Bruce Johnson
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This comprehensive comedy course will aid you in entertaining family audiences by increasing the humor in your variety act.
It provides:
The fundamentals of comedy
History of comedy
Specific techniques that have been identified as tending to generate laughter
Examples of how those techniques have been used
Thought-provoking questions to help you decide how you might use those techniques
Methods enabling you to connect more fully with your audience.
And...
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Can a teddy bear really change your life?
For Brian, his life would never be the same since Teddy arrived that Christmas season in 1945. Through an elf's mistake in the toy room at Santa's workshop at the North Pole, Brian would learn the real meaning of Christmas from a golden brown Model No. 6 with a yellow ribbon.
You will see how Santa's elves work the toy line and how Santa's magic can be used to make things right.
Enjoy Brian's adventure...
5) Big cats
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Treasure Bay
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c2010
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English
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Offers a look at various kinds of cats, large and small, to the beginning reader.
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Treasure Bay
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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"Choosing a pet can be really hard. Some are cute, most are fun, and all of them are so interesting! Join a young girl on a trip through a pet shop in this amusing and easy-to-read book for beginning readers!" -- p. [4] of cover.
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"There was no reason to bet on Bruce Johnson, given where he started out. Poor, Black, and raised by a single mother who had a secret. He was the child she hid in plain view from the rest of her family. --- seeing his image secretly painted on the Wall of Fame outside the iconic Ben's Chili Bowl restaurant alongside Barack and Michelle Obama, Oprah, and Dave Chappelle. No one could have imagined such an ending. Or could they? Bruce Johnson's journey...
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Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal, established by the Arizona C. S. Lewis Society in 2007, is the only peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of C. S. Lewis and his writings published anywhere in the world. It exists to promote literary, theological, historical, biographical, philosophical, bibliographical and cultural interest (broadly defined) in Lewis and his writings. The journal includes articles, review essays, book reviews, film reviews...
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10¢ and a Silver Star...
A Sardonic Saga of PTSD
Just as WWII gave us Catch 22 and Korea produced M*A*S*H, Vietnam delivers 10 cents and a Silver Star. No one can laugh off the incredibly cruel Vietnam War, but Bruce Johnson's sardonic antidote to the plague of PTSD helps recover the truth, if you don't laugh, you'll cry.
An unworldly young man volunteers to be drafted early. He ventures into the essence of an old combat adage: War is long periods...
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Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal, established by the Arizona C. S. Lewis Society in 2007, is the only peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of C. S. Lewis and his writings published anywhere in the world. It exists to promote literary, theological, historical, biographical, philosophical, bibliographical and cultural interest (broadly defined) in Lewis and his writings. The journal includes articles, review essays, book reviews, film reviews...
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When a white dog with black spots runs away from home, he gets so dirty his family doesn't recognize him as a black dog with white spots. Harry is a white dog with black spots who loves everything . . . except baths. So one day before bath time, Harry runs away. He plays outside all day long, digging and sliding in everything from garden soil to pavement tar. By the time he returns home, Harry is so dirty he looks like a black dog with white spots....
13) Millions of cats
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English
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How can an old man and his wife select one cat from a choice of millions and trillions?
15) The biggest bear
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English
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Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin to hang on his family's barn and returns with a small bundle of trouble.
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From the treasured author of Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson, comes an I Can Read adventure for Harold and his magical purple crayon.
Harold needs a picture for his bedroom wall, so he takes his purple crayon and begins to create a whole new world around him. But then he notices he has gotten very small-half the size of a daisy! Only a very clever artist could find his way home now.
This Level 1 I Can Read imagination-sparking adventure...