Download or read book Wally Where d You Get Those Glasses written by Wallace Safford and published by Lil Gater's Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wally, Where'd You Get Those Glasses? (My Life Through the Lens From Parliament, Pendergrass and Prince) is a memoir that recounts why Prince recorded a defining song in Wallace Safford's honor and the harrowing night that changed his life forever, prompting the Academy Award-winning artist, at the height of his career, to make the fateful decision of moving Safford from working as security to dancing and singing background alongside him on stage. The Detroit native's story also takes a snapshot through his lens in security, keeping a watchful eye on iconic musicians such as the Commodores, Parliament Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire and Teddy Pendergrass.

Download or read book Wally Where d You Get Those Glasses written by Wallace Safford and published by Lil Gater's Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wally, Where'd You Get Those Glasses? (My Life Through the Lens From Parliament, Pendergrass and Prince) is a memoir that recounts why Prince recorded a defining song in Wallace Safford's honor and the harrowing night that changed his life forever, prompting the Academy Award-winning artist, at the height of his career, to make the fateful decision of moving Safford from working as security to dancing and singing background alongside him on stage. The Detroit native's story also takes a snapshot through his lens in security, keeping a watchful eye on iconic musicians such as the Commodores, Parliament Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire and Teddy Pendergrass.

Download or read book The Sassy Suspect written by Kelly Rey and published by Gemma Halliday Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA Today bestselling author Kelly Rey comes another laugh-out-loud installment in her Jamie Winters Mysteries … Just when legal secretary and reluctant sleuth Jamie Winters thinks life has settled down and her prospects are looking up...murder catches up to her again! Kay Culverson, a low-budget cable talk show host and diva extraordinaire, is found dead in her office after alienating not only Jamie’s boss, Howard Dennis, but also her own agent and every employee in the studio. When Howard falls under suspicion, his wife asks Jamie to investigate. While she's not exactly excited at the prospect of solving another murder, Jamie isn't thrilled with the idea of losing her job either. So with the help of her hot landlord Curt and Curt’s feisty teen niece Maizy, Jamie's on the case! But she soon finds herself dealing with a whole cast of suspects, including a shady agent, a group of anti-government geeks, a light-fingered ex-con, and a mysterious hitman for hire named Z. It couldn’t possibly get any worse…until it does. And suddenly Jamie wonders if this next case may be her last! Note: This book was previously published under the title "Motion for Madness." Jamie Winters Mysteries: Motion for Murder – book #1 Mistletoe & Misdemeanors– holiday short story Death of a Diva – book #2 Motion for Misfits (short story in the "Killer Beach Reads" collection) The Sassy Suspect – book #3 Verdicts & Vixens – book #4 A Playboy in Peril – book #5 "Move over Stephanie Plum—there's a new girl in town! Jamie Winters is smart, sassy, and laugh-out-loud hilarious. Mix one fun mystery, some fantastic romantic chemistry, and witty quips throughout for a sure-fire winner! Who knew a lawyer's office could be so funny?" ~ Gemma Halliday, New York Times bestselling author

Download or read book Two Plays written by Donald Batchelor and published by Bitingduck Press LLC. This book was released on 2000 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Raleigh Road is a play in three acts. It is a serious look at the tobacco issue both economically and morally. A tobacco farmer contracts lung cancer and summons his family home while he deals with his impending death. Ultimately, he makes a decision that will affect his entire family and the tobacco industry in his region. Rednecks, the play, was an adaptation of Batchelor's novel by the same name. Rednecks has also been produced. Rednecks was staged in the very bar, by and among the characters that inspired the broad satire. This play is a satirical approach to the ironies and idiocy of two actual killings stunning in their irrationality. . Boson Books also offers Becoming Americans, a historical novel by Donald Batchelor. For an author bio, photo, reviews, and a reading sample, visit bosonbooks.com.

Download or read book The Hour I First Believed written by Wally Lamb and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller The profound and compelling story of a personal quest for meaning and faith from Wally Lamb, #1 New York Times bestselling author of She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True “The beauty of The Hour I First Believed, a soaring novel as amazingly graceful as the classic hymn that provides the title, is that Lamb never loses sight of the spark of human resilience. . . . Lamb’s wonderful novel offers us the promise and power of hope.” —Miami Herald When 47-year-old high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his younger wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, Caelum returns home to Connecticut to be with his aunt who has just had a stroke. But Maureen finds herself in the school library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed, as two vengeful students go on a murderous rampage. Miraculously she survives, but at a cost: she is unable to recover from the trauma. Caelum and Maureen flee Colorado and return to an illusion of safety at the Quirk family farm back east. But the effects of chaos are not so easily put right, and further tragedy ensues. In The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb travels well beyond his earlier work and embodies in his fiction myth, psychology, family history stretching back many generations, and the questions of faith that lie at the heart of everyday life. The result is an extraordinary tour de force, at once a meditation on the human condition and an unflinching yet compassionate evocation of character.

