Cinderella Boy

Author : Kristina Meister
Publisher : Riptide Publishing
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781626497986

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Cinderella Boy by Kristina Meister Pdf

Being perfect isn't all it's cracked up to be. Sixteen-year-old Declan is the perfect son . . . except for one tiny issue. When his sister Delia comes home to find him trying on her clothes, he fears her judgment, but she only fears his fashion choices. One quick makeover later, Declan is transformed into Delia's mysterious cousin Layla and dragged to the party of the year, hosted by Carter, the most popular boy in school. When Carter meets Layla, he fumbles to charm her. He adores her sense of humor and her poise. But when she vanishes in the middle of the night, he's left confused and determined to solve the mystery of who she is. As their school year begins, their high school embraces a policy of intolerance, and both Declan and Carter know they must stand up. Carter is tired of being a coward and wants to prove he can be a knight in shining armor. Declan is sick of being bullied and wants desperately to be himself. If they team up, it could be a fairy-tale ending, or a very unhappy ever after.

Author : Leo McKinstry
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781529319385

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Cinderella Boys by Leo McKinstry Pdf

The remarkable story of the unsung RAF wing who rescued Britain from Hitler's U-boats and made Allied victory possible. In early 1943 Britain was engaged in an epic struggle for survival. As the deadly wolf packs of German U-boats roamed the Atlantic, supply lines and shipping losses fell victim to the carnage. In desperation, Churchill turned to the RAF's maritime wing - an overlooked, underfunded force known as "The Cinderella Service". But the ascendancy of the U-boat forced a change in attitude. Provided with the long-range planes, depth charges, rocket projectiles and radar equipment with which to challenge the enemy. The Cinderella boys provided vital air defence the whole way across the Atlantic. The German hunters were now the hunted, and - in a stunning defeat - had fully retreated by the summer of 1943. The transformation of Coastal Command from a ramshackle outfit into a vast, formidable organisation provided one of the turning points of the war, keeping Britain in the war and opening the way to D-Day in 1944. But they never received the credit they deserved. Based on a wealth of new sources, including from diaries, log books, official records, archives and interviews, Leo McKinstry shines a new light the courageous pilots, ingenious scientists and political risktakers - many of them outsiders - who defended the freezing Atlantic from Nazi rule.

Author : Bill Murray,George Peper
Publisher : Crown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-16
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780767905220

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Cinderella Story by Bill Murray,George Peper Pdf

One of the funniest, most beloved, and most often quoted entertainers in the world tells his tale of Life and Golf--and of somehow surviving both. With his brilliant creation, groundskeeper Carl Spackler, and the outrageous success of the film Caddyshack firmly etched into the American consciousness, Bill Murray and golf have become synonymous. Filled with Murray's trademark deadpan and dead-on humor, Cinderella Story chronicles his love affair with golf from the life lessons he learned as a caddy--"how to smoke, curse, play cards. But more important, when to"--to his escapades on the Pro-Am golf circuit at the Augusta National and as a fan at the Masters, the U.S. Open, and the Western Open. An up-by-the-bootstraps tale of a man, his muse, and our society's fascination with a little white ball, Cinderella Story is one pilgrim's bemused path through the doglegs.

Author : Terry Lee Rioux
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0743457625

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From Sawdust to Stardust by Terry Lee Rioux Pdf

This life story of DeForest Kelley, best known for his role as Dr. "Bones" McCoy in the classic "Star Trek" television series and subsequent feature films, takes readers into the story of his tragedies and triumphs.

Author : Robert A. Gray
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781848764507

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We All Have Our Skeletons by Robert A. Gray Pdf

Palma, Majorca. Hugo is playing minder to his slightly daffy old mother. His elder sister should have joined them, but reneged. She resents him ever since, as a boy of 6, he had a brief career in films. It should have been her.One morning Mum is ‘caught short’, and in the village where they stop, a local Englishwoman interprets for them. No sooner has she gone than Hugo discovers she is housekeeper to the star of his first movie, Marina Mackay. He dashes after her and identifies himself. The alarmed woman and her husband/chauffeur tell him that Miss Mackay never receives visitors, and drive off. Leaving Hugo to ponder. Suppose Marina is their prisoner? Who will be any the wiser? He resolves to discover the truth.

