Download or read book Dopey Bastid written by Louis Saulino and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DOPEY BASTID is the sequel to “8” Center Field in New York, 1951 – 1957, the historical fiction account of Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle and Duke Snider, as told by three thirteen year old friends in 1957. The ‘best buds’ discuss their baseball idols as they complete a book report in their 8th grade class. Well, the three friends are now at it again twenty years later. One of the three has become a noted sportswriter for the NY Daily News and decides to compose a sports novel. His two amigos offer their help as the recollections of dumb decisions made by players, managers, owners and sportswriters are brought to light. The true accounts of such blunders, predominantly in baseball, football, basketball and boxing will have you scratching your head, as you laugh out loud, perhaps shed a tear, and reflect about the meaning of friendship. Oh yeah, I guarantee that you call at least one individual described herein a “dopey b-------”!
Download or read book Bless Me Father written by Lou Saulino and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BLESS ME FATHER has captured the curiosity and evoked enthusiasm of law enforcement professionals and a former Catholic priest. Bless Me Father is a departure from Lou Saulinos previous books about growing up with the love of sports. His fi rst crime story hits it out of the ballpark.a great read and defi nitely a page turner. - John E. Sullivan Det. NYPD Ret. I liked this book. It is a tough, smart and compassionate story. There are memorable characters. I know of no one who could have written a book like this. Lou has the real-life experience and the heart to give all of us the life changing thoughts. - P. Olsinski, Teacher, Counselor, Student of People Family, families---intertwined by: love and protection of each other, right or wrong; sports, sorrow and guilt, Bless Me Father entertains with a little sports history; but also is thought provoking---what, how do you honor faith, a memory and vows to family. An enjoyable weekend read. - Cecile T. Woodward, Assistant Police Chief, Phoenix PD Ret.
Download or read book Framily Friends Considered Family written by Lou Saulino and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports is like war without the killing. Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. Ted Turner and President Woodrow Wilson have enlightened us with their innermost thoughts regarding sports and friendship. Framily (friends considered family), in similar fashion to the first two books of the trilogy, 8 Center Field in New York, 1951-1957 and Dopey Bastid coalesces sports and friendship in a unique way. Three friends since childhood, now adults and all reconnected with their teenage girlfriends and starting families; share the spotlight as the recollection of notable sporting events come to life. Relive accounts of the NCAA tournament with Magic and Bird, the USA Olympic hockey team miracle in 1980, the Mets World Series victory over the Red Sox in 1986, the Giants Super Bowl XXI triumph, and many others as you laugh out loud, perhaps shed a tear and reflect on the true meaning of friendship.
Download or read book Athlete for Hire written by Lou Saulino and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professional sports team owner (baseball, football, and basketball) meets with his general managers to discuss a highly acclaimed college athlete featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated. His proficiency is in the three sports identified. When the owner becomes disgruntled with the fact that all three of his general managers want the athlete for their respective sport, he exclaims, Why cant we draft this kid for all three of my teams? As the college senior competes in each sport during the year, a due diligence plan is prepared and successfully implemented to have the athlete drafted by all three professional teams. The three-sport star eventually agrees to sign a contract requiring him to be available as needed in the basis for each sport. He becomes an Athlete for Hire.
Download or read book The Lower Part of the Sky written by Lenard Kaufman and published by New York : Creative Age Press. This book was released on 1948 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Brooklyn Novels written by Daniel Fuchs and published by Black Sparrow Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three classic novels in one volume: Summer in Williamsburg (1934), Homage to Blenholt (1936), and Low Company (1937). Fuchs wrote, "I devoted myself simply to the tenement: the life in the hallways, the commotion at the dumbwaiters, the assortment of characters in the building, their strivings and preoccupations, their troubles." These novels are as alive today as the day they were first printed, as exuberant. There are few novelists in America today who possess Fuchs's talent, his energy, his sense of life.
Download or read book Homage to Blenholt written by Daniel Fuchs and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Novels written by Daniel Fuchs and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homage to Blenholt: A comic novel that takes place in a Jewish tenement neighborhood of Brooklyn in the mid-1930s.
