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Last Chance Texaco

Author : Rickie Lee Jones
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 080218880X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Last Chance Texaco written by Rickie Lee Jones and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A candid and colorful memoir by the singer, songwriter, and “Duchess of Coolsville” (Time). This troubadour life is only for the fiercest hearts, only for those vessels that can be broken to smithereens and still keep beating out the rhythm for a new song . . . Last Chance Texaco is the first-ever no-holds-barred account of the life of two-time Grammy Award-winner and Rickie Lee Jones in her own words (Hilton Als). It is a tale of desperate chances and impossible triumphs, an adventure story of a girl who beat the odds and grew up to become one of the most legendary artists of her time, turning adversity and hopelessness into timeless music. With candor and lyricism, she takes us on a singular journey through her nomadic childhood, her years as a teenage runaway, her legendary love affair with Tom Waits, and ultimately her longevity as the hardest working woman in rock and roll. Rickie Lee’s stories are rich with the infamous characters of her early songs—“Chuck E’s in Love,” “Weasel and the White Boys Cool,” “Danny’s All-Star Joint,” and “Easy Money”—but long before her notoriety in show business, there was a vaudevillian cast of hitchhikers, bank robbers, jail breaks, drug mules, and a pimp with a heart of gold, and tales of her fabled ancestors. This intimate memoir by one of the most trailblazing and tenacious women in music is filled with never-before-told stories of the girl in the raspberry beret, whose songs defied categorization and inspired American pop culture for decades. “A striking, distinctive self-portrait.” —The New York Times “Terrific . . . Jones is as fearless in prose as she is on stage.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune “Men leave, fame fizzles, family breaks your heart . . . but Jones knows a good story and how to tell it.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “[The] premiere song-stylist and songwriter of her generation.” —Hilton Als, Pulitzer Prize–winner and author of White Girls

The Last Chance Texaco

Author : Brent Hartinger
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061968455
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book The Last Chance Texaco written by Brent Hartinger and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guy looked at me with a stare that would have frozen antifreeze. "You the new groupie, huh?" "Yeah," I said. "So?" "So no one wants you here. Why don't you go back where you came from?" I can't go back, I wanted to say. That was the thing about living in a group home. There was nowhere for me to go but forward. Brent Hartinger's second novel, a portrait of a subculture of teenagers that many people would like to forget, is as powerful and provocative as his first book, Geography Club.

Last Chance Texaco ; And, Pastoral

Author : Peter Maloney
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573600623
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Last Chance Texaco ; And, Pastoral written by Peter Maloney and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Last Chance Texaco

Author : Christine Pountney
Publisher : London : Faber and Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571201440
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Last Chance Texaco written by Christine Pountney and published by London : Faber and Faber. This book was released on 2000 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John is a sensitive and wary 15-year-old. Born in Canada, but raised in California by a neglectful father, he finds solace in a relationship with the new girl in town. Their intensely romantic world is shattered by an experience that marks the first stop to an emotional and geographical journey.

Endpapers

Author : Alexander Wolff
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN 13 : 0802158277
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Endpapers written by Alexander Wolff and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A powerfully told story of family, honor, love, and truth . . . the beautiful and haunting stories told in this book transcend policy and politics.” —Beto O’Rourke A literary gem researched over a year the author spent living in Berlin, Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the author’s grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed “perhaps the twentieth century’s most discriminating publisher” by the New York Times Book Review, and his son Niko, who fought in the Wehrmacht during World War II before coming to America. Born in Bonn into a highly cultured German-Jewish family, Kurt became a publisher at twenty-three, setting up his own firm and publishing Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, Karl Kraus, and many other authors whose books would soon be burned by the Nazis. After fleeing Germany in 1933, Kurt and his second wife, Helen, founded Pantheon Books in a small Greenwich Village apartment. Pantheon would soon take its own place in literary history with the publication of Nobel laureate Boris Pasternak’s novel Doctor Zhivago, and as the conduit that brought major European works to the States. But Kurt’s taciturn son Niko, offspring of his first marriage to Elisabeth Merck, was left behind in Germany, where despite his Jewish heritage he served the Nazis on two fronts. As Alexander Wolff visits dusty archives and meets distant relatives, he discovers secrets that never made it to the land of fresh starts, including the connection between Hitler and the family pharmaceutical firm E. Merck. With surprising revelations from never-before-published family letters, diaries, and photographs, Endpapers is a moving and intimate family story, weaving a literary tapestry of the perils, triumphs, and secrets of history and exile.

Hanging on to Max

Author : Margaret Bechard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689862687
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Hanging on to Max written by Margaret Bechard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his girlfriend decides to give their baby away, seventeen-year-old Sam is determined to keep him and raise him alone.

The World of Bob Dylan

Author : Sean Latham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108499511
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The World of Bob Dylan written by Sean Latham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features 27 integrated essays that offer access to the art, life, and legacy of one of the world's most influential artists.

Beeswing

Author : Richard Thompson
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1643752537
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Beeswing written by Richard Thompson and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music legend Richard Thompson, who established the genre of British folk rock, re-creates the spirit of the 1960s as he reflects on his early years performing with the greats in an era of change and creativity.

Breathless

Author : Jessica Warman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802721745
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Breathless written by Jessica Warman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At boarding school, Katie tries to focus on swimming and becoming popular instead of the painful memories of her institutionalized schizophrenic older brother.

