Download or read book Take Me Home from the Oscars written by Christine Schwab and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-six million people suffer from arthritis. Frustrated with the lies, driven to deceit by a career that celebrates beauty and fashion, lifestyle reporter Christine Schwab is not most people. She managed to keep her illness a secret for years, even as a recurring guest on Live with Regis & Kelly, Oprah!, The Today Show, Entertainment Tonight, and elsewhere. She juggled her career with a thrilling personal life in Hollywood: married to Shelly Schwab, then the president of television distribution at Universal Studios, she traveled, dined with celebrities, and met presidents of the United States. How could she allow a devastating disease associated with aging and disfigurement to take over her life? Rather than let it, she hid it—a skill learned well in childhood. In Take Me Home from the Oscars, Schwab openly speaks of her arthritis for the first time, looking to her past for clues of how she managed the deception, but also of lessons learned when she could no longer hide. A turning point came when she had to leave her tenth-row Oscar seat because she was in too much pain to sit for even a moment longer. From her nineteen-year journey through the UCLA Medical Center to the exhilaration of more than twenty years of appearing on national television, Schwab’s voice is at once smart and friendly. The reader will root for her at every step, and cheer when, through medication, she ultimately finds remission.
Download or read book Take Me Home from the Oscars written by Christine Schwab and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A successful television fashion reporter turned National Arthritis Foundation spokesperson tells her story for the first...
Download or read book Our Unhappy Ending written by Eric Pastrana and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its about two guys who fall in love and one of the guys has a past and an ugly present and Eric the main character has to decide whether to continue the relationship or leave his partner Oscar who has a daughter. Eric gets to deep into oscars mess. Deep enough that theres no going back now. Eric finds out what oscars been doing and now Eric has to fight for his life, his family, his relationship, and fight for Oscar. Drugs, violence, abuse, and drama all come together in this short story.
Download or read book Carry Me Home written by Diane McWhorter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-06-29 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the civil rights era’s climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institutions of segregation. "The Year of Birmingham," 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America’s long civil rights struggle. Child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches against segregation. Ku Klux Klansmen retaliated by bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four young black girls. Diane McWhorter, daughter of a prominent Birmingham family, weaves together police and FBI records, archival documents, interviews with black activists and Klansmen, and personal memories into an extraordinary narrative of the personalities and events that brought about America’s second emancipation. In a new afterword—reporting last encounters with hero Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and describing the current drastic anti-immigration laws in Alabama—the author demonstrates that Alabama remains a civil rights crucible.
Download or read book The Disease In Disguise written by Jesse Boylan and published by JD's Books. This book was released on 2019-01-05 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed true story about how an average teenage boy, Jesse, lost all control of himself at the age of nineteen. After quickly entering a downwards spiral, a lifestyle full of weapons, drugs, and life-threatening situations quickly became the norm. Always running from the police, Jesse was constantly on the road jumping from province to province. As the years passed by, the substance abuse, rage, and impulsiveness only worsened, resulting into a full criminal lifestyle. Battling to survive and maintain personal relationships, Jesse surrounded himself with all of the wrong people and always ended up finding himself between a rock and a hard place. Coming a long way, Jesse struggles to adapt and create stability in his life after so many years of living in the shadows. The story full of self-destruction and inner turmoil shows how a small town kid with a big heart could be transformed to a cold careless individual due to a disease in disguise.
Download or read book A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century written by Jane Vandenburgh and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into "a certain kind of family"—affluent, white, Protestant—Jane Vandenburgh came of age when the sexual revolution was sweeping the cultural landscape, making its mark in a way that would change our manners and mores forever. But what began as an all–American life soon spun off and went spectacularly awry. Her father, an architect with a prominent Los Angeles firm, was arrested several times for being in gay bars during the 1950s, and only freed when her grandfather paid bribes to the L.A.P.D. He was ultimately placed in a psychiatric hospital to be "cured" of his homosexuality, and committed suicide when she was nine. Her mother—an artist and freethinker—lost custody of her children when she was committed to a mental hospital. The author and her two brothers were raised by an aunt and uncle who had, under one roof, seven children and problems of their own. In the midst of private trauma and loss, Vandenburgh delights in revealing larger truths about American culture and her life within it. Quirky, witty, and uncannily wise, A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century is a brilliant blend of memoir and cultural revelation.
