Download or read book Ain t Got No Cigarettes written by Lyle E. Style and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ain’t Got No Cigarettes is Roger Miller’s extraordinary life as told in taped interviews by those that knew him best: more than sixty well-known musicians and entertainers including Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. A man who influenced some of the entertainment industry’s biggest stars, Roger Miller was respected and loved by his peers. However, with the genius came a dark side. In the 1960s and 1970s he was known for walking off stage halfway through a show, getting into fights and going days without sleep. He struggled with depression and had a serious addiction to drugs which cost him two marriages. Miller died at the age of 56 in 1992.
Download or read book Salvation written by David Cocklin and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SALVATION [sal-vey-shuhn] The act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc. Redemption. Salvation: Lyric & Verse Anthology brings together an expansive collection of stories and reflections on a myriad of topics; from love and lost love, to hope, conflict, spirituality and philosophy. It ranges everywhere from a deeply personal introspection right through to a broad spectrum of social observation. The emotionally evocative tales are littered with truisms, sarcasm, symbolism and analogies, while keeping the reader engaged and intrigued. Lyricist David Cocklin maintains a great variety in his tone, inflection, and subject matter all through the whole collection, so it never feels like the monotonous exercise of a single voice, and never sacrifices the integrity of the thought to the rhyme. His observations, their insights, the color and nuance, and his sheer creativity of expression is fully deployed.
Download or read book Song Book written by Ffion Mercer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring large clear print, the "Song Book" contains the words to 100 popular songs that are ideal for group sing-along sessions. The book is divided into six sections: traditional folk songs, choruses from old time variety, songs from World War II, post-war evergreens, hymns, and Christmas songs.
Download or read book Buried In Mississippi written by Craytonia "Fire Round" Badger and published by Craytona "Fire Round"Badger. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guys on the streets everyday pretends to be a Boss, but you haven't met a real Boss until you meet Round. Round was self made from birth. His mother was a bootlegger and his father was Drug Lord, and therefore Round was born to be a jacker of all trades. Money,cars,clothes and hoe's over everything was his life and passion. His side kick Nicolee was his right hand girl until she decided to trade sides. "What did she do that for,because she got the business. (smacked up) After getting out of prison in Louisiana, Round decided to expand his hustle game to Mississippi,despite that the territory was Klan riddled. He didn't quite give a damn though, until the Klans put his Boss status to test. Life behind bars in the Klans ruled courtroom was his designation after all,but his hustle game didn't stop there,because getting money was in his blood. Eventually,Nicolee became married and had children and Round hated her even more after learning that her kids was fathered by the same guy she had cheated on him with. Several weeks into his sentence inside the Mississippi Department of Corrections ,Round was able to manipulated the guards into mules, because money had to be made. He had a conversation that was amazingly unpredictable when he made his approach upon any guard. He was never denied, but rather everything was peaches and cream from that point forward.With his manipulation game on fire, Round meets two notorious ride or die prison guards named Pretty and Sexy Black. He met Pretty in Rankin County and Sexy Black at the Delta Correctional Facility in Greenwood. Both were in love with Round, until they ended up dying in a heated controversy over his love. Round moved more drugs in the system than the Mexican's Cartel. His hustle game was exclusive and it made Greendot famous. After getting his weight up ,Round went to focusing on giving his life sentence back. He kind of figured that it would be hard to accomplish under certain circumstances,but with his mind frame "possibility" was not an option, achievement was the goal.
Download or read book The Latino Reader written by Harold Augenbraum and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Latino Reader" presents the full history of this important American literary tradition, from its mid-sixteenth-century beginnings to the present day. The wide-ranging selections include works of history, memoir, letters, and essays, as well as fiction, poetry, and drama.
Download or read book Lonesome Hollow written by Lee Blessing and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2011 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In this dystopic view of the near-future, sexual offenders have been removed from the traditional penal system and placed in a series of gulag-like camps created out of dying, rural towns all over America. Laws have changed, and now of
Download or read book The Cacti Do Not Move written by Tim Murphy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim Murphy is from Cork in Ireland. His poetry has been published in several journals, including "Acorn", "Bones", "Chrysanthemum", "Otata", "Presence", "Shamrock", "Sonic Boom", and "SurVision". He is the author of "Art Is the Answer" (Yavanika Press, 2019), an e-chapbook of one-line haiku. His other books are "Rethinking the War on Drugs in Ireland" (Cork University Press, 1996) and, with Garrett Barden, "Law and Justice in Community" (Oxford University Press, 2010). He lives in Madrid.
Download or read book Fortunate Daughter written by Rosie McMahan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosie’s sins were never difficult to recall; they lined themselves up like baby ducks in her mind’s eye. Her confession to Father Hart one day in 1974 went like this: “I didn’t finish all my chores. I stole the Halloween candy my mom hid in the pantry. And I let my Daddy touch my private places.” Though it begins as an all-too-common story of childhood sexual abuse, Fortunate Daughter gradually becomes a rare story of how one person heals from that early trauma. In this intimate first-person narrative, Rosie McMahan offers the reader a portrait of misery, abuse, and hurt, followed by the difficult and painful task of healing—a journey that, in the end, reveals the complicated and nuanced venture of true reconciliation and the freedom that comes along with it.
