Download or read book Great Grandma S Last Hurrah written by Lee Goldwasser and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-05-14 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sam Ilsa s Last Hurrah written by Rachel Cohn and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Bestselling duo behind Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist and The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily return with twins out to throw the party of a lifetime--or at least the best party of high school! Siblings Sam and Ilsa Kehlmann have spent most of their high school years throwing parties for their friends--and now they've prepared their final blowout, just before graduation. The rules are simple: each twin gets to invite three guests, and the other twin doesn't know who's coming until the partiers show up at the door. With Sam and Ilsa, the sibling revelry is always tempered with a large dose of sibling rivalry, and tonight is no exception. One night. One apartment. Eight people. What could possibly go wrong? Oh, we all know the answer is plenty. But plenty also goes right, as well...in rather surprising ways.

Download or read book Silent Film s Last Hurrah written by David Meuel and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-02-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history and critical appreciation of an unusually fertile period for the production of great or near-great silent films: late 1927 through early 1929, in the midst of the tumult and upheaval of Hollywood's transition from silent to sound. The book offers in-depth looks at several of the best of these films and discusses the gifted artists such as Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Lillian Gish who helped bring them to life, even as the art they had taken to remarkable heights was about to be obliterated. It depicts some of the silent medium's most talented filmmakers and their efforts--in the face of inescapable technological change--to give their dying art a rousing last hurrah.

Download or read book Famous Baby written by Karen Rizzo and published by Prospect Park Books. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles Times Summer Books Preview selection Los Angeles Magazine Now Read This: The Best of L.A. South Florida Lifestyle Summer Read Zoe Report Best Summer Beach Read HelloGiggles Summer Guide to Truly Spectacular Reading “Famous Baby is inventive, hysterical, and touching. Karen Rizzo wraps a timeless drama about the love between mothers and daughters in a fresh, snappy package for the social media age.” —CHRISTINA SCHWARZ, author of The Edge of the Earth and Drowning Ruth, an Oprah’s Book Club Selection Before there were Real Housewives and Tiger Moms, the was Ruth Sternberg, the hugely popular First Mother of Mommy Blogging—or, as Ruth’s daughter, Abbie prefers to call her, the First Lady of Cyber Exploitation. Eighteen year-old Abbie has finally found her way out of the limelight, by moving a solid five hundred miles away from Ruth and her “maternal instincts.” But when she hears that her ailing, beloved grandmother is moving in with Ruth, she suspects that her mother has found a new blog subject to exploit. Abbie kidnaps Grandma to save her from the same fate, and thus begins an uproarious battle of wills. Famous Baby wisely and hilariously explores mother love, identity, and the hazards of parental over-sharing in the social media age. Karen Rizzo, who lives with her actor husband and two children in Los Angeles, California, is the author of Things to Bring, S#!T to Do… and Other Inventories of Anxiety, a memoir centered around her penchant for lists. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Salon, Living Fit, and women’s humor anthologies, and her plays have been staged at several theatres. Famous Baby is her first novel.

Download or read book Arriving Through Time written by Heather L. Barksdale and published by Heather Barksdale. This book was released on 2020-06-19 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lizzie Alexander is your average sixteen year old high school student living in Jacksonville, Florida. But Lizzie’s life is about to get a lot more complicated as she and her friends stumble upon something that pushes them to the brink...and through time. How do we become the person that we are meant to be? Is it just destiny or do the choices we make determine who we become in the future? What if you could change the past? Would you risk changing your future too or would you even want to? Will Lizzie and her friends survive the past and find out the truth before time runs out?

Download or read book The Hip Grandma s Handbook written by Linda Oatman-High and published by Seven Footer Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's first-time grandmothers are the youngest ever. At an average age of only 47, they're not the white-haired, cookie-scented matrons of yesteryear -- and please, don't call them "Granny." The Hip Grandma's Handbook resents is the perfect accessory for today's new grandma. An eclectic collection of humor, reflections, and product recommendations, it offers worldly wisdom and common-sense advice on everything from glam alternatives to "Grammy" (think M'Mere) to tips on feigning interest in yet another round of ultrasounds ("It looks...just like you"). The book's funny, funky voice is a refreshing alternative to the traditional titles on the market, yet it offers wholesome, time-honored information for conscientious grandmothers looking to nourish and nurture grandchildren -- while maintaining their own identity and having fun in the process. Entertaining and inspiring, the book is a thoughtful gift for M'Meres of any age.

Download or read book Funny You Don t Look Like a Grandmother written by Lois Wyse and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartwarming revue that looks at modem grandmothers in a whole new light. These are the women who have thrown away the granny glasses, shapeless black dresses and Red Cross shoes and replaced them with cute little tennis dresses, skis and a condo in Florida. The show celebrates these changes with skits and songs about everything from what to name the grandmother to her availability as baby sitter, her job, her friends, her activities, her new interest in shopping, but most of all, her relationship to that new baby and its parents.--From publisher description.

Download or read book The World Without You written by Joshua Henkin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's July 4, 2005, and the Frankel family is descending upon their beloved summer home in the Berkshires. They have gathered to memorialize Leo, the youngest of the four siblings and an intrepid journalist killed on that day in 2004, while on assignment in Iraq. But Leo’s parents are adrift in a grief that’s tearing apart their forty-year marriage, his sisters are struggling with their own difficulties, and his widow has arrived from California bearing a secret. Here award-winning writer Joshua Henkin unfolds this family story, as, over the course of three days, the Frankels contend with sibling rivalries and marital feuds, with volatile women and silent men — and, ultimately, with the true meaning of family.

