Author: Kenny Haynes
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1646709780
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
This is a humorous story about a young turkey and his difficulties in learning to fly. His friend Henrietta was a source of encouragement. He persevered and, after many attempts, he conquered his fears and found the value of friendship.
Clumsy Tommy Turkey
Author: Kenny Haynes
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1646709780
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
This is a humorous story about a young turkey and his difficulties in learning to fly. His friend Henrietta was a source of encouragement. He persevered and, after many attempts, he conquered his fears and found the value of friendship.
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1646709780
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
This is a humorous story about a young turkey and his difficulties in learning to fly. His friend Henrietta was a source of encouragement. He persevered and, after many attempts, he conquered his fears and found the value of friendship.
The Kremlinologist
Author: Jenny Thompson
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421424096
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
"The Kremlinologist chronicles major events of the Cold War through the prism of the life of one of its top diplomats, Llewellyn Thompson. His life went from the wilds of the American West to the inner sanctums of the White House and the Kremlin. As the ambassador to Moscow, he became an important advisor to presidents and a key participant in major twentieth-century events, including the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War. Yet, unlike his contemporaries McGeorge Bundy and George C. Marshall--who considered Thompson one of the most crucial actors in the Cold War and the "unsung hero" of the Cuban Missile Crisis--he has not been the subject of a major biography until now. Thompson's daughters Jenny Thompson Vukacic and Sherry Thompson set out to document their father's life as thoroughly as possible. Relying on primary sources and interviews, they received generous assistance from archivists, historians, and colleagues of their father. They also acquired documents and information from Russian archives, including the KGB archives. As family, they had unprecedented access to his FBI dossier, State Department personnel files, family archives, letters, diaries, speeches, and documents. Their original research brings new material to light including important information on the U-2, Kennan's containment policy, and Thompson's role in US covert operations machinery. The book refutes historical misinterpretations of events in the Berlin Crisis, the Austrian State Treaty, and the Cuban Missile Crisis."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421424096
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
"The Kremlinologist chronicles major events of the Cold War through the prism of the life of one of its top diplomats, Llewellyn Thompson. His life went from the wilds of the American West to the inner sanctums of the White House and the Kremlin. As the ambassador to Moscow, he became an important advisor to presidents and a key participant in major twentieth-century events, including the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War. Yet, unlike his contemporaries McGeorge Bundy and George C. Marshall--who considered Thompson one of the most crucial actors in the Cold War and the "unsung hero" of the Cuban Missile Crisis--he has not been the subject of a major biography until now. Thompson's daughters Jenny Thompson Vukacic and Sherry Thompson set out to document their father's life as thoroughly as possible. Relying on primary sources and interviews, they received generous assistance from archivists, historians, and colleagues of their father. They also acquired documents and information from Russian archives, including the KGB archives. As family, they had unprecedented access to his FBI dossier, State Department personnel files, family archives, letters, diaries, speeches, and documents. Their original research brings new material to light including important information on the U-2, Kennan's containment policy, and Thompson's role in US covert operations machinery. The book refutes historical misinterpretations of events in the Berlin Crisis, the Austrian State Treaty, and the Cuban Missile Crisis."--Provided by publisher.
Grandma's Story Cupboard
Author: Sheryl Ann Hollister
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1635753791
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
Hi There, are you interested in books that use animals in a fun way to share Biblical truths with some fun facts about that animal? Well then, this series call Grandma's Story Cupboard is for you. Our first set of stories are holiday ones. For Thanksgiving - "No Thanksgiving for Me" is about Tommy the turkey, who thinks he is the smartest turkey in the flock. But he quickly finds out that maybe he isn't so smart after all. As Thanksgiving approaches quickly, he learns how selfish he is. But will Tommy get his act together before Thanksgiving? Our Christmas Story is about a dream Grandma had that lasted three nights in a row. Grandma said, "It was like being in a movie. It was so real, and all of us were in it." Grandma was praying for an idea that she could do to help with the bills. This is what God showed her and that she needed to make it into a book. It takes place in Maine where the Hollister Family has inherited a large farm. This beautiful farm had a home that was large enough for all of us to stay in one place for Christmas. Great Grandma's dream was to have everyone together for Christmas one last time. They met the caretaker Ernest who looks like a skinny Santa. Ernest shares how this farm is the main hub for this little farming community. Just as everyone arrived as a blizzard struck. Then, what was supposed to be a quiet family Christmas ended up being one of miracles of the Christmas season. We all agreed that we had entertained an angel unaware. Hebrew 13:2 "Do not forget to show hospitably to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it. We learned to share what we had with strangers who showed us true kindness of neighbors. Hope these two holiday stories brighten your holidays. Please take time and enjoy your family at this wonderful time of year.
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1635753791
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
Hi There, are you interested in books that use animals in a fun way to share Biblical truths with some fun facts about that animal? Well then, this series call Grandma's Story Cupboard is for you. Our first set of stories are holiday ones. For Thanksgiving - "No Thanksgiving for Me" is about Tommy the turkey, who thinks he is the smartest turkey in the flock. But he quickly finds out that maybe he isn't so smart after all. As Thanksgiving approaches quickly, he learns how selfish he is. But will Tommy get his act together before Thanksgiving? Our Christmas Story is about a dream Grandma had that lasted three nights in a row. Grandma said, "It was like being in a movie. It was so real, and all of us were in it." Grandma was praying for an idea that she could do to help with the bills. This is what God showed her and that she needed to make it into a book. It takes place in Maine where the Hollister Family has inherited a large farm. This beautiful farm had a home that was large enough for all of us to stay in one place for Christmas. Great Grandma's dream was to have everyone together for Christmas one last time. They met the caretaker Ernest who looks like a skinny Santa. Ernest shares how this farm is the main hub for this little farming community. Just as everyone arrived as a blizzard struck. Then, what was supposed to be a quiet family Christmas ended up being one of miracles of the Christmas season. We all agreed that we had entertained an angel unaware. Hebrew 13:2 "Do not forget to show hospitably to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it. We learned to share what we had with strangers who showed us true kindness of neighbors. Hope these two holiday stories brighten your holidays. Please take time and enjoy your family at this wonderful time of year.
Feed
Author: Tommy Pico
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1947793586
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
A Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry A New York Times Notable Book of the Year From the Winner of the Whiting Award, an American Book Award, and finalist for a Lambda, Tommy Pico's Feed is the final book in the Teebs Cycle. Feed is the fourth book in the Teebs tetralogy. It's an epistolary recipe for the main character, a poem of nourishment, and a jaunty walk through New York's High Line park, with the lines, stanzas, paragraphs, dialogue, and registers approximating the park's cultivated gardens of wildness. Among its questions, Feed asks what's the difference between being alone and being lonely? Can you ever really be friends with an ex? How do you make perfect mac & cheese? Feed is an ode of reconciliation to the wild inconsistencies of a northeast spring, a frustrating season of back-and-forth, of thaw and blizzard, but with a faith that even amidst the mess, it knows where it's going.
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1947793586
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
A Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry A New York Times Notable Book of the Year From the Winner of the Whiting Award, an American Book Award, and finalist for a Lambda, Tommy Pico's Feed is the final book in the Teebs Cycle. Feed is the fourth book in the Teebs tetralogy. It's an epistolary recipe for the main character, a poem of nourishment, and a jaunty walk through New York's High Line park, with the lines, stanzas, paragraphs, dialogue, and registers approximating the park's cultivated gardens of wildness. Among its questions, Feed asks what's the difference between being alone and being lonely? Can you ever really be friends with an ex? How do you make perfect mac & cheese? Feed is an ode of reconciliation to the wild inconsistencies of a northeast spring, a frustrating season of back-and-forth, of thaw and blizzard, but with a faith that even amidst the mess, it knows where it's going.
My First Thanksgiving
Author: Tomie dePaola
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698412613
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Tomie dePaola’s simple text and bright illustrations perfectly capture the joy of this special holiday. Young readers will love learning more about the traditional celebrations of the day.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698412613
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Tomie dePaola’s simple text and bright illustrations perfectly capture the joy of this special holiday. Young readers will love learning more about the traditional celebrations of the day.
