Download or read book Luck Loss Laughs written by Raymond Dobson and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any guy raised in the 40s and 50s had to just have a WASPY last name, blue eyes and a degree, any degree. Then, just show up on time, catch the 5:53 home, mow the lawn, cruise through the 60's, 70's, 80's, and on to retirement. Unless of course, you didn't do those things. That would've been me. "A moving target is hard to hit," a Drill Instructor extorted us boots in Parris Island. I knew that already, had always, would always, continue to be a fast-moving target, better yet, a lucky one. So, Dear Reader, hitch hike along with me, back down that ol' memory blacktop; perhaps nudging your own memory, of those; no doubt, often funny, sometimes poignant -- unfortunately -- fading times? Climb under the kindling wood desks of Saint Agnes Catholic Elementary in the 40s, preparing for the inevitable, Russian thermonuclear attack. Join my teen brothers and I, cruising Jersey Shore beaches and Boardwalk dance halls, or with my mates and I, trash talking braggadocio and machismo on the fantail of a Marine troopship or some seedy Carolina, Country Music Roadhouse. Travail back in time on the back of my noisy Harley, the rumble seat or truck bed of a sputtering old V-8. Hitch hike one more time -- across country in in the 60s. Join my original family of eight in the ex-Bootlegger's Limo in the 40s or later, with my own brood of six.in the mandatory, 70s suburban-designate, green and fake wood Country Squire; strewn with kids, pets, plastic trophies and MacDonald wrappers. Sorry not much of my recent times -- will have to wait until those times get downloaded from my short term memory to my long term memory-- the one that still works . . . .
Download or read book Laughs Luck and Lucy written by Jess Oppenheimer and published by Gregg Oppenheimer. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The man Lucille Ball called the brains of I Love Lucy gives us an inside view of television history as it was being made. Jess Oppenheimer's famous sitcom was the most popular and influential television phenomenon in the history of the medium. Forty-five years after its debut, it remains a favourite the world over.
Download or read book A Storied Tour of Florida written by G. Alan Brooks and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen stand-alone short stories that take place in Florida which contain both country yarns and city tales. They include a delightful array of interesting characters; both good people and unsavory scoundrels from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures. Many have a surprise ending with a twist that often changes the readers early opinion of the main participants. The yarns and tales illuminate the diversity of people and places that reach from the Florida panhandle to the keys. The authors view of Florida includes a large rural component with old-fashion country values and customs.
Download or read book Lazarus Laughed written by Eugene O'Neill and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lazarus Laughed is a play by Eugene O'Neill written in 1925. It is a long philosophical meditation with more than a hundred actors making up a masked chorus. The story features characters and events following the raising of Lazarus of Bethany from the dead by Jesus. As Lazarus is the first man to return from the realm of the dead, the crowd reacts intently to his words.
Download or read book Lucky Bastard written by Joe Buck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this New York Times bestselling memoir, the announcer of the biggest sporting events in the country—including the 2017 Super Bowl and this century's most-watched, historic, Chicago Cubs–winning World Series—reveals why he is one lucky bastard. Sports fans see Joe Buck everywhere: broadcasting one of the biggest games in the NFL every week, calling the World Series every year, announcing the Super Bowl every three years. They know his father, Jack Buck, is a broadcasting legend and that he was beloved in his adopted hometown of St. Louis. Yet they have no idea who Joe really is. Or how he got here. They don’t know how he almost blew his career. They haven’t read his funniest and most embarrassing stories or heard about his interactions with the biggest sports stars of this era. They don’t know how hard he can laugh at himself—or that he thinks some of his critics have a point. And they don’t know what it was really like to grow up in his father’s shadow. Joe and Jack were best friends, but it wasn’t that simple. Jack, the voice of the St. Louis Cardinals for almost fifty years, helped Joe get his broadcasting start at eighteen. But Joe had to prove himself, first as a minor league radio announcer and then on local TV, national TV with ESPN, and then finally on FOX. He now has a successful, Emmy-winning career, but only after a lot of dues-paying, learning, and pretty damn entertaining mistakes that are recounted in this book. In his memoir, Joe takes us through his life on and off the field. He shares the lessons he learned from his father, the errors he made along the way, and the personal mountain he climbed and conquered, all of which have truly made him a Lucky Bastard.
Download or read book Lucky Southern Women written by Susannah Eanes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rural landscape entwines around the lives and loves of two strong, complex yet troubled women, in beautiful contrast to the beliefs they absorbed as children. Only in moving beyond the past can they forge a way ahead not only for themselves, but for their loved ones. In so doing, each finds something vital that will give them the power and resilience they need to meet the greatest challenge of all. Religious belief and personal history wars with sanity and wisdom in this first novel of love, freedom, and the strength of friendship. Susannah Eanes explores the deep mysticism of family history, deception, and forgiveness in the tale of two women who are forced to confront the legacy of their youth, set in the deep south of the last decades of the twentieth century, and written in the unique language and viewpoints of the characters themselves.
