Download or read book Seductive Serenade written by Simone J. Maxwell and published by Simone J. Maxwell. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far will a shy wordsmith go to inspire a desperate rock star plagued by writer’s block? Cleo Being the introverted twin of a mega famous pop star is a special kind of hell—especially since it’s the stolen poems from my journal that turned my sister into a household name. I’m fine being Kennedy’s assistant, and it’s amazing to hear fans sing my words every night, but I wish I could step out of her shadow, just once. A quiet week alone at the sun-kissed Hideaway resort is exactly what I need after months on tour. I’m ready to leave behind the chaos that comes with being “Kennedy’s sister” and just be Cleo Maxwell for a while. At least I was, until Benji Prescott, the heartbreakingly handsome ex-boybander I’ve crushed on for over a decade, knocks on my villa door and asks for songwriting help, mistaking me for my sister. Benji It’s been five years since I’ve had a hit song. Five years of imposter syndrome and pressure to show my label I’m not some one-hit wonder. After taking time out of the limelight to rediscover my passion for music, I’m determined to prove everyone wrong. There’s just one thing—I can’t come up with a decent song to save my life. I came to The Hideaway seeking a cure for my creative block, but I found something—someone—even better. Kennedy Maxwell is nothing like I expected; she’s insightful, authentic, and there’s something about her that’s just so damn seductive. It’s hard to stay focused on the music when I can’t stop thinking about the dirty things I’d like to do to her… Each book in The Hideaway series is a steamy, stand-alone romance with NO cliffhanger and an HEA. Suitable for ages 18+. Come find your escape.

Download or read book Hedwig and the Angry Inch written by Stephen Trask and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2003 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of transsexual rocker Hedwig Schmidt, an East German immigrant whose sex change operation has been botched and who finds herself living in a trailer park in Kansas.

Download or read book It Happened at The Hideaway Collection 1 written by Simone J. Maxwell and published by Simone J. Maxwell. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection includes the first three books in the It Happened at The Hideaway series, plus an extra bonus scene for each couple! Welcome to The Hideaway, an ultra-exclusive luxury resort and spa tucked into Mexico’s stunning Pacific Coast. Against the backdrop of sparkling turquoise water and lush, verdant mountains, Hollywood’s hottest celebrities and elite VIPs can let down their guard out of the public eye. And with a discreet staff anticipating their every desire, that leaves plenty of time for relaxation…and romance. There’s just one rule: what happens at The Hideaway stays at The Hideaway. Then again, rules were made to be broken. Book 1: Seductive Serenade Pretending to be her famous pop star sister for a week isn’t Cleo Maxwell’s idea of a relaxing vacation. But when Benji Prescott, the heartbreakingly handsome ex-boybander she has a crush on, knocks on her villa door and asks for songwriting help, there’s no way she’s turning him down. With their feelings for each other intensifying and the days ticking by, how much longer can Cleo maintain the charade? Book 2: Runaway Romance Emmy Santos, a former child star looking to make a comeback, thought marrying her popular, beloved costar would be the answer to all her problems, but on the morning of their much-anticipated wedding, her gut tells her to run. When she ends up at The Hideaway, Xavier Tate—her best friend’s successful, handsome older brother—is the last person she expects to encounter. Will their sizzling connection make her rethink her stance on walking down the aisle? Book 3: Christmas Connection Luxury hotel reviewer Monica Ryan is finding it hard to get over her thirst-trapping celebrity pastry chef ex—especially since his face is all over billboards and popping up on her social feeds. Escaping to The Hideaway with her sister just before the holidays seems like the perfect way to put Philippe Deslauriers out of mind, but as fate has it, he’s visiting the resort as well. This Christmas, they’ve been gifted a second chance at happiness…will they let it go to waste? Each book in the series is a steamy, stand-alone romance with NO cliffhanger and an HEA. Suitable for ages 18+. Come find your escape.

Download or read book Circles And Squares written by FJ Piacine and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-09-22 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Circles And Squares is a collection of fifty poems by FJ Piacine. These poems are tame compared to the author's usual dark and surreal tones.

Download or read book He Is I Say written by David Wild and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of Neil Diamond, and what he means to his fans, told by a journalist who has interviewed the "Jewish American Elvis."

