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The Great Man Theory

By: Teddy Wayne

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At its finest, a worthy successor to those seriocomic novels of Bellow.” –Brandon Taylor, The New York Times Book Review Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Esquire, LitHub, Publisher's Lunch, Dandelion Chandelier, and Chicago Review of Books From acclaimed, Whiting Award-winning author Teddy Wayne, the hilarious, incisive, yet deeply poignant story of a liberal armchair-revolutionary desperate to save America from itself. Paul is a recently demoted adjunct instructor of freshman comp, a divorced but doting Brooklyn father, and a self-described “curmudgeonly crank” cataloging his resentment of the priorities of modern life in a book called The Luddite Manifesto. Outraged by the authoritarian creeps ruining the country, he is determined to better the future for his young daughter, one aggrieved lecture at a time. Shockingly, others aren't very receptive to Paul's scoldings. His child grows distant, preferring superficial entertainment to her father's terrarium and anti-technological tutelage. His careerist students are less interested than ever in what he has to say, and his last remaining friends appear ready to ditch him. To make up for lost income, he moonlights as a ride-share driver and moves in with his elderly mother, whose third-act changes confound and upset him. As one indignity follows the next, and Paul's disaffection with his circumstances and society mounts, he concocts a dramatic plan to right the world's wrongs and give himself a more significant place in it. Dyspeptically funny, bubbling over with insights into America's cultural landscape and a certain type of cast-aside man who wants to rectify it, The Great Man Theory is the work of a brilliant, original writer at the height of his powers.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1635578736

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Apartment

By: Teddy Wayne

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Apartment

By: Teddy Wayne

A New York Times Editors Choice Longlisted for the 2020 Simpson / Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize One of Vogue.com's “Best Books of 2020 So Far” One of Elle's “Best Books of 2020 So Far” Named A Most-Anticipated Book by The New York Times, Vogue, The Boston Globe, Salon, The Millions, Inside Hook, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn In 1996, the unnamed narrator of Teddy Wayne's Apartment is attending the MFA writing program at Columbia on his father's dime and living in an illegal sublet of a rent-stabilized apartment. Feeling guilty about his good fortune, he offers his spare bedroom--rent-free--to Billy, a talented, charismatic classmate from the Midwest eking out a hand-to-mouth existence in Manhattan. The narrator's rapport with Billy develops into the friendship he's never had due to a lifetime of holding people at arm's length, hovering at the periphery, feeling “fundamentally defective.” But their living arrangement, not to mention their radically different upbringings, breeds tensions neither man could predict. Interrogating the origins of our contemporary political divide and its ties to masculinity and class, Apartment is a gutting portrait of one of New York's many lost, disconnected souls by a writer with an uncommon aptitude for embodying them.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1635574013

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9781635574012

The Winner

A Novel

By: Teddy Wayne

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The Winner

A Novel

By: Teddy Wayne

“Be prepared to fully lose yourself in The Winner—a book I started and then simply couldn’t stop reading. Teddy Wayne has written a timely, topical novel that still somehow feels like a classic.”—Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Long Bright River Conor O’Toole has never been anywhere like Cutters Neck, a gated community near Cape Cod. It’s a sweet deal for the summer: in exchange for tennis lessons, he receives free lodging in a luxurious guest cottage, far from the cramped Yonkers apartment he shares with his diabetic mother. In this oceanfront paradise, however, new clients prove hard to come by, and Conor has bills to pay. When Catherine, a sharp-tongued divorcée, offers double his usual rate, he soon realizes she is expecting additional, off the court services for her money, and Conor tumbles into a secret erotic affair unlike anything he’s experienced before. Despite his steamy flings with a woman twice his age, he simultaneously finds himself falling for an artsy, outspoken girl he meets on the beach. With cautious, strategic planning, Conor somehow manages this tangled web—until he makes one final, irreversible mistake. A dark, explosive literary thriller that brilliantly skewers the elite, Whiting Award winner Teddy Wayne’s unputdownable novel is cinematic, shocking, and a psychological masterpiece.

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HarperCollins

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0063353628

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9780063353626

The Love Song of Jonny Valentine

A Novel

By: Teddy Wayne

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The Love Song of Jonny Valentine

A Novel

By: Teddy Wayne

Called the angel of pop, 11-year-old megastar Jonny Valentine has everything but a father . . . and a childhood. Wayne's novel follows the preadolescent's national tour as he wows his tween fans (and the occasional adult predator) while secretly searching the Internet for his absent father, whom he hasn't seen since he was 5 or 6. In the meantime, his hard-partying mother, who doubles as his manager, is trying to ensure that the young star's career doesn't go into eclipse.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476705860

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9781476705866

Simon & Schuster 2013 Fiction Sampler

By: Teddy Wayne,Marjorie Celona,Jim Gavin,William Nicholson,Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop,Paul Yoon

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Simon & Schuster 2013 Fiction Sampler

By: Teddy Wayne,Marjorie Celona,Jim Gavin,William Nicholson,Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop,Paul Yoon

We are proud to introduce seven powerful, original, and irresistible novels coming in 2013 from Simon & Schuster: The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, Y, Middle Men, Motherland, The Why of Things, The Gravity of Birds, and Snow Hunters. This sample features exclusive excerpts, interviews with the writers, and commentary from the books’ editors. · In The Love Song of Jonny Valentine by Teddy Wayne, an eleven-year-old pop megastar searches for his identity in the dark heart of America's monstrous obsession with fame. · Marjorie Celona’s highly acclaimed and exquisitely rendered debut, Y, follows a wise-beyond-her-years foster child abandoned as a newborn on the doorstep of the local YMCA. · From an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, Motherland is a powerful story of a love triangle set in England, France, India, and Jamaica against the backdrop of World War II. · In Middle Men, Stegner Fellow and New Yorker contributor Jim Gavin delivers a hilarious and panoramic vision of California, portraying a group of men, from young dreamers to old vets, as they make valiant forays into middle-class respectability. · Tracy Guzeman's compelling debut novel, The Gravity of Birds, follows the ordeal of an art authenticator and an art historian employed by a famous, reclusive painter to sell a never-before-seen portrait, leading them to discover devastating secrets two sisters have kept from each other, and from the artist. · In Snow Hunters, an elegant, haunting, and highly anticipated debut novel from 5 Under 35 National Book Foundation honoree Paul Yoon, a North Korean war refugee confronts the wreckage of his past. · From the critically acclaimed author of December comes The Why Of Things, a buoyant and beautiful new novel about a family struggling in the aftermath of a suicide. Each author is an accomplished artist and has created a lasting work you’ll want to read and relish and talk about.

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1476744467

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Apartment

By: Teddy Wayne

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Apartment

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Loner

A Novel

By: Teddy Wayne

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Loner

A Novel

By: Teddy Wayne

A new novel about a troubled young college freshman who becomes dangerously sexually obsessed with a classmate"--

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Simon and Schuster

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1501107895

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9781501107894

Left Early, Arrived Late

Scenes from the Life of Marcia Muth, Memory Painter

By: Teddy Jones,Marcia Muth

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Left Early, Arrived Late

Scenes from the Life of Marcia Muth, Memory Painter

By: Teddy Jones,Marcia Muth

Jones conveys an unconventional biography of an unconventional woman, Marcia Muth, memory painter, who was born in 1919.

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Sunstone Press

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0865346658

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9780865346659

Loner

A Novel

By: Teddy Wayne

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Loner

A Novel

By: Teddy Wayne

A new novel about a troubled young college freshman who becomes dangerously sexually obsessed with a classmate"--

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Portuguese Colonial Military in India

Apparition of Control, 1750--1850

By: Teddy Y.H. Sim

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Portuguese Colonial Military in India

Apparition of Control, 1750--1850

By: Teddy Y.H. Sim

This book explores and analyzes developments in the military institution, military engagements as well as the larger security environment of (including non-war violence and maritime regions linking to) the Portuguese Empire in India. These developments occurred under the onslaught of the early modern globalization. The research shows that far from being dilapidated or archaic, the Portuguese colonial military there kept up with some developments in technology and organization in a competitive environment. Although the colonial military was not the most important reason in accounting for the survival of the Portuguese Estado da Índia, nor was the military profession the most lucrative occupation, the Portuguese experience gave indication of how a colonial state and society was able to survive against coalescing threats from the position of weakness. Located in the period and geographical region of the wax and waning of the Mughal and Maratha empires, Portuguese India was not necessarily a more violent place than the surrounding territories although resistance to and uprising against the Portuguese was usually underestimated. Beginning from the attempt at political and military centralization (and standardization) in the eighteenth century, the abolition of the army of the Estado da Índia in the nineteenth marked nominally the end of an era that may have a reverberation on the pacifist perception of Goa today.

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Springer Nature

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9811962944

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9789811962943

Whose Side Are You On?

By: Teddy Jamieson

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Whose Side Are You On?

By: Teddy Jamieson

From the late 1960s, Northern Ireland has been mired in violence. Yet it has had seen more than its fair share of sporting heroes - from footballer George Best, through snooker champion Alex Higgins, to boxer Barry McGuigan. Life was tough for these working-class lads, but they could shine on the football field or find refuge at the town boxing club. For other kids, like the young Teddy Jamieson, a knockabout in the back-lanes was as good as it got, but at least they had their heroes. Watching McGuigan on telly, Teddy could feel proud to be Northern Irish. But sport - like everything else in Northern Ireland - could quickly turn nasty when politics were involved. This extraordinary journey through sport and the Troubles has it all: from Olympic gold-medals to Gaelic football; from death threats to reconciliations. Then there is Teddy's own story, as we learn how the age-old playground question 'Whose side are you on?' doesn't always have an easy answer.

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Random House

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1409028895

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Wedding, 3E

By: Teddy Lenderman

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Wedding, 3E

By: Teddy Lenderman

This wedding guide contains a section on using the Internet as a fast tool to help brides and grooms plan their weddings. It includes dealing with soon-to-be in-laws during the planning process, updated information on nationwide trends, and advice form bridal consultants and brides.

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Penguin

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0786542276

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9780786542277

The Ultimate Book of Boxing Lists

By: Bert Randolph Sugar,Teddy Atlas

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The Ultimate Book of Boxing Lists

By: Bert Randolph Sugar,Teddy Atlas

What were the ten most fantastic knockouts in boxing history? Which pugilist had the greatest jab of all time? What were the sport's most intense rivalries? Who scored the biggest upsets in the sport's annals? Which fighters have the best nicknames? These questions and many others are answered in this bold collection of ranked lists from two of boxing's most popular commentators. Each list has an introductory paragraph followed by a number of ranked entries, with each entry featuring a brief explanation of ranking plus entertaining and enlightening background information. Also included are original lists contributed exclusive to this book by more than 25 top personalities from boxing and beyond, including Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Oscar De La Hoya, Bernard Hopkins, and more.

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Running Press Adult

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0762441674

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9780762441679

Keepin’ the Beat

The Musical Journey Continues

By: Teddy Adams

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Keepin’ the Beat

The Musical Journey Continues

By: Teddy Adams

Keepin' the Beat is somewhat of a sequel to the author's first book entitled The Up of the Down Beat. Although this book mainly focuses on the author's hometown, Savannah, Georgia, it also takes you on a journey to other places that share events, experiences, and encounters. Realizing that a lot of information was not included in The Up of the Down Beat and many interesting and meaningful things have happened since it was published, the author was compelled to share more of his life's musical journey. Keepin' the Beat references some of the places and people in his first book and introduces the reader to subsequent and current happenings in his and the lives of musicians. Musicians are creative and sometimes eccentric, but what is important to them is keeping jazz alive and uplifting the human spirit of people who appreciate it. Approaching the twilight of his life's musical journey, this author considers this book to be somewhat of a legacy and culmination of his musical journey. By "keepin' the beat," he and other musicians are marching and playing to the beat by perpetuating and creating a music art form that has permeated the world--the art form commonly referred to as jazz.

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Page Publishing Inc

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9798893152722

Shadow Seduction

By: Teddy Bart

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Shadow Seduction

By: Teddy Bart

Why do decent people do shameful things? While media attention focuses on the misbehavior of the rich and famous, every day, thousands of ordinary people make choices for which they suffer humiliation, emotional pain, and loss. They can hide behind the cloak of anonymity and their stories are rarely told. Such was the case of Jonathan Feldman, a respected sixty-nine-year-old businessman. Since childhood, Jonathan has had an ongoing relationship with what Dr. Carl Jung would call his shadoweverything that is repressed, undeveloped, and denied in ones self. For Jonathan, this darker alter ego is the famous actor he had aspired to become. Jonathans shadow manifests as an apparitional entity co-existing as the antagonist, snidely debating with Jonathan as he wrestles with his options, cleverly influencing him to make a series of bad choices. And if Jonathan isnt careful, his shadow could ultimately lead him into planning his final exit. As he did with A Particle of God, author Teddy Bart probes one of lifes enigmas through the journey toward self-discovery of Jonathan Feldman.

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iUniverse

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1462037585

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9781462037582

Trash Can Days

A Middle School Saga

By: Teddy Steinkellner

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Trash Can Days

A Middle School Saga

By: Teddy Steinkellner

Jake Schwartz is not looking forward to middle school. Having his older sister Hannah there is no consolation. The only saving grace is that Danny Uribe, his lifelong best friend, will be by his side. Or will he? The two barely have any classes together, and since Danny's summer growth spurt, there's been a growing distance between them. Meanwhile, Hannah has her own problems -- being Queen Bee is not easy. The other girls are out for blood, and boys are so...exhausting. Danny surprises her with his maturity (and kissing skills), but she knows Jake would be devastated if he knew about their relationship. Dorothy Wu couldn't care less about school politics. But when she joins the writing club, she meets a young lad with heroic potential. In the course of a year at San Paulo Junior High, these four lives will intersect in unique and hilarious ways. Friendships will grow and change. Reputations will transform. And maybe one of them will become a man.

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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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1423180992

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9781423180999

Spiral Dynamics in Action

Humanity's Master Code

By: Prof. Don Edward Beck,Teddy Hebo Larsen,Sergey Solonin,Dr. Rica Viljoen,Thomas Q. Johns

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Spiral Dynamics in Action

Humanity's Master Code

By: Prof. Don Edward Beck,Teddy Hebo Larsen,Sergey Solonin,Dr. Rica Viljoen,Thomas Q. Johns

A more effective leadership model for the new business environment. Spiral Dynamics in Action explores the evolution of modern business, and provides a model for moving forward amidst ever-increasing complexity and change. Only by truly understanding other people's perspectives can you bring them together to achieve the extraordinary, and this book provides a field guide to the different motivations, behaviours and talents in your team to help you lead diverse groups more effectively. Focused on action over theory, the Spiral Dynamics model includes cutting-edge leadership practices, management systems, processes, procedures and techniques to help you bring about real-world results. The nature of change is consistent, but that doesn't make it any less enormous or complex to deal with. As a business leader, you are tasked with not only navigating change yourself, but also guiding others through the maze successfully. This book shows you how to shift your perspective, hone your focus and deliver what your people need by: Understanding the reasoning behind different perspectives. Helping people play off one another's strengths to achieve a shared goal. Adopting cutting-edge practices, processes and procedures for improvement. Taking action to re-connect an increasingly fragmented environment. The marketplace has gone truly global, workforces are increasingly diverse and companies are taking on powerful new social responsibilities. It's a lot to take in, let alone manage, but the responsibility of leadership is to gather disparate parts and make them into a whole. It's your job to turn anchors into rocket fuel, and motivate and inspire your team to the top. By digging to the core of each person, each culture and each problem, you uncover a roadmap to high performance; Spiral Dynamics in Action shows you how to guide your people through any changes and emerge stronger than before.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119387183

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9781119387183

The Up of The Down Beat

By: Teddy Adams

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The Up of The Down Beat

By: Teddy Adams

The musical journey chronicled in this book is an interesting, truthful and in some instances a very funny revelation of events, places and people encountered. Beginning in this writer's hometown, Savannah, Georgia, to national and international places, there's always an unexpected, yet thought provoking twist of occurrences and incidents throughout his encounters with many Jazz greats. Much like the syncopation found in Jazz music, the journey of the author's encounte

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Page Publishing Inc

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168409691X

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9781684096916

Hockey

Great Moments, Records, and Facts

By: Teddy Borth

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Hockey

Great Moments, Records, and Facts

By: Teddy Borth

Many legends have laced up skates and now define the sport. Wayne GretzkyÕs name is all over the record books making it easy for him to be called ÒThe Great One.Ó Glenn Hall, ÒMr. GoalieÓ holds an impressive iron man streak, all without wearing a goalie mask. There is, of course, the most talked about moment in all of hockey the ÒMiracle on Ice.Ó Hockey: Great Moments, Records, and Facts show the people and events that make the sport great! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

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Capstone

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1496611721

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Nowhere Near

By: Teddy Jones

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Nowhere Near

By: Teddy Jones

When Harvey Lipscomb's mental state deteriorates, he struggles to keep the secrets from his past from his family. But as the days and weeks tick by, it’s clear Harvey is not the kind, loving husband and grandfather he has portrayed himself to be.

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MidTown Publishing Inc.

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1626770174

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9781626770171

Right Foot First...

A Practical Guide to Self Safety, Wellness, Awareness and Keeping Fit for Life

By: Teddy Crawford

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Right Foot First...

A Practical Guide to Self Safety, Wellness, Awareness and Keeping Fit for Life

By: Teddy Crawford

YOU DONT NEED TO BUY THIS BOOK (EXCEPT AS A GIFT) If, you know for certain (100 % positive) that you are capable of protecting yourself, your children and loved ones, if (God forbid) you were to experience any of the following : 1. You are out walking, with your kid(s) or with family members. Gunshots erupt suddenly around you. You are caught in the middle of a shoot-out between rival street gangs. 2. Midnight. You awake to find a man standing beside your bed, Naked ! 3. You surprised someone trying to break into your vehicle in the mall, supermarket or the movie parking lot. The burglar turns at you, crow-bar in hand. 4. You are jogging in the park, and is confronted by someone you are certain fits the description (put out by cops) of the serial rapist terrorizing the neighborhood. 5. You step onto the elevator. Someone slips in behind you, displays a dagger and tells you to go with him up to the roof. 6. Your Limousine is rear-ended. Your trusted body guard suffers serious, disabling injuries. Until the cops arrive, YOU must body guard your body guard! Could you? Buy this book! Read, digest and read again. Feel the new confident you emerge.

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Balboa Press

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150435723X

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9781504357234

Teddy Wilson Talks Jazz

The Autobiography of Teddy Wilson

By: Teddy Wilson,Arie Ligthart,Humphrey van Loo

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Teddy Wilson Talks Jazz

The Autobiography of Teddy Wilson

By: Teddy Wilson,Arie Ligthart,Humphrey van Loo

A candid account of Wilson's life and career, from his childhood to his association with the critic and producer John Hammond, with Benny Goodman, Billie Holliday, his own bands, Earl Hines, and Art Tatum.

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A&C Black

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0826402283

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Wedding

By: Teddy Lenderman

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Wedding

By: Teddy Lenderman

An updated and revised edition of one of the first Complete Idiot's GuidesRever, now published in the new Illustrated format! Includes more than 250 new photos and line drawings and a new 16-page color insert. Focuses on the latest trends and most up-to-date advice from wedding planners across the country. New write-in wedding planner section at the back of the book.

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Penguin

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1592571441

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The Love Song of Jonny Valentine

A Novel

By: Teddy Wayne

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The Love Song of Jonny Valentine

A Novel

By: Teddy Wayne

One of the most critically acclaimed books of the year, Whiting Award-winner Teddy Wayne’s second novel is “more than a scabrous sendup of American celebrity culture; it’s also a poignant portrait of one young artist’s coming of age” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)—and an enduring yet timely portrait of the American dream gone awry. In his rave on the cover of The New York Times Book Review, Jess Walter praised Wayne’s writing for its “feats of unlikely virtuosity” and the boy at its center as “a being of true longing and depth, and…a devastating weapon of cultural criticism…You’d have to be made of triple platinum not to ache for Jonny Valentine.” With “assured prose and captivating storytelling” (Oprah.com’s Book of the Week), The Love Song of Jonny Valentine also showcases “one of the most complicated portrayals of the mother-son relationship since Room” (BookPage). Touring the country in a desperate attempt to save a career he’s not sure he even wants, Jonny is both driven by his mother’s ambition and haunted by his father’s absence, constantly searching for a familiar face among the crowds. Utterly convincing, whip-smart, yet endearingly vulnerable, with an “unforgettable” voice (Publishers Weekly, starred review), the eleven-year-old pop megastar sounds “like Holden Caulfield Jr. adrift in Access Hollywood hell” (Rolling Stone). Called “a showstopper” (The Boston Globe), “hugely entertaining” (The Washington Post), “heartbreakingly convincing” (People), “buoyant, smart, searing” (Entertainment Weekly), and “touching and unexpectedly suspenseful” (The Wall Street Journal), this extraordinary novel has been widely embraced as a literary masterpiece and the rare “satire with a heart” (Library Journal, starred review).

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Simon and Schuster

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1476705879

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9781476705873

Blood Red Blues

A Devil Barnett Detective Novel

By: Teddy Hayes

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Blood Red Blues

A Devil Barnett Detective Novel

By: Teddy Hayes

Devil Barnett a CIA agent with a talent for eliminating special problems a talent he used for fifteen years. But when his father is killed in his own bar the Be-Bop, Devil leaves the Company to come home to run the Be-Bop and finds Harlem greatly changed from his boyhood home. Overrun with drugs, gangs, and self-serving politicians.

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Justin, Charles & Co.

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1932112219

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9781932112214

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