Author: Philip McGrathPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Shake Hands with a Bum
Author: Philip McGrathPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Bums
Author: Peter GolenbockPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486477355
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
It's been over 50 years since they moved to Los Angeles, but the Brooklyn Dodgers remain ingrained in the fabric of our national pastime. Golenbock's oral history of these "lovable losers" tells the team's tale through the words of Pee Wee Reese, Leo Durocher, Duke Snider, and other Brooklyn greats.
True Bums
Author: James RussellPublisher: James Russell Publishing
ISBN: 9780916367268
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Comedy screenplay. Three rich men become railroad hoboes in search of utopia, until the wives find out and the great railroad chase begins. A romantic Christmas story. If you like trains, you (TM)ll love True Bums.
The Proxy Bride
Author: Terri FavroPublisher: Quattro Books
ISBN: 1927443067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
In Niagara of the 1960s, a mysterious proxy bride arrives from Italy to marry a candy shop owner with crime connections, only to fall in love with her proxy husband's teenaged son. Part fairy tale, part gritty realism, The Proxy Bride explores the underbelly of a southern Ontario community steeped in gambling, smuggling and pornography. Terri Favro's The Proxy Bride is a brilliantly constructed tale of innocence versus wickedness.
Rain
Author: Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 0573696438
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
BFFs (Best Friends Forever)
Author: Alexander RutherfordPublisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1681818841
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
BFFs: The First in the Alex’s Dreams Trilogy, is a fascinating story of teenager Alex and her friends. Capturing the everyday lives of a colorful cast of characters moving into young adulthood – including dating, relationships, and academic and social pressures – this memorable novel also delves into highly intriguing, more complicated territory. All the passion of emerging sexuality, and the intensity and confusion it can stir up, are highlighted in BFFs: The First in the Alex’s Dreams Trilogy. Written with honesty and gritty reality, this is a book that will thoroughly entertain, surprise, and engage teen and young adult readers.
The Harvard Illustrated Magazine
Author: The Saturday Evening Post
Author: The Unitarian Register
Author: A Bum Deal
Author: Rufus HannahPublisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402260872
Category : Alcoholics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
PRAISE for A BUM DEAL "Hannah's recollections of his mental state at the time are almost heartbreaking in their honesty and intensity...remarkable story of personal redemption." -Booklist starred review "Here is the remarkable story behind an American tragedy, a twisted fall into unspeakable exploitation and the hoary depths of human existence followed by a redemptive return to grace."-Steve Lopez, author of The Soloist and LA Times columnist "A remarkable true story of how a chance meeting between two very different men transformed them not only into friends, but humanitarians on a crucial mission. If there was ever a lesson on the nobility of the human spirit, even under the most adverse circumstances, it is found in the pages of this incredible book." -Brian Levin "A Bum Deal: An Unlikely Journey from Hopeless to Humanitarian artfully explains theimportance of understanding homelessness one life at a time. This gritty no-holds-barred memoir juxtaposes acts of unthinkable exploitation with instances of profound and encouraging exhortation." -Neil J. Donovan, Executive Director, National Coalition for the Homeless Rufus Hannah is known to millions around the world, unfortunately, as "Rufus the Stunt Bum" because of his participation in the infamous Bumfights video series. But his story doesn't end there...it is a story of incredible pride and perseverance, and a recovery few could have imagined. Rufus's story is inspiring to anyone who has ever struggled with personal demons and life challenges and wondered where they would find the strength to survive even one more day.