Author: Arlett Graham Arlett
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 142693081X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Jack King is at a crossroads - Things haven't exactly turned out for him the way he imagined...unless, of course, getting dumped by his girlfriend, being a slave to workforce drudgery and living the life of a degenerate pothead were all part of the cosmic plan. Faced with the choice of either surrendering to the realities of this mundane existence or boldly pursuing his own creative passion for peach pie, the blues and the Chicago Cubs, Jack hits the road to live the dream and find friendship, love, money and the Big Time.
The Rainy Winters Band
Author: Arlett Graham Arlett
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 142693081X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Jack King is at a crossroads - Things haven't exactly turned out for him the way he imagined...unless, of course, getting dumped by his girlfriend, being a slave to workforce drudgery and living the life of a degenerate pothead were all part of the cosmic plan. Faced with the choice of either surrendering to the realities of this mundane existence or boldly pursuing his own creative passion for peach pie, the blues and the Chicago Cubs, Jack hits the road to live the dream and find friendship, love, money and the Big Time.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 142693081X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Jack King is at a crossroads - Things haven't exactly turned out for him the way he imagined...unless, of course, getting dumped by his girlfriend, being a slave to workforce drudgery and living the life of a degenerate pothead were all part of the cosmic plan. Faced with the choice of either surrendering to the realities of this mundane existence or boldly pursuing his own creative passion for peach pie, the blues and the Chicago Cubs, Jack hits the road to live the dream and find friendship, love, money and the Big Time.
Go Ahead in the Rain
Author: Hanif Abdurraqib
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477318445
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A New York Times Best Seller 2019 National Book Award Longlist, Nonfiction 2019 Kirkus Book Prize Finalist, Nonfiction A February IndieNext Pick Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Buzzfeed, Nylon, The A. V. Club, CBC Books, and The Rumpus, and a Winter's Most Anticipated Book by Vanity Fair and The Week Starred Reviews: Kirkus and Booklist "Warm, immediate and intensely personal."—New York Times How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves with an intense, socially conscious record, We Got It from Here . . . Thank You 4 Your Service, which arrived when fans needed it most, in the aftermath of the 2016 election. Poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib digs into the group’s history and draws from his own experience to reflect on how its distinctive sound resonated among fans like himself. The result is as ambitious and genre-bending as the rap group itself. Abdurraqib traces the Tribe's creative career, from their early days as part of the Afrocentric rap collective known as the Native Tongues, through their first three classic albums, to their eventual breakup and long hiatus. Their work is placed in the context of the broader rap landscape of the 1990s, one upended by sampling laws that forced a reinvention in production methods, the East Coast–West Coast rivalry that threatened to destroy the genre, and some record labels’ shift from focusing on groups to individual MCs. Throughout the narrative Abdurraqib connects the music and cultural history to their street-level impact. Whether he’s remembering The Source magazine cover announcing the Tribe’s 1998 breakup or writing personal letters to the group after bandmate Phife Dawg’s death, Abdurraqib seeks the deeper truths of A Tribe Called Quest; truths that—like the low end, the bass—are not simply heard in the head, but felt in the chest.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477318445
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A New York Times Best Seller 2019 National Book Award Longlist, Nonfiction 2019 Kirkus Book Prize Finalist, Nonfiction A February IndieNext Pick Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Buzzfeed, Nylon, The A. V. Club, CBC Books, and The Rumpus, and a Winter's Most Anticipated Book by Vanity Fair and The Week Starred Reviews: Kirkus and Booklist "Warm, immediate and intensely personal."—New York Times How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves with an intense, socially conscious record, We Got It from Here . . . Thank You 4 Your Service, which arrived when fans needed it most, in the aftermath of the 2016 election. Poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib digs into the group’s history and draws from his own experience to reflect on how its distinctive sound resonated among fans like himself. The result is as ambitious and genre-bending as the rap group itself. Abdurraqib traces the Tribe's creative career, from their early days as part of the Afrocentric rap collective known as the Native Tongues, through their first three classic albums, to their eventual breakup and long hiatus. Their work is placed in the context of the broader rap landscape of the 1990s, one upended by sampling laws that forced a reinvention in production methods, the East Coast–West Coast rivalry that threatened to destroy the genre, and some record labels’ shift from focusing on groups to individual MCs. Throughout the narrative Abdurraqib connects the music and cultural history to their street-level impact. Whether he’s remembering The Source magazine cover announcing the Tribe’s 1998 breakup or writing personal letters to the group after bandmate Phife Dawg’s death, Abdurraqib seeks the deeper truths of A Tribe Called Quest; truths that—like the low end, the bass—are not simply heard in the head, but felt in the chest.
