Download or read book The Lives and Loves of Eddie Payne written by John Trentino and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-01-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York to Ft. Lauderdale, Eddie Payne lives a life of lost and found, rags to riches, and a variety of travel, fighting and loving. This is an attention holding story of how life on the edge might have been in yesteryear. Don t fight the specifics, but join in the spirit of the story and come along for the adventure. John Trentino writes in the vernacular of one who might have been raised in the circumstance and experience of Eddie Payne. Perhaps there is more autobiography in the story than John might admit.
Download or read book The Drama All Over a Father s First Love written by Mandell Williams and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the country fights against injustice in the criminal department, there has also been an unspoken injustice brewing in the family court system for way too long. For over twenty-one years, I have dedicated my life in spotlighting the dark side on an outdated system affecting so many lives. I've learned firsthand of this biased, one-sided system that has stolen my firstborn away from me. My story of these events that has transpired throughout two decades has been well-documented with the facts of my case in its entirety. The surrounding drama, marked by family court and fueled by a relentless baby mama has led me on a journey for justice for a daughter I never knew. Just like so many others who have fought and lost the right to be a parent. My mission now is to change and expose the truth of this corrupt culture that touches across all racial barriers and wealth status. History has shown us that a father's love is one of the most important key figures in a child's life. To undertake that away purposely, can be an atrocity affecting generations to come. But who knew the fight for my daughter would ultimately catapult my life into a direction for change and a front-row seat to a new normal that affects us all!
Download or read book Naados and His Kin written by Eddie Payne and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beginning: Naados and His Kin embraces the characters and divine script as humanity, fresh from creator's hand, accept their likeness-image status. Join author Eddie Payne in a new refreshing telling of the old, old story. The newly made humans face a difficult decision. Their free choice and the potential to live forever in this new-born world nudge them forward to understand and experience their existence. Why one tree and not the other? Knowing is good, living is better but how can one be sure without knowing? But other created beings share their perfect world. As sovereigns over everything, how will their free choice impact those who share bounty from the hand of their creator? Enter Naados, a member of one of the animal species populating the perfect world but not sharing likeness-image qualities. Through his eyes, the tragic implications of that first choice are revealed, and the first imperfections of the world are perceived. Follow Naados and observe the process leading humans to exercise free choice. Feel the impact of disobedience. Follow the erring offspring in their increasing rebellion against their creator. Discover how Naados escapes judgment in order to tell his tale. Yearn, with Naados, for final restoration in this dynamic introduction to an ongoing cosmic drama played out by Giver and his creation. The best is yet to come. 'Eddie Payne has a lively imagination and a genuine love of the Lord. Everything he writes reflects both of these qualities in his life.' - Dr. Dennis E. Hensley, author of The Power of Positive Productivity
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 1989-03-27 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
Download or read book A Flame on the Front Line written by John Weaver and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2000, John Weaver has been A Flame on the Front Line sharing God's love in Afghanistan. He serves as a Team Leader for Shelter Now, which has been helping Afghans for over 25 years. John is the happy husband of Jeanne, whom he met and married in Afghanistan. "I saw John Weaver for the first time in October 2001 on ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. When John's face appeared on the screen, I knew there was something special about him. I could see it in his eyes, his smile, and his interaction with the Afghan people." - Franklin Graham, President of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan's Purse. Journey from America to Afghanistan is an invitation to step into an incredible adventure led by the Sovereign King. The voyage features views of earthly struggles and saving grace; painful experiences and purposeful excursions; disappointing failures and dreams fulfilled. It also explores aspects of life in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. This inspiring story is both enjoyable and unforgettable. Join us inside... John and Jeanne Weaver, with their three sons, live and work as a family of flames. You can contact them at [email protected]. Proceeds from this book support the work of Shelter Now Afghanistan.
Download or read book Everybody Needs Love written by Bruce Schurman and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Eddie was a black man in a white man's body. No one I've ever worked with or heard had any more Soul than Eddie did. His guitar playing was always tasteful, strong and distinctive...his voice grabbed you and pulled you in so that you not only heard it, but you felt it...and were mesmerized by it. He had a beautiful smile... but behind it were some inner thoughts that had to do with some deep pain that he kept hidden inside. That was one of the things that made him so intriguing, so interesting and so powerful.” – Chuck Leavell, piano player for the Rolling Stones and the Allman Brothers Band, among many others.
