The Last Laugh: Vision to Victory

Author: Dennis Franks
Publisher: Mascot Books
ISBN: 9781684016150
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
Vince Papale and Dennis Franks have seen their fair share of adversity. From being told they'd never make it in the NFL to making the tough transition to the business world, the odds have seldom been in their favor. And yet, despite these challenges, Vince, Dennis, and their star-studded hall of fame have managed to meet their goals and get their last laugh. How? The answer is simple: the Victor's Code. Learn the code that has driven the achievements of elite athletes, entrepreneurs, artists, authors, actors, and influencers from across the professional space. Learn from the victories of hall of famers Pat Croce, Cosmo DeNicola, Bo Eason, Jim Harbaugh, Mariel Hemingway, Helie Lee, Colonel Tom Manion, Heather Mitts Feeley, Ken Mok, JR Ridinger, Brian Rutenberg, and Dick Vermeil. Whatever your circumstances and whatever your challenges, you too can earn your last laugh.

The Last Laugh

Author: Sean Taylor
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244131244
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 110

Book Description
Steve Walker was a professional comedy magician and MC. He was born in Yorkshire but lived most of his adult life in Sydney, Australia. After Steve's death, his fellow magicians helped to sell his estate and discovered a small note book. From 1953 until 1963, a young Steve had written down over 700 jokes, gags, one liners and wise cracks from TV and radio. What we have here then is not only a valuable source of funnies, but a unique peep into British Variety in the 1950s. Steve's friend and colleague Sean Taylor has not only deciphered the jokes, but adds his own impressions of Steve, some funny stories and even a complete transcript of his 45 minute magic act. Remarkably, the jokes were old when Steve heard them and yet, 70 years on, they are still remarkably fresh and familiar. So whether you are a magician, ventriloquist, Variety enthusiast or MC, or you just want to spice up a speech or presentation, this might just be the book for you.

Exorcism of the Heart

Author: Lauren Nicole Wilkinson
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 166573678X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
This book is a poetic Anthology of a slow death of a relationship. A story about a woman who’s love helped her survive being abandoned with her three children during the 2020 pandemic. It’s a story of a woman who never gave up; She would become her own hero and write her way out.

Lying Lips and Deceitful Tongues

Author: Isabella Petersen
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098053583
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217

Book Description
This is the story of a woman stricken with grief by the unexpected loss of her husband. Unbeknownst to her, this grief, which she suppressed because she was a "very strong and fearless person," became very vulnerable and fell victim to a network of intrigue and lies. Penney-a strong, independent woman, who would be the very last person one would think who would fall prey to a scam-proves that if it happened to her, it could happen to anyone.Having met someone through a recommended dating site, on the one and only time she searched, she met the "man of her dreams." Little did she know that "Michael" was not who he projected to be, and she would become involved in a network of numerous lies, deceits, and a very professional organization of scammers and hackers.After eighteen months and the loss of her money, she discovered the scam. It was at that time she took control of her life and fought back.This is the story of how the impossible became the possible. How she pressured law enforcement who were reluctant to investigate/prosecute her case based upon their own experiences and results until she uncovered important information that inspired them to fight for her.She was "on a mission" to achieve results. These scam investigations never have a happy ending, so she was told, but Penney wouldn't accept that answer. She wanted justice and would not stop until these criminals were apprehended.Read how she discovered the criminal world of scammers, the Sakawa Boys of Ghana and a little-known fact about this country.More importantly, you'll read how prayer and her faith played the biggest part of her discoveries.

The Last Laugh

Author: Lynn Freed
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN: 0374713677
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
*A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice* From the award-winning author Lynn Freed, who’s been called a “literary star” by The New York Times Book Review, comes a hilarious and brilliant new novel about the riotous, passion-filled adventures of three women who thought they were past their prime. To escape their griping grown children, husbands and lovers, and an abundance of grandchildren underfoot, three self-proclaimed “old bags,” Dania, Ruth, and Bess, head for a quiet island on the Aegean Sea. They’ll spend a year by the water—watching the sunset, eating grilled fish and fresh olives, sipping ouzo. They deserve it, they say. After all those years, the three women will finally have some peace. Except that they can’t. For one, Bess, a pampered, once-beautiful inheritress, falls swiftly into an affair with a poetry-writing taxi driver—who has, of course, a territorial wife. And Dania, a therapist, begins to receive an increasing number of cryptically menacing phone calls from a psychotic patient. An ex-lover of Ruth’s shows up unexpectedly, right before one of Bess’s does—and then the women’s children arrive, with their own demanding children in tow. As the island quickly becomes crowded, the women’s serene year in Greece devolves perilously, and uproariously, into something much more complicated. With the wit of Maria Semple’s Today Will Be Different and all the adventure of Deborah Moggach’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Lynn Freed’s The Last Laugh is at once wildly funny and deeply perceptive, an exuberant story of friendship and pleasure, family and love.