Download or read book Prince and the Parade and Sign O The Times Era Studio Sessions written by Duane Tudahl and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[W]ill command the rapt attention of casual fans and scholars alike." Booklist, Starred Review From Prince's superstardom to studio seclusion, this second book in the award-winning Prince Studio Sessions series spotlights how Prince, the biggest rock star on the planet at the time, risked everything to create some of the most introspective music of his four-decade career. Duane Tudahl takes us on an emotional and intimate journey of love, loss, rivalry, and renewal revealed through unprecedented access to dozens of musicians, singers, studio engineers, and others who worked with him and knew him best—with never-before-published memories from the Revolution, the Time, the Family, and Apollonia 6. Also included is a heartfelt foreword by musical legend Elton John about his time and friendship with Prince.

Download or read book By the Way written by Megan Derr and published by Less Than Three Press, LLC. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antoine and Wally have been best friends since college. They do everything together—work, play, relax, live. Minus the blight that is Wally's wife, and the unhappiness she brings him, their lives are grand. But then Wally files for divorce, and his wife drops a bombshell he never expected, and Antoine realizes that the life he'd always imagined with the best friend he's always secretly loved has been taken away from him a second time.

Download or read book Do This for Me written by Eliza Kennedy and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A high-powered attorney dives into the politics of sex, the perils of desire, and why men and women treat each other the way they do. Raney Moore has it all figured out. An ambitious young partner at a prestigious Manhattan law firm, she’s got a dream job, a loving (and famous) husband, and amazing twin daughters. Her world is full, busy, perfectly scripted. Or so she thinks. One sunny fall day, a bombshell phone call throws Raney’s well-ordered existence into chaos, and in a fit of rage, she diabolically, hilariously burns everything down. Once the flames subside, she finds herself asking some difficult questions: Who am I? What just happened? Am I ever going to find my way back to normal? Assisted by enterprising paralegals, flirtatious clientele, one dear friend and an unforgettable therapist, Raney thinks the answers are close at hand, only to find life spiraling utterly out of control. Uproarious, incisive and poignant, Do This For Me introduces a brilliant, off-kilter heroine on a quest to understand sex, fight workplace inequality, and solve the mystery of herself.

Download or read book She s Come Undone written by Wally Lamb and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Dolores Price. She's thirteen, wise-mouthed but wounded. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the chocolate, crisps and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly up. In his extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch an incredible ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. At once a fragile girl and a hard-edged cynic, so tough to love yet so inimitably loveable, Dolores is as poignantly real as our own imperfections.

Download or read book A Lot Like Fun Only Different written by Jack Livingston and published by Nfb Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Jack Livingston Describes the Book"Clearing out the high school with a smoke bomb prank in our senior year, raising a family of pigs in a village yard, saving a drowning man in Singapore, and overcoming the trauma of a childhood abduction are part of my friend, Chris Kelley's past. I knew little about them. To me, Chris was the guy who was always up for doing two fun things in one day (sometimes three). When Chris was diagnosed with Pick's disease (a rare type of dementia) in his mid-fifties, it signaled the end to what we had taken for granted. It changed our friendship. No longer would I follow him on epic adventures he planned. These days, I take him for hikes, hold both sides of our conversations, and help him across a two-foot stream. But because I didn't want to forget the times we'd had together, I started to write, and as a result found out there was more to my friend. In A Lot Like Fun -- Only Different I share incredible stories of our improbable friendship where Chris met life head on while I asked, "Are you sure we want to do this?" It contains dozens of stories and photos from our past that contrast 'current day' Chris, diminished by Pick's, with the Chris I knew so well. No longer are we barreling down the 219 to ski or mountain bike the Bent Rim Trail, and celebrating with a 'couple tree' beers. We aren't breaking trails with our snowshoes in the Adirondack High Peaks or cruising through Appalachia on the way to a 24-hour mountain bike race. We still get together every week. And I look forward to those times. It's fun -- only different. Chris greets me with a smile and a hearty laugh. He doesn't speak, but I know if he could, he'd tell me, 'Thanks for coming out, Jack. Today was great.' And then it breaks my heart when he stands next to my car, wanting to ride home with me and I have to tell him, 'Chris, you're riding with your brother. I'll see you next week, okay buddy.' And I hear his words of the past. 'Good deal.'"

