Author: Ryan Howland
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524642738
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Ryan Howland is a seventeen-year-old violinist who enjoys life like any other ordinary person. There is only one thing that sets him apart from all other teenagers his agehis passion for music. However, he does not aim to play music just for fun or to be an average violinist in an orchestra. He has a vision. He sees himself in the future as one of the most dazzling virtuoso sensations in the world, performing on all of the worlds largest stages and most famed concert halls. In the eyes of his friends and family, his desire and ambition is almost inhuman. Thousands of relentless hours shedding sweat and tears have been devoted to his practice. His persistence and willpower is incomparable. While his fingers dance skillfully across the fingerboard and his bow flies with a grace few can achieve, he sets out on his long and disciplined path to becoming one of the best violinists the world is yet to see.
Ryan Howland Musical Awakening
Author: Ryan Howland
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524642738
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Ryan Howland is a seventeen-year-old violinist who enjoys life like any other ordinary person. There is only one thing that sets him apart from all other teenagers his agehis passion for music. However, he does not aim to play music just for fun or to be an average violinist in an orchestra. He has a vision. He sees himself in the future as one of the most dazzling virtuoso sensations in the world, performing on all of the worlds largest stages and most famed concert halls. In the eyes of his friends and family, his desire and ambition is almost inhuman. Thousands of relentless hours shedding sweat and tears have been devoted to his practice. His persistence and willpower is incomparable. While his fingers dance skillfully across the fingerboard and his bow flies with a grace few can achieve, he sets out on his long and disciplined path to becoming one of the best violinists the world is yet to see.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524642738
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Ryan Howland is a seventeen-year-old violinist who enjoys life like any other ordinary person. There is only one thing that sets him apart from all other teenagers his agehis passion for music. However, he does not aim to play music just for fun or to be an average violinist in an orchestra. He has a vision. He sees himself in the future as one of the most dazzling virtuoso sensations in the world, performing on all of the worlds largest stages and most famed concert halls. In the eyes of his friends and family, his desire and ambition is almost inhuman. Thousands of relentless hours shedding sweat and tears have been devoted to his practice. His persistence and willpower is incomparable. While his fingers dance skillfully across the fingerboard and his bow flies with a grace few can achieve, he sets out on his long and disciplined path to becoming one of the best violinists the world is yet to see.
Ryan Howland Musical Awakening
Author: Ryan Howland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781524642747
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ryan Howland is a seventeen-year-old violinist who enjoys life like any other ordinary person. There is only one thing that sets him apart from all other teenagers his age--his passion for music. However, he does not aim to play music just for fun or to be an average violinist in an orchestra. He has a vision. He sees himself in the future as one of the most dazzling virtuoso sensations in the world, performing on all of the world's largest stages and most famed concert halls. In the eyes of his friends and family, his desire and ambition is almost inhuman. Thousands of relentless hours shedding sweat and tears have been devoted to his practice. His persistence and willpower is incomparable. While his fingers dance skillfully across the fingerboard and his bow flies with a grace few can achieve, he sets out on his long and disciplined path to becoming one of the best violinists the world is yet to see.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781524642747
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ryan Howland is a seventeen-year-old violinist who enjoys life like any other ordinary person. There is only one thing that sets him apart from all other teenagers his age--his passion for music. However, he does not aim to play music just for fun or to be an average violinist in an orchestra. He has a vision. He sees himself in the future as one of the most dazzling virtuoso sensations in the world, performing on all of the world's largest stages and most famed concert halls. In the eyes of his friends and family, his desire and ambition is almost inhuman. Thousands of relentless hours shedding sweat and tears have been devoted to his practice. His persistence and willpower is incomparable. While his fingers dance skillfully across the fingerboard and his bow flies with a grace few can achieve, he sets out on his long and disciplined path to becoming one of the best violinists the world is yet to see.
The Football Girl
Author: Thatcher Heldring
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0375987142
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
For every athlete or sports fanatic who knows she's just as good as the guys. This is for fans of The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen, Grace, Gold, and Glory by Gabrielle Douglass and Breakaway: Beyond the Goal by Alex Morgan. The summer before Caleb and Tessa enter high school, friendship has blossomed into a relationship . . . and their playful sports days are coming to an end. Caleb is getting ready to try out for the football team, and Tessa is training for cross-country. But all their structured plans derail in the final flag game when they lose. Tessa doesn’t want to end her career as a loser. She really enjoys playing, and if she’s being honest, she likes it even more than running cross-country. So what if she decided to play football instead? What would happen between her and Caleb? Or between her two best friends, who are counting on her to try out for cross-country with them? And will her parents be upset that she’s decided to take her hobby to the next level? This summer Caleb and Tessa figure out just what it means to be a boyfriend, girlfriend, teammate, best friend, and someone worth cheering for. “A great next choice for readers who have enjoyed Catherine Gilbert Murdock’s Dairy Queen and Miranda Kenneally’s Catching Jordan.”—SLJ “Fast-paced football action, realistic family drama, and sweet romance…[will have] readers looking for girl-powered sports stories…find[ing] plenty to like.”—Booklist “Tessa's ferocious competitiveness is appealing.”—Kirkus Reviews “[The Football Girl] serve[s] to illuminate the appropriately complicated emotions both of a young romance and of pursuing a dream. Heldring writes with insight and restraint.”—The Horn Book
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0375987142
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
For every athlete or sports fanatic who knows she's just as good as the guys. This is for fans of The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen, Grace, Gold, and Glory by Gabrielle Douglass and Breakaway: Beyond the Goal by Alex Morgan. The summer before Caleb and Tessa enter high school, friendship has blossomed into a relationship . . . and their playful sports days are coming to an end. Caleb is getting ready to try out for the football team, and Tessa is training for cross-country. But all their structured plans derail in the final flag game when they lose. Tessa doesn’t want to end her career as a loser. She really enjoys playing, and if she’s being honest, she likes it even more than running cross-country. So what if she decided to play football instead? What would happen between her and Caleb? Or between her two best friends, who are counting on her to try out for cross-country with them? And will her parents be upset that she’s decided to take her hobby to the next level? This summer Caleb and Tessa figure out just what it means to be a boyfriend, girlfriend, teammate, best friend, and someone worth cheering for. “A great next choice for readers who have enjoyed Catherine Gilbert Murdock’s Dairy Queen and Miranda Kenneally’s Catching Jordan.”—SLJ “Fast-paced football action, realistic family drama, and sweet romance…[will have] readers looking for girl-powered sports stories…find[ing] plenty to like.”—Booklist “Tessa's ferocious competitiveness is appealing.”—Kirkus Reviews “[The Football Girl] serve[s] to illuminate the appropriately complicated emotions both of a young romance and of pursuing a dream. Heldring writes with insight and restraint.”—The Horn Book
Langston Hughes in Context
Author: Vera M. Kutzinski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009076612
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Langston Hughes was among the most influential African American writers of the twentieth century. He inspired and challenged readers from Harlem to the Caribbean, Europe, South America, Asia, the African continent, and beyond. To study Langston Hughes is to develop a new sense of the twentieth century. He was more than a man of his times; emerging as a key member of the Harlem Renaissance, his poems, plays, journalism, translations, and prose fiction documented and shaped the world around him. The twenty-nine essays in this volume engage with his at times conflicting investments in populist and modernist literature, his investments in freedom in and beyond the US, and the many genres through which he wrote. Langston Hughes in Context considers the places and experiences that shaped him, the social and cultural contexts in which he wrote, thought and travelled, and the international networks that forged and secured his life and reputation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009076612
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Langston Hughes was among the most influential African American writers of the twentieth century. He inspired and challenged readers from Harlem to the Caribbean, Europe, South America, Asia, the African continent, and beyond. To study Langston Hughes is to develop a new sense of the twentieth century. He was more than a man of his times; emerging as a key member of the Harlem Renaissance, his poems, plays, journalism, translations, and prose fiction documented and shaped the world around him. The twenty-nine essays in this volume engage with his at times conflicting investments in populist and modernist literature, his investments in freedom in and beyond the US, and the many genres through which he wrote. Langston Hughes in Context considers the places and experiences that shaped him, the social and cultural contexts in which he wrote, thought and travelled, and the international networks that forged and secured his life and reputation.
The Megachurch and the Mainline
Author: Stephen Ellingson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226204928
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Religious traditions provide the stories and rituals that define the core values of church members. Yet modern life in America can make those customs seem undesirable, even impractical. As a result, many congregations refashion church traditions so they may remain powerful and salient. How do these transformations occur? How do clergy and worshipers negotiate which aspects should be preserved or discarded? Focusing on the innovations of several mainline Protestant churches in the San Francisco Bay Area, Stephen Ellingson’s The Megachurch and the Mainline provides new understandings of the transformation of spiritual traditions. For Ellingson, these particular congregations typify a new type of Lutheranism—one which combines the evangelical approaches that are embodied in the growing legion of megachurches with American society’s emphasis on pragmatism and consumerism. Here Ellingson provides vivid descriptions of congregations as they sacrifice hymns in favor of rock music and scrap traditional white robes and stoles for Hawaiian shirts, while also making readers aware of the long history of similar attempts to Americanize the Lutheran tradition. This is an important examination of a religion in flux—one that speaks to the growing popularity of evangelicalism in America.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226204928
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Religious traditions provide the stories and rituals that define the core values of church members. Yet modern life in America can make those customs seem undesirable, even impractical. As a result, many congregations refashion church traditions so they may remain powerful and salient. How do these transformations occur? How do clergy and worshipers negotiate which aspects should be preserved or discarded? Focusing on the innovations of several mainline Protestant churches in the San Francisco Bay Area, Stephen Ellingson’s The Megachurch and the Mainline provides new understandings of the transformation of spiritual traditions. For Ellingson, these particular congregations typify a new type of Lutheranism—one which combines the evangelical approaches that are embodied in the growing legion of megachurches with American society’s emphasis on pragmatism and consumerism. Here Ellingson provides vivid descriptions of congregations as they sacrifice hymns in favor of rock music and scrap traditional white robes and stoles for Hawaiian shirts, while also making readers aware of the long history of similar attempts to Americanize the Lutheran tradition. This is an important examination of a religion in flux—one that speaks to the growing popularity of evangelicalism in America.
Get Dirty
Author: Gretchen McNeil
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006226088X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Now streaming on Netflix and BBC iPlayer! The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars in Gretchen McNeil's sharp and thrilling sequel to Get Even. Perfect for fans of E. Lockhart, Karen M. McManus, and Maureen Johnson. The members of Don't Get Mad aren't just mad anymore . . . they're afraid. And with Margot in a coma and Bree under house arrest, it's up to Olivia and Kitty to try to catch their deadly tormentor. But just as the girls are about to go on the offensive, Ed the Head reveals a shocking secret that turns all their theories upside down. The killer could be anyone, and this time he—or she—is out for more than just revenge. The girls desperately try to discover the killer's identity as their own lives are falling apart: Donté is pulling away from Kitty and seems to be hiding a secret of his own, Bree is sequestered under the watchful eye of her mom’s bodyguard, and Olivia's mother is on an emotional downward spiral. The killer is closing in, the threats are becoming more personal, and when the police refuse to listen, the girls have no choice but to confront their anonymous “friend” . . . or die trying.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006226088X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Now streaming on Netflix and BBC iPlayer! The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars in Gretchen McNeil's sharp and thrilling sequel to Get Even. Perfect for fans of E. Lockhart, Karen M. McManus, and Maureen Johnson. The members of Don't Get Mad aren't just mad anymore . . . they're afraid. And with Margot in a coma and Bree under house arrest, it's up to Olivia and Kitty to try to catch their deadly tormentor. But just as the girls are about to go on the offensive, Ed the Head reveals a shocking secret that turns all their theories upside down. The killer could be anyone, and this time he—or she—is out for more than just revenge. The girls desperately try to discover the killer's identity as their own lives are falling apart: Donté is pulling away from Kitty and seems to be hiding a secret of his own, Bree is sequestered under the watchful eye of her mom’s bodyguard, and Olivia's mother is on an emotional downward spiral. The killer is closing in, the threats are becoming more personal, and when the police refuse to listen, the girls have no choice but to confront their anonymous “friend” . . . or die trying.
Billboard Music Week
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Carbondale Dreams
Author: Steven Sater
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822201816
Category : Carbondale (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
THE STORY: The setting is Carbondale, Illinois, where the Bader family has set down roots and prospered. The youngest (and still unmarried) son, David, a poet who now lives in New York, has come home for Thanksgiving. At first the reunion seems to
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822201816
Category : Carbondale (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
THE STORY: The setting is Carbondale, Illinois, where the Bader family has set down roots and prospered. The youngest (and still unmarried) son, David, a poet who now lives in New York, has come home for Thanksgiving. At first the reunion seems to
The Week
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canadian periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canadian periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
Book Description
Love, Lucas
Author: Chantele Sedgwick
Publisher: Sky Pony
ISBN: 9781632204172
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A 2015 Whitney Award Nominee! A powerful story of loss, second chances, and first love, reminiscent of Sarah Dessen and John Green. When Oakley Nelson loses her older brother, Lucas, to cancer, she thinks she’ll never recover. Between her parents’ arguing and the battle she’s fighting with depression, she feels nothing inside but a hollow emptiness. When Mom suggests they spend a few months in California with Aunt Jo, Oakley isn’t sure a change of scenery will alter anything, but she’s willing to give it a try. In California, Oakley discovers a sort of safety and freedom in Aunt Jo’s beach house. Once they’re settled, Mom hands her a notebook full of letters addressed to her—from Lucas. As Oakley reads one each day, she realizes how much he loved her, and each letter challenges her to be better and to continue to enjoy her life. He wants her to move on. If only it were that easy. But then a surfer named Carson comes into her life, and Oakley is blindsided. He makes her feel again. As she lets him in, she is surprised by how much she cares for him, and that’s when things get complicated. How can she fall in love and be happy when Lucas never got the chance to do those very same things? With her brother’s dying words as guidance, Oakley knows she must learn to listen and trust again. But will she have to leave the past behind to find happiness in the future? Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers—picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, and novels for young adults. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft; stories told with LEGO bricks; books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, and the environment, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Publisher: Sky Pony
ISBN: 9781632204172
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A 2015 Whitney Award Nominee! A powerful story of loss, second chances, and first love, reminiscent of Sarah Dessen and John Green. When Oakley Nelson loses her older brother, Lucas, to cancer, she thinks she’ll never recover. Between her parents’ arguing and the battle she’s fighting with depression, she feels nothing inside but a hollow emptiness. When Mom suggests they spend a few months in California with Aunt Jo, Oakley isn’t sure a change of scenery will alter anything, but she’s willing to give it a try. In California, Oakley discovers a sort of safety and freedom in Aunt Jo’s beach house. Once they’re settled, Mom hands her a notebook full of letters addressed to her—from Lucas. As Oakley reads one each day, she realizes how much he loved her, and each letter challenges her to be better and to continue to enjoy her life. He wants her to move on. If only it were that easy. But then a surfer named Carson comes into her life, and Oakley is blindsided. He makes her feel again. As she lets him in, she is surprised by how much she cares for him, and that’s when things get complicated. How can she fall in love and be happy when Lucas never got the chance to do those very same things? With her brother’s dying words as guidance, Oakley knows she must learn to listen and trust again. But will she have to leave the past behind to find happiness in the future? Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers—picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, and novels for young adults. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft; stories told with LEGO bricks; books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, and the environment, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.