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Jeff's buddies are coming to Whitewater, Wisconsin for Bar Bash Weekend. They want to drink, hang out with ladies, drink, ruin Jeff's life, and drink. Jeff realizes too late that buddies aren't always friends. However, readers realize that guys drinking and causing trouble tends to be funny, whether or not any of the characters have redeeming characteristics. The story has nice girls and slutty girls, drunk guys and less drunk guys, a wise friend who speaks with a Southern accent no one understands, an angry Vietnam vet, Club Ugly, and more debauchery than you can wave your index finger at in a shame-on-you kind of way. The story is also sweet and kind, but the reader has to search really deep for that, and it would pay to download copies for all your family and friends so that you can search for those elements in some kind of book club.
Casey is an eighth-grader who continues to fall for the wrong girl. Brian, his best friend, has no idea what to say to the right girl. Together, they search for love and acceptance while delivering papers and one-liners. Set in the early 1990s and amazingly based partially on true events, this tale offers the reader an in-depth analysis of why girls who develop faster are more popular, why guys embarrass each other in order to impress girls, and why clueless dads are much more funny than dads who know which way is up.
John Williams is one of the most renowned film composers in history. He has penned unforgettable scores for Star Wars, the Indiana Jones series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Superman, and countless other films. Fans flock to his many concerts, and with forty-nine Academy Award nominations as of 2014, he is the second-most Oscar-nominated person after Walt Disney. Yet despite such critical acclaim and prestige, this is the first book in English on Williams’s work and career. Combining accessible writing with thorough scholarship, and rigorous historical accounts with insightful readings, John Williams’s Film Music explores why Williams is so important to the history of film music. Be...
Growing up and living in Kibera, Kenya, Abdul Kassim was well aware of the disproportionate number of challenges faced by women due to the extreme gender inequalities that persist in the slums. After being raised by his aunts, mother, and grandmother and having a daughter himself, he felt that he needed to make a difference. In 2002, Abdul started a soccer team for girls called Girls Soccer in Kibera (GSK), with the hope of fostering a supportive community and providing emotional and mental support for the young women in the town. The soccer program was a success, but the looming dangers of slum life persisted, and the young women continued to fall victim to the worst kinds of human atrociti...