Download or read book Such a Pretty Girl written by Laura Wiess and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meredith was promised nine years of safety, but they only gave her three. Her father, who was sent to prison for sexually abusing Meredith and other children in the small town, has been released early on good behaviour. He was supposed to be locked up until Meredith's eighteenth birthday, when she would be free of her abusive father and her delusional mother, who dwells on a fantasy that the three of them will be a happy family once more. But Meredith is only fifteen, and her father is out of prison…and her mother is bringing him home. And Meredith won't let him hurt her, or anyone else, ever again. No matter what the cost. Lyrical, suspenseful, and emotionally shattering, SUCH A PRETTY GIRL is the compelling story of one young woman's painful fight for survival - and her journey back to herself.
Download or read book Melody Such a Pretty Girl written by Sylvie Rancourt and published by Drawn and Quarterly. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply affecting reflection on the struggle to survive and thrive while growing up poor in rural Quebec Autobiographical comics pioneer Sylvie Rancourt turns her attention to recreating the first three years of her life, from September 1959 to 1963. Formative incidents and memorable moments unfold against a backdrop of austere rural life under the powerful grip of religion. Covering the years before her parent’s separation, Rancourt shows the traditional family structure portion of her childhood through the eyes of Melody, her fictional stand-in. Though firmly routed in time and space, these details become incidental as family chaos, confusion, and the cruelty of situation take hold, creating a portrait of grief and destruction. In her previous book, Melody: Story of a nude dancer, Sylvie’s fair, human gaze adds sweetness to the story; here, the effect is different: that fairness has her trying to make sense of both sides of a family in which people are trying to do the right thing but don’t quite have the support and the judgement to make a go of it. At the root of this destruction, lies religion and its misuse, and the secrets spun to protect one’s faith. Prior to foster homes, reform schools, biker gangs, petty crime, and her ultimate ten-year career as a nude dancer in Montreal clubs, a period during which she began to create her acclaimed Melody comics, this is where it all began.
Download or read book Melody s Christmas written by ID Johnson and published by Rogue Wolf Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Christmas magic help her hear the music again? Melody Murphy shared her love of music with her father, but after tragically loosing him on Christmas Eve two years ago, she no longer has any interest in music or Christmas. She returns to her hometown of Charles Town, West Virginia, to help her mother save the family antique business, content to stay focused on her work. However, when a chance encounter with an adorable five-year-old leads her to befriend an attractive single dad, Melody begins to realize she's been putting her life on hold, something her father would've never wished for her. Will she learn to hear the song in the falling snow again? Reid has recently moved to Charles Town to start over after his wife walked out, leaving him alone to raise their son, Michael. When Michael decides he needs Melody Murphy in his life, Reid needs to find out what it is that has his son drawn to the young woman like a magnet. The closer he gets to Melody, the more he begins to believe he might get a second chance at love after all. This is a sweet contemporary romance with Christian themes, perfect for holiday reading.
Download or read book Miff Garbo s Hotel Chateau Hollywood written by Len Hymen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter now a small hotel in the backwater of glamorous Old Hollywood. Meet the residents of Hotel Chateau Hollywood: half-forgotten Silent Movie folk, ambitious young dancers, old fortune-tellers, jugglers, midgets, and other flamboyant characters of Old Hollywood's Golden Age live here--overlooked, nearly invisible in a fast-changing world. Written by a native of Hollywood Land, Miff Garbo's Hotel Chateau Hollywood, honors the forgotten personalities who gave Hollywood's Golden Age its unforgettable glow --and a certain hotel where they dwell in turbulent obscurity...Enjo
Download or read book Melody written by Sylvie Rancourt and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1980, Sylvie Rancourt and her boyfriend moved to Montreal from rural Northern Quebec. With limited formal education or training, they had a hard time finding employment, so Rancourt began dancing in strip clubs. These experiences formed the backbone of the first Canadian autobiographical comic book, Melody, which Rancourt wrote, drew, and distributed, starting in 1985. Later, she collaborated with the artist Jacques Boivin, who translated and drew a new series of Melody comics for the American market-the comics were an instant cult classic. Until now, the Rancourt drawn-and-written comics have never been published in English. These stories are compelling without ever being voyeuristic or self-pitying, and her drawings are formally innovative while maintaining a refreshingly frank and engaging clarity. Whether she's divulging her first experiences dancing for an audience or sharing moments from her life at home, her storytelling is straightforward and never sensationalized. With a knowing wink at the reader, Rancourt shares a world that, in someone else's hands, might be scandalous or seedy, but in hers is fully realized, real, and often funny. The Drawn & Quarterly edition of Melody: Story of a Nude Dancer, featuring an introduction by Chris Ware (Building Stories), places this masterpiece of early autobiographical comics in its rightful place at the heart of the comics canon.
