Author: Des Gregory
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1628575646
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Just an ordinary boy with the usual likes and dislikes, Billy Bean’s favorite food is baked beans. One special day, Billy unknowingly eats a magic bean, and it changes his life forever. This first illustrated book in an exciting new children’s series introduces Billy, explains his story, and introduces all his new-found friends. The Adventures of Billy the Bean presents a new hero for children to follow and each story provides a challenge for Billy. It contains four separate stories with more to come.
The Adventures of Billy the Bean
Author: Des Gregory
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1628575646
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Just an ordinary boy with the usual likes and dislikes, Billy Bean’s favorite food is baked beans. One special day, Billy unknowingly eats a magic bean, and it changes his life forever. This first illustrated book in an exciting new children’s series introduces Billy, explains his story, and introduces all his new-found friends. The Adventures of Billy the Bean presents a new hero for children to follow and each story provides a challenge for Billy. It contains four separate stories with more to come.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1628575646
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Just an ordinary boy with the usual likes and dislikes, Billy Bean’s favorite food is baked beans. One special day, Billy unknowingly eats a magic bean, and it changes his life forever. This first illustrated book in an exciting new children’s series introduces Billy, explains his story, and introduces all his new-found friends. The Adventures of Billy the Bean presents a new hero for children to follow and each story provides a challenge for Billy. It contains four separate stories with more to come.
Going the Other Way
Author: Billy Bean
Publisher: The Experiment + ORM
ISBN: 1615192646
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
From major league baseball’s only openly gay former player—and now its first-ever Ambassador for Inclusion—the intimate chronicle of a man who, in the prime of his career, had to make a terrible choice between his love of the game and the love of his lifeMore than ten years after its original publication, Going the Other Way remains deeply moving, and more timely than ever. By virtue of a relentless work ethic, exceptional multi-sport talent, and a quick left-handed swing, Billy Bean made it to the majors, where he played from 1987 to 1995—an outfielder for the Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, and San Diego Padres. But as a gay man in the brutally anti-gay world of baseball, closeted to teammates and family, Bean found himself unable to reconcile two worlds that he felt to be mutually exclusive. At the young age of 31, in the prime of his career, even as he solidified his role as a major-league utility player, Bean walked away from the game that was both his calling and his livelihood. At once heartbreaking and farcical, ruminative and uncensored, this unprecedented memoir points the way toward a more perfect game, one in which all players can pursue their athletic dreams free of prejudice and discrimination.
Publisher: The Experiment + ORM
ISBN: 1615192646
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
From major league baseball’s only openly gay former player—and now its first-ever Ambassador for Inclusion—the intimate chronicle of a man who, in the prime of his career, had to make a terrible choice between his love of the game and the love of his lifeMore than ten years after its original publication, Going the Other Way remains deeply moving, and more timely than ever. By virtue of a relentless work ethic, exceptional multi-sport talent, and a quick left-handed swing, Billy Bean made it to the majors, where he played from 1987 to 1995—an outfielder for the Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, and San Diego Padres. But as a gay man in the brutally anti-gay world of baseball, closeted to teammates and family, Bean found himself unable to reconcile two worlds that he felt to be mutually exclusive. At the young age of 31, in the prime of his career, even as he solidified his role as a major-league utility player, Bean walked away from the game that was both his calling and his livelihood. At once heartbreaking and farcical, ruminative and uncensored, this unprecedented memoir points the way toward a more perfect game, one in which all players can pursue their athletic dreams free of prejudice and discrimination.
American Indian Culture [2 volumes]
Author: Bruce E. Johansen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440828741
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 803
Book Description
This invaluable resource provides a comprehensive historical and demographic overview of American Indians along with more than 100 cross-referenced entries on American Indian culture, exploring everything from arts, literature, music, and dance to food, family, housing, and spirituality. American Indian Culture: From Counting Coup to Wampum is organized by cultural form (Arts; Family, Education, and Community; Food; Language and Literature; Media and Popular Culture; Music and Dance; Spirituality; and Transportation and Housing). Examples of topics covered include icons of Native culture, such as pow wows, Indian dancing, and tipi dwellings; Native art forms such as pottery, rock art, sandpainting, silverwork, tattooing, and totem poles; foods such as corn, frybread, and wild rice; and Native Americans in popular culture. The extensive introductory section, breadth of topics, accessibly written text, and range of perspectives from the many contributors make this work a must-have resource for high school and undergraduate audiences.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440828741
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 803
Book Description
This invaluable resource provides a comprehensive historical and demographic overview of American Indians along with more than 100 cross-referenced entries on American Indian culture, exploring everything from arts, literature, music, and dance to food, family, housing, and spirituality. American Indian Culture: From Counting Coup to Wampum is organized by cultural form (Arts; Family, Education, and Community; Food; Language and Literature; Media and Popular Culture; Music and Dance; Spirituality; and Transportation and Housing). Examples of topics covered include icons of Native culture, such as pow wows, Indian dancing, and tipi dwellings; Native art forms such as pottery, rock art, sandpainting, silverwork, tattooing, and totem poles; foods such as corn, frybread, and wild rice; and Native Americans in popular culture. The extensive introductory section, breadth of topics, accessibly written text, and range of perspectives from the many contributors make this work a must-have resource for high school and undergraduate audiences.
