So, Anyway...

Author: John Cleese
Publisher: Crown Archetype
ISBN: 0385348258
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “John Cleese’s memoir is just about everything one would expect of its author—smart, thoughtful, provocative and above all funny. . . . A picture, if you will, of the artist as a young man.”—The Washington Post The legendary writer and performer of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers fame takes readers on a grand tour of his ascent in the entertainment world John Cleese’s huge comedic influence has stretched across generations; his sharp irreverent eye and the unique brand of physical comedy he perfected now seem written into comedy’s DNA. In this rollicking memoir, Cleese recalls his humble beginnings in a sleepy English town, his early comedic days at Cambridge University (with future Python partner Graham Chapman), and the founding of the landmark comedy troupe that would propel him to worldwide renown. Cleese was just days away from graduating Cambridge and setting off on a law career when he was visited by two BBC executives, who offered him a job writing comedy for radio. That fateful moment—and a near-simultaneous offer to take his university humor revue to London’s famed West End—propelled him down a different path, cutting his teeth writing for stars like David Frost and Peter Sellers, and eventually joining the five other Pythons to pioneer a new kind of comedy that prized invention, silliness, and absurdity. Along the way, he found his first true love with the actress Connie Booth and transformed himself from a reluctant performer to a world class actor and back again. Twisting and turning through surprising stories and hilarious digressions—with some brief pauses along the way that comprise a fascinating primer on what’s funny and why—this story of a young man’s journey to the pinnacle of comedy is a masterly performance by a master performer.

So Who Is John Galt, Anyway?

Author: Robert Tracinski
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781694291783
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Ayn Rand's masterwork, Atlas Shrugged, is a rich and complex novel with an intricate plot in which dozens of moving parts mesh together and many minor themes are woven in amongst the novel's big philosophical issues. This is a guide to the literary, historical, and philosophical significance of Atlas Shrugged, offering deeper insights for those who are new to the novel as well as new observations for longtime fans. Find out, for example, the real-life parallels to characters and events in Atlas Shrugged; how the novel's plot seems to be opposite from that of Ayn Rand's previous bestseller, The Fountainhead; what Ayn Rand has in common with the epic poets Homer and Hesiod; how Atlas Shrugged is both a historical novel and futuristic work of science fiction; how Ayn Rand was a philosopher in the tradition of the Enlightenment; why Atlas Shrugged is not a political novel; why all an Ayn Rand hero really wants is love; and the question posed in the title: the key to the mysterious figure of John Galt and the meaning of one of the most famous questions in literature, "Who is John Galt?"

So Familiar

Author: Lolanda W. Green
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483674045
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78

Book Description
First things first was the very thing that popped in my mind as my feet hit by fluffy area rug on the floor of my bedroom. I stretched out my arms and then upward and shouted out thank you god! I'm still here for one more round around these mountains in my life, on my way to the bathroom two wee as I sat down on my cushion trial its seat by side Leola there is no limitations today and then my house phone rang speaking out loud I replied to myself who could that be fun thinking that I'd do a 9 to 5 each week and the mornings isn't a good time to call me , so the answering machine came on and said "Ms. Forinot you don't have to come in till noon today all see you then enjoy your morning it's your secretary talk to you later" then the machine but as the NB twice missed a taped white myself flashed the commode wash my hands as I sang a little verse of my grandmother's songs yes Jesus loves me while I'm opening up the windows for some fresh morning at I had so much gratitude for having 4 hours of extra time to complete my assignment for the care plan of my patients at hill manor. Washing my face and rinsing my mouth out with some mouth wash and proceeded to go into my day room. To my index finger I noticed I need to do some dusting, I said " here you go again lee during extra when it's been made available to you to do what is needed to be done with the given time you have " I plopped down and into my sofa it was like De janue, I did this before or read it in a book or did this event happening on a sitcom or what? This is so familiar in the kitchen I go OM JICB Eddie the blue Garp and the red robin together they look so gorgeous but a little strange two awesome birds looked as though it was in painted picture on my bay window, in my kitchen. I've placed my coffee pot on top of the stove I decided to have fruit in wheat toast for breakfast as I was taking out some things for supper I decided to bake instead of having fried chicken this evening.

Scareforce

Author: Charles Hough
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 9780446566353
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199

Book Description
Combines eighteen true cases of paranormal activity as experienced by members of the United States Air Force, from a grounded crew member who shared the same fate as his airborne mates, to UFO sightings by military pilots.

