Download or read book 101 Amazing Facts about Billie Eilish written by Holger Weßling and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billie Eilish is one of the music industry's hottest properties right now. Today some people see her as a mainstream act and many well-known celebrities are talking of how much they like her work. Yet her biggest fans have been there from the start, following her career long before she was the ‘next big thing'. But how much do you really know about Billie? How did she start off in the musical world? Who does she consider to be influential on her unique style? And how did she transition from well-kept-secret to major stardom? This quick-read guide features over one hundred facts about Billie, her music, her style and much more. So whether you were an avocado who was there from the beginning or are a newly-converted member of the eyelashes or pirates, this is the perfect book for you!
Download or read book The Things We Leave Behind written by Clare Furniss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How I Live Now meets Exodus – a startling YA dystopia that imagines London as the epicentre of the refugee crisis, from critically acclaimed author Clare Furniss. Civil unrest in London has reached an all-time high after years of a growing authoritarian regime, and it’s no longer safe for Clem and her half-sister Billie in the city. Clem tells of their treacherous journey to Scotland, by road and then by sea, fleeing with nothing but a notebook filled with stories and memories of home. But is there something Clem's not saying? And how will this journey – and the sisters’ story – end? With the start of a new life? Or a mirror held up to the past? PRAISE FOR THE THINGS WE LEAVE BEHIND: ‘A frighteningly remarkable, relevant and moving novel, told gently and with impeccable style. Clare Furniss is one of the very best writers for young people and this new novel is her finest yet. I loved it.’ Sarah Crossan, author of Moonrise 'Gripping and heart-wrenching, the story has a tragic denouement that is almost too painful to read, but Furniss’ exquisite writing carries the reader through.' The Bookseller PRAISE FOR CLARE FURNISS: ‘Lingers in the mind long after the final word has been read’ Malorie Blackman, author of Noughts & Crosses ‘Absolutely gorgeous, heartfelt and incredibly enjoyable’ Robin Stevens, author of the Murder Most Unladylike series ‘Funny, sharply observed, shocking and wonderful’ Sunday Times ‘A beautifully executed story . . . gloriously funny, deeply emotional and a triumph’ Daily Mail ‘Beautifully written’ Stylist
Download or read book This Thing Called Life written by Neal Karlen and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warm and surprisingly real-life biography, featuring never-before-seen photos, of one of rock’s greatest talents: Prince. Neal Karlen was the only journalist Prince granted in-depth press interviews to for over a dozen years, from before Purple Rain to when the artist changed his name to an unpronounceable glyph. Karlen interviewed Prince for three Rolling Stone cover stories, wrote “3 Chains o’ Gold,” Prince’s “rock video opera,” as well as the star’s last testament, which may be buried with Prince’s will underneath Prince’s vast and private compound, Paisley Park. According to Prince's former fiancée Susannah Melvoin, Karlen was “the only reporter who made Prince sound like what he really sounded like.” Karlen quit writing about Prince a quarter-century before the mega-star died, but he never quit Prince, and the two remained friends for the last thirty-one years of the superstar’s life. Well before they met as writer and subject, Prince and Karlen knew each other as two of the gang of kids who biked around Minneapolis’s mostly-segregated Northside. (They played basketball at the Dairy Queen next door to Karlen’s grandparents, two blocks from the budding musician.) He asserts that Prince can’t be understood without first understanding ‘70s Minneapolis, and that even Prince’s best friends knew only 15 percent of him: that was all he was willing and able to give, no matter how much he cared for them. Going back to Prince Rogers Nelson's roots, especially his contradictory, often tortured, and sometimes violent relationship with his father, This Thing Called Life profoundly changes what we know about Prince, and explains him as no biography has: a superstar who calls in the middle of the night to talk, who loved The Wire and could quote from every episode of The Office, who frequented libraries and jammed spontaneously for local crowds (and fed everyone pancakes afterward), who was lonely but craved being alone. Readers will drive around Minneapolis with Prince in a convertible, talk about movies and music and life, and watch as he tries not to curse, instead dishing a healthy dose of “mamma jammas.”