Download or read book Achieving the Impossible written by Lewis Gordon Pugh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 2007, Lewis Gordon Pugh became the first person to swim at the North Pole, in temperatures that would kill a normal person, primarily to raise awareness of climate change. Nicknamed 'the human polar bear' for his ability to raise his body temperature at will, he has pioneered swims in the world's most hostile waters, redefining what it is possible to achieve in terms of endurance. A former member of the SAS, Lewis tells his fantastic story here for the first time. Chapters cover his childhood, growing up with his 'hero' Surgeon Rear Admiral father, his early life in South Africa, his gruelling training in the army's elite regiment, his inspiration and, of course, plenty of action/adventure stories, chronicling his many nail-biting endurance swims. With practical lessons taken from his own life, Lewis explains how recognising one's passions and taking calculated risks is essential for anyone looking to fulfil their goals. The book will also cover his expedition kayaking to the North Pole in summer 2008 and preparing for his most dangerous swim yet - on Everest! - planned for May 2010. His story is inspiring, entertaining and thrilling in equal measure, and its 39-year-old author is a much-needed role model for our times.
Download or read book SNAKE AMONGST SHADOWS written by CHIMAIJEM I. EZECHUKWU and published by BIS Publications. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mac Logan is a man with a very dark past. He was once an educated cop. He’s now an expendable P.I. called Jarrett. The story begins when he is assigned to investigate a series of muggings happening in town by his new boss and friend Derek Hawke. Logan starts the investigation to find out that there’s more to the case than meets the eye. He discovers that this mysterious caper is linked with a treasure hunt in the bad lands of Tikal, in Mexico. Logan goes to Mexico with Hawke and uncovers a smuggling operation there. He has a run in with a gang lord craving for supremacy; and finds out the truth behind a girl’s death. The man now called Jarrett also learns about his boss’s past. As Logan keeps sleuthing, he discovers the real culprits behind the brutal muggings. Logan journeys back to England where he has another encounter with an old enemy. A notorious crook called Quentin ‘the Rat’ Baker. So when the expendable PI uncovers the man’s secret he equally unveils the vicious and faceless criminal network responsible for the abrupt murders he sets out to investigate.
Download or read book Lethal City written by A. W. Gray and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this suspenseful thriller set in Dallas, A. W. Gray takes us behind the police lines of a homicide investigation and into the private passions that fuel an urban nightmare. A stolen BMW is recovered with a stash of cocaine, lurid photos, and a charred, dismembered body. Dallas Metro detective Ham Benno soon connects the victim to a secret circle of family depravity and sexual indiscretion—a mother and daughter who blur the lines between predator and prey. Are the suspects innocent targets? Guilty avengers? Nothing has ever been proven, and a stone-cold killer is about to strike again.
Download or read book The Incredible True Story of the Making of the Eve of Destruction written by Amy Brashear and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Though the story takes place in the '80s, it feels eerily timely."—Bustle Arkansas, 1984: The town of Griffin Flat is known for almost nothing other than its nuclear missile silos. MAD—Mutually Assured Destruction—is a fear every local lives with and tries to ignore. Unfortunately that’s impossible now that film moguls have picked Griffin Flat as the location for a new nuclear holocaust movie, aptly titled The Eve of Destruction. When sixteen-year-old Laura Ratliff wins a walk-on role (with a plus-one!) thanks to a radio call-in contest, she is more relieved than excited. Mingling with Hollywood stars on the set of a phony nuclear war is a perfect distraction from being the only child in her real nuclear family—which has also been annihilated. Her parents are divorced, and her mother has recently remarried. Her father, an officer in the Strategic Air Command, is absent . . . except when he phones at odd hours to hint at an impending catastrophe. But isn’t that his job? Laura’s only real friend is her new stepbrother, Terrence. She picks him as her plus-one for the film shoot, enraging her fair-weather friends. But their anger is nothing compared to what happens on set after the scripted nuclear explosion. Because nobody seems to know if a real nuclear bomb has detonated or not.
Download or read book Black Comedians on Black Comedy written by Darryl Littleton and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). Black Comedians on Black Comedy is the only up-to-date book to examine African-American humor. Comedian Darryl Littleton traces the history and evolution of "black comedy" in his narrative and through the 125 interviews he conducted with some of the top African-American comedians in the world. Those interviewed include Dick Gregory, Sinbad, Eddie Murphy, Mike Epps, Cedric the Entertainer, Nick Cannon, Bernie Mac, Eddie Griffin, Damon Wayans, Arsenio Hall, Chris Rock, Marla Gibbs, Robert Townsend, and John Witherspoon.
