Download or read book Starring Peter and Leigh written by Susan Beth Pfeffer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leigh trades in her acting career to play a starring role in her own life Most people don’t get to retire at age sixteen, but that’s what Leigh is planning to do when she moves to Long Island to live with her mom and her new stepfather. Leigh has been acting all her life, most recently on a successful TV show, and she can’t wait to be the kind of normal high school student she’s only ever played on screen. For advice on playing the role of a normal teenager, Leigh turns to her new stepbrother, Peter. Peter has hemophilia, a medical condition that has kept him out of school for a while—but missing out on high school life has given him a good eye for what normal looks like. Together, they figure two outsiders can create one socially successful high school student. They might even be right. Peter is smart, wryly funny, and a good friend when he’s not being a bad invalid. And Leigh knows she can do it—after all, acting is what she’s good at. But the thing about acting is that at the end of the day you get to go back to being yourself, a luxury Leigh starts to think she might not have appreciated enough when she had it.
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Download or read book Starring Peter and Leigh written by Susan Beth Pfeffer and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her mother remarries, 16-year-old Leigh abandons her acting career and tries to lead the life of a normal teenager. She is coached by her 17-year-old stepbrother, homebound with hemophilia.
Download or read book The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors written by Bernard A. Drew and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-10-15 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on individuals writing in the '90s, but also includes 12 classic authors (e.g., Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, J.R.R. Tolkien) who are still widely read by teens. It also covers some authors known primarily for adult literature (e.g., Stephen King) and some who write mainly for middle readers but are also popular among young adults (e.g., Betsy Byars). An affordable alternative to multivolume publications, this book makes a great collection development tool and resource for author studies. It will also help readers find other books by and about their favorite writers.
Download or read book The Films of Mike Leigh written by Raymond Carney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carney examines one of the most important directors of British independent filmmaking.
Download or read book Reframing Vivien Leigh written by Lisa Stead and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reframing Vivien Leigh takes a new look at the laboring life one of the twentieth century's most iconic stars. Author Lisa Stead reframes the dominant narratives that have surrounded Leigh's life and career, offering a new perspective on Vivien Leigh as a distinctly archival subject. The book examines the collections and curatorial practices that have built up around her, exploring material documents collated by her own hand and by those who worked with her. The book also examines the collection practices of those who have developed deep, long-standing fandoms of her life and work. To do so, the book draws upon new oral history work with curators, archivists and fan collectives and examines a variety of archived correspondence, items of dress and costume, script annotations, photography, press clippings, props and memorabilia. It argues that such material has the potential to produce a new interpretation of Leigh as a creative laborer. As such, the book casts new light on the labor of archiving itself and the significance of archival processes and practices to contemporary feminist film historiography.
Download or read book Tall Men Short Shorts written by Leigh Montville and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "part memoir, part sports story" (Wall Street Journal) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Big Bam chronicles the clash of NBA titans over seven riveting games—Celtics versus Lakers, Russell versus Chamberlain—covered by one young reporter. Welcome to the 1969 NBA Finals! They don’t set up any better than this. The greatest basketball player of all time - Bill Russell - and his juggernaut Boston Celtics, winners of ten (ten!) of the previous twelve NBA championships, squeak through one more playoff run and land in the Finals again. Russell’s opponent? The fearsome 7’1” next-generation superstar, Wilt Chamberlain, recently traded to the LA Lakers to form the league’s first dream team. Bill Russell and John Havlicek versus Chamberlain, Jerry West and Elgin Baylor. The 1969 Celtics are at the end of their dominance. The 1969 Lakers are unstoppable. Add to the mix one newly minted reporter. Covering the epic series is a wide-eyed young sports writer named Leigh Montville. Years before becoming an award-winning legend himself at The Boston Globe and Sports Illustrated, twenty-four-year-old Montville is ordered by his editor at the Globe to get on a plane to L.A. (first time!) to write about his luminous heroes, the biggest of big men. What follows is a raucous, colorful, joyous account of one of the greatest seven-game series in NBA history. Set against a backdrop of the late sixties, Montville’s reporting and recollections transport readers to a singular time – with rampant racial tension on the streets and on the court, with the emergence of a still relatively small league on its way to becoming a billion-dollar industry, and to an era when newspaper journalism and the written word served as the crucial lifeline between sports and sports fans. And there was basketball – seven breathtaking, see-saw games, highlight-reel moments from an unprecedented cast of future Hall of Famers (including player-coach Russell as the first-ever black head coach in the NBA), coast-to-coast travels and the clack-clack-clack of typewriter keys racing against tight deadlines. Tall Men, Short Shorts is a masterpiece of sports journalism with a charming touch of personal memoir. Leigh Montville has crafted his most entertaining book yet, richly enshrining luminous players and moments in a unique American time.
