[PDF] The Roo eBook

Author : Alan Baxter
Publisher : Alan Baxter
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 22,97 MB
Release : 2020-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1393147674

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Something is wrong in the small outback town of Morgan Creek. A farmer goes missing after a blue in the pub. A teenage couple fail to show up for work. When Patrick and Sheila McDonough investigate, they discover the missing persons list is growing. Before they realise what’s happening, the residents of the remote town find themselves in a fight for their lives against a foe they would never have suspected. And the dry red earth will run with blood. “Trust me, you’ve never read anything like this. Deranged, delirious, diabolical, it just begs to be a film, and when it is, I’ll be first in line to see it. The Roo is a f*cking riot.” – Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-Winning author of Kin and Sour Candy

Author : Cindy R. Lee
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Instruction
ISBN : 9781517121525

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Redo Roo is a silly kangaroo. He has lots of energy and likes to play. Sometimes he has trouble following directions-- until he learned about the redo!

Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 20,71 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1847679668

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Alive with insight, wit and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music. Besides exploring what it is that makes great art great, Working the Room ventures into more personal territory with extensive autobiographical pieces - 'On Being an Only Child', 'Sacked' and 'Reader's Block', among other gems. Dyer's breadth of vision and generosity of spirit combine to form a manual for ways of being in - and seeing - the world today.

Author : Jessica Crews
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 45,25 MB
Release : 2015-12-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1504956435

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Bossy, bossy, bossy! Although Roo is simply an itty- bitty bantam rooster, he thinks everyone needs to do what he says. The other animals on the farm seem to overlook him, but eventually, something terrible happens to Roo that changes his attitude. Read along and see what little Ricky-Roo learns on the farm!

Author : Ronda Eden
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 2015-01-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781507738276

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Robby the Roo Like most youngsters Robby loves to dream up interesting hobbies to take him on fantastic adventures. Like most youngsters he often gets more than he bargains for! See what happens when Robby builds a canoe that attracts way too many curious passengers! Paddle along the river with him and his friends and find what lies up ahead. Most of all, have loads of fun and laughs with Robby the Roo.

Author : Sophia Chang
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 14,86 MB
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 1646220811

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The first Asian woman in hip-hop, Sophia Chang shares the inspiring story of her career in the music business, working with such acts as The Wu-Tang Clan and A Tribe Called Quest, her path to becoming an entrepreneur, and her candid accounts of marriage, motherhood, aging, desire, marginalization, and martial arts. Fearless and unpredictable, Sophia Chang prevailed in a male-dominated music industry to manage the biggest names in hip-hop and R&B. The daughter of Korean immigrants in predominantly white suburban Vancouver, Chang left for New York City, and soon became a powerful voice in music boardrooms at such record companies as Atlantic, Jive, and Universal Music Group. As an A&R rep, Chang met a Staten Island rapper named Prince Rakeem, now known as the RZA, founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, the most revered and influential rap group in hip-hop history. That union would send her on a transformational odyssey, leading her to a Shaolin monk who would become her partner, an enduring kung fu practice, two children, and a reckoning with what type woman she ultimately wanted to be. For decades, Chang helped remarkably talented men tell their stories. Now, with The Baddest Bitch In The Room, she is ready to tell her own story of marriage, motherhood, aging, desire, marginalization, and martial arts. This is an inspirational debut memoir by a woman of color who has had the audacity to be bold in the pursuit of her passions, despite what anyone—family, society, the dominant culture—have prescribed.

Author : Craig Morgan Teicher
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1885635141

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Winner of the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University

Author : Eileen Pollack
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807046612

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ONE OF WASHINGTON POST'S NOTABLE NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR A bracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in STEM fields—“beautifully written and full of important insights” (Washington Post). In 2005, when Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, asked why so few women, even today, achieve tenured positions in the hard sciences, Eileen Pollack set out to find the answer. A successful fiction writer, Pollack had grown up in the 1960s and ’70s dreaming of a career as a theoretical astrophysicist. Denied the chance to take advanced courses in science and math, she nonetheless made her way to Yale. There, despite finding herself far behind the men in her classes, she went on to graduate summa cum laude, with honors, as one of the university’s first two women to earn a bachelor of science degree in physics. And yet, isolated, lacking in confidence, starved for encouragement, she abandoned her ambition to become a physicist. Years later, spurred by the suggestion that innate differences in scientific and mathematical aptitude might account for the dearth of tenured female faculty at Summer’s institution, Pollack thought back on her own experiences and wondered what, if anything, had changed in the intervening decades. Based on six years interviewing her former teachers and classmates, as well as dozens of other women who had dropped out before completing their degrees in science or found their careers less rewarding than they had hoped, The Only Woman in the Room is a bracingly honest, no-holds-barred examination of the social, interpersonal, and institutional barriers confronting women—and minorities—in the STEM fields. This frankly personal and informed book reflects on women’s experiences in a way that simple data can’t, documenting not only the more blatant bias of another era but all the subtle disincentives women in the sciences still face. The Only Woman in the Room shows us the struggles women in the sciences have been hesitant to admit, and provides hope for changing attitudes and behaviors in ways that could bring far more women into fields in which even today they remain seriously underrepresented.

Author : Rita Lakin
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1495050459

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(Applause Books). Rita Lakin was a pioneer a female scriptwriter in the early 1960s when Hollywood television was exclusively male. For years, in creative meetings she was literally "the only woman in the room." In this breezy but heartfelt remembrance, Lakin takes readers to a long-forgotten time when women were not considered worthy or welcome at the creative table. Widowed with three young children, she talked herself into a secretarial job at Universal Studios in 1962, despite being unable to type or take dictation. With guts, skill, and humor, she rose from secretary to freelancer, to staff writer, to producer, to executive producer and showrunner, meeting hundreds of famous and infamous show biz legends along the way during her long and unexpected career. She introduced many women into the business and was a feminist before she even knew she was one. The general public did not know her name, but Lakin touched the lives of millions of viewers week after week, year after year. The relevance of her personal journey charming yet occasionally shocking will be an eye-opener to present-day who take for granted the abundance of female creative talent in today's Hollywood.