Author: Gary Revel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781716764349
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Gary Revel was asked to get the truth out about Michael Jackson. It took years of hard work and some difficult negotiations but it all came together and now the secrets are revealed. From the frugal early years in Gary, Indiana to the glamour and excess of Hollywood and beyond, the story pours out. A truer, as well as, strange a story as you've ever heard unfolds in the pages of this book as you go with Gary on his journey of investigating the life, music and career of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson.
Don't Stop Dancing
Author: Eric Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781798752890
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
At the age of twenty-one, Eric Anderson has everything--athleticism, exuberance, good looks, loving friends and family members. One evening, a simple lapse in judgment and a tragic accident turn his world completely upside down. His body, once a vessel for limitless opportunity, is reduced to an inescapable prison as he adjusts to his new life with a major disability.Deeply depressed and unprepared mentally to grasp the physical and emotional trials he faces, Eric turns to drugs, alcohol, and excessive partying. Over the next decade, Eric's life spirals out of control, as he attempts to assimilate back into a world perpetually haunted by memories of a perfect life he can't let go of.Overcome with grief, sorrow, and hopelessness, Eric decides that suicide is his only remaining option. When he clicks on a random internet link, however, he finds the light at the end of the tunnel that has seemed elusive for so many years since his accident. Don't Stop Dancing: My Story of Tragedy, Loss, Addiction, and Darkness, and the Discovery That Healed My Soul, will take readers of every age and demographic on a heart-wrenching, emotional roller-coaster of a ride as Eric's mind, body, and spirit are completely transformed, thanks to the music he immerses himself in.Whether you're looking for a truly compelling story or inspiration to live every moment to its fullest, Eric's comeback will show readers why we should never take anything for granted, and will remind us of the unlimited potential that exists within us all.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781798752890
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
At the age of twenty-one, Eric Anderson has everything--athleticism, exuberance, good looks, loving friends and family members. One evening, a simple lapse in judgment and a tragic accident turn his world completely upside down. His body, once a vessel for limitless opportunity, is reduced to an inescapable prison as he adjusts to his new life with a major disability.Deeply depressed and unprepared mentally to grasp the physical and emotional trials he faces, Eric turns to drugs, alcohol, and excessive partying. Over the next decade, Eric's life spirals out of control, as he attempts to assimilate back into a world perpetually haunted by memories of a perfect life he can't let go of.Overcome with grief, sorrow, and hopelessness, Eric decides that suicide is his only remaining option. When he clicks on a random internet link, however, he finds the light at the end of the tunnel that has seemed elusive for so many years since his accident. Don't Stop Dancing: My Story of Tragedy, Loss, Addiction, and Darkness, and the Discovery That Healed My Soul, will take readers of every age and demographic on a heart-wrenching, emotional roller-coaster of a ride as Eric's mind, body, and spirit are completely transformed, thanks to the music he immerses himself in.Whether you're looking for a truly compelling story or inspiration to live every moment to its fullest, Eric's comeback will show readers why we should never take anything for granted, and will remind us of the unlimited potential that exists within us all.
Don't Stop Dancing
Author: Gary Revel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781716764349
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Gary Revel was asked to get the truth out about Michael Jackson. It took years of hard work and some difficult negotiations but it all came together and now the secrets are revealed. From the frugal early years in Gary, Indiana to the glamour and excess of Hollywood and beyond, the story pours out. A truer, as well as, strange a story as you've ever heard unfolds in the pages of this book as you go with Gary on his journey of investigating the life, music and career of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781716764349
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Gary Revel was asked to get the truth out about Michael Jackson. It took years of hard work and some difficult negotiations but it all came together and now the secrets are revealed. From the frugal early years in Gary, Indiana to the glamour and excess of Hollywood and beyond, the story pours out. A truer, as well as, strange a story as you've ever heard unfolds in the pages of this book as you go with Gary on his journey of investigating the life, music and career of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson.
And Never Stop Dancing
Author: Gordon Livingston
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN: 0786726539
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
In Dr. Gordon Livingston's follow-up to his national bestseller Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart, he offers thirty more true things we need to know now. Among the fresh truths he identifies and explores in this book, which has sold more than 50,000 copies in hardcover, are: Paradox governs our lives. Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves. Marriage ruins a lot of good relationships. We are defined by what we fear. We all live downstream. One of life's most difficult tasks is to see ourselves as others see us. As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. Most people die with their music still inside of them. Dr. Livingston's sterling qualities are in evidence again: a clear and deep understanding of the hidden hypocrisies, desires, evasions, and emotional tumult that course through our lives; an unerring sense of what is important; and his own ability to persevere-to hope-in a world he knows is capable of inflicting unjustifiable and lifelong suffering.
