Download or read book Living Up The Street written by Gary Soto and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a prose that is so beautiful it is poetry, we see the world of growing up and going somewhere through the dust and heat of Fresno's industrial side and beyond: It is a boy's coming of age in the barrio, parochial school, attending church, public summer school, and trying to fall out of love so he can join in a Little League baseball team. His is a clarity that rings constantly through the warmth and wry reality of these sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, always human remembrances.

Download or read book That Perfect Spring written by Bruce Fabricant and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come back to the 1950s and relive the dreams of 15 young boys who grew up playing baseball in Mount Vernon, New York. Hear them reminisce about what it was like 60 years ago living in a community where baseball was not just a sport but a way of life. Meet their dads and brothers who threw practices pitches after dinner and bought them their first mitts. Meet the mom who pulled her son out of kindergarten to watch a New York Giants game at the Polo Grounds on Ladies Day. Travel with them as they sang All I Have to Do Is Dream on the bus to away games. But most of all, hear how they became the A.B. Davis High School baseball team that won a championship in 1959.

Download or read book DLR Book written by Darren Paltrowitz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do after leaving one of the world’s biggest bands? If you’re David Lee Roth, you write a memoir, become a radio host, sell a screenplay to a major studio, get certified as an EMT, play Vegas, and put out bluegrass versions of your biggest hits. And then you rejoin Van Halen for a reunion tour. Encompassing the highs and lows of a truly unusual career, DLR Book is an intimate look at the force of nature that is David Lee Roth, from his start with Van Halen to his highly publicized departure from the band and his triumphant return. Drawing on nearly one hundred exclusive interviews, author Darren Paltrowitz delves into Diamond Dave’s many extracurricular activities, including his unclassifiable video series “The Roth Show,” the rise and fall of his syndicated radio program, and his line of tattoo skincare products. Also included are conversations with some of Roth’s most popular collaborators (among them Steve Vai, Billy Sheehan, Travis Tritt, and Korn’s Ray Luzier) and contributions from figures influenced by Roth, including Jason Aldean, Billy Corgan, Butch Vig, and legendary sumo wrestler Konishiki. Filled with exclusive photographs from Lit bassist Kevin Baldes and an introduction by WWE superstar Diamond Dallas Page, DLR Book is a front-row seat to one of the wildest and most unpredictable artists of all time.

Download or read book Syvilla A Life Survived written by B. S. Paulson and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2013 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to take a ride down a street of lies, deceit, sex, drugs, survival, and success, then come on with me.

Download or read book The Flipside written by Ricky Waller and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ricky Waller aka known as "Fat Ricky" was born July 10, 1957 in Nashville, TN. to the late Mr. James Richard and Mary Frances Waller. He was raised in Preston Taylor and attended Cohn High School where he was very active in sports and a natural with the "basketball." Ricky was destined for the PROS until he glimpsed and fell into the trap that led to a crime. After 20+ years in the life of corruption and addiction, he pleaded with the Lord for help and as expected the Lord answered in a mighty way. He does not remember the day he was captured but he does remember the day he was made free-January 31, 1992. Today, 28 years later he is still going back to the people and communities he once infiltrated to become a beacon of hope. Declaring to all who will listen especially the youth, gangs, and drug addicted that there is hope and a better way. God is the answer! He launched New Way Outreach Ministry, which you will find setting up tents and spreading the gospel of good news around the city and the nation. Minister Waller is an active member of Immanuel Missionary Baptist Church. He is the father of 3 children, Ricky, Kristian, and Taylor. He is a brother to 5 siblings, Mary, Sandra, Frederick, Vernon, and Priscilla. He speaks fondly of his "Aunt Priscilla" as being his continual guiding light and a very powerful influence. He is also proud to have a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and many other relatives. Ricky's phenomenal story has been captured and told in his autobiography book, "Still High." To purchase a copy or to book a speaking engagement please contact Ricky directly at, 615-491-5489. His story will blow you away and is a testament to God's amazing, transformation power.

Download or read book Masterpiece in Progress written by Jeff Steinberg and published by New Leaf Publishing Group. This book was released on 1990-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They called his condition Phocomelia, probably the result of Thalidomide or some medication prescribed for his mother. Born with tiny scissored legs, only one arm, and that tiny stump, Jeff spent his first years in a welfare center and then later in a Shriners? Hospital, where he learned to walk in braces, feed himself with a hook, and fight for survival. Later he went to live in a home for the severely disabled, where he would have spent the rest of his life. But God had other plans. The Master Artist was at work putting together the materials that He would use to create another masterpiece. Jeff Steinberg's story is about a masterpiece in progress ? living proof of what a person can become when willing to be shaped by the hands of the Master Artist. Someone once described Jeff as having ?a face like B.J. Thomas and a voice like Neil Diamond.? He now travels around the country, singing about what God has done with his life and encouraging others to be ?the best YOU ?

