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Book My Father  Elmo Lincoln

Download or read book My Father Elmo Lincoln written by Marci'a Lincoln Rudolph and published by Empire Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Father  Elmo Lincoln  Thr Original Tarzan

Download or read book My Father Elmo Lincoln Thr Original Tarzan written by Marciʼa Lincoln Rudolph and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Elmo Lincoln

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Elmo Lincoln written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mirage Factory

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  • Author : Gary Krist
  • Publisher : Crown
  • Release : 2018-05-15
  • ISBN : 045149640X
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book The Mirage Factory written by Gary Krist and published by Crown. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author Gary Krist, the story of the metropolis that never should have been and the visionaries who dreamed it into reality Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California—bone-dry, harbor-less, isolated by deserts and mountain ranges—seemed destined to remain scrappy farmland. Then, as if overnight, one of the world’s iconic cities emerged. At the heart of Los Angeles’ meteoric rise were three flawed visionaries: William Mulholland, an immigrant ditch-digger turned self-taught engineer, designed the massive aqueduct that would make urban life here possible. D.W. Griffith, who transformed the motion picture from a vaudeville-house novelty into a cornerstone of American culture, gave L.A. its signature industry. And Aimee Semple McPherson, a charismatic evangelist who founded a religion, cemented the city’s identity as a center for spiritual exploration. All were masters of their craft, but also illusionists, of a kind. The images they conjured up—of a blossoming city in the desert, of a factory of celluloid dreamworks, of a community of seekers finding personal salvation under the California sun—were like mirages liable to evaporate on closer inspection. All three would pay a steep price to realize these dreams, in a crescendo of hubris, scandal, and catastrophic failure of design that threatened to topple each of their personal empires. Yet when the dust settled, the mirage that was LA remained. Spanning the years from 1900 to 1930, The Mirage Factory is the enthralling tale of an improbable city and the people who willed it into existence by pushing the limits of human engineering and imagination.

Book Oddball Indiana

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  • Author : Jerome Pohlen
  • Publisher : Chicago Review Press
  • Release : 2017-05-01
  • ISBN : 1613738528
  • Pages : 221 pages

Download or read book Oddball Indiana written by Jerome Pohlen and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indiana often calls itself the Crossroads of the Nation. It's not also perhaps the very nexus of US weirdness. Armed with Oddball Indiana, you'll soon discover the strange underbelly of the Hoosier State, from brain sandwiches to square donuts. Indiana has monuments to Michael Jackson, the comic strip character Joe Palooka, and the World's Largest Egg. It's where Alka-Seltzer and Wonder Bread were invented, where A Christmas Story actually took place, and where the good but angry citizens of Plainfield conspired to dump President Martin Van Buren in a mud puddle. Along with humorous histories and offbeat observations, Oddball Indiana provides addresses, websites, hours, fees, and driving directions for each of its 350+ entries.

Book The Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema

Download or read book The Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema written by Jacqueline Reich and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian film star Bartolomeo Pagano's "Maciste" played a key role in his nation's narratives of identity during World War I and after. Jacqueline Reich traces the racial, class, and national transformations undergone by this Italian strongman from African slave in Cabiria (1914), his first film, to bourgeois gentleman, to Alpine soldier of the Great War, to colonial officer in Italy's African adventures. Reich reveals Maciste as a figure who both reflected classical ideals of masculine beauty and virility (later taken up by Mussolini and used for political purposes) and embodied the model Italian citizen. The 12 films at the center of the book, recently restored and newly accessible to a wider public, together with relevant extra-cinematic materials, provide a rich resource for understanding the spread of discourses on masculinity, and national and racial identities during a turbulent period in Italian history. The volume includes an illustrated appendix documenting the restoration and preservation of these cinematic treasures.