Author : John Hankins Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Horses
ISBN : UCAL:B3254407

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Wallace's American Trotting Register ... by John Hankins Wallace Pdf

Author : Charles Way
Publisher : Aurora Metro Publications Ltd.
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781906582302

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The Classic Fairytales by Charles Way Pdf

Three timeless tales retold for the stage by one of the UK’s most renowned writers of plays for children, Charles Way. Winner of the Writers Guild Best Children’s Play Award, his plays appeal to audiences of all ages and are translated into several languages and performed internationally. Each of the three plays explores the journey from childhood to adulthood, but each takes a specific angle. Sleeping Beauty is driven by the notion of duality. Everyone and everything in the play has a complimentary aspect; King and Queen, Castle and forest, bright witch and dark witch, etc. Gryff, half-dragon, half-human is the physical embodiment of the idea of duality and is at war with himself. This is both dramatic, since it provides the conflict needed for the drama, and thematically rich, since it explores what all of us, but more precisely children, feel as they grow up. Cinderella is a play about a journey from darkness to light, from sickness to health. Everyone in the play is under the influence of some kind of loss, and the play explores these feelings and the sometimes painful route one must take to accommodate them and move on in life. It’s a moving and beautiful play, that also manages to be tremendously funny and the introduction of Mozart as a character, whose music charts the whole journey toward light and joy, is a theatrical coup. Where Cinderella has music at its core, Beauty and the Beast has dance. This is a play about overcoming fear, and the subconscious world is represented through imagery and movement. The play begins with a startling dream sequence and then segues into the drawing-room world of a Jane Austen novel, before moving to the wilds of Dartmoor. Throughout this journey one is never sure if the play is in dreamtime or not, and Way connects this feeling to the very act of theatre itself. As ever, the themes are explored through dramatic action, and the result in Beauty and the Beast is a script of rare brevity that allows actors and directors room to explore the profound nature of the story.

Author : Gene Fehler
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1582614814

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More Tales from Baseball's Golden Age by Gene Fehler Pdf

After the runaway success of his Tales from Baseball's Golden Age, Gene Fehler presents his second installation, More Tales from Baseball's Golden Age. It is a collection of anecdotes, memories, and stories from the men who played baseball during its heyday, in the '40s and '50s. Stories include reminiscences about playing with or against baseball legends such as Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle, Satchel Paige, and Ted Williams and interviews with nearly two dozen players who were not heard from in Tales from Baseball's Golden Age. Fehler combines lifetime statistics and personal interviews from over 50 Hall of Famers, All-Stars, and ordinary players to create a memorable book sure to delight any baseball fan, young or old.

Author : Kylie Scott
Publisher : Kylie Scott LLC
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780648457275

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The Rich Boy by Kylie Scott Pdf

I’m the type of girl who’s given up on fairy tales. So when Beck – the hot new busboy at work – starts flirting with me, I know better than to get my hopes up. Happily ever afters aren’t for the average. I learned that the hard way. But how can I be expected to resist a man who can quote Austen, loves making me laugh, and seems to be everything hot and good in this world? Only there’s so much more to him than that. Billionaire playboy? Check. Troubled soul? Check. The owner of my heart, the man I’ve moved halfway across the country to be with, who’s laying the world at my feet in order to convince me to never leave? Check. Check. Check. But nobody does complicated like the one percent. This is not your everyday rags-to-riches, knight-in-shining armor whisking the poor girl off her feet kind of story. No, this is much messier. “Rich Boy takes you on a literal ride! Funny. Angsty. There's mean rich people and people you root for. It's a definite recommend from me! –Tijan, New York Times bestselling author “Rich Boy was witty, exciting and had the most intense slow burn romance I’ve read in a long time. The complexity of the characters was refreshing and made me wish for more!”—Audrey Carlan, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Author : S. D. Fohr
Publisher : Sophia Perennis
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1597310115

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Cinderella's Gold Slipper by S. D. Fohr Pdf

