Milk, An LA Story is a gritty story about an LA kid struggling to follow his dream of playing in the NBA. Young Milk moves across the country from the Midwest to LA to live with his divorced Dad and his grandparents with the hope of playing big time high school b-ball and eventually the pros. His story begins when he gets beaten up by gang members early one morning at the Venice Beach basketball courts where he wanted merely to try practicing some skills.. A well-known film action actor comes to his rescue, and advocates for Milk with local gangs the V13 Crips and Shoreline Crips. Milk plays whenever he can, quicking learning street ball with finesse, and, at the same time, becoming close with a local street tough. They have big fun playing at the beach courts, but also causing chaos that only teenagers on the loose can create. Milk comes to realize through some tough experiecnes that his new friend is an extremely violent sex predator being hunted by a local task force. It is a hard lesson to learn, but he takes it to heart and focuses on his high school basketball team...and the young ladies who root for him! Milk goes on to team up with friends of his Dad, a famous local NBA player and his manager as they help him to enroll in a famous LA SouthCentral basketball program. Milk becomes the first white basketball player ever at the school, which leads to mind-boggling experiences both on and off the court. His story is so unique that it becomes featured in national magazines and local papers. Milk, An LA Story gives readers rich and compelling street level, authentic stories of a young man driven by ambition and extraordinary athletic skills that help him to navigate the highly competitve world of the best high school basketball in the country.
This book is the personal journal of Frank James Michael Costanza's dreams, prayers, poetry, writings and self-analysis over his mid-life years from 1992 through 1998. It is a 7 year glimpse into the struggles of a male facing mid-life and his reactions to outward pressures causing inward reflection and growth.
A wise and necessary book, one I’ve been recommending ardently to everyone I know. " —Julie Orringer, author of The Flight Portfolio Suspenseful and gripping, award-winning author Michael Frank’s What is Missing is a psychological family drama about a father, a son, and the woman they both love. Costanza Ansaldo, a half-Italian and half-American translator, is convinced that she has made peace with her childlessness. A year after the death of her husband, an eminent writer, she returns to the pensione in Florence where she spent many happy times in her youth, and there she meets, first, Andrew Weissman, an acutely sensitive seventeen-year-old, and, soon afterward, his father, Henry Weissman, a charismatic New York physician who specializes in—as it happens—reproductive medicine. With three lives each marked by heartbreak and absence—of a child, a parent, a partner, or a clear sense of identity—What is Missing offers Costanza, Andrew, and Henry the opportunity to make themselves whole when the triangle resumes three months later in New York, where the relationships among them turn and tighten with combustive effects that cut to the core of what it means to be a father, a son, and—for Costanza—a potential mother.
There are Jewish communal concerns about television, its Portrayel of Jewish characters and themes, and the core values the programming Transmits. To accomplish this objectives the American Jewish Committe with others convened an historic conference with leaders of the television industry. the themes discussed about are showed in this book.
Calvin is the son of a missionary family, and their trip to Portofino is the highlight of his year. But even in the seductive Italian summer, the Beckers can't really relax. Calvin's father could slip into a Bad Mood and start hurling potted plants at any time. His mother has an embarrassing habit of trying to convert "pagans" on the beach. And his sister Janet has a ski sweater and a miniature Bible in her luggage, just in case the Russians invade and send them to Siberia. His dad says everything is part of God's plan. But this summer, Calvin has some plans of his own . . . Portofino is the prequel to the noted trilogy that includes Zermatt. A huge bestseller, Portofino has been translated into seven languages.
