Download or read book Comin Right at Ya written by Ray Benson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A six-foot-seven-inch Jewish hippie from Philadelphia starts a Western swing band in 1970, when country fans hate hippies and Western swing. It sounds like a joke but—more than forty years, twenty-five albums, and nine Grammy Awards later—Asleep at the Wheel is still drawing crowds around the world. The roster of musicians who’ve shared a stage with the Wheel is a who’s who of American popular music—Van Morrison, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, George Strait, Vince Gill, Lyle Lovett, and so many more. And the bandleader who’s brought them all together is the hippie that claimed Bob Wills’s boots: Ray Benson. In this hugely entertaining memoir, Benson looks back over his life and wild ride with Asleep at the Wheel from the band’s beginning in Paw Paw, West Virginia, through its many years as a Texas institution. He vividly recalls spending decades in a touring band, with all the inevitable ups and downs and changes in personnel, and describes the making of classic albums such as Willie and the Wheel and Tribute to the Music of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. The ultimate music industry insider, Benson explains better than anyone else how the Wheel got rock hipsters and die-hard country fans to love groovy new-old Western swing. Decades later, they still do.
Download or read book Comin at Ya written by Denny Denfield and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thrill, the spectacle--full-color gay erotic photographs, in 3-D.
Download or read book 3 D Revolution written by Ray Zone and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stereoscopic cinema began in the early 19th century and exploded in the 1950s in Hollywood. Its status as an enduring genre was confirmed in 2009 by the success of 3-D movie 'Avatar'.
Download or read book Door of Light written by Kyle Lance Proudfoot and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-05-27 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My book is called Door of Light and is the third and final part of my trilogy, starting with The Black Dungeon Doorway and then Planes of Existence. It is about the following: I explore the potential for a utopian society on an elite colony spaceship that is on its way at light speed to another colony planet in the Milky Way galaxy. Exploring the theories of light speed, faster than light speed (FTL), and the dynamics of such a spaceship in story format, Door of Light goes on another great and exciting adventure with plenty of detail and action. Time is also explored, and it concludes with my song lyrics to celebrate the new colony.
Download or read book alt human aka Harmony written by Keith Brooke and published by Solaris. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aliens are here, all around us. They always have been. And now, one by one, they're destroying our cities. Dodge Mercer deals in identities, which is fine until the day he deals the wrong identity and clan war breaks out. Hope Burren has no identity, and no past, struggling with a relentless choir of voices filling her head. In a world where nothing is as it seems, where humans are segregated and aliens can sing realities and tear worlds apart, Dodge and Hope lead a ragged band of survivors in a search for the rumoured sanctuary of Harmony, and what may be the only hope for humankind.
Download or read book The Great American Novel written by Philip Roth and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral—a richly imagined novel featuring America’s only homeless big-league baseball team in history delivers “shameless comic extravagance…. Roth gleefully exploits our readiness to let baseball stand for America itself" (The New York Times). Gil Gamesh, the only pitcher who ever literally tried to kill the umpire. The ex-con first baseman, John Baal, "The Babe Ruth of the Big House," who never hit a home run sober. If you've never heard of them—or of the homeless baseball team the Ruppert Mundys—it's because of the Communist plot, and the capitalist scandal, that expunged the entire Patriot League from baseball memory. In this ribald, wickedly satiric novel, Roth turns baseball's status as national pastime and myth into an occasion for unfettered picaresque farce, replete with heroism and perfidy, ebullient wordplay and a cast of characters that includes the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Download or read book Second Summer of War written by Cheryl Cooper and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harrowing, humorous, and heart-warming, Second Summer of War is a tale of life on the sea in the summer of 1813, through England's stodgy salons and horrific prison hulks, and into the bloody battles between the British and the Americans on the storm-tossed Atlantic.
Download or read book Johnny No Trump written by Mary Mercier and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1968 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As George Oppenheimer comments: Miss Mercier has taken the theme of lack of communication and understanding between the generations, but this time she has brought freshness and a natural comic flair to her story. Her scene is a home in
Download or read book Black Storm Comin written by DIANE LEE WILSON and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WANTED: Young, skinny, wiry fellows not over eighteen. Must be expert riders. Willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred. When Colton Wescott sees this sign for the Pony Express, he thinks he has the solution to his problems. He's stuck with his ma and two younger sisters on the wrong side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, with no way to get across. They were on the wagon train heading to California when Pa accidentally shot Colton and then galloped away. Ma is sick, and Colton needs money to pay the doctor. He'd make good money as a Pony rider. he also needs to get to California to deliver freedom papers to Ma's sister, a runaway slave. The Pony Express could get him there too... Does Colton have what it takes to be a Pony Express rider? And if so, will traveling the dangerous route over the mountains bring him closer to family, freedom, and everything he holds dear?
