![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Heartwarming and redemptive, OOGY is the story of the people who were determined to rescue this dog against all odds, and of the family who took him home, named him "Oogy" (an affectionate derivative of ugly), and made him one of their own. The Levins, whose sons are themselves adopted, were unable to resist Oogy's charms. 11,678 Ratings In the bestselling tradition of Rescuing Sprite comes the story of a puppy brought back from the brink of death, and the family he adopted.He had been thrown in a cage and left to die until the police rescued him and the staff at Ardmore Animal Hospital saved his life. Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love by Larry Levin 4.04 avg. The dog had been used as bait for fighting dogs when he was just a few months old. What would begin as a terrible day suddenly got brighter as the ugliest dog they had ever seen-one who was missing an ear and had half his face covered in scar tissue-ran up to them and captured their hearts. In 2002, Larry Levin and his twin sons, Dan and Noah, took their terminally ill cat to the Ardmore Animal Hospital outside Philadelphia to have the beloved pet put to sleep. Now in paperback, the New York Times-bestselling story of a puppy brought back from the brink of death, and the family he adopted. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Screaming taglines, provocative titles and scantily clad bodies are all elements that can be used to great advantage in poster form. Of all film genres, the X-rated movie is possibly the one that lends itself best to the use of posters as a promotional medium. Johnny Carson and Bob Hope talked about Deep Throat on TV, and respected artists became involved in promotional campaigns for adult films. The "porno chic" movement around films like Deep Throat (1972), The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976) and Debbie Does Dallas (1978) gave skin flicks an air of credibility that had never existed before. For the first time, these films were shown in mainstream cinemas to a fashionable, young crowd. The 1960s and '70s were the Golden Age of the X-rated movie. The bestselling cult compilation of adult-movie posters, now expandedThis magnificent book is the new, expanded, complete edition of Nourmand and Marsh's cult bestseller, with text by renowned writer Peter Doggett. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1841 he addressed a convention of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in Nantucket and so greatly impressed the group that they immediately employed him as an agent. Soon thereafter he changed his name to Frederick Douglass. In 1838 he escaped from slavery and went to New York City, where he married Anna Murray, a free colored woman whom he had met in Baltimore. As a young boy he was sent to Baltimore, to be a house servant, where he learned to read and write, with the assistance of his master's wife. Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. Douglass wrote The Heroic Slave in response to a request from the Rochester Ladies' Anti Slavery Society for a short story to go in their collection, Autographs for Freedom. ![]() The novella is based on a true incident where a slave, Madison Washington, leads a rebellion on board a slave ship. The Heroic Slave is the only work of fiction written by Frederick Douglass. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Vice-President at that time, Thomas Marshall, is quoted as saying "Death had to take him sleeping. For if Roosevelt had been awake, there would have been a fight. ![]() His illness was likely and unfortunately compounded by the malaria he had contracted on his trip to Brazil in 1913-1914. On JanuTheodore Roosevelt died unexpectedly in his sleep at his home, Sagamore Hill, after being hospitalized in November and December of 1918 for inflammatory rheumatism. Only the hand of God can keep him from the White House in 1920. He has been president once – and wants the job again. In his 60 years of life, Theodore Roosevelt was many things to many people including birdwatcher conservationist poet and author beloved brother, father and husband soldier North Dakota rancher reformer Sunday School teacher New York State legislator New York State Governor and, as author David Pietrusza describes him in the 'Players in Our Drama' section of his book 1920:The Year of Six Presidents: ![]() ![]() public defender, Forman tells riveting stories of politicians, community activists, police officers, defendants, and crime victims. But the policies they adopted would have devastating consequences for residents of poor black neighborhoods.Ī former D.C. In the face of skyrocketing murder rates and the proliferation of open-air drug markets, they believed they had no choice. ![]() ![]() mayor Marion Barry and federal prosecutor Eric Holder, feared that the gains of the civil rights movement were being undermined by lawlessness-and thus embraced tough-on-crime measures, including longer sentences and aggressive police tactics. Many prominent black officials, including Washington, D.C. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand why.