Download or read book The Inheritance Games Collection written by Jennifer Lynn Barnes and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD OF THE #1 BESTSELLING SERIES! Fall in love with the series everyone is talking about with this ebook collection of the #1 New York Times bestselling Inheritance Games trilogy! The Inheritance Games, The Hawthorne Legacy, and The Final Gambit are together for the first time--plus a FREE bonus ebook, The Naturals! Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why -- or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch -- and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a conwoman, and he's determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather's last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive. With deadly stakes, thrilling twists, juicy secrets, swoonworthy romance, and billions of dollars hanging in the balance, this "impossible to put down" (Buzzfeed) series is perfect for fans of One of Us Is Lying and Knives Out.

Download or read book The Pitcher written by William Hazelgrove and published by . This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Junior Library Guild Selection. OHazelgrove ("Rocket Man") measures out a generous sprinkling of American idealism while weaving in legitimate threads of sorrow, employing the oft-used baseball metaphor to fresh and moving effect.ON"Publishers Weekly."

Download or read book My Father s Guide for Prostate Cancer written by Ricky Wuorenma and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book started out in 2010 as a private retirement project for the kids. It expanded into writing about the health benefits of eating real food after listening to what the grandchildren were eating in school. Then came the big announcement day. “Rick...you have cancer,” and the time clock for enjoying a full retirement promptly crashed and burned. Out of the ashes came the revelation that men are dying from prostate cancer and all I see and hear is a women’s cancer message. I was then motivated to share what the prostate cancer stage IV(c), Gleason score of 9 announcement felt like from a type-A personality, goal-setting man. Now a guide, the pages tell the story right up to when the time it takes for a half-day of production takes three days of rest and pain pills. Brutal is not a big enough word. Read the guide and soak in this fact. All men will have prostate cancer by age eighty-four. So says my oncologist. Suffer the consequences of not paying attention to the numbers and not going for a complete physical after age thirty-five. My red light flashed bright when I heard from the urologist the blood in my semen will go away in a couple of weeks. It did. The cancer did not. The year was 2011. I should have insisted further testing be done and closer follow-up visits be scheduled.

Download or read book Flip Flop Fly Ball written by Craig Robinson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively treasury of baseball trivia gleaned from the author's flipflopflyball.com website is comprised of 120 full-color graphics that share statistical, historical and cultural tidbits on everything from the miles traveled by a baseball team in one season to the height of A-Rod's annual salary in pennies. 35,000 first printing.

Download or read book Lucille Ball FAQ written by Barry Monush and published by Applause Theatre & Cinema. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). Although countless books and articles have been written about Lucille Ball, most people know only the surface details of her personal life and some basic facts about her popular television series. Lucille Ball FAQ takes us beyond the "Lucy" character to give readers information that might not be common knowledge about one of the world's most beloved entertainers. It can be read straight through, but the FAQ format also invites readers to pick it up and dig in at any point. Background information and anecdotes are provided in such categories as: People Lucy found funny; Lucy at home: her various residences throughout the years; Movie/television/radio/theater projects that never materialized; Lucy's off-camera romantic attachments. James Sheridan and Barry Monush go beyond the well known facts, making this an indispensable book for all Lucille Ball fans!

Download or read book Spread Your Wings written by Louis Tabor and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inner city of Baltimore was not what I had pictured in my dreams. The streets were filled with hoodlums, with violence, and they were filthy. Who knew-even murders might have been committed on Washington Street. This was not the place for a kid from the suburbs who loved playing Cowboys and Indians. As my dad called, I knew we were here for good in our new old row house. Thus begins the new novel from Louis Tabor, a story inspired by his own childhood in the inner streets of Baltimore. The

Download or read book The Shape Under the Sheet written by Stephen J. Spignesi and published by Popular Culture Ink. This book was released on 1991 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference source on Stephen King's fiction provides details about characters, places and objects in each of King's novels and short stories and includes a biography section, interviews with family, friends and contemporaries, and sections on film adaptations and audio versions of his work.

Download or read book A White Minority in Post civil Rights Mississippi written by Thomas Adams Upchurch and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2005 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Thomas Adams Upchurch presents the true story of a white youth's experiences with race relations in the early years of integration in Mississippi. Upchurch, a first-generation product of the integrated public schools in Mississippi, describes what it was like to be white in a public school that was 70% black. The book offers a glimpse into the triumphs, challenges, and failures of integration in the 1970s and 1980s and beyond, from one 'white minorityOs' perspective. By analyzing the factors of prejudice, academics, sports, masculinity, religion, and attempts at racial reconciliation, this book vividly shows why race relations must be kept in the context of the larger picture of southern life and society. It hopes to bring more attention to this little-discussed and infrequently written-about period and topic of American history.

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