Roy Story

Author : Roy Bucek
Publisher : Author House
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781477211694

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Roy Story by Roy Bucek Pdf

If you enjoyed the 1994 fictitious movie Forrest Gump, youll love Roy Story, the remarkable, rags-to-riches true account of the colorful, comical and quick-witted Roy Bucek, who succeeded beyond his wildest dreams on the football field, the battlefield and in numerous business fields with a combination of a tremendously strong backbone and an incomparable funny bone. Bucek came from such poverty that he and his family barely noticed the so-called Great Depression. His athleticism earned him a college scholarship, where he became the first official track and field All-American in Texas A&M history and helped the 1939 Aggies win the football national championship. Bucek lost his eye in the historic Battle of the Bulge in World War II, but he became a man of remarkable entrepreneurial vision. He built so many successful businesses in Schulenburg, Texas that he resided in a sprawling home he built just south of Interstate-10 and at the end ofBucek Street. His fascinating stories are guaranteed to mesmerize you and motivate you to pursue your own dreams, no matter how far-fetched they may seem. Roy Story is a captivating read that will take you back in time and challenge you to build a brighter future.

Author : Alan D. Bennett
Publisher : ibooks
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781883283568

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Captain Roy Brown, A True Story of the Great War 1914-1918 by Alan D. Bennett Pdf

This is a true story of young men who fought and died for their country. It puts the reader behind the stick of a Sopwith Camel from the pilot's point of view. This is volume 1 and volume 2 combined for the ebook edition. Part One of this comprehensive study covers the life of Captain Arthur Roy Brown, who is well-known as an ace fighter pilot. The basic story is told in Brown’s own words, via his previously unpublished letters home and the entries in his Pilot’s Flying Log Book. Part Two of the book covers Captain Brown’s encounter with Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, in detail. In 1995 Alan Bennett toured the site in France where Captain Brown had attacked the Red Baron on 21 April, 1918. As an experienced pilot of similar aircraft, he had grave doubts as to the truth of some parts of the story. The eventual result was a book written in conjunction with Norman Franks: THE RED BARON’S LAST FLIGHT. After plentiful information from readers, Captain Roy Brown’s family, and Wop May’s son, plus further research in France, a considerably different picture of the entire event and of Roy Brown’s life emerged. This new book, Captain Roy Brown, tells the complete definitive story.

Author : Barry Gifford
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609804985

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The Roy Stories by Barry Gifford Pdf

Barry Gifford has been writing gritty, American tales for the past forty years. His novels, stories, poetry, and films have helped shape the American neo-noir genre. The New York Times Book Review says that he "can sum up in a few words the cruelty, horror, and crushing banality that shape an entire life.” Andrei Codrescu calls Gifford “a great comic realist,” while Pedro Almodóvar likens him to the surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel, and Jonathan Lethem describes his style as “William Faulkner by way of B-movie film noir, porn paperbacks, and Sun Records rockabilly.” In The Roy Stories Gifford brings his signature style to a collection of tales following the character of Roy, who has made appearances in a number of Gifford’s previous story collections. Roy lives a mystical kind of life, skinning crocodiles in Southern Florida at age nine in the 1940s and playing in the back alleys of Chicago in the 1950s. This deep-feeling boy observes every detail in his surroundings with a sense of dark humor and an openness that will clutch readers tightly by the heart and lead them on a historical journey.

Author : Robert W. Phillips
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0899509371

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Roy Rogers by Robert W. Phillips Pdf

This is the definitive work on Roy Rogers, the "King of the Cowboys." The lives and careers of Rogers and his wife, Dale Evans, are thoroughly covered, particularly their work on radio and television. The merchandising history of Roy Rogers reveals that his marketing of character-related products was second only to that of Walt Disney; Roy Rogers memorabilia are still among the most popular items. Includes a comprehensive discography, filmography and comicography. Heavily illustrated.

