Download or read book Wednesdays with Wally written by C Ellis Hammond and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He looked like a street person. But William Wallace "Wally" Carr was entirely something else. Scholar. Friend of royalty. World traveler. Champion swimmer. Philosopher. Hero against the Nazis. These are accurate words that describe Wally, who wandered the sidewalks in and around the University of Kentucky campus for more than 30 years -- a walking Lexington landmark. Wally was sort of a disheveled Jedi Master, who, even in his seventies and eighties, constantly enrolled and re-enrolled in the University's Shakespeare and Latin courses (two subjects he could have taught, if he had wanted). Though he had most of Shakespeare's works memorized, Wally mostly kept to himself. Few people ever made the effort to speak to him or ask what he was about. Most who saw Wally ignored him and assumed he was just a homeless old man -- which he was for a while. Almost by accident, the author decided to be Wally's friend, and visited him on a weekly basis for more than a decade. As the friendship grew, the truth about Wally's past started to come out. He lived in New York and New Orleans during the jazz age, was the son of respected Classics scholar, helped Jews escape Nazi Germany while a student at the University of Berlin, and was an incredibly accurate handicapper. Wally also seemingly had the ability to appear at the right places, at the right times. Some would say that, in the years since his passing, he might still have that ability.

Download or read book We Are Water written by Wally Lamb and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A mesmerizing novel about a family in crisis.”— Miami Herald A disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy, from Wally Lamb, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed and I Know This Much Is True. After 27 years of marriage and three children, Anna Oh—wife, mother, outsider artist—has fallen in love with Viveca, the wealthy Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her success. They plan to wed in the Oh family’s hometown of Three Rivers in Connecticut. But the wedding provokes some very mixed reactions and opens a Pandora’s Box of toxic secrets—dark and painful truths that have festered below the surface of the Ohs’ lives. We Are Water is a layered portrait of marriage, family, and the inexorable need for understanding and connection, told in the alternating voices of the Ohs—nonconformist, Anna; her ex-husband, Orion, a psychologist; Ariane, the do-gooder daughter, and her twin, Andrew, the rebellious only son; and free-spirited Marissa, the youngest. It is also a portrait of modern America, exploring issues of class, changing social mores, the legacy of racial violence, and the nature of creativity and art. With humor and compassion, Wally Lamb brilliantly captures the essence of human experience and the ways in which we search for love and meaning in our lives.

Download or read book Where s Wally Takes Flight written by Martin Handford Martin and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Why Worry Wally written by Rick Foster and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book aimed at 4-8 year olds aimed at helping kids cope and deal with worries and anxiety. Through taking a light-hearted approach through rhyme, humour and whimsical illustrations, the book acts as an engaging conversation starter between kids, parents/carers, friends and teachers to talk about worries and anxiety.

Download or read book Wally the Green Monster and His Journey Through Red Sox Nation written by Jerry Remy and published by Mascot Books Incorporated. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wally s World written by Steve Starger and published by Vanguard Productions (NJ). This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best of 2006: Vanguard published two major books, one focusing on Basil Gogos, and the other, a biography, on the career and sad life of the great Wallace Wood, WALLY's WORLD...a welcome addition to my bookcase. -- Innocent Bystander, January, 2007 WALLY'S WORLD (Vanguard), is a serious and sensitive look at an important artist. Recommended. -- Library Journal, January, 2007 WALLY'S WORLD is a fascinating book. I am stunned by the quality of Wood's fine art. -- Faith Middleton, WNPR, National Public Radio 11/17/06

Download or read book I Know This Much Is True written by Wally Lamb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-03 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. When you're the same brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your bands--the little inconvenience of the look-alike corpse at your feet. And if you're into both survival of the fittest and being your brother's keeper--if you've promised your dying mother--then say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. Grab a book or a beer. Get used to Letterman's gap-toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the influence of random selection. Take it from a godless insomniac. Take it from the uncrazy twin--the guy who beat the biochemical rap. Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night), and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious: She holds a loose fist to her face to cover her defective mouth--her perpetual apology to the world for a birth defect over which she'd had no control. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother's watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother's gentle "bunny." From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness--and ultimately self-protection--in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. I was still afraid of his anger but saw how he punished weakness--pounced on it. Out of self-preservation I hid my fear, Dominick confesses. As for Thomas, he just never knew how to play defense. He just didn't get it. But Dominick's talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives. To save himself, Dominick must confront not only the pain of his past but the dark secrets he has locked deep within himself, and the sins of his ancestors--a quest that will lead him beyond the confines of his blue-collar New England town to the volcanic foothills of Sicily 's Mount Etna, where his ambitious and vengefully proud grandfather and a namesake Domenico Tempesta, the sostegno del famiglia, was born. Each of the stories Ma told us about Papa reinforced the message that he was the boss, that he ruled the roost, that what he said went. Searching for answers, Dominick turns to the whispers of the dead, to the pages of his grandfather's handwritten memoir, The History of Domenico Onofrio Tempesta, a Great Man from Humble Beginnings. Rendered with touches of magic realism, Domenico's fablelike tale--in which monkeys enchant and religious statues weep--becomes the old man's confession--an unwitting legacy of contrition that reveals the truth's of Domenico's life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his twin. Set against the vivid panoply of twentieth-century America and filled with richly drawn, memorable characters, this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying novel brings to light humanity's deepest needs and fears, our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, our struggle to survive at all costs. Joyous, mystical, and exquisitely written, I Know This Much Is True is an extraordinary reading experience that will leave no reader untouched.

