Download or read book Lou Gehrig written by Ronald A. Reis and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like a powerful locomotive, Lou Gehrig slugged his way through 14 years as the pride of the Yankees. Never missing a game during his career, the six-time All-Star set the American League record with 184 RBI in 1931, hit a record 23 grand slams, won two Most Valuable Player awards, and won the 1934 Triple Crown. Refusing to see himself as a natural, Gehrig achieved greatness through an unwavering dedication to practice. Then suddenly, the Iron Man began to rust. The home runs ceased. The hits became misses. Gehrig had contracted amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. Yet harnessing the strength he had displayed on the baseball diamond, Lou Gehrig struggled onward with dignity and purpose. Though the disease that now bears his name ultimately took Lou Gehrig's life, it did not extinguish his spirit or his incredible legacy. Lou Gherig is an engrossing new biography that celebrates a man who was not only a baseball great but also a true American hero.
Download or read book Lou Boudreau written by Lou Boudreau and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 1993 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lou Boudreau: Covering All the Bases" is the personal history of one of the
Download or read book Lou s on First written by Chris Costello and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1982-12-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intimate portrait of Lou Costello (1906-1959) offers a rare look at one of the most talented comedians of all time. Starting in the 1930s, Costello attained enormous fame touring the burlesque circuits with straight man Bud Abbott (1895-1974). Their live skits (including "Who's on First?"), radio programs, and films such as One Night in the Tropics, Buck Privates, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, and In the Navy made comic history. Behind the scenes, however, Costello faced numerous crises: a bout with rheumatic fever that left him bedridden for months, the drowning death of his young son, and constant haggles with Universal Studios over its reluctance to adequately finance productions of Abbot and Costello films. Lou's on First goes beyond Costello's clownish persona to explore his Pagliacci nature: the private demons behind the happy public face, the heartbreaking moments in an otherwise storybook marriage, the business ventures soured by unscrupulous managers, and the true nature of the breakup of his twenty-one-year partnership with Bud Abbott.
Download or read book Lou Gehrig written by Jennifer Boothroyd and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Lou Gehrig become one of baseball’s greatest players? What Major League Baseball team did he play for? Why did Lou have to stop playing baseball? Read this book to discover the answers!
Download or read book Lou Lou and Pea and the Bicentennial Bonanza written by Jill Diamond and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in this young, illustrated middle-grade series is perfect for fans outgrowing Ivy & Bean! BFFs Lou Lou Bombay and Peacock Pearl are busy preparing for the Bicentennial Bonanza, their city’s two-hundredth birthday bash! And this year, the party will take place in their beloved neighborhood of El Corazón. With a baking contest, talent show, and a new gazebo planned, the community can’t wait to celebrate the founders (and historical BFFs), Diego Soto and Giles Wonderwood. But when Vice-Mayor Andy Argyle claims the festivities belong to Verde Valley, using a mysterious diary as evidence, Lou Lou and Pea smell trouble. Will the friends be able to uncover the secrets of their city’s founding, and bring the Bonanza back to El Corazón? Fun back matter includes a DIY garden party hat and a Spanish language glossary!
Download or read book Who Is Lou Sciortino written by Ottavio Cappellani and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ottavio Cappellani's wildly entertaining Mafia comedy takes us into the unhinged world of a family that makes the Sopranos look like the Waltons. As blood-red as a good bottle of Sicilian wine, Who Is Lou Sciortino? is an exhilarating debut from one of Italy's brightest young talents. Growing up on the streets of New York, young Lou Sciortino learned many lessons from his grandfather, Don Lou: that whiners are fools; that in order to get respect from other people, you sometimes have to whack a guy; and that the movie business is a perfect place to make dirty money clean. So when young Lou is set up as the head of Starship Pictures, everybody's happy. That is, until the day a rival Mafia family plants a bomb in their offices. Nobody's happy after that, especially not Don Lou, who decides to send his grandson to Sicily to stay out of danger; after all, a really nice, decent person like Lou just doesn't take part in Mafia warfare. Not long after young Lou goes to work for Uncle Sal Scali—a hapless Mafia boss from Catania who can't even keep the peace in his own neighborhood—a cop is killed during a routine robbery and young Lou is chosen to bring the situation under control. But there's someone else Sal has to reckon with: Lou's grandfather. Don Lou doesn't like the way things are shaping up in Sicily, and decides it's time he paid one last visit to the old country. That's when the bullets really start to fly.
