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Book Synopsis Waiting for Bojangles by : Olivier Bourdeaut
Download or read book Waiting for Bojangles written by Olivier Bourdeaut and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “oddball fairy tale” (The New York Times)—shortlisted for one of France’s highest literary prizes—a dark, funny, and wholly charming novel about a young boy and his eccentric family, who grapple with the realities of mental illness in unique and whimsical ways. A young boy lives with his madcap parents, Louise and George, and an exotic bird in a Parisian apartment, where the unopened mail rises in a tower by the door and his parents dance each night to Nina Simone’s mellifluous classic “Mister Bojangles.” As his mother, mesmerizing and unpredictable, descends deeper into her own mind, it is up to the boy and his father to keep her safe—and, when that fails, happy. Fleeing Paris for a country home in Spain, they come to understand that some of the most radiant people bear the heaviest burdens. Told from the perspective of a young boy who idolizes his parents—and from George’s journals, detailing his epic love story with his wife—Waiting for Bojangles is a “lighthearted and yet sorrowful tale” (San Francisco Chronicle) that will stay with you long after the final page.
Download or read book Mr. Bojangles written by James Haskins and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over sixty years after his death, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson is still the most famous tap dancer who ever lived. Robinson was the first black single dancer to star in white vaudeville circuits and he was a headliner for nearly thirty years. He got top billing at the Palace in New York, and he played command performances for kings and presidents. This first full-length biography reveals the charmer, gambler, brawler, athlete, and consummate entertainer behind the crusade for actors' rights, who pushed past the color barrier in the first half of the twentieth century. Haskins and Mitgang, with access to many of the people who knew Bojangles best, and to his scrapbooks and personal papers, have created a vivid portrait of the man behind the myth, from his birth in Richmond, Virginia, to his death and the star-studded funeral where he was eulogized by Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and Ed Sullivan. When people talk about famous American freedom fighters they talk about Rosa Parks, a brave woman who took a seat in the front of a bus and broke it down. They talk about Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They talk about Jackie Robinson. They talk about many others who sacrificed to achieve equality and justice. The person they don't talk about is the man who helped to break down vaudeville, Broadway, the recording industry, radio, television, and Hollywood. They don't talk about the man who broke down Miami and was responsible for its first integrated audience. They don't talk about the man who was responsible for the hiring of the first African-American on the Dallas police force. They don't talk about the man who went to F.D.R. during World War II for changes for African-American soldiers who were risking their lives for their country. They don't talk about the freedom fighter, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, who happened to be the world's greatest tap dancer of his day. Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., one of Harlem's greatest leaders and freedom fighters, and Pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, helped to answer that question when he eulogized "Bojangles" in 1949. Rev. Powell said: Born within the shadow of slavery and dying at the middle of the twentieth century, the most glorious century of mankind, Bill Robinson was a legend. He was a legend because he was ageless and raceless. Bill wasn't a credit to his race, meaning the Negro race. Bill was a credit to the human race. No Protestant ever appeared at more benefits for Catholics than Bill Robinson. No gentile ever appeared at more benefits for Jews than Bill Robinson. He was raceless. He was not a great Negro dancer. He was the world's greatest dancer. In some way the legend got around that Bill Robinson was an 'Uncle Tom.' Oh, no! You didn't know Bill if you heard of that story! So, let's ask the question again. Why don't people think of Bill Robinson as an American hero and front-line freedom fighter? They one word answer is simple - racism. Not the racism of white against black, but the racism of black against black. The people he fought for the most turned their backs on Bill Robinson and let the cancer of racism enter his legacy. "Bojangles " was the Mayor of Harlem and a founding member of the Rainbow Coalition long before the term was coined. Bill Robinson fought for respect with every weapon he had - his charming smile, his humor, his dancing feet, his fists, or his gold plated pearl handled gun given to him by the New York City Police Department. During a time when too few African-American voices shouted for justice, Bill Robinson's whispers were heard by presidents, governors, kings, queens, and countless others. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson was a man who fought dignity for himself, and others. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson stood up to fight for what was right from the onset of his sixty-year career. He demanded justice and equality as a performer, and as a man. He stood up then, and never sat down.
Download or read book Rap a Tap Tap written by Leo Dillon and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In illustrations and rhyme describes the dancing of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, one of the most famous tap dancers of all time. A brief Afterword outlines his career.
Download or read book Deathryde written by Michael P. Naughton and published by Gilded Hearse Press . This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say you can't cheat death... well, that doesn't stop these guys from trying... James DeRossa is a natural born rebel. Just released from Jackson County Jail, he turns his back on the family funeral business in Detroit and heads out to Tinseltown to set up a heist and settle an old score. Who better to hire than a group of unscrupulous undertakers. Only this time they aren t burying anyone, they're out to disinter $25 million in missing cash and ice. But Detective Hank Gladwin brought his shovel to the party and is onto DeRossa when his list of suspects starts pushing up more than daisies. These felons are all about to join a deadly procession and one hell of a ride. Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse is written in the hip, offbeat, satirical crime novel style of Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen. Fans of Six Feet Under or Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One should also appreciate this oddly entertaining book.
