Download or read book Ding Dong the Wicked written by Caryl Churchill and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new short play from one of the world's greatest living playwrights.

Download or read book If It All Blows Up And Goes To Hell written by Lisa Mottola Hudon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third book in Mottola Hudon's Buffettesque Romantic Suspense series. IF IT ALL BLOWS UP AND GOES TO HELL follows the life of a small town Midwestern girl and her Trop-rock husband as they battle both mother nature and human nature from Key West, to Illinois, to France. Will their past come back to haunt them or will it ultimately save their lives? Mottola Hudon's books are Parrothead favorites, voted Readers' Choice for Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville Book Club and holding a place of their own on Mr. Buffett's personal bookshelf.

Download or read book Witness for A Wiser Dog written by Martin Alvin and published by Martin Alvin. This book was released on 2011-06-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Who Put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz written by Harold Meyerson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life story of the man who gave Dorothy and her Oz companions something to sing about

Download or read book Ding Dong Avon Calling written by Katina Manko and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Avon Lady acquired iconic status in twentieth century American culture. This first history of Avon tells the story of a direct sales company that was both a giant in its industry and a kitchen-table entrepreneurial venture. With their distinctive greeting at the homes across the country--Ding Dong! Avon Calling!--sales ladies brought door-to-door sales of makeup, perfume, and other products to American women beginning in 1886. Working for the company enabled women to earn money on the side and even become financially independent in a respectable profession while selling Avon's wares to friends, family, and neighborhood networks. Ding Dong! Avon Calling! is the story of women and entrepreneurship, and of an innovative corporation largely managed by men that empowered women to exploit networks of other women and their community for profit. Founded in the late nineteenth century, Avon grew into a massive international direct sales company in which millions of "ambassadors of beauty" sat in their customers' living rooms with a sample case, catalogue, and a conversational sales pitch. Avon was unique in American business history for its reliance on women as representatives, promising them not just sales positions, but a chance to have a business of their own. Being an Avon Lady avoided the stigma that was often attached to middle-class women's work outside the home and enabled women to maintain the delicate balance of work and family. Drawing for the first time on company records she helped acquire for archives, Katina Manko illuminates Avon's inner workings, uncovers the lives of its representatives, and shows how women slowly rose into the company's middle and upper management. Avon called itself "The Company for Women" and championed its high flyers, but its higher echelons remained dominated by men well into the 1990s. Avon is more than perfumes and toiletries, but a brand built on women knocking on doors and chatting up neighbors. It thrived for more than a century through the deceptively simple technique of women directly selling beauty to women at home.

Download or read book All Souls written by Michael Patrick MacDonald and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “All Souls is the written equivalent of an Irish wake, where revelers dance and sing the dead person’s praises. In that same style, the book leavens tragedy with dashes of humor but preserves the heartbreaking details.”—The New York Times Book Review A 25th anniversary edition of the National Bestselling memoir, with a new afterword from Michael Patrick MacDonald, takes us deep into the South Boston housing projects during one of the city's most tumultuous times in history and tells the story of his family struggling the overcome the poverty, crime, addiction, and incarceration that overtook the neighborhood. A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald’s Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger’s crime schemes and busing riots, MacDonald’s Southie is populated by sharply hewn characters. We meet Ma, Michael’s mini-skirted, accordian-playing, single mother who endures the deaths of four of her eleven children. And there are Michael’s older siblings Davey, sweet artist-dreamer; Kevin, child genius of scam; and Frankie, Golden Gloves boxer and neighborhood hero whose lives are high-wire acts played out in a world of poverty and pride. Nearly suffocated by his grief and his community’s code of silence, MacDonald tells his family story here with gritty but moving honesty. All Souls is heartbreaking testimony to lives lost too early, and the story of how a place so filled with pain could still be “the best place in the world.”

