Download or read book The Diary of Aaliyah Anderson written by Randall Barnes and published by DC Bookdiva Publications. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Aaliyah Anderson, a beautiful, intelligent, ambitious thirteen-year-old young woman ready to take over the world. With her mom being a superstar broadcast journalist and her older brother Damon being an acclaimed writer and star sports player. Aaliyah lives a fantastic life. Aaliyah quickly learns that her good life, doesn't separate her from life's problems. She has to deal with tons of hardships and avoid many obstacles along her path to achieving her short term goal of finally making it to high school and what she feels will bring her closer to her dreams of being a CEO of a company. Aaliyah has to deal with overwhelming family issues such as the divorce of her parents and the result of her "father's" unfaithfulness, infidelity, and a family secret that turns her world upside down. As if her family wasn't messed up enough, her eleven-year old brother turns to the streets and joins the Eastside Rydahz, one of the most notorious gangs in the city. Her eldest brother Jeffery, or high-ranked Rydah 808, hates everything about Aaliyah and she doesn't understand it. All Aaliyah wants is to have the ideal loving, united family and it hurts her that their situation is seemingly fractured beyond repair. To make things even more pressing, she lives in the ruthless city of Willowsfield, statistically the #1 most dangerous city in America, where senseless community violence is the norm and life expectancy is low. With the pressure to succeed and make it out of the ditch that Aaliyah calls her hometown, she still has to deal with more problems that test her patience. With its realistic characters, life-like setting and dynamic message, The Diary of Aaliyah Anderson is entertaining and a sure fire conversation starter on what we need to do as a generation.

Download or read book Baby Girl Better Known as Aaliyah written by Kathy Iandoli and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a definitive and “excellent homage to a star who left this planet too soon” (Questlove), the life, career, tragic death, and evolution of Aaliyah into a music legend are explored—now updated with new material featuring in-depth research and exclusive interviews. By twenty-two years old, Aaliyah had already accomplished a staggering amount: hit records, acclaimed acting roles, and fame that was just about to cross over into superstardom. Like her song, she was already “more than a woman” but her shocking death in a plane crash prevented her from fully growing into one. Now, two decades later, the full story of Aaliyah’s life and cultural impact is finally and lovingly revealed. Baby Girl features never-before-told stories, including studio anecdotes, personal tales, and eyewitness accounts on the events leading up to her untimely passing. Her enduring influence on today’s artists—such as Rihanna, Drake, Normani, and many more—is also celebrated, providing Aaliyah’s discography a cultural critique that is long overdue. “There’s no better way to pay your respect to R&B’s true angel than to lose yourself in the pages” (Kim Osorio, journalist and author of Straight from the Source) of this “dazzling biography” (Publishers Weekly) that is as unforgettable as its subject. This book was written without the participation of Aaliyah’s family/estate.

Download or read book Soulacoaster written by R. Kelly and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2012-08-12 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is R. Kelly? Three-time Grammy winner, who has sold more than 35 million records worldwide. Legendary writer and producer, who collaborated with such music icons as Michael Jackson, Celine Dion, Jay-Z, and Aretha Franklin. Visionary cultural messenger, who created the hip hopera phenomenon Trapped in the Closet. Creative genius. Sex symbol. The man who puts the "R" in R&B. Through the iconic anthem "I Believe I Can Fly" and such sexy R&B mega-hits as "Bump N’ Grind," "Ignition," and "When a Woman’s Fed Up," R. Kelly has proven to be one of the greatest musical talents of his generation. Yet his rollercoaster ride to the top has been as perilous as it has been exhilarating. In Soulacoaster: The Diary of Me, Kelly shares his life story through episodic tales and exclusive color photographs, exploring his meteoric rises and sudden falls. From the crippling learning disorder that rendered him unable to read or write, to the teacher/mentor who prophesized that his destiny was in music, not basketball, we follow his evolution from Chicago street performer to struggling L.A. musician and beyond. Kelly reveals his hard-won ascent to superstardom and his battle to move forward after legal and personal ordeals that threatened to destroy his life. Now back at the top, Kelly recounts the surprising twists and turns that have taken him to new heights of maturity and artistry. Part memoir, part keepsake, Soulacoaster unlocks the door to R. Kelly’s story as only he can tell it, promising his fans an intimate and unforgettable ride.