Download or read book The Good Grief Club A true story about the power of friendship and French toast written by Monica Novak and published by Inkwell Productions. This book was released on 2008 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cinema of Swords written by Lawrence Ellsworth and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema of Swords is a history, guide, and love letter to over four hundred movies and television shows featuring swashbucklers: knights, pirates, samurai, Vikings, gladiators, outlaw heroes like Zorro and Robin Hood, and anyone else who lives by the blade and solves their problems with the point of a sword. Though swordplay thrives as a mainstay of current pop culture—whether Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings or Star Wars—swashbuckling was if anything even more ubiquitous during Hollywood’s classic period, from its foundations in the Silent Era up through the savage bursts of fantasy films in the ‘80s. With this huge cinematic backlist of classics now available online and on-demand, Cinema of Swords traces the roots and branches of this unruly genre, highlighting classics of the form and pointing fans toward thrilling new gems they never knew existed. With wry summaries and criticism from swordplay expert Lawrence Ellsworth, this comprehensive guidebook is perfect as a reference work or as a dazzling Hollywood history to be read end-to-end.

Download or read book Living off Grandma s Sayings written by Yvonne Starks Wilson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Living Off Grandma’s Sayings: From Leeds to the Legislature, retired Missouri State Senator Yvonne Wilson recounts her experience growing up in the segregated community of Leeds in Kansas City, Missouri, with her Grandma and describes the impact of this experience on her life as an educator, state legislator, and public servant. Lessons learned from her Grandma formed the bedrock of Senator Wilson’s career in the Kansas City, Missouri, School District during the turbulent years of desegregation, her time in the Missouri House of Representatives and Missouri State Senate, her service in the Kansas City community, and her role as wife, mother, and grandmother. Throughout the book, Senator Wilson reflects on the continued value of her Grandma’s sayings.

Download or read book A Perfect Mistake written by Laura Brown and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night changed everything. I’m not one for one-night stands, but from the moment I met Cam and those caramel eyes filled with such sadness, I can’t resist. How was I supposed to know he’s the one man I shouldn’t have had the hottest night of my life with? As a social worker I know better than to bring home my client’s grandson, but that tiny fact doesn’t help me now. I need to stay away, but he’s Deaf, as is his dying grandmother, and I’m the only one at my agency who knows ASL. I’ll keep this a secret until his grandmother’s out of my care. My plans to keep Cam out of my bed crumble when his grandmother dies. His grief is my kryptonite, my body his salve. Her dying wish was for us to be together, but not everyone in his family agrees. Someone makes a formal complaint to my boss, putting my job at risk. It’s my heart or my career, and I’m afraid I’m going to lose both.

Download or read book The Exit is the Entrance written by Lydia Paar and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lydia Paar joined the American workforce at age 14, holding a wide variety of jobs (27, at last count) between then and now, across 25 different homes in eight states. The essays in this collection explore her attempts to evade or transform the lower-middle class American experience across various cityscapes, towns, deserts and in-between places (jails, cross-country bus rides, and U.S. army basic training). Each essay interrogates the interior emotional work that accompanies such grappling: labors of love and friendship, of learning, motion, maintenance and of finding faith in potential for positive change. Across a range of interior and exterior landscapes, Paar meditates on subcultures, agendas, violences, alliances, and on the natural world our human endeavors intersect: on how what we try to transform so often transforms us"--

Download or read book Magnolia Bride written by Tara Randel and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Married for a day, in love for life Nealy Grainger knew that returning to Cypress Pointe meant an inevitable encounter with her teenage crush, and momentary husband, Dane Peterson. She could handle it. She wasn't the wounded girl who'd left Cypress Pointe years ago, heartbroken and furious when Dane had annulled their marriage the day after they'd eloped. Now one of L.A.'s most in-demand celebrity event planners, Nealy's only come back for a vacation and to help with her sister's wedding—not for a reunion with her long-lost love. But the more their paths cross, the more the sparks fly! Maybe their connection isn't over just yet….

Download or read book Curvy Girls Can t Date Best Friends written by Kelsie Stelting and published by Kelsie Stelting Creative LLC. This book was released on 2023-06-26 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was all fake dating and games until my heart got involved... I wanted to have the best summer ever. To have my first kiss and finally get my brother’s best friend to notice me. So I talked my best friend Carson into helping. He’d do anything for me, and I’d do the same for him. But somewhere between fake dating and pretending to fall in love with him, I fell for real. And it was the dumbest thing I’ve ever done. In the last four books of The Curvy Girl Club, Carson and Callie have stayed best friends. Now it’s time for a love story all their

Download or read book That Woman and the Mafia Don written by Marie Pagliaro and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-11-11 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gripping saga of sex, violence, revenge, humor, and true love, Sal Esposito, seduced by instant gratification, joins the mob and finagles his way to the top. He thrives on his power until he encounters a woman who turns his world upside down.

Download or read book Pretty Girls Don t Eat written by Winnie Salamon and published by Ford Street Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Winter Mae Jones knows exactly what she wants. A career in fashion design. There’s only one thing standing in her way. She’s fat. And fat girls don’t work in the fashion industry. So Winter decides to take matters into her own hands. She goes on a diet, which at first makes her feel fab and in control. It’s only when things get out of hand that she comes to realise that, not only has she less control than she thought, but also that her weight has nothing to do with what’s holding her back. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Calibri} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Calibri; min-height: 14.0px}