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Book Love Saves the Day

Download or read book Love Saves the Day written by Tim Lawrence and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-02 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening with David Mancuso's seminal “Love Saves the Day” Valentine's party, Tim Lawrence tells the definitive story of American dance music culture in the 1970s—from its subterranean roots in NoHo and Hell’s Kitchen to its gaudy blossoming in midtown Manhattan to its wildfire transmission through America’s suburbs and urban hotspots such as Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Newark, and Miami. Tales of nocturnal journeys, radical music making, and polymorphous sexuality flow through the arteries of Love Saves the Day like hot liquid vinyl. They are interspersed with a detailed examination of the era’s most powerful djs, the venues in which they played, and the records they loved to spin—as well as the labels, musicians, vocalists, producers, remixers, party promoters, journalists, and dance crowds that fueled dance music’s tireless engine. Love Saves the Day includes material from over three hundred original interviews with the scene's most influential players, including David Mancuso, Nicky Siano, Tom Moulton, Loleatta Holloway, Giorgio Moroder, Francis Grasso, Frankie Knuckles, and Earl Young. It incorporates more than twenty special dj discographies—listing the favorite records of the most important spinners of the disco decade—and a more general discography cataloging some six hundred releases. Love Saves the Day also contains a unique collection of more than seventy rare photos.

Book Love Saves the Day

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gwen Cooper
  • Publisher : Bantam
  • Release : 2013-01-15
  • ISBN : 0345526961
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Love Saves the Day written by Gwen Cooper and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Homer’s Odyssey comes a tender, joyful, utterly unforgettable novel, primarily told through the eyes of the most observant member of any human family: the cat. Humans best understand the truth of things if they come at it indirectly. Like how sometimes the best way to catch a mouse that’s right in front of you is to back up before you pounce. So notes Prudence, the irresistible brown tabby at the center of Gwen Cooper’s tender, joyful, utterly unforgettable novel, which is mostly told through the eyes of this curious (and occasionally cranky) feline. When five-week-old Prudence meets a woman named Sarah in a deserted construction site on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, she knows she’s found the human she was meant to adopt. For three years their lives are filled with laughter, tuna, catnaps, music, and the unchanging routines Prudence craves. Then one day Sarah doesn’t come home. From Prudence’s perch on the windowsill she sees Laura, the daughter who hardly ever comes to visit Sarah, arrive with her new husband. They’re carrying boxes. Before they even get to the front door, Prudence realizes that her life has changed forever. Suddenly Prudence finds herself living in a strange apartment with humans she barely knows. It could take years to train them in the feline courtesies and customs (for example, a cat should always be fed before the humans, and at the same exact time every day) that Sarah understood so well. Prudence clings to the hope that Sarah will come back for her while Laura, a rising young corporate attorney, tries to push away memories of her mother and the tumultuous childhood spent in her mother’s dusty downtown record store. But the secret joys, past hurts, and life-changing moments that make every mother-daughter relationship special will come to the surface. With Prudence’s help Laura will learn that the past, like a mother’s love, never dies. Poignant, insightful, and laugh-out-loud funny, Love Saves the Day is a story of hope, healing, and how the love of an animal can make all of us better humans. It’s the story of a mother and daughter divided by the turmoil of bohemian New York, and the opinionated, irrepressible feline who will become the bridge between them. It’s a novel for anyone who’s ever lost a loved one, wondered what their cat was really thinking, or fallen asleep with a purring feline nestled in their arms. Prudence, a cat like no other, is sure to steal your heart. Praise for Love Saves the Day “Prudence [is a] sassy but sensitive feline heroine.”—Time “Unforgettably moving . . . a hard one to put down.”—Modern Cat “If you are the Most Important Person to a cat, you will hold them much tighter by the book’s end. If you don’t have a cat, Prudence will have surreptitiously lured you into the danger zone: Falling in love with a cat because they need family, too.”—The Vancouver Sun “Cooper brings readers a fictional tale that cat lovers will treasure. . . . This book will make most readers laugh and cry, and probably lead them to wonder more often what, exactly, their pet is thinking.”—Fredericksburg Free Lance–Star “The interspersed viewpoints . . . enrich Cooper’s sensitively told novel that unravels a story (based on actual events) about a century-old tenement building—and the inhabitants therein. That story ultimately serves as the basis to understanding the emotional subtexts of these authentic, well-drawn characters.”—Shelf Awareness

