Download or read book Act Like You Got Some Sense written by Jamie Foxx and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Academy Award-winning multi-talent Jamie Foxx, a hilariously candid look at the joys and pitfalls of being the father of two daughters. Jamie Foxx has won an Academy Award and a Grammy Award, laughed with sitting presidents, and partied with the biggest names in hip-hop. But he is most proud of his role as father to two very independent young women, Corinne and Anelise. Jamie might not always know what he’s doing when it comes to raising girls—especially when they talk to him about TikTok (PlikPlok?) and don’t share his enthusiasm for flashy Rolls Royces—but he does his best to show up for them every single day. Luckily, he has a strong example to follow: his beloved late grandmother, Estelle Marie Talley. Jamie learned everything he knows about parenting from the fierce woman who raised him: As he puts it, she’s “Madea before Tyler Perry put on the pumps and the gray wig.” In Act Like You Got Some Sense—a title inspired by Estelle—Jamie shares up close and personal stories about the tough love and old-school values he learned growing up in the small town of Terrell, Texas; his early days trying to make it in Hollywood; the joys and challenges of achieving stardom; and how each phase of his life shaped his parenting journey. Hilarious, poignant, and always brutally honest, this is Jamie Foxx like we’ve never seen him before.

Download or read book Sunday Hostages written by Claire Zuckerman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking self-fulfillment as an artist, Lila Brandt flees her abusive husband, Aaron, and moves to Greenwich Village in the 1930's with her two young daughters. On Aaron's Sunday visits, Estelle, aged nine, guides five-year-old Floss across the no-man's-land between their warring parents. A devoted but impractical mother, Lila faces obstacles with courage, optimism, and a gift for sugar-coating reality. A job on the WPA Art Project brings her dream within reach. Alienated by Aaron's vindictive behavior, the girls make friends with Bill Dobbs. His departure for Spain with the Lincoln Brigade leaves them and Lila bereft. Julio Delgado, a constant visitor-and like Lila, a newly-unemployed mural artist-seduces her with talk of a life in art while warring with Floss and Estelle. Made desperate by many personal losses and fearful of the future, Lila makes an impulsive decision that has devastating consequences for both her and her daughters. Estelle's college sweetheart, Barry Gabriel, has gone off to war. She must be both mother and father to Floss as they struggle to survive. Years later, their story comes full circle.

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Download or read book Cities in Flight written by James Blish and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2005-01-04 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Hugo Award–winning author, the classic millennia-spanning epic in one volume: “A wholly new concept of the far future.” —The New York Times Originally published in four volumes, Cities in Flight brings together the famed “Okie novels” of science fiction master James Blish. Named after the migrant workers of America’s Dust Bowl, these novels convey Blish’s “history of the future,” a brilliant and bleak look at a world where cities roam the Galaxy looking for work and a sustainable way of life. In the first novel, They Shall Have Stars, humankind has thoroughly explored the solar system, yet the dream of going even farther seems to have died in all but one man. His battle to realize his dream results in two momentous discoveries: anti-gravity and the secret of immortality. In A Life for the Stars, it is centuries later and antigravity generations have enabled whole cities to lift off the surface of the earth to become galactic wanderers. In Earthman, Come Home, the nomadic cities revert to barbarism and marauding rogue cities begin to pose a threat to all civilized worlds. In the final novel, The Triumph of Time, history repeats itself as the cities once again journey back into space, making a terrifying discovery which could destroy the entire universe. A serious and haunting vision of our world and its limits, Cities in Flight marks a milestone in science fiction. “Compelling . . . If you haven’t read this yet, I envy you. Blish’s cities will fly through your dreams.” —Stephen Baxter “In a century that brimmed with human short-sightedness, James Blish was one of the very first genuine visionaries of a new millennium.” —David Brin

Download or read book Jewish American Literature written by Jules Chametzky and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Jewish-American literature written by various authors between 1656 and 1990.

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Download or read book The Child in the Mirror written by Darnail and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CRISTIANISMO PARA TODOS, le ofrece una colección de temas bíblicos buscando fortalecer la fe de los creyentes, y favoreciendo la adquieran los que no la tienen. Temas que dan respuestas a importantes preguntas: ¿La felicidad, qué es y dónde se encuentra? ¿Cómo alcanzar el exito? ¿Las dificultades, cómo vecerlas? ¿Dónde está Dios cuando lo necesitamos? Uno libro fácil de leer y útil para cuelquier persona, insentivando un despertar espiritual positivo, algo que todos necesitamos.

Download or read book Up Over Down Under written by Micol Ostow and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A super-special S.A.S.S. exchange novel offers romance in the land down under?and right here in the U.S.?when two exchange students swap places! Eliza Ritter has high expectations for her semester in Melbourne, Australia. Sure, she?s participating in an environmental program, but really she hopes to spend her time meeting cute boys. So when she meets a hot surfer, she is thrilled! Aussie Billie Echols, on the other hand, actually does have an interest in the environmental program she?s signed up for in Washington, D.C. But the States are nothing like she expected, and soon Billie is caught in the middle of an unexpected controversy. Being an exchange student gets a whole new meaning in this first-ever SASS book of its kind.