Ivy + Bean
Author: Annie Barrows
Publisher: Chapter Books
ISBN: 9781599619286
Category : Friendship
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally published: San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, 2006.
Publisher: Chapter Books
ISBN: 9781599619286
Category : Friendship
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally published: San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, 2006.
Hollywood's Native Americans
Author: Angela Aleiss
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This book highlights the contributions and careers of Native Americans who have carved impressive careers in Hollywood, from the silent film era of the early 1900s to the present, becoming advocates for their heritage. This book explores how the heritage and behind-the-scenes activities of Native American actors and filmmakers helped shape their own movie images. Native artists have impacted movies for more than a century, but until recently their presence had passed largely unrecognized. From the silent era to contemporary movies, this book features leading Native American actors whose voices have reached a broad audience and are part of the larger conversation about the exploitation of underrepresented people in Hollywood. Each chapter highlights Native actors in lead or supporting roles as well as filmmakers whose movies were financed and distributed by Hollywood studios. The text further explores how a "pan-Indian heritage" that applies to all tribes in terms of spirituality, historical trauma, and a version of ceremony and storytelling have shaped these performers' movie identities. It will appeal to a wide range of readers, including fans of Westerns, history buffs of American popular cinema, and students and scholars of Native American studies. A note from the author: Since the publication of this book, the CBC news magazine "The Fifth Estate" released an investigative documentary on October 27, 2023, alleging that Buffy Sainte-Marie had been fraudulently posing as a Native Canadian throughout her career.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This book highlights the contributions and careers of Native Americans who have carved impressive careers in Hollywood, from the silent film era of the early 1900s to the present, becoming advocates for their heritage. This book explores how the heritage and behind-the-scenes activities of Native American actors and filmmakers helped shape their own movie images. Native artists have impacted movies for more than a century, but until recently their presence had passed largely unrecognized. From the silent era to contemporary movies, this book features leading Native American actors whose voices have reached a broad audience and are part of the larger conversation about the exploitation of underrepresented people in Hollywood. Each chapter highlights Native actors in lead or supporting roles as well as filmmakers whose movies were financed and distributed by Hollywood studios. The text further explores how a "pan-Indian heritage" that applies to all tribes in terms of spirituality, historical trauma, and a version of ceremony and storytelling have shaped these performers' movie identities. It will appeal to a wide range of readers, including fans of Westerns, history buffs of American popular cinema, and students and scholars of Native American studies. A note from the author: Since the publication of this book, the CBC news magazine "The Fifth Estate" released an investigative documentary on October 27, 2023, alleging that Buffy Sainte-Marie had been fraudulently posing as a Native Canadian throughout her career.
Native Americans Today
Author: Bruce E. Johansen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031335555X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This engaging collection of Native American profiles examines these individuals' unique life experiences within the larger context of U.S. history. Native Americans Today: A Biographical Dictionary focuses on the lives of contemporary Native Americans. Such treatments are rare, as most Native American biographies are historical (pre-1900) and cover familiar figures. Profiles collected here are written to be enjoyable as well as instructive, presented as examples of personal storytelling that should be savored not only for their factual content, but also for the humanity they evoke. The book spotlights Native American lives in the United States and Canada, mainly after 1900, though a few older figures are included because their lives evoke strikingly modern themes. The author, an expert on all things Native American, knows (or knew) several of the people in the entries, adding a special vibrancy to the writing. Among those profiled are former U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, activist Eloise Cobell, and controversial political prisoner Leonard Peltier, as well as writers, artists, and musicians. The compilation also includes non-Native Americans whose lives and careers impacted Indian life.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031335555X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This engaging collection of Native American profiles examines these individuals' unique life experiences within the larger context of U.S. history. Native Americans Today: A Biographical Dictionary focuses on the lives of contemporary Native Americans. Such treatments are rare, as most Native American biographies are historical (pre-1900) and cover familiar figures. Profiles collected here are written to be enjoyable as well as instructive, presented as examples of personal storytelling that should be savored not only for their factual content, but also for the humanity they evoke. The book spotlights Native American lives in the United States and Canada, mainly after 1900, though a few older figures are included because their lives evoke strikingly modern themes. The author, an expert on all things Native American, knows (or knew) several of the people in the entries, adding a special vibrancy to the writing. Among those profiled are former U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, activist Eloise Cobell, and controversial political prisoner Leonard Peltier, as well as writers, artists, and musicians. The compilation also includes non-Native Americans whose lives and careers impacted Indian life.
