Download or read book But Didn t We Have Fun written by Peter Morris and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of baseball in America begins not with the fabled Abner Doubleday but with a generation of mid-nineteenth-century Americans who moved from the countryside to the cities and brought a cherished but delightfully informal game with them. But Didn't We Have Fun? will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about baseball's origins. Peter Morris, author of the prizewinning A Game of Inches, takes a fresh look at the early amateur years of the game. Mr. Morris retrieves a lost eraand a lost way of life. Offering a challenging new perspective on baseball's earliest years, and conveying the sense of delight that once pervaded the game and its players, Mr. Morris supplants old myths with a story just as marvelous-but one that reallyhappened. With 25 rare photographs and drawings.
Download or read book It Wasn t Pretty Folks But Didn t We Have Fun written by Carol Polsgrove and published by RDR Books. This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possibly the best book ever written about an American magazine editor, this biography offers a 3-D view of the assassinations, the student riots, the counterculture, the politicians, the pop icons and the war that made the 60s America's unforgettable decade. Under the aegis of former Marine Harold Hayes, Esquire helped turn journalists, editors and photographers like Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, Raymond Carver, Michael Herr, John Berendt and Diane Arbus into celebrities in their own right. Polsgrove's brilliant book, often resembling an Esquire cover story, offers a warts and all portrait of Hayes. Afterword by Ben Bagdikian.
Download or read book Didn t We Have Fun written by Hilda Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilda Robinson, artist and grandmother, shares the joys of growing up in a closely-knit African American family and neighborhood. She describes the games she played, the songs she sang, and chores she did long before television was invented.
Download or read book It Wasn t Pretty Folks But Didn t We Have Fun written by Carol Polsgrove and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1995 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The sixties in America was a wild, giddy ride, an amazing Technicolor adventure, and no magazine caught the spirit of its apocalyptic fun as definitively as Esquire. Its brilliant, buccaneering editor Harold Hayes transformed the once-somnolent men's fashion magazine into a literary and cultural proving ground, where pure iconoclasm and blazing talent reigned. Art director George Lois put Sonny Liston on the cover as Santa Claus and Muhammad Ali as St. Sebastian. Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, Garry Wills, Michael Herr, and others virtually invented a "New Journalism" equal to the task of deconstructing celebrity, celebrating pop culture, comprehending wars and demonstrations and riots and assassinations. Diane Arbus captured photographic images that reflected a disturbing, hidden America, and fiction writers as diverse as Norman Mailer and Raymond Carver did much the same in words." "Journalist and historian Carol Polsgrove has written the definitive history of this decade-long high-water mark in American magazine journalism."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Tampa Bay Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tampa Bay Magazine is the area's lifestyle magazine. For over 25 years it has been featuring the places, people and pleasures of Tampa Bay Florida, that includes Tampa, Clearwater and St. Petersburg. You won't know Tampa Bay until you read Tampa Bay Magazine.
Download or read book Ultimate Spider Man Vol 7 written by Brian Michael Bendis and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2012 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An all-new villain explodes on the scene, literally! But how can Spider-Man fight a new mysterious foe named Geldhoff if he can't even find a costume? And will Peter and Mary Jane finally just say what they feel?! Guest-starring the Ultimate X-Men. Collects Ultimate Spider-Man (2000) #40-45.
Download or read book Argosy All story Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Six Little Bunkers at Aunt Jo s written by Laura Lee Hope and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " "Six Little Bunkers at Aunt Jo's" by Laura Lee Hope is a delightful children's book that follows the adventures of the lively and lovable Bunker family. The story begins when the six Bunker siblings, named Russ, Rose, Violet, Laddie, Margy, and Mun Bun, visit their Aunt Jo's house for a summer vacation. Excitement fills the air as they explore the new surroundings and encounter various surprises along the way. As the Bunkers settle into their temporary home, they embark on a series of entertaining escapades. From treasure hunts and picnics to making new friends and solving mysteries, the children's days are filled with fun and adventure. Throughout their time at Aunt Jo's, the Bunkers learn valuable life lessons about friendship, cooperation, and the importance of family bonds. Each sibling contributes their unique personality and talents to the experiences, creating a heartwarming and memorable journey for both the characters and the readers. "Six Little Bunkers at Aunt Jo's" is a charming story that captures the spirit of childhood and the joys of family. Laura Lee Hope's engaging storytelling and relatable characters make this book an enjoyable read for young readers, inspiring their imagination and fostering a love for storytelling."
Download or read book Conscious Motherhood written by Katherine Dickson and published by Katherine Dickson Books. This book was released on 2005-03-17 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conscious Motherhood is a personal account of how having a child changes one woman's life. It is the story of one woman's experience of herself during these changes. This semi-autobiography traces the journey toward increasing psychological and emotional wholeness and the role of motherhood in this process. The birth of the child initiates a dichotomy between home life and work life and how the new mother deals with the conflict between continuing her career or full time motherhood. Immediately after the birth, she experiences her body as an instrument in the titanic force of life. In the early days at home with her baby, she feels she has left civilization and has descended psychologically to a place which is very close to both life and death. Without the structure that a career gives life, she experiences daily life against the patriarchal structures of family and marriage. A sense of emptiness within, loss of her center, and loss of control of her own life is felt. In her isolation she feels the presence of her mother and grandmother and seeks role models and mentors in her friends. Her mind is filled with images of women and mothers as well as images of daughters recapitulating their own mothers' experiences. She questions how she would like her experiences to be different from those of her mother and what utopian motherhood could be like, and how these expectations are shaped by one's early experience of home and domesticity. The sense of inner revolution and upheaval is paralleled by chaotic and violent events in society. The year is 1968; Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are assassinated, the women's movement begins, students riot, and many protest the Vietnam War. These events form the backdrop of a long journey, told in twelve chapters in the creative nonfiction genre. The point or purpose of the work is to both present a unique personal account of individual growth as well as to present those aspects of a major experience which are universal. What is valuable and interesting about this journey is that this rite of passage is told from the woman's point of view and the woman's experience through the life-writing or memoir style.
