Download or read book The Lonely Heart of Maybelle Lane written by Kate O'Shaughnessy and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maybelle Lane is looking for her father, but on the road to Nashville she finds so much more: courage, brains, heart--and true friends. Eleven-year-old Maybelle Lane collects sounds. She records the Louisiana crickets chirping, Momma strumming her guitar, their broken trailer door squeaking. But the crown jewel of her collection is a sound she didn't collect herself: an old recording of her daddy's warm-sunshine laugh, saved on an old phone's voicemail. It's the only thing she has of his, and the only thing she knows about him. Until the day she hears that laugh--his laugh--pouring out of the car radio. Going against Momma's wishes, Maybelle starts listening to her radio DJ daddy's new show, drinking in every word like a plant leaning toward the sun. When he announces he'll be the judge of a singing contest in Nashville, she signs up. What better way to meet than to stand before him and sing with all her heart? But the road to Nashville is bumpy. Her starch-stiff neighbor Mrs. Boggs offers to drive her in her RV. And a bully of a boy from the trailer park hitches a ride, too. These are not the people May would have chosen to help her, but it turns out they're searching for things as well. And the journey will mold them into the best kind of family--the kind you choose for yourself.
Download or read book Predicting the Markets of Tomorrow written by James P. O'Shaughnessy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and timely new wealth-building strategy from a legendary investment guru In his national bestsellers How to Retire Rich and What Works on Wall Street, portfolio manager extraordinaire James P. O’Shaughnessy offered investors practical advice based on rigorous quantitative analysis—advice that has consistently beaten the market. But in a recent analysis of market data, O’Shaughnessy uncovered some astonishing trends not discussed in his previous books. The Markets of Tomorrow explains O’Shaughnessy’s new research and tells ordinary investors what they must do now to revamp their portfolios. According to O’Shaughnessy, the year 2000 marked the end of a twenty-year cycle that was dominated by the stocks of larger, fastergrowing companies like those in the S&P 500. In the new cycle, the stocks of small and midsize companies are the ones that will outperform the market, along with large company value stocks and intermediate term bonds. O’Shaughnessy describes the number crunching behind his analysis and then shows individual investors exactly how to select the right mix of investments and pick top-performing small and midcap stocks. The Markets of Tomorrow is a loud and clear call to action for every investor who doesn’t want to be left behind.
Download or read book The New Rules for Investing Now written by James P. O'Shaughnessy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investment guru and author of What Works on Wall Street and How to Retire Rich introduces timely new investment strategies and wealth-building techniques for an uncertain new era of global economics. Originally published as Predicting the Markets of Tomorrow. Reprint.
Download or read book Perfect Strangers New York City Street Photographs Signed Edition written by and published by Aperture Direct. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last seven years, Melissa O'Shaughnessy has photographed daily on the streets of New York. As one of a growing number of women street photographers contributing to this dynamic genre, O'Shaughnessy enters the territory with clarity and a distinctly humanist eye, offering a refreshing addition to the tradition of street photography. Through her curious and quirky vision, we witness the play of human activity on the glittering sidewalks of the city. Woven into her cast of characters are the lonely, the soulful, and the proud. She has fallen for them all--perfect strangers.
Download or read book The Men Who Lost America written by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questioning popular belief, a historian and re-examines what exactly led to the British Empire’s loss of the American Revolution. The loss of America was an unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the British dimension of the war, historian Andrew O’Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were able to achieve their surprising victory. In interlinked biographical chapters, the author follows the course of the war from the perspectives of King George III, Prime Minister Lord North, military leaders including General Burgoyne, the Earl of Sandwich, and others who, for the most part, led ably and even brilliantly. Victories were frequent, and in fact the British conquered every American city at some stage of the Revolutionary War. Yet roiling political complexities at home, combined with the fervency of the fighting Americans, proved fatal to the British war effort. The book concludes with a penetrating assessment of the years after Yorktown, when the British achieved victories against the French and Spanish, thereby keeping intact what remained of the British Empire. “A remarkable book about an important but curiously underappreciated subject: the British side of the American Revolution. With meticulous scholarship and an eloquent writing style, O'Shaughnessy gives us a fresh and compelling view of a critical aspect of the struggle that changed the world.”—Jon Meacham, author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Download or read book Show No Fear written by Perri O'Shaughnessy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Future intrepid lawyer Nina Reilly makes her way through law school by working as a paralegal, an endeavor that is challenged by an ex-boyfriend's custody battle, her mother's failing health, and a suspicious suicide.
