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Author : Jerry Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780871210098
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Growing Up in the Magic City written by Jerry Smith and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Watchmaker Publishing, Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781929148608
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Minot: The Magic City written by and published by Watchmaker Publishing, Ltd. This book was released on with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edith Nesbit
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Magic City written by Edith Nesbit and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Philip's older sister and sole family member Helen marries, he goes off to live with his new step sister Lucy. He has trouble adjusting at first, thrown into a world different from his previous life and abandoned by his sister while she is on her honeymoon. To entertain himself he builds a giant model city from things around the house: game pieces, books, blocks, bowls, etc. Then through some magic he finds himself inside the city, and it is alive with the people he has populated it with. Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was the author of world famous books for children - the tales of fantastical adventures, journeys back in time and travel to magical worlds.
Author : Burgin Mathews
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Magic City written by Burgin Mathews and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic City is the story of one of American music's essential unsung places: Birmingham, Alabama, birthplace of a distinctive and influential jazz heritage. In a telling replete with colorful characters, iconic artists, and unheralded masters, Burgin Mathews reveals how Birmingham was the cradle and training ground for such luminaries as big band leader Erskine Hawkins, cosmic outsider Sun Ra, and a long list of sidemen, soloists, and arrangers. He also celebrates the contributions of local educators, club owners, and civic leaders who nurtured a vital culture of Black expression in one of the country's most notoriously segregated cities. In Birmingham, jazz was more than entertainment: long before the city emerged as a focal point in the national civil rights movement, its homegrown jazz heroes helped set the stage, crafting a unique tradition of independence, innovation, achievement, and empowerment. Blending deep archival research and original interviews with living elders of the Birmingham scene, Mathews elevates the stories of figures like John T. "Fess" Whatley, the pioneering teacher-bandleader who emphasized instrumental training as a means of upward mobility and community pride. Along the way, he takes readers into the high school band rooms, fraternal ballrooms, vaudeville houses, and circus tent shows that shaped a musical movement, revealing a community of players whose influence spread throughout the world.
Author : Trick Daddy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439157677
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Magic City written by Trick Daddy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.” Trick Daddy was born a thug—just a stone’s throw from downtown Miami, yet a world away from its dazzling beauty and sparkling wealth. Where grinding poverty, deadly crime, and devastating racial tension taught kids to live by the ’hood rules. Remarkably, Trick came from nothing and made it big just when his chances had run out. Magic City is the extraordinary tale of a boy whose father was a pimp, who learned to hustle to survive, and whose only role model was his brother, the drug dealer he watched plying his trade on the block. It’s the untold truth behind the cult movie Scarface, of the drug money that transformed the city into a shining mecca for the rich and famous while turf wars between smalltime pushers claimed countless lives. It’s also the incredible story of how that potent mixture of extremes—the electric pulse and glittering abundance of South Beach and the crime, corruption, and despair in its shadows—gave rise to the most dominant sound in hip-hop today. Magic City is an ode to Miami, a riveting tale of a paradise lost and a native son determined to infuse it with new life.
Author : E. Nesbit
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Magic City written by E. Nesbit and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a children's story by one of the best authors in that genre. It tells the story of Philip who grows up with his much older half-sister. One day she marries her childhood sweetheart and moves away. Philip is devastated and builds a city from building blocks and other bits and pieces. When he plays with it all kinds of wonderful and magical characters appear.
Author : Sonya Taylor
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1598582607
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Finding Platinum - A Magic City Memoir written by Sonya Taylor and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding Platinum: A Magic City Memoir, is the highly anticipated novel from Sonya Taylor, who spent several years as an adult entertainer at one of the most legendary gentlemen's clubs in the world - the infamous Magic City in Atlanta, GA. Amongst the glitter and glamour of the high-priced lifestyle of exotic dancing, sex, and drugs is the poignant tale of a streetwise, coquettish young woman born and raised on the tough streets of Detroit, who migrated to the heart of the south in the late 80s and early 90s, and grew up under the dazzle of the strobe lights and the salacious eyes of men with power, money, and prestige. This book, the first in a trilogy, is a powerful love story. It revolves around the love of money, fame, and fast living. It shows how they all collided at a deadly intersection in the life of this bright, young woman. At times, her life seemed so glamorous and exciting on the outside, but it was marred by heartbreak, tragedy, and senseless murders. This book explains how life's lessons that sometimes cost so much, often show that their value is worth every dime. For more information or to order the book, please visit: www.FindingPlatinum.com, or email Sonya at: [email protected]. Born on June 2, 1968 in Mount Clemens, Michigan, raised into poverty and welfare in the city of Detroit, Sonya Taylor knew what it was like to be underprivileged, and she knew the endurance of the struggle. Taylor decided at a young age to overcome her situations, and not forget the circumstances that brought her and her family to a place of serenity, or at least a few minutes of temporary relief. As a child, Taylor had little interest in literature, but she discovered the joy of reading and writing at the age of 12. Her preference of poetry and creative-thought writing, is what Taylor has been focusing on these past years leading up to her first book, "Finding Platinum, A Magic City Memoir."
