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Download or read book Chin Music written by Paul M. Levitt and published by Roberts Rinehart. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City in 1922 saw showpeople like Fanny Brice and Harry Houdini rubbing shoulders with confidence men and bootleggers like Arnold Rothstein, the gambler reputed to have fixed the 1919 World Series. Henrietta Fine, a precocious sixteen-year-old apprentice locksmith, weaves in and out of this world, living by her wits and the double-cross. Her safe cracking skills make her useful to both Houdini and to the wily Rothstein, who provides cover for her after the police implicate her in a diamond heist. Her picaresque adventures take her from the woods of New Jersey, whose secret Indian trails afford escape from red-baiting anti-semtic mobs, to the coves of Long Island, where she becomes a companion of a doomed bootlegger. Drawn with exquisite detail and told in a voice— Henrietta's—that recalls the stylish gossip (or "Chin Music") of the Flapper, Paul Levitt's debut novel will entertain readers with its uncanny evocation of an era when the gangster held a place of celebrity and a teen-age girl could be his unwitting— or outwitting—collaborator.
Book Synopsis Chin Music from a Greyhound by : Robert Talbott
Download or read book Chin Music from a Greyhound written by Robert Talbott and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chin music: A nineteenth-century term to describe the act of talking too much, as in babbling. Greyhound: A member of Dickson Stauffers Missouri Foot Cavalry of the early 1980s. This memoir continues the adventures of a middle-aged Missourian who was part of the strange yet fascinating world of Civil War reenacting. In volume 2, Robert tells of a trip to Gettysburg, another movie, the coldest event ever attended, a brief tenure as an officer, a trip to Red River, and a handful of other amusements. As with the previous book, volume 2 is loaded with personal anecdotes and humor.
Download or read book Chin Music written by Gregory Roberts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I guess I can blame my name on the 70s, the decade my parents went to college. I think the decade instilled in many people a burning desire to give their children atypical names. Apparently, during college, Dad wanted to name his sons "Led"and "Zepp."That was in the era when my mum chose to grow hairy armpits, and Dad had long greasy hair held down by a red headband and huge earphones. My mother told me about the Zeppelin when I was lamenting the fact that my dad was such a nerd that he couldn't understand why I wouldn't wear his piano-key necktie to a formal restaurant. —excerpt from Chin Music Brook Gunderson may have a girl's name and a girl's skinny body, but no one can say he throws like a girl. As the star pitcher on his high-school baseball team in Lethbridge, Alberta, Brook (or "Gunner"to his teammates) lives for the provincial tournament and the occasional, highly elaborate practical joke. As baseball season moves on and the team starts to pull together, it seems like this might be the best summer of Brook's life. But at home, things aren't going so smoothly. Brook's older brother, Frasier, is back after dropping out of college, and his busy parents don't seem able to help keep him on the right track. Brook escapes by spending more and more time with his friends until one last crazy stunt threatens to ruin his sporting ambitions—permanently.
Book Synopsis Possums Run Amok by : Lora Lafayette
Download or read book Possums Run Amok written by Lora Lafayette and published by Chin Music Press. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2023 Oregon Book Award Finalist in Creative Nonfiction Possums Run Amok is a rollicking, slyly hilarious, at times uncomfortable and dark memoir wherein the author and two friends are nicknamed The Possumettes. With fearless candor, Lora Lafayette recounts her life from a delinquent, late 1970s punk rock adolescence through a crooked, manic, transatlantic path to adulthood and her eventual terrifying descent into schizophrenia. Whip smart, daring, and inventive, Lafayette navigates the harsh realities of being a risk-taking adventurous young woman while seeking to wrest all the wild joy she can out of life. Her story reveals how blurry the line can be between real and unreal, choice and force. It lays bare the startling lack of empathy and services in society for those in crisis. Her voice is singular, her language full of shining unconventional metaphor. Deeply uncomfortable, laugh-out-loud funny, and devastatingly moving, Possums Run Amok is equal parts challenging and entertaining.
