Download or read book We Gotta Get Out of This Place written by Doug Bradley and published by UMass + ORM. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The diversity of voices and songs reminds us that the home front and the battlefront are always connected and that music and war are deeply intertwined.” —Heather Marie Stur, author of 21 Days to Baghdad For a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam’s Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’.” For a black marine distraught over the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., it was Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools.” And for countless other Vietnam vets, it was “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die” or the song that gives this book its title. In We Gotta Get Out of This Place, Doug Bradley and Craig Werner place popular music at the heart of the American experience in Vietnam. They explore how and why U.S. troops turned to music as a way of connecting to each other and the World back home and of coping with the complexities of the war they had been sent to fight. They also demonstrate that music was important for every group of Vietnam veterans—black and white, Latino and Native American, men and women, officers and “grunts”—whose personal reflections drive the book’s narrative. Many of the voices are those of ordinary soldiers, airmen, seamen, and marines. But there are also “solo” pieces by veterans whose writings have shaped our understanding of the war—Karl Marlantes, Alfredo Vea, Yusef Komunyakaa, Bill Ehrhart, Arthur Flowers—as well as songwriters and performers whose music influenced soldiers’ lives, including Eric Burdon, James Brown, Bruce Springsteen, Country Joe McDonald, and John Fogerty. Together their testimony taps into memories—individual and cultural—that capture a central if often overlooked component of the American war in Vietnam.

Download or read book We Gotta Get Out of This Place written by Gerri Hirshey and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "a kind of female Cameron Crowe" by the "Chicago Tribune, " Hirshey's narrative is based on original interviews, as she serves up a tasty platter of girl groups and soul queens, acoustic goddesses and priestesses of the avant-garde, punk grrrls, glamazons, and innovators of hip-hop and neo-soul. Photos.

Download or read book Gotta Get Out written by Shyrone Smith and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-04-22 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 47718 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Shyrone Smith [email protected] Day Phone # (201) 852-7875 Gotta Get Out Shyrone Smith Jersey City, NJ Twenty-three-year-old Cyph is a businessman in a cutthroat business of supply and demand. The money is tax free and fast, and once a person gets into the game, its hard to get out. But his business will soon catch up with him and by the time hes Gotta Get Out, it may be too late In this book by Shyrone Smith, readers can follow Cyph as he lives dangerously in the drug business. For him, selling drugs, is a drug itself the rush he feels when he counts all that money that he madethe feeling of having the money to do whatever he wanted to do that has him feeling untouchable, invincible maybe. This is the false reality of the game that he considers most like a drug, especially when he has never had anything. Cyph doesnt plan on hustling all his life. In reality, he wished he could get out every day. But in his line of work, nothing is for certain. And the next job could be his last as well as the end of him. Readers can follow the exciting events unfold in Gotta Get Out. Shyrone Cyph Smith was born and raised in Jersey City NJ where he still currently resides. His first love is music, writing, rhyming and producing. He got most of his inspiration from the same streets he was raised in. He is currently working on a solo hip hop album The Last Man Standing. Hes also working on his second novel Pulling Me Back, and a book of poems Soul Talk. Shyrone Smith used two exciting advances in the publishing world to help bring Gotta Get Out to readers: a publishing service called Xlibris, and a new digital printing and distribution technology known as Print On Demand. Xlibris provided Shyrone Smith with the tools necessary to get his book published, and Print On Demand allows each individual copy of the book to be printed as it is ordered. For more information about Print on Demand or Xlibris please write to: [email protected] or call 1-888-795-4274.

Download or read book Here I Lay Part One I ve Gotta Have It written by Kimani Lauren and published by Perfectly Polished Words. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “BANGER WAS A REAL HUSTLER WHO MOVED TO HIS OWN BEAT AND HELPED EVERYONE HE COULD.” —Juicy Reads Magazine “The world feels incredibly well-drawn.” —Reader review “Stay away from them thugs in South Ridge!” Black runway model Monaysia Giles is on her way to fulfilling her dreams of walking in Paris Fashion Week and showcasing her own line until her college scams her out of both opportunities. Now she’s back home, hungry to make a way to get the spot she worked so hard for. With more hustle in her than the average suburban girl, she’s got a backup plan to her backup plan. Things change for her on the night the boyfriend who disappeared when her life was spiraling walks into her job with a new woman. Being ghosted by her ex pushes Monaysia into the arms of someone forbidden. She knows he’ll bankroll her whole life if she plays her cards right. What she doesn’t realize is that life with him means entering a world buried in lies and dark secrets that reveal her whole life has been a calculated lie. She’s willing to do whatever it takes to get everything she wants, but has she bought herself a one-way ticket to being homeless and pregnant? Here I Lay Part One: I’ve Gotta Have It is a tale of forbidden love in the middle of an urban economic crisis. Once Monaysia’s true colors come out, readers will be captivated by the way this riches to rags story unfolds.

