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Beer Never Broke My Heart
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Download or read book ORPHEIDA written by Thaddeus Hutyra and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maestro I sat in the theater box Almost in half-sleep. Maestro entered the podium A virtuoso conductor With disheveled hair. His first move with his baton And... it happened! Before my very eyes And in the world of my sensations I saw, I felt miracles' power Like in stellar storm with lightnings! Appassionata! Revolutionary Etude! Magic Flute! A night in Venice! The Queen of Spades! Blue Rhapsody! Lost paradise! Adagio! Ah, I felt being in paradise! Among the angels! The divine choir resounded! And when the curtain fell I suddenly found myself Back on Earth. Changed, reborn... My motto 'to be, always to be' Skyrocketed to new dimensions. Author: Thaddeus Hutyra
Book Synopsis The Lion Codes V by : James Phillips
Download or read book The Lion Codes V written by James Phillips and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiery Red-head Razilyn visits from New Hampshire and pulls James away from Nashville. They do get engaged but even her parents David and Bonnie prove they can’t even handle these two!! After the split; James returns to his home town. He eventually falls in love again, gets engaged with a fiery lady named Jasilyn from Pilot, Va. She winds up having such a time with James, that she takes him to a neurophysiologist named Dr. P in VA. There; they discover that James has (HFA) high functioning autism, (ADHD), anxiety disorder etc. See in this book how the new revised James of 39, slows it down quiet-a-bit with just a little help from doctors, medicine and counseling!!! Also, see the high- speed police chase involving 13 cars that nearly gets James shot and killed!!!!! And whatever you do, don’t miss out on reading about James’ new blood-hound dog named “Justus” McClintock Phillips and new “Teddy-Bear breed of a dog he got from “Puppy-Love” named “Sophie Rae Phillips”.
Book Synopsis Harlem Brew Soul by : Celeste Beatty
Download or read book Harlem Brew Soul written by Celeste Beatty and published by Rock Point. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience beer-infused soul food recipes from the founder of Harlem Brewing Company, Celeste Beatty, the first Black woman to own a brewery in the United States. Through her over twenty years of brewing beer and growing her business, Celeste Beatty has developed relationships with the best and brightest in the food and beverage industries and is ready to share her own soul food recipes with a beer-infused twist. Interspersed with small-bite reflections from her journey in the making of Harlem Brewing Company, Harlem Brew Soul features: Over 80 recipes infused with lager, stout, IPA, and wheat beers (food and cocktails) Historical notes on African brewing history A collection of family stories about soul food and homebrewing Vibrant illustrations celebrating the NYC neighborhood of Harlem and much more! Harlem Brew Soul taps into the rich history, heritage, traditions, rituals, experiences, and codes of African American life, cuisine, culture, music, and, yes, beer!
Book Synopsis Musings: Values, Virtues and Vices of Africa and Beyond by : Maina Wahome, Wahu Kimani Maurine, Okechwuku Chidoluo Vitus
Download or read book Musings: Values, Virtues and Vices of Africa and Beyond written by Maina Wahome, Wahu Kimani Maurine, Okechwuku Chidoluo Vitus and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the poems Musings, Values, Virtues And Vices Of Africa And Beyond, the poets engage the reader in intricate, intimate, and subtle questions about love and loathing, faith, and grief, Africa and beyond, climate change, and change of heart, feminism, and the trammels of patriarchy and society. I am primarily impressed with the bravery, sincerity, charity, and charm with which they excavate, tackle, and illuminate these issues. This is a rare, rewarding, reverberating, and relevant book that deserves to be read, devoured, and cherished for future generations~ Ndaba Sibanda, the author of The Immigrant With A Difference, Timebomb, and Cabinet Meetings. A confronting read which captures a continent’s frustrations. the book mourns the death of our values and virtues which have been hounded out repeatedly by the vices we wear without any vestige of shame. the poems are like bayonets, raw and unapologetic—Nate Gwenambira, author of Breakfast with Death. The poets give you an insider’s view of the complexities surrounding the African life in politics, love, marriage, genders, feminism, patriarchy, marriage, and society as a whole. Using subtle humor, they regale you with serious questions, light moments, the great and not-so-great parts about the African experience, and what it is like beyond.
