Download or read book I Called Him Uncle Will written by Doris Meyer and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doris 'Coke' Lane Meyer, knew Will Rogers, not only as the Follies star he became, or the widely read newspaper columnist, or the popular star of radio and movies. She knew him as a favorite uncle who loved to sing and 'cut up' and tell jokes and stories long into the night. It has been seventy seven years since Will Rogers' death, but the memories of growing up in the Rogers clan remain vivid to the author now in her nineties. I Called Him Uncle Will offers a fascinating and intimate glimpse into the personal lives of the Rogers-Lane family. As unforgettable as her famous uncle, Coke Meyer recounts her own life's journey, including moments of great joy and times of deep personal loss. Look closely at the mischievous smile, twinkling blue eyes, her gift for story telling and it all seems eerily familiar. Also, like her famous uncle, Coke never meets a stranger. I Called Him Uncle Will is a tribute to a great Oklahoma family who produced not only a favorite Oklahoma son, but a favorite daughter you will get to know throughout these pages. What a legacy Doris 'Coke' Lane Meyer has left for her family and all of us to enjoy.
Download or read book UNCLE written by Will Murray and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-17 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first and only book for uncles and aunts who want to have a positive and lasting impact on their sibilings’ children. "Uncle: The Definitive Guide for Becoming the World’s Greatest Aunt or Uncle" celebrates the unique, indispensable and slightly zany role of aunts and uncles in our society. It helps aunts and uncles realize their role through a collection nearly 190 fun and whacky activities that nieces and nephews need to master to grow up as great kids: things that the grandparents have forgotten and that the parents wouldn’t ever think to teach. Show them how to scream, “Haaaaaaay!” while Dad is driving past a farm. Turn an orange peel into teeth that would scare a dentist away from her drill. Or spend time hanging out doing the fine art of nothing. The "Uncle: The Definitive Guide for Becoming the World’s Greatest Aunt or Uncle" will appeal to anyone who has an endearing aunt or uncle, whether blood relative or a revered unofficial aunt or uncle, or scoutmasters and other adults who get to engage kids in fun and useful activities. It’s a far better birthday gift than another tie.
Download or read book Uncle Will of Wildwood written by Frances Jewell McVey and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncle Will of Wildwood is a warm and humorous memoir of the nineteenth-century Bluegrass that recalls a defining period of Kentucky's past. It was a time of self-sufficient country estates when, as Thomas D. Clark writes in his introduction, "every Bluegrass farm gate was the entryway into a ruggedly independent domain." Wildwood was such a place, ruled by the affable Uncle Will of this classic book. Everything at Wildwood revolved around Will Goddard, who was "a cross between a hurricane and an electric fan." Uncle Will—with his mad dashes into Harrodsburg for mowing-machine parts, his habit of leaving his stallion Black Joe unhitched, his irrepressible spirit, and his uncanny perception of the potential of a horse—became a family and community legend. A celebration of Kentucky before the arrival of the modern age, Uncle Will of Wildwood fondly remembers life before the automobile, before radio and television, and before growing cities eroded the quiet and grand way of country life. Though Uncle Will's story is nearly two hundred years old, his lessons of self-sufficiency, community, and eccentricity are still pertinent today. In print for the first time since 1974, Uncle Will of Wildwood captures the riotous spirit of one Kentucky man and the flavor of country life.
Download or read book Uncle Sam s Kids written by Angela Sportelli-Rehak and published by Abidenme Books Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-15 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three children discover Daddy will leave on deployment. They learn fun ways to deal with separation anxiety and show they care while Dad is gone.