Secrets in the Shadows

Author : Anne E. Schraff
Publisher : Townsend Press
ISBN 13 : 0944210058
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book Secrets in the Shadows written by Anne E. Schraff and published by Townsend Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Roylin Bailey falls in love with a new girl in his history class, he finds that his life starts to fall apart.

Roberts Vs. Texaco:

Author : Bari-Ellen Roberts
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780380796397
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book Roberts Vs. Texaco: written by Bari-Ellen Roberts and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1999-03-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texaco recruited banking executive Bari-Ellen Roberts with promises of a professional challenge and advancement. But she and 1400 other African Americans faced a persistant pattern of racial discrimination so onerous that it wound up in a lawsuit-and ultimately in the largest discrimination settlement in U.S. History. This is the true story of how a giant corporation was challenged against all odds by one brave woman who was determined to stand her ground. Here, in Bari-Ellen Roberts' own words, is the fascinating, infuriating, and ultimately triumphant account of how she acheived an electrifying result that could change the face of corporate America, including the inside story of the notorious "Texaco Tapes," which recorded senior executives making racially-charged comments while they allegedly plotted the destruction of evidence. Here is a fresh and inspiring vantage point on what is unquestionably the major civil rights battleground of the twenty-first century: the workplace. Spellbinding and eloquent, intensely personal and dramatically riveting, this is the most persuasive yet damning account of corporate racial discrimination ever written.

How I Became Hettie Jones

Author : Hettie Jones
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802196780
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book How I Became Hettie Jones written by Hettie Jones and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A thoughtful, intimate memoir of life in the burgeoning movement of new jazz, poetry, and politics . . . in Lower Manhattan in the late 1950s and early 1960s” (Alix Kate Shulman, The Nation). Greenwich Village in the 1950s was a haven to which young poets, painters, and musicians flocked. Among them was Hettie Cohen, who’d been born into a middle-class Jewish family in Queens and who’d chosen to cross racial barriers to marry African American poet LeRoi Jones. This is her reminiscence of life in the awakening East Village in the era of the Beats, Black Power, and bohemia. “As the wife of controversial black playwright-poet LeRoi Jones (now Amiri Baraka), Hettie Cohen, a white Jew from Queens, NY, plunged into the Greenwich Village bohemia of jazz, poetry, leftish politics and underground publishing in the late 1950s. Their life together ended in 1965, partly, she implies, because of separatist pressures on blacks to end their interracial marriages. In this restrained autobiographical mix of introspection and gossip, the author writes of coping with racial prejudice and violence, raising two daughters, and of living in the shadow of her husband. When the couple divorced, she became a children’s book author and poet. The memoir is dotted with glimpses of Allen Ginsberg, Thelonious Monk, Jack Kerouac, Frank O’Hara, Billie Holiday, James Baldwin, Franz Kline, among others.” —Publishers Weekly

On the Rez

Author : Ian Frazier
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312278595
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (785 download)

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Download or read book On the Rez written by Ian Frazier and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-05-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raw account of modern day Oglala Sioux who now live on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.

The Order of the Poison Oak

Author : Brent Hartinger
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060567325
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Order of the Poison Oak written by Brent Hartinger and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful sequel to "Geography Club" is a humorous, hip, and thoroughly engaging story filled with skinny-dipping, making out, Indian legends, and the mystery of a secret society called The Order of the Poison Oak.

Decoding "Despacito"

Author : Leila Cobo
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 059308134X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Decoding "Despacito" written by Leila Cobo and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A behind the scenes look at the music that is currently the soundtrack of the globe, reported on and written by Leila Cobo, Billboard's VP of Latin Music and the world's ultimate authority on popular Latin music. Decoding "Despacito" tracks the stories behind the biggest Latin hits of the past fifty years. From the salsa born and bred in the streets of New York City, to Puerto Rican reggaetón and bilingual chart-toppers, this rich oral history is a veritable treasure trove of never-before heard anecdotes and insight from a who's who of Latin music artists, executives, observers, and players. Their stories, told in their own words, take you inside the hits, to the inner sanctum of the creative minds behind the tracks that have defined eras and become hallmarks of history. FEATURING THE STORIES BEHIND SONGS BY: José Feliciano • Los Tigres Del Norte • Julio Iglesias • Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine • Willie Colón • Juan Luis Guerra • Selena • Los Del Río • Carlos Vives • Elvis Crespo • Ricky Martin • Santana • Shakira • Daddy Yankee • Marc Anthony • Enrique Iglesias with Descemer Bueno and Gente De Zona • Luis Fonsi with Daddy Yankee • J Balvin with Willy William • Rosalía

Undocumented

Author : Aviva Chomsky
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807001686
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Undocumented written by Aviva Chomsky and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic and historical context In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how “illegality” and “undocumentedness” are concepts that were created to exclude and exploit. With a focus on US policy, she probes how people, especially Mexican and Central Americans, have been assigned this status—and to what ends. Blending history with human drama, Chomsky explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic, and historical context. The result is a powerful testament of the complex, contradictory, and ever-shifting nature of status in America.

Parvana's Journey

Author : Deborah Ellis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780192753489
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book Parvana's Journey written by Deborah Ellis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to "The Breadwinner," the Taliban still control Afghanistan, but Kabul is in ruins. Twelve-year-old Parvana's father has just died, and Parvana sets out alone to find her family, masquerading as a boy.