Ergebnis für "Strings" in Frauen

Priscilla Buckley is probably known for her long and admired tenure as managing editor of the conservative political journal National Review, founded in the 1950s by her brother, William F. Buckley, Jr. But in String of Pearls we meet a different Priscilla, young Pitts Buckley, just out of Smith, eager for the next step up from the college paper to "real" journalism.

Tina, the unlikely stripper, goes international. After being laid up with a knee injury, Tina is back onstage with new shows when she realizes that Rochester, New York, is too small a city to hide from her ex-boyfriend. She calls an international talent agency in Toronto to begin her new adventure. One month into her Canadian bookings, she meets the man who will haunt her life for the next four years of her life. Jake always seems to distract her while she is trying to reach featured stripper status.

“Work hard, and don’t look for excuses,” C. Vivian Stringer’s parents told her, “and you can achieve anything.” But her faith and perseverance would be tested many times. A gifted athlete, she had to fight for a place on an all-white cheerleading squad in the sixties. In 1981, just...

“Lots of people have dreams, but C. Vivian Stringer is the dream—a coalminer’s daughter who believed when her Poppa told her there was no obstacle she could not surmount. And she lives that dream, teaching others to rise up to meet challenges, turning underdogs into champions again and...