Author : Dan Raley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Basketball players
ISBN : 0615701019

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The Brandon Roy Story by Dan Raley Pdf

Seattle Post-Intelligencer sports writer Dan Raley followed basketball standout Brandon Roy form Seattle's Garfield High School to the University of Washington and then to the NBA. Roy was a role model who played hard, respected teh game, and was squeaky clean--no drugs, no alcohol, no tattoos, no trouble with the law, and he was a family man. Every mother loved him. He was a great player, too. Knee injuries, however, appeared to end Roy's short but amazing career with the Portland Trail Blazers in 2011. Yet, with the latest medical treatments and great resolve, Roy looked to make a stirring comeback with the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Author : Roy Bucek,Rusty Burson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945
ISBN : 9781477211700

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Roy Story by Roy Bucek,Rusty Burson Pdf

Memoir of a successful businessperson, entrepreneur, and college athlete, who lost an eye during the Battle of the Bulge. Born in a Texas farming family, Roy Bucek became an All-American in track and field at Texas A&M, and played on the 1939 Texas Aggies football team that won the national championship. After the war, Bucek went on to establish a wide range of manufacturing and other businesses in Schulenberg, Texas.

Author : Julie Mullaney
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826453279

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Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things by Julie Mullaney Pdf

This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from ‘The Remains of the Day' to ‘White Teeth'. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question.

Author : Walter Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1DXV

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Rob Roy by Walter Scott Pdf

Author : Jocelyne Guilbault,Roy Cape
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780822376163

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Roy Cape by Jocelyne Guilbault,Roy Cape Pdf

Roy Cape is a Trinidadian saxophonist active as a band musician for more than fifty years and as a bandleader for more than thirty. He is known throughout the islands and the Caribbean diasporas in North America and Europe. Part ethnography, part biography, and part Caribbean music history, Roy Cape is about the making of reputation and circulation, and about the meaning of labor and work ethics. An experiment in storytelling, it joins Roy's voice with that of ethnomusicologist Jocelyne Guilbault. The idea for the book emerged from an exchange they had while discussing Roy's journey as a performer and bandleader. In conversation, they began experimenting with voice, with who takes the lead, who says what, when, to whom, and why. Their book reflects that dynamic, combining first-person narrative, dialogue, and the polyphony of Roy's bandmates' voices. Listening to recordings and looking at old photographs elicited more recollections, which allowed Roy to expand on recurring themes and motifs. This congenial, candid book offers different ways of knowing Roy's labor of love—his sound and work through sound, his reputation and circulation as a renowned musician and bandleader in the world.

Author : Barry Gifford
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781644210239

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Roy's World by Barry Gifford Pdf

A tie-in to the new documentary, Roy's World, directed by Rob Christopher narrated by Lili Taylor, Matt Dillon and Willem Dafoe, these stories comprise one of Barry Gifford's most enduring works, his homage to the gritty Chicago landscape of his youth Barry Gifford has been writing the story of America in acclaimed novel after acclaimed novel for the last half-century. At the same time, he's been writing short stories, his "Roy stories," that show America from a different vantage point, a certain mix of innocence and worldliness. Reminiscent of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams stories, Gifford's Roy stories amount to the coming-of-age novel he never wrote, and are one of his most important literary achievements--time-pieces that preserve the lost worlds of 1950s Chicago and the American South, the landscape of postwar America seen through the lens of a boy's steady gaze. The twists and tragedies of the adult world seem to float by like curious flotsam, like the show girls from the burlesque house next door to Roy's father's pharmacy who stop by when they need a little help, or Roy's mom and the husbands she weds and then sheds after Roy's Jewish mobster father's early death. Life throws Roy more than the usual curves, but his intelligence and curiosity shape them into something unforeseen, while Roy's complete lack of self-pity allow the stories to seem to tell themselves.

Author : Paul Green
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476613499

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Roy Huggins by Paul Green Pdf

Producer-writer Roy Huggins is best known for creating the TV series, Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, The Fugitive, Run For Your Life and The Rockford Files (with Stephen J. Cannell). This biography details his personal and professional life, aided by exclusive interviews with family, producers, actors and writers who worked with him. The author was granted exclusive access to Huggins' personal memoirs to provide an intimate, firsthand account, including his early career at Columbia, RKO, Warner Bros. and 20th Century-Fox. Huggins' political activism at UCLA and the subsequent House Un-American Activities hearing in 1952 is covered in depth. The book includes an extensive filmography and previously unpublished photographs provided by family members.