Download or read book When You Comin Back Red Ryder written by Mark Howard Medoff and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1974-10 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The scene is an all-night diner in a sleepy southwestern town, the time early Sunday morning, when the night attendant, young Stephen (Red) Ryder, is about to turn his duties over to his daytime counterpart, Angel. Her friend Lyle, who r
Download or read book Pegasus written by Marilyn Holdsworth and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widowed at thirty, Hannah Bradley is a successful journalist focusing on animal abuse issues. An accidental meeting introduces her to lawyer, Winston Caughfield III. Drawn to Hannah s gentle beauty and fierce commitment to her work, Win joins her in a fight to save wild mustangs from slaughter. Together they rescue a badly injured horse with a mysterious background. Hannah s search to discover the animal s true identity leads them into a web of black marketeering and international intrigue. Action packed with crisp colorful dialogue the story propels the reader to a race against time conclusion. Marilyn Holdsworth delivers a gripping tale of mystery, adventure and romance guaranteed to hold the interest and capture the heart. She brings true-life characters together with real-life issues to create a fast-paced irresistible story."
Download or read book Taboo written by Yoshe and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sierra Howell, a gorgeous female corrections officer, has an affair with a charming and manipulative prisoner, who is a dangerous criminal, her world is turned upside down. Original.
Download or read book Out of the Darkness written by David A. Jacinto and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of the Darkness was inspired by the true story of a nineteenth-century child coal miner who rose out of the ashes of poverty and tragedy to reach for his dreams. At age seven, Tom Wright follows in the footsteps of his father and grandfather before him into England’s mid-nineteenth-century Yorkshire coal mines. He struggles with childhood fears, working twelve-hour days, six days a week, in the darkest depths of a dangerous coal mine. That is until disaster strikes, taking the lives of his boyhood friends in one of England’s most tragic accidents in its long coal mining history. Devastated, Tom is determined to change his fate laid out for him by the tyrannical system of industrial slavery. This is the fast-moving story of a young boy overcoming the iron-fisted rule of the massively wealthy lord of the land, who not only owns and rules much of South Yorkshire, its coal mines, and the villages the mining families live in, but the mortgage on their very lives. With the help of his brilliant, passionate, self-educated mother, Tom rises above his beginnings despite the tyranny of his lordship’s brutal psychopathic enforcer and a society fostering the oppression of the working class. We follow Tom into adulthood, on his path to a brilliant career, through the tragedy of yet another of the largest industrial disasters in England’s history, in his fight against child labor, and his love affairs with two strong-willed, determined women. And finally, we see his family’s escape to America to pursue their dreams in book two of The Courageous Series. Theirs has become a vast family legacy, including their seven-year-old great, great, great, great grandson Cole, pictured on the front cover of this book.
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Download or read book The Beautiful American written by Marilyn Holdsworth and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abby Long is thrilled when she offers the winning bid for an antique desk at an auction. With its intricately inlaid woods and elegant style, the desk is perfect for Abby; it is the gift she promised herself to finally celebrate her thriving antique business. She has no idea that the antique desk holds a secret that will lead her on a fascinating, life-changing journey back in time. When Abby discovers a hidden diary stuffed inside a secret compartment in the desk, she can hardly wait to read the spidery, faded script. As she carefully turns the tattered pages, she reads the captivating story of two remarkable women from opposite backgrounds who somehow manage to form an unforgettable bond against the backdrop of a fledgling America struggling to find its place in the world. Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, the wife of James Monroe, and Jasmine, a young slave girl, develop an extraordinary relationship as they are united by pivotal historic events, political intrigues, and personal tragedies. From a bucolic Virginia plantation to the bloodied, starving streets of post-revolutionary Paris, this powerful tale follows the lives of two courageous women from the past as they quietly influenceand inspirea woman of todays world.
Download or read book The Greatest Slump of All Time written by David Carkeet and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