įorman shows us that the first substantial cohort of black mayors, judges, and police chiefs took office amid a surge in crime and drug addiction. As James Forman, Jr., points out, however, the war on crime that began in the 1970s was supported by many African American leaders in the nation’s urban centers. ![]() Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. ![]() In recent years, America’s criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. ![]() ![]() ![]() I didn’t really know anything about the book but was drawn by the cover on the Netgalley catalogue and decided to request it from Penguin. Trigger warning for self-harm, attempted suicide and homophobia. ![]() But just as that starts to seem like a real possibility, ultrareligious Aunt Ruth takes drastic action to “fix” her niece, bringing Cam face-to-face with the cost of denying her true self-even if she’s not quite sure who that is. She and Cam forge an unexpected and intense friendship, one that seems to leave room for something more to emerge. Beautiful, pickup-driving Coley is a perfect cowgirl with the perfect boyfriend to match. ![]() Survival in Miles City, Montana, means blending in and leaving well enough alone, and Cam becomes an expert at both. She knows that from this point on, her life will forever be different. ![]() Relief they’ll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl.īut that relief doesn’t last, and Cam is forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother. Danforthįrom Goodreads: When Cameron Post’s parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, he suffered a fractured left clavicle in the first game of the season and missed most of the season before returning later in the year, throwing just three touchdowns. The following year, Foles started only five games and eventually opted out of his contract with the Eagles, signing a US$88 million deal with the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2019. ![]() There, they defeated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII for their first Super Bowl title, with Foles being named the game's MVP. After Carson Wentz was injured late in the regular season, Foles led the Eagles to the franchise's third Super Bowl appearance. Louis Rams and the Kansas City Chiefs, Foles returned to the Eagles in 2017. It was only the seventh time in NFL history that a quarterback threw for seven touchdowns in a single game.Īfter stints with the St. During a game in the 2013 season, he became the second quarterback to post a perfect passer rating (158.3) while passing for more than 400 yards and seven touchdowns. ![]() ![]() He is a Quarterback in the NFL.įoles played his first game with the Eagles after Michael Vick became injured mid-way through the 2012 season, starting for the rest of the year. Nick Foles was born January 20, 1989, in Austin, Texas. ![]() ![]() Hockenberry gets mixed up in plots between the godsĢ) The second storyline is that of some sort of cybernetic organism called Mahnmut, who lives on Jupiter’s moon Europa. In any case, the post-humans are playing the roles of the ancient gods in the tale. ![]() It is unclear whether this is just a recreation of the war, or some sort of projection, or the actual war brought to Mars using some kind of quantum space-time shenanigans. For, at the foot of the mountain rages the Trojan War – you know, the Greek war that Homer wrote down in his Iliad. Godlike, post-human creatures are living on Mars, on the giant volcano Mount Olympos, and have brought Hockenberry back to observe and report on a war. ![]() ![]() I will describe shortly the starting point of each of them, just so you know what kind of novel we are talking about.ġ) The first storyline is that of the 20 th century scholar Hockenberry, who is resurrected a few thousand years into the future, on the planet Mars. Ilium starts with three crazy storylines and we will just have to deal with it. ![]() ![]() ![]() It features the complete text of The Kybalion and the first-ever publication of Atkinson's previously unknown post- Kybalion work: The Seven Cosmic Laws. The Kybalion: The Definitive Edition presents the first full- scale analysis of this work of practical occult wisdom. Debate rages over the identity of the Three Initiates, the origin of the book's mysterious title and insights, and the nature of the Hermetic teachings on which it is thought to be based. It is one of the most mysterious and hotly debated occult works ever written-and without question the most popular and widely influential book of arcane philosophy of the twentieth century: The Kybalion has been credited only to the cryptic "Three Initiates" since its first appearance in 1908. ![]() Here is the flagship edition of the most popular occult work of the past century, now published with a groundbreaking historical introduction that establishes its authentic authorship and a "lost" bonus work by the original author. ![]() ![]() ![]() It seemed to offer, or augur, an exciting new brand of radicalism, and revolutionary confrontation, in the movement’s next phase.įor all that initial excitement, however, Black Power was always a concept in search of its object. I remember that galvanizing moment very clearly I was then a 19-year-old college student and felt a powerful rush from two snippets of the chant I heard in the press coverage of the moment when Black Power was born, as both a slogan and a movement. ![]() On that date, Willie Ricks, a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary, and Stokely Carmichael, SNCC’s new national chair, electrified the crowd in Greenwood, Mississippi, on the March Against Fear from Memphis to Jackson, Mississippi, when they began chanting “Black Power! Black Power!” The chant-and Carmichael’s speech before the gathering-sent shock waves through the news cycle. ![]() June 16, 1966, isn’t on the commemorative calendar in black American politics, but it probably should be. ![]() |