Download or read book The Hour I First Believed written by Wally Lamb and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller The profound and compelling story of a personal quest for meaning and faith from Wally Lamb, #1 New York Times bestselling author of She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True “The beauty of The Hour I First Believed, a soaring novel as amazingly graceful as the classic hymn that provides the title, is that Lamb never loses sight of the spark of human resilience. . . . Lamb’s wonderful novel offers us the promise and power of hope.” —Miami Herald When 47-year-old high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his younger wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, Caelum returns home to Connecticut to be with his aunt who has just had a stroke. But Maureen finds herself in the school library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed, as two vengeful students go on a murderous rampage. Miraculously she survives, but at a cost: she is unable to recover from the trauma. Caelum and Maureen flee Colorado and return to an illusion of safety at the Quirk family farm back east. But the effects of chaos are not so easily put right, and further tragedy ensues. In The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb travels well beyond his earlier work and embodies in his fiction myth, psychology, family history stretching back many generations, and the questions of faith that lie at the heart of everyday life. The result is an extraordinary tour de force, at once a meditation on the human condition and an unflinching yet compassionate evocation of character.

Download or read book My Life as Alien Monster Bait written by Bill Myers and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 1993-05-07 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hollywierd" comes to Middletown! Wally's a superstar! A movie company has chosen our hero to be eaten by their mechanical "Mutant from Mars!" It's a close race as to which will consume Wally first - the disaster-plagued special-effects "monster" or his own out-of-control pride. . . Until he learns the cost of true friendship and of God's command for humility.

Download or read book Wally the Walrus written by Sharron Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After falling asleep on an iceberg, Wally the Walrus wakes up alone and drifting far out at sea. Follow Wally's adventures in Pembrokeshire as he tries to find his way home. £1 from every sale of this book is donated to Welsh Marine Life conservation to help monitor, rescue, rehabilitate and re-wild injury marine life along the Pembrokeshire coastline. The book covers relevant educational topics such as Global warming, marine litter pollution, dangerous objects we find at the coast and the impact of large gatherings on nature, positive and negative. It is an engaging interactive book that can start family discussions, educating children from a young age about our role in keeping the environment safe and clean for the sake of marine wildlife.

Download or read book Where s Waldo written by Martin Handford and published by Candlewick Press (MA). This book was released on 2007-04-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reader is invited to find Waldo in the detailed illustrations of several crowded Hollywood movie sets.

Download or read book Wally the Green Monster s Journey Through Time written by Dustin Pedroia and published by Mascot Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes fans of all ages through some of the most important, memorable and interesting highlights of Fenway Park's history. This book also provides fun facts about Fenway Park. Join Wally to learn why his home is America's most beloved ballpark!

Download or read book The Wednesday Wars written by Gary D. Schmidt and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns muchof value about the world he lives in.

Download or read book No Yelling written by Wally Adamchik and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Drawing upon real-life experiences from those on active duty as well as those now in the civilian sector, this book illustrates how to emulate the leadership principles that are the hallmark of the U.S. Marine Corps. Based on findings gleaned from more than 100 interviews, this guide presents the key factors that are at the heart of the marine's approach along with side-by-side comparisons of their application in military and civilian settings. A series of questions is provided at the end of each chapter to facilitate group discussion on topics ranging from integrity and setting the example to the commanders intent and rehearsals and critiquesprompting a personal analysisthat leads the individual to review the process and develop their own methods for implementation. Questions from these sections also serve as the basis for a year-long curriculum for leadership development.

Download or read book Where s Wally at Sea written by Martin Handford Martin and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Where s Wally Now written by Martin Handford and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pocket-sized edition of Where's Wally Now?. Look out for Wally, Woof, Wenda, Wizard Whitebeard, Odlaw, loads of Wally-watchers and more on every double-page spread. There is a free magnifying lens with the book.

Download or read book Higher Faster Longer written by Wally Funk and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since she was a girl in a Superman cape jumping off the family barn and stargazing from the slopes of Taos Mountain, Wally Funk has kept going higher, faster, and longer every time she has seen an opportunity. In college, Wally soared through the aviation program, landing herself a flight instructor position after graduation. From there, she set a record in astronaut testing which she passed with flying colors. The scuttling of the Mercury 13 program didn't stop Wally, who used her dreams to fuel an adventure-studded life. Traveling the world, shattering glass ceilings, and always keeping one eye on the stars, Wally relentlessly and joyfully reached higher, flew faster, and traveled longer on her way to space. For the first time in her own words, here is the stellar story of a truly unique American space pioneer.