[PDF] Beds In The East Reiss eBook

Author : Kathryn Reiss
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 34,60 MB
Release : 1996-09-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0547710267

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Beth’s mother, Hanny Lynn, hasn’t spoken to her parents or her sister, Iris, in twenty years. But she decides it’s time to set aside old grievances, so sixteen-year-old Beth and her brother, Tom, find themselves spending a sweltering summer with their mother and her family in a sleepy Pennsylvania town. More than just homesick, Beth is troubled by deep family tensions and Aunt Iris’s sudden drunken outbursts. As Beth begins to delve into family history, she discovers a chilling and inexplicable tragedy.

Author : Marcia Reiss
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,47 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Historic sites
ISBN : 9781607105794

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"Completely updated and revised."-Cover.

Author : Benjamin Reiss
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 25,50 MB
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0465094856

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Why the modern world forgot how to sleep Why is sleep frustrating for so many people? Why do we spend so much time and money managing and medicating it, and training ourselves and our children to do it correctly? In Wild Nights, Benjamin Reiss finds answers in sleep's hidden history -- one that leads to our present, sleep-obsessed society, its tacitly accepted rules, and their troubling consequences. Today we define a good night's sleep very narrowly: eight hours in one shot, sealed off in private bedrooms, children apart from parents. But for most of human history, practically no one slept this way. Tracing sleep's transformation since the dawn of the industrial age, Reiss weaves together insights from literature, social and medical history, and cutting-edge science to show how and why we have tried and failed to tame sleep. In lyrical prose, he leads readers from bedrooms and laboratories to factories and battlefields to Henry David Thoreau's famous cabin at Walden Pond, telling the stories of troubled sleepers, hibernating peasants, sleepwalking preachers, cave-dwelling sleep researchers, slaves who led nighttime uprisings, rebellious workers, spectacularly frazzled parents, and utopian dreamers. We are hardly the first people, Reiss makes clear, to chafe against our modern rules for sleeping. A stirring testament to sleep's diversity, Wild Nights offers a profound reminder that in the vulnerability of slumber we can find our shared humanity. By peeling back the covers of history, Reiss recaptures sleep's mystery and grandeur and offers hope to weary readers: as sleep was transformed once before, so too can it change today.

Author : Scott Reiss
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 34,53 MB
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781737717874

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If you love sports -- and the people who bring you the highlights -- this is absolutely the book for you.These are the true, hilarious, and previously untold stories of how America's favorite sports broadcasters started their careers. "Where They Were Then" gives you a candid look at the first TV jobs of household names like Scott Van Pelt, Kenny Mayne, Heidi Watney, Trey Wingo, John Buccigross, and many more.They are at the top of the mountain now, but you won't believe some of the things these sportscasters did when they first started.*Which famous sportscaster did a whole TV segment with an IV in his arm?*Which household sports name was chased down the streets of Las Vegas?*Which well-known sports anchor got fired, and then was turned down for a job at a wastewater treatment plant?*Who's sportscast at their first job was so bad... the director cut him off in the middle of the show?*Who got their big break because a monkey jumped on them during a live interview?*Who spent their 24th birthday washing minor-league baseball uniforms in a cheap hotel?*Who started their TV career talking about cows and a sea lion blocking cars on a road?They may be covering the world's biggest sporting events now, but when you read "Where They Were Then" you'll learn that's not what they covered at their first jobs. Instead, they reported on: Ostrich racing, ice fishing, mountainside furniture racing, high school volleyball, rookie league baseball, and whatever was going on at the local rodeo.Author Scott Reiss -- of ESPN & Comcast SportsNet fame -- weaves these amazing first-person stories together into a book that inspires all of us. "Where They Were Then" gives you front-row access to 15 different paths to success in the TV sports industry.Whether you just love sports, want to know more about your favorite sportscasters, or want to learn what it takes to start at the bottom and work your way to the top, reading the stories in "Where They Were Then" will be time well spent.

Author : Susan Reiss
Publisher : Blue Lily Publishers
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 2021-04-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781949876475

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Emma wanted to escape the pressures of the real world by going to the Cottage she had inherited on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Everything was as she remembered it from her childhood, except for the absence of her beloved Uncle Jack. She was confused when she found a beautiful antique plantation desk in the garage covered by a tarp. The next morning, everything changed when she discovered a letter that began My Dearest Emma. It was signed Daniel. And she had no idea who that man was. It wasn't long before she discovered the desk was haunted.