When a girl from the Bronx is uprooted to small town Indiana, she capitalizes on the small-pond opportunities and leads you on a behind the scenes roller coaster ride of her charmed life in some of the world's most coveted stages, from the dugout with baseball legend Albert Pujols to hanging out on the infamous Honeysuckle Rose, Willie Nelson's famed tour bus, and so many more epic experiences. ""Julie's book walks us through old Ebbets Field and her love of the Brooklyn Dodgers, especially Duke Snider, Jackie Robinson, and Gil Hodges, through legendary entertainment artists and several stops in between, with knowledge, heart, and passion."" -Don Mattingly, manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers ""Julie has such a unique way of capturing life and allowing her readers to see and feel exactly what she portrays. I have always loved to read her writings and been moved by her stories."" -Tom Arnold, actor
A Second Look
As Goes Maine
The book contains some of the author's outstanding wildlife and landscape photographs of North and South America and unique portraits of his beloved Shipibo Indian friends, but the writings of the author are at its core.
Show Me is a result of over 50 years of research: 50-plus years of living a life, 10 years of journaling about that life, and four years as a columnist writing about people who, at one time, Jones assumed lived a better life than he did.
Offers a debate on the topics of free will, determinism, faith, and human nature
Lose your wallet. Lose your place. Find yourself. In this collection of essays, women write about travel of all kinds - in time, in place, and in memory.
More importantly, these original stories will hopefully help everyone else (on earth) laugh more, believe, fart or whatever.
This book attempts to investigate where we are, how we got there, and where we might arrive if we make the moves that point the way."--Stephen Dunn, from the Introduction
Collected here are fifteen essays published for the first time in book form, including writing never published before in the UK.From 'Federer Both Flesh and Not', considered by many to be his non-fiction masterpiece; to 'The (As it Were) ...
A collection of Christmas related essays that blend humor and poignancy in the tradition of Robert Fulghum, Dave Barry, Bill Bryson, P.J. O'Rourke and other great American humorists.