Short Stories
Author: Alfred Ludlow White
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Cooking for Jack
Author: Tommy Baratta
Publisher: Beyond Words/Atria Books
ISBN: 9780671535605
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
When Jack Nicholson needed to lose the twenty-five pounds he'd gained to portray the lead character in the film Hoffa in order to star in Wolf, he called on his longtime pal, chef Tommy Baratta. The "Jack Nicholson Diet", now on the menu of Baratta's popular Greenwich Village restaurant, Marylou's, is the basis for the simple, low-fat, yet soul-satisfying recipes in Cooking for Jack. To help Jack slim down, Tommy drew on the philosophy that fine Italian food means fresh ingredients, simply prepared, and he created a powerhouse repertoire of quick, full-flavored dishes that are low in fat and calories. Eating Tommy's way, Jack dropped those extra pounds - and so did Tommy! Cooking for Jack includes more that one hundred of the recipes that keep Jack lean and energized, from breakfasts such as Basic Frittata and No Problem French Toast to his favorite dessert, a luscious but light Rice Pudding with rum-soaked raisins.
Publisher: Beyond Words/Atria Books
ISBN: 9780671535605
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
When Jack Nicholson needed to lose the twenty-five pounds he'd gained to portray the lead character in the film Hoffa in order to star in Wolf, he called on his longtime pal, chef Tommy Baratta. The "Jack Nicholson Diet", now on the menu of Baratta's popular Greenwich Village restaurant, Marylou's, is the basis for the simple, low-fat, yet soul-satisfying recipes in Cooking for Jack. To help Jack slim down, Tommy drew on the philosophy that fine Italian food means fresh ingredients, simply prepared, and he created a powerhouse repertoire of quick, full-flavored dishes that are low in fat and calories. Eating Tommy's way, Jack dropped those extra pounds - and so did Tommy! Cooking for Jack includes more that one hundred of the recipes that keep Jack lean and energized, from breakfasts such as Basic Frittata and No Problem French Toast to his favorite dessert, a luscious but light Rice Pudding with rum-soaked raisins.
Turkey Tales
Author: John Schleier
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1615668098
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Did you know that every hundred years a young tom turkey is gifted with a magic tail? Discover the fun about the magic tail and the adventure that follows inside Turkey Tales as Tommy is confronted by the sly red fox, Albert. Will his magic tail be able to save him? Open the cover of Turkey Tales and let the adventure begin! Author John G. Schleier, Jr. is a former IBM Executive and college professor. He and his wife, Maribeth, enjoy visits from children and grandchildren as they tell them more turkey tales.
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1615668098
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Did you know that every hundred years a young tom turkey is gifted with a magic tail? Discover the fun about the magic tail and the adventure that follows inside Turkey Tales as Tommy is confronted by the sly red fox, Albert. Will his magic tail be able to save him? Open the cover of Turkey Tales and let the adventure begin! Author John G. Schleier, Jr. is a former IBM Executive and college professor. He and his wife, Maribeth, enjoy visits from children and grandchildren as they tell them more turkey tales.
The Elephant in the Room
Author: Tommy Tomlinson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1501111620
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 A “warm and funny and honest…genuinely unputdownable” (Curtis Sittenfeld) memoir chronicling what it’s like to live in today’s world as a fat man, from acclaimed journalist Tommy Tomlinson, who, as he neared the age of fifty, weighed 460 pounds and decided he had to change his life. When he was almost fifty years old, Tommy Tomlinson weighed an astonishing—and dangerous—460 pounds, at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, unable to climb a flight of stairs without having to catch his breath, or travel on an airplane without buying two seats. Raised in a family that loved food, he had been aware of the problem for years, seeing doctors and trying diets from the time he was a preteen. But nothing worked, and every time he tried to make a change, it didn’t go the way he planned—in fact, he wasn’t sure that he really wanted to change. In The Elephant in the Room, Tomlinson chronicles his lifelong battle with weight in a voice that combines the urgency of Roxane Gay’s Hunger with the intimacy of Rick Bragg’s All Over but the Shoutin’. He also hits the road to meet other members of the plus-sized tribe in an attempt to understand how, as a nation, we got to this point. From buying a Fitbit and setting exercise goals to contemplating the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, America’s “capital of food porn,” and modifying his own diet, Tomlinson brings us along on a candid and sometimes brutal look at the everyday experience of being constantly aware of your size. Over the course of the book, he confronts these issues head-on and chronicles the practical steps he has to take to lose weight by the end. “What could have been a wallow in memoir self-pity is raised to art by Tomlinson’s wit and prose” (Rolling Stone). Affecting and searingly honest, The Elephant in the Room is an “inspirational” (The New York Times) memoir that will resonate with anyone who has grappled with addiction, shame, or self-consciousness. “Add this to your reading list ASAP” (Charlotte Magazine).
