Author: Rebecca Finlayson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1461746949
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Is Memphis on your list of possible places to relocate or visit? You’ll find this practical guide an essential resource for comprehensive information about this fast-growing city. Local author Rebecca Finlayson offers an unbiased perspective of Memphis and the area around it. Four maps and 30 black-and-white photographs complete the coverage.
Insiders' Guide® to Memphis
Author: Rebecca Finlayson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1461746949
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Is Memphis on your list of possible places to relocate or visit? You’ll find this practical guide an essential resource for comprehensive information about this fast-growing city. Local author Rebecca Finlayson offers an unbiased perspective of Memphis and the area around it. Four maps and 30 black-and-white photographs complete the coverage.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1461746949
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Is Memphis on your list of possible places to relocate or visit? You’ll find this practical guide an essential resource for comprehensive information about this fast-growing city. Local author Rebecca Finlayson offers an unbiased perspective of Memphis and the area around it. Four maps and 30 black-and-white photographs complete the coverage.
Rand McNally Deluxe Road Atlas & Travel Guide
Author: Rand McNally and Company
Publisher: Rand McNally
ISBN: 9780528811753
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Combines detailed, easy-to-read state, province and metropolitan maps with a travel and recreation guide and a detailed major city guide to over 60 cities--all in a handy size that fits in any briefcase. Wire-O binding.
Publisher: Rand McNally
ISBN: 9780528811753
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Combines detailed, easy-to-read state, province and metropolitan maps with a travel and recreation guide and a detailed major city guide to over 60 cities--all in a handy size that fits in any briefcase. Wire-O binding.
Father Of The Blues
Author: W. C. Handy
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780306804212
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
W. C. Handy's blues—“Memphis Blues," "Beale Street Blues," "St. Louis Blues"—changed America's music forever. In Father of the Blues, Handy presents his own story: a vivid picture of American life now vanished. W. C. Handy (1873–1958) was a sensitive child who loved nature and music; but not until he had won a reputation did his father, a preacher of stern Calvinist faith, forgive him for following the "devilish" calling of black music and theater. Here Handy tells of this and other struggles: the lot of a black musician with entertainment groups in the turn-of-the-century South; his days in minstrel shows, and then in his own band; how he made his first 100 from "Memphis Blues"; how his orchestra came to grief with the First World War; his successful career in New York as publisher and song writer; his association with the literati of the Harlem Renaissance.Handy's remarkable tale—pervaded with his unique personality and humor—reveals not only the career of the man who brought the blues to the world's attention, but the whole scope of American music, from the days of the old popular songs of the South, through ragtime to the great era of jazz.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780306804212
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
W. C. Handy's blues—“Memphis Blues," "Beale Street Blues," "St. Louis Blues"—changed America's music forever. In Father of the Blues, Handy presents his own story: a vivid picture of American life now vanished. W. C. Handy (1873–1958) was a sensitive child who loved nature and music; but not until he had won a reputation did his father, a preacher of stern Calvinist faith, forgive him for following the "devilish" calling of black music and theater. Here Handy tells of this and other struggles: the lot of a black musician with entertainment groups in the turn-of-the-century South; his days in minstrel shows, and then in his own band; how he made his first 100 from "Memphis Blues"; how his orchestra came to grief with the First World War; his successful career in New York as publisher and song writer; his association with the literati of the Harlem Renaissance.Handy's remarkable tale—pervaded with his unique personality and humor—reveals not only the career of the man who brought the blues to the world's attention, but the whole scope of American music, from the days of the old popular songs of the South, through ragtime to the great era of jazz.
Winking at Life
Author: Wink Martindale
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In the history of game shows, no name is more synonymous with "host" than Wink Martindale. In his forty-five years in broadcasting he has been a successful deejay, recorded a gold record, and hosted nineteen game shows. In Winking at Life, he recalls the people, the places, and the events. With over 200 photographs, including never before published pictures of Elvis Presley, this book is filled with fascinating information that only an insider can provide.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In the history of game shows, no name is more synonymous with "host" than Wink Martindale. In his forty-five years in broadcasting he has been a successful deejay, recorded a gold record, and hosted nineteen game shows. In Winking at Life, he recalls the people, the places, and the events. With over 200 photographs, including never before published pictures of Elvis Presley, this book is filled with fascinating information that only an insider can provide.