Book Synopsis Coming Home The Carter Clan by : Am Sams
Download or read book Coming Home The Carter Clan written by Am Sams and published by Am Sams. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready to saddle up and ride along with the Carter Clan in this modern day Western full of hot cowboys, strong women, steamy scenes, and plenty of horses. In "Coming Home: The Carter Clan", follow the lives of the Carter family as they navigate the challenges of life in a small town in the heart of Wyoming. Meet the ruggedly handsome cowboy brothers, each with their own unique charm and cowboy hat. From the oldest, stoic and serious, to the youngest, reckless and carefree, the Carter brothers are a force to be reckoned with. But it's the women in their lives who truly steal the show, with their fierce independence and unwavering strength.
Book Synopsis Hot for Love (The Bradens & Montgomerys #7) Love in Bloom Contemporary Romance by : Melissa Foster
Download or read book Hot for Love (The Bradens & Montgomerys #7) Love in Bloom Contemporary Romance written by Melissa Foster and published by World Literary Press. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the magic of New York Times bestseller Melissa Foster's writing and see why millions of readers have fallen in love with the fiercely loyal and sassily sexy characters in the Love in Bloom big-family romance families. All Love in Bloom books can be enjoyed as stand-alone novels or as part of the larger series. In USA Today Bestseller HOT FOR LOVE... Trixie Jericho is on a mission to start her own miniature horse business. She’s sick of being told her idea is cute and wants nothing more than to be taken seriously. When rancher and sought-after freestyle horse trainer Nick Braden offers an opportunity she can’t refuse, Trixie jumps on it. The problem is, she also wants to jump on him, but the bullheaded, big-muscled, motorcycle-riding cowboy doesn't mix business with pleasure. Little does he know, Trixie has never backed down from a challenge, especially one she wants more than her next breath. Saddle up, big boy, because this boot-stompin’, risk-taking, Daisy Duke-wearing cowgirl isn’t afraid to play dirty. ** LOVE IN BLOOM novels feature alpha male heroes and smart, empowered women. They're flawed, funny, passionate, and relatable to readers who enjoy contemporary romance and women's fiction. THE BRADENS & MONTGOMERYS (Pleasant Hill - Oak Falls) Embracing Her Heart Anything For Love Trails of Love Wild Crazy Hearts Making You Mine Searching for Love Hot For Love Sweet Sexy Hearts Then Came Love Rocked by Love Wicked Bad Hearts Claiming Her Heart ** The Bradens & Montgomerys are part of the Love in Bloom big-family romance collection featuring wealthy heroes as well as everyday heroes who love fiercely. Characters from each sub-series appear in future books so you never lose track of engagements, weddings, or births. Love In Bloom Big-Family Romance Collection BIG FAMILIES / SMALL TOWNS Snow Sisters The Bradens at Weston The Bradens at Trusty The Bradens at Peaceful Harbor The Bradens & The Montgomerys (Pleasant Hill - Oak Falls) The Remingtons The Ryders Sugar Lake Harmony Pointe CAPE COD and BEACH READS Seaside Summers Bayside Summers Silver Island Harborside Nights BILLIONAIRES Wild Billionaires After Dark Bad Billionaires After Dark BIKERS & BAD BOYS The Whiskeys: Dark Knights at Bayside The Wickeds: Dark Knights at Bayside ** "When it comes to contemporary romances with realistic characters, an emotional love story and smokin' hot sex, author Melissa Foster always delivers!" The Romance Reviews "You can always rely on Melissa Foster to deliver a story that's fresh, emotional and entertaining. Make sure you have all night, because once you start you won't want to stop reading. Every book's a winner!" New York Times Bestselling Author Brenda Novak "With her wonderful characters and resonating emotions, Melissa Foster is a must-read author!" NYT Bestseller J. Kenner "Melissa Foster is synonymous with sexy, swoony, heartfelt romance!" New York TimesBestseller Lauren Blakely "Melissa Foster writes her romance novels similarly to my favorite adult romance author, Danielle Steel: the perfect blend of drama, romance, friendship, love and passion."