The Day the Bathroom Ceiling Fell

The Day the Bathroom Ceiling Fell
Author: Jeanne Sandberg Fuller
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 149171543X

Readers who are homesick for small-town America fifty years ago, when the living was simpler and more family-oriented, will be delighted with these charming memoirs, which are full of humor and pathos, familiar settings, and real-life characters who leap off the page with vitality. Fuller's style is both original in vocabulary and homespun in approach, convincing us that we are there watching her grow up. The relatively uneventful, but extremely human picture she paints with words will capture the imagination of all who remember their own childhoods with longing for the less-complicated, but utterly satisfying life of those times. Charlotte Colby Andersen, B.A.,M.S, Writer, Lecturer, Photographer, Retired English Professor, Penn State University.

Nice Girls Are the Best Kissers

Nice Girls Are the Best Kissers
Author: Jeanne Sandberg Fuller
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1491715448

This charming coming-of-age memoir will capture your heart from the very first page. From small town American values and parental attitudes to group dating and popular fashion trends, Fullers crisp, clear, and sometimes quirky, writing style will keep you spellbound. She refreshingly presents an in-depth look at her life in America from post WWII to the beginning of the Korean War when times and lives were a bit simpler. Her characters are real, her verbal pictures are clear and her adventures are pure. A delightful read from the beginning. -Diane Yost Roush, B.A. Albion College, retired International English Teacher.

Tales Told by a Closet Belly Dancer

Tales Told by a Closet Belly Dancer
Author: Jeanne Sandberg Fuller
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2015-10-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1491779217

Light and lively. Part travelogue, part reminisces, part belly dances. You name it, it's here. Written in Jeanne Sandberg Fuller's delightful style this third book is a look at her adult life. The first two, The Day the Bathroom Ceiling Fell and Nice Girls Are the Best Kissers, are the stories of her childhood and young adult life and are also written in her inimitable if quirky style. Fuller gives her impressions as a dancer and artist as she visits Egypt, England, Greece, and Istanbul. The anecdotes of her family on these trips make us feel we're right there with her. She has been an avid fairy tale, myth, and history fan from the very beginning which makes the travels come alive in a most unique way. "Whether an armchair traveler or a world traveler this book will take you places as never seen before." -Diane Yost Roush, B.A. Albion College Retired International English Teacher

Creative Writhing

Creative Writhing
Author: Jeanne Sandberg Fuller
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2018-02-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1532042132

Jeanne Sandberg Fuller has done it once again. The author of The Day the Bathroom Ceiling Fell, Nice Girls Are the Best Kissers, and Tales of a Closet Belly Dancer presents her new book, Creative Writhing, a compilation of her work that has won awards, been published in newspapers, magazines and those not yet in print. This anthology of stories and adventures is told as only she can in her friendly, down-home voice. Each selection is carefully and cheerfully written with exquisite language and charm. They range from sailing on the new power boat with hubby and the kids (What could possibly go wrong here?) to Snaggletooth, the cat named Pusso (yes, Pussocat). Jeanne plunks them down in front of you just as if you were sitting across from her by the fire. This book is full of stand-alone pieces that fit together like pieces in a puzzle. If you have read Fullers other books, youll know you are in for a treat with this one (Diane Roush, international English teacher).

The Day I Fell Down the Toilet and Other Poems

The Day I Fell Down the Toilet and Other Poems
Author: Steve Turner
Publisher: Lion Children's Books
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2015-09-18
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0745968198

Have you ever been punched by a cabbage, or fallen head first down the loo? Have you ever had fun with a poem? You haven't? Then this book's for you. 'Steve Turner's first collection of verse for children is full of quirky humour and strong rhymes to read aloud' Children and quite a few adults will enjoy the poems in this collection. Pollution, religion, growing up and families are just some of the topics the author uses for this amusing anthology. I rate this collection as good as those by Roger McGough and Brian Patten." Hull Daily Mail 'Full of quirky humour and strong rhymes that kids adore.' Brian Patten 'Steve Turner is one of the most original and child-friendly voices to emerge in the last few years.' Sunday Telegraph 'Highly observant, often poignant, sometimes naughty and always fresh and funny.' Nick Park, creator of Wallace and Gromit 'This hilarious collection of poems will make you laugh out loud.' The Young Telegraph

Fathomless Riches

Fathomless Riches
Author: Richard Coles
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2014-10-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0297870319

'The best vicar ever' - Caitlin Moran THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CANON CLEMENT SERIES FATHOMLESS RICHES is the Reverend Richard Coles' warm, witty and wise memoir in which he divulges with searing honesty and intimacy his pilgrimage from a rock-and-roll life of sex and drugs in the Communards to one devoted to God and Christianity. The result is one of the most unusual and readable life stories of recent times, and has the power to shock as well as to console. 'Sex, drugs, death, religion, more sex... it has got it all' - Guardian 'All the humour, quirky characters and incidents that life - and death- serve up' - Mail on Sunday 'One of the most immensely readable - and redeemable - memoirs of the year' - Sunday Times 'A frank, worldly-wise, bleakly comic memoir' - The Times 'Full of wit and humour about finding God, and Jimmy Sommerville' - Independent on Sunday

The Day I Fell Down the Toilet and Other Poems

The Day I Fell Down the Toilet and Other Poems
Author: Steve Turner
Publisher: SPCK
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2024-05-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1915748143

Have you ever been punched by a cabbage or fallen head first down the loo? Have you ever had fun with a poem? You haven't? Then this book's for you. Whacky poems that take a roller-coaster ride from the crazy corners of dreams to the big questions of life. This collection of over seventy poems for children by Steve Turner is regularly in the best-seller lists. Full of wit and fun, his thought-provoking poetry has been used by teachers in classrooms and entertained children at home over the years. These poems make an instant impact, as the themes and ideas in them offer lots of food for thought for young minds.

Jim Crow's Children

Jim Crow's Children
Author: Peter Irons
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2004-01-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780142003756

Peter Irons, acclaimed historian and author of A People History of the Supreme Court, explores of one of the supreme court's most important decisions and its disappointing aftermath In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court sounded the death knell for school segregation with its decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. So goes the conventional wisdom. Weaving together vivid portraits of lawyers and such judges as Thurgood Marshall and Earl Warren, sketches of numerous black children throughout history whose parents joined lawsuits against Jim Crow schools, and gripping courtroom drama scenes, Irons shows how the erosion of the Brown decision—especially by the Court’s rulings over the past three decades—has led to the “resegregation” of public education in America.