The Leon Lewis Band
Author: L.M. Levin
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532057210
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
The Leon Lewis Band is the story of a rock band in the sixties and seventies. It traces the lives of the fascinating characters who comprise the band—the musicians as well as family, friends, and other unique characters they meet along the way. The story is narrated by Jackie Klein, the childhood friend of Leon Lewis. It begins in the working-class Brooklyn neighborhood of the fifties and sixties, which binds the two Jewish boys together as they navigate the anti-Semitism and racist battleground of their inner-city environment. Leon Lewis’s life is deeply impacted by his family—an emotionally disturbed mother, a high-achieving younger sister, and a father who blames his wife for preventing him from achieving his dream of becoming a professional jazz musician. Lee’s family struggles drive him to leave the city as soon as he finishes high school. He takes to the road with his acoustic guitar and musical ability. While Lee is gone, Jackie hooks up with three amazing musicians at Café Flo in Greenwich Village. When Lee returns, now a seasoned troubadour and accomplished musician, he reconnects with Jackie, and the Leon Lewis Band is formed. Along the way, they find a flamboyant country boy, a hippie manager, a smooth café manager, an eccentric concert promotor and recording engineer, and the loves of their lives. Catalina Blake is a sensuous young Latina and a budding, progressive journalist. When she falls in love with Lee, the band’s surprising events ensue. On the behalf of her estranged father, a talented artist, she finds herself on a dangerous mission to Central America, where her family secrets intersect with Lee and the band and with the ghosts from Lee’s old neighborhood.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532057210
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
The Leon Lewis Band is the story of a rock band in the sixties and seventies. It traces the lives of the fascinating characters who comprise the band—the musicians as well as family, friends, and other unique characters they meet along the way. The story is narrated by Jackie Klein, the childhood friend of Leon Lewis. It begins in the working-class Brooklyn neighborhood of the fifties and sixties, which binds the two Jewish boys together as they navigate the anti-Semitism and racist battleground of their inner-city environment. Leon Lewis’s life is deeply impacted by his family—an emotionally disturbed mother, a high-achieving younger sister, and a father who blames his wife for preventing him from achieving his dream of becoming a professional jazz musician. Lee’s family struggles drive him to leave the city as soon as he finishes high school. He takes to the road with his acoustic guitar and musical ability. While Lee is gone, Jackie hooks up with three amazing musicians at Café Flo in Greenwich Village. When Lee returns, now a seasoned troubadour and accomplished musician, he reconnects with Jackie, and the Leon Lewis Band is formed. Along the way, they find a flamboyant country boy, a hippie manager, a smooth café manager, an eccentric concert promotor and recording engineer, and the loves of their lives. Catalina Blake is a sensuous young Latina and a budding, progressive journalist. When she falls in love with Lee, the band’s surprising events ensue. On the behalf of her estranged father, a talented artist, she finds herself on a dangerous mission to Central America, where her family secrets intersect with Lee and the band and with the ghosts from Lee’s old neighborhood.
