author T. Greenwood at last gives a voice to Sally herself.

Sunset and Sawdust
Sunset and Sawdust

Author: Joe R Lansdale

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2010-11-25

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0297864769

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A hard-edged crime thriller set at the start of the Texas oil boom in the 1930s When Pete Jones, the local constable, is shot dead, his widow, Sunset, finds herself in his job, investigating a series of brutal murders. Most of the townsfolk object to her wearing Pete's gun and badge, some because this is the 1930s and they think a woman's place is in the home, others because it was Sunset who blew off Pete's head in the first place. As much a modern western as a murder mystery, SUNSET & SAWDUST features a cast of outlandish characters -- gun-men, hobos, sheriffs, hookers, migrants and coloured families struggling to make living under the malevolent eyes of the Ku Klux Klan. Sunset's investigation leads her and her friends into a labyrinth of greed, corruption, and unspeakable malice. Nothing and no-one are quite what they seem in Texas.

Warped Factors
Warped Factors

Author: Walter Koenig

Publisher: Taylor Publishing Company (TX)

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780878339914

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In "Warped Factors", original "Star Trek" star Walter Koenig (a.k.a. Ensign Pavel Chekov) provides a fascinating and often riotous chronicle of his life and career. of color photos.

Grains of Stardust
Grains of Stardust

Author: VISMAYA. MOHANLAL

Publisher: Penguin Enterprise

Published: 2021-08

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780143451860

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Offering a unique expression of thought reflecting feeling more than meaning, Grains of Stardust is a synesthetic stream of consciousness that does not distinguish between journey and destination, but meanders unchecked upon the river of human emotion. 'Read my poetry out loud Breathe it in and taste the letters pour out. A delicious sound. Do you hear the colours take form? Feel the pages move you as you float in space make some space Open your mind and get inside and see all that shimmering marmalade liquid. Grains of stardust'

Stardust International Raceway
Stardust International Raceway

Author: Randall Cannon

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2018-10-08

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 1476673896

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Professional motorsports came to Las Vegas in the mid-1950s at a bankrupt horse track swarmed by gamblers--and soon became enmeshed with the government and organized crime. By 1965, the Vegas racing game moved from makeshift facilities to Stardust International Raceway, constructed with real grandstands, sanitary facilities and air-conditioned timing towers. Stardust would host the biggest racing names of the era--Mario Andretti, Parnelli Jones, John Surtees, Mark Donohue, Bobby Unser, Dan Gurney and Don Garlits among them. Established by a notorious racketeer, the track stood at the confluence of shadowy elements--wiretaps, casino skimming, Howard Hughes, and the beginnings of Watergate. The author traces the Stardust's colorful history through the auto racing monthlies, national newspapers, extensive interviews and the files of the FBI.