Author : Katharine Anne Young RN MSNH
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781728327242

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Grandmother Moon & Roy G. Biv; Seeing Without Seeing by Katharine Anne Young RN MSNH Pdf

Roy G. Biv settled under his cozy comforter, the sky light was bright, and the stars were dancing. Roy shook his head, get a grip, then he envisioned himself, 10 years older. Not a nice sight! He sat upright and prayed for a better life; for sure, he wanted to shed the feelings of boredom, and his lack luster attitude. But How? Within minutes, Grandmother Moon's Light shone directly onto Roy's bed. She spoke quietly to him, and tried to muffle her excitement. Hooray Roy, I will offer you 7 monthly sessions, (she chose 7 for each letter of his name); in fact the content of the lessons date back to ancient cultures. Now just settle back, and I will infuse the 1st lesson 'R' for Roy. Roy reached to close the shade, he was not interested! Grandmother Moon pretended not to hear his rebuttal, Night, Night Roy. Seeing without Seeing: The Dilemma of ADHD After Roy's 7 monthly lessons, Grandmother Moon set out to uncover any methods that could, or would, support children diagnosed with learning disabilities. She was not adverse to medications, short term, but she did feel the need to explore options. The first words that came to her were: Chaos, Food Allergies, Artificial scents and Artificial lighting. These 4 subjects took a lot of time to explore and define. At the same time Grandmother Moon set out to acquaint herself with Holistic Practitioners, Nurse Healers, Holistic Nutritionist, and Practitioners from Chinese and Ayurveda Practices. Overtime an unexpected therapy revealed itself as a non-invasive, hands-on family therapy. Almost a year later, Grandmother and Roy celebrate each other at their last meeting. In honor of the beauty of nature, they celebrate at the top of Blue Hills with hilarious outbursts and flooded tears. Roy stayed with Grandmother Moon til early dawn. As he descended down the hills, Roy set off to University of Mass Boston to prepare for his future as a Holistic Physician.

Author : Roy MacGregor
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307361394

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Original Highways by Roy MacGregor Pdf

Expanding on his landmark Globe and Mail series in which he documented his travels down sixteen of Canada's great rivers, Roy MacGregor tells the story of our country through the stories of its original highways, and how they sustain our spirit, identity and economy—past, present and future. No country is more blessed with fresh water than Canada. From the mouth of the Fraser River in BC, to the Bow in Alberta, the Red in Manitoba, the Gatineau, the Saint John and the most historic of all Canada's rivers, the St. Lawrence, our beloved chronicler of Canadian life, Roy MacGregor, has paddled, sailed and traversed their lengths, learned their stories and secrets, and the tales of centuries lived on their rapids and riverbanks. He raises lost tales, like that of the Great Tax Revolt of the Gatineau River, and reconsiders histories like that of the Irish would-be settlers who died on Grosse Ile and the incredible resilience of settlers in the Red River Valley. Along the Grand, the Ottawa and others, he meets the successful conservationists behind the resuscitation of polluted wetlands, including Toronto's Don, the most abused river in Canada. In the Mackenzie River Valley he witnesses the Dehcho First Nation's effort to block a pipeline they worry endangers the region's lifeblood. Long before our national railroad was built, rivers held Canada together; in these sixteen portraits, filled with yesterday's adventures and tomorrow's promise, MacGregor weaves together a story of Canada and its ongoing relationship with its most precious resource.

Author : Alex Tickell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134245031

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Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things by Alex Tickell Pdf

On publication Arundhati Roy's first novel The God of Small Things (1997) rapidly became an international bestseller, winning the Booker Prize and creating a new space for Indian literature and culture within the arts, even as it courted controversy and divided critical opinion. This guide to Roy’s ground-breaking novel offers: an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of The God of Small Things a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of new essays and reprinted critical essays by Padmini Mongia, Aijaz Ahmad, Brinda Bose, Anna Clarke, Émilienne Baneth-Nouailhetas and Alex Tickell on The God of Small Things, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of The God of Small Things and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Roy's text.

Author : Jimmy Lavery,Jim Mydlach,Louis Mydlach,Henrietta Tiefenthaler
Publisher : Phoenix Books, Inc.
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781597775601

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The Secret Life of Siegfried and Roy by Jimmy Lavery,Jim Mydlach,Louis Mydlach,Henrietta Tiefenthaler Pdf

The Secret Life of Siegfried and Roy reveals the touching, little-known story of how two youngsters founded a friendship, a franchise, and a tempestuous on-and-off love affair that would last a lifetime.