The Autograph Book of L.A.

The Autograph Book of L.A.
Author: Josh Kun
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2019-09-26
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9781626400597

"Inspired by the Autograph collection of the Los Angeles Public Library."

The New One

The New One
Author: Mike Birbiglia
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2020-06-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1538701537

With laugh-out-loud funny parenting observations, the New York Times bestselling author and award-winning comedian delivers a book that is perfect for anyone who has ever raised a child, been a child, or refuses to stop acting like one. In 2016 comedian Mike Birbiglia and poet Jennifer Hope Stein took their fourteen-month-old daughter Oona to the Nantucket Film Festival. When the festival director picked them up at the airport she asked Mike if he would perform at the storytelling night. She said, "The theme of the stories is jealousy." Jen quipped, "You're jealous of Oona. You should talk about that." And so Mike began sharing some of his darkest and funniest thoughts about the decision to have a child. Jen and Mike revealed to each other their sides of what had gone down during Jen's pregnancy and that first year with their child. Over the next couple years, these stories evolved into a Broadway show, and the more Mike performed it the more he heard how it resonated—not just with parents but also people who resist all kinds of change. So he pored over his journals, dug deeper, and created this book: The New One: Painfully True Stories From a Reluctant Dad. Along with hilarious and poignant stories he has never shared before, these pages are sprinkled with poetry Jen wrote as she navigated the same rocky shores of new parenthood. So here it is. This book is an experiment—sort of like a family.

Buseyisms

Buseyisms
Author: Gary Busey
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2018-09-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1250161754

Words of wisdom and incredible life stories, told through Gary Busey's unique Buseyisms. Take a wild ride through the life and mind of Gary Busey in his new hilarious, uplifting, tell-all memoir, Buseyisms. Gary transports you on a laugh-out–loud journey through the crazy twists and turns of his rise to fame, his descent into drug addiction, and his trip to the ‘other side’ after a near-fatal motorcycle accident. Gary also shares untold stories of his militant upbringing, surviving cancer in the middle of his face, and fun behind the scenes stories of his most popular movies and television roles including: A Star Is Born, The Buddy Holly Story, Lethal Weapon, Point Break, Under Siege, The Firm, Entourage, Celebrity Apprentice, and more. Included in this book are dozens of personal photographs from Gary’s early years up until now. Gary is a living testimony to the resilience of the human body and spirit. In his simply written but profound memoir, he shares his Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth to help others, who may be going through similar things, to realize that it is possible to survive challenging life events and come out a happy champion.

The Black Church

The Black Church
Author: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2021-02-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1984880330

The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again “Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth—as it is in heaven.” —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and The Black Box, and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues. In a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery’s formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn’t even past—Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. But as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community’s most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society’s darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.

Autograph Book

Autograph Book
Author: Sauheb Publishing
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2021-03-26
Genre:
ISBN:

Autograph book with tons of room to collect autographs from all of your memories & celebrity signatures. It's a perfect book for various events such as movie premiers, concerts, disneyland, conventions, sporting events, sign-in, classmates, friends and colleagues, etc. Capture special messages that you will treasure forever with this stylish autograph book. Ideal for adults and kids. Its convenient size makes it easy to store and carry. About this Autograph Book: It contains extra space to record Name and Date. Ideal for your signature collection and autographs from actors, actresses, voice actors, singers, internet personalities, sports stars, and more. Size: 8.25" x 6". 100 pages Cover with a Matte finish

Make Your Kids Millionaires: The Step-by-Step Guide to Lead Children to Financial Freedom

Make Your Kids Millionaires: The Step-by-Step Guide to Lead Children to Financial Freedom
Author: Loral Langemeier
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2022-05-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1264278500