Download or read book Aaliyah written by Tim Footman and published by Plexus Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this biography of Aaliyah, Tim Footman tells the story of her short life, detailing her childhood in Detroit, where she attended stage school and became an assured performer, performing in Las Vegas by the age of 11 and securing a record deal at the age of 12. By age 15, Aaliyah had her first No. 1 hit and had become involved with her mentor, R&B producer R Kelly. A series of award winning hit albums and singles followed, including the album One in a Million, which went platinum, and the single 'Try Again', for which she won a Grammy. The book also covers Aaliyah's career as an actress, winning lead roles in blockbusters such as Romeo Must Die, and Queen of the Damned, plus her other hugely successful contributions to film soundtracks. The events leading to her death in 2001 are also covered, plus the subsequent impact of this loss on her fans and the music industry. Aaliyah's aura of mystery and her iconic status are discussed throughout the book.

Download or read book Diary written by Jacob Hoye and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Busta Rhymes's new acting career to Drew Barrymore's daily work as a movie producer to Mandy Moore's hair color habits, no TV show gives viewers more behind-the-scenes action than "MTVUs Diary." Now fans can delve further into the psyches of today's artists with the book that opens doors to the personas behind the fame. Full-color photos.

Download or read book The Diary of a Church Girl written by Shamequa Parks-Graham and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal diaries often carry deep secrets that the writer never intends for others to discover.Shamequa chooses to transition from a writer to an author, disclosing the hidden struggles of her bout with mental anguish and physical disability. The book holds twenty-six diary entries that offer a poetic journey, moving you from the valley to the mountaintop. While she writes to her peers, male and female of all ages benefit from her transparency and uncanny wisdom.

Download or read book Voiceless Diary written by Reem Almulla and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About Voiceless diaries... I started expressing writing my words beginning of January 2005, I found writing poetry was a way to express silence and a way to write down the words you always wanted to say. Myself and you all have those moments we think in a particular memory saying, "I should have said this or said that, where were my words when I want to say it in this moment?," in this book are the best of my poetry from 2005 up to this day, from just thoughts to awards to a book between your hands today, I'm not just talking from my voice in these pages I spoke out many silent voices, these poems printed in these pages are speaking out many voices in life, with different reasons. Hope my poems you hold between your hands are not just poems you read, hope they are your words when you wanted to speak, your lost voice when you needed most to sound, enjoy and thank you.

Download or read book The 13 We All Start As Strangers written by Aaliyah S and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rockfield High University is one of Seoul's most prestigious educational institutes, where people of different ethnicities enroll to make their dreams come true. But since June 1, 2015, women in their twenties have started going missing. Seoul's streets are no longer safe, and walking late at night is prohibited. Aria Heart is nineteen, half-American, and carefree. She's cute, friendly, and mostly careless of her surroundings and belongings. She misplaces her diary somewhere, and even though Aria isn't worried, her best friend plans a break-in at the university just to get it back. They never could have forseen the effects of their actions. Detective Oh Yejun is a criminal-catching prodigy. He begins his time at Rockfield High University by studying the cases of the missing girls but soon progresses to another case that leaves him completely baffled. How are the missing women related? What does Aria Heart have to do with it, and can Yejun make sense of the seeming chaos before it's too late?

Download or read book The Diary of Alicia Keys Songbook written by Alicia Keys and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Alicia's Diary , the sophomore follow-up to her red hot Songs in A Minor , features 16 stunningly crafted neo-soul numbers: Diary * Dragon Days * Feeling U, Feeling Me (Interlude) * Harlem's Nocturne * Heartburn * If I Ain't Got You * If I Were Your Woman/Walk on By * Karma * Nobody Not Really * Samsonite Man * Slow Down * So Simple * Wake Up * When You Really Love Someone * You Don't Know My Name.