Download or read book Invest Like the Best written by James P. O'Shaughnessy and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1994 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Now, complete access to the lucrative investment strategies of today's stock market aces is only a keystroke away. With this remarkable book and disk, you'll easily uncover the stock-picking strategies of the nation's top money managers and learn how to use your computer to emulate the portfolios of Wall Street's wizards in your stock trading." "Invest Like The Best shows you how to pattern your investment program on the methods of today's legendary stock pickers, from Peter Lynch to John Templeton. It does so by marrying James O'Shaughnessy's pioneering quantitative investing techniques with the data crunching power of Value Line's Value/Screen III investment software." "In minutes, you'll learn how to configure your PC to analyze and emulate the investing style of the money manager(s) of your choice. You'll discover which quantitative core factors - cash position, P/E ratio, safety rank, yield, book value, and more - the pros rely on to consistently pinpoint and select the top stocks. And you'll gain strategic insights into how their specific investing styles - from growth to value - impact their performance. More, you'll see exactly which factors consistently show up in top managers' portfolios and how to use them to beat the street." "From here, Invest Like the Best offers step-by-step guidelines and helpful templates for building simple, stable, reliable computer-based stock-picking models based on the masters' standards. Illustrative graphs and solid, concrete advice help you assess your strategy's variability and risk-adjusted return, then closely monitor its ongoing performance. For exceptional results, you'll create a hybrid investing strategy that combines the best elements of various money managers' styles - and outperforms them all." "Before you make your next investment decision, turn to Invest Like the Best and discover how to choose the optimum stock-picking strategies that fall within your risk-tolerance; identify and avoid a bad money manager before you commit your assets; diversify against an investment style falling out of favor and to lower overall portfolio risks; determine if your current mutual fund is changing its investment style, for better or worse; and systematically analyze stock market advice from any source - be it a mutual fund, newsletter, book, or broker." "Invest Like the Best is for every computerized investor who craves the winning edge of high returns and reduced investment risk. By enabling you to analyze and duplicate the profit-driven strategies of today's stock market gurus, it delivers the performance advantage you need to pick portfolios that consistently tear up the market."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book The Octopus Museum written by Brenda Shaughnessy and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, this collection of bold and scathingly beautiful feminist poems imagines what comes after our current age of environmental destruction, racism, sexism, and divisive politics. Informed as much by Brenda Shaughnessy's worst fears as a mother as they are by her superb craft as a poet, the poems in The Octopus Museum blaze forth from her pen: in these pages, we see that what was once a generalized fear for our children is now hyper-reasonable, specific, and multiple: school shootings, nuclear attack, loss of health care, a polluted planet. As Shaughnessy conjures our potential future, she movingly (and often with humor) envisions an age where cephalopods might rule over humankind, a fate she suggests we may just deserve after destroying their oceans. These heartbreaking, terrified poems are the battle cry of a woman who is fighting for the survival of the world she loves, and a stirring exhibition of who we are as a civilization.
Download or read book So Much Synth written by Brenda Shaughnessy and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shaughnessy's particular genius . . . is utterly poetic, but essayistic in scope."—The New Yorker "Brenda Shaughnessy's work is a good place to start for any passionate woman feeling daunted by poetry." —Cosmopolitan "Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy."—Harvard Review Subversions of idiom and cliché punctuate Shaughnessy's fourth collection as she approaches middle age and revisits the memories, romances, and music of adolescence. So Much Synth is a brave and ferocious collection composed of equal parts femininity, pain, pleasure, and synthesizer. While Shaughnessy tenderly winces at her youthful excesses, we humbly catch glimpses of our own. From "Never Ever": Late is a synonym for dead which is a euphemism for ever. Ever is a double-edged word, at once itself and its own opposite: always and always some other time. In the category of cleave, then. To cut and to cling to, somewhat mournfully… Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan and grew up in Southern California. She is the author of three books of poetry, including Human Dark with Sugar, winner of the James Laughlin Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Our Andromeda, which was a New York Times Book Review "100 Notable Books of 2013." She is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Download or read book Millennial Money written by Patrick O'Shaughnessy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A motivating book to inspire Millennials to invest now for their future
Download or read book An Empire Divided written by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were 26—not 13—British colonies in America in 1776. Of these, the six colonies in the Caribbean—Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands, Grenada and Tobago, St. Vincent; and Dominica—were among the wealthiest. These island colonies were closely related to the mainland by social ties and tightly connected by trade. In a period when most British colonists in North America lived less than 200 miles inland and the major cities were all situated along the coast, the ocean often acted as a highway between islands and mainland rather than a barrier. The plantation system of the islands was so similar to that of the southern mainland colonies that these regions had more in common with each other, some historians argue, than either had with New England. Political developments in all the colonies moved along parallel tracks, with elected assemblies in the Caribbean, like their mainland counterparts, seeking to increase their authority at the expense of colonial executives. Yet when revolution came, the majority of the white island colonists did not side with their compatriots on the mainland. A major contribution to the history of the American Revolution, An Empire Divided traces a split in the politics of the mainland and island colonies after the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765-66, when the colonists on the islands chose not to emulate the resistance of the patriots on the mainland. Once war came, it was increasingly unpopular in the British Caribbean; nonetheless, the white colonists cooperated with the British in defense of their islands. O'Shaughnessy decisively refutes the widespread belief that there was broad backing among the Caribbean colonists for the American Revolution and deftly reconstructs the history of how the island colonies followed an increasingly divergent course from the former colonies to the north.
Download or read book Francona written by Terry Francona and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francona explores his tenure in Boston, examining how the beleaguered Red Sox reached incredible highs and equally incredible lows under his management, including several championship victories.
Download or read book Wish It Lasted Forever written by Dan Shaughnessy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on unprecedented access and personal experiences that would not be possible for any reporter today, Shaughnessy takes us inside the legendary Larry Bird-led Celtics teams, capturing the camaraderie as they rose to dominate the NBA. Fans can witness the cockiness of Larry Bird (who once walked into an All Star Weekend locker room, announced that he was going to win the three-point contest, and did); the ageless athleticism of Robert Parish; the shooting skills of Kevin McHale; the fierce, self-sacrificing play of Bill Walton; and the playful humor of players like Danny Ainge, Cedric Cornbread Maxwell, and M.L. Carr."--
Download or read book Senior Year written by Dan Shaughnessy and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author chronicles his son's senior year of high school baseball, the boy's obsession with and talent for sports, and his efforts to keep his grades up while deciding what college to attend and avoiding problems until graduation.
Download or read book At Fenway written by Dan Shaughnessy and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the sports classic "The Curse of the Bambino" relates the history and lore of one of the world's most celebrated sports franchises, the Boston Red Sox, and their beloved and venerable home, Fenway Park.
Download or read book Walking on Alligators written by Susan Shaughnessy and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1993-03-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A daily motivator for people who write--and for all those who long to write--providing an insistent wake-up call for the creative urge, with insights on how to work against resistance, live with the loneliness, develop discipline, and dare to take deeper risks in their work.
Download or read book Captain O Shaughnessy s Sporting Career written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
