Download or read book If I Were a Pair of Maracas written by Bedoor Khalaf and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-05 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suzie was playing with her maracas one morning when suddenly she lost them. She went to her mother who helped her search all around repeating, "if I were a pair of maracas, oh where, oh where would I be?" Join Suzie and her mother in their search and find the maracas in every page. Suitable for children from 2-5 years of age.
Download or read book Rolling Stones I Was There written by Richard Houghton and published by This Day In Music Books. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rolling Stones: I Was There provides over 400 accounts from fans, friends and work colleagues of seeing the Stones live in concert. This book is packed with fascinating anecdotes, stories, photographs and memorabilia that have never been published before. It features accounts of the the group from its first live shows in pubs and clubs in and around London in 1962 right through to the death of Brian Jones in July 1969.
Download or read book Harlequin Presents August 2019 Box Set 1 of 2 written by Sharon Kendrick and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin® Presents brings you a collection of four new titles! This Presents box set includes: THE ARGENTINIAN’S BABY OF SCANDAL One Night with Consequences By Sharon Kendrick Housekeeper Tara is always professional. Until her billionaire boss Lucas looks at her with an intensity she just can’t resist... Only now this innocent Cinderella has the task of flying to New York to tell him about the scandalous consequence! AWAKENED BY THE SCARRED ITALIAN By Abby Green Scarred and completely ruthless, Ciro is not the man Lara remembers. Yet their intense fire has never died, and his caress awakens untouched Lara to unimaginable pleasures. Could their convenient marriage be their redemption…? PRINCE’S VIRGIN IN VENICE Passion in Paradise By Trish Morey Prince Vittorio’s invitation to hotel maid Rosa is supposed to end at Venice’s Carnival ball. Yet their instant chemistry soon leads to a scorching encounter! But will one night with unexpected virgin Rosa be enough…? A PASSIONATE NIGHT WITH THE GREEK By Kim Lawrence Tycoon Zach has one mission: to track down the long-lost granddaughter of his mentor. But he quickly realises that introducing feisty Katina to Greek society might be more trouble—and temptation—than he anticipated!
Download or read book Some Like It Wilder written by Gene D. Phillips and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-02-05 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the six-time Oscar-winning director of films like Some Like It Hot and Double Indemnity, featuring analysis of his work. Although his career spanned fifty years and included more than fifty films, Austrian-American film director Billy Wilder (1906-2002) may be best known for the legendary shot of Marilyn Monroe’s dress billowing over a subway grating in The Seven Year Itch (1955). This “shot seen round the world” is representative not only of Hollywood’s golden era of cinema but also of one of its most prolific and brilliant directors. Wilder, whose filmography includes such classics as Sunset Boulevard (1950), Sabrina (1954), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), and Some Like It Hot (1959), is often remembered for his versatility, biting wit, and passion for challenging social and moral conventions. Author Gene D. Phillips departs from the traditional biography in Some Like It Wilder, offering new insights into the acclaimed director’s professional and private life. In preparation for the book, Phillips conducted personal interviews with Wilder and other key players from the legendary director’s life and times. Phillips’s unique combination of analysis and biographical detail brings Wilder to life, as both an artist and man. Phillips traces Wilder’s path from Berlin, where he worked as a scriptwriter for one of the city’s largest studios, to Hollywood, where he would quickly establish himself as a premier film director. Forming a partnership with writer-producer Charles Brackett, Wilder directed the classic films Five Graves to Cairo (1943), Double Indemnity (1945), and The Lost Weekend (1945), which earned Academy Awards for best picture, best director, and best screenplay. During the 1960s, Wilder continued to direct and produce controversial comedies, including Kiss Me Stupid (1964) and The Apartment (1960). The Apartment brought Wilder another round of Oscars for best picture, best director, and best screenplay. Wilder’s maverick approach and independent artistic vision pushed boundaries and ensured his legacy as one of the Hollywood greats. Sharply written, Some Like It Wilder serves as a comprehensive companion to Wilder’s films, offering a personalized and heartfelt account of the life and genius of this compelling director. Praise for Some Like It Wilder “Featuring Gene D. Phillips’ unique, in-depth critical approach, Some Like It Wilder . . . provides a groundbreaking overview of a filmmaking icon . . . . This definitive biography reveals that Wilder was, and remains, one of the most influential directors in filmmaking.” —Turner Classic Movies “[Phillips] goes beyond the surface and deep into the complex mind and soul of the famous film director . . . . This book is, in my view, definitive.” —Vincent LoBrutto, author of Martin Scorsese: A Biography
Download or read book Like a Shag on a Rock written by Vaughan Humphries and published by Albury Books. This book was released on 2014-04-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom is having second thoughts about his relationship with Janice. She’d been so carefree and eccentric when they’d fallen in love. Now he feels trapped in a poisoned relationship. She’s taken all the fun out of life with her militant vegetarianism, organic whines—err, organic wines and homemade aphrodisiacs. Now she’s just crazy - and her kooky friends are no better. But the craziness in Tom’s life only truly begins when she kicks him out and he hastily answers a room advertisement for what appears at first to be the perfect escape - a bachelor pad in the heart of Oxford. When the door is opened by his mysterious acquaintance, John, it seems as though fate has stepped in, and Tom quickly settles back into a life of blissful carnivorous freedom. Although Tom is no longer under Janice’s control, he unwittingly remains the victim of manipulation – this time from John – who wields far more influence over Tom’s personal life than he is aware of. Between their girlfriends, the weird smell in the front of the house, John’s secret agenda and police escapades at the neighbourhood grocer’s, eccentricity and crazy take on an entirely new meaning! This wonderfully hilarious coming of age story is just what the doctor ordered…with a pint and fish and chips, of course! Get your copy today and laugh your troubles away!
