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Book Long Gone   Lost

Download or read book Long Gone Lost written by Bobby Horecka and published by Madville Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bobby Horecka writes short fiction laced with truth. He tells tales of a man who had the roughest of starts in life. Through the fireside bardic storytelling tradition, readers learn of the resilience of children and the power of love to redeem even the most damaged. As the young man grows, he discovers a talent for observing and recording stories, ultimately becoming a newsman with the bad luck and poor timing of entering a dying field. These partially true, tongue-in-cheek stories offer a first-hand look, at the demise of the American newspaper, and at a slice of the unique Czeck community in and around Lavaca County, Texas. You might've just started out or reached the jumping off spot. Maybe you're the rainy-day saver who never left anyplace without charting a precise destination and itinerary first, or you're plumb astounded you got where you're at and couldn't tell me what happened last night much less what's in store six weeks from now. You might have a working man's calloused hands the calloused soul that only the mistreated know or the calloused heart that comes with having yours shattered too many times. Everybody needs to catch an occasional break or they risk becoming Long Gone & Lost...

Book Songsters and Saints

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Oliver
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1984-09-27
  • ISBN : 9780521269421
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Songsters and Saints written by Paul Oliver and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-09-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Oliver rediscovers the wealth of neglected vocal traditions represented on Race records.

Book Long Gone Daddies

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Wesley Williams
  • Publisher : John F. Blair, Publisher
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9780895875938
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Long Gone Daddies written by David Wesley Williams and published by John F. Blair, Publisher. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All his life, Luther Gaunt has heard songs in his head songs of sweet evil and blue ruckus, odes to ghosts, drinking hymns. In search of his past, he hits the road with his band, the Long Gone Daddies, and his grandfather's cursed guitar. While his band mates just want to make it big when they get to Memphis, Luther retraces the steps of his father and grandfather, who each made the same journey with the same guitar years earlier. Malcolm Gaunt could have been Elvis that white man who could sing black except his rounder's ways got him shot before he could strike that first note for Sam Phillips at Sun Records. At least that's what Luther's father--Malcolm's son--always told him when fame came calling and he disappeared down south, too. As Luther discovers the truth about the two generations of musicians that came before him, he must face the ghosts of history, the temptations of the road, and the fame cravings of a seriously treacherous woman.

Book The Last One s Gone  Lost Railway Locations of the 1960s

Download or read book The Last One s Gone Lost Railway Locations of the 1960s written by Keith Widdowson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of nostalgic images, many previously unpublished, documenting railway locations that are now sadly gone.

Book Long Gone

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dabney Stuart
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 1996-12-01
  • ISBN : 9780807121214
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book Long Gone written by Dabney Stuart and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1996-12-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its haunted opening to the complex affirmation of its final lines, this profound collection by Dabney Stuart presents a palimpsest of the spirit in the modern age. With jagged syncopations, lyrical stop-time, and a kind of elegiac swing, these poems spiral through multiple dimensions of time, memory, and emotion—from post-World War II America to the South Pacific-evoking perspectives of the psyche as brooding and cryptic as the Antarctic. Long Gone nimbly weaves carnal and familial love, the search for lost innocence, and the epistemology of memory into moments of hallucinatory focus where insight comes—and goes—like light on water. In “Double Exposures” a photograph of a child and grandmother reveals the slowly accreting carapace of history, memory, and habit—that cast of ourselves—that might seal us off from the purity of our beginnings. Yet for this speaker even to guess at that unnameable beginning is in itself an illumination—one that leads to an instant of faith in the progress of our spirits and their ultimate “implausible flight.” Long Gone is a troubling, spellbinding collection by a poet at the height of his powers; in it, readers encountering Dabney Stuart for the first time as well as those familiar with his other books of poetry and fiction will find cause to celebrate.

