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Recollections in Tranquility is a sequel to Immigrantss Son. OPrey examines his fifteen years in religious life, comments upon his training, and compares his eight years teaching in parochial schools with his twenty-nine in public education. His conclusions are pertinent, poignant, sometimes perturbing, but always relevant. With honesty and humor he cites contrasts and similarities, and ultimately concludes that the essence of his life has been his family. Marriage to a supportive wife, parenthood, and now grandparenthood have enriched his life. Retirement provided the chance to reflect and write. This resulting chronicle portrays a life of satisfaction and his descriptions evoke images of personal success.
Casting is a crucial creative element of any production - and yet the craft and skills needed to put together a successful and exciting cast are often overlooked. The Casting Handbook explains the casting process from beginning to end and covers everything producers and directors needs to know – as well as proving a fascinating and illuminating read for actors. The book explores: how to prepare a breakdown where to source actors how to prepare for a casting session how to make casting decisions how a cast is put together how deals are done ethics and the law, with special reference to casting children how a casting director contributes to the initial development of the script how the casti...
A wonderful collection of creative, entertaining stories, Overgrown: Tales of the Unexpected presents eight short stories, including the work of Josh Browning, Amy S. Dalrymple, Chad Jones, Matthew Hance, Ben Orlando, Brad Pauquette, Birney Reed and Kim Younkin. These overgrown tales, all written by talented authors in Central Ohio, will delight adult readers with their wit, intrigue, insight and honesty. These fantastic stories range in genre from comedy to the supernatural, and drama to science fiction.
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Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles battle the Kraang and Shredder in this omnibus that brings together three junior novels: Showdown with Shredder, Friend or Foe?, and Mutant Mayhem. Kids ages 8 to 12 will thrill to this awesome collection that includes 8 full-color pages of images from the hit show.
This penultimate work in John Lent's series of bibliographies on comic art gathers together an astounding array of citations on American cartoonists and their work. Author John Lent has used all manner of methods to gather the citations, searching library and online databases, contacting scholars and other professionals, attending conferences and festivals, and scanning hundreds of periodicals. He has gone to great length to categorize the citations in an easy-to-use, scholarly fashion, and in the process, has helped to establish the field of comic art as an important part of social science and humanities research. The ten volumes in this series, covering all regions of the world, constitute...