Download or read book The Hometown Muse written by Krista Noorman and published by Krista Noorman. This book was released on 2022-10-22 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will going on tour with his band make them or break them? Ellie Sweet has been in love with the boy next door from the moment she discovered romance movies and realized boys were no longer gross, but Cooper Mason never saw her as more than his best friend. After high school graduation, he left town to chase his country music dreams. Now, he’s famous and back in their hometown of Abbottsville for a visit, and he’s offering her a job too good to refuse. Going on the road as his tour manager could change everything. Maybe even give Ellie the happily ever after she's always dreamed of. But all she's ever known is her comfortable life in Abbottsville—the perfect job, family and friends she adores, and precious memories of loved ones lost that keep her rooted in place. She can’t upend her entire life and venture off across the country with the guy she's always been secretly in love with. Or can she? The Hometown Muse is a heartwarming romantic comedy with plenty of small-town charm, flirty banter, swoon-worthy kisses, forced proximity, best friends falling in love, a fun cast of characters, romantic movie-inspired hilarity, and a happily ever after, of course.

Download or read book The Muse of Ocean Parkway written by Jacob Lampart and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Muse of Ocean Parkway and other stories explores difficulties Jews face while trying to balance their religious practices with the fast-paced, modern society of New York City. Their lives captured in moments of crisis, Jacob Lampart's protagonists range from an artist attempting to escape obscurity to a mother struggling to decide how to raise her adopted Chinese daughter"--Amazon.com, viewed November 4, 2011.

Download or read book Vivaldi s Muse written by Sarah Bruce Kelly and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivaldi's Muse explores the life of Annina Giro, Antonio Vivaldi's longtime protegee. Annina first falls under the spell of the fiery and intriguing prete rosso (red-haired priest) at a young age, when Vivaldi is resident composer at the court of Mantua, her hometown. Stifled by the problems of her dysfunctional family, she has long dreamed of pursuing operatic stardom, and her attraction to the enchanting Venetian maestro soon becomes inseparable from that dream.

Download or read book The Devil s Muse written by Bill Loehfelm and published by Picador. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Devil's Muse, Bill Loehfelm returns with another gripping installment in his “edgy, dangerous, but pulsing with life” (Booklist) Maureen Coughlin series. New Orleans’s toughest female cop tackles her very first Mardi Gras Now that she’s back on the force and her work with the FBI is over, Maureen Coughlin should have a quieter life. Until Mardi Gras rolls around, that is. New Orleans’s biggest and most infamous party, Mardi Gras may be fun for the revelers but it’s hell for the NOPD, who try to keep the peace on streets jam-packed with drunken paradegoers and the thousands of tourists pouring into the city to join the action. With all that chaos, the city becomes a breeding ground for crimes of all shapes and sizes. Maureen’s Mardi Gras night starts with a bang when a man in pink zebra-print tights—and nothing else—runs past and throws himself onto the hood of a moving car. It only gets worse when she hears gunshots over the noise of the crowd. In the midst of the revelry, Maureen and her fellow cops must stabilize the shooting victims and hunt down the shooter, all while grappling with massive crowds, a camera crew intent on capturing the investigation for their YouTube channel, an incompetent on-duty detective, and race relations in a city more likely to mistrust cops than ever. It’s going to be one very long night for Maureen.

Download or read book German Home Towns written by Mack Walker and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-21 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German Home Towns is a social biography of the hometown Bürger from the end of the seventeenth to the beginning of the twentieth centuries. After his opening chapters on the political, social, and economic basis of town life, Mack Walker traces a painful process of decline that, while occasionally slowed or diverted, leads inexorably toward death and, in the twentieth century, transfiguration. Along the way, he addresses such topics as local government, corporate economies, and communal society. Equally important, he illuminates familiar aspects of German history in compelling ways, including the workings of the Holy Roman Empire, the Napoleonic reforms, and the revolution of 1848. Finally, Walker examines German liberalism's underlying problem, which was to define a meaning of freedom that would make sense to both the "movers and doers" at the center and the citizens of the home towns. In the book's final chapter, Walker traces the historical extinction of the towns and their transformation into ideology. From the memory of the towns, he argues, comes Germans' "ubiquitous yearning for organic wholeness," which was to have its most sinister expression in National Socialism's false promise of a racial community. A path-breaking work of scholarship when it was first published in 1971, German Home Towns remains an influential and engaging account of German history, filled with interesting ideas and striking insights—on cameralism, the baroque, Biedermeier culture, legal history and much more. In addition to the inner workings of community life, this book includes discussions of political theorists like Justi and Hegel, historians like Savigny and Eichhorn, philologists like Grimm. Walker is also alert to powerful long-term trends—the rise of bureaucratic states, the impact of population growth, the expansion of markets—and no less sensitive to the textures of everyday life.