Download or read book Lights Camera Murder written by Loretta C. Rogers and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2022-08-17 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a stuntman is shot while rehearsing a scene for the newest movie starring cowboy hero Cody West, everyone considers his death an unfortunate accident. Veterinarian and amateur sleuth Tullah Holliday doesn’t hesitate to get involved. Her empathic senses tell her he was murdered. She suspects Cody West is the killer. As Tullah begins to put together the pieces of the case, West is stomped to death by a young stallion being trained as a stunt horse. Tullah soon discovers the entire movie crew seems to have had motives to kill West. Then two women each confess to being the murderer, and they also point a finger at a third accomplice. So who killed Cody West—the horse or…?
Download or read book Never Say Never A Triangle of Three Men The Third book in a Trilogy written by Nydia Sagre and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-09 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carmen had finally found peace, moving beyond her tumultuous past. Her only desire was to add four children, orphans like herself, to her family. Except, her husband had little interest in children, adopted or otherwise. Then she met an actor that wanted to whisk her away and make her dreams come true, but first she needed to return home to seek her Nana's advice. That's when she comes face to face with her first love, and new possibilities. She must choose one man in her Triangle of Three Men. The third book in a trilogy
Download or read book How I Went to the Oscars Without A Ticket written by Dee Thompson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story that is about faith and believing in whatever it is that you believe in. A phenomenal story about God and his power. A trip to the 69th Academy Awards (Oscars) and Governor ́s Ball is granted to a gentleman that prays and asks God to grant his wish to attend the event. God grants his wish. Travel with this ticket-less faith believer as this miracle takes place in a cinderella-like series of events.
Download or read book The Music of James Bond written by Jon Burlingame and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles all the behind-the-scenes stories of every song and score written for the James Bond films and draws from new interviews with many of the songwriters and composers.
Download or read book Ashton Scott written by Nina Levine and published by Nina Levine. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a bad start to my week. Or shall I say, he was a bad start to my week. Ashton Scott. Presumptuous, arrogant asshole. He barrelled into my office and demanded I sell him my property. I said no. Never. He said everything is for sale. He also said he always gets what he wants. Well, Ashton Scott can kiss my ass. He’s not getting this. There's one problem with that. The man just doesn’t give up. And now he’s decided he wants me, too. He’s sexy AF. He wears a suit like nobody’s business. And his bossiness turns me on in ways I can’t even understand. But I’m not going down without a fight. Or at least, I wasn't... My fight is what Ashton loves the most. Of course it is. Send wine. A standalone bossy-billionaire romance from USA Today bestselling author Nina Levine. Billionaire romance, alpha romance, romantic comedy, contemporary romance
Download or read book Skylark written by Philip Furia and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-12-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life of lyricist Johnny Mercer, discussing how he brought his quintessentially southern style to both his life in New York and his lyrics.
Download or read book Country Music s Most Wanted written by Francesca Peppiatt and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pick and grin with fun country music trivia
Download or read book Mississippi written by Westley F. Busbee, Jr and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Mississippi: A History features a series of revisions and updates to its comprehensive coverage of Mississippi state history from the time of the region’s first inhabitants into the 21st century. Represents the only available comprehensive textbook on Mississippi history specifically for use in college-level courses Features an engaging narrative mix of topical and chronological chapters Includes chapter objectives that may be used by professors and students Offers coverage of Mississippi’s major political, economic, social, and cultural developments Presents two entirely new chapters on important 21st-century developments in Mississippi Contains expanded coverage of slavery in Mississippi history Includes completely up-to-date chapter sources, selected bibliography, and subject index
Download or read book The Great American Playwrights on the Screen written by Jerry Roberts and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The profound expansion of television into American homes in the 1950s brought a flood of adapted plays to the small screen and resulted in the rebirth of the careers of many significant playwrights. The Great American Playwrights on the Screen provides fans with a video and DVD guide to the adapted works of the playwrights and shows which versions are available for home viewing and in what media (VHS and DVD). It resurrects the memory of television productions of plays at a critical time, when many of them - including Emmy winners and nominees - are deteriorating in vaults."--BOOK JACKET.
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Download or read book A Long Cold War written by Jerry Carrier and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Long Cold War is a two-volume cultural history of Cold War America from 1945 to 1991. This is the story of America at her peak as a world power, with the fear of nuclear war and the hyper competition with the USSR and China - a good read for the historical, nostalgic or even casual reader.