To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before

Author: Luke O'Neill
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0241994136
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
Science is a serious business, right? Wrong. Scientists have been participants in the best reality show of all time, with all the highs, lows, bust-ups, and strange personalities of any show on telly today. From Luke O'Neill - the science teacher you wish you'd had - this hugely accessible history of science reveals the human stories behind the biggest discoveries. For example, we meet Charles Darwin as he weighs up the pros and cons of marrying his cousin: 'constant companion' vs 'less money for books'. Tough call. To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before covers everything from space travel and evolution to alchemy and AI. Written by one of our leading scientists, this is an insider's account that celebrates the joy of science. It is filled with all the juicy bits that other histories leave out.

Love in the New Millennium

Author: Can Xue
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300240481
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285

Book Description
The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China today In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flowerbeds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a community that normalizes paranoia and suspicion. Some try to flee—whether to a mysterious gambling bordello or to ancestral homes that can only be reached underground through muddy caves, sewers, and tunnels. Others seek out the refuge of Nest County, where traditional Chinese herbal medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self. Each life is circumscribed by buried secrets and transcendent delusions. Can Xue's masterful love stories for the new millennium trace love's many guises—satirical, tragic, transient, lasting, nebulous, and fulfilling—against a kaleidoscopic backdrop drawn from East and West of commerce and industry, fraud and exploitation, sex and romance.

FemPoetiks of American Poetry and Americana Music

Author: Linda Nicole Blair
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793621276
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
From the poems of Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, and Emily Dickinson emerges what the author calls FemPoetiks, a discourse of female empowerment. Situating the work of these poets in their historical eras, Linda Nicole Blair considers a sampling of their poems side-by-side with a number of song lyrics by singer-songwriters Brandi Carlile, Rhiannon Giddens, and Lucinda Williams, having found commonalities of theme, motif, and language between them. Blair argues that while FemPoetiks has continued to develop in various ways in American poetry by women, the fact that this discourse finds expression in songs by Americana female artists indicates a matrilineal line of influence from the 1630s to today. In order to show the omnipresence of this powerful feminist discourse, she closes this book with eleven interviews she conducted with female singer-songwriters from around the United States. The phenomenon of FemPoetiks is not limited to the arts but extends into all areas of American life, from the domestic to the political. FemPoetiks is a woman’s truth.

The Terrible Two's Last Laugh

Author: Mac Barnett
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683354095
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
It’s Miles and Niles’s final year at Yawnee Valley Science and Letters Academy, and the Terrible Two have one goal: an epic prank. Something big, something brilliant, something that will leave a lasting legacy at their school. Which should be easy-peasy for these experts, especially now that their principal has gone from archnemesis to pranking protégé. But their smooth sailing gets downright bumpy when they find out that the new superintendent is none other than Bertrand Barkin, their principal’s father . . . and their sworn enemy. Now that Former Principal Barkin is Acting Superintendent Barkin, he has a first order of business: his long-promised revenge on the Terrible Two. This rollicking finale to the bestselling series by Mac Barnett and Jory John will settle once and for all who—between quick wits and powerful fists—will have the last laugh.

Inventing Latinos

Author: Laura E. Gómez
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620977664
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 137

Book Description
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR An NPR Best Book of the Year, exploring the impact of Latinos’ new collective racial identity on the way Americans understand race, with a new afterword by the author Who are Latinos and where do they fit in America’s racial order? In this “timely and important examination of Latinx identity” (Ms.), Laura E. Gómez, a leading critical race scholar, argues that it is only recently that Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, Central Americans, and others are seeing themselves (and being seen by others) under the banner of a cohesive racial identity. And the catalyst for this emergent identity, she argues, has been the ferocity of anti-Latino racism. In what Booklist calls “an incisive study of history, complex interrogation of racial construction, and sophisticated legal argument,” Gómez “packs a knockout punch” (Publishers Weekly), illuminating for readers the fascinating race-making, unmaking, and re-making processes that Latinos have undergone over time, indelibly changing the way race functions in this country. Building on the “insightful and well-researched” (Kirkus Reviews) material of the original, the paperback features a new afterword in which the author analyzes results of the 2020 Census, providing brilliant, timely insight about how Latinos have come to self-identify.