Kiss Me, Judas
Author: Will Christopher Baer
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
ISBN: 9781931561808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The first installment of the Phineas Poe trilogy. An unwitting police officer fsalls in love with a beautiful but deadly tremptress who steals his kidney and leaves him alone and empty.
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
ISBN: 9781931561808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The first installment of the Phineas Poe trilogy. An unwitting police officer fsalls in love with a beautiful but deadly tremptress who steals his kidney and leaves him alone and empty.
Honky Tonkin'
Author: Richard Wootton
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Last Ride to Graceland
Author: Kim Wright
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501100815
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Recipient of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction Lauded for her “astute and engrossing” (People) writing style imbued with “originality galore” (RT Book Reviews), Kim Wright channels the best of Jennifer Weiner and Sarah Pekkanen in this delightful novel of self-discovery on the open road as one woman sets out for Graceland hoping to answer the question: Is Elvis Presley her father? Blues musician Cory Ainsworth is barely scraping by after her mother’s death when she discovers a priceless piece of rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia hidden away in a shed out back of the family’s coastal South Carolina home: Elvis Presley’s Stutz Blackhawk, its interior a time capsule of the singer’s last day on earth. A backup singer for the King, Cory’s mother Honey was at Graceland the day Elvis died. She quickly returned home to Beaufort and married her high school sweetheart. Yearning to uncover the secrets of her mother’s past—and possibly her own identity—Cory decides to drive the car back to Memphis and turn it over to Elvis’s estate, retracing the exact route her mother took thirty-seven years earlier. As she winds her way through the sprawling deep south with its quaint towns and long stretches of open road, the burning question in Cory’s mind—who is my father?—takes a backseat to the truth she learns about her complicated mother, the minister's daughter who spent a lifetime struggling to conceal the consequences of a single year of rebellion.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501100815
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Recipient of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction Lauded for her “astute and engrossing” (People) writing style imbued with “originality galore” (RT Book Reviews), Kim Wright channels the best of Jennifer Weiner and Sarah Pekkanen in this delightful novel of self-discovery on the open road as one woman sets out for Graceland hoping to answer the question: Is Elvis Presley her father? Blues musician Cory Ainsworth is barely scraping by after her mother’s death when she discovers a priceless piece of rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia hidden away in a shed out back of the family’s coastal South Carolina home: Elvis Presley’s Stutz Blackhawk, its interior a time capsule of the singer’s last day on earth. A backup singer for the King, Cory’s mother Honey was at Graceland the day Elvis died. She quickly returned home to Beaufort and married her high school sweetheart. Yearning to uncover the secrets of her mother’s past—and possibly her own identity—Cory decides to drive the car back to Memphis and turn it over to Elvis’s estate, retracing the exact route her mother took thirty-seven years earlier. As she winds her way through the sprawling deep south with its quaint towns and long stretches of open road, the burning question in Cory’s mind—who is my father?—takes a backseat to the truth she learns about her complicated mother, the minister's daughter who spent a lifetime struggling to conceal the consequences of a single year of rebellion.
Black Love Signs
Author: Thelma Balfour
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684847833
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
An astrological guide to love relations is tailored to the experience, interests, and culture of the African American.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684847833
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
An astrological guide to love relations is tailored to the experience, interests, and culture of the African American.
Living Dead in Dallas
Author: Charlaine Harris
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0441019315
Category : Cocktail servers
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
When a vampire asks Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the bloodsuckers must promise to let the humans go unharmed. Easier said than done.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0441019315
Category : Cocktail servers
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
When a vampire asks Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the bloodsuckers must promise to let the humans go unharmed. Easier said than done.