Book Murder at Wrigley Field

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  • Author : Troy Soos
  • Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
  • Release : 2012-04-25
  • ISBN : 0758287801
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Murder at Wrigley Field written by Troy Soos and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical mystery with “first-rate wartime Chicago atmosphere” and starring a ballplayer who “turns double plays and solves murders with equal grace” (Publishers Weekly). While the nation wages war against Germany in 1918, utility infielder Mickey Rawlings has been traded to the North Side of Chicago. He's batting a career high (a respectable .274) and the Cubs are in first place. For the first time in a long while Mickey is feeling financially secure enough to buy furniture. That's when his best friend—rookie Willie Kaiser—is shot dead right on the diamond. While the official explanation is "accidental death from a stray bullet," Mickey thinks someone's taken the anti-war sentiment too far. Between collapsing bleacher seats and pretzel sabotage in the stands, Mickey's search for answers takes him from silent movies to speakeasies to the stockyards. As long as he keeps fouling off clues, it's only a matter of time before a killer is caught in a rundown—or Mickey is tagged out permanently. “[A] quietly effective portrait of wartime Chicago in the throes of painful German-baiting and on the verge of Prohibition.”—Kirkus Reviews Praise for the Mickey Rawlings Baseball Mysteries “Full of life.”—The New York Times Book Review “A perfect book for the rain delay…a winner.” —USA Today “Delightful…period detail that will leave readers eager for subsequent innings.”—Publishers Weekly

Book David Butler

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  • Author : David Butler
  • Publisher : Scarecrow Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780810827059
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book David Butler written by David Butler and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Butler (1894-1979) directed over a hundred theatrical and television films, and such popular TV shows as Wagon Train and Leave it to Beaver. In this oral history, he reflects on his life and work.

Book Elmo  n  Daddy  Sesame Street

Download or read book Elmo n Daddy Sesame Street written by Michael P. Fertig and published by Sesame Workshop. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elmo loves spending time with his father. Elmo loves baseball, too! So what could be better than a day with Daddy at the ballpark?

Book Antichrist of Kokomo County

Download or read book Antichrist of Kokomo County written by David Skinner and published by Conundrum Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frankie Horvath is not happy. He's almost forty. He's fat. His wife is dead. He designs forks for a living. And his son might just be the Antichrist. Frankie is about to meet with Satanists to find out the truth once and for all. Taking into account Frankie's lifelong delusions of grandeur, and the gun stuffed down the front of his pants, a bloody showdown for the fate of mankind is not out of the question.

Book Photoplay

Download or read book Photoplay written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Elmo s Daddy

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  • Author : Naomi Kleinberg
  • Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0307981223
  • Pages : 12 pages

Download or read book Elmo s Daddy written by Naomi Kleinberg and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elmo and his dad as they celebrate Father's Day.

Book Hoosiers in Hollywood

Download or read book Hoosiers in Hollywood written by David Lee Smith and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Legend of the Maneater

Download or read book The Legend of the Maneater written by Arjan Singh and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1993 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book By The Famed Conservationist Aims To Spread The Message That Wildlife, Particularly The Tiger And Other Large Predators Must Be Protected Far More Effectively Than At Present.

Book The Silents Go to War

Download or read book The Silents Go to War written by Anita R. Appelbaum and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-08-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, readers can experience the tumultuous era of silent First World War propaganda films that helped shape U.S. opinion of the dreaded "Huns." From pro-preparedness films pacifist films, "horrible Hun" films, "kill-the-kaiser" films, and outrageous comedies to thought-provoking war trauma films and patriotic documentaries, readers can survey America's cinematic view of "the war to end all wars." Featured is comprehensive discussion of these films, including synopses, casts, back stories, and critical reviews and notes. Here are unusual tales and extraordinary plots with serpentine Germans (Erich von Stroheim throwing a baby out of a window in 1918's The Heart of Humanity), noble French girls sacrificing their honor for the allied cause (Clara Kimball Young in 1918's The Road Through the Dark), and singular Yanks (Bothwell Browne as a cross-dressing American flyer seducing the kaiser and his high command in 1919's Yankee Doodle in Berlin).

Book Twenty Five Milk Runs  and a Few Others

Download or read book Twenty Five Milk Runs and a Few Others written by Richard Riley Johnson and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author takes you through the Great Depression growing up as the son of migrant farm workers. Fly with him as the pilot of a B-17 Flying Fortress over Germany in 1944.

Book  Bare Knees  Flapper

Download or read book Bare Knees Flapper written by Tim Lussier and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most popular Hollywood child stars of the late 1910s, Virginia Lee Corbin was well known to fans worldwide. With her mother as her manager, Corbin retained her popularity as she grew older. She performed in vaudeville for a couple of years before continuing her film career. Corbin fit well into the flapper mold of the Jazz Age and appeared in many films throughout the 1920s. As she matured, her mother found it ever more difficult to control her. Corbin led a difficult life. After her mother's suicide attempt, she found that all the money she had earned was gone. Her marriage (at age 18) failed and she was eventually separated from her children. The flapper struggled to remain relevant in the sound era and was trying to make a comeback when she died at 31 in 1942.