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller Vastly improve your child’s potential for becoming a millionaire by building their financial foundation and literacy—starting at infancy National bestselling author Loral Langemeier and coauthor Kyle Boeckman have been proving for years that it’s possible to raise kids who are smart about money―and that ultimate success is practically guaranteed if it’s done thoughtfully and consistently. Make Your Kids Millionaires lays out the authors’ winning approach in an engaging and hands-on way. You’ll learn how to foster in your children a foundation of financial curiosity and create a family culture where everyone is comfortable with the topic of money. Packed with activities, exercises, and guided conversations tailored to specific age brackets from birth to 18+, this unique resource is organized into two parts: Part One helps you build this financial knowledge you need to teach your kids the basics; Part Two is broken down into chapters that are age-based, with sections within each chapter covering different financial topics. Age-specific topics and lessons include: Establishing Money Goals Setting Up a Bank Account Interest Makes Your Money Work for You Supply and Demand Assets Versus Liabilities Good Debt Versus Bad Debt Challenging Our Comfort Zones Balance Sheets and Income Statements Buying a Car Insurance Starting a Business Student Loans You’ll learn how to set your children up for success through the use of Roth IRAs, savings accounts, tax-advantaged college savings accounts, and trusts. Make Your Kids Millionaires delivers the information, insights, and tools for teaching your children to be financially literate, for driving a lifetime of financial learning, and for accelerating your child’s flight to financial freedom.

Graduation (Friends Forever)

Graduation (Friends Forever)
Author: Vitamin C
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2001
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781558539105

No song in recent memory has captured the imagination of American youth as has GRADUATION (FRIENDS FOREVER) by pop star Vitamin C. Not only a success on the record charts, the hundreds of requests from high schools across the country asking for permission to play the song at commencement exercises are evidence of the incredible and enduring popularity of this song. This beautiful gift book contains the lyrics to GRADUATION (FRIENDS FOREVER) as well as pages on which students can have their friends sign as a special memory book.

If Your Build It...

If Your Build It...
Author: Dwier Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2014-04
Genre: Actors
ISBN: 9780996057103

A funny and moving memoir from the actor who played Kevin Costner's father for five minutes at the end of the movie Field of Dreams.

Professional Idiot

Professional Idiot
Author: Stephen “Steve-O” Glover
Publisher: Hyperion
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-01-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781401310790

"It's mind-blowing to me how utterly far gone Steve-O was, and how he looks back on it in this book with such intelligence, humor, and searing honesty. What a truly unbelievable life." --Johnny Knoxville From his early days videotaping crazy skateboard stunts to starring in the Jackass movies, there was little that Stephen "Steve-O" Glover wouldn't do. Whether it was stapling his nutsack to his leg or diving into a pool full of elephant crap, almost nothing was out of bounds. As the stunts got crazier, his life kept pace. He developed a crippling addiction to drugs and alcohol, and an obsession with his own celebrity that proved nearly as dangerous. Only an intervention and a visit to a psychiatric ward saved his life. Today he has been clean and sober for more than three years. Professional Idiot recounts the lunacy, the debauchery, the stunts, the drug addiction, and the path to recovery with bravado, humor, and heart. "A great book to read before you get on the roller coaster to hell, if you plan on surviving to tell about it like Steve-O did." --Nikki Sixx, author of The Heroin Diaries "This is the perfect book for people who hate reading." --Tommy Lee, author of Tommyland The feedback I've gotten on Facebook and Twitter from those of you who've read this book has been fascinating, heartwarming, and hilarious. I'm happy to keep answering your questions on there, and I encourage more of you to join in the discussion. Hope to hear from you soon, and thank you all so much. Love, Steve-O

Junior Encyclopedia of Animated Characters (Refresh)

Junior Encyclopedia of Animated Characters (Refresh)
Author: Disney Book Group
Publisher: Disney Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-06-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781368056779

From Ariel to Zazu, this jacketed hardcover guide features fun facts, tricky trivia, and cool quotes about over 150 Disney heroes (and villains!). Readers will also learn about the stars of the latest Disney and Disney*Pixar films, like Frozen II, Moana, Onward, and more! Plus there are sections on each page for character autographs and the book jacket reverses to reveal a poster!