Download or read book Ashes to Ashes Crust to Crust written by Mindy Quigley and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ashes to Ashes, Crust to Crust is the second book in Mindy Quigley's delectable Deep Dish Mystery series, set in a Wisconsin pizzeria. Newly single pizzeria owner Delilah O’Leary is determined to keep her restaurant afloat in the picturesque resort town of Geneva Bay, Wisconsin. To boost her bottom line, she sets her sights on winning the hefty cash prize in the town’s annual “Taste of Wisconsin” culinary contest. In her corner, she’s got her strong-willed, “big-boned” cat Butterball, her wisecracking BFF, her cantankerous great-aunt, and a nearly-flawless recipe for Pretzel Crust Deep-Dish Bratwurst Pizza. But while Delilah and her team have been focused on pumping out perfect pizza pies, her ex-fiancé has cozied up to a new squeeze, juice bar owner Jordan Watts—Delilah’s contest rival. When one of Jordan’s juice bar customers is poisoned by a tainted smoothie, Delilah lands deep in the sauce. Accusations fly, suspects abound, and a menacing stranger turns up with a beef over some missing dough. Between kale-juicing hipsters and grudge-bearing celebrity chefs, Delilah must act quickly before another one bites the crust.

Download or read book The Lost Girl written by Alan Jacobson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ex-detective turned professional fixer finds himself up against a desperate widow out for the truth in this thriller series debut. Attorney Amy Robbins had the perfect life until a fatal accident robbed her of her young daughter and husband. Mired in a depressive fog, she soon tanks her career and drains her life savings. Now she passes her days working a dead-end job—until an unsettling discovery upends everything she thought she knew about her family . . . and her future. As Amy goes to desperate lengths to uncover the truth, she enlists the help of her sister-in-law, FBI Agent Loren Ryder. But someone is paying professional fixer Mickey Keller to make sure they don’t succeed. As Mickey squares off against Amy and Loren, the former cop and military man realizes he’s never faced such determined opponents. Soon all three find themselves hurtling toward a heart-pounding climax that will leave readers wondering who are the good guys and who are the bad.

Download or read book The A Men Return written by John Trevillian and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to The A-Men. It's been four years since the destruction of the Phoenix Tower and the infamous A-Men. The once-great Dead City is now a no-go zone, abandoned and forgotten. Living in this nightmarish underworld, Jack is a twisted shadow of his former self; a lone survivor in a world of warring ganglords and their crazed disciples.

Download or read book The Fangirl Chronicles written by C.M. Kars and published by C.M. Kars. This book was released on 2023-06-16 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's something for everyone - A celebrity romance between Ayden Stone and Aria Larsen in Fangirling Over You A pro footballer falls in love with her arch-nemesis who happens to be the greatest player in the world in To All the Footballers I Loved Before A K-pop fangirl reconnects with her oldest friend, who happens to be a K-pop idol superstar in Bias Wrecked A Habs fangirl with a buried past falls in love with a man who's backing a rival team in Pucked Romance (with cameo appearances from characters of my Never Been Series) And a tattoo artist falls for the clean-cut preppy guy in an opposites-attract romance in Never Say Never (with cameo appearances from characters of my Never Been Series) In all of these stories, the fangirl always gets her man.

Download or read book Psychobyte written by Cat Connor and published by 9mm Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare yourself for a chilling plunge into the depths of a Hitchcockian nightmare in the heart-pounding crime thriller "Psychobyte" by acclaimed author Cat Connor! FBI Agent Ellie Conway finds herself thrust into a harrowing investigation, where meticulously clean bathrooms become the haunting backdrop for a series of murders that will test her every instinct. In a world where another day brings another death, Conway is confronted with a baffling pattern: a string of naked, bloodless blondes found lifeless in pristine showers. As the eerie similarities mount, she can't help but wonder if she's dealing with a genuine vampire, lurking in the shadows. Unyielding in her pursuit of justice, Conway discovers a surprising addition to her arsenal of psychic abilities: clairsentience. Now armed with a heightened sense of perception, she races against the clock to uncover the twisted agenda of a cold-blooded killer. Secrets unravel, bodies pile up, and the pressure mounts, forcing Conway to navigate a treacherous web that links the art world, the dark underbelly of the internet known as the Darknet, and the very heart of law enforcement. But it's not just the case that challenges Conway. An impending wedding, peculiar liaisons, and a deeply personal shock threaten to unravel her world, putting both her and the Delta A team to the ultimate test. Will she unravel the sinister connection that binds the victims and bring the killer to justice? Or will she become the next victim in this macabre game of cat and mouse? Prepare to be gripped by a tale that will leave you breathless, as secrets, shadows, and shocking revelations collide. In "Psychobyte," Ellie Conway's relentless pursuit of truth will take you on a pulse-pounding journey filled with twists and turns you won't see coming.

