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Jack Benny's Lost Radio Broadcasts Volume One

May 2 - July 27, 1932

By: Jack Benny,Harry Conn

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Jack Benny's Lost Radio Broadcasts Volume One

May 2 - July 27, 1932

By: Jack Benny,Harry Conn

For the first time in almost 90 years, we can experience the origins of Jack Benny's radio comedy genius. Jack Benny's Lost Radio Broadcasts, brought up from Benny's subterranean vault [or the UCLA archives, almost as difficult to access!] finally share scripts of his earliest live radio programs--for which no recordings exist. See how the soon-to-be-king of radio comedy moved from his vaudeville stand-up comedy background to invent the workplace situation comedy. In these first shows of 1932, Jack plays a "Broadway Romeo," a genial, self-deprecating comedian, who is not yet the famously cheap "fall guy" he would become over the next two years. Jack claims that it's his bandleader, George Olsen, who's the tightwad. Highlights of Volume One include: - Jack's commercials for Canada Dry Ginger Ale- the funniest, and most controversial, advertising parodies he would ever perform. - Jack's panic as he realizes he has used up every vaudeville routine he'd ever performed on stage, and this is a twice-a-week program. - The initial Introduction of Mary Livingstone, the radio fan from Plainfield, New Jersey. - An introduction by Kathy Fuller-Seeley that sets the stage for why these historic shows are so important to understand Benny's career. These 26 hilarious radio scripts offer Jack Benny at his early creative best. Kathryn Fuller-Seeley is the author of Jack Benny and the Golden Age of Radio Comedy (2017) and books on early motion pictures and nickelodeon audiences. She teaches media history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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1629335789

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Jack Benny's Lost Radio Broadcasts Volume One

May 2 - July 27, 1932 (hardback)

By: Jack Benny,Harry Conn

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Jack Benny's Lost Radio Broadcasts Volume One

May 2 - July 27, 1932 (hardback)

By: Jack Benny,Harry Conn

This is the hardback version. For the first time in almost 90 years, we can experience the origins of Jack Benny's radio comedy genius. Jack Benny's Lost Radio Broadcasts, brought up from Benny's subterranean vault [or the UCLA archives, almost as difficult to access!] finally share scripts of his earliest live radio programs--for which no recordings exist. See how the soon-to-be-king of radio comedy moved from his vaudeville stand-up comedy background to invent the workplace situation comedy. In these first shows of 1932, Jack plays a "Broadway Romeo," a genial, self-deprecating comedian, who is not yet the famously cheap "fall guy" he would become over the next two years. Jack claims that it's his bandleader, George Olsen, who's the tightwad. Highlights of Volume One include: - Jack's commercials for Canada Dry Ginger Ale- the funniest, and most controversial, advertising parodies he would ever perform. - Jack's panic as he realizes he has used up every vaudeville routine he'd ever performed on stage, and this is a twice-a-week program. - The initial Introduction of Mary Livingstone, the radio fan from Plainfield, New Jersey. - An introduction by Kathy Fuller-Seeley that sets the stage for why these historic shows are so important to understand Benny's career. These 26 hilarious radio scripts offer Jack Benny at his early creative best.

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1629335797

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Benny and Me

By: Jack L. Hatfield

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Benny and Me

By: Jack L. Hatfield

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Page Publishing Inc

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1684095204

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9781684095209

Golden Medina

By: Jack Lazebnik

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Golden Medina

By: Jack Lazebnik

Early in the twentieth century, Itkeh leaves her home in Russia for America, her innocent heart slowly developing passion as she navigates the traveler's troubles en route to the new world. Lazebnik's story is turbulent, tender, dramatic, and timeless.

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Chicago Review Press

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0897338480

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9780897338486

The Living Mummy and Other Stories

By: Jack Davis,Al Feldstein

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The Living Mummy and Other Stories

By: Jack Davis,Al Feldstein

When Jack Davis took up his pen for EC Comics, he made his innocent victims more eye-poppingly terrified, his ax-murderers more gleefully gruesome, and his vampires and werewolves more bloodthirsty and feral than any other artist. These horror and suspense tales ― from the pages of Vault of Horror,Haunt of Fear, Crime SuspenStories, and Shock SuspenStories ― offer everything a horror fan could ask for: re-animated bodies and body parts, a ghoul who stores bodies like a squirrel stores nuts, a vampire who moonlights at (where else?) a blood bank, greedy business partners, corrupt politicians, jealous lovers, revenge from beyond the grave, and a healthy complement of vampires, werewolves, and assorted grotesqueries. All leavened with the cackling, pun-laced humor of scripter Al Feldstein and illuminated as only the virtuoso brushwork of Jack Davis can present them.