Book Synopsis Morbid Curiosities: An Anthology of Unconventional Horror Stories by : AT Writing Workshop & Publication 2019
Download or read book Morbid Curiosities: An Anthology of Unconventional Horror Stories written by AT Writing Workshop & Publication 2019 and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampires? Werewolves? Ghosts? Not quite. This anthology of horror peels back the veneer of normalcy to uncover the strange and spine-tingling fears lurking behind. Created by the minds of Singapore American School's Advanced Topic Writing Workshop and Publication students, this collection of twenty-five oddly specific horrors will make you look twice at everything from a Barbie doll to a ball of twine.
Book Synopsis Level 4 - Popular Repertoire Book by :
Download or read book Level 4 - Popular Repertoire Book written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Faber Piano Adventures ). The Popular Repertoire Book combines popular hits with imaginative "Activity Pages" that explore rhythm, note reading, and theory fundamentals. Level 4 includes: Ashokan Farewell * Change the World (recorded by Eric Clapton) * The Greatest Love of All (recorded by Whitney Houston) * If You Believe (recorded by Jim Brickman) * I Will Remember You (recorded by Sarah McLachlan) * "Jurassic Park" (Theme from) * Mr. Bojangles * New York, New York (Theme From) (recorded by Frank Sinatra) * The Way It Is (recorded by Bruce Hornsby).
Book Synopsis space.time.narrative by : Frank den Oudsten
Download or read book space.time.narrative written by Frank den Oudsten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making exhibitions is a collaborative art, producing is a multi-layered unity of ideas and objects, of invention and manifestation, of content and form. However, there is an antagonistic dimension to it, because content and form are traditionally represented by the entirely different realms of curator and designer. Future successful developments in exhibition-making are dependent on whether this gap of antagonism can be bridged. space.time.narrative calls for a paradigmatic shift of focus. It puts forward a unique approach, breaking down traditional barriers and offering a wide-ranging theoretical context, redefining and expanding the parameters and the dynamics of the exhibition-format in terms of an open, narrative environment, which at its roots displays deep similarities with performance on stage, or installation in urban and rural space. The book breaks new ground by looking at the exhibition as a cultural format firstly within a great sweep of the arts in general, weaving a web of philosophical, museological, linguistic and media-theoretical references, which expands the contextual field of the profession. It then offers unique and important insights from within, in extreme close-up, by bringing together interviews with six of the leading exhibition designers who discuss the dynamics of the medium, its interactive dimensions, the soft parameters of the exhibition, and how to get to grips with the format as a complex narrative space, in which the public takes part. Curator and designer should reposition themselves professionally at the heart of the axis, which divides (or connects) content and form.
Book Synopsis Summer of the Vigilantes by : Christopher Poole
Download or read book Summer of the Vigilantes written by Christopher Poole and published by Author House. This book was released on 2006-12-29 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age when crime runs rampant through the urban jungle of New York City, and the ruthless subsist by preying upon the weak, a clandestine organization of enforcers digs in its heels, and fights back. Led by the obsessed Gary Parker, the multitalented Vigilantes operate in secrecy, taking no prisoners in their never-ending crusade against the powers of corruption, injustice, and evil. From a game of cat-and mouse with the most powerful gangster on the eastern seaboard, to a blood-soaked showdown with the Chinese mafia, to a narcotics war with a rogue Mexican general, the Vigilantes are taking justice to street level. Therell be no talk of Miranda rights this evening. If the Vigilantes give you your right to remain silent, it will be by way of cutting your throat.
Book Synopsis Chronicles of the Sons of None by : K. M. Paradice
Download or read book Chronicles of the Sons of None written by K. M. Paradice and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Adam and Eve were banished from the garden of Eden, the location of the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil has been well guarded throughout the ages-there is one gate through which to enter, one key that will unlock the ancient gates, and one human keeper assigned to hold the secret. K.M. Paradice's suspenseful novel, The Chronicles of the Sons of None, follows Connor Bridges, a twenty-one-year-old recent photography graduate who dreams of fame and fortune in the pages of National Geographic. But when he meets Joshua, Connor is soon forced to admit the amazing reality of his calling to be the next in a line of keepers of the greatest secret of all time. There's only one problem: the powerful key is missing and is being pursued by Romulus-a keeper who turned away from his calling and ate of the two trees in Eden. The Chronicles of the Sons of None is a rapid-paced thriller that will rocket you through time and space, moving with seamless ease from the throne of heaven, to Jerusalem, to the legendary island of Atlantis, and back as Connor and Joshua, along with the help of a few angels, race to find the key. With Joshua's time on earth rapidly coming to an end, will Connor be able to return the key to its rightful line of keepers, or will the secret be lost forever?
