Author: Lyle E. Style
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Ain’t Got No Cigarettes is Roger Miller’s extraordinary life as told in taped interviews by those that knew him best: more than sixty well-known musicians and entertainers including Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. A man who influenced some of the entertainment industry’s biggest stars, Roger Miller was respected and loved by his peers. However, with the genius came a dark side. In the 1960s and 1970s he was known for walking off stage halfway through a show, getting into fights and going days without sleep. He struggled with depression and had a serious addiction to drugs which cost him two marriages. Miller died at the age of 56 in 1992.
Ain't Got No Cigarettes
Author: Lyle E. Style
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Ain’t Got No Cigarettes is Roger Miller’s extraordinary life as told in taped interviews by those that knew him best: more than sixty well-known musicians and entertainers including Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. A man who influenced some of the entertainment industry’s biggest stars, Roger Miller was respected and loved by his peers. However, with the genius came a dark side. In the 1960s and 1970s he was known for walking off stage halfway through a show, getting into fights and going days without sleep. He struggled with depression and had a serious addiction to drugs which cost him two marriages. Miller died at the age of 56 in 1992.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Ain’t Got No Cigarettes is Roger Miller’s extraordinary life as told in taped interviews by those that knew him best: more than sixty well-known musicians and entertainers including Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. A man who influenced some of the entertainment industry’s biggest stars, Roger Miller was respected and loved by his peers. However, with the genius came a dark side. In the 1960s and 1970s he was known for walking off stage halfway through a show, getting into fights and going days without sleep. He struggled with depression and had a serious addiction to drugs which cost him two marriages. Miller died at the age of 56 in 1992.
Song Book
Author: Ffion Mercer
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351700650
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Featuring large clear print, the "Song Book" contains the words to 100 popular songs that are ideal for group sing-along sessions. The book is divided into six sections: traditional folk songs, choruses from old time variety, songs from World War II, post-war evergreens, hymns, and Christmas songs.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351700650
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Featuring large clear print, the "Song Book" contains the words to 100 popular songs that are ideal for group sing-along sessions. The book is divided into six sections: traditional folk songs, choruses from old time variety, songs from World War II, post-war evergreens, hymns, and Christmas songs.
Salvation
Author: David Cocklin
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039100538
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
SALVATION [sal-vey-shuhn] The act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc. Redemption. Salvation: Lyric & Verse Anthology brings together an expansive collection of stories and reflections on a myriad of topics; from love and lost love, to hope, conflict, spirituality and philosophy. It ranges everywhere from a deeply personal introspection right through to a broad spectrum of social observation. The emotionally evocative tales are littered with truisms, sarcasm, symbolism and analogies, while keeping the reader engaged and intrigued. Lyricist David Cocklin maintains a great variety in his tone, inflection, and subject matter all through the whole collection, so it never feels like the monotonous exercise of a single voice, and never sacrifices the integrity of the thought to the rhyme. His observations, their insights, the color and nuance, and his sheer creativity of expression is fully deployed.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039100538
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
SALVATION [sal-vey-shuhn] The act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc. Redemption. Salvation: Lyric & Verse Anthology brings together an expansive collection of stories and reflections on a myriad of topics; from love and lost love, to hope, conflict, spirituality and philosophy. It ranges everywhere from a deeply personal introspection right through to a broad spectrum of social observation. The emotionally evocative tales are littered with truisms, sarcasm, symbolism and analogies, while keeping the reader engaged and intrigued. Lyricist David Cocklin maintains a great variety in his tone, inflection, and subject matter all through the whole collection, so it never feels like the monotonous exercise of a single voice, and never sacrifices the integrity of the thought to the rhyme. His observations, their insights, the color and nuance, and his sheer creativity of expression is fully deployed.
Set Me Free
Author: Alfred "Mr. Still Waters" Kennard
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1452030197
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Set Me Free, Alfred's highly anticipated second compilation of poems, has been nearly six years in the making. There are three chapters in the book that deal with the general topics of love, judgment, and emotional pain. If you have ever been there for someone else or if you've needed someone to be there for you, then you will appreciate the words in this book. The same applies to the broken hearted, those who are in love, those who have been hurt, those who have been judged or oppressed, and those who simply have an appreciation for poetry. Alfred has used some of his personal experiences as well as some of his observations in order craft this inspirational collection of poems.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1452030197
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Set Me Free, Alfred's highly anticipated second compilation of poems, has been nearly six years in the making. There are three chapters in the book that deal with the general topics of love, judgment, and emotional pain. If you have ever been there for someone else or if you've needed someone to be there for you, then you will appreciate the words in this book. The same applies to the broken hearted, those who are in love, those who have been hurt, those who have been judged or oppressed, and those who simply have an appreciation for poetry. Alfred has used some of his personal experiences as well as some of his observations in order craft this inspirational collection of poems.