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Fantagraphics Books

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160699929X

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9781606999295

Fifties Jazz Talk

An Oral Retrospective

By: Gordon Jack

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Fifties Jazz Talk

An Oral Retrospective

By: Gordon Jack

More than 25 muscians who first came to prominence during the 1950s are the subject of this collection of interviews. The author's purpose has been to help preserve the oral history of a great American artform, and this book reveals that jazz musicians who can 'tell a story' with their horn when improvising can be just as articulate in conversation.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810849976

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9780810849976

Key Issues in Language Teaching

By: Jack C. Richards

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Key Issues in Language Teaching

By: Jack C. Richards

TESOL / ESL Teaching.

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Cambridge University Press

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110745610X

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9781107456105

Drink with the Devil

By: Jack Higgins

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Drink with the Devil

By: Jack Higgins

The hunt is on for a fortune in stolen British gold in this New York Times bestselling Sean Dillon novel. Irish militant Michael Ryan wants to finance war in his homeland—and a sinister pact with the New York Mafia will make his dreams a savage reality. Former IRA enforcer Sean Dillon now works for the British government. His mission: retrieve the gold lying shipwreched at the botton of the Irish Sea by any means necessary—and finish Ryan's bloody plot before it gets off the ground. Two deadly men are locked in a furious race, with millions of dollars—and lives—hanging in the balance...

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Penguin

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1101203625

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9781101203620

Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Wisdom of Dads

Loving Stories about Fathers and Being a Father

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen,Amy Newmark

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Wisdom of Dads

Loving Stories about Fathers and Being a Father

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen,Amy Newmark

Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Wisdom of Dads is a special way to pay tribute to Dad, and also a great read for all fathers and children. Stories remind readers of the special bond between fathers and children and the unique reverence children hold for their wise old dads. Children view their fathers with awe from the day they are born. Fathers are big and strong and seem to know everything, except when their kids are teenagers -- then they know nothing. This book contains 101 great stories selected from Chicken Soup for the Soul’s library, all focusing on the wisdom of fathers. These heartwarming and often humorous stories are written by sons and daughters about their fathers, and by fathers about their children.

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Simon and Schuster

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161159183X

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9781611591835

Hidden Graves

By: Jack Fredrickson

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Hidden Graves

By: Jack Fredrickson

“An investigator with a seductive one-two punch—a delectably smart mouth and a delightfully nimble brain.” —William Kent Krueger “Chicago private investigator Dek Elstrom is having a hard time making ends meet, what with the recent collapse of his marriage, the scandal that wrecked his career, and the lack of an actual private investigator’s license. When a woman hires Dek to confirm the whereabouts of three men, Dek’s not exactly in a position to turn down the work, despite his client’s deeply suspicious behavior (Why, for example, does she show up for their meeting wearing an obvious disguise?). When Dek discovers that one of the men is dead and the other two seem to have gone missing, not to mention the fact that the dead man may have taken on a new identity a couple of decades ago, he realizes he’s stumbled onto the kind of case that could resurrect his career―if he can beat a (trumped-up) murder charge, that is. The writing here is splendid, echoing genre veteran Loren D. Estleman, and Dek Elstrom is the kind of guy we genuinely like spending time with.” —Booklist

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Severn House/ORIM

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1780108346

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9781780108346

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat

101 Stories about Life, Love, and Lessons

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen,Amy Newmark

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat

101 Stories about Life, Love, and Lessons

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen,Amy Newmark

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat will delight readers with humorous, heartwarming, and inspiring stories about lessons our feline friends and family members have taught us. Lessons come in all shapes and sizes, like our feline friends. Cat lovers, both lifelong and reluctant, share their stories about life, love, and lessons learned from their furry companions.

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Simon and Schuster

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1611591481

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9781611591484

Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul

Stories to Sow Seeds of Love, Hope and Laughter

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

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Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul

Stories to Sow Seeds of Love, Hope and Laughter

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul celebrates all the magic of gardening-the feeling of satisfaction that comes from creating something from nothing; the physical and spiritual renewal the earth provides; and the special moments shared with friends and family only nature can bestow.