Download or read book Pretty Girl is Like a Melody written by Charlie Kunz and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jane s Melody written by Ryan Winfield and published by Ryan Winfield. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A grieving mother must decide what boundaries she's willing to cross for true love when she takes in her dead daughter's young boyfriend, a struggling street musician, and finds herself falling for him."--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book The Final Cut written by Robert Jeffreys and published by Echo. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back after suspension, Detective Sergeant Robert Cardilini just wants to get on with the job. But his bosses have other ideas and partner him with an eager, young detective named Lorraine Spencer. To make matters worse, the pair are tasked with solving domestic violence cases. Cardilini thinks it's a waste of time: without the support of the courts, the police are hamstrung. Spencer knows better. When they find a young woman bleeding and tied to a chair in a suburban kitchen, they chalk it up as another hopeless case. But as they start investigating, they realise the woman is a willing participant in a sinister game of exploitation run by the highest echelons of business and government. Desperate to unravel the mystery and shake up the system, Spencer goes out on a limb. But will her partner support her, or will she be thrown to the wolves? A dark and compulsive crime thriller for fans of Ian Rankin, Michael Robotham, Jane Harper and A.J. Finn.
Download or read book Limelight written by Melody Carlson and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2009 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claudette, a former Hollywood beauty who is now an ill-fated widow, returns to her hometown and her estranged sister, and as she learns how to do tasks for herself and makes friends, Claudette begins to see her life in a new light.
Download or read book American Popular Song written by Alec Wilder and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Composer Alec Wilder's American Popular: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 is widely recognized as the definitive book on American popular song. In this volume, which achieved immediate praise and recognition upon its publication, Wilder discusses some 800 songs from the American Songbook, offering a composer's insight, acceccible music analysis, as well has his strong personal biases. Nearly fifty years later, this classic study has received a much-needed revision. While leaving Wilder's colorful prose and brazen opinions intact, language, style, and musical nomenclature have been updated to reflect current usage. The musical examples mostly remain, but piano score has been replaced with lead-sheet notation: melody, chords, and lyrics. Rhythmic notation has also been adjusted to follow present-day norms. Additionally, a final chapter has been added, which includes more than fifty songs that were not in the original, seeking to achieve greater representation for women and African American composers, as well as including several of Wilder's own songs"--
Download or read book Melody written by V. C. Andrews and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melody Logan knew her beautiful mother, Haille, was unhappy in their blue-collar mining town, but with her father's unwavering love, Melody always felt safe - until a terrible mining accident ripped her from her family's moorings. Still devastated by her father's death, Melody leaves West Virginia with her mother to follow Haille's dreams of becoming a model or actress. But first they make a stopover in Cape Cod to visit Melody's father's family for the first time. Melody knows only that her grandparents disowned her father when he married her mother - but now, moments after Melody first sets eyes on her dour, Bible-spouting Uncle Jacob, nervous Aunt Sara, and her cousins, handsome Cary, whose twin sister Laura has been killed in a sailing accident, and sweet, deaf little May, Haille announces that Melody is going to live with them. Sleeping in her dead cousin Laura's room, Melody knows nothing of the dark deceptions that are soon to surface, the sad, shocking truth about her parents - and the devastating betrayals that she is about to face.