Download or read book The Dangerous Baron Leigh written by Emily Hendrickson and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Jocelyn Robards had lived secluded since her fiancé’s death, but when she traveled to her cousin’s castle she was rescued from danger by Lord Leigh, the man she once loved but whose marriage proposal she had refused. Now they must undertake a daring mission to recover a stolen heirloom—and their previous passion reawakens... Regency Romance by Emily Hendrickson; originally published by Signet
Download or read book Shifted Parts 1 4 written by Madeline Freeman and published by Laurealinde Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2014-02-12 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything Leigh Evans thought she knew is wrong. A grisly discovery on the night of her high school graduation reveals a world she never imagined. Shapeshifters, evil spirits, magic—they’re all real, and dangerous. Peter Monroe knows the truth and has spent much of his twenty-one years training to hunt and destroy the things that give people a reason to be afraid of the dark. When tragedy forces Leigh to seek justice, Peter agrees to train her. But Leigh’s inexperience could cost her life. And Peter’s secrets could put him in more danger than can imagine. Google Subjects: paranormal fantasy young adult, new adult paranormal romance, shapeshifter, fairy, fae romance, supernatural books, supernatural romance, paranormal fantasy, paranormal romance, shapeshifter, fairy, faery romance, supernatural book, magic, witches, revenant, zombie, cursed object, curses, mystery, suspense, series
Download or read book Tangled Parts 5 8 written by Madeline Freeman and published by Laurealinde Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After exacting justice for their loved ones, Peter and Leigh hope to finally put their past behind them. But the past won’t let either of them go. Leigh is confronted with a startling revelation about someone she thought she knew, and Peter can’t clear his sister from his mind. The present is no less complicated, with new threats at each turn. Leigh is desperate to prove herself, but her growing attraction to Peter is a distraction. After Leigh crosses a line, can the two move forward in their professional relationship? Google Subjects: paranormal fantasy young adult, new adult paranormal romance, shapeshifter, fairy, fae romance, supernatural books, supernatural romance, paranormal fantasy, paranormal romance, shapeshifter, fairy, faery romance, supernatural book, magic, witches, revenant, zombie, cursed object, curses, mystery, suspense, series
Download or read book Birth or Abortion written by Kate Maloy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-09 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Americans who believe that women should be able to choose when and whether to bear a child are also deeply disturbed by the one-and-one-half million abortions performed each year in this country. They regard these concerns as irreconcilable, because the topic of abortion, until now, has been framed as a black-or-white conflict between the rights of the mother and those of the fetus. The very idea of compromise or common cause draws scorn among factions. How, after all, can the political debate about abortion permit any more options than pregnancy itself does? This extraordinary book tells fifty stories about women from strikingly diverse backgrounds who have had to choose whether to give birth or to abort. About half of these women carried their pregnancies to term; the others ended them. Their decisions arose from heartfelt struggles, expressed in terms completely different from those that prevail in the public debate. Some women who abhor abortion ended up choosing that option; others who are prochoice opted for birth or had abortions that, in some instances, caused them sorrow or regret. The outcome of nearly every private dilemma hung on practical and emotional matters - the quality of the connection between the woman and the man, the financial resources available, the number of children the woman already had, the state of her self-esteem, and the health of the fetus - rather than on the weighing of rights. These insightful and eloquent authors hold up a mirror to our society and show us that we have pitted mother against fetus. They ask whether we have emphasized the rights of individuals at the expense of human responsibility and care. This most intellectually challenging yet sensitive book transcends all other books on this topic. The complexity and rich nuances of the stories it tells permits us to see this controversy with new eyes. These stories, woven together, are our nation's story - one that has never been told by the long and angry debate. Once we learn to hear these women, we may also learn to listen to one another and work toward common values and moral responsibility.
Download or read book The Single parent Family in Children s Books written by Catherine Townsend Horner and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leigh s Story written by A Valentine Joseph and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successful interior designer Leigh Grant enjoys waking up every day. A driven professional, her job duties and the satisfaction of her clients bring her a high degree of contentment. Things are running smoothly in her life, particularly after she meets James Spencer on a weekend getaway to the Bahamas where they began a wonderful romantic relationship. As Leigh begins to settle into the joys of her new relationship, she encounters a new client who is a cold, yet sophisticated, beautiful and elegantly dressed young woman. Initially uneasy about taking her on, Leigh accepts the job, and her life takes off on an unexpected detour. She must deal with her new client, along with someone from her past, hell-bent on destroying her and those close to her
Download or read book Supreme Court Appellate Division Fourth Department written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All Or Nothing written by Edward Trostle Jones and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical study of Mike Leigh's cinema is a comprehensive assessment of his thirty plus years in film, including his television features, from the first feature-length Bleak Moments to All or Nothing. Through his own species of tragicomedy and favored thematic content concentrating on relationships, Leigh enlarges the emotional boundaries of cinema for performers and audience alike. His deep and fully realized characters often subvert both decorum and irony traditionally associated with British film and television. Leigh's sense of the reciprocity and interpenetration of the material mundane, the ridiculous, and the humanistic sublime brings respect for the complexity of the ordinary and merits celebration within the democratic and demotic art of film.
Download or read book The Bookfinder written by Sharon Spredemann Dreyer and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quinn Martin Producer written by Jonathan Etter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Quinn Martin was the most innovative and most creative of his kind. He was a man in touch with the future, far more than the times. His characters were not stereotypical characters. His production methods were not stereotypical either. He was unique in a number of ways. That's why his shows did so well"--Lynda Day George, guest star on QM's The Fugitive, The FBI, and other shows. Producer of such television shows as The Invaders, Barnaby Jones, The Untouchables, The Streets of San Francisco, Cannon and 12 O'Clock High, Quinn Martin was widely admired for his devotion to his shows, his hands-on approach to the writing, casting and editing of each episode, his interactions with network executives, and the high standards he set for his crew and actors. This detailed study of Martin and his company examines each of his series in detail, from development through cancellation.