Download or read book Great Short Stories of the Masters written by Charles Neider and published by Cooper Square Press. This book was released on 2002-12-09 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-nine short stories, selected for their richness of detail, accurate depictions of human passion, and international scope, fill this collection. The authors include Americans such as Hemingway, Faulkner, Saul Bellow, and Flannery O'Connor, 19th and 20th century Western European giants such as Proust, Sartre, Flaubert, Kafka, Mann, Pirandello, Rilke, and Balzac, Russian icons Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Turgenev, and Chekhov, and Asian writers Rabindranath Tagore and Lu Hsun. While many of the names are recognizable (though some, such as Bunin, Lagerlof, Nexo, and Svevo rank among the lesser-known), Neider has favored gems less familiar to the average reader.
Download or read book Be My Guest written by Marcia Alice Lorraine and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nestled in the picturesque village of Skaneatles, New York, The White Rose Inn is home to Amanda Cochran and her daughter Kristen. Amanda is an organized, independent business woman, happy and content with the status quo of her existence. Little did she know that meeting Jack Shannon, leading Hollywood heartthrob, would turn her safe little world upside down and sideways as the result of doing a favor for her daughter. In spite of all her attempts to remain sensible and down-to-earth, Jack manages to send her off the deep end, leaving her constantly treading water in an effort not to succumb to his charms. Within a matter of weeks, Amanda is forced to evaluate her life, reassess her relationship with her daughter and come to terms with her feelings about her past with ex-husband, Seth and a possible future with Jack. "Be My Guest" invites you into the midst of a quirky, seductive relationship between two people who weren't looking for love......until they tripped over it.
Download or read book Twentieth Century Short Stories written by Sylvia Chatfield Bates and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief biographical sketches of the authors included.
Download or read book A Match Made In Texas written by Anne Marie Novark and published by Anne Marie Novark. This book was released on 2014-01-29 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Austin McCade's wife dies, a vital part of him dies, too. The sexy single dad devotes himself to his motherless daughter and his work on the Diamondback Ranch. For twelve years, he ignores life and women until a new pretty schoolteacher moves to town. From the moment Theresa Rogers arrives in Salt Fork, Texas, people warn her about the lonely widower. He's a hopeless case, a lost cause. But Theresa sees beneath the crusty exterior of the man to the deep emotions and his enduring loyalty. Can she pierce the impenetrable wall surrounding his broken heart? Will she be able to vanquish the ghost who keeps him from loving again? EXCERPT: Theresa cleared her throat. "Um, would you like to come in? There's coffee. It's fresh." He shouldn't stay. He should get the hell out of Dodge. "Sure, why not." Removing his Stetson, Austin stepped across the threshold, brushing against her as he passed. The heat from her body nearly scorched him. She closed the door and stood with her hand on the knob, facing him. She bit her bottom lip, worrying it with her teeth. Austin wondered if she regretted inviting him in. Had it been on impulse? Did she realize how attractive and appealing he found her? Did she know she was playing with fire? He was fast losing the battle raging inside of himself. He wanted this woman. He didn't want to think of the reasons he should keep his hands off her. He was a man. She was a woman. A very desirable woman. Moving closer, he stared down at her and tipped her chin up. "I don't think either of us really wants coffee." "What do you want?" Her voice sounded husky. Reminding him of darkened rooms, fluffy pillows. Austin pulled her into his arms. "Only this." He took her mouth in a searing kiss . . . KEYWORDS: Texas romance, cowboy romance, rancher, single dad, tortured hero, widower, small town, alpha male, matchmaker, school teacher, western romance, contemporary romance
Download or read book Introduction to Literature Revised Ed written by and published by Rex Bookstore, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Never Did Much but I Had Fun Doing It written by Billy Gray and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He never did much, but he • had two first cars, • went on three first dates with the same girl, • played in Yankee Stadium every summer, • made All-American without playing a single down, • grew three feet in one day, and • played in the game of the century. It’s just part of being an ordinary guy having the time of his life growing up in a small town. Join the fun! Read the book! Enjoy life!
Download or read book The Eastern Underwriter written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Here Comes a Candle written by Fredric Brown and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This noir classic by an Edgar Award winner delves into the mind of a criminal: “Close to the perfect psycho thriller . . . a relentless dance of death tempo.” —The New York Times With innovative style far ahead of its time, this novel follows Joe Bailey, perched precariously on the fence between two lives. He’s seeing a good-hearted girl who holds the promise of a comfortably content, if uneventful, future. But he’s also passionately drawn to a femme fatale—and the world she inhabits, run by a tough Milwaukee racketeer. Haunted by a childhood rhyme and accompanying trauma, Bailey wrestles with his demons, in this psychologically complex tale with a shocking twist by an award-winning author praised as “a natural storyteller” (The New York Times Book Review).