Download or read book On Wings of Song in the Classroom written by Marguerite Vivian Hood and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Idea of You written by Robinne Lee and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now an original movie on Prime Video starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine! When Solène Marchand, the thirty-nine-year-old owner of a prestigious art gallery in Los Angeles, takes her daughter, Isabelle, to meet her favorite boy band, she does so reluctantly and at her ex-husband’s request. The last thing she expects is to make a connection with one of the members of the world-famous August Moon. But Hayes Campbell is clever, winning, confident, and posh, and the attraction is immediate. That he is all of twenty years old further complicates things. What begins as a series of clandestine trysts quickly evolves into a passionate relationship. It is a journey that spans continents as Solène and Hayes navigate each other’s disparate worlds: from stadium tours to international art fairs to secluded hideaways in Paris and Miami. And for Solène, it is as much a reclaiming of self, as it is a rediscovery of happiness and love. When their romance becomes a viral sensation, and both she and her daughter become the target of rabid fans and an insatiable media, Solène must face how her new status has impacted not only her life, but the lives of those closest to her.
Download or read book The Melody of You and Me written by Maria Hollis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After dropping out of university and breaking up with her girlfriend of three years, Chris Morrison's life is now a mind-numbing mess. She doubts that working at the small neighborhood bookstore is going to change that. The rest of her time is spent mostly playing guitar and ignoring the many messages her mother keeps sending her about going back to college. But one day, an adorable and charming new bookseller waltzes her way into Chris's life. Josie Navarro is sweet, flirty, and she always has a new book in her hands. The two girls start a fast friendship that, for Chris, holds the promise of something more. But is she reading too much into this or is it possible that Josie feels the same way?
Download or read book No Walls and the Recurring Dream written by Ani DiFranco and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A memoir as fierce, freewheeling, and passionate as her music." --O, the Oprah magazine A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism, storytelling, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and much more into an inspiring whole. In these frank, honest, passionate, and often funny pages is the tale of one woman's eventful and radical journey to the age of thirty. Ani's coming of age story is defined by her ethos of fierce independence--from being an emancipated minor sleeping in a Buffalo bus station, to unwaveringly building a career through appearances at small clubs and festivals, to releasing her first album at the age of 18, to consciously rejecting the mainstream recording industry and creating her own label, Righteous Babe Records. In these pages, as in life, she never hesitates to question established rules and expectations, maintaining a level of artistic integrity that has inspired and challenged more than a few. Ani continues to be a major touring and recording artist as well as a celebrated activist and feminist, standing as living proof that you can overcome all personal and societal obstacles to be who you are and to follow your dreams.
Download or read book The Ziegfeld Follies written by Ann Ommen van der Merwe and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ziegfeld Follies: A History in Song presents an account of the Follies through the musical productions contained in the show. Accessing primary sources such as magazines and extant programs, Ann Ommen van der Merwe has carefully researched the Follies, reconstructing the songs, dances, and content of each annual production from 1907 to 1931, providing detailed descriptions of song performances. In so doing, the book demonstrates the important role of song in facilitating the comedy and spectacle for which the Follies are better known. Ommen van der Merwe takes a broad, chronological approach to the material, addressing such issues as musical style, lyrics, and staging of individual songs. In the process, she identifies the historical trajectory of the Ziegfeld Follies, delineating periods within its history like the development of the production values Ziegfeld was famous for, the success of his spectacles, his adaptation to changing times, and his legacy. She also considers the cultural and performance history of the Follies and its reflection of the society in which it developed. An appendix lists the composer, lyricist, publisher, and performer of each Follies song, as well as a library collection or archive where a copy may be found. The book also includes a collection of photographs, a select discography, bibliography, and two indexes, by song title and general subject.
