To The Man I Love

Author: Vanessa Landry
Publisher: Xulon Press
Size: 19.83 MB
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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An Invitation To My Heart By Vanessa Landry

by Vanessa Landry, An Invitation To My Heart By Vanessa Landry Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download An Invitation To My Heart By Vanessa Landry books, This collection of Christian poetry, short stories, and Godly gossip was designed to encourage readers and to set their spirits free.

Author: Steve Swayne
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Size: 22.65 MB
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 315
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How Sondheim Found His Sound

by Steve Swayne, How Sondheim Found His Sound Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download How Sondheim Found His Sound books, “Steve Swayne’s How Sondheim Found His Sound is a fascinating treatment and remarkable analysis of America’s greatest playwright in song. His marvelous text goes a long way toward placing Stephen Sondheim among the towering artists of the late twentieth century!” —Cornel West, Princeton University “Sondheim’s career and music have never been so skillfully dissected, examined, and put in context. With its focus on his work as composer, this book is surprising and welcome.” —Theodore S. Chapin, President and Executive Director, The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization “. . . an intriguing ‘biography’ of the songwriter’s style. . . . Swayne is to be congratulated for taking the study of this unique composer/lyricist into hitherto unnavigated waters.” —Stage Directions “The research is voluminous, as are the artistry and perceptiveness. Swayne has lived richly within the world of Sondheim’s music.” —Richard Crawford, author of America’s Musical Life: A History “Amid the ever-more-crowded bookshelf of writings on Sondheim, Swayne’s analysis of Sondheim’s development as a composer stands up as a unique and worthy study. . . . For the Sondheim aficionados, there are new ideas and new information, and for others, Swayne’s How Sondheim Found His Sound will provide an intriguing introduction into the mind of arguably the greatest and most influential living Broadway composer.” —talkinbroadway.com “What a fascinating book, full of insights large and small. An impressive analysis and summary of Sondheim’s many sources of inspiration. All fans of the composer and lovers of Broadway in general will treasure and frequently refer to Swayne’s work.” —Tom Riis, Joseph Negler Professor of Musicology and Director of the American Music Research Center, University of Colorado Stephen Sondheim has made it clear that he considers himself a “playwright in song.” How he arrived at this unique appellation is the subject of How Sondheim Found His Sound—an absorbing study of the multitudinous influences on Sondheim’s work. Taking Sondheim’s own comments and music as a starting point, author Steve Swayne offers a biography of the artist’s style, pulling aside the curtain on Sondheim’s creative universe to reveal the many influences—from classical music to theater to film—that have established Sondheim as one of the greatest dramatic composers of the twentieth century.

Author: Steve Sullivan
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Size: 55.52 MB
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
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Encyclopedia Of Great Popular Song Recordings

by Steve Sullivan, Encyclopedia Of Great Popular Song Recordings Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Encyclopedia Of Great Popular Song Recordings books, The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 1 and 2 covers the full range of popular music recordings with virtually unprecedented breadth and depth. In this 2-volume encyclopedia, Sullivan explores approximately 1,000 song recordings from 1889 to the present, telling the stories behind the songs, recordings, performers, and songwriters. From the Victorian parlor ballad and ragtime hit at the end of the 19th century to today’s rock classics, the Encyclopedia progresses through a parade popular music styles, from jazz to blues to country Western, as well as the important but too often neglected genres of ethnic and world music, gospel, and traditional folk. This book is the ideal research tool for lovers of popular music in all its glorious variety.

Author: Pete Frierson
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Size: 51.37 MB
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Sweetness Of The Heart Mind And Soul

by Pete Frierson, Sweetness Of The Heart Mind And Soul Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Sweetness Of The Heart Mind And Soul books, Sweetness of the Heart, Mind, and Soul is an inspirational, motivational, and exciting book with much love. Each writing has a story behind it. Sweetness is divided into several topics: love, life, family, friends, and inspirational. Sweetness will uplift those who are down and bring a smile to those looking for love. The last poem is titled "I Can Change." Sweetness will make a person think.

Author: Gabrielle G
Publisher:
Size: 73.20 MB
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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To The Man I Loved Too Much

by Gabrielle G, To The Man I Loved Too Much Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download To The Man I Loved Too Much books, In her first collection of poems, Gabrielle G. depicts different love stories from the initial spark to the last heartbreak and writes in verses the heartache we've all been through. A poetry book to make your heart smile and weep at the same time.