Download or read book Comfortably Wild written by Hannah Cates and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2023-03-08 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a story of the magic that ensues when you follow that internal niggle, listen to your intuition and bravely dive into the unknown." Comfortably wild tells the story of a woman who almost completely lost who she was. Who one day with a brave choice left it all and leaped from her comfortable married life, in a town in the middle of England, Into the complete unknown, even when it didn’t make sense. A choice that leads her on an incredible journey to reigniting her light, becoming comfortable in her wild, and embracing her difference as her greatest gift. A compelling series of wild adventure, pleasure, spirituality and fear filled stories. Her most impactful moments that radically shifted her experience and her life trajectory, shared in the hope they may shift yours too. Think spiritual awakenings in high rise building's in Dubai, terrifying train journeys through India on her own, dream jobs in Bali and finding deep love in Australia.

Download or read book Jason and Catalina written by Justin Verner and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a successful fiction writer, Jason Morrison finds himself in a creative rut, disillusioned with his fast-paced life in Los Angeles. Seeking inspiration, he retreats to a solitary existence amongst the ponderosa pines of northern Arizona. But his quiet new life in Flagstaff soon takes an unexpected turn. Jason's breathtaking mountain home affords spectacular views, yet he finds himself drawn to the beautiful neighbor next door, a young woman named Catalina. As romance blossoms between Jason and Catalina, she introduces him to a new spiritual path that gives his life a sense of mission. Just as Jason is rediscovering his creative passion, his newfound faith faces a grave threat. An ominous danger encroaches on Jason and Catalina, intent on preventing their message from reaching the wider world. In this tense battle between good and evil, Jason must fight to protect his new community, his rediscovered creativity, and his burgeoning love. Will he and Catalina prevail? Or will sinister forces extinguish their light? As their commitment is put to the test, they discover the transformative power of love and faith.

Download or read book Soliloquies in England written by George Santayana and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dissonances of Modernity written by Irene Gómez-Castellano and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dissonances of Modernity illuminates the ways in which music, as an artifact, a practice, and a discourse redefines established political, social, gender, and cultural conventions in Modern Spain. Using the notion of dissonance as a point of departure, the volume builds on the insightful approaches to the study of music and society offered by previous analyses in regards to the central position they give to identity as a socially and historically constructed concept, and continues their investigation on the interdependence of music and society in the Iberian Peninsula. While other serious studies of the intersections of music and literature in Spain have focused on contemporary usage, Dissonances of Modernity looks back across the centuries, seeking the role of music in the very formation of identity in the peninsula. The volume's historical horizon reaches from the nineteenth-century War of Africa to the Catalan working class revolutions and Enric Granados' central role in Catalan identity; from Francisco Barbieri's Madrid to the Wagnerian's influence in Benito Perez Galdos' prose; and from the predicaments surrounding national anthems to the use of the figure of Carmen in Francoist' cinema. This volume is a timely scholarly addition that contemplates not only a broad corpus that innovatively comprises popular and high culture--zarzuelas, choruses of industrial workers, opera, national anthems--but also their inter-dependence in the artists' creativity.

Download or read book Musorgsky written by David Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modest Musorgsky was one of the towering figures of nineteenth-century Russian music. Now, in this new volume in the Master Musicians series, David Brown gives us the first life-and-works study of Musorgsky to appear in English for over a half century. Indeed, this is the largest such study of Musorgsky to have appeared outside Russia. Brown shows how Musorgsky, though essentially an amateur with no systematic training in composition, emerged in his first opera, Boris Godunov, as a supreme musical dramatist. Indeed, in this opera, and in certain of his piano pieces in Pictures at an Exhibition, Musorgsky produced some of the most startlingly novel music of the whole nineteenth century. He was also one of the most original of all song composers, with a prodigious gift for uncovering the emotional content of a text. As Brown illuminates Musorgsky's work, he also paints a detailed portrait of the composer's life. He describes how, unlike the systematic and disciplined Tchaikovsky, Musorgsky was a fitful composer. When the inspiration was upon him, he could apply himself with superhuman intensity, as he did when composing the initial version of Boris Godunov. Sadly, Musorgsky deteriorated in his final years, suffering periods of inner turmoil, when his alcoholism would be out of control. Finally, unemployed and all but destitute, he died at age forty-two. His failure to complete his two remaining operas, Khovanshchina and Sorochintsy Fair, Brown concludes, is one of music's greatest tragedies. Written by one of the leading authorities on nineteenth-century Russian composers, Musorgsky is the finest available biography of this giant of Russian music.