Download or read book Uncle John s Bathroom Reader Nature Calls written by Bathroom Readers' Institute and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncle John is heeding the call of nature! So pack a rucksack, and let’s head outside! It’s a wild world out there, and the folks at the BRI want to explore it with you. From hornywinks to Dracula orchids, from alluvium to zymogen, Uncle John is embarking on a back-country safari to track down the wackiest, weirdest, silliest, and most amazing stories about the natural world. It’s 448 wild pages of great outdoor facts, strange stories, incredible science, and fun quotes and quizzes. You’ll feel the fresh mountain air energize you as you read about… * An ape that fries burgers and a lizard that plays video games * The explosive history of America’s deepest (and bluest) lake * The search for the mysterious rhinoceros dolphin * How to distinguish a mushroom from a toadstool * Cats vs. birds: the Feline-Avian War * A waterfall that turns toys to stone * The history of dirt And much, much more!
Download or read book Uncle Yah Yah written by Al Dickens and published by WAHIDA CLARK PRESENTS. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read this book and you will agree that if there ever was any One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest, it had to be Al Dickens the author of this book. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Even nature produces the uncommon or the unique at one time or another, like the duckbill platypus. So it is with this book; it is a genuine paradox. It is strange, but true, that this book is filled with sane and sober truths that are presented in a most compassionate manner though at times it may tug at the hemline of our old and ragged ideological garments and worn out customs. Yet, it is never offensive. Uncle Yah Yah, you will agree it was a labor of love.
Download or read book The Boy s Own Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uncle Tungsten written by Oliver Sacks and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time—a riveting memoir of his youth and his love affair with science, as unexpected and fascinating as his celebrated case histories. “A rare gem…. Fresh, joyous, wistful, generous, and tough-minded.” —The New York Times Book Review Long before Oliver Sacks became the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals—also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, Sacks chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded. In Uncle Tungsten we meet Sacks’ extraordinary family, from his surgeon mother (who introduces the fourteen-year-old Oliver to the art of human dissection) and his father, a family doctor who imbues in his son an early enthusiasm for housecalls, to his “Uncle Tungsten,” whose factory produces tungsten-filament lightbulbs. We follow the young Oliver as he is exiled at the age of six to a grim, sadistic boarding school to escape the London Blitz, and later watch as he sets about passionately reliving the exploits of his chemical heroes—in his own home laboratory. Uncle Tungsten is a crystalline view of a brilliant young mind springing to life, a story of growing up which is by turns elegiac, comic, and wistful, full of the electrifying joy of discovery.
Download or read book Neil Armstrong Is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me written by Nan Marino and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tender story about a tough-as-nails girl forced to take one small step towards understanding during the summer of 1969. "Muscle Man McGinty is a squirrelly runt, a lying snake, and a pitiful excuse for a ten-year old......the problem is that no one knows it but me. In the entire town of Massapequa Park, only I can see him for what he really is. A phony." Tamara Ann Simpson is determined to expose Muscle Man McGinty, a foster boy new to her neighborhood, for the liar that she knows he is. Muscle Man tells the other kids his uncle is Neil Armstrong and he even has the audacity to challenge the entire block to a kickball game. So, why is Tamara the only one who can see through this kid? It's the summer of 1969 and things are changing in Tamara's little town of Massapequa, Long Island, and in the world. Perhaps Tamara can take one small step towards a bit of compassion and understanding.
Download or read book The Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lost Heir written by George Alfred Henty and published by New York : F.M. Lupton Publishing Company, [189-?]. This book was released on 1899 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this tale of intrigue in India and England, a child who is the sole heir to the fortune of a wealthy Indian Army officer, disappears. The officer, a general, has died, having been murdered, leaving all his earthly goods to the child. But if the child is dead, or cannot be located, the will directs these goods be given to a rogue named Sanderson, who poses as John Simcoe. After many intrigues and adventures, Sanderson is exposed as the murderer, and forger of a false will, and the rightful heir, the child is found.