Download or read book The Lived Experience of African American Women Mentors written by Wyletta Gamble-Lomax and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Lived Experience of African American Women Mentors: Community Pedagogues, Wyletta Gamble-Lomax explores the lived experiences of six African American female mentors working with African American female youth. The works of philosophers Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Edward Casey are intertwined with the writings of Black feminist scholars such as Patricia Hill Collins and Audre Lorde, while Max van Manen guides the phenomenological process with pedagogical insights and reminders. Through individual conversations with each muse, the power in care and the importance of listening in mentoring relationships is uncovered as essential components. The significance of place, the complexities of Black femininity, and the benefits of genuine dialogue are all explored in ways that bring new understanding to African American female experiences and how they connect to today’s educational climate. This study concludes with phenomenological recommendations for educational stakeholders to pursue partnerships with school, family and community.

Download or read book Voice and Voices in Antiquity written by Niall Slater and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voice and Voices in Antiquity draws together 18 studies of the changing concept of voice and voices in the oral traditions and subsequent literate genres of the ancient world. Ranging from the poet's voice to those of characters as well as historically embodied communities, and from the interface between the Greek and Near Eastern worlds to the western reaches of the Roman Empire, the scholars assembled here offer a methodologically rich and diverse series of approaches to locating the power of voice as both poetic construct and communal memory. The results not only enrich our understanding of the strategies of epic, lyric, and dramatic voices but also illuminate the rhetorical claims given voice by historians, orators, philosophers, and novelists in the ancient world.

Download or read book On the Road to Find Out written by Cherie Bell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Road to Find Out: an MLS Journey begins with a crisis that eventually turns into inner exploration and world travel. Cherie Bell writes with humor and honesty of her decision to return to college after almost thirty years to work on a liberal studies degree in graduate school. Her intention was to focus on world religion and philosophy, but varied interests led her to courses that would take her around the world. She writes in detail about her journeys to India and to World War II sites in England and France. More poignantly, she reveals how liberal arts studies became a journey into the self and exploration of the mind and soul.

Download or read book The Emergence of the Lyric Canon written by Theodora A. Hadjimichael and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hellenistic period was an era of literary canons, of privileged texts and collections. One of the most stable of these consisted of the nine (rarely ten) lyric poets: whether the selection was based on poetic quality, popularity, or the availability of texts in the Library of Alexandria, the Lyric Canon offers a valuable and revealing window on the reception and survival of lyric in antiquity. This volume explores the complexities inherent in the process by which lyric poetry was canonized, and discusses questions connected with the textual transmission and preservation of lyric poems from the archaic period through to the Hellenistic era. It firstly contextualizes lyric poetry geographically, and then focuses on a broad range of sources that played a critical role in the survival of lyric poetry - in particular, comedy, Plato, Aristotle's Peripatetic school, and the Hellenistic scholars - to discuss the reception of the nine canonical lyric poets and their work. By exploring the ways in which fifth- and fourth-century sources interpreted lyric material, and the role they played both in the scholarly work of the Alexandrians and in the creation of what we conventionally call the Hellenistic Lyric Canon, it elucidates what can be defined as the prevailing pattern in the transmission of lyric poetry, as well as the place of Bacchylides as a puzzling exception to this norm. The overall discussion conclusively demonstrates that the canonizing process of the lyric poets was already at work from the fifth century BC and that it is reflected both in the evaluation of lyric by fourth-century thinkers and in the activities of the Hellenistic scholars in the Library of Alexandria.

Download or read book Inspiring Creativity written by Rick Benzel and published by Creativity Coaching Assoc. Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Anthology of essays on various aspects of creativity written by 22 professional creativity coaches from the US, Canada, and New Zealand.

Download or read book Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York 1880 1939 written by Daniel Soyer and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landsmanshaftn, associations of immigrants from the same hometown, became the most popular form of organization among Eastern European Jewish immigrants to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Jewish Immigrant Associations, by Daniel Soyer, holds an in-depth discussion on the importance of these hometown societies that provided members with valuable material benefits and served as arenas for formal and informal social interaction. In addition to discussing both continuity and transformation as features of the immigrant experience, this approach recognizes that ethnic identity is a socially constructed and malleable phenomenon. Soyer explores this process of construction by raising more specific questions about what immigrants themselves have meant by Americanization and how their hometown associations played an important part in the process.

