Download or read book It Must Have Been Moonglow written by Phyllis Greene and published by Villard. This book was released on 2003-02-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1998, after fifty-six years of marriage, Phyllis Greene went from being part of the lifelong unit of PhyllisandBob to being just plain Phyllis. As a way of coping with her feelings, she began keeping a journal. She realized her own reflections could speak to the thousands of women like her, each one with very different yet in some ways very similar day-to-day experiences. It Must Have Been Moonglow chronicles the emotional roller-coaster of her experience in a collection of brief essays—like diary entries—that capture the sadness, the humor, and the triumphs all widows encounter. She writes with wit and insight about negotiating the logistics of an evening out with a group of single older women, none of whom drive very well; about handling the check when going to dinner with a couple; about grocery shopping for one; and about the miracle of friendships on the Internet and the blessings of family. With a new final section featuring readers’ letters describing their own experiences of widowhood, It Must Have Been Moonglow is an intimate, candid, and engaging book—not about grief but about inspiration and strength.
Download or read book It Must Have Been Moonglow written by Phyllis Greene and published by Villard. This book was released on 2001-12-18 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1998, after fifty-six years of marriage, Phyllis Greene went from being part of the lifelong unit of "Phyllis and Bob" to being just plain Phyllis. To deal with her feelings, she began keeping a journal. Unable to find books with a personal perspective on widowhood, she realized her own reflections could speak to the thousands of women like her, each one with very different yet very similar day-to-day experiences. It Must Have Been Moonglow chronicles the emotional roller coaster of her first years alone in a collection of brief essays, like diary entries, that capture the sadness, the humor, and the triumphs all widows encounter. She writes about the challenges presented by a quiet, empty house and how best to fill the hours. "Your heart may feel like stone, but your mind needs to keep going,"she says. With wit and insight, she muses about the logistics of an evening out with a group of single, older women, none of whom drive very well; about handling the check when going to dinner with a couple; about marketing for one; and about the miracle of friendships on the Internet and the blessings of family. It Must Have Been Moonglow is an intimate, candid, and engaging memoir, not about grief but about inspiration and strength.
Download or read book Ten Fantasy Lectures on the Sun Moon and Stars written by John Gurley and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pickwick Papers written by Charles Dickens and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2003-08-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens’s satirical masterpiece, The Pickwick Papers, catapulted the young writer into literary fame when it was first serialized in 1836–37. It recounts the rollicking adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club as they travel about England getting into all sorts of mischief. Laugh-out-loud funny and endlessly entertaining, the book also reveals Dickens’s burgeoning interest in the parliamentary system, lawyers, the Poor Laws, and the ills of debtors’ prisons. As G. K. Chesterton noted, “Before [Dickens] wrote a single real story, he had a kind of vision . . . a map full of fantastic towns, thundering coaches, clamorous market-places, uproarious inns, strange and swaggering figures. That vision was Pickwick.”
Download or read book SongCite written by William D. Goodfellow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. This is the first supplement to the initial SongCite publication and serves as an index to recently published collections of popular songs. 201 music books have been included, with over 6,500 different compositions listed. The vast majority of the collections is comprised entirely of vocal music, although, on occasion, instrumental works have been included.
Download or read book Industrial Organization written by Don E. Waldman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written solely for the undergraduate audience, Industrial Organization: Theory and Practice, which features early coverage of Antitrust, punctuates its modern introduction to industrial organization with relevant empirical data and case studies to show students how to apply theoretical tools.