Download or read book Notes from a Black Woman s Diary written by Kathleen Collins and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relatively unknown during her life, the artist, filmmaker, and writer Kathleen Collins emerged on the literary scene in 2016 with the posthumous publication of the short-story collection Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Said Zadie Smith, “To be this good and yet to be ignored is shameful, but her rediscovery is a great piece of luck for us.” That rediscovery continues in Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary, which spans genres to reveal the breadth and depth of the late author’s talent. The compilation is anchored by more of Collins’s striking short stories, which explore the ways in which relationships both are formed and come undone. Also collected here is the work Collins wrote for the screen and stage, including the screenplay of her pioneering film Losing Ground and the script for The Brothers, which powerfully illuminate the particular joys, challenges, and heartbreaks rendered by the African American experience. And finally, it is in Collins’s raw and prescient diaries that her nascent ideas about race, gender, marriage, and motherhood first play out on the page. By turns empowering, exuberant, sexy, and poignant, Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary is a brilliant compendium of the works of an inimitable talent, and a rich portrait of a writer hard at work.

Download or read book Aaliyah Diary written by Customeyes Publications and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***** CLICK THE AUTHOR NAME "CUSTOMEYES PUBLICATIONS" FOR MORE PLANNERS, JOURNALS & DIARIES ***** Be prepared and keep yourself organized for anything with this stylish Diary! The perfect companion to write about your life experiences. This name customized dairy provides the ideal way to stay organized. A special place to record daily events, record small wins, arm yourself with words of wisdom and capturing brilliant ideas. It�s also a popular tool for documenting your daily life. This glossy finished diary comes complete with over 100 pages (approx. 52 sheets). It has a flexible lightweight paperback cover, which makes it lighter and easier to carry around, and comes complete with a cool & trendy colorful cover. Dimensions: 6� x 9� giving plenty of writing space to prepare for each day ahead. This Journal is perfect to help: Keep on top of tasks & activities Stay organized with planning Keep track of personal health & medications Noting down things you want to do or read Documenting Life Noting down ideas for blog writing or other forms of writing And so much more... Time to take the stress out of your life and become more organized. Set yourself up for success to help you reach your goals and aspirations with this cute journal. Order yours now!

Download or read book 40 Days of Dating written by Timothy Goodman and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What would happen if Harry met Sally in the age of Tinder and Snapchat? . . . A field guide to Millennial dating in New York City” (New York Daily News). When New York–based graphic designers and long-time friends Timothy Goodman and Jessica Walsh found themselves single at the same time, they decided to try an experiment. The old adage says that it takes forty days to change a habit—could the same be said for love? So they agreed to date each other for forty days, record their experiences in questionnaires, photographs, videos, texts, and artworks, and post the material on a website they would create for this purpose. What began as a small experiment between two friends became an Internet sensation, drawing five million unique (and obsessed) visitors from around the globe to their site and their story. 40 Days of Dating: An Experiment is a beautifully designed, expanded look at the experiment and the results, including a great deal of material that never made it onto the site, such as who they were as friends and individuals before the forty days and who they have become since.

Download or read book To Repair a Broken World written by Dvora Hacohen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative biography of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah, introduces a new generation to a remarkable leader who fought for womenÕs rights and the poor. Born in Baltimore in 1860, Henrietta Szold was driven from a young age by the mission captured in the concept of tikkun olam, Òrepair of the world.Ó Herself the child of immigrants, she established a night school, open to all faiths, to teach English to Russian Jews in her hometown. She became the first woman to study at the Jewish Theological Seminary, and was the first editor for the Jewish Publication Society. In 1912 she founded Hadassah, the international womenÕs organization dedicated to humanitarian work and community building. A passionate Zionist, Szold was troubled by the JewishÐArab conflict in Palestine, to which she sought a peaceful and equitable solution for all. Noted Israeli historian Dvora Hacohen captures the dramatic life of this remarkable woman. Long before anyone had heard of intersectionality, Szold maintained that her many political commitments were inseparable. She fought relentlessly for womenÕs place in Judaism and for health and educational networks in Mandate Palestine. As a global citizen, she championed American pacifism. Hacohen also offers a penetrating look into SzoldÕs personal world, revealing for the first time the psychogenic blindness that afflicted her as the result of a harrowing breakup with a famous Talmudic scholar. Based on letters and personal diaries, many previously unpublished, as well as thousands of archival documents scattered across three continents, To Repair a Broken World provides a wide-ranging portrait of a woman who devoted herself to helping the disadvantaged and building a future free of need.