The Authorized Roy Orbison
Author: Alex Orbison
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1478976551
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
For the first time, legendary performer Roy Orbison's story as one of the most beloved rock legends will be revealed through family accounts and records. Roy Orbison is a rock and roll icon almost without peer. He came of age as an artist on the venerable Sun Records label; toured with The Beatles; had massive hits in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s; invented the black-clad, sunglasses-wearing image of the rock star; and reinvented the art of songwriting many times over. He is a member of the Rock & Roll and Songwriters Halls of Fame, a recipient of the Musicians Hall of Fame's inaugural Iconic Riff Award, and the winner of multiple GRAMMY® awards. He is known the world over for hits like "Blue Bayou," "You Got It," and "Oh, Pretty Woman" and was a member of the band that inspired the term "supergroup"-the Traveling Wilburys, with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, and Tom Petty. Despite these and countless other accolades, the story of Roy Orbison's life is virtually unknown to his millions of fans around the world. Now, for the first time ever, the Orbison Estate, headed by Roy's sons, Wesley, Roy Jr., and Alex Orbison, has set out to set the record straight. The Authorized Roy Orbison tells the epic tale of a West Texas boy, drawn to the guitar at age six, whose monumental global career successes were matched at nearly every turn by extraordinary personal tragedies, including the loss of his first wife in a motorcycle accident and his two oldest sons in a fire. It's a story of the intense highs and severe lows that make up the mountain range of Roy Orbison's career; one that touched four decades and ended abruptly at perhaps its highest peak, when he passed away at the age of fifty-two on December 6, 1988. Filled with hundreds of photographs, many never before seen, gathered from across the globe and uncovered from deep within the Orbison Vault, The Authorized Roy Orbison shows Roy Orbison as a young child and follows him all the way through to the peak of his stardom and up to his tragic end. Wesley, Roy Jr., and Alex Orbison-Roy's Boys-have left no stone unturned in order to illustrate the people, places, things, and events that forged their father, the man behind those famous sunglasses.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1478976551
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
For the first time, legendary performer Roy Orbison's story as one of the most beloved rock legends will be revealed through family accounts and records. Roy Orbison is a rock and roll icon almost without peer. He came of age as an artist on the venerable Sun Records label; toured with The Beatles; had massive hits in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s; invented the black-clad, sunglasses-wearing image of the rock star; and reinvented the art of songwriting many times over. He is a member of the Rock & Roll and Songwriters Halls of Fame, a recipient of the Musicians Hall of Fame's inaugural Iconic Riff Award, and the winner of multiple GRAMMY® awards. He is known the world over for hits like "Blue Bayou," "You Got It," and "Oh, Pretty Woman" and was a member of the band that inspired the term "supergroup"-the Traveling Wilburys, with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, and Tom Petty. Despite these and countless other accolades, the story of Roy Orbison's life is virtually unknown to his millions of fans around the world. Now, for the first time ever, the Orbison Estate, headed by Roy's sons, Wesley, Roy Jr., and Alex Orbison, has set out to set the record straight. The Authorized Roy Orbison tells the epic tale of a West Texas boy, drawn to the guitar at age six, whose monumental global career successes were matched at nearly every turn by extraordinary personal tragedies, including the loss of his first wife in a motorcycle accident and his two oldest sons in a fire. It's a story of the intense highs and severe lows that make up the mountain range of Roy Orbison's career; one that touched four decades and ended abruptly at perhaps its highest peak, when he passed away at the age of fifty-two on December 6, 1988. Filled with hundreds of photographs, many never before seen, gathered from across the globe and uncovered from deep within the Orbison Vault, The Authorized Roy Orbison shows Roy Orbison as a young child and follows him all the way through to the peak of his stardom and up to his tragic end. Wesley, Roy Jr., and Alex Orbison-Roy's Boys-have left no stone unturned in order to illustrate the people, places, things, and events that forged their father, the man behind those famous sunglasses.