Book Synopsis The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression by : John F. Kasson
Download or read book The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression written by John F. Kasson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the optimism and good cheer that surrounded the young, Depression-era box office star whose singing, acting, and charming smile helped revive the American spirit during the 1930s and for many decades after.
Download or read book Bob Dylan written by Clinton Heylin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-03-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clinton Heylin has devoted his career to Bob Dylan's work and presents here a comprehensive study of all of Dylan's recording sessions.
Book Synopsis I Never Met a Story I Didn't Like by : Todd Snider
Download or read book I Never Met a Story I Didn't Like written by Todd Snider and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Never Met a Story I Didn't Like, which collects Todd SniderÕs stories in print for the first time, takes readers on a tour through one of the most inventive and idiosyncratic minds at work today.
Book Synopsis This Moonless Sky by : Mark Rogerson
Download or read book This Moonless Sky written by Mark Rogerson and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on with total page 1269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My brief life on Earth had been a mess. The metallic aliens had rescued me when I was trying to kill myself. But after a 400,000-year, deep-frozen move across space, and two years of relaxed student life on the moonless planet Vweialer, I was doing well. I wasn’t expecting any more surprises. Haha. Then the aliens returned, bearing a young man who was unusually interested in getting to know me. This was the beginning of an astonishing, epic journey into love and danger in lands where I might be enslaved, jailed, starved – or worshipped as a god. And through it all, I found humour and revelation – and drove ever deeper into the heart of what it means to be alien. If you decide to read my true story, I give you fair warning. You may become alien too. Seriously. Our famous author here said, “This moonless sky is the mind of someone else.” When you understand that line, it will never leave you.
Download or read book Island Songs written by Alex Wheatle and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Alex Wheatle writes from a place of honesty and passion with the full knowledge and understanding that change can only happen through words and actions.’ Steve McQueen. Alex Wheatle's life is the basis for an episode of McQueen's Small Axe airing November 2020. 'Grabs your heart, not with pity but wonder that such beauty can come from such a life' The Independent ‘She wondered what kind of world she had brought her two daughters into – the tedious cycle of rural Jamaican life. No chance for them to set off upon adventures and see the outside world.’ But sisters Jenny and Hortense Rodney, descendants of the fierce Maroon people, do get to see the outside world, and Island Songs is their story. Growing up in rural Claremont, working amid the hustle and bustle, lawn parties and ‘houses of joy’ in Trenchtown, the two sisters take a chance and move to England with their husbands, that far-off land of riches, where they settle down to motherhood among the jazz cafés and bleak streets of Brixton. A hauntingly beautifully written evocation of twentieth-century Jamaica, its history and traditions, Island Songs is an epic of love, laughter and sorely tested family loyalties. Many stories are told, but many more secrets are never revealed.
Book Synopsis Monkey Business by : Heather A. Wandell Ma CLL
Download or read book Monkey Business written by Heather A. Wandell Ma CLL and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Heather A. Wandell, after observing thousands of hours of human workplace behavior and hundreds of hours of monkey behavior, discovered there is a connection! In Monkey Business, she compares the monkeys' behavior to the human behavior and offers unique business and personal life practices to help to move your life forward. A compilation of previously published columns, these lessons revolve around the themes of creating an environment where possibility thrives, acknowledging our shared humanity, getting along, communicating with awareness, evolving our business paradigm, and opening to optimism. Monkey Business can help you to - put a new practice into your life that may bring relief to your own mental suffering; - shift energy in your workplace or personal life; - break down barriers; - realize you are the agent for change in your life; - consider a new possibility; - gain a new understanding of relationships; - increase your flow of creativity; - notice teachers are everywhere; - give a second chance at life. The lessons taught in Monkey Business guide you to take responsibility for being the creator of your stories, your life, and your experience--an ongoing process that takes steadfast, mindful practice.
Book Synopsis A Bridge That Hugged Tomorrow by : Dr. Minerva Santerre
Download or read book A Bridge That Hugged Tomorrow written by Dr. Minerva Santerre and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journeying through childhood is a memorable one. However, when the past gives glimpses of the future, one questions God, why is this happening? A professor journeys through the reason, looking at the past, present and future, as she examines her middle eastern background. To the end, the answer is revealed in a surprising twist of fate through Gods graces! A must read!
Download or read book The Bitter End written by Paul Colby and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owner Paul Colby recalls the club's transformation from a small coffeehouse into the pre-eminent music and comedy venue that is still going strong today.
