Download or read book Leon Chris written by Alex Brian Donahue and published by Library and Archives Canada. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of poverty and war, life was not easy for anyone, not even in the humble land of Prince Edward Island.Christopher Livingston must pull duties far beyond what should be required of a twelve-year-old, now that his father is an ocean away from him.The stress of the Great Depression is fogged only when Christopher meets a young Raccoon boy, about his age, wandering in the woods.Christopher, his father, and their Island will never be the same, due to a small amount of change, in a relatively small amount of time.Written by: Alex DonahueCover Art by: Yee Chong

Download or read book The Unkindness written by Keshav Sadashiv Sapru and published by OrangeBooks Publication. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of movie scripts which I have not produced as of yet, these showcase a lighter side of my creativity, as opposed to my short stories, which deal with the more existential aspect of being.

Download or read book Beneath the Grid written by B. Iver Bertelsen and published by Lulu. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher O'Brian, a disgruntled EPA staff attorney, is already plagued by nightmares and job insecurity when he learns that his chemist colleague, Ronnie Chapman, has been crushed by a train. O'Brian, devastated by his friend's death, has no idea that Chapman's unfortunate accident was actually murder. O'Brian, immersed in the details of a global warming scientific breakthrough awaiting approval by the EPA, soon discovers that Chapman was about to reveal something huge. When another colleague is murdered, O'Brian and his coworker Sonja Voinovich band together with others to uncover Chapman's secret and its connection to a powerful international conspiracy. Only time will tell if their actions will come too late to save thousands suffering from mysterious symptoms halfway across the world. In this environmental thriller, a government attorney and a group of misfits set out to unveil the truth and stay off the growing list of victims murdered while attempting to right a wrong.

Download or read book Settlers When It Comes To Love Never Settle written by Jessica T. Rogers and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brandon is a miserable rookie police officer who is torn between marrying the daughter of the town's wealthiest, most influential family and confessing his true love for his secret best friend, Porsha. Across town, retired soldier Dexter has settled a rent-a-girlfriend who is ready to cash out. When he receives devastating news from his doctors, Dexter proposes the sugar daddy contract of the century. Izzy has settled into a routine with her married lover until an unexpected family trip forces them to decide. Chris married Leon, the drug lord of St. Canaan at a young age to escape her life of poverty. Joy is an overweight young IT tech who desperately seeks attention from hook-up web sites. When her latest fling turns out to be another dramatic loss, Joy concocts a plan that will make all heads turn. All their lives become intertwined when the town suffers the most horrific crime in their history.

Download or read book Along for the Ride written by Mickey Royal and published by Mikail Sharif. This book was released on 2018-03-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Along for the Ride" is a smart, engaging, and eminently entertaining autobiographical account of how Mickey Royal establishes the Royal Family - an organized stable of prostitutes running with the efficiency of a Fortune 500 company. This powerful family takes on crooked cops, overzealous executives, drug lords, and the Muslim Mafia to solve a six-year old murder mystery.

Download or read book The Book of Leon written by Leon Black and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone’s favorite houseguest who never left, Leon Black (played by award-winning comedian JB Smoove on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm) drops his wisdom and good-bad advice for the masses. Learn the secrets Larry David has gleaned from the Falstaff of television. Live your best Leon. Bring the Ruckus. Aristotle. Gandhi. Lao Tzu. Dr. Ruth. Amateurs. For centuries bespeckled dorks have pored over the scrolls of the ancients, read tea leaves, and looked to the stars for philosophy, wisdom, and advice. While some people have probably offered good advice, and others offer bad advice, Leon is here to offer his brand of good-bad advice. These are the musings of a master genius spitting out the secrets of the universe—to help you become just like him. Be forewarned: in opening this tome and Leon’s mind, you need to be prepared for straight talk. The kind of unfiltered blunt straight talk that pounds on your door, invites itself in, makes itself at home, helps itself to your food, security pass code, your expensive organic beet juice, and finally makes itself comfortable on that twin bed in your guest room. All the while you think you’re helping it—but really it’s helping you help yourself! Because that’s how this book doozit. Leon Black, he ain’t wrong...he just ain’t right.

Download or read book North Carolina Reports written by North Carolina. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Download or read book 5001 Nights at the Movies written by Pauline Kael and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1991-05-15 with total page 959 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart, funny, and unforgettable, Pauline Kael is the most interesting and influential film critic in America. Her ability to skewer an actor or director and her wit, insight, and thorough knowledge of the film business make her by far the most rewarding regular observer of the movie scene. This new collection covers films that have come out since the previous 1985 edition.

Download or read book Executive Profiles written by Chicago Tribune Staff and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected from the Chicago Tribune's column of the same name, Executive Profiles is an intimate and informative look into the lives of top Chicago business and organization leaders, executives, and CEOs. These profiles do more than just detail the success of these individuals' companies, however. In discussions that range from family to hobbies to personal business philosophies, the interviewers seek to understand the people behind the heads of these stalwart Chicago institutions. Arranged by industry, Executive Profiles is a serious look at an eclectic range of Chicago's movers and shakers, but it also offers an entertaining peek into the more personal, human sides of these business leaders. For fascinating insight into the habits and philosophies of Chicago's driven business and nonprofit executives, look no further than this inspiring collection.