Download or read book For Ever and Ever Amen written by Joe Pemberton and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the childhood experiences of James, a nine-year old living in Manchester in the late 1960s, told with an eye on the priorities of a child.
Download or read book Heart Land written by Caroline Miller and published by Schiel & Denver Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fictional memoir of a boy growing up in rural Ohio between 1930 and 1940, a time of social and historic importance that still resonates in American political life today.
Download or read book Miss Bangkok written by Bua Boonmee and published by Maverick House . This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Bangkok is a vivid, powerful and moving memoir of a life spent in prostitution in Thailand. Poor and uneducated, Bua Boonmee escaped an abusive marriage only to end up in the go-go bars of Patpong. There, in the notorious red-light district of Bangkok, she succumbed to prostitution in an effort to support her family. Bua’s story is one of resilience and courage in the face of abuse and poverty. Her confessions will make you laugh and cry, cringe and applaud. She will change your perception of prostitution forever.
Download or read book The Last Best of All Times written by Robert A. Semenza and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Semenza has always considered himself fortunate to have been brought up in what may have been, in his mind, the "last best of all times" "an era that spanned only a little more than a decade and a half, from the early forties to the midfifties, from World War II to the Korean police action,' from FDR to Harry [the buck stops here] Truman to Ike." He was even more blessed to be raised in an environment where he was "surrounded by a wealth of love and warmth from our parents and a seemingly unlimited number of relatives and "piasians"; however, the adults in our lives were there only when we needed them sort of a Charlie Brown' type of existence but without his anxiety." He felt that all his wonderful memories would be lost forever and wanted to preserve them for the generations to follow. His tale is told in a self-effacing way and from the perspective of a young boy being raised in "the West," a neighborhood in New Rochelle, New York; "of Italians and colored people" (you never called them "blacks" or "African Americans" unless you were prepared for a fight); and the rest of civilization, referred to simply as the Americans.It tells of his Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn type of youthful adventures and mishaps centered around a cast of colorful and unforgettable "characters" that roamed the streets of the West, from the likes of the "Goat Man," who would "proudly parade his goats down Union Avenue" and whose "route was undeniably marked by a trail of small round soft black pellets, which the goats expelled as they merrily strolled to their noonday repast [presumably to make more pellets]" to the "Iron Horse" to Louie "Chicken Breast," and to a whole host of other characters. As he explains, they "were just there and accepted as they were, except that they, like everyone else in the neighborhood, had a nickname, which was generally linked to their physical appearance, which, in each case, was obvious." He has attempted the impossible task of trying to list all of these nicknames his nickname was "Chesty" the reader will learn why. His personal memories transport the reader back to that time and to his boyish recollections of his family, the school, the church, the Boys Club, the games they invented, and the special joys brought by each season of the year. www.readerscircle.org
Download or read book Buzzin written by Bez and published by White Rabbit. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of his initial, turn-of-the-1990's infamy as the maraca-wielding dancer with 'Madchester' giants Happy Mondays, the pop-eyed Mark Berry, forever known to the world as Bez, was visibly a danger to society. He became the so-called Chemical Generation's bug-eyed pied piper, every weekend leading millions out to oblivion and beyond, as they adopted his E-gobbling party lifestyle. Neither an accomplished musician nor even a very good dancer, Bez was a prime candidate for fleeting celebrity, soon to sink into 'Where Are They Now?' obscurity. That, however, never happened, nor does it show any sign of happening. Through Black Grape, the second band he co-fronted with the Mondays' Shaun Ryder, and his ever-presence in the mass media, Bez's popularity has grown exponentially, his star rocketing ever upwards. When he bowled into Celebrity Big Brother in 2005, he ended up winning the series, as viewers came to understand his fundamental decency and sunny outlook. His adult life has been extraordinary: unbelievable scrapes with mortality, periods of financial ruin, mindfuck moments like when David Bowie genuflected before him, and enough narcotic-strewn hi-jinx to fill several more volumes of memoir. This is the story of a bad lad who has turned his life good, tracing his passage from early-thirty-something casualty to middle-aged politician, eco-warrior and bee-aficionado.