- Andrea Buginsky, author "I highly recommend this book to fans of Nora Roberts (one of my personal faves) and fans of a sweet story filled with heat and heart." - Tia Bach, author "Melissa Foster is quickly becoming one of my favorites. Fated For Love was amazing. It kind of reminds me of Jill Shalvis' books and they are my benchmark for contemporary romance awesomeness." --Books Like Breathing (on Fated for Love) "I highly recommend the Snow Sisters all the Braden and Remington books....I am sure there are going to be other family's that intertwine and that is what I love most about these books. They remind me of the McCarthy of Gansett series and The Green Mountain series. I am a huge fan of Marie Force. And now Melissa Foster has joined her ranks...." - I Love NY, Reviewer NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Melissa Foster is a New York Times & USA Today bestselling and award-winning author. She writes sexy and heartwarming contemporary romance and new adult romance with emotionally compelling characters that stay with you long after you turn the last page. Melissa's emotional love stories are lovingly erotic and always family oriented. Foster's love stories are perfect steamy romance beach reads for fans of big-family, small-town romance. The characters are romantic and loyal, some are billionaires, others are not, and you're always guaranteed a happily ever after. 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Download or read book Scars written by B. K. Stubblefield and published by B.K. Stubblefield. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even emotional wounds leave scars It’s been more than a year since an explosion cost soldier Reid McCabe a leg and two of his men. His physical wounds have healed. He’s not sure the emotional wounds ever will. Hopefully, the cross-country walk he’s preparing for to raise awareness of veteran suicide and PTSD will help ease his troubled mind and spirit. The last thing he ever expected to be thinking about at this point in his recovery was love. But that was before he met the feisty Keira Flanigan … Keira has emotional wounds of her own. Opening her heart to a wounded warrior—or anyone, for that matter—is not on her agenda. She might need Reid’s help to foster and find a home for the little stray dog he’d rescued, but romance just isn’t in the cards for them. That’s what she tells herself, at least … Can Reid and Keira overcome the years of pain and self-doubt that stand between them? Or will the scars of the past destroy their shot at happily ever after? Buy now to find out if they succeed! ‘Scars' might be sensitive to some readers as it contains the subject of veteran suicide.
Book Synopsis The Bezos Blueprint by : Carmine Gallo
Download or read book The Bezos Blueprint written by Carmine Gallo and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The communication and leadership secrets of Jeff Bezos and how to master them, from the bestselling author of Talk Like Ted. Jeff Bezos is a dreamer who turned a bold idea into the world’s most influential company, a brand that likely touches your life every day. As a student of leadership and communication, he learned to elevate the way Amazonians write, collaborate, innovate, pitch, and present. He created a scalable model that grew from a small team in a Seattle garage to one of the world’s largest employers. The Bezos Blueprint by Carmine Gallo reveals the communication strategies that Jeff Bezos pioneered to fuel Amazon’s astonishing growth. As one of the most innovative and visionary entrepreneurs of our time, Bezos reimagined the way leaders write, speak, and motivate teams and customers. The communication tools Bezos created are so effective that former Amazonians who worked directly with Bezos adopted them as blueprints to start their own companies. Now, these tools are available to you.
Book Synopsis Top Hits of 2019 Easy Guitar Songbook by : Hal Leonard Corp.
Download or read book Top Hits of 2019 Easy Guitar Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Easy Guitar). A baker's dozen of the year's top hits in arrangements for easy guitar with tab and lyrics. Includes: Bad Guy (Billie Eilish) * Beer Never Broke My Heart (Luke Combs) * Gloria (The Lumineers) * I Don't Care (Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber) * If I Can't Have You (Shawn Mendes) * Lo/Hi (The Black Keys) * Look What God Gave Her (Thomas Rhett) * ME! (Taylor Swift) * Senorita (Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello) * Someone You Loved (Lewis Capaldi) * Speechless (from Aladdin ) (Naomi Scott) * Sucker (Jonas Brothers) * Whiskey Glasses (Morgan Wallen).
Book Synopsis Top Country Hits of 2019-2020 Songbook by : Hal Leonard Corp.
Download or read book Top Country Hits of 2019-2020 Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 18 of the best country songs from 2019 to 2020: All to Myself * Beer Never Broke My Heart * The Bones * Even Though I'm Leaving * Girl * God's Country * I Don't Know About You * Look What God Gave Her * Miss Me More * Old Town Road (Remix) * One Man Band * One Thing Right * Prayed for You * Rainbow * Remember You Young * 10,000 Hours * What If I Never Get over You * Whiskey Glasses.
