Our Friend Joe

Our Friend Joe
Author: Lisa Anne Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781553801467

The life of West Indian immigrant Joe Fortes, who taught generations of Vancouver children how to swim and helped to change attitudes through his acts of kindness and generosity.

Johnny, My Friend

Johnny, My Friend
Author: Peter Pohl
Publisher:
Total Pages: 253
Release: 1991
Genre: Child abuse
ISBN: 9781872148700

Everything changes for Chris one August evening when red-haired, freckle-faced Johnny turns up on a bicycle, but who is Johnny and why do the police have his bicycle and other belongings?

If You're Groovy and You Know It, Hug a Friend (Groovy Joe #3)

If You're Groovy and You Know It, Hug a Friend (Groovy Joe #3)
Author: Eric Litwin
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2018-08-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338290665

Groovy Joe is back, and this time he's singing a groovy rendition of a favorite preschool song! Are you ready to sing along? "If you're groovy and you know it,the things you do will show it! #1 New York Times bestsellers Eric Litwin (Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes) and Tom Lichtenheld(Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site) are back, and adding a groovy twist to the classic children's song "If You're Happy and You Know It." This story will have little ones singing, dancing, and grooving along to a new favorite beat. Signature rhyme, repetition, and musical writing style, combined with wild and witty illustrations, come together to create a character that will have you singing all day long. Groovy Joe is back, ready to get groovy!

Our Joe

Our Joe
Author: Eddie Rowley
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2012-09-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1847174604

Read the story of Joe through his own interviews and the memories and anecdotes of his family, including his brother Ben who was by his side in showbusiness for over forty years; his band members, including his nephews Adrian and Ray; his showbiz pals, Larry Gogan, Finbar Furey, Brendan Bowyer and Paddy Cole; his fans, friends (including Michael O'Leary of Ryanair) and acquaintances from all walks of life. Jam-packed with a treasure trove of never-before-told stories that vividly bring to life the essence of Joe Dolan: the showbiz legend, the family man, the friend, the joker and the devil-may-care character who never forgot his roots or lost touch with his people despite enjoying fame and wealth beyond his dreams.

Joe’s Collectanea

Joe’s Collectanea
Author: Joshua Omeke
Publisher: Harmony Publishers Ltd
Total Pages: 57
Release: 2023-09-26
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

Joe’s Collectanea by the renowned author Joshua Omeke is an anthology of poems. The pattern of writing expounds interwoven addiction between personal experiences, imaginations, and use of language. Composed of thirty-one poems, the author proposed numerous topics. At an attempt to overview the societal norms, Joshua incorporates reality and figures of speech in a standard practice in several of the poems such as “Anarchiste Diplomatique,” “Ramshackle Emote,” and “Emotions and Idioms” that were a stanza based. Evaluating the critical expectations of his reader, the author also teases through widely accepted experiences that a third of every reader can relate to either personally or by widely heard occurrences in “A Coloured Dream” which evaluates the typical expectations of youths of now from the african community fleeing to western grounds for greener pastures. Because of the sudden drift in storytelling in this masterpiece (Joe’s Collectanea), it is encouraged that every reader evaluate the table of contents before dissecting into the context of Joe’s Collectanea to properly digest according to their present momentum. Further more, Joshua evaluates the symmetrical mechanism that is accustomed to the taxonomy of homo sapiens in the narrative sestina “Life” which provokes its reader through intimidation to think sharply. Another work distinct from the norm is the ode “portrait of her lifestyle” that revamped the respect a typical feminist commands. In addition, works such as “Undies Evolution,” “Problem,” “The Jinn of sahara,” “Tommy, my watch,” and “The Stupor” individually tells a story which sets them as the solid narrative approach the writer confirms his work to be regardless of the poetic theme involved in the spatial formulation. However, each poem were finely drafted, and only exception is the inability for any theatre to convert these words of excellence to a play as it does not reflect a single story nor proposes characters and scenes. Hence, the anthology is a paper mache of ponderous adventures, delving into uncertainty that spooks measure which weighs the mind of each reader as the pages are flipped, and stories are assimilated. Such as “My Body, My Mind” that brings about faith speaking for those who are religious and I enjoy the writer was flexible enough to not associate the poem with a particular religion, rather Joshua was able to tell the story as it is being a believer and philosophers widely accept that every religion believes in God. I confirm the author is a radical, because the previous poem evaluated personal experiences and societal approach in the work “A Friend of Mine” which touches the cores of diversity—switching from talking about diversity into faith, followed by “Ramshackle emote” an exposition of distinct emotions in one topic, ooze’s discombobulations of how far and fast the mind can travel whilst multitasking in thoughts and ideas. Acts like this are encouraged in the literal hemisphere as it outweighs having a particular concept one is known for, which shall soon make their works unintelligible and classed as universal. Compared to Joshua’s style in drafting literature as a work of art, and in an attempt to photograph his abilities as visual art, he would fly as a Basquiat because of his unpredictability. The Collectanea discusses pronounced controversial topics such as Love in the work “Romance in Poetry,” “Long lost love.” Another concern is Labourers affairs in “Danilo the farmboy”, Religion in “A Surrendered Man,” Philosophy with “Composure,” “Flies of wilderness” and “Epiphany of life”, Global Warming with “Roots are before the log pt 2”, COVID-19 with “The Plague in our waves”, travel writing by depicting “Joe’s Collectanea from Ghana side.” There are other works that can be versed as a must read when flipping pages before settling to read all these are “Ache of waters” centered at evaluating struggles and being accustomed to them. In other references the writer tells a story of colonialism in Africa and its neo-colonial practices that stenches the effort of its settlers in the poem “Anarchiste Diplomatique”. With a mild interjection “Grass of our time” centers on cravings by collectors of nicotiana and how they are so attached to the strands regardless of the health risk associated with their perpetual practices. The few titles reviewed in this article are not conjunctional to the table of content, they appeared according to my preference in reviewing Joe’s Collectanea. The author, Joshua Omeke, has shown talent in literature and displayed years of expertise. If permitted, I will propose he continuously releases much more of his archives. Joshua Omeke is a youth of mystical fingers that composes works of poetry as Igor Stravinsky since he has composed masterpieces in almost every topic he had written. He hails from Edo, Nigeria but was a Lagos born individual. And confirms he has been writing for many years, though literal bytes are slightly penetrating the international scenes but remain a gem to the Nigerian hemisphere. He has technical skills in coding, and confirms writing is a passion and will continue to do so even in his old age. Aside writing, he is also a paint artist who draws inspiration from cubism and surrealism.