Download or read book Emma Lou and the Big Ragout written by Karen Boettcher-Tate and published by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1987 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lou Sullivan written by Brice Smith and published by Transgress Press. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[They] said I couldn’t live as a gay man, but it looks like I’m going to die like one.” Good Midwestern girls did not grow up to be gay men and die from AIDS. Unless they were transgender pioneer Lou Sullivan (1951-1991). In this heart-wrenchingly inspirational biography, Brice D. Smith reclaims one of the most tragically overlooked people in LGBT history. Sullivan marched for Civil Rights, embraced the 1960s counterculture, came of age in the gay liberation movement, transformed medical treatment of trans people, institutionalized trans history, forged an international female-to-male (FTM) transgender community and died from AIDS at the epicenter of the crisis. He overcame tremendous obstacles to be who he was and dedicated his life to helping others do the same. An activist to the end, Sullivan inspired a generation to rethink gender identity, sexual orientation and what it means to be human.
Download or read book Miss Lou written by Edward Payson Roe and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Escape Faith and Courage of Lou Bertha Flanagan written by Mable Lee Cooper and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FAITH AND COURAGE OF LOU BERTHA FLANAGAN RAISED IN THE RED CLAY HILLS OF NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI A WOMAN PROPHET OF GOD, CALLED TO MINISTER, FROM A YOUNG CHILD. PROPHECY!!! THAT WHISKEY WON'T HELP YOU, REPENT!!!!! PROPHECY!!!! YOU'RE UNDER GOD'S CHASTISEMENT! HE'S NOT HERE FOR LONG!!!! IF YOU DON'T TAKE THAT BOY TO A DOCTOR, HE'LL BE DEAD IN THE MORNING!!!! PROPHECY!!!!!!! GET RIGHT WITH GOD; YOU'LL DIE IN AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT!!!!!!!! HEART SPECIALIST, DOCTORS, SAYS TO HER, YOU HAVE AN ASD, HOW BIG? THE SIZE OF A HALF OF A DOLLAR, AND WE CAN'T FIX IT, !!!!!!! ? !!!!! WAS SHE SHOCKED? NOT THE LEAST!!!! BY FAITH IN JESUS, SHE SAYS, THERE'S NOTHING MY GOD CAN'T TAKE CARE OF, !!!! HER FAMILY WANTS TO KNOW, HOW LONG CAN SHE LIVE WITH THIS? A DAY, A WEEK, OR A YEAR, BECAUSE EVERYDAY SHE HAS BEEN LIVING, IS A MIRACLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO, WE DON'T WANT HER HEART SHOCKED!!!!!!!! SHE COULD DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE BATTLE RAGES ON, SHE HAS ASSURANCE IN GOD, AND PUTS HER COMPLETE TRUST IN HIM. WHILE, SOME OF HER FAMILY'S URGES HER, TOO OFTEN, TO SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION, BUT BY THE POWER OF THE ALMIGHTY, SHE HELD ONTO HER FAITH AND TO HER GOD -------- JESUS CHRIST....................... A-men.
Download or read book Lou von Salome written by Julia Vickers and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-29 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daughter of an illustrious Russian general, Lou von Salome left her home in the heart of Tsarist Russia to conquer intellectual Europe at the tender age of 18. Eventually settling in Germany, she became a best-selling novelist, a groundbreaking essayist, and a well-known literary critic. In addition to all this, Salome was a real-life muse for some of the most brilliant men of her time. This biography tells the story of Salome's entire life and career, focusing on her young adulthood; celibate marriage with linguistics scholar Carl Friedrich Andreas; rumored affairs with Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainier Maria Rilke, and several other authors and poets; and her relationship with Sigmund Freud, which was marked most notably by their contrasting views of psychoanalysis.