Download or read book A News Story written by Allan Jefferys and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-04-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A News Story tells of the time when TV news switched from being a money-losing public service to a highly successful money machine. Mitch Bellows and Anthony Hadde are news directors who provide a contrast in approach: Bellows is dedicated to truth and integrity-Hadde is motivated by power and greed. Ambition also drives some anchormen to achieve their goals, often at the expense of their core values. Others hold fast to high standards. It is impossible to tell which ones have integrity by watching them on the screen. Only by examining their off-camera behavior can the truth be uncovered. A News Story offers a revealing look behind the microphones and cameras of a TV news operation. The author has drawn on his own experiences while working in that industry, but it is not a roman à clef, even if some of the characters seem to be recognizable. A News Story is a fast-moving page-turner that pulls no punches as it delves into the lives of its characters.
Download or read book War of the Encyclopaedists written by Christopher Robinson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best friends separated by global events after college, Mickey Montauk and Halifax Corderoy keep in touch with one another by editing a Wikipedia article about themselves.
Download or read book The Dreamcast Encyclopedia written by Chris Scullion and published by White Owl. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dreamcast Encyclopedia is the fifth book in Scottish author and games journalist Chris Scullions critically-acclaimed series of video game encyclopedias. The Sega Dreamcast is fondly remembered by players as a games console that was ahead of its time, almost to a fault. Its incredible graphics offered a level of detail that hadnt been seen on home systems to that point, and its built-in modem brought online multiplayer to many console players for the first time ever. Ultimately though, the release of the PS2 (and later the GameCube and Xbox) led to struggling sales and Sega would eventually pull the plug on the Dreamcast just two years into its life, bowing out of the console manufacturing business altogether. On paper the Dreamcast was a commercial failure, but those who owned one remember it so fondly that for many it remains one of the greatest games consoles of all time, with a small but well-formed library of high-quality games. This book contains every one of those games, including not only the entire western library of around 270 titles, but also the 340 or so games that were exclusively released in Japan. With over 600 games covered in total, screenshots for every title and a light-hearted writing style designed for an entertaining read, The Dreamcast Encyclopedia is the definitive guide to one of the most underrated gaming systems of all time.
Download or read book Diary of a Mad Playwright written by James Kirkwood and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Dutton, 1989.
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Videogames written by Kate Berens and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Videogames is the ultimate guide to the world’s most addictive pastime. Both a nostalgic look at the past and a celebration of the latest in joystick-wrecking wonders, this book covers the full story from the first arcade machines to the latest digital delights. Easy access to 75 of the greatest games of all time, from Civilization and Pro Evolution Soccer to We Love Katamari and World of Warcraft. The guide profiles the stories behind the software giants, famous creators and the world’s favourite characters, including Mario, Lara Croft and Sonic the Hedgehog. All the gadgets and devices for consoles, hand-helds, phones and PCs are explored as well as the wider world of gaming, from websites and movies to books.
Download or read book The Billboard Book of Number One Hits written by Fred Bronson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists number one songs from "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and His Comets to Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997," and includes background information on the songs and their writers and performers.
Download or read book Ultimate Hendrix written by John McDermott and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guitar legend Jimi Hendrix packed so much into so few years, leaping forward musically with each innovation. Hendrix expert John McDermott chronicles each of Jimi's revolutionary recording sessions, enlisting the help of Hendrix's friend and bandmade Billy Cox, and sound engineer and photographer Eddie Kramer. This beautifully designed, illustrated volume will also include vivid new descriptions of every single live Hendrix concert from 1963 to 1970.