Download or read book Fallen Angel written by Regina Sherman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Makenna Wilkensen has had many names and many identities since being cast to earth and remade into a vampire. Her latest assumed identity is that of an Independent bookstore owner. It's under this guise that she meets author Gabe Anderson. Intrigued by his resistance to her supernatural allure, Makenna offers to host a book signing at her store to keep him conveniently close. Determined to have more to talk about than table placement, she decides to read his novel. This simple decision changes everything, though, because his fictional characters are all too familiar. The names may have changed, but there's no mistaking the true identity of the key players in the novel, just as there is no denying the fact that his fiction comes all too close to the hidden truth of Heaven's fallen angels.

Download or read book Reelpolitik Ideologies in American Political Film written by Beverly Merrill Kelley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reelpolitik Ideologies in American Political Film, Beverly Merrill Kelley examines more than a century of political movie history, providing a thorough historical background for diametrically opposed political ideologies in order to facilitate debate and dialectical learning. Kelley explores 185 American political movies (categorized by ideological themes and presented in chronological order) in order to illustrate the history of film as well as the history of the specific political ideology. Each chapter includes a case study which provides an in-depth analysis of the single film that best illustrates the ideology at hand, including: The Candidate (populism), Wall Street (elitism), The Godfather (fascism), All the President's Men (anti-fascism), Patton (interventionism), and M*A*S*H (isolationism). Reelpolitik Ideologies in American Political Film establishes a paradigmatic analysis of political films that details the cyclical nature of ideological dialectic throughout American history and identifies the values, attitudes, and beliefs of the voters who choose not to affiliate with Republicans and Democrats, and who often determine the outcomes of elections. The text also includes an extensive ideological filmology spanning more than 100 years of American cinema. This study represents a bold investigation of the political and social values of American film, and is an essential text in the study of the relationship between culture and politics.

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Download or read book Reelpolitik II written by Beverly Merrill Kelley and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2004-02-16 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reelpolitik II moves past typical left-right political distinctions to examine political ideologies cycling through U.S. history during the '50s and '60s. These eight Cold War movies especially equipped the moviegoer with a unique vantage point to scrutinize the arms race, the Red Scare, the Korean Conflict, and the Vietnam War. They also helped audiences to observe the way film functions as a purveyor of American mythology, a megaphone to shout political messages, a metaphorical route to the emotions, a flattering mirror, an unflattering microscope, and a magic carpet ride back to the future.

Download or read book Love Leads the Way written by Claudia Pemberton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newlyweds Mikayla and Jesse Daulton are living a fairytale life. Jesse is a retired United States Army Ranger working as a flight medic on a rescue helicopter, while Mikayla runs a small advertising business out of their home. Although they are madly in love, there is one thing missing from their private paradise: a child of their own. Jesse, who is as noble as his profession, is determined to give his wife the desires of her heart. After being suspended from his job for not following protocol, he makes a life-altering decision that will unwittingly place both his and Mikaylas lives in jeopardy. Love Leads the Way is a poignant story of love and devotion between an Army soldier and his wife as they embark on an unforgettable journey together that teaches the true meaning of family, heroism, and sacrifice. Praise for Love Leaves No One Behind You cannot just read this book and walk away untouched emotionally in some way. William Rev Bill McDonald Jr., author, poet, motivational speaker, and film consultant

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Download or read book Muse Inside The Muscle Machine written by Ben Myers and published by Bonnier Zaffre. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive work - the only book on Muse - tells the band's story, from their inception in the small coastal town of Teignmouth, Devon in the mid-1990s, through numerous incendiary live shows and grandiose, critically acclaimed albums, to their status as the biggest British rock band in the world.This best-selling book is now fully updated to include Muse's astonishing fourth album, Black Holes & Revelations, which is their biggest selling record to date, having shifted well over a million copies. Ploughing their own distinct musical furrow has finally reaped rich rewards for this trio of unlikely musical heroes, confirming the band as genuine modern day rock gods.In this definitive account, Ben Myers tells the Muse tale through exclusive interviews with the band and numerous associates, and also includes the author's eyewitness accounts at various stages along the way.Ben Myers is a highly respected music journalist whose work has appeared in numerous publications including Kerrang!, Melody Maker, Q, Uncut and Careless Talk Costs Lives. He has also written the bestselling book Green Day: American Idiots And The New Punk Explosion, as well as the acclaimed biographies John Lydon: Sex Pistols, PiL and Anti-Celebrity and System Of A Down: Right Here In Hollywood.