Download or read book House of Hits written by Andy Bradley and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in a working-class neighborhood in southeast Houston in 1941, Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios is a major independent studio that has produced a multitude of influential hit records in an astonishingly diverse range of genres. Its roster of recorded musicians includes Lightnin' Hopkins, George Jones, Willie Nelson, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Junior Parker, Clifton Chenier, Sir Douglas Quintet, 13th Floor Elevators, Freddy Fender, Kinky Friedman, Ray Benson, Guy Clark, Lucinda Williams, Beyoncé and Destiny's Child, and many, many more. In House of Hits, Andy Bradley and Roger Wood chronicle the fascinating history of Gold Star/SugarHill, telling a story that effectively covers the postwar popular music industry. They describe how Houston's lack of zoning ordinances allowed founder Bill Quinn's house studio to grow into a large studio complex, just as SugarHill's willingness to transcend musical boundaries transformed it into of one of the most storied recording enterprises in America. The authors offer behind-the-scenes accounts of numerous hit recordings, spiced with anecdotes from studio insiders and musicians who recorded at SugarHill. Bradley and Wood also place significant emphasis on the role of technology in shaping the music and the evolution of the music business. They include in-depth biographies of regional stars and analysis of the various styles of music they represent, as well as a list of all of Gold Star/SugarHill's recordings that made the Billboard charts and extensive selected historical discographies of the studio's recordings.
Download or read book Finders written by Lawrence G. Wasden and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINDERS is a Sci-Fi, action packed, adventure thriller that will leave you sitting on the edge of your seat. You will not want to put it down! FINDERS is written in a Sci-Fi style that will lead you to believe that the story could actually happen. The story encompasses the lives of two eleven year old best friends, Josh Hampton and Darnel Ellis, who go on summer vacation with Joshs family to the mountains of Pennsylvania. The family would stay in a cabin for the summer and enjoy the beauty of their surroundings on Knotts mountain. Everything would seem so perfect, what could possibly go wrong? The boys enthusiastic exploration of the mountain proved to be more than they bargained for when they ventured to a place called Knotts peak! Their curiosity leads them to the discovery of a life-time that will take them to a place where no human has ever gone before, nor for that matter, even imagined. The story involves not only Josh and Darnel, but their families as well when legal authorities try to find out what caused the boys disappearance. Unforeseen events would bring the two families closer together than you can imagine. Can these families elude the events that may destroy their world?
Download or read book Frankie McIntosh and the Art of the Soca Arranger written by Frankie McIntosh and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2024-10-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soca music, an offspring of older Trinidadian calypso, emerged in the late 1970s and is now recognized as one of the English-speaking Caribbean’s most distinctive styles of popular vocal music. Frankie McIntosh and the Art of the Soca Arranger tells a story of Caribbean music in the diaspora through the eyes and ears of a pioneering soca arranger. A fascinating collaboration between Frankie McIntosh and music scholar Ray Allen, this cowritten memoir places the music arranger at the center of several overlapping narratives of immigration and musical diaspora. The book begins with McIntosh’s personal voyage from Saint Vincent to Brooklyn and his efforts to hammer out a career in music while raising a family in his newly adopted home. His immigrant tale is intertwined with his musical journey, from popular Caribbean dance bands through formal studies in Western classical music and jazz to his work as a gigging jazz pianist and calypso/soca arranger. Along the way he embraced the varied musics of New York’s African American and West Indian communities, working with such iconic calypsonians as the Mighty Sparrow, Lord Kitchener, Calypso Rose, and Alston “Becket” Cyrus. His story provides a unique lens for viewing Brooklyn Carnival music and brings into focus the borough’s rise to prominence as the transnational hub of the soca music industry in the 1980s. An alternative to traditional scholarship that tends to focus on calypso and soca singers, this work explores the instrumental dimensions of the art form through the life and music of one of the most celebrated soca arrangers and keyboardists of all time.
Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-02-20 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
Download or read book Go Slow written by Michael Owen and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been said that the records of singer and actress Julie London were purchased for their provocative, full-color cover photographs as frequently as they were for the music contained in their grooves. During the 1950s and 1960s, her piercing blue eyes, strawberry-blonde hair, and shapely figure were used to sell the world an image of cool sexuality that stoked the fevered dreams of many men. The contrast between that image and reality, the public and the private, is at the heart of Julie London's story. Through years of research, extensive interviews with family, friends, and musical associates, and access to rarely seen or heard archival material, author Michael Owen reveals the impact that her image had on the direction of her career and how it influenced the choices she made, including the decision to walk away from performing. Go Slow follows Julie London's life and career through its many stages: her transformation from 1940s movie starlet to the coolly defiant singer of the classic torch ballad "Cry Me a River" of the 1950s, and her journey from Las Vegas hotel entertainer during the rock and roll revolution of the 1960s to the no-nonsense nurse of the 1970s hit television series Emergency!