Book Synopsis Brooks and Dunn by : Brooks & Dunn (Musical group)
Download or read book Brooks and Dunn written by Brooks & Dunn (Musical group) and published by . This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matching folio to the hit album with 10 songs, including: Boot Scootin' Boogie * Brand New Man * My Next Broken Heart * Neon Moon * and more.
Download or read book Never Broken written by Jewel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jewel is a truth-teller…this is a book that lingers in your heart.” – Brené Brown *The New York Times bestseller* New York Times bestselling poet and multi-platinum singer-songwriter Jewel explores her unconventional upbringing and extraordinary life in an inspirational memoir that covers her childhood to fame, marriage, and motherhood. When Jewel’s first album, Pieces of You, topped the charts in 1995, her emotional voice and vulnerable performance were groundbreaking. Drawing comparisons to Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell, a singer-songwriter of her kind had not emerged in decades. Now, with more than thirty million albums sold worldwide, Jewel tells the story of her life, and the lessons learned from her experience and her music. Living on a homestead in Alaska, Jewel learned to yodel at age five, and joined her parents’ entertainment act, working in hotels, honky-tonks, and biker bars. Behind a strong-willed family life with an emphasis on music and artistic talent, however, there was also instability, abuse, and trauma. At age fifteen, she moved out and tasked herself with a mission: to see if she could avoid being the kind of statistic that her past indicated for her future. Soon after, she was accepted to the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, and there she began writing her own songs as a means of expressing herself and documenting her journey to find happiness. Jewel was eighteen and homeless in San Diego when a radio DJ aired a bootleg version of one of her songs and it was requested into the top-ten countdown, something unheard-of for an unsigned artist. By the time she was twenty-one, her debut had gone multiplatinum. There is much more to Jewel’s story, though, one complicated by family legacies, by crippling fear and insecurity, and by the extraordinary circumstances in which she managed to flourish and find happiness despite these obstacles. Along her road of self-discovery, learning to redirect her fate, Jewel has become an iconic singer and songwriter. In Never Broken she reflects on how she survived, and how writing songs, poetry, and prose has saved her life many times over. She writes lyrically about the natural wonders of Alaska, about pain and loss, about the healing power of motherhood, and about discovering her own identity years after the entire world had discovered the beauty of her songs.
Book Synopsis Finding My Heart Duet Book 1 by : Nixie G.
Download or read book Finding My Heart Duet Book 1 written by Nixie G. and published by Nixie. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blaine needed a fresh start. She just buried the last remaining family member she had. So, her new job came just in time. But Blaine didn’t expect HIM. He is brooding, angry, and one drink away from being an alcoholic. But he intrigues her. She knows he is more than his angry scowl. As much as she is warned, she can’t stop herself from getting to know him. They say the heart wants what it wants she just hopes hers doesn’t break. Mase thought he found his one true love. But she betrayed him and left without looking back. Now, the bottle kept him company. Then SHE comes into his life. She was strong willed and full of sass and heart. He wants to let her in, but the past keeps getting in the way. She is like a breath of fresh air. Hopefully the past doesn’t suffocate him.
Download or read book Unbreak My Heart written by K-Lee Klein and published by Dreamspinner Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JT's quest for meaning leads him to Brett's ranch--and into Brett's booze-fueled solitude and grief over his lost lover. Will JT ever be allowed far enough into Brett's world to unbreak his heart?