Book Broadcasting the Blues

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Oliver
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-02-04
  • ISBN : 1135467161
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Broadcasting the Blues written by Paul Oliver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadcasting the Blues: Black Blues in the Segregation Era is based on Paul Oliver's award-winning radio broadcasts from the BBC that were created over several decades. It traces the social history of the blues in America, from its birth in the rural South through the heyday of sound recordings. Noted blues scholar Paul Oliver draws on decades of research and personal interviews with performers--some of whom he "discovered" and recorded for the first time--to draw a picture of how the blues aesthetic developed, giving new insights into the role blues played in American society before racial integration. The book begins by outlining the history of the blues from African music through country stomps, ragtime songs, and field hollers. From the heroic figures of black folksong--including the steel-driving railroad worker John Henry and the destructive Boll Weevil--to the content of the emerging blues, the author discusses the "meaning" behind the often coded words of the blues, evoking topics such as playful sexuality, magic and medicine, the stresses of segregation, and commentary on national events. Finally, the author traces the history of blues documentation, showing how our views of the early blues have been shaped through a complex interplay of social forces, and indicating possible lines for future research.

Book Hold On World

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Kruth
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2021-06-01
  • ISBN : 1493052365
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Hold On World written by John Kruth and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hold On World revisits Lennon and Ono's love affair and startling collaborations. John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band was arguably the most emotionally honest album ever made. It wasn't merely another record but more like a sonic exorcism, a spiritual, public bloodletting. Lennon's album drove a stake through the heart of the Beatles' myth while confronting everything else in John's life, from Dylan to God to his glorified status as a "Working Class Hero." Determined to rid himself of past traumas—abandonment by his father and the death of his mother, Julia—Lennon wrote the most powerful song cycle of his career, confronting fear, disappointment, and illusion, all the while espousing his love for Yoko Ono. Released simultaneously, Ono's album Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band is emotionally raw and challenging. It inspired bands like the B-52s and Yo La Tengo to employ pure sound, whether shrieking vocals or guitar feedback, to express their deepest feelings.

Book The Au Pair Psychological Suspense Bundle  Almost Gone   1  and Almost Lost   2

Download or read book The Au Pair Psychological Suspense Bundle Almost Gone 1 and Almost Lost 2 written by Blake Pierce and published by Blake Pierce. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bundle of books #1 (ALMOST GONE) and #2 (ALMOST LOST) in Blake Pierce’s Au Pair Psychological Suspense Mystery series! This bundle offers books one and two in one convenient file, with over 100,000 words of reading. In ALMOST GONE, when 23 year old Cassandra Vale accepts her first job as an au pair, she finds herself placed with a wealthy family in a rural estate outside of Paris, and all seems too good to be true. But she soon discovers that behind the gilded gates lies a dysfunctional family, a twisted marriage, troubled children, and secrets too dark to air. Beneath the opulence lies a dark web of malice, one Cassandra finds all too familiar, triggering dreams from her own violent and tortured past, one from which she desperately runs. And when a grisly murder tears the house apart, it threatens to take down her own fragile psyche with it. In ALMOST LOST, when a divorcee vacationing in the British countryside puts out an ad for an au pair, Cassandra Vale, 23, broke, still reeling from the ruins of her last placement in France, takes the job without hesitation. Wealthy, handsome and generous, with two sweet children, she feels nothing can go wrong. But can it? Treated to the best England has to offer, and with France out of sight, Cassandra dares to believe she finally has a moment to catch her breath—until a startling revelation forces her to question the truths of her tumultuous past, her employer, and her very own sanity. A riveting mystery replete with complex characters, layers of secrets, dramatic twists and turns and heart-pounding suspense, The Au Pair psychological suspense series will have you turning pages late into the night.

Book Long Time Lost

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chris Ewan
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2017-02-07
  • ISBN : 1250117399
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book Long Time Lost written by Chris Ewan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nick Miller and his team provide a unique and highly illegal service, relocating at-risk individuals across Europe with new identities and lives. Nick excels at what he does for a reason: he himself has spent years living in the shadows under an assumed name. But when Nick steps in to prevent the attempted murder of Kate Sutherland, a witness in hiding on the Isle of Man, he triggers a chain of events with devastating consequences for everyone he protects. Nick and Kate share a common enemy in Connor Lane, a man who will stop at nothing to get what he wants, even if it means tearing Nick's entire network apart"--

Book Lost Everything

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian Francis Slattery
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2012-04-10
  • ISBN : 0765329123
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Lost Everything written by Brian Francis Slattery and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the critically acclaimed literary sci-fi novels "Spaceman Blues" and "Liberation" comes an incandescent and thrilling future history dystopia in the vein of "1984" or "The Hunger Games."

