My Tupperware Party Was Over and I Sat Down and Cried
My Tupperware Party Was Over and I Sat Down and Cried

Author: Elsie Block

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2004-10-20

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1418400408

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In My Tupperware Party was Over and I Sat Down and Cried, Mrs. Block skillfully relives for you the Tupperware experience – the party. She shows the lighter, almost hilarious, moments experienced by guests and dealers alike. She shows the reader how she crafted the meetings and parties to be an exhilarating experience for everyone involved. It was truly an electrifying moment. The reader will be fascinated by the author’s unfolding the secrets behind why Tupperware became so popular. As Phil Grosso, past president of Tupperware, U.S.A., once said to her, “Elsie, you’re the only one who can tell the history of Tupperware.” Today, with the home business market expanding rapidly, Mrs. Block explains the key points on how to be a successful salesperson in any chosen field or market that a dedicated entrepreneur enters. The book is not all laughs. The author also reflects on the downside of the ethical and moral problems that plague many businesses today. The author’s hope and prayer is that the reader will be far more prepared than she was in knowing what to do when a dire situation presents itself in their lives. Hopefully, by living the Blocks’ experience the reader will gain insight into the problems.

Life of the Party
Life of the Party

Author: Bob Kealing

Publisher: Crown Archetype

Published: 2016-07-12

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 110190366X

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The incredible story of Brownie Wise, the Southern single mother—and postwar #Girlboss—who built, and lost, a Tupperware home-party empire Before Mary Kay, Martha Stewart, and Joy Mangano, there was Brownie Wise, the charismatic Tupperware executive who converted postwar optimism into a record-breaking sales engine powered by American housewives. In Life of the Party, Bob Kealing offers the definitive portrait of Wise, a plucky businesswoman who divorced her alcoholic husband, started her own successful business, and eventually caught the eye of Tupperware inventor, Earl Tupper, whose plastic containers were collecting dust on store shelves. The Tupperware Party that Wise popularized, a master-class in the soft sell, drove Tupperware's sales to soaring heights. It also gave minimally educated and economically invisible postwar women, including some African-American women, an acceptable outlet for making their own money for their families—and for being rewarded for their efforts. With the people skills of Dale Carnegie, the looks of Doris Day, and the magnetism of Eva Peron, Wise was as popular among her many devoted followers as she was among the press, and she become the first woman to appear on the cover of BusinessWeek in 1954. Then, at the height of her success, Wise's ascent ended as quickly as it began. Earl Tupper fired her under mysterious circumstances, wrote her out of Tupperware's success story, and left her with a pittance. He walked away with a fortune and she disappeared—until now. Originally published as Tupperware Unsealed by the University Press of Florida in 2008—and optioned by Sony Pictures, with Sandra Bullock attached to star—this revised and updated edition is perfectly timed to take advantage of renewed interest in this long-overlooked American business icon.

Tupperware, Unsealed
Tupperware, Unsealed

Author: Bob Kealing

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13:

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Brownie Wise's rise and fall, and her relationship with the eccentric Earl Tupper, is the stuff of legend; a story told finally, and fully, in Tupperware Unsealed. --from publisher description.

God's Guinea Pig
God's Guinea Pig

Author: Margaret Freeman

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2004-02

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 0595310567

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Reverend Margaret Anne Freeman was born in 1927 with a serious and complicated heart defect, Fallot's Tetralogy. She was not expected to live very long at all, let alone walk or have children. She defied expectations, and today works as a 76 year old retired priest in Norfolk. This autobiography tells how she gained and kept her Christian faith during war and countless personal tragedies, whilst breaking records as she went. She became the first adult to survive open-heart surgery, and the first such survivor to have children. It also tells of the enormous struggle she had over the Ordination of women in the Church of England. This is an enthralling story that will grip the reader with every turn of the page.

A Cry from the Dark
A Cry from the Dark

Author: Robert Barnard

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2004-02-17

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0743261763

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Master of mystery Robert Barnard, internationally acclaimed for his suspenseful, witty literary gems, cleverly mixes past and present in A Cry from the Dark, an intriguing tour de force sweeping from 1930s Australia to contemporary London. Bettina Whitelaw has come a long way from her childhood in the little outback town of Bundaroo, Australia. Many years have passed, a lifetime really, but she's never forgotten what happened there on the evening that changed her life forever. How could she forget the school dance, her taunting classmates, dancing with the strange but brilliant English boy, Hughie Naismyth? How could she forget what happened next, when, overheated and exhilarated by the music and the moment, she wandered off alone into a secluded, wooded area? Now a renowned, elderly author living in London's elegant Holland Park, Bettina faces a flood of memories as she works on her memoirs, even though her focus is more on the frightening things that are happening today. Someone has recently entered her home and gone through her desk. The intruder is clearly not an ordinary burglar. It must be someone she knows. She's been a little lax in handing out keys, so the suspects are many -- her nephew, Mark; her agent, Clare; her friends, Peter or Katie. Or it could be someone else. What does Bettina possess that this person would want to steal? A puzzle that at first seems mildly disturbing soon turns deadly serious. Someone is willing to kill -- but why? Does the answer rest in Bundaroo or nearer to home? A Cry from the Dark shows us vintage Robert Barnard as he slyly lays the clues that lead to his trademark surprise -- and poignant -- ending.

Deceit Deserves Revenge
Deceit Deserves Revenge

Author: Lucy B. Williams

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2013-07-31

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1475999860

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For all of her life, Drucilla Hallmark has been battling to survive within a cruel world. Born into poverty and raised by heartless parents and jealous brothers and sisters, Drucilla thinks she has finally escaped her past when she marries. Unfortunately, she could not be more wrong. When she suspects her philanderer husband, Richard, may want her dead and that her resentful family may be helping him drive her to suicide, Drucilla makes an appointment with a Birmingham psychiatrist. As Dr. Skeet leads Drucilla back into her memories, she unsuccessfully attempts to convince the doctor that her life is in danger. But just as she is coming to grips with her reality, fate leads her to Tony Tortomasi, a handsome stranger who forces her to face the truth and makes her a tempting offer with the potential to change everything. Deceit Deserves Revenge is the suspense-filled tale of one womans emotional journey as she attempts to distinguish reality from fantasy and seeks revenge for all who have wronged her.

Demon with a Comb-Over
Demon with a Comb-Over

Author: Stuart R. West

Publisher: Riverdale Avenue Books LLC

Published: 2017-01-20

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 162601339X

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Laugh till it hurts! There are few things in life worse than being a bombing comedian in an empty club, unless you pick on the one person in the crowd who happens to be an ancient demon who can make your life a living, ironic hell. Stand-up comedian Charlie Broadmoor has a hell of a time coming up with new material while terrorized at every waking moment by a poorly-coiffed, thin-skinned eldritch evil whose appreciation of humor is dwarfed by his monumental pettiness. Charlie quickly learns that making light of the supernatural is no joke. It’s Seinfeld meets Milton in this uproarious tale of fear and laughing by Stuart R. West. This edition also features The Book of Kobal, giving the reader a glimpse into the origins of the short-tempered demon.

When Life Hands You Alzheimer's, Make Aprons!
When Life Hands You Alzheimer's, Make Aprons!

Author: Gwen O'Leary

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2011-04-29

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1456750399

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Alzheimer's is a disease that afflicts all gender, race, social, and economic classes. It incapacitates the brain of one family member, while holding other family members hostage in a montage of caregiving responsibilities. Many families are ripped apart as they struggle with the decisions of how to manage their loved one's care. Our family was lucky. The disease that fractured our mother, brought our family together. While watching my mother suffer from this hideous disease, I discovered Alzheimer's offered strange gifts. During amazing events in a journey that ended in death, Alzheimer's became an unusual comrade. I found myself in a love/hate relationship with a disease that allowed me to love my mother before Alzheimer's took her away from me. ______Gwen O'Leary For more stories and information, visit the author at: alzheimerhumor.blogspot.com Or email the author at: [email protected]