Download or read book The Taunch Bowl and Moon Glow Wood written by Richard Spink and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the unknown planet Interk sits the dense and mysterious Moon Glow Wood. The planet mirrors Earth in all aspects of life and landscape. Two owls learn to read in the forgotten library of a dilapidated mansion which sits on the edge of The Wood. Smilecramp, the young owl, uses his newfound knowledge to form a plan that could present a life of peace and harmony to all the diverse woodland creatures. But to implement his plan to the predators of The Wood, who live by the dreaded food chain for survival, he calls for a self-imposed amnesty on preying. A group of courageous like-minded creature friends of the young owl, who are mystifyingly identified by unique silver adornments, join forces to promote the plan. Yuno, the old spider who has a silver dot on his forehead, is derided for creating his artistic webs which are purely for visual pleasure. "What a waste of valuable, capturing thread," scorn preying creatures. A frustrated mole named Sleames, bearing a silver circle around his right eye, has always nurtured a private aspiration to build things "and not simply scrape tunnels with my claws," Sleames sighs. "Stay positive, Sleames," advises Smilecramp with his silver beak gleaming. "A new way of life is coming soon." "Then, I will build you a school," Sleames declares with excitement in his voice. "I could create a hospital to cure sick and lame creatures who now become victims of the predators," says Netta, the bee, who sports an attractive silver waistband. She is famous in The Wood for saving the life of a raven by administering her honey lotions and potions. "They say that preying is nature's way. Well, now there can be another way," urges Smilecramp to Spitlan, the mighty vulture, who, with his fellow vultures, cast a brooding menace over The Wood. Meanwhile, hidden under the ground of Moon Glow Wood, unknown to any humind or any creature, lies the Taunch Bowl with its very own intriguing magical powers. What follows is a unique and gripping tale of intelligence, tenderness, and humor amongst the endearing and far-reaching creatures who enter into a romantic quest in the search for the improbable-the pursuit of a harmonious society.
Download or read book Alfred s Easy Ukulele Songs Standards Jazz written by Alfred Music and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For beginning musicians, Alfred's Easy series is the fast track to developing a repertoire of well-known and fun-to-play songs, while more experienced players will find an excellent resource of favorite songs. The Easy Hits Ukulele format provides melody, chords, and lyrics for easy "strum and sing" performance---plus suggested strum patterns and TAB for any integral "hook" parts. This Standards and Jazz edition features timeless songs from the Great American Songbook, such as "Ain't Misbehavin'," "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue," "I'm in the Mood for Love," "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)," "Over the Rainbow," "Take the 'A' Train," and many more! Titles: * Ain't Misbehavin' * At Last * All of Me * Blue Moon * Breezin' * Caravan * Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * Emily * Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue * Gentle Rain * Good Morning, Heartache * Here's That Rainy Day * I'm in the Mood for Love * In a Sentimental Mood * In Your Own Sweet Way * Invitation * It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) * Just Friends * Laura * Lush Life * Misty * Moonglow * Moonlight in Vermont * Moonlight Serenade * More Than You Know * My Foolish Heart * Theme from New York, New York * Nice 'n' Easy * On Green Dolphin Street * Over the Rainbow * Polka Dots and Moonbeams * Prelude to a Kiss * Satin Doll * The Shadow of Your Smile * Softly, As I Leave You * Solitude * Stardust * Stars Fell on Alabama * Stompin' at the Savoy * Straighten Up and Fly Right * Street of Dreams * Take Five * Take the "A" Train * This Masquerade * Try a Little Tenderness * What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? * What's New? * You Must Believe in Spring * You Stepped Out of a Dream
Download or read book Lyrics Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 2060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Lyric Library). An unprecedented collection of popular lyrics that will appeal to all music fans! Includes songs from yesterday and today, from Broadway to Rock 'n' Roll. Highlights include: American Pie * Bennie and the Jets * Blueberry Hill * Brown Eyed Girl * Come What May * Don't Cry for Me Argentina * Dream Weaver * Fame * Free Bird * Fun, Fun, Fun * The Girl from Ipanema * Goodnight, Irene * Green River * Hakuna Matata * Have I Told You Lately * Heart of Glass * I Can't Stop Loving You * I Love Paris * I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For * Jessie's Girl * Jump * Kansas City * Killer Queen * Last Kiss * Livin' La Vida Loca * MacArthur Park * A Matter of Trust * My Cherie Amour * Now You Has Jazz * Oh Sherrie * Popular * Photograph * Proud Mary * The Rain in Spain * Rocket Man * Runaway * Sixteen Candles * Smells Like Teen Spirit * Somebody to Love * Tears in Heaven * That's Life * These Dreams * Under the Sea * Venus * Walk on the Wild Side * We Are Family * You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' * Your Mama Don't Dance * Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah.