End of the World As We Know It
Author: Oliver Lewis Thompson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 095599330X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The first all-round handbook to global climate change. Covers the science behind the climate, a look at how climate has affected human civilization in the past, the possible future effects of climate change in the next millennium, and what we can do to minimise this catastrophe. Detailed, critical, readable and stark in its message.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 095599330X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The first all-round handbook to global climate change. Covers the science behind the climate, a look at how climate has affected human civilization in the past, the possible future effects of climate change in the next millennium, and what we can do to minimise this catastrophe. Detailed, critical, readable and stark in its message.
Winter Rain
Author: Terry C. Johnston
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0307756378
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Jonah Hook was a man who had lost everything a man could lose--but the iron will to reclaim what had been taken from him. Now he must confront the fiery religious heretic who has enslaved his wife and the fierce Comanche tribe who has raised his long-lost sons. From Fort Laramie, land of Sioux and Cheyenne, to the empire of the Mormons in the shadow of tall mountains, and on to the Texas panhandle, where he will join the ranks of the Texas Rangers, the journey ahead will test Jonah's courage, cunning, and endurance to the limit. On this bloody trail of rescue and revenge, nothing will stop him save success . . . or death.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0307756378
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Jonah Hook was a man who had lost everything a man could lose--but the iron will to reclaim what had been taken from him. Now he must confront the fiery religious heretic who has enslaved his wife and the fierce Comanche tribe who has raised his long-lost sons. From Fort Laramie, land of Sioux and Cheyenne, to the empire of the Mormons in the shadow of tall mountains, and on to the Texas panhandle, where he will join the ranks of the Texas Rangers, the journey ahead will test Jonah's courage, cunning, and endurance to the limit. On this bloody trail of rescue and revenge, nothing will stop him save success . . . or death.
The Rain-cloud and the Snow-storm ...
Author: Charles Tomlinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Australia's Wild Weather
Author: Mark Tredinnick
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 0642277230
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
"Weather is the oldest story in the world-one we want to keep on telling each other when we meet, as though it were part of who we are, a story that wants to keep on telling itself, and affecting us, whether we like it or not. We breathe it in; we see embodied in it our fears and desires; it falls on our heads. And we'd better take care of it: our lives are in its hands." Marrying photographs from the collection of the National Library of Australia with an evocative and contemplative essay by poet Mark Tredinnick, Australia's Wild Weather is a lyric field guide to Australia's climate. Tredinnick considers what it means to be living at time when weather is no longer small talk; it is most of the news. Beautifully written, the author contemplates what weather means to us and how it affects our daily lives.
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 0642277230
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
"Weather is the oldest story in the world-one we want to keep on telling each other when we meet, as though it were part of who we are, a story that wants to keep on telling itself, and affecting us, whether we like it or not. We breathe it in; we see embodied in it our fears and desires; it falls on our heads. And we'd better take care of it: our lives are in its hands." Marrying photographs from the collection of the National Library of Australia with an evocative and contemplative essay by poet Mark Tredinnick, Australia's Wild Weather is a lyric field guide to Australia's climate. Tredinnick considers what it means to be living at time when weather is no longer small talk; it is most of the news. Beautifully written, the author contemplates what weather means to us and how it affects our daily lives.
Understanding Water in a Dry Environment
Author: Ian Simmers
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 113529108X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
In order to provide water security in the twenty-first century, there is universal agreement that a continuation of current policies and extrapolation of trends is not an option. Also clear is that from both water supply and development perspectives, the world's arid and semi-arid regions are those currently and potentially experiencing the highest
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 113529108X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
In order to provide water security in the twenty-first century, there is universal agreement that a continuation of current policies and extrapolation of trends is not an option. Also clear is that from both water supply and development perspectives, the world's arid and semi-arid regions are those currently and potentially experiencing the highest
The Rain-Cloud and the Snow-Storm: an Account of the Nature, Formation ... and Uses of Rain and Snow in Various Parts of the World
Author: Charles Tomlinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Search for Winter Sunbeams in the Riviera, Corsica, Algiers, and Spain
Author: Samuel Sullivan Cox
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Company
ISBN:
Category : Algeria (Description and travel)
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Company
ISBN:
Category : Algeria (Description and travel)
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description