Book Synopsis MIGRANT LIFE : STORIES OF REVERIST by : Omar Faruque Shipon
Download or read book MIGRANT LIFE : STORIES OF REVERIST written by Omar Faruque Shipon and published by Suman Krishna Dey. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before I came to this foreign soil, I took all my love and affection out of the heart and put all of these into archive of my dreams. (‘Relative in a Foreign Land’) Taken together, this generous collection of stories offers English readers an unprecedented glimpse into the lives of Bangladeshi migrant workers oscillating Singapore and the mother country, home seen through the lens of a twenty-first century Bangladeshi Muslim male lens. That lens deftly and shifts between Singapore and Bangladesh, past and present as co-workers, hitherto little known, recount their often heartbreakingly sad stories. One gets the impression that the narrator for the main part is the same in each story, a soft-hearted administrative worker in the marine sector, his dark skin on more than one occasion leading to him being mistaken for a Singaporean of Tamil descent, not recognised by his own Bangladeshi countrymen. The narrator is ultimately the catalyst or repository for the stories of the varied quotidian workers he encounters. While not topographically explicit, the stories catch for us up close something of the poetry of conversations between migrant workers, often revealing complicated: stories of a worker missing his father’s funeral far away, a mother’s sorrow even when her migrant son for whatever reason tries to lie on speakerphone, unfairnesses, such as being sent home without warning after one infraction. Singapore is the backdrop, the city and focus of many delusory dreams of fortune, loss and homesickness. The stories are elliptically, poetically recounted. A profound tragic beauty flowers out of the migrant quotidian as the speaker encounters a variety of multicultural voices, the sad, thorny lives contended with that lie behind the hard work done by migrants. Stories like ‘Love of Farhan’ take us to and leave us in discombobulating, unexpected places, raising more questions than answers. As with these story endings, there is no easy solution to the dauntingly complicated problems revealed. Striking in these stories is the deft economy, and perhaps what is not said. At times I was reminded of Mikhail Lermontov. I was often struck by quotable arrestingly memorable lines, [religion] “really has an awesome power to make a stranger a relative and a relative a stranger.” “he smiled like a robot. It was nothing like a smile.” “Everyone was bought with money; everyone gave in to money and wealth”. “Woman’s love makes us happy, but family’s love gives us satisfaction.” “I was sweating like a cold water bottle” “the smile was dominated by the helpless tone of his face”. In a kind of epiphany Bangladeshi migrant workers arriving in Singapore recognise how Bangladeshi brides must feel homesick, wives feel insecure. Through these stories, we in Singapore might begin to constructively appreciate not only the sacrifices of the men who come to work here but also their wives and family left without husbands and fathers for long periods at home. So there is a message in these stories, but also an evocative beauty in which we encounter a world of Jacobin cuckoos, beparis adams, betel nuts (whether Bengali or Burmese) and traditional leaf cigarettes. Here are also bittersweet poignant moments of migrant life, such as hearing the first cry of your first-born son back in a Bangladesh hospital over a handphone (45), or the joy at finding at last a rare Bangladeshi provision shop only to find shortly after the kind owner is ill, has passed away. Is it wise to be ‘pennywise’ for years in Singapore, as one story suggests, or send all your money home for family? “We expatriates are like cows with milk” as one worker reflects – but what happens when the milk runs out? Workers are often pressured into coming by family, community – even back home are those sacrifices properly appreciated, remembered? The book’s moral seems to be for us to show empathise, demonstrate sympathy for all in this world in a world of pain. Figures of ridicule turn out to be objects of sympathy. It seems almost everyone is nursing a to be told sad story. “Every man has a river inside” Migrant workers it seems are surviving on happy memories of home, and family. in ’Sabri’ a dead young Singaporean co-worker lives through the fond memories and prayers of his co-workers from many parts of the world. In ‘Room Leader’ dormitory life is evoked, a key, telling part of migrant experience. This story is also a call to perhaps to listen to the wisdom of the young me in this rapidly evolving world. Workers cry over a discarded cigarette, a ruined fish dish, but really, they are crying over something else. Only good humour, understanding and empathy bring some consolation for real. Again, and again, narrators, co-workers fail to fathom the depth of others’ trials. But maybe we could all try a little better. By reading these stories you enter tragic-comic lives you perhaps never realised before, and yet perhaps uncannily similar in some ways to your own.
Download or read book Indigo Blues written by Danielle Joseph and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2010-09-08 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigo: I never asked to be famous—or infamous. Such is my fate for briefly dating (and dumping) Adam Spade. Yes, the Adam from the indie rock band Blank Stare who wrote "Indigo Blues"—the song that gave the band overnight success, propelled them to New York City, and stole my precious anonymity. Now I'm pawed by fans, stalked by reporters, and pegged as a vicious heartbreaker. And Adam is still calling me. Doesn't he have better things to do? Adam: With a hit single and a promising career, I should be on top of the world. People on the street are beginning to recognize me, which is cool. And scary. The band is counting on me to write another hit, but I can't stop thinking about Indigo. Why won't she answer the phone?
Download or read book Please Kill Me written by Legs McNeil and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, this first oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements brings the sound of the punk generation chillingly to life with 50 new pages of depraved testimony. "Please Kill Me" reads like a fast-paced novel, but the tragedies it contains are all too human and all too real. photos.