Download or read book Lou Henry Hoover written by Dale C. Mayer and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever biography of Herbert Hoover's First Lady.
Download or read book Lou Gehrig 2nd Edition written by Kevin Viola and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quiet, hardworking man, Lou Gehrig is one of the most underrated baseball players of all time. Although he repeatedly outscored, outhit, and outplayed his teammates Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio, his shy nature often kept him in their shadow. Follow Lou’s outstanding career from the playgrounds of New York City to the fields of Yankee stadium. Don’t miss this incredible story of one of history’s greatest baseball players!
Download or read book The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer written by Maegan Parker Brooks and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-01-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people who have heard of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977) are aware of the impassioned testimony that this Mississippi sharecropper and civil rights activist delivered at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Far fewer people are familiar with the speeches Hamer delivered at the 1968 and 1972 conventions, to say nothing of addresses she gave closer to home, or with Malcolm X in Harlem, or even at the founding of the National Women's Political Caucus. Until now, dozens of Hamer's speeches have been buried in archival collections and in the basements of movement veterans. After years of combing library archives, government documents, and private collections across the country, Maegan Parker Brooks and Davis W. Houck have selected twenty-one of Hamer's most important speeches and testimonies. As the first volume to exclusively showcase Hamer's talents as an orator, this book includes speeches from the better part of her fifteen-year activist career delivered in response to occasions as distinct as a Vietnam War Moratorium Rally in Berkeley, California, and a summons to testify in a Mississippi courtroom. Brooks and Houck have coupled these heretofore unpublished speeches and testimonies with brief critical descriptions that place Hamer's words in context. The editors also include the last full-length oral history interview Hamer granted, a recent oral history interview Brooks conducted with Hamer's daughter, as well as a bibliography of additional primary and secondary sources. The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer demonstrates that there is still much to learn about and from this valiant black freedom movement activist.
Download or read book The Life of Lou Reed written by Howard Sounes and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating biography of Lou Reed, featuring interviews with over 140 people who knew him intimately, plus previously unpublished photographs. As band leader of the Velvet Underground and later a successful solo artist, Reed was much more than what the general public came to know as the grumpy New Yorker in black who sang “Walk on the Wild Side.” To his dedicated admirers, he was one of the most innovative and intelligent songwriters of modern times—a natural outsider who lived a tumultuous and tortured life. In the course of his deep research into Reed’s life, from a humble upbringing on Long Island to death from liver disease in 2013, Howard Sounes interviewed more than 140 people who knew the artist intimately—some of whom have not spoken publicly about him before. With new revelations from former wives and lovers, family members, fellow band members and celebrities, and music industry figures, this book offers an updated, unfettered look at Reed’s creative process, his mental health problems, his bisexuality, his three marriages, and his addictions to drugs and alcohol. Featuring previously unpublished photographs of some of Reed’s most private moments, this is the definitive account of one of rock ’n’ roll’s most complicated and brilliant prophets. “Compelling . . . Sounes takes pride in carefully debunking the myths that have crept in from Reed’s own fictionalizations.” —The Sunday Telegraph “Controversial . . . Sounes’ book pushes the standard Reed narrative.” —New York Times “A measured chronicle of the life and music of Lou Reed . . . Sounes proves to be an amiable narrator who successfully reveals Reed as an innovative, influential musician.” —Publishers Weekly “A walk on the dark side.” —Independent “A must read . . . Sounes chronicles Reed’s turbulent, and often brutal, relationships with men and women . . . and the wayward talent that produced such classics as ‘Walk On The Wild Side.’” —Daily Mail
Download or read book Koala Lou written by Mem Fox and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1989 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Koala Lou's mother becomes so busy that she forgets to tell her firstborn how much she loves her, Koala Lou enters the Bush Olympics, intending to win an event and her mother's love all at one time. "A first-rate choice for bedtime, story hour, or reading aloud."--The Horn Book
Download or read book Little Lou s sayings and doings by the author of Little Susy s six birthdays written by Elizabeth Prentiss and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