Author : James W. Hall
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312947477
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Magic City written by James W. Hall and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple black and white photograph taken during the 1964 Cassius Clay-Sonny Liston fight on Miami Beach may hold the key to a horrific, politically-motivated crime forty-two years earlier. After it mysteriously reappears, the photo is burned in an act of arson that sets off a modern-day killing spree reaching from the quiet neighborhoods of Miami to the back corridors of the White House. What the killer did not know is that a copy of the photograph still remains. When it falls into Thorn’s hands, he and everyone he close to him—including his beloved Alexandra—become the targets of madmen and trained hitmen, each of whom has a powerful motive to see the photograph destroyed…and will go to murderous lengths to make it disappear forever.
Author : Netta Syrett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Magic City and Other Fairy Tales written by Netta Syrett and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Virginia. Constitutional Convention
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1602 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Report of the Proceedings and Debates of the Constitutional Convention, State of Virginia written by Virginia. Constitutional Convention and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jewell Parker Rhodes
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063144662
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (631 download)
Download or read book Magic City written by Jewell Parker Rhodes and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A compelling page-turner that will keep readers hoping against hope that everything will somehow, magically, turn out for the best." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution With a new Afterword from the author reflecting on the 100th anniversary of one of the most heinous tragedies in American history—the 1921 burning of Greenwood, an affluent black section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as the "Negro Wall Street"—Jewell Parker Rhodes’ powerful and unforgettable novel of racism, vigilantism, and injustice, weaves history, mysticism, and murder into a harrowing tale of dreams and violence gone awry. Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1921. A white woman and a black man are alone in an elevator. Suddenly, the woman screams, the man flees, and the chase to capture and lynch him begins. When Joe Samuels, a young Black man with dreams of becoming the next Houdini, is accused of rape, he must perform his greatest escape by eluding a bloodthirsty mob. Meanwhile, Mary Keane, the white, motherless daughter of a farmer who wants to marry her off to the farmhand who viciously raped her, must find the courage to help exonerate the man she accused with her panicked cry. Magic City evokes one of the darkest chapters of twentieth century, Jim Crow America, painting an intimate portrait of the heroic but doomed stand that pitted the National Guard against a small band of black men determined to defend the prosperous town they had built.
Author : Andre Millard
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819576999
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Magic City Nights written by Andre Millard and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration of rock 'n' roll music and culture in Birmingham, Alabama, is based on the oral histories of musicians, their fans and professionals in the popular music industry. Collected over a twenty-year period, their stories describe the coming of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s, the rise of the garage bands in the 1960s, of southern rock in the 1970s, and of alternative music in the 1980s and 1990s. Told in the words of the musicians themselves, Magic City Nights provides an insider's view of the dramatic changes in the business and status of popular music from the era of the vacuum tube to twenty-first-century digital technology. These collective memories offer a unique perspective on the impact of a subversive and racially integrated music culture in one of the most conservative and racially divided cities in the country.
Author : Fannie Flagg
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679604049
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)
Download or read book I Still Dream About You written by Fannie Flagg and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The beloved Fannie Flagg is at her irresistible and hilarious best in I Still Dream About You, a comic mystery romp through the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, past, present, and future. Meet Maggie Fortenberry, a still beautiful former Miss Alabama. To others, Maggie’s life seems practically perfect—she’s lovely, charming, and a successful agent at Red Mountain Realty. Still, Maggie can’t help but wonder how she wound up living a life so different from the one she dreamed of as a child. But just when things seem completely hopeless, and the secrets of Maggie’s past drive her to a radical plan to solve it all, Maggie discovers, quite by accident, that everybody, it seems, has at least one little secret. I Still Dream About You is a wonderful novel that is equal parts southern charm, murder mystery, and that perfect combination of comedy and old-fashioned wisdom that can be served up only by America’s own remarkable Fannie Flagg. Praise for I Still Dream About You “[Fannie Flagg is] a born storyteller.”—The New York Times Book Review “Undoubtedly [Flagg’s] wisest book, comic and compassionate . . . Born of a tender heart and nurtured by an imaginative mind, it’s certain to touch the reader’s soul.”—Richmond Times Dispatch “A fun and rollicking Nancy Drew mystery for grown-ups.”—The Birmingham News “Classic Fannie . . . What [Flagg] writes about, time and again, are the touching, terrifying, heartbreaking, hysterical, extraordinary, everyday things that make us human.”—Southern Living
Author : Nicholas Boler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997312522
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Footsteps written by Nicholas Boler and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Footsteps tells a riveting real life story about growing up in public housing. Footsteps: Growing Up In Gate City chronicled the first 14 years of the author's life. Footsteps: Coming Out of Gate City is the second novel in the trilogy. It begins as Nick is promoted to ninth grade and attending Woodlawn High School. The book follows the brothers' footsteps into adulthood. What happens when tragedy falls at the doorstep of their inner city home? How will the brothers handle the shifting dynamics of their community? What will the newly found "Rap Culture" and national gangs add to their impoverished neighborhood? Poverty continues to lure the brothers choices. Tragedy and triumph race to the finish of each brothers' life. Buried and uncried tears stream as anger, rage, wrath, resentment, vengeance, unforgiving hearts, and self-discovery. Lack creates blind loyalties. The reader is left to ponder which is easier, Growing up in Gate City or Coming Out of Gate City.
Author : E. M. Forster
Publisher : Namaskar Book
ISBN 13 : 2023082501
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Where Angels Fear to Tread written by E. M. Forster and published by Namaskar Book. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover a tale of passion and prejudice in the enchanting narrative of "Where Angels Fear to Tread: Unveiling Passion and Prejudice in an Unconventional Romance" by E. M. Forster. Journey into the heart of Italy as Forster unravels a story of forbidden love, cultural clash, and societal expectations. As you immerse yourself in Forster's narrative, prepare to be swept away by the lush landscapes of Italy and the complexities of human relationships. Through his exquisite prose and keen observation, Forster delves into the depths of human emotion and societal norms. But beyond the surface of romantic entanglements lies a deeper exploration of the clash between tradition and modernity, freedom and conformity. Forster's nuanced characters and thought-provoking themes challenge readers to question their own beliefs and prejudices. Yet, amidst the backdrop of cultural tension and personal drama, a profound question emerges: What sacrifices are we willing to make for love, and how do societal expectations shape our decisions? Engage with Forster's narrative through evocative descriptions and compelling character dynamics that illuminate the complexities of human nature. His exploration of love, betrayal, and redemption will resonate with readers long after the final page is turned. Now, as you navigate the twists and turns of "Where Angels Fear to Tread," consider this: How can Forster's tale of unconventional romance inspire us to challenge societal norms and embrace the pursuit of true happiness? Don't miss the opportunity to delve into the captivating world of "Where Angels Fear to Tread." Acquire your copy today and experience the timeless allure of Forster's storytelling in this unforgettable classic. ```
Author : Myrna Katz Frommer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1589799518
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (897 download)
Download or read book It Happened in Miami, the Magic City written by Myrna Katz Frommer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just in time for the one-hundredth anniversary of Miami Beach, It Happened in Miami, the Magic City: An Oral History features nearly seventy fabulous voices including more than fifteen mini-memorists, telling stories, offering perceptions on subject matter as far back as memory allows up to the exciting headlines of today. Sun and fun, yes, but the story is much more than that. We are there through the dramatic days of World War II, the segregated south that Miami was, Meyer Lansky and cops and robbers, the Cocaine Cowboys, the post–war glamour of the flashy hotels and famed architect Morris Lapidius, the Fountainbleau and Eden Roc, the Jewish presence and contributions, the swinging Rat Pack of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. We are witness to Muhammad Ali and the iconic Fifth Street Gym, the preserving of art deco, the days of the Mariel and Pedro Pan and the Cuban impact. We are brought inside modern day Miami—an international city, a place of culture and dreamers, a city of tomorrow.
Author : Norfolk and Western Railway Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Norfolk and Western Magazine written by Norfolk and Western Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