Download or read book Yip Harburg written by Harriet Hyman Alonso and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as "Broadway's social conscience," E. Y. Harburg (1896–1981) wrote the lyrics to the standards, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?," "April in Paris," and "It's Only a Paper Moon," as well as all of the songs in The Wizard of Oz, including "Over the Rainbow." Harburg always included a strong social and political component to his work, fighting racism, poverty, and war. Interweaving close to fifty interviews (most of them previously unpublished), over forty lyrics, and a number of Harburg's poems, Harriet Hyman Alonso enables Harburg to talk about his life and work. He tells of his early childhood on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, his public school education, how the Great Depression opened the way to writing lyrics, and his work on Broadway and Hollywood, including his blacklisting during the McCarthy era. Finally, but most importantly, Harburg shares his commitment to human rights and the ways it affected his writing and his career path. Includes an appendix with Harburg's key musicals, songs, and films.

Download or read book Plays from New River 2 written by M.Z. Ribalow and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of Plays from New River, showcasing a place where gifted writers of plays and screenplays are paid and nurtured to write whatever they most want to write. These three very different plays are among the results. Mark Eisman's Feasting on Cardigans explores with whimsical humor a pair of dedicated exterminators and the emotional effect they have on those lives they touch. M.Z. Ribalow's Tiger in the Tree is an intriguing thriller that as it proceeds becomes about much more than one might assume at the beginning. James McLure's Baseball Game of the Week is a deceptively moving, always funny meditation on progress, memory and baseball.

Download or read book History Quest written by Shand Stringham and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a top-secret research facility buried deep beneath Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, a Department of Defense project has developed the ability to travel through time. The project's primary purpose is to set up a defensive posture against a hostile power that could also develop time travel and use it against the United States. Colonel Barton Stauffer is assigned to lead an elite team on a parallel mission-one sent in pursuit of humanity's lost history. In their quest to recover lost knowledge about man's past, they make startling discoveries that will challenge their dedication to the mission. Current understanding of the history of mankind is filled of holes, gaps, and distortions. Some of the most important elements of the human experience have been deliberately excised from history. History is written by the victors, and this elite team has been sent to correct the damage. The true history of conquered peoples has been pillaged and rewritten time and time again. While the team's fundamental mission is to explore the past and develop an undistorted understanding of human history, they may also come to the conclusion that what lies hidden in the past is sometimes best left unexamined. The team faces a gut-wrenching dilemma as it attempts to balance the noble purposes of their history quest with the painful discovery of proof of mankind's past inhumanity to man.

Download or read book The Unholy Path of a Reluctant Adventurer written by Ph D Rosie Kuhn and published by Rosie Kuhn. This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kuhn reflects on her life as a noncustodial mother of infants, as someone who crossed the Atlantic Ocean on a 93-foot schooner, then acquired three master's degrees and a Ph.D., and wrote a book about self-empowerment.

Download or read book Death of a Wicked Witch written by Lee Hollis and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bar Harbor, Maine, is quieter in the off-season, but the population has just increased a bit with the arrival of Ted and Trudy Lancaster. Ted’s taking over for a retiring minister, and Trudy runs a food truck called Wicked ’Wiches. When she stops in at the Island Times office to place an ad, Hayley happily devours the sample sub Trudy offers—and the two become fast friends. When Trudy tragically dies in her truck while catering a Halloween party, suspicion falls on a cranky, competitive caterer who’d made veiled threats to Trudy. But the case becomes more complicated when Hayley’s husband admits he’d seen someone dressed as a witch hurrying away from the food truck—not very helpful when countless women at the party wore the same costume. Now Hayley finds herself sandwiched between witches and witnesses as she considers a smorgasbord of suspects. If she finds the killer, she’ll be a local hero . . . Includes delectable recipes from Hayley’s kitchen!

Download or read book Life with Mother Superior a Play written by Jane Trahey and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1974 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The action begins with the arrival of the author and several other new students at St. Mark's Academy, a strict Catholic school for girls. Determined to cause trouble, the girls begin by giving false names for themselves, which quickly b

Download or read book The Complete Fairy Tales written by Hans Christian Andersen and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are all of Andersen's 168 tales.