Ray and Joe

Ray and Joe
Author: Charles Rodrigues
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1606996681

Fantagraphics is proud to announce the release of the first volume of another great, under-appreciated, quintessentially American cartoonist. “Black as sin and decay and perversion” is how National Lampoon editor Tony Hendra described the work of Charles Rodrigues. By all accounts, this small, politically conservative, devout Catholic, was a good-natured dumpling of a man. But inside lurked an untapped vein of savage wit that only the National Lampoon saw fit to unleash. Given carte blanche by its young editors, Rodrigues produced a 20-year tsunami of hilarious self-contained comic strips, themed gag spreads, and serials that boggled the mind and challenged all sense of decency and propriety. In this first-ever collection of his comics, readers are treated to the misadventures of conjoined twins The Aesop Brothers; Sam deGroot, a private detective in an iron lung (whose life actually gets worse when he is sprung from his enclosure); Deirdre Callahan, a girl so hideous that to look upon her causes madness and suicide; and the heartwarming (in relative terms) titular tale of Ray and Joe, the saga of a man and his dead best friend. Also included are his brilliant “biographies” of Marilyn Monroe, Abbie Hoffman, Eugene O’Neill, and others. Rodrigues rendered his cast of grotesqueries and naifs in a ragged, unpretty line within dense panels and pages, that perfectly reflects his uniquely bizarre, riotous and repellent world. Charles Rodrigues may be gone and, if not forgotten, insufficiently remembered, and this collection will rectify at least one of those tragedies.

Thursday is the New Friday

Thursday is the New Friday
Author: Joe Sanok
Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 140022604X

Create your own schedule, maximize your leisure time, and work less while making more by following the revolutionary—yet realistic—four-day work week outlined in this groundbreaking book. In Thursday is the New Friday, author Joe Sanok offers the exercises, tools, and training that have helped thousands of professionals—from authors and scholars to business leaders and innovators—create the schedule they want, resulting in less work, greater income, and more time for what they most desire. Outlining the exact same strategies Joe used to go from working 60-hour weeks in the beginning of his career to now working 4 or less days a week, Thursday is the New Friday will help you: Understand how you too can apply these principles and customize them for your own situation to be more productive at work while enjoying more leisure time. Discard unnecessary tasks and learn efficiencies that would not have been discovered otherwise. Find inspiration in the stories and testimonials from Joe’s clients and colleagues who have implemented his methodology into their own work lives with incredible results. Understand the psychological research behind the principles of the four-day workweek and why we are actually more productive with one less workday. Most importantly, Thursday is the New Friday empowers you with a practical, evidence-based methodology to create your own work schedule and dedicate more of your precious personal time to pursuing your hobbies and spending time with your family and friends.

My Friend Slappy (Goosebumps SlappyWorld #12)

My Friend Slappy (Goosebumps SlappyWorld #12)
Author: R. L. Stine
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338355783

Goosebumps now on Disney+! Barton Suggs has it rough. He only has one friend, Lizzie Hellman. The school bullies are out to get him. And nobody believes him about it! After Barton gets pranked again, he's had enough! So when Barton brings Slappy to life, he's thrilled to find a new "friend" that's willing to help him get revenge on the bullies. Slappy's never had someone like him before. What's up with this Barton kid? Will Slappy's new Best Friend Forever end up his Worst Nightmare Ever?

Joseph and His Friend

Joseph and His Friend
Author: Bayard Taylor
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania" is an novel by American author Bayard Taylor, a prolific writer in many genres. It presented a special attachment between two men and discussed the nature and significance of such a relationship, romantic but not sexual. Critics are divided in interpreting Taylor's novel as a political argument for gay relationships or an idealization of male spirituality. The book was not well received and became the author's least successful and most disliked novel. However, in recent years it has regained popularity as America's first gay novel.