Author: Brian Ray Gross
Publisher: iUniverse
Size: 26.84 MB
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Half The Man I Used To Be

by Brian Ray Gross, Half The Man I Used To Be Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Half The Man I Used To Be books, All humans have weaknesses. Even mythical warriors and superheroes have a weakness. For author Brian Ray Gross, that weakness is food. This creates an interesting paradox: food is intended to strengthen, nourish, and sustain—but when we consume too much, we become weakened by it. In this weakness, we cannot be the people God intends for us to be. In Half the Man I Used to Be, Gross shares his story about food, weight, and his weight loss journey. He tells how it all came to head in October of 2012, when he found out that he was diabetic and that his liver was failing. He was at his weakest point, and he had a choice to make: he could continue to let the weakness dictate the rest of his life, or he could seek the strength to overcome. He chose the latter, and the kind of strength he needed could only come from God. This memoir discusses Gross’s lifestyle changes and his weight loss success. His story serves to communicate there is hope for all who face the same challenges. It’s not too late to regain the life you desire. You have a creator who made you in his image, and he wants the best for you. You can do this, and when you do, you’ll be glad you did.

Author: Alexandre Dumas
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Size: 60.83 MB
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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The Man In The Iron Mask

by Alexandre Dumas, The Man In The Iron Mask Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Man In The Iron Mask books, One of France's best-selling writers at the time of the novel's composition, Dumas here combines what he considered to be life's essentials - `l'action et l'amour'. This historical romance is the climax of his epic of chivalry and valour that began with The Three Musketeers, and it is here that Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and their friend d'Artagnan, once invincible, meet their destinies. This edition provides background information and notes crucial to an understanding of the legend and the novel's setting. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author: Howard Pollack
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Size: 12.17 MB
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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George Gershwin

by Howard Pollack, George Gershwin Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download George Gershwin books, This comprehensive biography of George Gershwin (1898-1937) unravels the myths surrounding one of America's most celebrated composers and establishes the enduring value of his music. Gershwin created some of the most beloved music of the twentieth century and, along with Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, and Cole Porter, helped make the golden age of Broadway golden. Howard Pollack draws from a wealth of sketches, manuscripts, letters, interviews, books, articles, recordings, films, and other materials—including a large cache of Gershwin scores discovered in a Warner Brothers warehouse in 1982—to create an expansive chronicle of Gershwin’s meteoric rise to fame. He also traces Gershwin’s powerful presence that, even today, extends from Broadway, jazz clubs, and film scores to symphony halls and opera houses. Pollack’s lively narrative describes Gershwin’s family, childhood, and education; his early career as a pianist; his friendships and romantic life; his relation to various musical trends; his writings on music; his working methods; and his tragic death at the age of 38. Unlike Kern, Berlin, and Porter, who mostly worked within the confines of Broadway and Hollywood, Gershwin actively sought to cross the boundaries between high and low, and wrote works that crossed over into a realm where art music, jazz, and Broadway met and merged. The author surveys Gershwin’s entire oeuvre, from his first surviving compositions to the melodies that his brother and principal collaborator, Ira Gershwin, lyricized after his death. Pollack concludes with an exploration of the performances and critical reception of Gershwin's music over the years, from his time to ours.

Author: Jonathan Freedman
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Size: 60.63 MB
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Klezmer America

by Jonathan Freedman, Klezmer America Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Klezmer America books, Klezmer is a continually evolving musical tradition that grows out of Eastern European Jewish culture, and its changes reflect Jews' interaction with other groups as well as their shifting relations to their own history. But what happens when, in the klezmer spirit, the performances that go into the making of Jewishness come into contact with those that build different forms of cultural identity? Jonathan Freedman argues that terms central to the Jewish experience in America, notions like "the immigrant," the "ethnic," and even the "model minority," have worked and continue to intertwine the Jewish-American with the experiences, histories, and imaginative productions of Latinos, Asians, African Americans, and gays and lesbians, among others. He traces these relationships in a number of arenas: the crossover between jazz and klezmer and its consequences in Philip Roth's The Human Stain; the relationship between Jewishness and queer identity in Tony Kushner's Angels in America; fictions concerning crypto-Jews in Cuba and the Mexican-American borderland; the connection between Jews and Christian apocalyptic narratives; stories of "new immigrants" by Bharathi Mukherjee, Gish Jen, Lan Samantha Chang, and Gary Shteyngart; and the revisionary relation of these authors to the classic Jewish American immigrant narratives of Henry Roth, Bernard Malamud, and Saul Bellow. By interrogating the fraught and multidimensional uses of Jews, Judaism, and Jewishness, Freedman deepens our understanding of ethnoracial complexities.

