Author: Thorp Micah (author)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780463473436
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Uncle Joe's Muse
Author: Thorp Micah (author)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780463473436
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780463473436
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Erotic Muse
Author: Ed Cray
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252067891
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
If you've ever wanted to know the "correct" words to "Roll Me Over," or wondered where the melody of "Sweet Betsy from Pike" came from, this book can answer your questions. Extensively revised and including forty more songs than its predecessor, this new edition of The Erotic Muse is a unique scholarly collection of bawdy or forbidden American folksongs. Ed Cray presents the full texts of some 125 songs, with melodies for most of them and detailed annotations for all. His lively commentary places the songs in historical, social, and, where appropriate, psychological context.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252067891
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
If you've ever wanted to know the "correct" words to "Roll Me Over," or wondered where the melody of "Sweet Betsy from Pike" came from, this book can answer your questions. Extensively revised and including forty more songs than its predecessor, this new edition of The Erotic Muse is a unique scholarly collection of bawdy or forbidden American folksongs. Ed Cray presents the full texts of some 125 songs, with melodies for most of them and detailed annotations for all. His lively commentary places the songs in historical, social, and, where appropriate, psychological context.
Uncle Joe's Muse
Author: Micah Thorp
Publisher: Open Books Publishing (UK)
ISBN: 9781948598545
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
"A book of big heart, broad comedy, a clever wild ride and a damn good read."-Kim Taylor Blakemore, author of After Alice Fell and The Companion "Micah Thorp seamlessly weaves the past into present to explore the meaning of fatherhood and, just maybe, the meaning of life itself."-Jacqueline Vick, author of The Harlow Brothers Mysteries A down-and-out band, a girl searching for her father, and Jerry's guitar. The members of Uncle Joe's Band have spent years playing any venue that will pay for their unintelligible metal band performances while their rock and roll lifestyle has left them with bad livers, multiple divorces, and living in a squalid house in Vallejo, California. Then one morning everything changes when an assertive twelve-year-old girl named Allison appears on their front porch and announces that she has been sent to stay with her father for the summer. Meanwhile, years ago, the band's namesake and inspiration, Uncle Joe, takes a long strange trip as a vagabond hippie through the '60s, '70s, and '80s that includes brushes with Ken Kesey's bus, Watergate, the Pet Rock, Iran Contra, and Jerry Garcia. Inspired by their experience with Allison and their budding paternal instincts, recollections of Uncle Joe, and a well-played Stratocaster with the initials "JG", the members of Uncle Joe's Band begin to play a new tune in a major key.
Publisher: Open Books Publishing (UK)
ISBN: 9781948598545
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
"A book of big heart, broad comedy, a clever wild ride and a damn good read."-Kim Taylor Blakemore, author of After Alice Fell and The Companion "Micah Thorp seamlessly weaves the past into present to explore the meaning of fatherhood and, just maybe, the meaning of life itself."-Jacqueline Vick, author of The Harlow Brothers Mysteries A down-and-out band, a girl searching for her father, and Jerry's guitar. The members of Uncle Joe's Band have spent years playing any venue that will pay for their unintelligible metal band performances while their rock and roll lifestyle has left them with bad livers, multiple divorces, and living in a squalid house in Vallejo, California. Then one morning everything changes when an assertive twelve-year-old girl named Allison appears on their front porch and announces that she has been sent to stay with her father for the summer. Meanwhile, years ago, the band's namesake and inspiration, Uncle Joe, takes a long strange trip as a vagabond hippie through the '60s, '70s, and '80s that includes brushes with Ken Kesey's bus, Watergate, the Pet Rock, Iran Contra, and Jerry Garcia. Inspired by their experience with Allison and their budding paternal instincts, recollections of Uncle Joe, and a well-played Stratocaster with the initials "JG", the members of Uncle Joe's Band begin to play a new tune in a major key.
3rd & Oak: Stories
Author: Maryka Biaggio
Publisher: Sycamore Creek Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
How many stories can a single urban edifice inspire? The writers of the Novelitics Writers Collective found quite a few at the corner of 3rd & Oak. As it turns out, 3rd & Oak is the place to find hidden compartments from which to view the neighbors, demons who create graffiti and demons who spew grief, portal-traveling witches, stolen bags of gold, lost sisters, and maybe even the man who is trying to kill you. It’s the place to remember the love of your life, the girl who got away, the home you’ve always dreamed of, and Barry the Abominable Bozeman . . . but, for heaven’s sake, no union plumbers. Check out the array of stories one address can inspire in this delightful short story anthology.
Publisher: Sycamore Creek Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
How many stories can a single urban edifice inspire? The writers of the Novelitics Writers Collective found quite a few at the corner of 3rd & Oak. As it turns out, 3rd & Oak is the place to find hidden compartments from which to view the neighbors, demons who create graffiti and demons who spew grief, portal-traveling witches, stolen bags of gold, lost sisters, and maybe even the man who is trying to kill you. It’s the place to remember the love of your life, the girl who got away, the home you’ve always dreamed of, and Barry the Abominable Bozeman . . . but, for heaven’s sake, no union plumbers. Check out the array of stories one address can inspire in this delightful short story anthology.
Muse and Reverie
Author: Charles de Lint
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765323415
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
An all-new collection of short fiction in Charles de Lint's "Newford" universe.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765323415
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
An all-new collection of short fiction in Charles de Lint's "Newford" universe.
Uncle Joe's Stories
Author: Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Baron Brabourne
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Uncle Joe's Stories, penned by Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Baron Brabourne, is a mesmerizing collection that whisks readers away into a realm of imagination and wonder. Through Brabourne's artful storytelling, each tale becomes a memorable journey, making it a treasure trove for those seeking both enchantment and profound life lessons.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Uncle Joe's Stories, penned by Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Baron Brabourne, is a mesmerizing collection that whisks readers away into a realm of imagination and wonder. Through Brabourne's artful storytelling, each tale becomes a memorable journey, making it a treasure trove for those seeking both enchantment and profound life lessons.
Echoes: An Anthology of Short Fiction
Author: Kerry Cathers
Publisher: Sycamore Creek Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
In this mesmerizing compilation, fourteen authors weave clever tales of imagination and discovery, loss and redemption. Though each story is vastly different than the last, they all have one thing in common: a necklace. There’s the Saint Christopher pendant a brilliant city engineer wears that will test his faith, a cryptic ring on a chain that holds a mother’s dark secret, a sapphire necklace that bears magical power, a rose crystal medallion a young man gives away on New Year’s Eve before he vanishes without a trace. The grimness of prison life, a kidnapping gone wrong, a haunting of two sisters, a poisoning that saves a child, and more come to vivid life. From California to New York City, London and Paris, to an elusive planet called Eleusis Well somewhere in the Milky Way, this gripping volume is crammed with unforgettable stories. Each tale is as deftly rendered as it is skillfully told, the necklaces that connect them echoes of the humanity they share and the wider world they explore.
Publisher: Sycamore Creek Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
In this mesmerizing compilation, fourteen authors weave clever tales of imagination and discovery, loss and redemption. Though each story is vastly different than the last, they all have one thing in common: a necklace. There’s the Saint Christopher pendant a brilliant city engineer wears that will test his faith, a cryptic ring on a chain that holds a mother’s dark secret, a sapphire necklace that bears magical power, a rose crystal medallion a young man gives away on New Year’s Eve before he vanishes without a trace. The grimness of prison life, a kidnapping gone wrong, a haunting of two sisters, a poisoning that saves a child, and more come to vivid life. From California to New York City, London and Paris, to an elusive planet called Eleusis Well somewhere in the Milky Way, this gripping volume is crammed with unforgettable stories. Each tale is as deftly rendered as it is skillfully told, the necklaces that connect them echoes of the humanity they share and the wider world they explore.
Truevine
Author: Beth Macy
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316337560
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world and change their lives forever. Captured into the circus, the Muse brothers performed for royalty at Buckingham Palace and headlined over a dozen sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. They were global superstars in a pre-broadcast era. But the very root of their success was in the color of their skin and in the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume: supposed cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even "Ambassadors from Mars." Back home, their mother never accepted that they were "gone" and spent 28 years trying to get them back. Through hundreds of interviews and decades of research, Beth Macy expertly explores a central and difficult question: Where were the brothers better off? On the world stage as stars or in poverty at home? Truevine is a compelling narrative rich in historical detail and rife with implications to race relations today.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316337560
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world and change their lives forever. Captured into the circus, the Muse brothers performed for royalty at Buckingham Palace and headlined over a dozen sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. They were global superstars in a pre-broadcast era. But the very root of their success was in the color of their skin and in the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume: supposed cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even "Ambassadors from Mars." Back home, their mother never accepted that they were "gone" and spent 28 years trying to get them back. Through hundreds of interviews and decades of research, Beth Macy expertly explores a central and difficult question: Where were the brothers better off? On the world stage as stars or in poverty at home? Truevine is a compelling narrative rich in historical detail and rife with implications to race relations today.
Misadventures of A Would-Be Muse
Author: Beatrice Williams-Rude
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465356061
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Misadventures of a Would-Be Muse - Peripatetic and Picaresque --describes her path from droop of the third grade to self acceptance.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465356061
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Misadventures of a Would-Be Muse - Peripatetic and Picaresque --describes her path from droop of the third grade to self acceptance.
Your Corner Dark
Author: Desmond Hall
Publisher: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
ISBN: 1534460713
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
American Street meets Long Way Down in this searing and gritty debut novel that takes an unflinching look at the harsh realities of gang life in Jamaica and how far a teen is willing to go for family. Things can change in a second: The second Frankie Green gets that scholarship letter, he has his ticket out of Jamaica. The second his longtime crush, Leah, asks him on a date, he’s in trouble. The second his father gets shot, suddenly nothing else matters. And the second Frankie joins his uncle’s gang in exchange for paying for his father’s medical bills, there’s no going back...or is there? As Frankie does things he never thought he’d be capable of, he’s forced to confront the truth of the family and future he was born into—and the ones he wants to build for himself.
Publisher: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
ISBN: 1534460713
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
American Street meets Long Way Down in this searing and gritty debut novel that takes an unflinching look at the harsh realities of gang life in Jamaica and how far a teen is willing to go for family. Things can change in a second: The second Frankie Green gets that scholarship letter, he has his ticket out of Jamaica. The second his longtime crush, Leah, asks him on a date, he’s in trouble. The second his father gets shot, suddenly nothing else matters. And the second Frankie joins his uncle’s gang in exchange for paying for his father’s medical bills, there’s no going back...or is there? As Frankie does things he never thought he’d be capable of, he’s forced to confront the truth of the family and future he was born into—and the ones he wants to build for himself.