Download or read book Our Billie written by Ian Clayton and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An astonishing work' - Joanne Harris Every parent's worst nightmare became a reality for Ian Clayton. On a short holiday break in Hay-on-Wye he took his nine-year-old twins canoeing, and in a freak accident his daughter Billie was drowned. In a remarkably frank and vivid way Clayton describes what happened on that spring day, his desperate attempts to save his two children, and then what it felt like two years later to come face to face with the men who hired out the canoe. But Our Billie is not a story of bitterness and recrimination. Instead it's the story of how a family attempts to come to terms with something which makes no sense at all. Through his memories of Billie and his wonderfully affectionate portrait of the small town in Yorkshire where the family has lived for generations, he weaves a story of loss and remembering, of gratitude and forgiveness.
Download or read book The Write Thing Kwame Alexander Engages Students in Writing Workshop And You Can Too written by Kwame Alexander and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine having a Newbery Medal-winning author in your classroom as an advisor and a friend, providing personal and practical advice on how to teach writing workshop in the modern-day classroom. With The Write Thing, you can do just that! Kwame Alexander is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Crossover. With more than 10 years of experience conducting writing workshops in schools, Alexander shows how to shake up the "traditional" writing workshop and make writing fun again! His magnetic personality, infectious enthusiasm, and love of teaching come through to inspire all students to write. The Write Thing teaches you how to move students step-by-step from ideas, to drafts, to finished works. Not only will you successfully motivate your students to write, you'll take that motivation one step further by providing guidance on how to create student-driven publications of their work. The confidence students will attain when they see their writing authentically published will be off the charts! The book has three parts: Writing, Publishing, and Presenting. The Writing section features Lessons in Action that teach students to produce writing that is worthy of being published. With a focus on poetry, Alexander's writing workshop uniquely meets the needs of reluctant writers. The Publishing section focuses on how to prepare and print digital and physical copies of students' work. The Presenting section provides suggestions to help students confidently present their poetry and other written pieces. Other exciting features include KwameTime! videos for both teachers and students that bring Alexander into the classroom. Kwame's QuickTips feature easy-to-implement ideas that have worked for Alexander. With an insightful foreword by author Kylene Beers, teacher success stories, and the most helpful appendix ever written, this essential resource will teach you how to tailor writing workshop to meet the particular needs of your students.
Download or read book Women of Manhattan written by John Patrick Shanley and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1986 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Rhonda, Judy and Billie are having dinner, over which they lament the fact that, while their careers are flourishing, their emotional lives are a wreck. Rhonda has just broken up with her boyfriend (but is unable to jettison the oversize
Download or read book Funny How Things Turn Out written by Judith Bruce and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part biography, part memoir, all brilliantly written, 'Funny How Things Turn Out' chronicles the long, long life of Muriel Newmarch and her daughter.
Download or read book People and Things from the Blount County Alabama Southern Democrat 1934 1938 written by Robin Sterling and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern Democrat was established by Forney G. Stephens at Blountsville in 1894. After fellow newspaperman Lawrence H. Mathews of the Blount County News-Dispatch died in 1896, Stephens moved the Democrat to Oneonta. When the News-Dispatch folded in 1903, the Democrat was the preeminent Blount County newspaper. Stephens died in 1939, but the Democrat continued to publish in Oneonta for almost 100 years. In 1989 the old Southern Democrat was renamed the Blount Countain. Microfilm for the old Southern Democrat was acquired from the State Archives in Montgomery and studied page by page. Every mention of births, marriages, deaths, obituaries and news important to the history and development of Blount County was reproduced here. This book is vital for any serious student of Blount County, Alabama genealogy and history.
Download or read book Metal Sky written by Jay Caselberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-09-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two years after the Wyrmhole incident, Jack and Billie, his ever-enigmatic fourteen-year-old ward, have set up a new shop in a new town. Yorkstone, with its clean streets and virtual sunny skies, is a far cry from the hellhole of the Locality. It’s also far more difficult to drum up business—until Bridgett Farrell darkens Jack’s door. The job: Find a metallic tablet inscribed with ornate writings. It’s very valuable—and made of a substance unlike any known to science. It seems an antique-dealing associate of Miss Farrell’s has made off with the valuable artifact, which may have been stolen from an archaeological dig in the ruins of an unknown civilization on the planet of Mandala. The catch? Miss Farrell is far more deceptive than she seems…
Download or read book The Sweetest Hallelujah written by Elaine Hussey and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a desperate bid, a dying mother takes out an ad in the paper and finds protection and love for her daughter from an unexpected source.
Download or read book From Out of the Shadows Sometimes Things Just Go Wrong written by Brian Fahey and published by Brian A Fahey. This book was released on with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Out of the Shadows is about a 1940's government experiment gone wrong. A DNA contractor hired by the government to create a live weapon of destruction, a sinister animal that kills to survive and survives by killing. The project was dropped when the large animals could not be controlled, now years later the animals are on the loose in the mountains of Arizona.
Download or read book Talk of Many Things written by George W. Gowen and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Cheekaah . . . Cheekaah . . . would you do me a favor . . . for Christmas . . . a present . . . would you . . . would you . . . write your life?” How can a grandfather say anything but yes to a twelve-year-old granddaughter? So here is my life. Cheekaah
Download or read book There s No Such Thing as a Dragon written by Jack Kent and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Bixbee's mother won't admit that dragons exist until it is nearly too late.
Download or read book All Hallows written by Christopher Golden and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning author Christopher Golden is best known for his supernatural thrillers set in deadly, distant locales...but in this suburban Halloween drama, Golden brings the horror home. It’s Halloween night, 1984, in Coventry, Massachusetts, and two families are unraveling. Up and down the street, secrets are being revealed, and all the while, mixed in with the trick-or-treaters of all ages, four children who do not belong are walking door to door, merging with the kids of Parmenter Road. Children in vintage costumes with faded, eerie makeup. They seem terrified and beg the neighborhood kids to hide them away, to keep them safe from The Cunning Man. There’s a small clearing in the woods now that was never there before, and a blackthorn tree that doesn’t belong at all. These odd children claim that The Cunning Man is coming for them...and they want the local kids to protect them. But with families falling apart and the neighborhood splintered by bitterness, who will save the children of Parmenter Road? All Hallows. The one night when everything is a mask...
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Download or read book Playing with Things written by Mary Weismantel and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a thousand years ago on the north coast of Peru, Indigenous Moche artists created a large and significant corpus of sexually explicit ceramic works of art. They depicted a diversity of sex organs and sex acts, and an array of solitary and interconnected human and nonhuman bodies. To the modern eye, these Moche “sex pots,” as Mary Weismantel calls them, are lively and provocative but also enigmatic creations whose import to their original owners seems impossible to grasp. In Playing with Things, Weismantel shows that there is much to be learned from these ancient artifacts, not merely as inert objects from a long-dead past but as vibrant Indigenous things, alive in their own human temporality. From a new materialist perspective, she fills the gaps left by other analyses of the sex pots in pre-Columbian studies, where sexuality remains marginalized, and in sexuality studies, where non-Western art is largely absent. Taking a decolonial approach toward an archaeology of sexuality and breaking with long-dominant iconographic traditions, this book explores how the “pots play jokes, make babies, give power, and hold water,” considering the sex pots as actual ceramic bodies that interact with fleshly bodies, now and in the ancient past. A beautifully written study that will be welcomed by students as well as specialists, Playing with Things is a model for archaeological and art historical engagement with the liberating power of queer theory and Indigenous studies.
Download or read book Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra written by Dan Callahan and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crosby, Holiday, Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Garland, and Streisand were the major interpreters of the American songbook, and this is the interlocking story of their lives and careers. Here is the epic tale of how these artists dominated American popular music over a fifty-year period, a roller coaster ride that gains momentum through the 1930s and '40s, reaches a crest of magical creativity in the 1950s and early '60s, and then crashes down by the early 1970s, a half century when the great American songbook dominated the airwaves and the fight for racial equality came to the forefront. Ella was beloved in her time, and she is still beloved. Frank is still the king of the songbook, but Bing's legacy is just as vital once you start listening to his unprecedented 1930s output. The best songs from Judy's greatest triumph, her 1963–64 TV series, are shared endlessly online. The legend of Billie grows by the year, and the basis of this should be appreciation and wonder for her own great artistry in the 1930s. Barbra is a living legend and still a commercial force to be reckoned with, the last exemplar of the songbook and its glories. All six of these singers reach out to us and show us new ways of expression and new ways to dream. Their song is largely ended but the melody lingers on.