Book Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor  1980   1983

Download or read book Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor 1980 1983 written by Tim Lawrence and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the 1970s gave way to the 80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor chronicles this tumultuous time, charting the sonic and social eruptions that took place in the city’s subterranean party venues as well as the way they cultivated breakthrough movements in art, performance, video, and film. Interviewing DJs, party hosts, producers, musicians, artists, and dancers, Tim Lawrence illustrates how the relatively discrete post-disco, post-punk, and hip hop scenes became marked by their level of plurality, interaction, and convergence. He also explains how the shifting urban landscape of New York supported the cultural renaissance before gentrification, Reaganomics, corporate intrusion, and the spread of AIDS brought this gritty and protean time and place in American culture to a troubled denouement.

Book Love Saves the Day

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gwen Cooper
  • Publisher : Bantam
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0345526945
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Love Saves the Day written by Gwen Cooper and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2013 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Losing her home when her owner passes away, Prudence the brown tabby cat is taken in by her former owner's grieving daughter, who maintains a meticulously organized life to avoid the pain of past losses and memories about her dynamic relationship with her mother.

Book Wubbzy Saves the Day

Download or read book Wubbzy Saves the Day written by Scholastic, Inc. and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wubbzy sees firefighters at work, and wants to join in the excitement! He rescues a kite, fills a birdbath, and becomes an honorary firefighter. Wow wow!"--Page 4 of cover

Book Super Satya Saves the Day

Download or read book Super Satya Saves the Day written by Raakhee Mirchandani and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Super Satya is ready to have a super day, including finally conquering the tallest slide in Hoboken. But her day takes a not-so-super turn when she realizes her superhero cape is stuck at the dry cleaner. Will she be able to face her fears, help her friends, and be the true hero everyone knows she is?

Book Flynn Saves the Day  Thomas   Friends

Download or read book Flynn Saves the Day Thomas Friends written by Rev. W. Awdry and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sodor's newest star, Flynn the fire engine, arrives just in time to help Percy put out a fire and save Thomas. Little boys ages 3-6 will thrill to this Step 1 SIR based on the newest Thomas & Friends direct-to-DVD movie, Day of the Diesels. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Book Ruby Valentine Saves Day

Download or read book Ruby Valentine Saves Day written by Laurie Friedman and published by Carolrhoda Books ®. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Valentine's Day and Ruby won't let anything spoil the celebration! In this follow-up to the popular Love, Ruby Valentine, Ruby's favorite day of the year rolls around again, and she and Lovebird work feverishly to plan the perfect party for everyone in Heartland. But when Valentine's Day arrives, an unexpected snowstorm threatens to ruin all of Ruby's plans. Will Ruby find a way to save the day, or will everyone in Heartland have to wait until next year to celebrate?

Book Isaiah Dunn Saves the Day

Download or read book Isaiah Dunn Saves the Day written by Kelly J. Baptist and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting middle school is no joke! Friendship, community, and a love of words blend in this sequel to the award-winning Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero. Things are looking up for super kid Isaiah Dunn. He and his little sister, Charlie, are getting used to staying with Miz Rita, and Mama′s feeling better. Isaiah′s poetry business with Angel is taking off, and his best friend, Sneaky, always has a new hustle. Plus, Isaiah has his dad′s journals for a story or if he needs advice. . . . Like maybe now, because starting middle school is hard. Especially when his mentee, Kobe, won′t stop making trouble. Isaiah knows something is up, but to get to the bottom of Kobe′s secret, he′ll have to rely on every hero he knows—including himself!

Book Friendship Saves the Day

Download or read book Friendship Saves the Day written by Ximena Hastings and published by Simon Spotlight. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catboy, Owlette, and Gekko celebrate Valentine’s Day in this heart-shaped board book based on PJ Masks, the hit preschool series airing on Disney Junior! It’s Valentine’s Day at school and someone has stolen all the Valentine’s Day cards! It’s up to the PJ Masks to solve the mystery and teach everyone a lesson about friendship! PJ Masks © Frog Box / Entertainment One UK Limited / Walt Disney EMEA Productions Limited 2014

Book Mary Anne Saves the Day  A Graphic Novel  The Baby Sitters Club  3

Download or read book Mary Anne Saves the Day A Graphic Novel The Baby Sitters Club 3 written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who would have guessed that when the BSC girls get in a HUGE fight, it's shy and quiet Mary Anne who manages to save their friendship?When a terrible fight breaks out among the four BABY-SITTERS CLUB friends, Mary Anne is left to her own devices. She has to sit by herself at lunch, make new friends, and deal with her overprotective father without advice from the BSC gang. But the worst part is when she faces a terrible baby-sitting predicament, and she can't find any help.Luckily, Mary Anne rises to the occasion. Not only does she handle all her problems with aplomb, she also manages to get the BSC back together again.

Book Daisy Saves the Day

Download or read book Daisy Saves the Day written by Shirley Hughes and published by Candlewick Press (MA). This book was released on 2015 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working in a big house owned by two refined ladies to support her mother and brothers, a young scullery maid in early-twentieth-century England borrows books and dreams of a better life before saving her employers from a kitchen fire.

Book Sunny s Tow Truck Saves the Day

Download or read book Sunny s Tow Truck Saves the Day written by Anne Marie Pace and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a family car gets a flat on the way to a picnic, help is needed and time is ticking! Cranes are lifting, and pavers are paving. Diggers are digging, and workers are waving. But where is Sunny and her trusty tow truck? Written in sparse rhyme wonderful for reading aloud, Sunny’s Tow Truck Saves the Day! is the perfect book to introduce little readers to the concept of time, as well as to various workers and their vehicles. The bold, colorful illustrations by Christopher Lee bring this dynamic world to life.

Book Sheriff Callie s Wild West Callie Saves the Day

Download or read book Sheriff Callie s Wild West Callie Saves the Day written by Disney Book Group and published by Disney Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it's time to round up runaway farm animals, track down some low-down gold thieves, or kick up your heels at the county fair, who can you count on? Sheriff Callie, of course! This rootin'-tootin' lift-the-flaps book has more that 50 fun flaps that show shapes, colors, animal sounds, and a whole lotta knee-slapping surprises. Yee-haw!

Book Samantha Saves the Day

Download or read book Samantha Saves the Day written by Valerie Tripp and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While spending the summer at Grandmary's home on Goose Lake, Samantha and the twins Agnes and Agatha decide to visit the island where Samantha's parents were drowned during a storm.

Book Color Saves the Day

Download or read book Color Saves the Day written by Lucianna Samu and published by . This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Give outdated rooms around the house some oomph with a fresh new palate. Samu provides ideas for visually altering space with color, suggests new color palettes, and provides hundred of actual paint colors.

Book Tractor Saves the Day

Download or read book Tractor Saves the Day written by Mandy Archer and published by QEB Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up and down, here and there, busy wheels are everywhere! Dog and Tractor are hard at work on a busy, blustery day. It's so windy that a tree falls and blocks the lane. Tractor must hurry to help! It's time to get busy with machines that race, vroom and zoom! This vibrant series is designed to excite playful pre-schoolers. Each Busy Wheels book offers a colorful vehicle adventure, sounds to mimic and an exciting job to get done! Each story features a popular vehicle as the central character, and involves a group of animal characters in a supporting role. A detailed spread on different parts of the vehicle will help children to understand what makes up the machines and will help familiarize them with vehicle vocabulary and noises. Busy Wheels Series includes: Fire Truck is Flashing (978-1-60992-228-3) Digger to the Rescue (978-1-60992-229-0) Tractor Saves the Day (978-1-60992-230-6) Race Car is Roaring (978-1-60992-231-3) Police Car is Chasing (978-1-60992-436-2) Dumper Truck Dash! (978-1-60992-437-9) Ambulance in Action! (978-1-60992-439-3) Monster Truck Mountain Rescue! (978-1-60992-438-6)