Download or read book Aging Gracelessly written by Tom Bennett and published by Histria Books. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible is arguably the greatest masterpiece of literature ever produced. But what makes it great? Who decides whether it is great, accurate or valid? Is one opinion or interpretation better than another?These are questions that are best left to the experts...right? Aging Gracelessly is the culmination of an 18-month study by the author to read the Bible, analyzing it from the perspective of a reluctant agnostic... and hopefully find in it a much anticipated inner peace. It is a genuine attempt to investigate the “Good Book” without the bias and influence of others.The author delves into each book of the Bible and relates the experience with an unusual honesty and candor. He is looking for peace... and possibly salvation... and, like C. S. Lewis, fully expects to get off his agnostic fence to join the two billion other Christian adherents who consider the Bible the ultimate handbook for the soul. Along the way, he discusses with himself many of the facets of our intangible existence; things like good vs evil, reality vs wishful thinking, faith vs brainwashing, and ignorance vs stupidity. Aging Gracelessly raises as many questions as it addresses...and it will make even the most vigorous believers among us think about what we believe.
Download or read book Maxine s Guide to Aging Gracelessly written by Chris Brethwaite and published by Andrews McMeel Pub. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She's crabby, she's feisty, and she takes no guff from anyone. Maxine has been a hit character since she first appeared on a greeting card back in 1986. No sweet sentiment here; Maxine just tells it like it is! One of Shoebox Greetings' most eccentric and beloved personalities, Maxine now gets her own birthday gift book that is sure to delight cranky birthday observers everywhere. Some of Maxine's choice sayings on aging include: "Birthdays are like relatives at the holidays. They show up whether you want them to or not."Birthdays are a time when there's a whole lotta shakin' goin' on. Yeah, those upper arms are always the first to go."Mother Nature thinks of everything. She makes your hair turn gray before it falls out so you don't miss it as much."Birthdays are like chocolate chip cookies. If you think about how many you've had, it kinda makes you sick."
Download or read book Time Fries written by Fay Jacobs and published by Bywater Books. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fay Jacobs is back! Again! The author of the trilogy of humorous memoirs As I Lay Frying, Fried & True and For Frying Out Loud returns with more wise and witty recollections about contemporary life in general and more specifically life in Rehoboth Beach, a small resort town on the Delaware Coast. It’s provocative, political, occasionally heartwarming, and reliably hilarious.
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Download or read book Big Girls Don t Fry written by Fay Jacobs and published by Bywater Books. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fay Jacobs is back . . . again . . . really . . . for the LAST time! As the author of five previous humorous memoirs, activist and comedian Fay Jacobs returns with her FINAL collection of tall tales, Big Girls Don’t Fry: Rehoboth Beach Wrap Up. And, as you’d expect, It’s chock-full of Fay’s signature witty, wise, and often laugh-out-loud commentary about the craziness of contemporary life in the diverse and welcoming resort town of Rehoboth Beach on the Delaware Coast. This time, though, everyone’s favorite “Sit-Down Comic” tangles with the after-effects of an insane election, kissing penguins, riding an opinionated camel, wearing pussy hats, and masking in the time of Covid . . . Big Girls Don’t Fry was compiled over the last few years, beginning in January 2021 and ending with an urgent plea to get out and vote for our lives. It chronicles her chronic losing battle with nature and changing technology, revisits some of her greatest hits and misses, deals with the ups and downs of social distancing, masking, and video happy hours, and reflects on what it was like to be honored by a troop of Girl Scouts. And through it all, Fay finds a way to make her stories provocative, political, occasionally heartwarming, and reliably hilarious. It’s all captured in the final installment of Fay Jacobs’ award-winning Tales from Rehoboth Series. Come along for the ride—you’ll be happy you did!