Download or read book Murder on Location written by Howard Engel and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Canada’s first and foremost private eye” hunts for a missing woman amid a movie production in this mystery by an Arthur Ellis Award winner (Maclean’s). Niagara Falls is overrun with Hollywood types who are shooting a film. But Benny Cooperman isn’t scouting for talent—he’s scouring the area for a woman named Billie Mason, who’s gone missing from his hometown of Grantham, Ontario. Has she merely been bitten by the acting bug, or is a much more sinister force at play? “In Benny Cooperman, the author has leavened the hard-boiled school of detective fiction with comedy and compassion. With this book, Canada’s first and foremost private eye is well on his way to becoming a cherished national institution.” —Maclean’s “The Cooperman novels are heavy on full-bodied characters, sharp dialogue, and rich humor.” —Booklist “Benny Cooperman is . . . a lot of fun to hang out with.” —Donald E. Westlake Murder on Location is the third book in the Benny Cooperman Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Download or read book Dombey and Son written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Dombey is a cold, unbending, pompous merchant, and a widower with two children - Paul and Florence. His chief ambition is to perpetuate the firm-name. He dreams of passing his business on to his son. Dombey dotes on his son, and neglects and mistreats his daughter.The "son" in the title of the book is incapable of ever joining the firm. A sickly and odd child, Paul dies at the age of six. Dombey pours his resentment and anger out on his daughter, whom he pushes away despite her efforts to earn her father's love.Eventually Dombey remarries, after literally acquiring his new wife from her father in a commercial transaction. Dombey is as bad a husband as he is a father and his marriage is loveless. His new bride hates Dombey and eventually runs off with Canker, his business manager. Dombey characteristically blames Florence for this reversal, and strikes her, causing Florence to run away as well.Abandoned by everyone, Dombey loses his business and goes half insane, living in his decaying house. Dombey is eventually reconciled to his daughter, who always a doormat forgives her father........

Download or read book Soft Focus written by Jack Gunter and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The picking trip of Wally Winchester's dream is a 3000 mile dash across the United States to deliver a Shelby Cobra to Boston. With a Mexican beauty in the passenger seat, a wallet full of credit cards, a clue to the lost portfolio of Julia Cameron photographs behind the seat, and a small fortune waiting at the finish line, what could possibly go wrong?

Download or read book Blood Street Punx written by Joseph Flynn and published by Stray Dog Press Inc. This book was released on 2011-02-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five rich kids from Chicago's Gold Coast get an idea to advance their careers as artists. They'll create a fictitious street gang, the Blood Street Punx, and start painting murals all over town. Their paintings will knock people's eyes out. The Blood Street Punx will be depicted as huge, fearsome, all but mythical figures. People will have to take notice.People do notice. The wrong people.In short order, the city's real gangs see the murals for these new Punx on their turf -- and they don't like it. When the Punx are connected to the destruction of one gang's drug cache, war is declared on them.That's not the Punx only worry. A Chicago cop nicknamed "Lady Die" is given the job of tracking them down. She's fallen out of favor with the department, has a "brick" on her career, and finding the new gang becomes her only task. That's bad for the Punx because she's a lot smarter than any street thug, So what are the Punx going to do now? The same thing any rich, young group of artists would do: Paint their masterpiece as fast as they can.

Download or read book Dombey and son Old curiosity shop Hard times written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Trouble with a Small Raise written by Camilla T. Crespi and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-07-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simona needs a raise badly, but her boss is too busy with HH&H's new advertising campaign for a fancy perfume to give her the time of day. She gets up early one morning to confront Fred one last time only to find him lying on the plush carpet of his office murdered. Who is the killer and why? Maybe it's the art director who hungered for Fred's job. Or the jilted ad executive. Or the secretive CEO. Or the overworked Office Manager. There are too many suspects to sort through, but when the cute detective assigned to the case discovers incriminating evidence in Simona's desk, she knows she better find the murderer fast. "Replete with well-drawn characters Nothing spoils the fun of this thoroughly engrossing whodunit, [which introduces] one of the boldest and most likable female sleuths." -Publishers Weekly "Small Raise presents a complicated plot and a lot of intriguing ad business colleagues, and introduces Simona's "When in doubt, cook" philosophy. My kind of woman." -Joyce Christmas, Mysterious Women "Crespi has a light touch with location and atmosphere, and her characters are far from the staid characters often found in series books." -Ellen Nehr, Murder Ad Lib "Ms. Crespi truly shines in the humor department. Realistic and richly detailed Crespi will undoubtedly win a following among those who become acquainted with her heroine." -Stevanne Carter, Mostly Murder

Download or read book Motor Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: