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Author: Catherine Hapka
Publisher: HarperFestival
Published: 2005-03-29
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780060772543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on Universal Pictures' new comedy starring Will Ferrell and Robert Duvall, set for release in March, these Festival Readers are filled with accessible text and full-color illustrations, making them the perfect choice for emerging readers.
Author: Steve Moore
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-09-18
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 0062203371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt’s basketball season in the fourth book of this highly illustrated middle grade series from the nationally syndicated cartoonist of “In the Bleachers,” starring a kid who plays the same position in every sport: benchwarmer. Steve is King of the Bench. No brag. It’s just a fact. And this season, Steve and his athletically challenged best friends Joey and Carlos—along with super athlete Becky O’Callahan—are joining the Mighty Plumbers basketball team. But instead of playing on the court, Steve is waiting on the sidelines to perform his top-secret ritual that turns the tide of every game in an instant. Why is it a secret? Well, big, drooly duh, everyone knows it’s a strict rule when selling a book not to blurt out the whole juicy plot! Perfect for fans of Timmy Failure and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, King of the Bench is an ode to teammates, underdogs, and benchwarmers everywhere.
Author: Melanie D Gibson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-04-20
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1647420296
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMelanie Gibson was an independent woman with a good job, multiple college degrees, and a condo in the trendy part of town. She also had a few mental illnesses, a minor substance abuse problem, and rotten relationship skills. She was a high-functioning crazy who needed a good kick in the pants, literally and metaphorically. In early 2013, as a last desperate means to save her sanity, Melanie turned to a nearly forgotten childhood activity: the Korean martial art of taekwondo. As if the universe were listening, she discovered her West Texas childhood taekwondo instructors’ Grandmaster operated a taekwondo school a few miles from her home in Fort Worth, Texas—and she decided to start her training over as a white belt. In taekwondo, Melanie felt like she had a fresh start in more ways than one. She found an inner peace she’d never known before, a sense of community, a newfound confidence, and a positive outlook on life. The kicking and screaming she was doing in class quieted the long-term kicking and screaming in her mind. Funny and frank, Kicking and Screaming: A Memoir of Madness and Martial Arts is the story of Melanie’s life-changing journey from troubled, lost soul to confident taekwondo black belt.
Author: Albert Ramsdell Gurney
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780822202295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE STORY: As outlined in the Boston Traveler: While director Paul John Austin, portraying a reporter later identified as Homer, waits for the story to 'jell,' it's like a gay party except for the brooding Telemachus, grousing like Hamlet at his mother's wedding feast. The 100 suitors of his mother, Penelope, have cocktails in the rumpus room, only Antinous emerging now and again to goad the youth about his reading Kafka and Dostoyevsky all summer. Then enters Penelope to send him to the cellar for a big barrel of wine and paper cups, to chide him about dreaming. And finally the return of Odysseus, or rather the 're-entry' since it represents a problem, this returning home. Mr. Gurney has a lot of fun superimposing sailing and skiing, cocktail parties and servant problems, such appurtenances to modern life as bongo boards and Madras dinner jackets. It's all fun, with an underlying but glancing blow at deeper thought. But a blow that is felt-as out of the biting wit comes a perceptive and telling commentary on the way people were, are and always will be.
Author: Steve Moore
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-03-27
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 0062203355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the third book of this highly illustrated middle grade series from the nationally syndicated cartoonist of “In the Bleachers,” Steve takes one for the benchwarmers to play his least favorite sport. Perfect for fans of Timmy Failure and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, King of the Bench is an ode to teammates, underdogs, and benchwarmers everywhere. Steve is King of the Bench. No brag. It’s just a fact. But this season, his soccer-loving pals Joey and Carlos—plus soccer superstar Becky O’Callahan—are dragging him off the bench to play for the Spiro T. Agnew JV soccer team, even though soccer doesn’t exactly fry his burger. Will Steve’s epic and hilarious weekend at an away tournament leave him hating soccer more than ever? Or will he finally discover what all the kicking and screaming is about?
Author: Thomas L. Hay
Publisher: Balboa Press
Published: 2012-10-08
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1452559562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Abduction Revelation is a story that explores a compelling blend of seemingly true events with mysterious unknown entities. Who are the abductors? Where do they come from? Where are they hiding? Do they even exist? The answers are revealed in an intriguing adventure spiked with mystery, a dash of romance, a teaspoon of heartbreak, and a cup of revelations that will shock and torment your reality. A perfect recipe for an entertaining tale. Join the Comeback Kid on his incredible journey as he uncovers secrets behind UFOs and comes face to face with his abductors. A compelling and amusing sci-fi/memoir curiosity - Kirkus Reviews I am not a sci-fi fan, but this book fascinated me and held my interest from start to finish - Caitlin Whether you believe in UFOs and aliens or not, this is a truly interesting story - Pinky Pollock Hay is a fabulous storyteller. Rivals with the best sci-fi novels - Zillie Carlson Mind- blowing. Very intriguing and fascinating read. One of the best I have read this year - Stephanie Verhaegen of Bookfever The true appeal and genius of this story is figuring out what is real and what is fiction. - Michala
Author: Steve Moore
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-03-28
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 0062203312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the nationally syndicated cartoonist of “In the Bleachers” comes a new, highly illustrated middle grade series about Steve, who plays the same position in every sport: bench-warmer. Perfect for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Timmy Failure, King of the Bench is an ode to teammates, underdogs, and bench-warmers everywhere. Steve is King of the Bench. No brag. It’s just a fact. But this year, Steve and his friends are excited to try out for the Spiro T. Agnew Middle School baseball team. The only problem is, after watching another player get beaned by a fastball, Steve has developed a serious case of bean-o-phobia—the fear of getting hit by a pitch. If Steve ever wants to get off the bench and get in the game, he’s going to have to muster up some courage, and fast. Oh, and if you’re wondering why Steve would write a book and tell total strangers all about the humiliating phobia that almost ruined his first year on the baseball team? Duh. It’s pretty much a rule that you spill your guts when you write a book about yourself.
Author: Steve Moore
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-09-12
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 0062203339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the second book of this new, highly illustrated middle grade series by the nationally syndicated cartoonist of “In the Bleachers,” Steve reprises his role as perpetual bench-warmer. Perfect for fans of Timmy Failure and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, King of the Bench is an ode to teammates, underdogs, and bench-warmers everywhere. Steve is King of the Bench. No brag. That’s just a fact. And this season, Steve and his friends are ready to sit on the sidelines of the Spiro T. Agnew Middle school football field. But then they stumble upon an old-school video game controller, and they become convinced it can control sports plays. With it, Steve might become King of Football too! Oh, and if you’re wondering why Steve would write a book and tell complete strangers about a mysterious magic device that pretty much controlled his first season on the football team, too bad! It’s a strict rule when writing a book that you have to build suspense first.
Author: Willis Gordon
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2011-02-10
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1456729128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of emotionally gripping and powerful stories about loss, sin, and redemption. Written during the darkest period of the author's life, The Long Road Home tells the story of men who have nowhere to turn but the highway. Incredibly well crafted and laced with humor, wit, and desperation, Gordon promises to be a name to remember.
Author: Antony Jay
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2010-10-28
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 0199572674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCaligula, William Shakespeare, Crazy Horse, and 1,500 other commentators from ancient Greek philosophers to Sarah Palin trade remarks profound, caustic, trenchant, and humorous in this entertaining omnibus. Lend Me Your Ears has a British tinge, but American pols are well represented. Middle and Far Eastern sources are sparsely included. Jay, coauthor of the BBC radio and television series Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister, presents an eclectic assortment of bons mots alphabetically by author. Featuring some 300 quotations new to this edition, the book has an excellent keyword index. Jay's voracious pursuit of sources and discretion in selection are the linchpins that make this a valuable source. He notes in the introduction that "the number of new entries from earlier years is as large as ever, if not larger." Funeral orations, epitaphs, songs, cartoon captions, and slogans ("Burn, baby, burn") contribute to the hodgepodge. Both the pious (including Pius XII) and the rebarbative (Joseph McCarthy) have their say. Competing dictionaries of political maxims are largely nonexistent today. Some are attuned to American affairs, such as Wolfgang Mieder's Proverbs Are the Best Policy: Folk Wisdom and American Politics (2005). Other dictionaries compile the sayings of presidents, including Barack Obama in His Own Words (2007), edited by Lisa Rogak. Jay is especially adept at selecting scathing ripostes by both obscure and well-known British politicians, including Winston Churchill's comment on Stanley Baldwin: "The candle in that great turnip has gone out." Lend Me Your Ears invites readers to eavesdrop on Mark Twain, Sting, and Aeschylus. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All libraries; all levels. General Readers; Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty; Two-year Technical Program Students; Professionals/Practitioners. Reviewed by C. B. Thurston.