Download or read book Alfred s Easy Guitar Songs Standards Jazz written by Alfred Music and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For beginning musicians, Alfred's Easy series is the fast track to developing a repertoire of well-known and fun-to-play songs, while more experienced players will find an excellent resource of favorite songs. The Easy Hits Guitar TAB format provides melody in notation and TAB, chords, lyrics, and any integral "hook" parts---plus suggested strum and fingerpicking patterns. This Standards and Jazz edition features timeless songs from the Great American Songbook, such as "Ain't Misbehavin'," "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue," "I'm in the Mood for Love," "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)," "Over the Rainbow," "Take the 'A' Train," and many more! Titles: * Ain't Misbehavin' * At Last * All of Me * Blue Moon * Breezin' * Caravan * Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * Emily * Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue * Gentle Rain * Good Morning, Heartache * Here's That Rainy Day * I'm in the Mood for Love * In a Sentimental Mood * In Your Own Sweet Way * Invitation * It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) * Just Friends * Laura * Lush Life * Misty * Moonglow * Moonlight in Vermont * Moonlight Serenade * More Than You Know * My Foolish Heart * Theme from New York, New York * Nice 'n' Easy * On Green Dolphin Street * Over the Rainbow * Polka Dots and Moonbeams * Prelude to a Kiss * Satin Doll * The Shadow of Your Smile * Softly, As I Leave You * Solitude * Stardust * Stars Fell on Alabama * Stompin' at the Savoy * Straighten Up and Fly Right * Street of Dreams * Take Five * Take the "A" Train * This Masquerade * Try a Little Tenderness * What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? * What's New? * You Must Believe in Spring * You Stepped Out of a Dream
Download or read book Alfred s Easy Piano Songs Standards Jazz written by Alfred Music and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For beginning musicians, Alfred's Easy series is the fast track to developing a repertoire of well-known and fun-to-play songs, while more experienced players will find an excellent resource of favorite songs. The Easy Hits Piano format provides fun and satisfying piano arrangements that are easy to play and sound like the original recordings. This Standards and Jazz edition features timeless songs from the Great American Songbook, such as "Ain't Misbehavin'," "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue," "I'm in the Mood for Love," "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)," "Over the Rainbow," "Take the 'A' Train," and many more! Titles: * Ain't Misbehavin' * At Last * All of Me * Blue Moon * Breezin' * Caravan * Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * Emily * Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue * Gentle Rain * Good Morning, Heartache * Here's That Rainy Day * I'm in the Mood for Love * In a Sentimental Mood * In Your Own Sweet Way * Invitation * It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) * Just Friends * Laura * Lush Life * Misty * Moonglow * Moonlight in Vermont * Moonlight Serenade * More Than You Know * My Foolish Heart * Theme from New York, New York * Nice 'n' Easy * On Green Dolphin Street * Over the Rainbow * Polka Dots and Moonbeams * Prelude to a Kiss * Satin Doll * The Shadow of Your Smile * Softly, As I Leave You * Solitude * Stardust * Stars Fell on Alabama * Stompin' at the Savoy * Straighten Up and Fly Right * Street of Dreams * Take Five * Take the "A" Train * This Masquerade * Try a Little Tenderness * What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? * What's New? * You Must Believe in Spring * You Stepped Out of a Dream
Download or read book Moonglow written by Michael Chabon and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal • An NBCC Finalist for 2016 Award for Fiction • ALA Carnegie Medal Finalist for Excellence in Fiction • Wall Street Journal’s Best Novel of the Year • A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • A Washington Post Best Book of the Year • An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Slate Best Book of the Year • A Christian Science Monitor Top 15 Fiction Book of the Year • A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year • A San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year • A Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year • A New York Post Best Book of the Year iBooks Novel of the Year • An Amazon Editors' Top 20 Book of the Year • #1 Indie Next Pick • #1 Amazon Spotlight Pick • A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A BookPage Top Fiction Pick of the Month • An Indie Next Bestseller "This book is beautiful.” — A.O. Scott, New York Times Book Review, cover review Following on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure—and the forces that work to destroy us. In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother’s home in Oakland, California, to visit his terminally ill grandfather. Tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, memory stirred by the imminence of death, Chabon’s grandfather shared recollections and told stories the younger man had never heard before, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried and forgotten. That dreamlike week of revelations forms the basis for the novel Moonglow, the latest feat of legerdemain from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon. Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as “my grandfather.” It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and marriage and desire, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact—and the creative power—of keeping secrets and telling lies. It is a portrait of the difficult but passionate love between the narrator’s grandfather and his grandmother, an enigmatic woman broken by her experience growing up in war-torn France. It is also a tour de force of speculative autobiography in which Chabon devises and reveals a secret history of his own imagination. From the Jewish slums of prewar South Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of New York’s Wallkill prison, from the heyday of the space program to the twilight of the “American Century,” the novel revisits an entire era through a single life and collapses a lifetime into a single week. A lie that tells the truth, a work of fictional nonfiction, an autobiography wrapped in a novel disguised as a memoir, Moonglow is Chabon at his most moving and inventive.