Download or read book The Lords of Time written by Virginia Luman and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2055, New America is the last nation on Earth. Thomas Smiles, a college student, is driven to near madness by memories of past and future events that are impossible for him to know. Believing himself to be either insane or reincarnated, Thomas finds a friend in an insane asylum. In this a modern deadhouse , Thomas Smiles learns the true ambition of those who are The Lords of Time .
Download or read book Fried Convicted written by Fay Jacobs and published by Bywater Books. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the author of four humorous memoirs, activist and comedian Fay Jacobs returns with her newest tall tales, Fried & Convicted, Rehoboth Beach Uncorked. And, as you’d expect, It’s chock-full of Fay’s signature witty, wise, and often laugh-out-loud commentary about the craziness of contemporary life in the diverse and welcoming resort town of Rehoboth Beach on the Delaware Coast. This time, though, everyone’s favorite “Sit-Down Comic” grapples with the insanity of a high-tech bra, cartoon bladders in prescription advertising, and refusing to act her age . . . Fried & Convicted was written over the last few years and culminates with Election Day, 2016. It chronicles the joy of gaining equal marriage rights for same-sex couples, tales of Icelandic lagoons, Provincetown adventures, and much ado about lesbians of a certain age. It tells a few harrowing personal stories, such as Bonnie’s unnerving medical diagnosis, the time Fay went kayaking with alligators, and how she came up with a public relations scheme to rescue her pal’s purloined pooch. And through it all, she finds a way to make it provocative, political, occasionally heartwarming, and reliably hilarious. Featuring Fay’s latest magazine columns plus new, never before published material, Fried & Convicted is a pleasure for longtime fans and new readers alike. Come along for the ride—you’ll be happy you did! Fay Jacobs spent thirty years in Washington, DC working in journalism and public relations. Her latest project is a one-woman show, Aging Gracelessly: 50 Shades of Fay, which is being performed in theatres around the country. She lives in Rehoboth Beach with her wife of thirty-four years and a Miniature Schnauzer.
Download or read book For Frying Out Loud written by Fay Jacobs and published by Bywater Books. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fay Jacobs returns with more wise and witty recollections about life in Rehoboth Beach. For Frying Out Loud is a collection of Fay s latest columns plus some new, never published material. It's provocative, political, occasionally heartwarming and reliably hilarious. Jacobs' utterly unique voice will keep you laughing, smiling and relating page after page.
Download or read book The Greengrocer and His TV written by Paulina Bren and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia brought an end to the Prague Spring and its promise of "socialism with a human face." Before the invasion, Czech reformers had made unexpected use of television to advance political and social change. In its aftermath, Communist Party leaders employed the medium to achieve "normalization," pitching television stars against political dissidents in a televised spectacle that defined the times. The Greengrocer and His TV offers a new cultural history of communism from the Prague Spring to the Velvet Revolution that reveals how state-endorsed ideologies were played out on television, particularly through soap opera-like serials. In focusing on the small screen, Paulina Bren looks to the "normal" of normalization, to the everyday experience of late communism. The figure central to this book is the greengrocer who, in a seminal essay by Václav Havel, symbolized the ordinary citizen who acquiesced to the communist regime out of fear. Bren challenges simplistic dichotomies of fearful acquiescence and courageous dissent to dramatically reconfigure what we know, or think we know, about everyday life under communism in the 1970s and 1980s. Deftly moving between the small screen, the street, and the Central Committee (and imaginatively drawing on a wide range of sources that include television shows, TV viewers' letters, newspapers, radio programs, the underground press, and the Communist Party archives), Bren shows how Havel's greengrocer actually experienced "normalization" and the ways in which popular television serials framed this experience. Now back by popular demand, socialist-era serials, such as The Woman Behind the Counter and The Thirty Adventures of Major Zeman, provide, Bren contends, a way of seeing—literally and figuratively—Czechoslovakia's normalization and Eastern Europe's real socialism.
