Ryan's The Longest Day, a 1959 book about D-Day, sold millions of copies and was made into an epic film with an all-star cast.
When Cardiff win the Champions League, he promised, he'd book Buckingham Palace.
"We were doing things in Glasgow like odd gigs in pubs that we'd book and just invite friends along too and play some songs to see how they were going, " says Hardy.
There is no set date for U.S. release so if you want this wrinkle zapper, you'd better book a flight across the pond.
They were the first Lamb I ever read, and I'm ashamed to say I only bought the book because I'd read elsewhere that a man named Lamb had visited his friend Leigh Hunt, in prison for libeling the Prince of Wales.
Though I suspect that both the weather and the book contributed to your negative mood, if I had to guess I'd vote for the book as having the larger impact.
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Had they known Armstrong's accounts were lies, the suit said, they wouldn't have bought the book, or they'd have enjoyed it less.
He'd won the book in an Arbor Day poster contest for schoolkids that had coincided with a citywide tree-planting program administered by the Department of Parks and Public Property.
I'm not sure if I was already imbued with this sentiment when, three months after I'd purchased the book, I arrived in the cauldron of Calcutta, late in the afternoon of February 24, 1987.
"Oreiller is the man who inspired a lot of kids in Val d'Isere to try to become ski champions in the post-war period, " said Perret, author of a book about one of Val d'Isere's most famous events.
Though he'd published a book in 1990 that was much studied by game theorists, all of Roth's work was academic until 1995, when he tackled the medical school match, a mechanism that places medical school grads into 25, 000 residency jobs across the country.
They tended to be cynical, hilarious, and over-educated, with years of therapy and contemporary literature behind them, and I was afraid to mention that I was slipping off to church and singing about Jesus on Sundays instead of sleeping late, cooking brunch, and reading the New York Times Book Review as I'd been raised to do.
Mr. ALEXANDER: I'd like this book to really give black women something to celebrate themselves in which they should walk away with lot of pride about the diversity of their beauty and the diversity of their hair as something that--I think when a black woman comes into the world, hair is something that is discussed in her life very early on.
If you read Clinton's book, Giving, you'd think it was written by Newt Gingrich.
Not all the scents in Ms. Beaulieu's book sound like something I'd spritz on before dinner.
Whenever anyone would stop us we'd show them the book and say, 'Actually...
The book sprang from images I'd actually seen: a man named Vishnu dying on the steps of my parents' apartment building in Mumbai, a cup of tea someone had left lying untouched next to his body.
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"I'd been reading a book about Brunel so I asked British Lion, who backed Kama Sutra, if I could have some money to make a half-hour cartoon about a Victorian engineer, " he told the Guardian in 2001.
If my Dad had ponied up 50 bucks in 1963, and I'd taken a pre-emptive page out of my son's book and bought a few shares of IBM, I'd be on Easy Street today.
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"When Lawrence wrote it I don't think he'd seen another sexually explicit book in his life, " he explains.
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And if my publisher ... didn't finally step in and say, 'Vince, we're going to print, ' I'd still be writing the book.
She'd been working on a book, "How to Become an American in 100 Films" and told me that finishing was a challenge because she wasn't sure she wanted to include modern flicks.
Take a look at "The Moral Limits of Wealth, " an essay that Dinesh D'Souza adapted from his book The Virtue of Prosperity (Free Press, 2000).
The book showcases a lot of the albums you'd expect to see: Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde or Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run, for example.
Elizabeth Ironside, she learned, is a pseudonym for Catherine Manning, wife of the British ambassador to the U.S. The rights to Garden had reverted to Manning once the book went out of print in the U.K. Lady Manning was thrilled to be published in America, and her husband, Sir David Manning, wound up hosting a book party at the British embassy in Washington, D.
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