A wise and necessary book, one I’ve been recommending ardently to everyone I know. " —Julie Orringer, author of The Flight Portfolio Suspenseful and gripping, award-winning author Michael Frank’s What is Missing is a psychological family drama about a father, a son, and the woman they both love. Costanza Ansaldo, a half-Italian and half-American translator, is convinced that she has made peace with her childlessness. A year after the death of her husband, an eminent writer, she returns to the pensione in Florence where she spent many happy times in her youth, and there she meets, first, Andrew Weissman, an acutely sensitive seventeen-year-old, and, soon afterward, his father, Henry Weissman, a charismatic New York physician who specializes in—as it happens—reproductive medicine. With three lives each marked by heartbreak and absence—of a child, a parent, a partner, or a clear sense of identity—What is Missing offers Costanza, Andrew, and Henry the opportunity to make themselves whole when the triangle resumes three months later in New York, where the relationships among them turn and tighten with combustive effects that cut to the core of what it means to be a father, a son, and—for Costanza—a potential mother.
In the late fifties, as more and more immigrants migrated to the U.S., in a way it was kind of disheartening for them because they had to go through some kind of physical checkup and some were held in quarantine until the authorities were satisfied with the outcome of whatever the illness was. The percentage of these cases, were very low and eventually they were accepted into this country, which today that is not the case. This particular family had no such problems and that made the transition much enjoyable. These two particular brothers were unique in their own ways and accepted what life put in front of their paths. They faced the problems and the pleasures of life, without having someone else take responsibility for their actions, even though at times the actions that they took were not the most favorable ones. It was rare that they disagreed on whatever they had to do, but as human beings, we have our moments where we as individuals are never wrong. Even though age between two brothers as they grow up makes a difference, there comes that special moment when at a certain age, equality just introduced itself to them and they handled it very well.
This warm anecdotal guide gives legends and traditions of both the popular sites of Rome as well as little-known places of historical significance. Written by an internationally known expert and veteran of fifty visits to the Eternal City. Color illustrations, photos and maps are included.
Ferdinando Russo, the premier dialect poet of Naples, invites Roger Morris, an American jounralist with Pulitzer, to the annual song festival at Piedigrotta. Morris arrives from Capri where he has researched a feature on the 1885 scandal on that island that almost overturned the Wilhemine government, forced the suicide of Alred Krupp, and led to the ruin of renowned artsist and poets who were accused of homo and lesbian illicit love in grott os. Morris lands at Naples beset by mobs of "popolani" heading in two directions, one to the the festa, and the other to a "Zumpata" or knife duel between two "Cammoriste." The knife duel is impromtu and bizarre, the antagonists, both Dons of the Camorra have expressed themselves as a homo and a lesbian and the prize in the case of the lesbian quappo Don Mafalda, is the possession of the two adorable twins, Nennella and Nennino. Don Teresina, the "guappo" homosexual desires only Nennino. The winner takes two, or one of the twins. Russo misses Morris at the landing where Morris is mobbed by the locals heading for the Zumpata. Despite the fact that Russo asks his friends the "scugnizzi or street boys" of the city to find him, Morris is swept away by thousands. He is pummeled, suspected of being a police agent, has his pockets picked, his shoes trampled and relentlessly the fans of the "Zumpata" move him to the brink of a make shift arena. . .
Missing! A grave international crisis! The newly appointed ambassador to Italy, the Italian American Giuseppe DeSantis never debarked from the ocean liner at Naples. Helicopters from the Mediterranean fleet are searching adjacent waters. American intelligence is alerted, the CIA in full force in Italy, the bay of Naples is being dragged for a body that may have staggered overboard. Theories abound in the I1 Mattino: he is a captive of the Cammora, the Red Brigade is holding him for political ransom, he is a pawn between the two rival parties in Italy, etc. A special mass is being said by the Archbishop of Naples for the safety of the Ambassador and comfort of his family, now gathered in Naples. THE NOSE OF SAN JANUARIUS tells the story of an Italian immigrant who makes it big in America. He is a prominent builder (an Iacocca figure); deep in politics and charities, and married to a Wasp woman who bore him three children. During a crisis in his life, when he is an alcoholic and suicidal, he is offered the Ambassadorship to Italy, his homeland, that expelled an orphaned eight-year-old to labor for his bread in a friendless country. The once ragged eight year old immigrant from Southern Italy, millionaire road builder, would save Venice and its moldering Carrara only if allowed to sink Naples forever, that dark dispatcher of dreams. Confidentially, he is an alcoholic and suicidal unconsciously bowing to an urge to seek a healing of his split psyche in a motherland which divided him, or better to be found dead on his mother’s unmarked grave of red poppies. What follows in confessional and revelatory episodes induced by a Magus, monk Abbot Batorian to save his own soul, leads instead to a healing and gaining of insight for the Amassador Giuseppe DeSantis, that takes place in and about a monastery, and reconciliation with his wife and children—and himself. A wholeness of his psyche.