Download or read book Lowcountry Stranger written by Ashley Farley and published by Leisure Time Books. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a quaint coastal town where everyone knows everyone, the arrival of a stranger is big news. So when a mysterious young woman crashes the Sweeney family wedding, the tight-knit community is abuzz with curiosity and suspicion. Meet Annie Dawn: an enigmatic waif with doe-eyes and a spunky personality that instantly captivates everyone she encounters. As the night unfolds, Annie wins over both young and old with her street smarts and spirited charm. But who is she, really? And what secrets is she hiding? One thing is for certain: Annie Dawn, whether for better or worse, is here to stay. Returning to the limelight are the beloved Sweeney sisters from Her Sister’s Shoes, faced with a new wave of suspense and family drama that will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the final, heart-stopping conclusion. As Annie grows closer to the Sweeney family, hidden agendas come to light and loyalties are tested. Amidst the chaos, bonds will be strengthened, and relationships redefined. Ultimately, the arrival of Annie Dawn sets in motion a series of events that will forever change the lives of the Sweeney sisters.

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock written by Simon Frith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion maps the world of pop and rock, pinpointing the most significant moments in its history and presenting the key issues involved in understanding popular culture's most vital art form. Expert writers chart the changing patterns in the production and consumption of popular music, the emergence of a vast industry with a turnover of billions and the rise of global stars from Elvis to Public Enemy, Nirvana to the Spice Girls. They trace the way new technologies - from the amplifier to the internet - have changed the sounds and practices of pop and they analyse the way maverick entrepreneurs have given way to multimedia corporations. In particular they focus on the controversial issues concerning race and ethnicity, politics, gender and globalisation. Contains full profiles of a selection of figures from the pop and rock world.

Download or read book FrontierWorld written by Bob Nosler and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FrontierWorld follows Tommy Ray and Willie Parker and a half dozen other characters as they meet in Seattle to begin their wagon train adventure. Once they arrive at the wagon camp, the group meets Brad Jefferson, the young wagon master who will lead the neo-pioneers through their fourteen day journey. Jefferson gives the group strict instructions that everything from the twenty first century must stay at the base camp. From this point on, everything will be just as it was in the early eighteen hundreds. Julia Hopper had a host of personal reasons for joining the wagon train vacation but, somehow, the very idea of giving up her contact lenses was unacceptable. Just one day into the journey, Julia loses her precious lenses and is forced to deal with life on a primitive wagon train without clear vision. Jack Bramson is another character who needed a fresh start in life. As a middle aged investment banker, Jack was bored with his life. He describes his daily routine as a scene from the movie Groundhog Day. Charlie Caruthers came to the wagon train vacation after thirty years as a steward in the United States Navy. As the only African-American on the vacation, Charlie becomes an interesting figure as the story develops. Jimmy Three-Bears Donovan is a young man who has never spent time in the great outdoors. Jimmy is caught between his Native American roots, his Harvard education, and the Irish Catholic parents who adopted him as an infant. The wagon train vacation was a gift from his dad and was intended to give Jimmy a better view of his roots. Emma Braunstien is a behavioral scientist with the world famous Global Center for the Study of Human Behavior. To elevate her work to the highest level, she devised an experiment that places ordinary people into stressful situations. Of course, a wagon train in the Canadian wilderness is the perfect setting for Emma's experiment. Jorg Lindstrom is the managing director of the Global Center for the Study of Human Behavior. While Jorge gave Emma full authority to pursue ground breaking science, he was taken back by the very idea of observing different personality types during periods of extreme stress. Jorg described Emma's experiment as "playing God". After the death of one of the campers, a rattlesnake bite, and finally the death of Brad Jefferson, Tommy-Ray takes charge. Jorg orders Emma to get the pioneers out of the wilderness and back home to Seattle. In the end, Jorg also orders Emma to do whatever is necessary to make certain that the Center is not connected with FrontierWorld or Time Trek, LLC. Keywords: Wagon Train, Wagon, Western, Psychological, Thriller, Time Travel, New Age Experience, Mind Experiment, Time Trek

