[PDF] A Little Score To Settle eBook

Author : William Gould
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 2008-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595441351

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In 1961, Harold Binder's dad, Otto, did the unthinkable: defying convention, he abandoned his wife and six-year-old son to go west and take up the life of a cowboy. Now a forty-eight-year-old, successful doctor of medicine, Harold still longs to know his father and yearns to find the real Otto to replace the fantasy figure he's created in his mind. But as he discovers the bizarre facts of Otto's existence, personal issues derail Harold's search. Rejected by his wife Joyce, who has recently learned that he has been having an affair with one of his patients, Harold now lives in a tent on the empty lot across the road from his home on the San Francisco peninsula. During this unsettled time, he gets to know Mario Vogelsang, a friend of his mother's with an unnerving interest in Harold's life. Before long, Harold realizes that coming to terms with the past, no matter what it reveals, may be the only way to come to grips with the present. A Little Score to Settle is the story of Harold Binder's lifelong obsession to uncover what became of his enigmatic father and to find clarity-a clarity that he hopes will spread to all aspects of his life, where once was only shadow and delusion.

Author : Norman Gilliland
Publisher : Nemo Productions
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Scores to Settle brings classical music to life through stories about the struggle to create and perform it. Following Grace Notes for a Year, Norman Gilliland's popular earlier book of musical anecdotes, Scores to Settle brings together 366 brief true stories ranging from the inspirational to the burlesque, all of them illuminating the musical experience for composers, musicians, and listeners.

Author : Peter J. Bailey
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 38,20 MB
Release : 2016-05-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813167698

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For five decades, no American filmmaker has been as prolific—or as paradoxical—as Woody Allen. From Play It Again, Sam (1972) to Midnight in Paris (2011) and Blue Jasmine (2013), Allen has produced an average of one film a year; yet in many of these movies Allen reveals a progressively skeptical attitude toward both the value of art and the cultural contributions of artists. In this second edition Peter J. Bailey extends his classic study to consider Allen's work during the twenty-first century. He illuminates how the director's decision to leave New York to shoot in European cities such as London, Paris, Rome, and Barcelona has affected his craft. He also explores Allen's shift toward younger actors and interprets the evolving critical reaction to his films—authoritatively demonstrating why the director's lifelong project of moviemaking remains endlessly deserving of careful attention.

Author : Kevin Newby
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 20,53 MB
Release : 2010-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 179605156X

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There are at present no words in the English language that could describe the hate that Dan Summers and Buck Harding had for each other. Theirs was a long and lingering one, but when their mutual friend Janie pleads for their help, they are forced to put aside their differences and work together. What they thought was going to be a quick and relatively painless time together, turns out to be a weekend that will almost cost them their lives, and in the end arrive back home with a ton of cash and a new found respect for each other.

Author : Alex Morgan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 39,22 MB
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1481451049

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Playing on different teams during winter league soccer tests the friendship of a close-knit group of twelve-year-old girls.

Author : Daniel Greenstone
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 33,96 MB
Release : 2011-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0897333373

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A Theory of Great Men is the humorous, fast-paced story of an irreverent, flawed man who has a talent for accumulating both proteges and enemies. George Cavaliere, a veteran high school history teacher, has many attributes of a brilliant educator. He's a vibrant classroom performance artist, his colleagues respect his knowledge of history, and he's popular with many students. Cavaliere is at his best when he's debunking the so-called "Great Man" theory of history, which maintains that the actions of major historical figures dominate the course of human events. Not so, Cavaliere insists. People's lives are shaped by sweeping forces beyond their control, and often their understanding. And yet his own life seems to show the opposite. Cavaliere's impatience with political correctness and his restless philandering lead to the unraveling of his career and his marriage. A part-time job coaching an underdog basketball team helps Cavaliere confront his own shortcomings and begin to see that, although he is anything but a great man, he is, nevertheless, the master of his own fate.

Author : LEONNARD OJWANG
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 2015-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1483433757

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Best friends, Henry Bobo and Joseph Charo, live in a small town but have a big dream: to graduate with college degrees. It inspires them to be good boys and good students. However, because of a seemingly emotionless student leader and anger of a professor, they are unceremoniously expelled from college. Hopeless, they realize money matters more than anything they wish they had. They?re willing to kill for it, vowing to avenge against specific people they believe destroyed their only gateway for a better future. Unless someone intervenes in time, Bobo and Charo will execute helpless victims. With murder a mere prelude to more heinous crimes, their destiny begins to tilt toward peril. Indeed, they encounter someone more frightening, and who has abilities and instincts that surpasses their own.... They will do what they must to avoid this creepy, seemingly powerful stranger. Soon, they learn that having a good lawyer in a murder trial is not usually the remedy for fixing bad mistakes. Or is it?

Author : S.S. Wolfram
Publisher : Whistling Book Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 12,91 MB
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0997381884

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Put a shapeshifting demon hunter in charge of policing paranormals. That's a great idea. When Dexx Colt followed Paige Whiskey to Oregon and then helped her set up the Red Star Division, he had no idea she'd abandon him--to other responsibilities, mind you--and leave him in charge. He's a demon hunter. He breaks rules. He doesn't enforce them. But when bodies start appearing and all the evidence points to his team, he has a decision to make. Step up and protect the team he never asked for, or cut and run. He's been called many things. A coward was never one of them. When he discovers that angels and djinn are working together, he gathers the few team members who aren't in jail; his 1970 Dodge Challenger, Jackie, and Hattie, his spirit animal. He's taking the fight to the djinn's front door. One way or another, this killer is going down. After all, hunting demons is what Dexx does best.