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN: 0786726539
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
In Dr. Gordon Livingston's follow-up to his national bestseller Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart, he offers thirty more true things we need to know now. Among the fresh truths he identifies and explores in this book, which has sold more than 50,000 copies in hardcover, are: Paradox governs our lives. Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves. Marriage ruins a lot of good relationships. We are defined by what we fear. We all live downstream. One of life's most difficult tasks is to see ourselves as others see us. As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. Most people die with their music still inside of them. Dr. Livingston's sterling qualities are in evidence again: a clear and deep understanding of the hidden hypocrisies, desires, evasions, and emotional tumult that course through our lives; an unerring sense of what is important; and his own ability to persevere-to hope-in a world he knows is capable of inflicting unjustifiable and lifelong suffering.
The People Have Never Stopped Dancing
Author: Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452913439
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
During the past thirty years, Native American dance has emerged as a visible force on concert stages throughout North America. In this first major study of contemporary Native American dance, Jacqueline Shea Murphy shows how these performances are at once diverse and connected by common influences. Demonstrating the complex relationship between Native and modern dance choreography, Shea Murphy delves first into U.S. and Canadian federal policies toward Native performance from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, revealing the ways in which government sought to curtail authentic ceremonial dancing while actually encouraging staged spectacles, such as those in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows. She then engages the innovative work of Ted Shawn, Lester Horton, and Martha Graham, highlighting the influence of Native American dance on modern dance in the twentieth century. Shea Murphy moves on to discuss contemporary concert dance initiatives, including Canada’s Aboriginal Dance Program and the American Indian Dance Theatre. Illustrating how Native dance enacts, rather than represents, cultural connections to land, ancestors, and animals, as well as spiritual and political concerns, Shea Murphy challenges stereotypes about American Indian dance and offers new ways of recognizing the agency of bodies on stage. Jacqueline Shea Murphy is associate professor of dance studies at the University of California, Riverside, and coeditor of Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452913439
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
During the past thirty years, Native American dance has emerged as a visible force on concert stages throughout North America. In this first major study of contemporary Native American dance, Jacqueline Shea Murphy shows how these performances are at once diverse and connected by common influences. Demonstrating the complex relationship between Native and modern dance choreography, Shea Murphy delves first into U.S. and Canadian federal policies toward Native performance from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, revealing the ways in which government sought to curtail authentic ceremonial dancing while actually encouraging staged spectacles, such as those in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows. She then engages the innovative work of Ted Shawn, Lester Horton, and Martha Graham, highlighting the influence of Native American dance on modern dance in the twentieth century. Shea Murphy moves on to discuss contemporary concert dance initiatives, including Canada’s Aboriginal Dance Program and the American Indian Dance Theatre. Illustrating how Native dance enacts, rather than represents, cultural connections to land, ancestors, and animals, as well as spiritual and political concerns, Shea Murphy challenges stereotypes about American Indian dance and offers new ways of recognizing the agency of bodies on stage. Jacqueline Shea Murphy is associate professor of dance studies at the University of California, Riverside, and coeditor of Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance.
Dancing with the Devil in the City of God
Author: Juliana Barbassa
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476756279
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
From prizewinning journalist and Brazilian native Juliana Barbassa comes a deeply reported and beautifully written account of the seductive and chaotic city of Rio de Janeiro as it struggles with poverty and corruption on the brink of the 2016 Olympic Games. Juliana Barbassa moved a great deal throughout her life, but Rio was always home. After twenty-one years abroad, she returned to find her native city—once ravaged by inflation, drug wars, corrupt leaders, and dying neighborhoods—undergoing a major change. Rio has always aspired to the pantheon of global capitals, and under the spotlight of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games it seems that its moment has come. But in order to prepare itself for the world stage, Rio must vanquish the entrenched problems that Barbassa recalls from her childhood. Turning this beautiful but deeply flawed place into a pristine showcase of the best that Brazil has to offer in just a few years is a tall order—and with the whole world watching, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Library Journal called Dancing with the Devil in the City of God “akin to Charlie LeDuff’s Detroit”—a book that “combines history and personal interviews in an informative and engaging work.” This kaleidoscopic portrait of Rio introduces the reader to the people who make up this city of extremes, revealing their aspirations and their grit, their violence, their hungers, and their splendor, and shedding light on the future of this city they are building together. Dancing with the Devil in the City of God is an insider perspective from a native daughter and “a fascinating look at the people who live in and aspire to change one of the world’s most impressive cities” (Booklist, starred review).
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476756279
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
From prizewinning journalist and Brazilian native Juliana Barbassa comes a deeply reported and beautifully written account of the seductive and chaotic city of Rio de Janeiro as it struggles with poverty and corruption on the brink of the 2016 Olympic Games. Juliana Barbassa moved a great deal throughout her life, but Rio was always home. After twenty-one years abroad, she returned to find her native city—once ravaged by inflation, drug wars, corrupt leaders, and dying neighborhoods—undergoing a major change. Rio has always aspired to the pantheon of global capitals, and under the spotlight of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games it seems that its moment has come. But in order to prepare itself for the world stage, Rio must vanquish the entrenched problems that Barbassa recalls from her childhood. Turning this beautiful but deeply flawed place into a pristine showcase of the best that Brazil has to offer in just a few years is a tall order—and with the whole world watching, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Library Journal called Dancing with the Devil in the City of God “akin to Charlie LeDuff’s Detroit”—a book that “combines history and personal interviews in an informative and engaging work.” This kaleidoscopic portrait of Rio introduces the reader to the people who make up this city of extremes, revealing their aspirations and their grit, their violence, their hungers, and their splendor, and shedding light on the future of this city they are building together. Dancing with the Devil in the City of God is an insider perspective from a native daughter and “a fascinating look at the people who live in and aspire to change one of the world’s most impressive cities” (Booklist, starred review).
Dance Dance Dance
Author: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307777685
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Dance Dance Dance—a follow-up to A Wild Sheep Chase—is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through Murakami’s Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs. As Murakami’s nameless protagonist searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, he is plunged into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread. In this propulsive novel, featuring a shabby but oracular Sheep Man, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work today fuses together science fiction, the hardboiled thriller, and white-hot satire.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307777685
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Dance Dance Dance—a follow-up to A Wild Sheep Chase—is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through Murakami’s Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs. As Murakami’s nameless protagonist searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, he is plunged into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread. In this propulsive novel, featuring a shabby but oracular Sheep Man, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work today fuses together science fiction, the hardboiled thriller, and white-hot satire.
Don't Stop the Dance
Author: Bernadette Lindemer
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
You are invited to join me in recounting my personal journey into the magical world of ballroom dancing and what brought me out of my shell to rejoin the world in a way that I never in a million years would have ever imagined. This story is based on true events chronicling all the wonderful people I've met and the extraordinary life-changing experiences I've enjoyed since joining BallroomU and how their contributions to this amazing adventure helped form the story.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
You are invited to join me in recounting my personal journey into the magical world of ballroom dancing and what brought me out of my shell to rejoin the world in a way that I never in a million years would have ever imagined. This story is based on true events chronicling all the wonderful people I've met and the extraordinary life-changing experiences I've enjoyed since joining BallroomU and how their contributions to this amazing adventure helped form the story.
Dancing at the Pity Party
Author: Tyler Feder
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525553029
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Part poignant cancer memoir and part humorous reflection on a motherless life, this debut graphic novel is extraordinarily comforting and engaging. From before her mother's first oncology appointment through the stages of her cancer to the funeral, sitting shiva, and afterward, when she must try to make sense of her life as a motherless daughter, Tyler Feder tells her story in this graphic novel that is full of piercing--but also often funny--details. She shares the important post-death firsts, such as celebrating holidays without her mom, the utter despair of cleaning out her mom's closet, ending old traditions and starting new ones, and the sting of having the "I've got to tell Mom about this" instinct and not being able to act on it. This memoir, bracingly candid and sweetly humorous, is for anyone struggling with loss who just wants someone to get it.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525553029
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Part poignant cancer memoir and part humorous reflection on a motherless life, this debut graphic novel is extraordinarily comforting and engaging. From before her mother's first oncology appointment through the stages of her cancer to the funeral, sitting shiva, and afterward, when she must try to make sense of her life as a motherless daughter, Tyler Feder tells her story in this graphic novel that is full of piercing--but also often funny--details. She shares the important post-death firsts, such as celebrating holidays without her mom, the utter despair of cleaning out her mom's closet, ending old traditions and starting new ones, and the sting of having the "I've got to tell Mom about this" instinct and not being able to act on it. This memoir, bracingly candid and sweetly humorous, is for anyone struggling with loss who just wants someone to get it.
Angelina and the Tummy Butterflies
Author: Katharine Holabird
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101632275
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Angelina and her friends have to memorize and recite poems in front of the entire class. Angelina has no trouble with the assignment, but the same can't be said for her best friend Alice, who has a major case of tummy butterflies! Luckily, Angelina is there to help Alice overcome her fear—by putting her poem to a dance, of course! This episode-based 8 x 8 comes with a sheet of Angelina stickers for only $4.99.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101632275
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Angelina and her friends have to memorize and recite poems in front of the entire class. Angelina has no trouble with the assignment, but the same can't be said for her best friend Alice, who has a major case of tummy butterflies! Luckily, Angelina is there to help Alice overcome her fear—by putting her poem to a dance, of course! This episode-based 8 x 8 comes with a sheet of Angelina stickers for only $4.99.
Dancing on My Ashes
Author: Heather Gilion
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1607998718
Category : Bereavement
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Holly and Heather share their story and help to walk the reader through the painful yet necessary healing process for when life deals us its harshest blows. Dancing on my ashes soothes and empathizes with the broken heart, while sharing the truth of scripture, and the hope that comes from the heart of God.
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1607998718
Category : Bereavement
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Holly and Heather share their story and help to walk the reader through the painful yet necessary healing process for when life deals us its harshest blows. Dancing on my ashes soothes and empathizes with the broken heart, while sharing the truth of scripture, and the hope that comes from the heart of God.