Samuel D. Fohr holds that the Grimms' tales are not just childish 'fairy tales', but are filled with spiritual symbolism, and as such have value for adults as well as children. Snow White, for example, is a story of creation and spiritual growth, and its message parallels Hindu and Judaic creation myths. Hansel and Gretel and Cinderella both portray the journey back to God. Fohr also looks at recurring themes in the stories, and answers such questions as: Why are giants always evil and dwarves always good? What is the symbolic significance of the hungry wolf who appears in many stories? Exactly what are genies, and why are they always trapped in bottles? A delightful but serious examination of cherished stories, this book reveals new meaning in familiar tales. Also included is an extensive bibliography and an Appendix on the authenticity of the Grimms' tales. The author is a professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan and has taught courses in both Western and Eastern Philosophy. He is the author of Adam and Eve: The Spiritual Symbolism of Genesis and Exodus, and editor of more than a dozen volumes of The Collected Works of Rene Guenon. To say that Fohr retrieves fairy tales from the nursery on the one hand, and retrieves them from mere entertainment for adults on the other, is only the start of the matter. Like Freud, Jung, and Levy-Strauss, he recognizes the wisdom folktales embody, but he goes beyond those students of myth in arguing that the authors knew what they were doing: they crafted their tales consciously. This is a courageous and cogent book that goes a long way toward revalidating a literary genre that modernity has irresponsibly trivialized. - Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions, etc.

Author : Jack Zipes
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813170305

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Breaking the Magic Spell by Jack Zipes Pdf

This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of investigating oral folk tales in their socio-political context and traces their evolution into literary fairy tales, a metamorphosis that often diminished the ideology of the original narrative. Zipes also looks at how folk tales influence our popular beliefs and the ways they have been exploited by a corporate media network intent on regulating the mystical elements of the stories. He examines a range of authors, including the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, Ernst Bloch, Tolkien, Bettelheim, and J.K. Rowling to demonstrate the continuing symbiotic relationship between folklore and literature.

Author : B.R. Myers
Publisher : Swoon Reads
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250303424

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Rogue Princess by B.R. Myers Pdf

A princess fleeing an arranged marriage teams up with a snarky commoner to foil a rebel plot in B. R. Myers' Rogue Princess, a gender-swapped sci-fi YA retelling of Cinderella. Princess Delia knows her duty: She must choose a prince to marry in order to secure an alliance and save her failing planet. Yet she secretly dreams of true love, and feels there must be a better way. Determined to chart her own course, she steals a spaceship to avoid the marriage, only to discover a handsome stowaway. All Aidan wanted was to “borrow” a few palace trinkets to help him get off the planet. Okay, so maybe escaping on a royal ship wasn’t the smartest plan, but he never expected to be kidnapped by a runaway princess! Sparks fly as this headstrong princess and clever thief battle wits, but everything changes when they inadvertently uncover a rebel conspiracy that could destroy their planet forever.

Author : Lizabeth Mars
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781794879911

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songs of whiskey by Lizabeth Mars Pdf

Author : Brent Crawford
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781423147305

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Carter's Unfocused, One-Track Mind by Brent Crawford Pdf

After an eventful freshman year and disastrous summer, fifteen-year-old Will Carter returns to Merrian High none the wiser. His sophomore year will present a host of new problems: the return of Scary Terry from juvie, the pregnant presence of Amber Lee, friends-with-benefits negotiations with Abby, prom night expectations, and the ever-constant harassment from his boys. When Abby announces that she might be transferring to a New York arts school, Carter's world is turned upside down and he'll be forced to make the biggest decision of his life. In his signature voice, author Brent Crawford details young Will Carter's high school struggles, this time focusing on Carter's discovery of his true passion and the sacrifices he'll need to make.

Author : Kiriko Kubo
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781974702046

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The Children Nowadays by Kiriko Kubo Pdf

These days... The kids debate the existence of Santa, compete over who has the worst luck, and judge a sixth-grade beauty contest. Then everyone says goodbye with a special collection of comic strips in the farewell volume of The Children Nowadays! -- VIZ Media