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Author | : Irving Shulman |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2000-10-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0595144853 |
After being released from the Elmira reformatory Mitch (the central character of Cry Tough) has two ways to go. He could return to his family who loved him dearly, find a job and marry the girl who loved him. His other choice is the flashy, dangerous life as a hood with big risks and big rewards- cars, women, rich food and fancy apartments. Would he settle for the security of a job and family or would he take the road from which there was no turning back? In a classic story, Irving Shulman presents the struggle of one man. The allure of his life in the underworld, the sobering reality of his home life, what he really loves, what he really wants and how each element in his fragmented reality draws on him.
Author | : Irving Shulman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 1951 |
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Author | : Paul Powers |
Publisher | : Harpercollins Pub Limited |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780006386612 |
At the age of seven, Paul (then known as LaVern) Powers lost the two most important things in his life: his mother and his puppy. What he didn't realize was that he had also lost something just as precious and irretrievable -- his childhood. Beaten by his father for crying over the death of his mother. LaVern vowed he would never cry again. For the next 13 years, despite an abusive and poverty-stricken family life which culminated in his murdering a woman for $500, the young man kept his promise, suppressing the fierce pain that welled from within. Too Tough to Cry is the remarkable story of how this bitter adolescent, a murderer and a petty thief, became Paul Powers, a successful children's evangelist, loving father and husband of Margaret Fishback Powers, creator of the famous Footprints poem and author of several bestselling Footprints books. This is a deeply transforming book the account of a man who, in an epiphany, discovered Jesus and a new way of living. Paul Powers tells his story with candor and courage, from his pain-filled childhood to his teenage years spent in reform schools and bars, to his difficult search for a true calling, finally encountering love, forgiveness and fulfillment in an innovative children's ministry and an understanding and supportive wife and family. A story that will deeply touch anyone who reads it, Too Tough to Cry is another powerful chapter in the Footprints story -- a phenomenon that continues to bring joy, hope and inspiration to people all over the globe.
Author | : Mem Fox |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780152018917 |
Boris von der Borch is a mean, greedy old pirate--tough as nails, through and through, like all pirates. Or is he? When a young boy sneaks into Boris' ship, he discovers that Boris and his mates aren't quite what he expected! Full color.
Author | : Danielle Henderson |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2021-06-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0525559361 |
“They say comedy equals tragedy plus time: This very funny account of an often miserable childhood is proof.” --People “What a strong, funny, heartbreaking memoir, with a voice that is completely its own (written by a woman who very much seems to be completely her own, as well.) I loved it.”--Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic and Eat, Pray, Love An uproarious, moving memoir about a grandmother’s ferocious love and redefining what it means to be family “If you fight that motherf**ker and you don’t win, you’re going to come home and fight me.” Not the advice you’d normally expect from your grandmother—but Danielle Henderson would be the first to tell you her childhood was anything but conventional. Abandoned at ten years old by a mother who chose her drug-addicted, abusive boyfriend, Danielle was raised by grandparents who thought their child-rearing days had ended in the 1960s. She grew up Black, weird, and overwhelmingly uncool in a mostly white neighborhood in upstate New York, which created its own identity crises. Under the eye-rolling, foul-mouthed, loving tutelage of her uncompromising grandmother—and the horror movies she obsessively watched—Danielle grew into a tall, awkward, Sassy-loving teenager who wore black eyeliner as lipstick and was struggling with the aftermath of her mother’s choices. But she also learned that she had the strength and smarts to save herself, her grandmother gifting her a faith in her own capabilities that the world would not have most Black girls possess. With humor, wit, and deep insight, Danielle shares how she grew up and grew wise—and the lessons she’s carried from those days to these. In the process, she upends our conventional understanding of family and redefines its boundaries to include the millions of people who share her story.
Author | : Peter Buckley |
Publisher | : Rough Guides |
Total Pages | : 1234 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Dictionaries |
ISBN | : 1858284570 |
Compiles career biographies of over 1,200 artists and rock music reviews written by fans covering every phase of rock from R & B through punk and rap.
Author | : David Wiltcher |
Publisher | : eBook Partnership |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2017-11-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1911596500 |
Can a man with a bad and troubled past turn himself around and make a journey to a better self? Could a woman have a role to play in that? That is the challenge confronting Pavel Morrow as he embarks on a final assignment in search of an alleged traitor, Chen/ Christopher, and is plunged into an encounter with his daughter, the young Singaporean activist Li. The drama is played out as they criss-cross Malaysia and Thailand, under the watchful and pragmatic eyes of Phyllis, an older, Muslim friend and colleague of Li's. Cynicism and ruthlessness versus idealism and trust?Pavel is compelled to review his own morality as he grows increasingly closer to Li. Together they investigate an atrocity that occurred during the Malayan Emergency, and engage with the plight of Rohingya refugees who flee persecution in Rakhine State.
Author | : Clifford McCarty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780195114737 |
Film Composers in America is a landmark in the history of film. Here, renowned film scholar Clifford McCarty has attempted to identify every known composer who wrote background musical scores for films in the United States between 1911 and 1970. With information on roughly 20,000 films, the book is an essential tool for serious students of film and a treasure trove for film fans. It spans all types of American films, from features, shorts, cartoons, and documentaries to nontheatrical works, avant-garde films, and even trailers. Meticulously researched over 45 years, the book documents the work of more than 1,500 composers, from Robert Abramson to Josiah Zuro, including the first to score an American film, Walter C. Simon. It includes not only Hollywood professionals but also many composers of concert music--as well as popular music and other genres--whose cinematic work has never before been fully catalogued. The book also features an index that lets readers quickly find the composer for any American film through 1970. To recover this history, much of which was lost or never recorded, McCarty corresponded with or interviewed hundreds of composers, arrangers, orchestrators, musical directors, and music librarians. He also conducted extensive research in the archives of the seven largest film studios--Columbia, MGM, Paramount, RKO, 20th Century-Fox, Universal, and Warner Bros.--and wherever possible, he based his findings on the most reliable evidence, that of the manuscript scores and cue sheets (as opposed to less accurate screen credits). The result is the definitive guide to the composers and musical scores for the first 60 years of American film.
Author | : Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1324 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Copyright |
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Author | : Jim Kristofic |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2011-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 082634948X |
Just before starting second grade, Jim Kristofic moved from Pittsburgh across the country to Ganado, Arizona, when his mother took a job at a hospital on the Navajo Reservation. Navajos Wear Nikes reveals the complexity of modern life on the Navajo Reservation, a world where Anglo and Navajo coexisted in a tenuous truce. After the births of his Navajo half-siblings, Jim and his family moved off the Reservation to an Arizona border town where they struggled to readapt to an Anglo world that no longer felt like home. With tales of gangs and skinwalkers, an Indian Boy Scout troop, a fanatical Sunday school teacher, and the author’s own experience of sincere friendships that lead to ho?zho? (beautiful harmony), Kristofic’s memoir is an honest portrait of growing up on—and growing to love—the Reservation.