Breaking the Chains

Author: Dean Munro
Publisher: Dean Munro and Chris Hadj
ISBN: 0987484915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
Deemed the funniest Australian success story yet! “Uni Student Preston King started off with little chance in his favour. With only five hundred dollars in his back pocket and the odds heavily stacked against him, he worked like a slave-rat during his university life. By the time he graduated, he had seven scholarships to his name, a top graduate salary at a multinational corporation, a property portfolio with a combined worth of seven figures and memories to last a lifetime. Never underestimate the potential of a student with a burning desire to get rich.” A must read for anyone with a sense of humour!

Beyond Rosie

Author: Julia Brock
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1557286701
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
Collection of primary source documents, which include photographs, official reports, editorials, executive orders, radio broadcast scripts, letters and oral histories, detailing the experiences and contributions of American women during World War II. The documentary collection is a companion volume to a 2012 traveling exhibition from the Museum of History and Holocaust Education. Chapter 1 documents the mobilization of women into industrial factories and agricultural sectors. Chapter 2 deals with women who found employment in white-collar professions, such as law, journalism, clerical work and medicine. Chapter 3 traces women's service in military auxiliary units. Chapter 4 focuses on women's domestic labor on the home front. Chapter 5 documents the secret war waged by the government including its use of women as spies and saboteurs.

The Hollow

Author: AnnMarie Martin
Publisher: Black Bed Sheet Books
ISBN: 0692258299
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454

Book Description
Spiders. Spiders everywhere. All sizes and shapes, crawling down the walls and up through the cracks in the floorboards. Then surrounding her feet and leading her in her trance-like state out the door in the middle of the night to the cemetery down the road... This is one of many night terrors and strange urges to visit a certain little girl's grave that Maryanne Rosa has been experiencing for weeks. Someone from beyond is using them to push her towards uncovering horrific secrets about the publisher of the rising political magazine she’s an editor of. Prerogative magazine's publisher, Joseph Goldberg, is also a leader of a cult of racist elitists. They've parlayed the death of six-year-old Cecily to gain further control of the quaint upstate New York town where Maryanne and her close-knit group of friends live. And as they all get closer to understanding who Joseph truly is, the cult becomes hell bent on claiming some of them as their own and removing others from their path entirely. Hopefully whoever—or whatever—is trying to warn them will get through, before it's too late. There's a NEW legend in Sleepy Hollow..... THE HOLLOW is a young adult, paranormal thriller set in the legendary Sleepy Hollow, NY and is AnnMarie Martin's first novel.

The Warren Commission Report

Author: U.S. Government
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 11350

Book Description
Warren Commission Report is the result of the investigation regarding the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy. The U.S. Congress passed Senate Joint Resolution 137 authorizing the Presidential appointed Commission to report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, mandating the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of evidence. After eleven months of the investigation the Commission presented its findings in 888-page final report. The key findings presented in this report were that President Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, that Oswald acted entirely alone and that Jack Ruby also acted alone when he killed Oswald two days later. The Commission's findings have proven controversial and have been both challenged and supported by later studies.

The Unexpected Consequences of Iron Overload

Author: James Minter
Publisher: James Minter
ISBN: 1479392421
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
Jimmy Kavanagh has a genetic condition where he absorbs and stores iron from his diet over and above the body's requirements (Haemochromatosis). He is unaware of this. As time progresses, with increased ferritin levels he exhibits many traits of storing iron: oxidisation (rusting), becoming magnetised, and having strong bones (excess iron is stored in bone marrow). Through various childhood experiences he realises he is different but doesn't know why. After a significant event in which he saves Barbara, the woman of his dreams, from possible death he realises he can control his magnetism. His life is further complicated after coming to the attention of the KGB. They are interested in all things paranormal, and the CIA who are determined to stop the Russians. Life for Jimmy is further complicated by Sheila. Her father is Irish though she was born in Australia. Unbeknownst to her she has Haemochromatosis but of course, from the Southern hemisphere her polarity is reversed. Will Jimmy and Barbara live happily ever after? Can he manage to thwart the Russians, and CIA. Since opposites attract does his future lay with Sheila?

Days Without End

Author: Jason McGathey
Publisher: Exquisite Noise Publishing
ISBN: 1005485135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 547

Book Description
A sleep deprivation bet careens out of control when a group of friends get together over spring break. One seasoned reporter, caught by chance in this maelstrom, attempts making sense of the carnage, though entirely out of his realm. While beginning as a lighthearted lark, what he encounters eventually finds him ruminating on our current worldwide climate, and its parallels to this insane odyssey.