Download or read book Master of Ways of World written by Feng SuiYuan and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The entire world had changed. Demons, monsters, ghosts, monsters, monsters, and monsters were rampant! An ordinary youth had stepped onto the path of defying the heavens! The first natives were furious, and the gods left Shang! Who was the chess player and who was the chess piece? Looking at the tens of thousands of struggles, I wield the Heaven's Pride Dao! This is a novel with a new theme. Please enjoy it slowly.
Download or read book Lost Laughter written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned for his lavish lifestyle and a roving eye, the handsome Valient, Viscount Ockley, is completely bowled over by the stunning heiress Niobe Barrington. But it is not just for her dazzling beauty that he pursues her with such ardour for, although he lives like a King, it is all on credit. In reality he is all but bankrupt and is facing the horror and squalor of the Fleet Prison for debtors and only by marrying into money can he hope to save himself and restore his ruined house to its former glory. But Niobe’s father, Sir Aylmer Barrington, will not hear of it and so arranges for Niobe to marry the ‘old and horrid’ Marquis of Porthcawl! When Niobe breaks this unwelcome news to him, the Viscount storms from her house in a rage and threatens to marry the first woman he meets rather than let anyone know that Niobe has totally humiliated him. As he drives away in his phaeton, he meets the woman he will soon marry – an eighteen year old beauty who has stowed away under a blanket at his feet. It is Niobe’s cousin, Jemima Barrington, who is fleeing the abuse and beatings she constantly suffers at Sir Aylmer’s hands. And so in a sudden marriage of convenience the ‘wrong’ Miss Barrington becomes the new Viscountess Ockley causing outrage and consternation amongst all but Jemima, who is already deeply in love with the Viscount. The question of the moment is will the Viscount ever overcome his love for her cousin?
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Download or read book Vacationland written by Sarah Stonich and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a lake in northernmost Minnesota, you might find Naledi Lodge—only two cabins still standing, its pathways now trodden mostly by memories. And there you might meet Meg, or the ghost of the girl she was, growing up under her grandfather’s care in a world apart and a lifetime ago. Now an artist, Meg paints images “reflected across the mirrors of memory and water,” much as the linked stories of Vacationland cast shimmering spells across distance and time. Those whose paths have crossed at Naledi inhabit Vacationland: a man from nearby Hatchet Inlet who knew Meg back when, a Sarajevo refugee sponsored by two parishes who can’t afford “their own refugee,” aged sisters traveling to fulfill a fateful pact once made at the resort, a philandering ad man, a lonely Ojibwe stonemason, and a haiku-spouting girl rescued from a bog. Sarah Stonich, whose work has been described as “unexpected and moving” by the Chicago Tribune and “a well-paced feast” by the Los Angeles Times, weaves these tales of love and loss, heartbreak and redemption into a rich novel of interconnected and disjointed lives. Vacationland is a moving portrait of a place—at once timeless and of the moment, composed of conflicting dreams and shared experience—and of the woman bound to it by legacy and sometimes longing, but not necessarily by choice.
Download or read book It s Better to Laugh written by Kathy Levine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She's the undisputed queen of televised shopping. Now everyone's favorite TV girlfriend tells the story of her life in an engaging and candid autobiography that holds nothing back. Here's Kathy as her fans have always wanted to know her. Find out all about QVC--on and off camera, the celebrities she's met and what they're really like, Kathy's romantic ups and downs, and much more.
Download or read book Waverley Novels written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Waverley novels Library ed written by sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shouting Horseman written by Alan Watkins-Groves and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-04-25 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nina is serious trainee teacher, a science expert and a socialist. Her biggest hate is all forms of warfare. She takes her political views onto the streets in demonstrations during the late 1960s. Alex is a professional soldier, a sniper and believes everyone should stand on their own two feet. He thinks people who aren't satisfied with the world the way it is a lazy Bolshie. When you put them together the unexpected happens. They fall in love. But just as Alex gradually comes around to Nina's point of view and begins to question his chosen profession, she becomes frustrated with the tactics of the infamous Special Patrol Group and decides to fight back. What happens next is strange and unexpected as we are led through covert military operations, international terrorist attacks and shadowy back room deals with powerful people whose real identities are never known. Can their love survive?
Download or read book Waverley Novels Anne of Ceierstein written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Illustrated Waverley Novels written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anne of Geierstein written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