Download or read book McAfee County written by Mark Steadman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to McAfee County, home to a large gathering of characters whose stories are as intertwined as kudzu. From Brother Fisco, who vows to part the waters of Kallisaw Sound, to Maggie Poat, proprietor of the local roadhouse, all have a compassionate, good-humored champion in author Mark Steadman, who gently prods us to recognize the flawed humanity we share with McAfee's misfits, rounders, and otherwise lost souls. Moving in and out of each other's lives in profound, often shocking, ways, the men and women in these stories form a vibrant community not soon forgotten. Blend Yoknapatawpha and Lake Wobegon, add a twist of southern gothic, and you will have some idea of what is waiting for you right across the McAfee County line.
Download or read book Hummingbird in Underworld written by Deborah Tobola and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of forty-five, Deborah Tobola returns to her birthplace, San Luis Obispo, to work in the very prison her father worked in when he was a student at Cal Poly. But she’s not wearing a uniform as he did; she’s there to teach creative writing and manage the prison’s arts program—a dream job. As she creates a theatre program for prisoners, Tobola finds plenty of drama off the stage as well. Inside the razor wire she finds a world frozen in the ’50s, with no contact with the outside except by telephone; officers who think prisoners don’t deserve programs; bureaucrats who want to cut arts funding; and inmates who steal, or worse. But she loves engaging prisoners in the arts and helping them discover their voices: men like Opie, the gentleman robber; Razor, the roughneck who subscribes to The New Yorker; charismatic Green Eyes, who really has blue eyes; Doo Wop, a singer known for the desserts he creates from prison fare. Alternating between tales of creating drama in prison and Tobola’s own story, Hummingbird in Underworld takes readers on an unforgettable literary journey—one that is frank, funny, and fascinating.
Download or read book The Chair Volume III written by Robert McKenzie and published by Fresh Ink Group. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grand epic saga by Robert McKenzie, The Chair series spans centuries, touching the lives of 22 generations of related mothers and daughters, their stories witnessed by a simple pine chair. Resolute, strong, loving, and fiercely protective, these women must strive to pass their values to new generations in a world of racism and sexism, politics, scandal, fashion—even the rise and dominance of baseball. They live in privilege and poverty, with faith and despair, relishing every moment of love even as they suffer abiding grief. In Volume III: Seven, Eight, & Nine, the chair flashes back to pre-Civil War America, featuring a woman from the second Mayflower, her daughter the black-market Irish lace importer, and a Canadian World War I fighter pilot. A blend of history and philosophy told through satire and parody, the story of The Chair could be found in some old trunk in any dusty old attic, but McKenzie breathes it alive with riveting tales that span the real and the imagined.
Download or read book Requiem for a Redneck written by John P. Schulz and published by John Schulz. This book was released on 2009 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old City Hall written by Robert Rotenberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebrity confesses to murder, then refuses to say anything more, leading to a strange trial when contradictory evidence appears.
Download or read book Purple City written by K'wan and published by Write 2 Eat Concepts, LLC. This book was released on with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three fast paced and gritty stories in one novel. Love & Gunplay (Vol. 1) Purple Reign (Vol. 2) Little Nikki Grind (Vol. 3)
Download or read book Ages of the Moon written by Sam Shepard and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gruff, affecting and funny play by Sam Shepard. Byron and Ames are old friends, reunited by mutual desperation. Over bourbon on ice, they sit, reflect and bicker until fifty years of love, friendship and rivalry are put to the test at the barrel of a gun.
Download or read book What They Found written by Walter Dean Myers and published by Wendy Lamb Books. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the groundbreaking author of the award-winning Monster–a visionary who influenced and inspired a generation–this story take us back to the world of 145th Street: Short Stories to show how love can be found, and thrive, in the most unlikely places. Curtis finds love in Iraq as he struggles to stay alive in a war he doesn't want to fight, and Letha discovers her own beauty in the love of her child. There is the "good daughter" who realizes that there's only one way to help her brother and her family. Other stories center on the daily drama of the Curl-E-Que beauty shop, or capture the slapstick side of passion. AWARDS FOR WALTER DEAN MYERS: New York Times Bestselling Author 3-Time National Book Award Finalist Michael L. Printz Award 5 Coretta Scott King Awards 2 Newbery Honors National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature (2012-2013) Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement Children’s Literature Legacy Award
Download or read book Freaks and Revelations written by Davida Wills Hurwin and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-11-04 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This raw, moving novel follows two teenagers-one, a Mohawk-wearing 17-year-old violent misfit; the other, a gay 13-year-old cast out by his family, hustling on the streets and trying to survive. Acclaimed author Davida Wills Hurwin creates a riveting narrative told in alternating perspectives of their lives before and after the violent hate crime that changed both their futures. This tragic but ultimately inspirational journey of two polarized teens, their violent first meeting, and their peaceful reunion years later is an unforgettable story of survival and forgiveness. This story is inspired by the real lives of Matthew Boger and Timothy Zaal, who have shared their story on The Oprah Winfrey Show and NPR.