Download or read book I ve Told Someone written by Tricia Dale and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It took the author just over two years, a tremendous amount of determination and commitment, and lots and lots of practice to become the person she is today. She knew she was getting there when she was walking in the local neighborhood and passed a gang of young children playing in the street. She walked on and heard the pitter patter of tiny footsteps behind her. A little girl, around six years old, patted me on the backside and said, Excuse me, but you're not a real girl are you? She put her perfectly manicured finger to her lips and said, Sshh, don't tell anyone. She kept walking, but as she turned the corner, a shrill voice shrieked out I've told someone Instead of being offended, she burst out laughing. She's since dressed on coaches, trains, buses, and trams. She's dressed in Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Blackpool, Carlisle, and London. She's even been round the Houses of Parliament dressed. The world awaits-but is it ready?

Download or read book 1 Night Stand written by Amaleka McCall and published by Urban Renaissance. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sista Love was a chart-topping girl group that had it all—fame, fortune and failure. Harmony, Melody, and Lyric haven’t seen each other since their group broke up three years ago, but when tragedy strikes, the sisters have no choice but to face each other again. Harmony retreated from the limelight and lives a modest life in the suburbs with her new husband, an ex–child star and recovering drug addict. Harmony wants nothing more than to be a wife and mother, but when news of her mother’s sudden death forces Harmony and her sisters back together, she will have to confront a painful past that she tried desperately to leave behind. Melody abandoned her sisters for a solo career and is now a wealthy mega-star who tours the world, buys whatever her heart desires, and lives in the spotlight. The world loves her and her fans worship her. She usually stops at nothing to get what she wants. Just as she gets set to kick off her 1 Night Stand Tour, news of her mother’s death derails her plans and forces her to confront the one thing all of her money can’t erase—her sisters and her past. Lyric has been reduced to a D-list celebrity trying to make it back to the top. She lives for the rush of the nightlife and would do anything for attention. When she gets word of her mother’s death, Lyric’s painful past and an unwanted reunion with her sisters send her spiraling out of control. Will the Love sisters let their past hurt, lies, and deceit destroy them, or will they manage to put it all behind them and be a family once and for all?

Download or read book A Mother s Courage to Awaken written by Paula Petry and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Methods of Healing Bring You Closer to the Other Side “Dr. Paula Petry shares her extremely personal and fascinating journey in A Mother's Courage to Awaken, a book that, regardless of your personal experiences or beliefs, is bound to resonate with some aspect of your life.” ­– Gloria Estefan A Mother's Courage to Awaken tells a story about the love and loss of a child―and the healing quest it initiated. On her search for inner peace, professor Paula Petry, PhD looks to re-emerging ancient methods that nurture positive emotional health, mental wellness, and spiritual well-being. A story about death and resurrection. What does this mean? To nurture a life? And what if that life is your own? When Dr. Petry loses her daughter Alexandra, she looks for ways to connect with loved ones in the afterlife. Along her journey, she encounters a literal and figurative resurrection, a transcendence of time and space, and a life transformed beyond whatever was imagined possible. Emotional health and mental wellness from the other side. A Mother’s Courage to Awaken confronts grief, love, and loss with holistic practices and alternative health medicine. Inside, you’ll find healing modalities outside of traditional medicine like sound healing, plant medicine, Akashic Records, shamanism, acupuncture, and healing mantras. With these ancient methods and different forms of energy medicine, join Dr. Petry to: Re-discover the power of prayer, intention, and the imagination Re-direct our thoughts to what we want rather than what we don’t want Relinquish the illusion of control A Mother's Courage to Awaken speaks to women wishing to awaken to their inner truth and power, and readers of Many Lives, Many Masters; Proof of Heaven; Journey of Souls; or What Dreams Have Come.

Download or read book 99 Poems written by N.F. Jones and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love poetry? Then you will enjoy these wonderful poems written by a native of New Orleans, La. If you fancy almost any type of genre of poetry, then these will surely intrigue you. Moreover, for those readers who love football, and for those younger ones who need to read wholesome literature, then 99 Poems is the book to read.