Download or read book Net of Jewels written by Ellen Gilchrist and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home for the summer in Dunleith, Alabama, Rhoda Manning’s life appears at ease. But the headstrong, passionate 19-year-old refuses to settle for a comfortable, conventional existence. Yearning for a life of profundity, adventure, and beauty, Rhoda breaks from the seemingly secure world of her family to recklessly follow her dreams—but not without tragic and disturbing consequences. A failed marriage, shady abortion, an impulsive decision to sneak into a midnight meeting of the Klan, dates with her shrink, a deluge of booze, and a bout of repentance all seem to vie as the means to Rhoda's own liberation. Gilchrist unflinchingly takes us through the turbulence of Rhoda’s formative years, on an outrageous coming-of-age journey of a young white woman in the 1960’s South—digging through the bone to reveal the chill of human experience. PRAISE: “One of the lies we enjoy telling ourselves is that when we were young, we were crazy and wild. But hey, sensitive, too, and reflective, full of conscience, already evolving into the mature human beings we are now. Ellen Gilchrist`s novel, Net of Jewels, provides an uncomfortable reminder that, more likely, we were controlled by brute forces-our raw emotions and emerging libidos, our parents and our desperate need to fit in, whatever that meant where and when we grew up.” —Chicago Tribune “Ellen Gilchrist refracts life through a prism of precious gems, a net of jewels. Her fiction is always a kind of prose poem, a dance of seven veils. Like all of Gilchrist’s work, her latest novel dazzles and pulsates, and even in the few passages of below-normal sheen, Net of Jewels still qualifies as an almost imperceptibly flawed diamond.” —Los Angeles Times In her ninth book, which begins in the mid-50's, Ellen Gilchrist tracks a 19-year-old who drinks too much, marries too young, and is bored by her own children. The plucky Rhoda Manning has appeared in many of Gilchrist's short stories; in Net of Jewels she positively struts. ...She struggles to free herself from the constraints of upper-crust Southern society, yet insists on enjoying all its advantages. Interestingly, Gilchrist chooses not describe Rhoda's transformation into a ''better'' person ... ''If we could understand one thing entirely, we might understand it all.'' Rhoda philosophizes. ... An engaging novel [with] beauty and emotional horsepower. —Entertainment Weekly
Download or read book Color Blind written by Tom Dunkel and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking readers back in time to 1947, an award-winning journalist chronicles an integrated baseball team in Bismarck, North Dakota that rose above a segregated society to become champions, delving into the history of the players, the town and baseball itself.
Download or read book Third written by Wendy Wasserstein and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: His name is Woodson Bull III, but you can call him Third. And Professor Laurie Jameson is disinclined to like his jockish, jingoistic attitude. He is, as she puts it, a walking red state. Believing that Third's sophisticated essay on
Download or read book Hit Songs 1900 1955 written by Don Tyler and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-04-16 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a chronology of the most famous songs from the years before rock 'n' roll. The top hits for each year are described, including vital information such as song origin, artist(s), and chart information. For many songs, the author includes any web or library holdings of sheet music covers, musical scores, and free audio files. An extensive collection of biographical sketches follows, providing performing credits, relevant professional awards, and brief biographies for hundreds of the era's most popular performers, lyricists, and composers. Includes an alphabetical song index and bibliography.
Download or read book When Opera Meets Film written by Marcia J. Citron and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera can reveal something fundamental about a film, and film can do the same for an opera, argues Marcia J. Citron. Structured by the categories of Style, Subjectivity, and Desire, this volume advances our understanding of the aesthetics of the opera/film encounter. Case studies of a diverse array of important repertoire including mainstream film, opera-film, and postmodernist pastiche are presented. Citron uses Werner Wolf's theory of intermediality to probe the roles of opera and film when they combine. The book also refines and expands film-music functions, and details the impact of an opera's musical style on the meaning of a film. Drawing on cinematic traditions of Hollywood, France, and Britain, the study explores Coppola's Godfather trilogy, Jewison's Moonstruck, Nichols's Closer, Chabrol's La Cérémonie, Schlesinger's Sunday, Bloody Sunday, Boyd's Aria, and Ponnelle's opera-films.