Bean'Re
Author: Timothy Remus
Publisher: Wolfgang Publications
ISBN: 9781935828709
Category : Drifters
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bean're is one of the last American Nomads. He makes his own rules and travels to and from on his own schedule. His mode of travel is a very well worn Harley with over 200,000 miles on the odometer. With his long ponytail and tall top hat, Bean're looks like the original drug fiend. It turns out, however, that Bean're is straight and sober, and has been for over 23 years. This is a non-fiction story of a life-long adventure, and an inspirational tale. If anyone in this world is free, truly free, that someone is Bean're. Free from the 40 hour grind, and free from the credit card bills and mortgage payments that dog the rest of us.
Publisher: Wolfgang Publications
ISBN: 9781935828709
Category : Drifters
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bean're is one of the last American Nomads. He makes his own rules and travels to and from on his own schedule. His mode of travel is a very well worn Harley with over 200,000 miles on the odometer. With his long ponytail and tall top hat, Bean're looks like the original drug fiend. It turns out, however, that Bean're is straight and sober, and has been for over 23 years. This is a non-fiction story of a life-long adventure, and an inspirational tale. If anyone in this world is free, truly free, that someone is Bean're. Free from the 40 hour grind, and free from the credit card bills and mortgage payments that dog the rest of us.
Adventures of Fred the Donkey
Author: Rich Pierson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477114416
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Meet Fred the Donkey the only donkey in Costa Rica to wear glasses. In this the second book about Fred's advantages Fred meets some animals he had never seen before and works with two other donkeys on the Coco bean farm in Costa Rica. Travel with Fred and his friends Billy and Pedro as they must take coco beans to the nearby Factory, however during their travel the trail is blocked by several down trees from a big storm the night before. So the farmer's son must have them travel a different trail that requires them to cross a very old wooden bridge. It's at this bridge that the donkey's run into trouble. Working as a team with the farmer's son none of the donkey's get hurt when the old wooden bridge starts to fall apart. Through all of this advantage Fred still never gives up on his dream to one day work with children at the Grand Canyon, where he hopes to have them ride on him as they travel up and down the trails of the Canyon even though he knows It will take him some time to see his dream come true.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477114416
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Meet Fred the Donkey the only donkey in Costa Rica to wear glasses. In this the second book about Fred's advantages Fred meets some animals he had never seen before and works with two other donkeys on the Coco bean farm in Costa Rica. Travel with Fred and his friends Billy and Pedro as they must take coco beans to the nearby Factory, however during their travel the trail is blocked by several down trees from a big storm the night before. So the farmer's son must have them travel a different trail that requires them to cross a very old wooden bridge. It's at this bridge that the donkey's run into trouble. Working as a team with the farmer's son none of the donkey's get hurt when the old wooden bridge starts to fall apart. Through all of this advantage Fred still never gives up on his dream to one day work with children at the Grand Canyon, where he hopes to have them ride on him as they travel up and down the trails of the Canyon even though he knows It will take him some time to see his dream come true.
The Adventures of Grandpa
Making Friends with Billy Wong
Author: Augusta Scattergood
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545924294
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
A powerful story set in small-town Arkansas in the 1950s that illuminates the friendship surrounding the arrival of Chinese immigrants in the segregated south. Azalea is not happy about being dropped off to look after Grandmother Clark. Even if she didn't care that much about meeting the new sixth graders in her Texas hometown, those strangers seem much preferable to the ones in Paris Junction. Talk about troubled Willis DeLoach or gossipy Melinda Bowman. Who needs friends like these!And then there's Billy Wong, a Chinese-American boy who shows up to help in her grandmother's garden. Billy's great-aunt and uncle own the Lucky Foods grocery store, where days are long and some folks aren't friendly. For Azalea, whose family and experiences seem different from most everybody she knows, friendship has never been easy. Maybe this time, it will be.Inspired by the true accounts of Chinese immigrants who lived in the American South during the civil rights era, these side by side stories--one in Azalea's prose, the other in Billy's poetic narrative--create a poignant novel and reminds us that friends can come to us in the most unexpected ways.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545924294
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
A powerful story set in small-town Arkansas in the 1950s that illuminates the friendship surrounding the arrival of Chinese immigrants in the segregated south. Azalea is not happy about being dropped off to look after Grandmother Clark. Even if she didn't care that much about meeting the new sixth graders in her Texas hometown, those strangers seem much preferable to the ones in Paris Junction. Talk about troubled Willis DeLoach or gossipy Melinda Bowman. Who needs friends like these!And then there's Billy Wong, a Chinese-American boy who shows up to help in her grandmother's garden. Billy's great-aunt and uncle own the Lucky Foods grocery store, where days are long and some folks aren't friendly. For Azalea, whose family and experiences seem different from most everybody she knows, friendship has never been easy. Maybe this time, it will be.Inspired by the true accounts of Chinese immigrants who lived in the American South during the civil rights era, these side by side stories--one in Azalea's prose, the other in Billy's poetic narrative--create a poignant novel and reminds us that friends can come to us in the most unexpected ways.