Download or read book You Gotta Get Up written by Kimberly Jones and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You’re only stuck if you stop moving. Pain and regret can hold us captive. Our past mistakes and trauma tell us to blame others, feel ashamed, or turn to a temporary fix that often becomes a permanent escape. By the time Satan whispers we need to dress it up and call it home, pain is our new normal. Pastor and motivational speaker Real Talk Kim has a message for us: the pain might not be our fault, but the healing is our responsibility. In You Gotta Get Up, Pastor Kim reminds us as only she can that staying stuck requires as much energy as moving forward. She explains how to get up and figure out what needs to change in your life. unpack the messed-up thinking that holds you back. replace destructive thoughts with God’s truth. stop bleeding on people who didn’t cut you. stand up just one more time than you fall down. What will you choose today? The effort to get moving or the effort to stay stuck? A powerful blend of biblical wisdom and a loving kick in the pants, You Gotta Get Up calls you to heal, let go, and get moving . . . because hope is never too far away.

Download or read book Trick or Treat written by Richie Tankersley Cusick and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl is forced to move into a broken-down house in the country—and she and her new stepbrother discover its hidden horrors . . . Martha wants to be happy for her father. She likes his new wife—even if she’s a terrible cook—but she doesn’t understand why they had to leave Chicago and move to this horrible house in the country. It’s big, broken-down, and miles from anywhere, alone in the woods with nothing on the property but an overgrown cemetery. But at night it doesn’t feel empty. Conor—her new, weird stepbrother—chose Martha’s new room for her. It’s dark and drafty, and no matter how she tries to fix it up, she can’t sleep easily there. At night, whispers come from the closet, filling Martha with a sense that something terrible happened here. She’s right. Not long ago, the house was the site of a gruesome murder. When Conor and Martha’s parents leave town on their honeymoon, the two teens will find out why the dead don’t rest easy at the old Bedford house. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Richie Tankersley Cusick including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

Download or read book temporoparietal written by Kris Ellis and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kris Ellis’ debut novel follows Matt Pearce, OCD sufferer, low-achiever, film fanatic and Jack Kerouac enthusiast, who reaches an existential crossroads. He finds himself looking back on a life thus far of dead-end jobs, binge drinking, encounters with aggressive locals, sessions with therapists, and failed relationships with alluring but ‘head-doing’ young teenage girls. When one of these relationships, with an abused teenager called S., goes badly wrong, Matt flees the country and undertakes a Greyhound bus journey across the USA, partly to escape from S., partly as a pilgrimage to Kerouac’s final resting place, partly to pitch his draft indie movie script to an unsuspecting Hollywood, but mostly to find himself. Matt's journey takes him from New York to Los Angeles via stopovers in Boston, Lowell, Chicago and Las Vegas. He travels across a variegated geographical and mental landscape which provides him with edgy encounters and glimpses of an existential NOW amidst flashbacks from his childhood, adolescence in Freetown, formative relationships with Mona, Alice and S., Socratic dialogues with his ‘head doctor’, movie-making ambitions and struggling attempts to write his own life script. temporoparietal is a candid, semi-documentary teenage beat novel, told through the hand-held camera-pen of its young adult narrator. The story is written in an experimental colloquial style resembling a philosophical, vigorously delivered stand-up comedy routine about being alive and young in the modern world. Author Kris Ellis describes his protagonist’s state of consciousness as existing somewhere between Holden Caulfield and Bill Hicks. Influenced by J.D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac and Michel Houellebecq, temporoparietal will appeal to readers looking for an edgy, thought-provoking contemporary novel exploring modern youth in search of its soul.

Download or read book Legendary Lex An ODD Beginning written by Meleesa Swann and published by (S)wordplay Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Alexis Walker has enough issues being one of the few girls in school who refused to become a boy-crazy, lipstick queen. The last thing she needs is to find out she’s also a freak who can see creatures that belong in fairy tales. When a four-hundred year old leprechaun shows up and says she’s supposed to risk her life protecting these legendary beings, she's ready to break down and let her mom call in the shrink. When Lex sets off on her first mission—to find a missing Satyrus—she finds herself in the middle of a dangerous hunt, and the hunter is someone who has known Lex since she was in diapers.