Download or read book The History of Trans Representation in American Television and Film Genres written by Traci B. Abbott and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to the increase in transgender characters in scripted television and film in the 2010s, trans visibility has been presented as a relatively new phenomenon that has positively shifted the cis society’s acceptance of the trans community. This book counters this claim to assert that such representations actually present limited and harmful characterizations, as they have for decades. To do so, this book analyzes transgender narratives in scripted visual media from the 1960s to 2010s across a variety of genres, including independent and mainstream films and television dramatic series and sitcoms, judging not the veracity of such representations per se but dissecting their transphobia as a constant despite relevant shifts that have improved their veracity and variety. Already ingrained with their own ideological expectations, genres shift the framing of the trans character, particularly the relevance of their gender difference for cisgender characters and society. The popularity of trans characters within certain genres also provides a historical lineage that is examined against the progression of transgender rights activism and corresponding transphobic falsehoods, concluding that this popular medium continues to offer a limited and narrow conception of gender, the variability of the transgender experience, and the range of transgender identities.

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Download or read book The Great Movies III written by Roger Ebert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger Ebert has been writing film reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times for over four decades now and his biweekly essays on great movies have been appearing there since 1996. As Ebert noted in the introduction to the first collection of those pieces, “They are not the greatest films of all time, because all lists of great movies are a foolish attempt to codify works which must stand alone. But it’s fair to say: If you want to take a tour of the landmarks of the first century of cinema, start here. Enter The Great Movies III, Ebert’s third collection of essays on the crème de la crème of the silver screen, each one a model of critical appreciation and a blend of love and analysis that will send readers back to the films with a fresh set of eyes and renewed enthusiasm—or maybe even lead to a first-time viewing. From The Godfather: Part II to Groundhog Day, from The Last Picture Show to Last Tango in Paris, the hundred pieces gathered here display a welcome balance between the familiar and the esoteric, spanning Hollywood blockbusters and hidden gems, independent works and foreign language films alike. Each essay draws on Ebert’s vast knowledge of the cinema, its fascinating history, and its breadth of techniques, introducing newcomers to some of the most exceptional movies ever made, while revealing new insights to connoisseurs as well. Named the most powerful pundit in America by Forbes magazine, and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Roger Ebert is inarguably the most prominent and influential authority on the cinema today. The Great Movies III is sure to please his many fans and further enhance his reputation as America’s most respected—and trusted—film critic.

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Download or read book A Man s World written by Steve Oney and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Man’s World is a collection of twenty profiles of fascinating men by author and magazine writer Steve Oney. Oney realized early in his career that he was interested in how men face challenges and cope with success and failure, seeing in their struggles something of his own. Written over a forty-year period for publications including Esquire, Premiere, GQ, TIME, Los Angeles, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Magazine, the stories, many prizewinning, bring to life the famous (Harrison Ford), the brilliant (Robert Penn Warren), the tortured (Gregg Allman), and the unknown (Chris Leon, a twenty-year-old Marine Corps corporal killed in the Iraq war).

Download or read book Corpses Fools and Monsters written by Willow Maclay and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical history of transness in cinema, and an exploration of the political possibilities of its future. In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as threats to the normal order — relegated to a lost highway of corpses, fools, and monsters. In this book, trans film critics Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay take the reader on a drive down this lost highway, exploring the way that trans people and transness have evolved on-screen. Starting from the very earliest representations of transness in silent film, through to the multiplex-conquering Matrix franchise and on to the emergence of a true trans-authored cinema, Corpses, Fools and Monsters spans everything from musicals to body horror to avant garde experimental film to tell the story of the trans film image. In doing so, the authors investigate the wider history of trans representation — an exhilarating journey of compromise, recuperation, and potential liberation that they argue is only just the beginning.

Download or read book Broken written by Evelyn Alsultany and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines how different institutions--Hollywood, universities, corporations, and law enforcement--have sought to be inclusive of Muslims in an era of rampant Islamophobia"--

Download or read book Street Smart written by Richard A. Blake and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York has appeared in more movies than Michael Caine, and the resulting overfamiliarity to moviegoers poses a problem for critics and filmmakers alike. Audiences often mistake the New York image of skyscrapers and bright lights for the real thing, when in fact the City is a network of clearly defined villages, each with a unique personality. Standard film depictions of New Yorkers as a rush-hour mass of undifferentiated humanity obscure the connections formed between people and places in the City's diverse neighborhoods. Street Smart examines the cultural influences of New York's neighborhoods on the work of four quintessentially New York filmmakers: Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Spike Lee. The City's heterogeneous economic and ethnic districts, where people live, work, shop, worship, and go to school, often bear little relation to the image of New York City created by the movies. To these directors, their home city is as tangible as the smell of fried onions in the stairwell of an apartment building, and it is this New York, not the bustling, glittery illusion portrayed in earlier films, that shapes their sensibilities and receives expression in their films. Richard A. Blake shows how the Jewish enclaves on Manhattan's Lower East Side profoundly influence Sidney Lumet's most noted characters as they struggle to form and maintain their identities under challenging circumstances. Both Woody Allen's light comedies and his more serious cinematic fare reflect the director's origins in the Flatbush neighborhood in Brooklyn and the displacement he felt after relocating to Manhattan. Martin Scorsese's upbringing on Elizabeth Street in Manhattan's Little Italy resonates in his gritty portraits of urban modernity. Blake also looks at the films of Spike Lee, whose adolescence in Fort Greene, a socioeconomically diverse Brooklyn neighborhood, exposed him to widely ranging views that add depth to his complicated treatises on power, culture, and race. Lumet, Allen, Scorsese, and Lee's individual identities were shaped by their neighborhoods, and in turn, their life experiences have shaped their artistic vision. In Street Smart, Richard A. Blake examines the critical influence of "place" on the films of four of America's most accomplished contemporary filmmakers.