Download or read book Lucky Penny written by Ananth Hirsh and published by Oni Press. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Penny Brighton didn't have bad luck, she'd have no luck at all. She lost her job. And her apartment. In the same day. But it's okay, her friend has a cozy storage unit she can crash in. And there's bound to be career opportunities at the neighborhood laundromat—just look how fast that 12-year-old who runs the place made it to management! Plus, there's this sweet guy at the community center, and maybe Penny can even have a conversation with him without being a total dork. Surely Penny is a capable of becoming an actual responsible adult, and if she can do that her luck’s bound to change! Right?
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Television Series Pilots and Specials written by Vincent Terrace and published by VNR AG. This book was released on 1986 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Luckiest Penny written by Deborah Jean Weed and published by . This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully illustrated children's book helps to start the conversation about what is really valuable in life. One rare, pure copper penny thinks that everybody wants to be like him, because he is worth a lot of money. The other rare penny is not afraid to get dirty and has had a lifetime of adventures.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Television Subjects Themes and Settings written by Vincent Terrace and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-10-17 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of 80 years television has produced countless programs, many of which fit a particular profile. Did you know, for example, some programs are devoted to ghosts, genies, angels and even mermaids? Color broadcasting was first tested in 1941? Live models were used to advertise lingerie as early as 1950? Or that nudity (although accidental) occurred on TV long before cable was even thought possible? These are just a few of the many facts and firsts that can be found within the 145 entries included. Appropriate for fans and scholars, and bursting with obscure facts, this work traces the evolution of specific topics from 1925 through the 2005-2006 season. Entries include such diverse themes as adolescence, adult film actresses on TV, bars, espionage, gays, immigrants, lawyers, transsexuals and truckers, as well as locations like Canada, Hawaii, New York and Los Angeles. Each entry is arranged as a timeline, clearly displaying how television's treatment of the subject has changed through the years. Each entry is as complete as possible and contains series, pilot, special and experimental program information. Whether just a fan of television and eager to know more about the medium or a scholar seeking hard-to-find facts and information, this book traces the history of specific topics from television's infancy to its changes in the early twenty-first century.
Download or read book Angelina Ballerina written by and published by HIT Entertainment. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Lucky Penny," Angelina decides there's no need to practice for an important audition after finding a lucky penny--unfortunately, she loses the penny the night before the big audition.
Download or read book Anfernee Hardaway written by Brad Townsend and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 1997 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biography of the professional basketball player whose versatility on the court helps make his team, the Orlando Magic, one of the best in the league.
Download or read book Angelina s Lucky Penny written by Katharine Holabird and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-09-07 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angelina really truly wants the lead role in the new ballet, but she just can’t get her steps right. She works extra hard to perfect her moves until she finds a lucky penny— and decides she doesn’t need to practice anymore. But will her luck hold out?
Download or read book The Luck Penny written by John Maher and published by Brandon Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Luck Penny' is a tale of a man and a woman and the secret scriptures of the dead. It is a tale of coming to terms with that tragedy of tragedies - the death of a child.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Television Shows 1925 through 2010 2d ed written by Vincent Terrace and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 1331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully updated and expanded edition covers over 10,200 programs, making it the most comprehensive documentation of television programs ever published. In addition to covering the standard network and cable entertainment genres, the book also covers programs generally not covered elsewhere in print (or even online), including Internet series, aired and unaired pilot films, erotic series, gay and lesbian series, risque cartoons and experimental programs from 1925 through 1945.
Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1979-02-03 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Download or read book My Mother was Nuts written by Penny Marshall and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From her humble roots in the Bronx to Laverne and Shirley and her unlikely ascent in Hollywood, the beloved actor and director tells the story of her incredible life.
Download or read book Merry Cowboy Christmas written by Carolyn Brown and published by Forever. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Christmas, Santa's wearing a Stetson in this "sweet and funny" USA Today bestselling romance filled with holiday cheer and "a captivating cast of characters" (Publishers Weekly). Tis the night before Christmas and all through the house is the presence of one wickedly hot cowboy who's come to stay for the holiday. Fiona Logan is downright shocked to return to her childhood home and find that the tall blond stranger who came to her rescue on an icy road will be sleeping just across the hall from her bedroom. Talk about temptation . . . Jud Dawson never believed the Lucky Penny Ranch would live up to its name until now. Fiona is gorgeous, smart, funny, and everything he thought he'd never find. Now all he has to do is convince her to stick around town instead of hightailing it back to Houston. But with wild weather, nosy neighbors, and a new baby in the family, getting her to admit that she's falling in love might just take a Christmas miracle.
Download or read book Report to the Public written by California State Lottery and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Television Series of the 1980s written by Vincent Terrace and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Television screens in the 1980s reflected some of the most memorable programs of all time. In that decade, such critically acclaimed shows as Cheers, The Golden Girls, Hill Street Blues, Newhart, and St. Elsewhere debuted. In that same decade, iconic shows like The A-Team, Baywatch, Cagney & Lacey, Knight Rider, MacGyver,Miami Vice, and Roseanne appealed to millions of viewers. Even after these shows departed the airwaves, they live on in syndication and on DVDs, entertaining many generations of viewers. In Television Series of the 1980s: Essential Facts and Quirky Details, Vincent Terrace presents readers with a cornucopia of information about more than seventy programs from the decade. For example, did you know that Sam Malone had an ex-wife named Deborah? Or that MacGyver’s alias was Dexter Fillmore? Or Dan Fielding’s license plate on Night Court read “Hot to Trot”? These are just a handful of hundreds of fun and intriguing specifics found inside this volume. Programs from all four major networks (ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC)—as well as select syndicated programs—are represented here. This is not a book of opinions or essays about specific television programs but a treasure trove of facts associated with each show. Fromthe name of Roseanne’s diner to the title of Jessica Fletcher’s first novel, readers will discover a wealth of fascinating information that, for the most part, cannot be found elsewhere. In some cases, the factual data detailed herein is the only such documentation that currently exists on bygone shows of the era. Television Series of the 1980s is the ideal reference for fans of this decade and anyone looking to stump even the most knowledgeable trivia expert.
Download or read book Why written by Samantha Kleinberg and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can drinking coffee help people live longer? What makes a stock’s price go up? Why did you get the flu? Causal questions like these arise on a regular basis, but most people likely have not thought deeply about how to answer them. This book helps you think about causality in a structured way: What is a cause, what are causes good for, and what is compelling evidence of causality? Author Samantha Kleinberg shows you how to develop a set of tools for thinking more critically about causes. You’ll learn how to question claims, identify causes, make decisions based on causal information, and verify causes through further tests. Whether it’s figuring out what data you need, or understanding that the way you collect and prepare data affects the conclusions you can draw from it, Why will help you sharpen your causal inference skills.
Download or read book On Television and Comedy written by Barry Putterman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1995 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Television comedy traces its roots to vaudeville, radio and film, from which it developed its own unique forms to make the audience laugh. These styles became industry standards: the so-called traditional forms of variety shows and situation comedies. In recent years modern comedy--nighttime variety shows, adult programs, stand-up acts, British imports, parody shows, for instance--have gained increasing acceptance, with these innovative forms bringing an artistry often lost under the traditional formats.These thirteen essays trace the history of television comedy from the genius of Jack Benny, Sid Caesar, Milton Berle, Ed Sullivan and Lucille Ball to the antics of ALF, Martin Mull, Julie Brown and the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. Emphasis is placed on the development and artistry of the genre as evidenced in shows such as Dobie Gillis, Green Acres, Newhart, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Bewitched.
Download or read book Internet Children s Television Series 1997 2015 written by Vincent Terrace and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created around the world and available only on the web, internet "television" series are independently produced, mostly low budget shows that often feature talented but unknown performers. Typically financed through crowd-funding, they are filmed with borrowed equipment and volunteer casts and crews, and viewers find them through word of mouth or by chance. The fifth in a series focusing on the largely undocumented world of internet TV, this book covers 573 children's series created for viewers 3 to 14. The genre includes a broad range of cartoons, CGI, live-action comedies and puppetry. Alphabetical entries provide websites, dates, casts, credits, episode lists and storylines.