Download or read book Fangirls written by Hannah Ewens and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To be a fan is to scream alone together." This is the discovery Hannah Ewens makes in Fangirls: how music fandom is at once a journey of self-definition and a conduit for connection and camaraderie; how it is both complicated and empowering; and how now, more than ever, fandoms composed of girls and young queer people create cultures that shape and change an entire industry. This book is about what it means to be a fangirl. Speaking to hundreds of fans from the UK, US, Europe, and Japan, Ewens tells the story of music fandom using its own voices, recounting previously untold or glossed-over scenes from modern pop and rock music history. In doing so, she uncovers the importance of fan devotion: how Ariana Grande represents both tragedy and resilience to her followers, or what it means to meet an artist like Lady Gaga in person. From One Directioners, to members of the Beyhive, to the author's own fandom experiences, this book reclaims the "fangirl" label for its young members, celebrating their purpose, their power, and, most of all, their passion for the music they love.

Download or read book Aaliyah written by Christopher John Farley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-01-26 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t miss the inspirational biography behind the exciting new Lifetime movie Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B, starring Alexandra Shipp as the extraordinary singer Aaliyah. Aaliyah Dana Haughton was that music business rarity: a teen idol who transformed herself into a critically acclaimed hip-hop soul artist, a singer who successfully made the transition to actress, and a beautiful woman who never let the trappings of celebrity go to her head. Following her impressive debut at age fourteen with the album Age Ain’t Nothin’ but a Number, Aaliyah raised the bar with her hugely influential and bestselling follow-up, One in a Million. She then took her talents to Hollywood, starring in the action thriller Romeo Must Die and the highly anticipated horror film The Queen of the Damned. But soon after the release of her third album in the summer of 2001, Aaliyah’s life was cut short in a tragic plane crash. Here is the inspirational story of the star The Washington Post dubbed “Hip-Hop’s Lady Di”—a woman who, by the time of her death at age twenty-two, touched legions of fans around the world with her haunting voice and gentle spirit.

Download or read book Start with Gratitude written by Happy Books Happy Books Hub and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gratitude: The Simplest and Most Effective Key to Happiness Can you transform your life in 5 minutes a day or less? Is happiness that easily achievable? Life can be stressful and filled with problems and anxiety. But it is also filled with beauty, and joy, and fulfillment. If you focus on the latter you will start noticing the stressful events less and begin enjoying and treasuring every day more. Start With Gratitude journal will help you achieve just that. It will help you start your day happy, filled with gratefulness and appreciation for the positive things (big or small) in your life. It will re-center you and provide balance and positivity to your life. What you will love about this journal: The excellent quotes at the top of each spread. The way it is structured - clearly and simply to make it really easy to use. The clearly divided morning and evening sections - writing in the morning the things you are thankful for, and in the evening small things for that specific day to celebrate. This makes gratitude and positive thinking more tangible and real. The variety and inspiration - every evening section is different, prompting you to notice and appreciate different things every day so you will not get tired of the same pages over and over again. The beautiful design The thought provoking entries Its size (7.5 x 9.25 in) - small enough to carry around and big enough to provide enough space for everything you want to jot down. The date entry possibility so you will have flexibility to miss a day and not feel guilty about it. It really takes just 5 minutes a day or less. Practicing gratitude is one of the simplest and most effective things you can do to transform your life. Research shows that people who regularly take time to notice things they are grateful for enjoy better sleep, better relationships, greater resolve towards achieving goals, show more compassion and kindness, and are overall happier. Start With Gratitude journal will help you cultivate that attitude of gratefulness, making it your habit to focus on the blessings you have in your life and increase your overall well-being and life satisfaction. Get your copy now, even gift one to a friend and start your journey to happiness together.

Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 2001-09-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.