Download or read book The Impeccable Integrity of Ruby R written by Moni Mohsin and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruby Rauf is an idealistic, industrious scholarship student with a fixed plan. She is going to ace her exams and get a decent job so she never has to suffer the daily degradation of poverty again. Yet, when she meets the compelling actor-turned-politician Saif Haq, her world is upended. Dazzled by his charisma, inspired by his zeal, she quits her degree midway to join his campaign as his social media manager. Ruby soon discovers that politics, even with a leader as upright as Saif Haq, is a moral minefield. Diligent, sincere but desperately naïve, Ruby longs to do the right thing but struggles at first to square her innate integrity with the difficult choices her job demands. As she wades deeper into the quagmire of political intrigue and the savage world of social media, her values grow more flexible, her methods more ruthless. She out-thinks allies and rivals to deliver brilliant results. Resented and admired by her colleagues, favoured by Saif, Ruby appears unstoppable-until one day when Saif asks her to prove her loyalty by making the most painful sacrifice of all. With quicksilver dialogue, shrewd political insight and a thoughtful take on the MeToo debate, this sparkling novel reveals Moni Mohsin on top satirical form.
Download or read book Firkettle s Finest written by Kenneth J. Hall and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its a humorous book set in the present in rural England. Its about a young couple that inherit a small independent brewery hopelessly out of date but with the best water supply for miles around. They know nothing about brewing but inherit along with the plant an old and very wise company retainer and his dog, who have been loyal to the plant and their late uncle since the year dot. The local, large, and very unpleasant soft drink company has their sights set on the brewerys water supply. The couple, learning more about their late uncle, decides to continue the business, to the chagrin of the opposition. Dirty work afoot in the vats.
Download or read book Fraser s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book After the Parade written by Lori Ostlund and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Flannery O'Connor and Rona Jaffe Award winner Lori Ostlund, a deeply moving and beautiful debut novel about a man who leaves his longtime partner in New Mexico for a new life in San Francisco, launching him on a tragicomic road trip and into the mysteries of his own Midwestern childhood. Sensitive, big-hearted, and achingly self-conscious, forty-year-old Aaron Englund long ago escaped the confines of his Midwestern hometown, but he still feels like an outcast. After twenty years under the Pygmalion-like direction of his older partner Walter, Aaron at last decides it is time to stop letting life happen to him and to take control of his own fate. But soon after establishing himself in San Francisco--where he alternates between a shoddy garage apartment and the absurdly ramshackle ESL school where he teaches--Aaron sees that real freedom will not come until he has made peace with his memories of Morton, Minnesota: a cramped town whose four hundred souls form a constellation of Aaron's childhood heartbreaks and hopes. After Aaron's father died in the town parade, it was the larger-than-life misfits of his childhood--sardonic, wheel-chair bound dwarf named Clarence, a generous, obese baker named Bernice, a kindly aunt preoccupied with dreams of The Rapture--who helped Aaron find his place in a provincial world hostile to difference. But Aaron's sense of rejection runs deep: when Aaron was seventeen, Dolores--Aaron's loving, selfish, and enigmatic mother--vanished one night with the town pastor. Aaron hasn't heard from Dolores in more than twenty years, but when a shambolic PI named Bill offers a key to closure, Aaron must confront his own role in his troubled past and rethink his place in a world of unpredictable, life-changing forces. Lori Ostlund's debut novel is an openhearted contemplation of how we grow up and move on, how we can turn our deepest wounds into our greatest strengths. Written with homespun charm and unceasing vitality, After the Parade is a glorious new anthem for the outsider.
Download or read book DARK STAR written by Dennis Durfey and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After completing the mysterious test to become a Grand Magi with her shandar, Jerdone, Zandreena was looking forward to peaceful years of studying to perfect her magic. But fate and a prophecy of old made her leave her home and led her to an adventure and eventful encounter with the fearless Ash’len, the spiritual Danica, and the proud thief Ren, all of whom would play a role in her journey to finding the Orb of the Magi. This immense duty placed in the hands of this young Grand Magi was not welcomed by everyone, and she had to protect not only her life and her friends’ but also her very mission to locate the orb. With the land stripped of its grandeur and serenity due to wars and dark magic, these young men and women must stay together, fight for their lives, and believe that fate would direct them to saving mankind.
Download or read book Collier s Once a Week written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