This rich narrative follows a young man through Italy as he searches for his ancestral roots as well as his own identity. His pilgrimage, one that becomes sacred to the aspiring author as he searches for an authentic voice, takes him through Venice, Florence, Rome, and the Italian countryside where he works with peasants and follows the ancient traditions of blood and wine, leading him to rethink his philosophy and reevaluate the direction of his life.
In The Handbook of Municipal Bonds, editors Sylvan Feldstein and Frank Fabozzi provide traders, bankers, and advisors—among other industry participants—with a well-rounded look at the industry of tax-exempt municipal bonds. Chapter by chapter, a diverse group of experienced contributors provide detailed explanations and a variety of relevant examples that illuminate essential elements of this area. With this book as your guide, you’ll quickly become familiar with both buy side and sell side issues as well as important innovations in this field.
Collects Howard the Duck (1976) #1-14; Marvel Treasury Edition (1974) #12; material from Fear (1970) #19; Man-Thing (1974) #1; Giant-Size Man-Thing (1974) #4-5; FOOM (1973) #15. Trapped in a Masterworks he never made! There were several worthy candidates for the milestone 300th Marvel Masterworks, but only one waddled away with victory: Howard the Duck! Steve Gerber and artistic cohorts Val Mayerik, Frank Brunner and Gene Colan crafted one of comics’ most iconoclastic and hilarious characters. Now Howard’s inaugural Masterworks kicks things off with his quirky first appearance as a “fowl out of water,” teaming with the macabre Man-Thing to protect Cleveland from the Man-Frog and Hellcow! The satirical stories continue with Howard and gal-pal Beverly Switzler taking on dire threats like the Space Turnip, the Beaver and — public transportation?! And just wait until Howard runs for president! All restored in Masterworks glory!
Just in time for the blockbuster event of 2016-the Dark Knight takes on the Man of Steel! This collection of their most memorable showdowns is an essential companion piece to BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE.Superman and Batman are usually allies, but when they do have to go toe-to-toe, it’s the ultimate battle of brains versus brawn! Can an ordinary man take down an opponent with the power of a god? Can even superpowers prevail against a tactical genius who is never less than ten steps ahead? From all-star comic talents Frank Miller, Geoff Johns, Jim Lee, Jeph Loeb, Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo and more, these stories tackle the oldest fan debate in comics: Who would win: Superman or Batman?Collects BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT #4; BATMAN #612; SUPERMAN/BATMAN #32, #78; JUSTICE LEAGUE #2; BATMAN #35-36.
Sean Merrick is a high-dollar medical malpractice attorney in Portland, Oregon, and the favorite object of his attention is, of course, Sean Merrick. He has a big house, a luxurious automobile, and a trophy wife. But after his wife dies prematurely, he nurtures a diabolical vendetta against Jason Costanza MD, a lifetime friend who had the poor luck to be the emergency room physician who treated his wife on the day of her death. Remedies of Choice examines relationships that span the course of a lifetime, while taking the reader into the world of medical malpractice litigation, drug abuse, and murder for hire. In this day and age of bitter rivalry between doctors and lawyers, it is a tale that no physician or healthcare worker in this country will want to miss.
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