Download or read book To Love and Corrupt written by Joseph Viertel and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 8 written by Louis Saulino and published by Xlibris. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dirty Drunk and Punk written by Jennifer Morton and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian parents need to teach their kids about money, and this book will help! It is divided by age group, from five-year-olds using a piggy bank to teenagers preparing to leave home for the first time.
Download or read book Map Pointz written by Guadalupe Rosales and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anton in Show Business written by Jane Martin and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This madcap comedy follows three actresses across the footlights, down the rabbit hole, and into a strangely familiar Wonderland that looks a lot like American theatre - the resemblance is uncanny! As these women pursue their dream of performing Chekhov in Texas, they're whisked through a maelstrom of "good ideas" that offer unique solutions to the Three Sisters' need to have life's deeper purpose revealed. In the tradition of great backstage comedies, Anton in Show Business conveys the joys, pains, and absurdities of "putting on a play" at the turn of the century. -- Publisher's website
Download or read book Criminal Hearts written by Jane Martin and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In total darkness, a burglar breaks into Ata's apartment. She wakes and claims to have a gun. The burglar turns on a light revealing a luxury apartment totally denuded of furniture. Ata has been cleaned out by her lawyer husband. In revenge for his philandering, she slept with his best friend and he took all of the furniture in his rage. The burglar actually a female grifter and Ata join forces to take the husband for everything. The grifter and her male partner have lost their "shimmy" the woman who pretends to the mark to have been victimized and it is clear that Ata would make an excellent replacement. She eventually agrees and embarks on a life of crime. Fans of the author's Talking With, Vital Signs, Cementville, and What Mama Don't know will delight in the quirky humor of this cross between Thelma and Louise and The Grifters.
Download or read book Greater Tuna written by Jaston Williams and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 1983 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two performers portray numerous characters in this stage comedy of life in imaginary small-town Tuna, Texas ... "where the Lion's Club is too liberal and Patsy Cline never dies!"
Download or read book Dearie written by Bob Spitz and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A"rollicking biography" (People Magazine) and extraordinarily entertaining account of how Julia Child transformed herself into the cult figure who touched off a food revolution that has gripped the country for decades. Spanning Pasadena to Paris, acclaimed author Bob Spitz reveals the history behind the woman who taught America how to cook. A genuine rebel who took the pretensions that embellished French cuisine and fricasseed them to a fare-thee-well, paving the way for a new era of American food—not to mention blazing a new trail in television—Child redefined herself in middle age, fought for women’s rights, and forever altered how we think about what we eat. Chronicling Julia's struggles, her heartwarming romance with Paul, and, of course, the publication of Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her triumphant TV career, Dearie is a stunning story of a truly remarkable life.
Download or read book Manual Not Included I Never Got the Last Chapter written by Darlene Simonian and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although most major cancers are occurring less frequently, some are on the rise and require greater efforts at control, including non-Hodgkin lymphoma, leukemia, multiple myeloma, cancers of the liver, pancreas, kidney, thyroid, and esophagus in men and women, testicular cancer in men, melanoma, and cancers of the brain and bladder in women and childhood cancer according to the National Cancer Institute. These same cancers can also be found in animals. Multiple myeloma for instance is a rare neoplasm found in certain animals, including cats. This rare form of cancer ravaged our beloved and loyal cat. Manual not Included: I Never Got the Last Chapter is the first book to document the true life story of a familys pet cat, who was afflicted with this type of cancer. Its not unusual to assume a family pet will be around for years and then quietly pass away from old age. The ideal situation would be to just pass away peacefully while they sleep. Unfortunately, it doesnt happen that way. Life goes along as usualfeeding them, playing with them, loving them, and watching them grow. Then one day they get sick, and the doctor mentions the word no one wants to hear, Cancer! Every year, new cases of multiple myeloma will present itself at a veterinary office with little or no information provided to the owner. This book will allow pet owners worldwide to understand what multiple myeloma is and how to treat it if their cat receives this diagnosis. Although this book depicts the life story of a cat, the disease is not species specific. Readers will find pictures depicting Dopey and his familys life over the last fifteen years. The many visuals in this book will help readers of all ages to bond with this fun and loving cat. The pictures of him will allow readers to feel his story and connect with him personally.