Book Synopsis A Commonplace Book of Pie by : Kate Lebo
Download or read book A Commonplace Book of Pie written by Kate Lebo and published by Chin Music Press Inc.. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this debut collection, award-winning poet and baker Kate Lebo redefines everything we thought we knew about pie. An eclectic mix of prose poems, fantasy zodiac, and humor, A Commonplace Book of Pie explores the tension between the container and the contained while considering the real and imagined relationships between pie and those who love it. Expanding on Lebo's successful chapbook of the same name, this volume includes new poems as well as more than two dozen Americana-themed illustrations by artist Jessica Lynn Bonin. Bonin's art adds a sense of nostalgia alongside Lebo's modern style, and together with the text, puts pie and the art of baking in a fresh, contemporary context. Kate Lebo makes poems and pies in Seattle. Her writing has appeared in Best New Poets, Gastronomica, and Poetry Northwest. When Kate is not creating poems, she is hosting her semi-secret pie social, Pie Stand, around the US, teaching creative writing at the University of Washington and Richard Hugo House, and pie-making at Pie School, her cliche-busting pastry academy. Jessica Lynn Bonin is an illustrator and mixed-media artist whose work adds a modern twist to familiar images of American culture. Bonin's murals are displayed in New York,Oregon and Washington state. She lives and works in a former hardware store and lumberyard in Edison, Washington.
Download or read book Yurei written by Zack Davisson and published by Chin Music Press Inc.. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eerie yet insightful exploration into the phenomenon of yurei, or Japanese ghosts, both past and present.
Download or read book The Spring written by Annie Connole and published by Chin Music Press. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traversing the wild landscapes of the American West, prose and photography combine to create a lucid, dream-like vision of visitations and allegorical animal encounters with Snake, Owl, and Dragonfly, among others. The Spring tells a stirring, elegiac tale of death, love, rebirth, survival, and resilience.
Download or read book WE HEREBY REFUSE written by Frank Abe and published by Chin Music Press. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three voices. Three acts of defiance. One mass injustice. The story of camp as you’ve never seen it before. Japanese Americans complied when evicted from their homes in World War II -- but many refused to submit to imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight. In this groundbreaking graphic novel, meet JIM AKUTSU, the inspiration for John Okada’s No-No Boy, who refuses to be drafted from the camp at Minidoka when classified as a non-citizen, an enemy alien; HIROSHI KASHIWAGI, who resists government pressure to sign a loyalty oath at Tule Lake, but yields to family pressure to renounce his U.S. citizenship; and MITSUYE ENDO, a reluctant recruit to a lawsuit contesting her imprisonment, who refuses a chance to leave the camp at Topaz so that her case could reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Based upon painstaking research, We Hereby Refuse presents an original vision of America’s past with disturbing links to the American present.
Book Synopsis One River, a Thousand Voices by : Claudia Castro Luna
Download or read book One River, a Thousand Voices written by Claudia Castro Luna and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Miss Pat: My Reggae Music Journey by : MISS. PAT
Download or read book Miss Pat: My Reggae Music Journey written by MISS. PAT and published by Gingko Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This memoir will go down as required reading in years to come." - Flea Market Funk, DJ Prestige "A remarkable, and still ongoing, journey." - The Daily Beast, Pat Meschino VP Records co-founder, and one of the reigning matriarchs of Reggae music, Patricia "Miss Pat" Chin, continues to lead the largest independent label and distributor of Caribbean music. Her energetic and engaging autobiography covers her family history, her relationship with her late husband Vincent Chin - and to Jamaica overall - her arrival in New York City in the late 70s, and of course her crucial role in the founding of VP Records. The book is packed with fantastic archival images spanning the emergence of Jamaican music as a cultural force in the 1950s up until today, bringing Miss Pat's revelatory memoir to life. Perspectives from business people, politicians, and musicians including Chris Blackwell (founder of Island Records), Edward Seaga (Former prime minister of Jamaica), singer Marcia Griffiths, and Lee "Scratch" Perry further light up the amazing story of Miss Pat's life and experiences.