Download or read book The Muse s Visitors written by Suvarna Pilli and published by Verses Kindler Publication. This book was released on 2022-06-11 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Muse’s Visitors, an anthology compiled by Suvarna. Pilli. It contains beautiful pieces of 31 amazing writers across the world who penned down their feelings. This book consists of a mixed genre of short stories, poems and articles based on variety of themes. In compiling this new candidate for favour, the one aim has been to pack between its covers the greatest possible amount of practical information of real value to all, especially to the inexperienced. In this book, you can find both our experiences and how they changed us. You’ll find stories and momentos that we hope will touch your heart.

Download or read book Tattooed Hearts written by Mika Jolie and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being someone's first love is unforgettable. Being their last is immeasurable. Claire Peters should be on top of the world. She owns the radio waves and has a budding movie career. But her heart longs to be rooted. Ten years ago, she fled Martha's Vineyard to pursue her dream and to make something of herself. But there's still a void. After a decade of running, she returns to the island hoping to find her happiness with the man she's loved all her life. When a tragic event shatters Dr. Forrest Desvareaux' well-balanced world, the Vineyard's hometown good guy discovers everything in his life is based on lies. Angry and betrayed, he turns to Claire - the one woman who has indelibly marked him. Is it possible to run back to the person who broke you? Forever linked, Forrest and Claire are an unending continuum. But she's a wildflower and Forrest's roots run deep on the Vineyard. Can they accept home is not a place but a feeling?

Download or read book A State by State History of Race and Racism in the United States 2 volumes written by Patricia Reid-Merritt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 1117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing chronologies of important events, historical narratives from the first settlement to the present, and biographies of major figures, this work offers readers an unseen look at the history of racism from the perspective of individual states. From the initial impact of European settlement on indigenous populations to the racial divides caused by immigration and police shootings in the 21st century, each American state has imposed some form of racial restriction on its residents. The United States proclaims a belief in freedom and justice for all, but members of various minority racial groups have often faced a different reality, as seen in such examples as the forcible dispossession of indigenous peoples during the Trail of Tears, Jim Crow laws' crushing discrimination of blacks, and the manifest unfairness of the Chinese Exclusion Act. Including the District of Columbia, the 51 entries in these two volumes cover the state-specific histories of all of the major minority and immigrant groups in the United States, including African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and Native Americans. Every state has had a unique experience in attempting to build a community comprising multiple racial groups, and the chronologies, narratives, and biographies that compose the entries in this collection explore the consequences of racism from states' perspectives, revealing distinct new insights into their respective racial histories.

Download or read book Jan Karons Mitford Years Novels Six Through Nine Plus a Father Tim Novel written by Jan Karon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visit America’s favorite small town one book at a time. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon, this is the new ecollection of novels six through nine in the beloved Mitford Years series, plus Home to Holly Springs, the first novel in the Father Tim series. Readers have come to feel at home in Mitford, the little town with the big heart. As this charming mountain village works its magic, you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll quickly make friends who feel like family—for the residents of Mitford are the most ordinary people who live the most extraordinary lives. And in Home to Holly Springs, you will travel back with Father Tim to his childhood Mississippi home, where he discovers the awesome power of love and forgiveness.

Download or read book The Summer of Christmas written by Juliet Giglio and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Christmas has, indeed, arrived early with this romp."—Booklist July is a great time to celebrate Christmas! In the wild world of making a TV Christmas movie, a hot and sunny upstate New York summer becomes a winter wonderland, overnight. But as cool as the fake snow is, when the real life hero gets tangled up with the movie star, the screenwriter grapples for control of the story, and the fans become a hazard to life and limb, it'll take a Christmas miracle to pull everyone together. Up-and-coming LA screenwriter Ivy Green is about to have her life turned upside down. Her movie, based on her and her high school sweetheart's horrible Christmas breakup, is being filmed in her hometown. Nick Shepherd is less than thrilled to see Ivy after all this time. To complicate matters, Ivy has a budding relationship with the producer, the town is overflowing with movie stars and overly-adoring fans, and worst of all—the actress playing Ivy develops a crush on the real Nick! In the end, Ivy will need to re-write her life script to finally get everything she ever wanted.

Download or read book In This Mountain written by Jan Karon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-04-29 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her seventh inspirational novel in the bestselling Mitford series, Jan Karon delivers surprises of every kind, including the return of the man in the attic and an ending that no one in Mitford will ever forget. In the little town that’s home-away-from-home to millions of readers, life hums along as usual. Dooley looks toward his career as a vet; Joe Ivey and Fancy Skinner fight a haircut price war that takes no prisoners; and Percy steps out on a limb with a risky new menu item at the Main Street Grill. Though Father Tim dislikes change, he dislikes retirement even more. As he and Cynthia gear up for a year-long ministry across the state line, a series of events sends shock waves through his faith—and the whole town of Mitford.