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1501111620
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 A “warm and funny and honest…genuinely unputdownable” (Curtis Sittenfeld) memoir chronicling what it’s like to live in today’s world as a fat man, from acclaimed journalist Tommy Tomlinson, who, as he neared the age of fifty, weighed 460 pounds and decided he had to change his life. When he was almost fifty years old, Tommy Tomlinson weighed an astonishing—and dangerous—460 pounds, at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, unable to climb a flight of stairs without having to catch his breath, or travel on an airplane without buying two seats. Raised in a family that loved food, he had been aware of the problem for years, seeing doctors and trying diets from the time he was a preteen. But nothing worked, and every time he tried to make a change, it didn’t go the way he planned—in fact, he wasn’t sure that he really wanted to change. In The Elephant in the Room, Tomlinson chronicles his lifelong battle with weight in a voice that combines the urgency of Roxane Gay’s Hunger with the intimacy of Rick Bragg’s All Over but the Shoutin’. He also hits the road to meet other members of the plus-sized tribe in an attempt to understand how, as a nation, we got to this point. From buying a Fitbit and setting exercise goals to contemplating the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, America’s “capital of food porn,” and modifying his own diet, Tomlinson brings us along on a candid and sometimes brutal look at the everyday experience of being constantly aware of your size. Over the course of the book, he confronts these issues head-on and chronicles the practical steps he has to take to lose weight by the end. “What could have been a wallow in memoir self-pity is raised to art by Tomlinson’s wit and prose” (Rolling Stone). Affecting and searingly honest, The Elephant in the Room is an “inspirational” (The New York Times) memoir that will resonate with anyone who has grappled with addiction, shame, or self-consciousness. “Add this to your reading list ASAP” (Charlotte Magazine).
Tommy's Tale
Author: Alan Cumming
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060989270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Tommy is twenty-nine, lives and loves in London, and has a morbid fear of the c word (commitment), the b word (boyfriend), and the f word (forgetting to call his drug dealer before the weekend). But when he begins to feel the urge to become a father, and the pressure from his boyfriend to make a real commitment to their relationship, Tommy starts to wonder if his chosen lifestyle can ever make him happy. Faced with the choice of maintaining his hedonistic, drugged-out, and admittedly fabulous existence or chucking it all in favor of a far more sensitive, fulfilling, and—let's face it—slightly more staid lifestyle, Tommy finds himself in a true quandary. Through a series of adventures and misadventures that lead him from London nightspots to New York bedrooms and back, our boy Tommy manages to answer some of life's most pressing questions—even those he never thought to ask.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060989270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Tommy is twenty-nine, lives and loves in London, and has a morbid fear of the c word (commitment), the b word (boyfriend), and the f word (forgetting to call his drug dealer before the weekend). But when he begins to feel the urge to become a father, and the pressure from his boyfriend to make a real commitment to their relationship, Tommy starts to wonder if his chosen lifestyle can ever make him happy. Faced with the choice of maintaining his hedonistic, drugged-out, and admittedly fabulous existence or chucking it all in favor of a far more sensitive, fulfilling, and—let's face it—slightly more staid lifestyle, Tommy finds himself in a true quandary. Through a series of adventures and misadventures that lead him from London nightspots to New York bedrooms and back, our boy Tommy manages to answer some of life's most pressing questions—even those he never thought to ask.