Author: Mark Batterson
Publisher: Baker Books
Size: 40.34 MB
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Play The Man

by Mark Batterson, Play The Man Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Play The Man books, Somewhere along the way, our culture lost its definition of manhood, leaving generations of men and men-to-be confused about their roles, responsibilities, relationships, and the reason God made them men. It's into this "no man's land" that New York Times bestselling author Mark Batterson declares his mantra for manhood: play the man. In this inspiring call to something greater, he helps men understand what it means to be a man of God by unveiling seven virtues of manhood. Mark shares inspiring stories of manhood, including the true story of the hero and martyr Polycarp, who first heard the voice from heaven say, "Play the man." Mark couples those stories with practical ideas about how to disciple the next generation of men. This is more than a book; it's a movement of men who will settle for nothing less than fulfilling their highest calling to be the man and the father God has destined them to be. Play the man. Make the man.

Author: Wally Edmond
Publisher: iUniverse
Size: 51.79 MB
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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From The Humble Pen Of A Poet

by Wally Edmond, From The Humble Pen Of A Poet Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download From The Humble Pen Of A Poet books, To interpret poetry is then to lose the entity of poetry itself. A simple poem that may find one reader simply laughing at its rhyme, just might yet lead another to be found simply wondering what the true intention of that verse was. Simply put It just might not have one in the first place! A rhyme and reason? Well, this book of poetry is literally 'jam-packed' full of them both. So get ready to sit back comfortably in your favorite chair, treat yourself to a nice hot cup of coffee or tea, and before long you will soon begin to find out the reason why you're taking your valuable time to read this collection of verses. There are a wide variety of tasteful poems throughout this book, but in a sense they were designed to enlighten the reader's taste buds, in the desire that they will truly savor the heartfelt intention that this book of poetry was written for. Wally Edmond's prolific style of poetry had been featured for over twenty years through the late Bob Stalder's poetry column "Poet's Pen," which was published in the Beatrice Daily Sun, a Nebraskan newspaper. He and his family live in the rural town of Wymore Nebraska, where he enjoys writing his featured column "Artistically Arbor" for the Wymore Arbor State, a local weekly newspaper. The column is mixed with Wally's, poetry, quotations, and short stories.

Author: Lexi Buchanan
Publisher: HFCA Publishing House
Size: 28.25 MB
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Christmas At Emelia S

by Lexi Buchanan, Christmas At Emelia S Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Christmas At Emelia S books, This Christmas join the De La Fuentes and McKenzies in Blossom Creek as they celebrate the grand opening of Emelia’s Restaurant. Over twenty years after Levi De La Fuente's parents opened the first Emelia’s, Levi and his cousin Ryan are getting ready to open a second location. Emma De La Fuente manages the first Emelia’s in Essex, Vermont for her parents. She’s in town to assist her brother and cousin in getting the new restaurant ready for its grand opening. However, she didn’t plan on the strong attraction she feels toward the town Sheriff. The man with his sweet words and heated looks has managed to derail her plans on returning home. While his sister is distracted, Levi finds himself in need of rescuing from a rather embarrassing situation. Luckily for him, Vivien Taylor, owner of Temptations, Blossom Creek’s handmade chocolate store, appears just at the right time. If only he didn’t crave the sweet woman, then maybe, this situation wouldn’t be so awkward. Blossom Creek just might be warm enough to melt the snow this holiday season.

Author: Greta Gilbert
Publisher: Harlequin
Size: 19.65 MB
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Forbidden To The Gladiator

by Greta Gilbert, Forbidden To The Gladiator Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Forbidden To The Gladiator books, He’ll fight to the death. She’ll fight to save him! When her father wagers her hard-earned money on a gladiator battle—and loses!—Arria is forced into slavery, just as trapped as the gladiator she blames for her downfall, rugged Cal. She’s furious, yet also captivated by their burning attraction. Cal’s past has made him determined to die in combat, but can Arria give her forbidden warrior something to live for…and a reason to fight for their freedom? “The engaging characters, impossible situation, and the power exchange between master and slave will have readers up past their bedtime” — RT Book Reviews on In Thrall to the Enemy Commander “Singing with atmosphere and with scholarship, In Thrall to the Enemy Commander gives us an enigmatic heroine who fascinates at every turn, and immerses us fully in a world long-gone, but wonderfully-conjured” — Romantic Intentions Quarterly on In Thrall to the Enemy Commander