Download or read book A Brief History of Rock Off the Record written by Wayne Robins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birth of rock ‘n’ roll signaled the blossoming of a new teenage culture, dividing generations and introducing a new attitude of rebellion and independence. From Chuck Berry to the Beatles, from punk rock to hip hop, rock ‘n’ roll has continuously transformed alongside or in reaction to social, cultural, and political changes. A Brief History of Rock, Off the Record is a concise introduction to rock history and the impact it has had on American culture. It is an easy-to-read, vivid account written by one of rock’s leading critics. Pulling from personal interviews over the years, Wayne Robins interweaves the developments in rock music with his commentary on the political and social events and movements that defined their decades.
Download or read book American Boarding School Fiction 1928 1981 written by Alexander H. Pitofsky and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When boarding-school fiction became popular in the 19th century, it tended to be warm and nostalgic, filled with sporting events, practical jokes, and schemes to get even with campus bullies. All of that changed in the era discussed in this book. Holden Caulfield, the narrator of J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, drops out of one prep school and is expelled from two others. The conflicts between students in John Knowles's Devon School novels become so heated that two young men die. And in the controversial novel Good Times/Bad Times, James Kirkwood portrays the headmaster of a private academy as closeted, deeply neurotic, and infatuated with an 18-year-old who has recently enrolled at his school. In spite of their unsettling images of anguish and cruelty, these and other American boarding-school novels have attracted large audiences and influenced countless school narratives in fiction, drama, television and film. Many books have been written about British school stories. This is the first study that explores the history of boarding-school fiction in the United States.
Download or read book Crazy Nevermore written by Elaine Writer and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspirational novel begins with a middle-of-the-night delivery of an e-mail message announcing a brokerage firm closure and causing an emotional upheaval for all employees. Written with humor and spiritual insight, Crazy Nevermore explores how adaptations to sudden life changes force personal growth in spirituality, acceptance, adaptation, and loveif we resist the urge to just go crazy. Character vignettes and interactions reveal how life after change presents the opportunity for transformation.
Download or read book Street Hungry written by Bill Kent and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Street Hungry by Bill Kent, Shep Ladderback, the Philadelphia Press's aged obit writer, mentors the young Andrea (Andy) Cosicki, fledgling journalist and daughter of the late political fixer, Benny the Lunch Cosicki. Ladderback (who knows everything about everyone in the city) wants Andy to cover the death of a street fruit and vegetable salesman, which seems to him to be suspicious. But Andy has a date for lunch at the Loup Garu, a so-hot-you-can't-get-a-reservation-for-three-months restaurant with a new "culinary concept" (which seems to be horrible food combinations, trumpeted as Transylvanian-Caribbean-fusion) and turns him down. (Ladderback knows that Loup Garu means werewolf; Andy does not.) But Andy ends up in a big story anyhow, when one of the country's most notable food critics drops dead at her table.
Download or read book Horace s Odes and Epodes written by Horace and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elegant and readable translation of Horace's best-known poems.
Download or read book Security and Defence in the Terrorist Era written by Elinor Camille Sloan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses Canadian security and defence requirements post September 11.
Download or read book Breakshot written by Kenny Gallo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gallo made millions for New York's Colombo Mafia family before becoming an undercover FBI informant. In "Breakshot," he captures the American underworld in all its tawdry spectacle.
Download or read book The American Novel Now written by Patrick O'Donnell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Novel Now navigates the vast terrain of the American novel since 1980, exploring issues of identity, history, family, nation, and aesthetics, as well as cultural movements and narrative strategies from over seventy different authors and novels. Discusses an exceptionally wide-range of authors and novels, from established figures to significant emerging writers Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Louise Erdrich, Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, Kathy Acker and many more Explores the range of themes and styles offered in the wealth of contemporary American fiction since 1980, in both mainstream and experimental writings Reflects the liveliness and diversity of American fiction in the last thirty years Written in a style that makes it ideal for students and scholars, while also accessible for general readers