Download or read book Never Victorious Never Defeated written by Taylor Caldwell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller: A sprawling epic of an American railroad dynasty’s “sensational intrigues and stormy struggles for power” (The New York Times Book Review). Founded in Portersville, Pennsylvania, in the latter days of Andrew Jackson’s presidency, the Interstate is a small regional railroad with vast potential. Also, it is the birthright of Aaron deWitt’s sons: ruthless yet charming Rufus and stubborn, idealistic Stephen. When Stephen wins control of the Interstate, his victory starts a series of events that will roil the deWitt family for generations. Over decades, the Interstate grows into an enterprise capable of shaping the future of the nation. Yet, both its triumphs and defeats sow the seeds of the deWitt family’s downfall. Brothers plot against brothers, sons demean fathers, wives betray husbands—all in pursuit of monumental power. Not even Cornelia, Rufus’s beautiful and cunning daughter, can ensure that the deWitt family name won’t disappear. Spanning nearly a century, Never Victorious, Never Defeated is a brilliant dramatization of the lives of America’s robber barons and further proof that Taylor Caldwell “never falters when it comes to storytelling” (Publishers Weekly).

Download or read book The Twin Mirrors written by J. Lennington and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Walters thought she had everything she ever wanted until it all came crashing down around her. It had to be "The Pickett Curse". Nana and her family were cursed by her twin sister, Carrie, to live unhappy lives before Carrie hung herself in the barn. Rachel believed in the curse until she gazed into Carrie's wedding mirror at the reflection of Nana in an identical mirror built for Nana on her wedding day. Rachel suddenly found herself in The Valley of the Dead Trees when Nana and Carrie were mere children. Rachel was soon to learn that all was not as she had been led to believe.

Download or read book Hometown Legend written by Jerry B. Jenkins and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athens City, Alabama, is a town that lost its heart the day the high school football team lost the state championship and suffered a tragedy. Since that night, the town that once enjoyed superstar status has fallen on hard times. Now, years later, the former coach returns to head up one final season aided by a local who tells the story with a fresh voice. Together, they fight Goliath and learn that love and reconciliation are more important than winning ever could be.

Download or read book The Complete Works written by E. Phillips Oppenheim and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 18177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and meticulously edited collection of E. Phillips Oppenheim's greatest works includes:_x000D_ NOVELS_x000D_ The Great Impersonation_x000D_ The Double Traitor_x000D_ The Battle Of Basinghall Street_x000D_ Murder At Monte Carlo_x000D_ The Yellow House_x000D_ The Black Box_x000D_ The Devil's Paw_x000D_ A Maker Of History_x000D_ The New Tenant_x000D_ Mr. Grex Of Monte Carlo_x000D_ A Monk Of Cruta_x000D_ The Cinema Murder_x000D_ A Modern Prometheus_x000D_ Exit A Dictator_x000D_ The Yellow Crayon_x000D_ The Wrath To Come_x000D_ The Grassleyes Mystery_x000D_ The Golden Beast_x000D_ The Dumb Gods Speak_x000D_ The Peer And The Woman_x000D_ To Win The Love He Sought_x000D_ False Evidence_x000D_ Master Of Sinister House_x000D_ Mr. Marx's Secret_x000D_ The Great Secret_x000D_ The Man Who Changed His Plea_x000D_ The Double Life Of Mr Alfred Burton _x000D_ The Amazing Judgment_x000D_ The Postmaster Of Market Deignton_x000D_ Mysterious Mr. Sabin_x000D_ A Millionaire Of Yesterday_x000D_ The World's Great Snare_x000D_ Enoch Strone_x000D_ The Great Awakening_x000D_ The Survivor_x000D_ The Traitors_x000D_ A Prince Of Sinners_x000D_ Anna The Adventuress_x000D_ The Master Mummer_x000D_ The Betrayal_x000D_ The Malefactor_x000D_ A Lost Leader . . ._x000D_ SHORT STORIES & COLLECTIONS_x000D_ Peter Ruff And The Double Four_x000D_ Michael's Evil Deeds_x000D_ The Tiger On The Mountains_x000D_ The Seven Conundrums_x000D_ False Gods_x000D_ The Money-Spider_x000D_ The Girl From Manchester_x000D_ The Road To Liberty_x000D_ One Luckless Hour_x000D_ One Shall Be Taken_x000D_ No Questions Asked_x000D_ The Actor's Romance_x000D_ A Prince Of Gamblers_x000D_ The Siren Of The Madrid_x000D_ And Still I Cheat The Gallows_x000D_ The Little Grey Lady_x000D_ The Restless Traveller_x000D_ The Café Régal, The Mistral And The Lady_x000D_ The Three Thieves_x000D_ General Besserley's Puzzle Box_x000D_ The Amazing Partnership_x000D_ The Human Chase_x000D_ Nicholas Goade, Detective . . ._x000D_ REMINISCENCES & MEMOIRS_x000D_ The Prince Of Storytellers Tells His Own Story_x000D_ ..._x000D_ E. Phillips Oppenheim, the Prince of Storytellers (1866-1946) was an internationally renowned author of mystery and espionage thrillers. His novels and short stories have all the elements of blood-racing adventure and intrigue and are precursors of modern-day spy fictions.

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Download or read book Eleven Days in Hell written by William T. Harper and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation "The 1974 Fred Gomez Carrasco prison siege at Huntsville, TX.".

Download or read book California Summer written by Anita Hughes and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her husband has an affair, Rosie decides to take a break from Los Angeles and the movie business and spend the summer with friends far away from the Hollywood scene.

Download or read book Sweet Talk written by Jackie Merritt and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rumor's beloved animal doctor, Valerie Fairchild, had always taken care of herself. She'd survived cancer and a haunting trauma in her youth—alone. And she didn't need a relationship with the town's fire chief, Reed Kingsley—but somehow she couldn't ignore the flames he set off whenever he was near! Reed was used to getting what he wanted—and he wanted Val, tragic secrets and all. Because the beautiful spitfire had been on his mind for months, in spite of the icy barrier she kept between herself and the world. Could this town hero melt Val's resistance to the healing fire of their passion?

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