Ronnie’s Pool

Ronnie’s Pool

Author: Lindsay Ann Fink

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2020-12-15

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 1982238941

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READER VIEWS Reviewer’s Choice Awards (2021 – 2022) CHILDREN'S BOOKS CLASSICS (Children's/Teen/YA -Copyright Prior to 2021) Silver Award Winner RONNIE'S POOL Lindsay Ann Fink, Balboa Press


Ronnie

Ronnie

Author: Ronnie O'Sullivan

Publisher: Seven Dials

Published: 2019-11-14

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1841883921

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Ronnie is snooker's most written and talked about player, and its greatest showman. His supreme talent and style have made him the People's Champion and, as one commentator put it, 'the question is not how much does Ronnie O'Sullivan need snooker, but how much does snooker need Ronnie O'Sullivan?' A honest and candid account of his extraordinary life, Ronnie tells of the infant who was introduced to legendary snooker clubs at an impossibly early age; of the boy who frightened off the bookies aged just 12; of the teenager whose life was decimated when his father and mentor was sent to prison for life; and of the man dubbed the 'genius' of the modern game who regularly threatened to quit the sport to pursue other interests at the grand old age of 28. 'A fine autobiography ... compelling' - Independent 'O'Sullivan is as frank about his spell in the Priory clinic as he is about his father's murder conviction. His accounts of snooker tournaments and sketches of the sport's personalities will fascinate fans, but even snooker haters will be rooting for Ronnie in the game of life' - OK!


The Erotic Screen

The Erotic Screen

Author: Thomas Wolman

Publisher: Phoenix Publishing House

Published: 2020-02-28

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1800130295

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The Erotic Screen takes as its starting point that Hollywood movies were steeped in eroticism from the beginning but censorship forced filmmakers to devise hidden sexual subtexts to preserve a film's subliminal eroticism. In this way, Hollywood films seed our collective psyches with unconscious subtexts. Science fiction films are particularly effective, using horror to induce sexual excitement, as studied in 'Part I: The nature of desire in a trio of science fiction thrillers.' Another device was to display unrestricted consumption of alcohol and tobacco and gratuitous spending. Today, this is a cliche of mainstream cinema but some filmmakers expose the dark underbelly. The five films scrutinized in 'Part II: Portraits of addiction in Hollywood melodrama' make explicit the connections between greed, addictions, and sexuality. Finally, in 'Part III: Perverse desire in mainstream cinema,' the nuanced position toward the psychosexual obsessions on view in the films is investigated by posing the provocative question of whether S&M practice can work as a "cure" for psychic suffering, by raising the alarm over sexuality run amok in a suburban community, and by offering a devastating critique of voyeurism's "fatal attraction" to viewers. The Erotic Screen is an investigation of the nature of human sexuality through the medium of film. It stirs up discussion and debate - and helps these movies live on in our minds.


A Bird's-Eye View

A Bird's-Eye View

Author: Leo Carlin

Publisher: Triumph Books

Published: 2020-09-22

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1641255056

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Day in, day out, Leo Carlin was a constant presence with the Philadelphia Eagles for over five decades. The longtime ticket director and front office mainstay has dedicated most of his life to creating memorable experiences for Eagles fans. He's played countless roles and has countless stories to tell as a result. A Bird's-Eye View is a fascinating, frank, in-the-room look at nearly 60 years of Eagles' history, spanning five different ownerships, 14 head coaches, so many stars, and, of course, a Super Bowl. From getting his start as a part-timer in 1960—when professional football in Philadelphia ranked a distant third in popularity to baseball and college football—to riding down Broad Street with his fellow Eagles hall of famers in the championship parade, Carlin opens up about the highlights, lowlights, and neverending hijinks that come with the territory.


I Love You, Ronnie

I Love You, Ronnie

Author: Nancy Reagan

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published: 2002-02-26

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0375760512

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No matter what else was going on in his life or where he was—traveling to make movies, at the White House, or sometimes just across the room—Ronald Reagan wrote letters to Nancy Reagan, to express his love, thoughts, and feelings, and to stay in touch. Through these extraordinary letters and reflections, the private character and life of an American president and his first lady are revealed. Nancy Reagan reflects with love and insight on the letters, on her husband, and on the many phases of their life together. A love story spanning half a century and the private life of this classic American couple come vividly alive in this rare and inspiring book.


Billboard

Billboard

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1968-06-22

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13:

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In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.


The Darkest Night

The Darkest Night

Author: Ron Franscell

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2014-12-09

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1466886943

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Casper, Wyoming: 1973. Eleven-year-old Amy Burridge rides with her eighteen-year-old sister, Becky, to the grocery store. When they finish their shopping, Becky's car gets a flat tire. Two men politely offer them a ride home. But they were anything but Good Samaritans. The girls would suffer unspeakable crimes at the hands of these men before being thrown from a bridge into the North Platte River. One miraculously survived. The other did not. Years later, author and journalist Ron Franscell—who lived in Casper at the time of the crime, and was a friend to Amy and Becky—can't forget Wyoming's most shocking story of abduction, rape, and murder. Neither could Becky, the surviving sister. The two men who violated her and Amy were sentenced to life in prison, but the demons of her past kept haunting Becky...until she met her fate years later at the same bridge where she'd lost her sister.


Days of '68 and '69

Days of '68 and '69

Author: James Togeas

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-04-19

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 1105681599

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"Days of '68 and '69" is about the destructive power of anger. It is about a tumultuous time in the university and the opposition to the war in Vietnam. It is about the perpetual interplay between theory and observation in science. It is about the confusion of youth, about love found and then destroyed, and about the steadfastness of love. It is about the days of the author's youth in a watershed period in American social history.


The Pookie

The Pookie

Author: Belinda Garrett

Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers

Published: 2024-10-11

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13:

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What’s to stop me trying? Surely it’s up to me to make things happen? What can I do to give abandoned dogs a better chance in life? How can I discover my real potential? These are just some of the questions Pookie asks herself on her quest to live life to the full and to help others. Fearless, compassionate and deeply sincere, she throws herself into the challenges that life offers. With the help of the amazing friends she makes along the way, she learns the wonder of working with others to turn her ideas into reality.


Castaway

Castaway

Author: Lucy Irvine

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-04-30

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1446463869

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THE SHOCKING STORY OF A DESERT ISLAND DREAM THAT WENT SOUR 'Writer seeks "wife" for a year on tropical island.' The opportunity to escape from it all was irresistible. Lucy Irvine answered the advertisement - and found herself alone on a remote desert island with a 'husband' she hardly knew. Lucy Irvine fell in love with the seductive, if cruel, beauty of that untouched Eden, whose power to enslave and enchant her never slackened throughout the whole of her amazing adventure. Uncompromisingly candid and sometimes shocking, Castaway is her compulsively readable account of a desert island dream which threatened to turn into a nightmare of illness, thirst and personal antipathy. Now a film by Nicholas Roeg starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed,