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Momma's Lost Piano

Author : David Madden
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 162190783X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Momma's Lost Piano written by David Madden and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she is seventeen, Emily Merritt’s beloved father gives her the piano she has always wanted. A few days later, having lost his job, he sells Emily’s piano and moves the family out of its two-story house in Cleveland, Ohio, to his mother’s three-room house in his hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee. The loss of her piano casts a shadow over Emily’s life in Knoxville, a city she could never love. Throughout the rest of her life, Emily longs to return to Cleveland, where she had an idyllic youth with many boyfriends and girlfriends and was, above all, a good piano student. Her life becomes like that of a nomad, moving from house to house and from job to job. Her great love of life is expressed by dancing in highway honky-tonks, along with her six beautiful girlfriends. After divorcing her lovable, alcoholic husband, Emily falls deeply in love with troubled married men. She doesn’t enjoy whiskey or smoking, but she’s not a churchgoer. She raises three boys in poverty. A fourth son dies soon after birth. Oldest Dickie becomes a life-long petty conman, but little brother John, known as “Sunshine,” becomes a legendary rescuer of wayward boys and girls. Jerry, the middle brother, becomes a merchant seaman, a soldier, and finally a professor and successful writer. Rather than a chronological narrative, Madden employs an impressionistic style that enables readers to experience Emily’s memories as he imagines them. In sharply focused scenes, Madden evokes the colorful expressions of the articulate, witty woman he has spent all his life listening to—and this memoir will inspire readers to listen eagerly, too.

Moanin' Low

Author : Ross Laird
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313370052
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Moanin' Low written by Ross Laird and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-11-25 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive guide to pre-1934 female popular vocal recordings sung in English—from around the world and including all styles—this discographical study includes solos, duets, trios, and quartets composed by the great songwriters of the early 1900s (from Irving Berlin to Victor Young). The majority of the listings includes material that has not been previously published, and a large number of entries profile such prolific artists as Helen Clark and Gladys Rice, who are not in previous discographies. A special feature includes data on sound-on-disc recording made for early talking-picture musical shorts (especially by Vitaphone) that is not documented elsewhere. A comprehensive title index includes composer credits for the majority of the titles listed. The first comprehensive guide to pre-1934 female popular vocal recordings sung in English—from around the world and including all styles—this discographical study includes solos, duets, trios, and quartets composed by the great songwriters of the early 1900s (from Irving Berlin to Victor Young). The majority of the listings includes material that has not been previously published, and a large number of entries profile such prolific artists as Helen Clark and Gladys Rice, who are not in previous discographies. A special feature includes data on sound-on-disc recording made for early talking-picture musical shorts (especially by Vitaphone) that is not documented elsewhere. A comprehensive title index includes composer credits for the majority of the titles listed. Many of the records documented in this volume are by the artists who introduced these songs at this time or who performed them in the original productions of the shows or movies for which they were written. The singing styles include those of cabaret performers, music-hall and vaudeville acts. Songs for the stage, screen, and radio are also included.

Dicey's Song

Author : Cynthia Voigt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 068984798X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Dicey's Song written by Cynthia Voigt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-12-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Newbery-winning novel in Cynthia Voigt’s timeless Tillerman cycle. When Momma abandoned Dicey Tillerman and her three siblings in a mall parking lot and was later traced to an asylum where she lay unrecognizing, unknowing, she left her four children no choice but to get on by themselves. They set off alone on foot over hundreds of miles until they finally found someone to take them in. Gram’s rundown farm isn’t perfect, but they can stay together as a family—which is all Dicey really wanted. But after watching over the others for so long, it’s hard for Dicey to know what to do now. Her own identity has been so wrapped up in being the caretaker, navigator, penny counter, and decision maker that she’s not sure how to let go of some responsibilities while still keeping a sense of herself. But when the past comes back with devastating force, Dicey sees just how necessary—and painful—letting go can be.

The Accompanist

Author : Nina Berberova
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811215343
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book The Accompanist written by Nina Berberova and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doomed to living in her mentor's shadow, Sonechka, a talented but mousy young pianist employed by a beautiful soprano and her devoted, bourgeois husband, secretly schemes to expose infidelities.

Fort Momma

Author : Al Gowan
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595290205
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Fort Momma written by Al Gowan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for stories in FORT MOMMA: "Surprise and delight lurk in every paragraph of DEFROSTING HOWARD, a well-crafted story written in a clear, strong voice." -Vicki Hendricks fiction editor of QUIXOTE QUARTERLY, and author of five novels including MIAMI PURITY, IGUANA LOVE and SKY BLUES"REAL TIME is an humorous insight into the computer anxiety of the early eighties." -Dan Wakefield guest editor of PLOUGHSHARES and author of sixteen books including best selling novels STARTING OVER and GOING ALL THE WAY, and non-fiction books NEW YORK IN THE 1950'S and RETURNING.With deepest gratitude to the editors who published my stories: Dan Wakefield, PLOUGHSHARES, 1981 (REAL TIME) Michael Ishii, PAINTED HILLS REVIEW, 1993 (THE DEPRESSION) J.H.E. Paine, TENNESSEE QUARTERLY, 1993 (CURLEY'S PICTURE) Vicki Hendricks, QUIXOTE QUARTERLY, 1994 (DEFROSTING HOWARD) Reviews on Al Gowan's last novel ZAMORA'S TATTOO "Marks the debut of a new American novelist of insight, intelligence, style and sensitivity. Al Gowan is a writer with something to say that's fresh and provocative and he says it in a voice that is utterly, uniquely his own." -Gerald Gross, EDITORS ON EDITING"A dangerous and startling novel full of wit and grace. Al Gowan is a writer who takes delight in revealing the struggles of his people" -Melanie Rae Thon, SWEET HEARTS, IONA MOON, GIRLS IN THE GRASS, METEORS IN AUGUST and FIRST, BODY.

Over an Angel's Shoulder

Author : Bonnie Ann Gilchrist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781568250236
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Over an Angel's Shoulder written by Bonnie Ann Gilchrist and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Burning in Homeland

Author : Richard Yancey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743254376
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book A Burning in Homeland written by Richard Yancey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-02-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Burning in Homeland is ...a wonderfully written, crazily romantic story of intense love and devastating betrayal ...a stunning debut of a remarkably gifted young novelist ...a Southern novel that captures the beauty, madness and mystery of both place and time. In what can only be described as a tour-de-force of passionate atmospheric storytelling, first-time novelist Richard Yancey had created a finely nuanced narrative that resounds with raw, emotional truths -- a story about the ominous return to a small town in central Florida of a man once sentenced to prison for defending the honor of the woman he loved, about the woman and her husband who both betrayed him, and about a guileless young boy who gets caught up in their web of love, lies, and deceit. The story of the love between Halley Martin and Mavis Howell is seldom talked about in the tiny town of Homeland, Florida, but in the twenty years since Halley was sent to prison for murdering a rival suitor -- the only murder ever in this small, pious town -- the story has become legend. To seven-year-old Shiny Parker it has become a mystery, something his parents whisper about. He knows that somehow the pretty wife of the local minister is involved, but it is all too confusing for him to sort out. When the church's parsonage burns, almost killing the minister, only days before the legendary Halley Martin is due to be released from prison, Shiny senses a connection between the events -- as do most residents of the town. But if Haley was still in prison when the house burned, who set the fire...and why? Passionate love, the betrayal of friendship, hidden letters, a suspicious fire, mystery and revenge -- all are elements of this complex and deeply involving Southern gothic tale. Alternating among a trio of first person narrators -- Shiny, Mavis, and Halley -- Richard Yancey has created a lush, epic Southern landscape bursting with larger than life characters and rich atmospherics. A Burning in Homeland is both starkly haunting and exquisitely romantic and a masterpiece of dazzling storytelling you will not soon forget.

Ordinary People, Turbulent Times

Author : Alice Dreifuss Goldstein
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1434381226
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Ordinary People, Turbulent Times written by Alice Dreifuss Goldstein and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Life was good, and promising to get ever better for the recently married Dreifuss couple and their young daughter, Alice, living in rural southwest Germany. Then HItler came to power, and their world turned upside down. This vivid biography deals with one of the transforming events of the twentieth century. As happened throughout Germany during the eight years that served as a prelude to the Holocaust, the Nazis turned the Dreifuss family members from valued friends and colleagues of their fellow villagers into an isolated, demonized minority. Even as a small child, Alice felt the impact of Nazi anti-semitism. More importantly, this story shows how strength of spirit and faith enabled the family to remain optimistic and resilient during their struggle to leave Germany and to make new lives for themselves in America"--Page 4 of cover

Once Below a Time

Author : Glynn Baugher
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532059388
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Once Below a Time written by Glynn Baugher and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bygone eras of our past gave rise to a generation with stories worth holding on to, taking place in a world that has since vanished from America, for better or for worse. Yet triumph and delight grow from unexpected sources. Once Below a Time is author Glynn Baugher’s account of growing up poor in rural Virginia in the middle of the twentieth century, and it is a memoir of a vanished world. Full of social details and vignettes of the colorful characters in Glynn’s early life, it portrays a world rich in specifics, deriving the universal from family particulars. Glynn carefully traces the contours of a fading way of life and fills his stories with vibrant personal narratives of his bucolic youthful days with family. Glynn’s story is that of the unexpected—of surprise, triumph, and delight. Join him on his illuminating retrospective, where out of poverty and a primitive early education spring comedy, success, and erudition.

A Year of Full Moons

Author : Madelyn Arnold
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466823410
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book A Year of Full Moons written by Madelyn Arnold and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2002-08-07 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lambda Award winner Madelyn Arnold combines history, class, sex, and family inA Year of Full Moons, a tour-de-force about the coming of age and coming into power of a young girl in a hardscrabble southern town during the early 1960s. Brilliant, tomboyish Josephine Margaret Butler--better known as Jos--is the second oldest child in a large, poor family living in provincial Summit, Kentucky, in 1963. After her mother has a miscarriage and retreats into herself, Jos and her sister Ellie have to run the household and take care of their five younger siblings and their decidedly eccentric, sometimes brilliant, and always difficult father. In the coming year, the nation's mounting tensions over civil rights and the Vietnam War finally begin to infiltrate Summit at the same time that Jos begins to act upon her secret passion for women. Trapped in a damaging family dynamic and in a town that is violently resisting the sweeping social changes of the outside world, Jos realizes that only one thing--her intellect--can provide a means of escape.

M Is for Mama

Author : Abbie Halberstadt
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736983783
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book M Is for Mama written by Abbie Halberstadt and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mama of ten Abbie Halberstadt helps women humbly and gracefully rise to the high calling of motherhood without settling for mediocrity or losing their minds in the process. Motherhood is a challenge. Unfortunately, our worldly culture offers moms little in the way of real help. Mamas only connect to celebrate surviving another day and to share in their misery rather than rejoice in what God has done and to build each other up in hard times. There has a be a better way, a biblical way, for mamas to grow and thrive. As a daughter of Christ, you have been called to be more than an average mama. Attaining excellence doesn’t have to be unsettling but it will take committed focus and a desire to parent well according to God’s grace and for His glory. M is for Mama offers advice, encouragement, and scripturally sound strategies seasoned with a little bit of humor to help you embrace the challenge of biblical motherhood and raise your children with love and wisdom. Mama, you are worthy of the awesome responsibility God has given you. Now it’s time to start believing you can live up to it.

Kanye West: God & Monster

Author : Mark Beaumont
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 178323394X
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Kanye West: God & Monster written by Mark Beaumont and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kanye West is undoubtedly one of pop culture's most divisive and fascinating characters. Alongside his multimillion selling albums, Kanye has also launched record labels and clothing lines and in the process, become one of the most respected, creative and influential artists in music today.The most in-depth look at West's life and career to date,"--Novelist.

Scary Stuff & Things

Author : Nicholas Grabowsky
Publisher : Black Bed Sheet Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (672 download)

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Download or read book Scary Stuff & Things written by Nicholas Grabowsky and published by Black Bed Sheet Books. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspiration and horror from Black Bed Sheet Books' 15th Anniversary Halloween Party 2023. This is the first commemorative anthology from participating authors on Halloween night 2023 to sign free copies given to trick-or-treaters along with candy at Black Bed Sheet Studios in Antelope, CA, (near Sacramento), otherwise known as Antelope's Halloween House throughout the region. By popular demand, we decided to make it available to sell. Features stories by Age Scott (Tales of Hip Hop Horror), Edward Martin III (The Blood-red Night of Hatchet Valley), Fred Wiehe (Fright House), and founder of Black Bed Sheet Books, Nicholas Grabowsky (Halloween IV, The Everborn).

Escape To Sanctuary

Author : M. J. Conner
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628368241
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Escape To Sanctuary written by M. J. Conner and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in New York has grown too dangerous. So when faced with only two options - a life in a brothel or becoming a mail-order bride, Emily Foster chooses the latter and moves to Sanctuary, Montana. She'll have six months to make her decision. Surely she can find a way out of the marriage agreement. Adam Jacobs has been wounded deeply. He's angry with God, angry for lost dreams, angry for his wounded pride. When his best friend arranges for a mail-order bride, it's the last straw. But the Lord seems to have other plans for these wounded hearts. Could it be they've finally found a place of sanctuary?

My Journey with Infiltrating Ductile Carcinoma (Breast Cancer)

Author : Anne Anderson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1524579335
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book My Journey with Infiltrating Ductile Carcinoma (Breast Cancer) written by Anne Anderson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nonfiction story My Journey with Infiltrating Ductile Carcinoma (Breast Cancer), author W. Andranette Anderson uses passion and emotions in order to let her audience know how the challenges of breast cancer affect her and her family. Her challenges are compounded when her mother and stepdad are also diagnosed with serious illnesses. She is now the primary caregiver not only for her parents but also for herself. The story takes place over a period of two and a half years. During this time, Andranette does her best to live her life as normally as possible, do whatever is needed for her parents, and use her daily activities as a much needed respite in order to ensure her own self preservation. Though she had to stop working as an educator to take care of her parents and herself, she would not trade anything for the lessons that she learned from this awe-inspiring experience.

Momma's Enchanted Supper and Other Stories for the Long Evenings of Advent

Author : Carol DeChant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780829412727
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Momma's Enchanted Supper and Other Stories for the Long Evenings of Advent written by Carol DeChant and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of heartwarming stories that explore unexpected love and loss, and intimate family moments. Readers are invited to view Scripture through their personal histories and create their own collection of memories.

The Voice of James M. Cain

Author : David Madden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493048139
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Voice of James M. Cain written by David Madden and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-21 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James M. Cain was among the prominent member of the "hard-boiled" school of writing that characterized the 1930s and 1940s, one of the masters of the genre that included Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. His novels became such popular film noir classics as The Postman always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce, and his 1937 novel Serenade boldly portrayed its hero as a bisexual. Cain also taught journalism at various colleges in Maryland, wrote editorials for the New York World, and was for a brief time managing editor at The New Yorker. This is the first biography of James M. Cain written with the full cooperation of the late novelist's family.