Author: Joel T. Maki
Publisher: D & M Publishers
Size: 72.97 MB
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Let The Drums Be Your Heart

by Joel T. Maki, Let The Drums Be Your Heart Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Let The Drums Be Your Heart books, Let the Drums be Your Heart brings together the work of more than forty aboriginal writers from all over Canada. concerned with family and days gone by, romance and adventure, tragedy and danger, these poems, short stories, articles and life stories ring with native pride and determination. As editor Joel T. Maki points out in his introduction, storytellers and historians have always played a vital role in aboriginal communities, ensuring that indvidiual cultures, languages, legends and customs would survive. In this book, as in his earlier anthology Steal My Rage, Maki presents the work of writers from a variety of nations and backgrounds. Honouring past and present struggles of Native peoples everywhere, this anthology will serve to remind readers, as Maki says, of the proud warrior spirit that lies within.

Author: Dr. Joseph Murphy
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Size: 77.89 MB
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Love Is Freedom

by Dr. Joseph Murphy, Love Is Freedom Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Love Is Freedom books, BOOKS BY DR. JOSEPH MURPHY The Amazing Laws of Cosmic Mind Power The Cosmic Energizer: Miracle Power of the Universe The Cosmic Power Within You Great Bible Truths for Human Problems The Healing Power of Love How to Attract Money How to Pray with a Deck of Cards How to Use the Power of Prayer How to Use Your Healing Power Infinite Power for Richer Living Living Without Strain Magic of Faith Mental Poisons and Their Antidotes The Miracle of Mind Dynamics Miracle Power for Infinite Riches Peace Within Yourself The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind Pray Your Way Through It Prayer is the Answer Psychic Perception: The Meaning of Extrasensory Power Quiet Moments with God Secrets of the I Ching Songs of God Special Meditations for Health, Wealth, Love, and Expression Stay Young Forever Supreme Mastery of Fear Telepsychics: The Magic Power of Perfect Living Why Did This Happen to Me? Within You is the Power Write Your Name in the Book of Life Your Infinite Power to be Rich

Author: Mike Gayle
Publisher: Hachette UK
Size: 76.97 MB
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The Man I Think I Know

by Mike Gayle, The Man I Think I Know Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Man I Think I Know books, As seen on ITV in the Zoe Ball Book Club 'Beautifully written, thought-provoking and completely charming.' Ruth Hogan 'Mike Gayle is the king of touching, human stories, and this big-hearted book is his best yet' Heat, 5* This is the stunning new novel from bestselling author Mike Gayle, for fans of The Keeper of Lost Things and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. A powerful and bittersweet story of an unexpected male friendship and an unlikely love story, a thought provoking storyline told with Mike's distinctive wit and insight, touching on issues which affect us all. This uplifting tale reminds us of the simple courage at the heart of every human being. Ever since The Incident, James DeWitt has stayed on the safe side. He likes to know what happens next. Danny Allen is not on the safe side. He is more past the point of no return. The past is about to catch up with both of them in a way that which will change their lives forever, unexpectedly. But redemption can come in the most unlikely ways. Look out for Mike's new novel, Half a World Away, available to pre-order now! ******************* Praise for The Man I Think I Know 'Beautifully written, thought-provoking and completely charming . . . reminds us that the everyday things we take for granted without realising how precious they are, can be snatched away in an instant with catastrophic consequences' Ruth Hogan 'That rarest of things; a moving, beautifully written novel about male friendship . . . I absolutely loved it' Lisa Jewell 'Mike is always wise and wonderful, but this is a whole new departure for him - read it!' Jenny Colgan You'll be both laughing and on the edge of tears with this brilliant read' Fabulous magazine ******************* Readers are raving about this book! 'This is one of those books that is tugging on your heartstrings one moment and has you laughing out loud the next - another stunning plot line and narrative from Mike Gayle.' 'I loved the narrative and I left this novel feeling totally uplifted . . . I now feel like there is some hope in the world!' 'This book is sad, funny, quirky, touching, heartbreaking but - and this is going to sound totally cliched and corny - life affirming.'