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Simon and Schuster

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1453280111

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9781453280119

Shot at and Missed

Recollections of a World War II Bombardier

By: Jack R. Myers

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Shot at and Missed

Recollections of a World War II Bombardier

By: Jack R. Myers

In this riveting narrative, Jack R. Myers recounts his experiences as a B-17 bombardier during World War II. Commissioned a second lieutenant in 1944 at age twenty, Myers began flying missions with the 2nd Bomb Group, U.S. Fifteenth Air Force. He learned firsthand the exhilaration—and terror—of being shot at and missed. Based in Italy, the Fifteenth Air Force flew strategic bombing raids over southern Germany, Austria, Hungary, Rumania, and Czechoslovakia. Less celebrated than the Eighth Air Force, which flew out of England, the Fifteenth, nevertheless, was pivotal in dismantling the German industrial complex. Myers offers an insider’s view of these missions over southern and central Europe. The reader goes with him into the highly exposed Plexiglas nose of the Flying Fortress, flying with him through the flak-filled skies of Europe and peering with him through his Norden bombsight at Axis targets. On average, a heavy-bomber crewman survived only sixteen bombing missions. Myers survived his allotted thirty-five missions before being honorably discharged in 1945.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806184892

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9780806184890

Doctor Blood Moon

By: Jack Walker

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Doctor Blood Moon

By: Jack Walker

Doctor Blood Moon is a love story cum murder mystery cum coming-of-age novel. It centers on a physician striving to reach his full human potential after years in a smothering professional career and a bad marriage. the book is also about the risks and rewards of life in the city of Los Angeles. Johnny Blood, the leading heart surgeon in Southern California, grew up on a dirt-poor Crow Indian reservation in Montana. a basketball scholarship to UCLA was his way out. He attended Harvard Medical School on scholarship and eventually reached the peak of his profession through monk-like dedication. In spite of his success, his failing marriage and the mysterious death of a Nobel laureate patient rattled his self-confidence. As the novel begins, Johnny sets out to reinvent himself as a man, physician, citizen, husband, father, and friend through the agency of people on their own journeys: mainly a beautiful Greek film actress named Michaela and Johnny's nephew, Nicky, an Afghanistan vet whom Johnny rescued twice, first from the Crow reservation and then from the mean streets of Los Angeles.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1499070985

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9781499070989

How Like an Angel

A Novel

By: Jack Driscoll

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How Like an Angel

A Novel

By: Jack Driscoll

How Like an Angel is a powerfully imagined, lyrically wrought novel, overflowing with the senses. Jack Driscoll is a marvel." ---Rick Bass "How Like an Angel is a lyrical, lonely ode to fatherhood, an aria in words that looks forward and backward at once. Jack Driscoll is a writer of deep heart, relentless honesty, uncanny gentleness, and irresistible spirit." ---Pam Houston How Like an Angel is the story of Archibald Angel. With his career going nowhere and a marriage in decline, Angel retreats to a rustic cabin in northern Michigan to make a new life for himself. In spite of his forward thinking, Angel's move is in many ways a journey into the past. Besides lacking modern comforts, the cabin conjures the ghost of Angel's troubled childhood, when his undertaker father took the cabin in trade as payment from a widow who couldn't otherwise afford the cost of her husband's burial. After Angel's mother subsequently fled, abandoning her family to recover from a mental breakdown, the cabin was an escape for father and son. While Archibald Angel revisits his knotted and difficult past, his ex-wife and young son contemplate their future. Slowly, with unexpected help from an unpredictable woman, Angel realizes he too must find a way to begin again or risk failing his son as his own father failed him. With pathos, humor, and unflagging generosity of spirit, How Like an Angel takes us deep into the hinterland of the human heart and discovers there the source of the love that keeps us holding on against all odds.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472114719

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9780472114719

The Dead Caller from Chicago

A Mystery

By: Jack Fredrickson

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The Dead Caller from Chicago

A Mystery

By: Jack Fredrickson

Dark secrets and the disappearances of nearly everyone he has ever loved converge in a case that leads Dek Elstrom on a trail to northern Michigan and a forgotten ice-swept island where a death raises dangerous questions about Elstrom's home in Rivertown.

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Macmillan

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0312605277

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9780312605278

Book's by Jack Benny

Jack Benny's Lost Radio Broadcasts Volume One

Jack Benny's Lost Radio Broadcasts Volume One

Jack Benny's Lost Radio Broadcasts Volume One

Jack Benny's Lost Radio Broadcasts Volume One

Benny and Me

Benny and Me

Golden Medina

Golden Medina

The Living Mummy and Other Stories

The Living Mummy and Other Stories

Fifties Jazz Talk

Fifties Jazz Talk

Key Issues in Language Teaching

Key Issues in Language Teaching

Drink with the Devil

Drink with the Devil

Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Wisdom of Dads

Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Wisdom of Dads

Hidden Graves

Hidden Graves

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat

Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul

Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul

Shot at and Missed

Shot at and Missed

Doctor Blood Moon

Doctor Blood Moon

How Like an Angel

How Like an Angel

The Dead Caller from Chicago

The Dead Caller from Chicago

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