The Unusual Suspects (The Cartel Publications Presents)
Author: Tiona Dawkins
Publisher: The Cartel Publications
ISBN: 0982391331
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Jada, Lace, and Angel are on trial facing life in prison. Money made them ruthless. The choice to commit crime made them gangsters. In their minds, they know they're guilty. But in all their years in the game, they thought they'd covered their tracks. So where did they go wrong?--P. [4] of cover.
Publisher: The Cartel Publications
ISBN: 0982391331
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Jada, Lace, and Angel are on trial facing life in prison. Money made them ruthless. The choice to commit crime made them gangsters. In their minds, they know they're guilty. But in all their years in the game, they thought they'd covered their tracks. So where did they go wrong?--P. [4] of cover.
The Outsiders
Author: S. E Hinton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780137012602
Category : Fugitives from justice
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780137012602
Category : Fugitives from justice
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Requiem for a Redneck
Author: John P. Schulz
Publisher: John Schulz
ISBN: 0981825206
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher: John Schulz
ISBN: 0981825206
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Hard Rain Falling
Author: Don Carpenter
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590173902
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A hardboiled novel about life in the American underground, from the pool halls of Portland to the cells of San Quentin. Simply one of the finest books ever written about being down on your luck. Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary confinement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class—married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But neither Jack nor Billy can escape their troubled pasts, and they will meet again in San Quentin before their strange double drama comes to a violent and revelatory end.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590173902
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A hardboiled novel about life in the American underground, from the pool halls of Portland to the cells of San Quentin. Simply one of the finest books ever written about being down on your luck. Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary confinement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class—married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But neither Jack nor Billy can escape their troubled pasts, and they will meet again in San Quentin before their strange double drama comes to a violent and revelatory end.
Good Punishment?
Author: James Samuel Logan
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802863248
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The author critiques the American obsession with imprisonment as punishment, calling it "retributive degradation" of the incarcerated. His analysis draws on both salient empirical data and material from a variety of disciplines - social history, anthropology, law and penal theory, philosophy of religion - as he uncovers the devastating social consequences (both direct and collateral) of imprisonment on such a large, unprecedented scale. The book develops a Christian social ethics of "good punishment" embodied as a politics of "healing memories" and "ontological intimacy"
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802863248
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The author critiques the American obsession with imprisonment as punishment, calling it "retributive degradation" of the incarcerated. His analysis draws on both salient empirical data and material from a variety of disciplines - social history, anthropology, law and penal theory, philosophy of religion - as he uncovers the devastating social consequences (both direct and collateral) of imprisonment on such a large, unprecedented scale. The book develops a Christian social ethics of "good punishment" embodied as a politics of "healing memories" and "ontological intimacy"
The Persimmon Tree
Author: Bryce Courtenay
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459620763
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
It is 1942 in the Dutch East Indies, and Nick Duncan is a young Australian butterfly collector in search of a single exotic butterfly. With invading Japanese forces coming closer by the day, Nick falls in love with the beguiling Anna van Heerden. Their time together is brief, as both are forced into separate, dangerous escapes. They plan to reunite and marry in Australia but it is several years before their paths cross again, scarred forever by the dark events of a long, cruel war. In The Persimmon Tree, Bryce Courtenay gives us a story of love and friendship set against the dramatic backdrop of the Pacific during the Second World War.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459620763
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
It is 1942 in the Dutch East Indies, and Nick Duncan is a young Australian butterfly collector in search of a single exotic butterfly. With invading Japanese forces coming closer by the day, Nick falls in love with the beguiling Anna van Heerden. Their time together is brief, as both are forced into separate, dangerous escapes. They plan to reunite and marry in Australia but it is several years before their paths cross again, scarred forever by the dark events of a long, cruel war. In The Persimmon Tree, Bryce Courtenay gives us a story of love and friendship set against the dramatic backdrop of the Pacific during the Second World War.