Download or read book Yokai Stories written by Zack Davisson and published by Chin Music Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bookworm Akira has read about the conniving ways of Yokai, but when he trips over one along a forest path, he decides to help the creature back to its murky water home. A challenge ensues involving Akira’s beloved grandmother, a pizza-producing hammer, and a crunchy cucumber. Haunting illustrations of the Yokai accompany 17 original stories.
Book Synopsis The First Lady of Underfashions by : Christina Erteszek
Download or read book The First Lady of Underfashions written by Christina Erteszek and published by Chin Music Press. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Lady of Underfashions is a nonfiction saga-like memoir written by Christina Erteszek and including excerpts from her parents' (Jan and Olga) unpublished memoirs. It is a complex, layered, and nuanced story that bridges the violence of war, the innovation of thought, the singularity of religion, the quest for identity, and the intrigues and intricacies of family life. Jan and Olga escape from World War II Europe and arrive in the US with just a few dollars. They turn their paltry savings into a multi-million-dollar fashion business. Olga becomes a leading patent holder of female lingerie, a trendsetter in the industry, and is widely known for her innovative business tactics. But as this husband-and-wife team think of retiring, they decide to merge with another fashion company, which proves to be a fatal move when a loophole in the agreement allows for a hostile takeover. This is also a story of a daughter's need to find herself. Along her path to self-discovery, she discovers her parents have many secrets, some of which will never be revealed.
Book Synopsis Dictionary of Newfoundland English by : George Morley Story
Download or read book Dictionary of Newfoundland English written by George Morley Story and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1982 to international acclaim, the Dictionary of Newfoundland English introduced the world to an incredibly rich dialect with deep roots in Ireland and the English West Country.
Download or read book Seeing the Light written by Dean Wong and published by Chin Music. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wong captures four decades of Asian American life in West Coast Chinatowns. At turns poignant, heartbreaking, and uplifting.
Download or read book Hand to Hold written by JJ Heller and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This heartwarming picture book reassures children that a parent’s love never lets go—based on the poignant lyrics of JJ Heller’s beloved lullaby “Hand to Hold.” “May the living light inside you be the compass as you go / May you always know you have my hand to hold.” With delightful illustrations and an engaging rhyme scheme, this book offers the promise of security and love every child’s heart longs to know. From skipping stones and counting stars to climbing trees and telling stories, every moment is wrapped snugly in the certain warmth of a parent’s presence and God’s blessing. With poignancy and joy, this bedtime read captures the unconditional love parents want their children to know but so often fail to express amid the chaos of daily life.
Book Synopsis The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third Edition) by : Paul Dickson
Download or read book The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third Edition) written by Paul Dickson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 1001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive work on the language of baseball—one of the “Five Best Baseball Books” (Wall Street Journal). Hailed as “a staggering piece of scholarship” (Wall Street Journal) and “an indispensable guide to the language of baseball” (San Diego Union-Tribune), The Dickson Baseball Dictionary has become an invaluable resource for those who love the game. Drawing on dozens of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals, as well as contemporary sources, Dickson’s brilliant, illuminating definitions trace the earliest appearances of terms both well known and obscure. This edition includes more than 10,000 terms with 18,000 individual entries, and more than 250 photos. This “impressively comprehensive” (The Nation) book will delight everyone from the youngest fan to the hard-core aficionado.
Book Synopsis Skeeter Hill Rascals by : James O. Jenkins
Download or read book Skeeter Hill Rascals written by James O. Jenkins and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the ""Skeeter Hill Rascals"" tells about a group of boys led by Willie Wince to embark on a journey inspired by their desire to play organized ball together. The boys have never played a single out in organized baseball. Within the story are obstacles the boys must face beginning with devising a plan to get onto a Skeeter Hill baseball team. After devising a plan Willie maps out what the boys must do next, execution. Much can be said about inspiration and pursuing one's dream as the story illustrates. The fabulous five from Skeeter Hill show us with the help of a charismatic coach. Coach Swat volunteers to develop the boys into skilled baseball players. The boys develop into skilled baseball players but need an edge to beat the team that is devious and does not play by the rules. The two team begin the season on a collision course with the leaders on each team bitter rivals off the field.