Book Lost Decades  The Making of America s Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery

Download or read book Lost Decades The Making of America s Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery written by Menzie D. Chinn and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear, authoritative guide to the crisis of 2008, its continuing repercussions, and the needed reforms ahead. The U.S. economy lost the first decade of the twenty-first century to an ill-conceived boom and subsequent bust. It is in danger of losing another decade to the stagnation of an incomplete recovery. How did this happen? Read this lucid explanation of the origins and long-term effects of the recent financial crisis, drawn in historical and comparative perspective by two leading political economists. By 2008 the United States had become the biggest international borrower in world history, with more than two-thirds of its $6 trillion federal debt in foreign hands. The proportion of foreign loans to the size of the economy put the United States in league with Mexico, Indonesia, and other third-world debtor nations. The massive inflow of foreign funds financed the booms in housing prices and consumer spending that fueled the economy until the collapse of late 2008. This was the most serious international economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Menzie Chinn and Jeffry Frieden explain the political and economic roots of this crisis as well as its long-term effects. They explore the political strategies behind the Bush administration’s policy of funding massive deficits with foreign borrowing. They show that the crisis was foreseen by many and was avoidable through appropriate policy measures. They examine the continuing impact of our huge debt on the continuing slow recovery from the recession. Lost Decades will long be regarded as the standard account of the crisis and its aftermath.

Book Long Lost Dog of It

Download or read book Long Lost Dog of It written by Michael Kazepis and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "June 5th, 2011. The streets of Athens are draped in a thick fog of tension. Hundreds of thousands of activists line the streets to protest the bankrupt government's austerity measures. Riot police patrol the crowd and set up barricades across key intersections. A toothless vagrant scrambles to stay ahead of his past, a young couple struggles to piece their relationship back together, and a killer realizes too late that his number is up. Over the course of 48 hours, they will navigate a labyrinth of sex shows and dive bars, mob fronts and punk shows, fighting both their inner demons and the very real demon stalking the streets with a machine gun in his bag: a sociopathic hitman dressed to the nines and obsessed with JFK."--Page 4 of cover.

Book Gone Lost

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jody Aberdeen
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 0359415342
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book Gone Lost written by Jody Aberdeen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tears On My Shoulder

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  • Author : Melanie Marie Shifflett Ridner
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2010-06-21
  • ISBN : 0557527430
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book Tears On My Shoulder written by Melanie Marie Shifflett Ridner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tears On My Shoulder is a written Poetry book.Dealing with many ups and downs in todays ever increasing changeing world and the heartache's that come with relationships.The knowledge of love found and lost.A book filled with emotions and deep soul searching.Feelings that many can associate with and reaches deep into the inner soul.

Book Sterling A  Brown

Download or read book Sterling A Brown written by Joanne V. Gabbin and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sterling A. Brown's achievement and influence in the field of American literature and culture are unquestionably significant. His poetry has been translated into Spanish, French, German, and Russian and has been read in literary circles throughout the world. He is also one of the principal architects of black criticism. His critical essays and books are seminal works that give an insider's perspective of literature by and about blacks. Leopold Sedar Senghor, who became familiar with Brown's poetry and criticism in the 1920s and 1930s, called him "an original militant of Negritude, a precursor of our movement." Yet Joanne V. Gabbin's book, originally published in 1985, remains the only study of Brown's work and influence. Gabbin sketches Brown's life, drawing on personal interviews and viewing his achievements as a poet, critic, and cultural griot. She analyzes in depth the formal and thematic qualities of his poetry, revealing his subtle adaptation of song forms, especially the blues. To articulate the aesthetic principles Brown recognized in the writings of black authors, Gabbin explores his identification of the various elements that have come together to create American culture.

Book My Gone Austin       Retrospective 1965 2015

Download or read book My Gone Austin Retrospective 1965 2015 written by Glenn W. Jones, Jr. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lost In Yesterday

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  • Author : R.W. Glaser
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1365562166
  • Pages : 528 pages

Download or read book Lost In Yesterday written by R.W. Glaser and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: