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Author: Steve Couch Publisher: Book Guild Publishing ISBN: 191666850X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 276
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What’s a rock star to do when his talent fails him and his career has withered and died? Fed up with never-ending humiliations, Dave Masters fakes his own death in an attempt to boost his record sales, walking away from an industry that turned its back on him. But what’s a dead rock star to do when he realises too late that he can’t live without the stage? Dave decides to set up as his own tribute act, and starts all over, soon discovering that building a new life isn’t as easy as he might have thought. Dead Man Singing is a rollercoaster ride through Dave’s posthumous life; his brushes with fans, lovers, rivals, stalkers, gangsters, the law and the most dangerous enemy of all – himself. Can he come out of the other side of death alive?
Author: Steve Couch Publisher: Book Guild Publishing ISBN: 191666850X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 276
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What’s a rock star to do when his talent fails him and his career has withered and died? Fed up with never-ending humiliations, Dave Masters fakes his own death in an attempt to boost his record sales, walking away from an industry that turned its back on him. But what’s a dead rock star to do when he realises too late that he can’t live without the stage? Dave decides to set up as his own tribute act, and starts all over, soon discovering that building a new life isn’t as easy as he might have thought. Dead Man Singing is a rollercoaster ride through Dave’s posthumous life; his brushes with fans, lovers, rivals, stalkers, gangsters, the law and the most dangerous enemy of all – himself. Can he come out of the other side of death alive?
Author: Bruce Jackson Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 9780820321585 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 388
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Making it in Hell, says Bruce Jackson, is the spirit behind the sixty-five work songs gathered in this eloquent dispatch from a brutal era of prison life in the Deep South. Through engagingly documented song arrangements and profiles of their singers, Jackson shows how such pieces as "Hammer Ring," "Ration Blues," "Yellow Gal," and "Jody's Got My Wife and Gone" are like no other folk music forms: they are distinctly African in heritage, diminished in power and meaning outside their prison context, and used exclusively by black convicts. The songs helped workers through the rigors of cane cutting, logging, and cotton picking. Perhaps most important, they helped resolve the men's hopes and longings and allowed them a subtle outlet for grievances they could never voice when face-to-face with their jailers.
Author: Helen Prejean Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307787699 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 290
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment and an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty • "Stunning moral clarity.” —The Washington Post Book World • Basis for the award-winning major motion picture starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn "Sister Prejean is an excellent writer, direct and honest and unsentimental. . . . She almost palpably extends a hand to her readers.” —The New York Times Book Review In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier’s death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified as he had once been terrifying. She also came to know the families of the victims and the men whose job it was to execute—men who often harbored doubts about the rightness of what they were doing. Out of that dreadful intimacy comes a profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment. Here Sister Helen confronts both the plight of the condemned and the rage of the bereaved, the fears of a society shattered by violence and the Christian imperative of love. On its original publication in 1993, Dead Man Walking emerged as an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty. Now, some two decades later, this story—which has inspired a film, a stage play, an opera and a musical album—is more gut-wrenching than ever, stirring deep and life-changing reflection in all who encounter it.
Author: William Gibson Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101559411 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 203
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A collection of New York Times bestselling author William Gibson’s articles and essays about contemporary culture—a privileged view into the mind of a writer whose thinking has shaped not only a generation of writers but our entire culture... Though best known for his fiction, William Gibson is as much in demand for his cutting-edge observations on the world we live in now. Originally printed in publications as varied as Wired, the New York Times, and the Observer, these articles and essays cover thirty years of thoughtful, observant life, and are reported in the wry, humane voice that lovers of Gibson have come to crave. “Gibson pulls off a dazzling trick. Instead of predicting the future, he finds the future all around him, mashed up with the past, and reveals our own domain to us.”—The New York Times Book Review
Author: Sting Publisher: Dial Press ISBN: 0307421996 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 306
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From the first Police album, Outlandos D'Amour, through Sacred Love, here are the collected lyrics written by Sting, along with his commentary. “Publishing my lyrics separately from their musical accompaniment is something that I’ve studiously avoided until now. The two, lyrics and music, have always been mutually dependent, in much the same way as a mannequin and a set of clothes are dependent on each other; separate them, and what remains is a naked dummy and a pile of cloth. Nevertheless, the exercise has been an interesting one, seeing perhaps for the first time how successfully the lyrics survive on their own, and inviting the question as to whether song lyrics are in fact poetry or something else entirely. And while I’ve never seriously described myself as a poet, the book in your hands, devoid as it is of any musical notation, looks suspiciously like a book of poems. So it seems I am entering, with some trepidation, the unadorned realm of the poet. I have set out my compositions in the sequence they were written and provided a little background when I thought it might be illuminating. My wares have neither been sorted nor dressed in clothes that do not belong to them; indeed, they have been shorn of the very garments that gave them their shape in the first place. No doubt some of them will perish in the cold cruelty of this new environment, and yet others may prove more resilient and become perhaps more beautiful in their naked state. I can’t predict the outcome, but I have taken this risk knowingly and, while no one in their right mind should ever attempt to set “The Waste Land” to music, in the hopeful words of T. S. Eliot, These fragments I have shored against my ruins.” —Sting, from the Introduction
Author: Sarah Ruhl Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com ISBN: 1458766306 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 146
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An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet caf. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man - with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man's Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by playwright Sarah Ruhl, recipient of a MacArthur ''Genius'' Grant and Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play The Clean House. A work about how we memorialize the dead - and how that remembering changes us - it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world. Sarah Ruhl's plays have been produced at theaters around the country, including Lincoln Center Theater, the Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage, South Coast Repertory, Yale Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, among others, and internationally. She is the recipient of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (for The Clean House, 2004), the Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award, and the Whiting Writers' Award. The Clean House was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005. She is a member of 13P and New Dramatists.
Author: Mark A. Moore Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476672105 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 526
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Jan Berry, leader of the music duo Jan & Dean from the late 1950s to mid-1960s, was an intense character who experienced more in his first 25 years than many do in a lifetime. As an architect of the West Coast sound, he was one of rock 'n' roll's original rebels--brilliant, charismatic, reckless, and flawed. As a songwriter, music arranger, and record producer for Nevin-Kirshner Associates and Screen Gems-Columbia Music, Berry was one of the pioneering self-produced artists of his era in Hollywood. He lived a dual life, reaching the top of the charts with Jan & Dean while transitioning from college student to medical student, until an automobile accident in 1966 changed his trajectory forever. Suffering from brain damage and partial paralysis, Jan spent the rest of his life trying to come back from Dead Man's Curve. His story is told here in-depth for the first time, based on extensive primary source documentation and supplemented by the stories and memories of Jan's family members, friends, music industry colleagues, and contemporaries. From the birth of rock to the bitter end, Berry's life story is thrilling, humorous, unsettling, and disturbing, yet ultimately uplifting.
Author: Kim Scott Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1608197417 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 335
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Set in Western Australia in the first decades of the nineteenth century, That Deadman Dance is a vast, gorgeous novel about the first contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the new European settlers. Bobby Wabalanginy is a young Noongar man, smart, resourceful, and eager to please. He befriends the European arrivals, joining them as they hunt whales, till the land, and establish their new colony. He is welcomed into a prosperous white family, and eventually finds himself falling in love with the daughter, Christine. But slowly-by design and by hazard-things begin to change. Not everyone is happy with how the colony is progressing. Livestock mysteriously start to disappear, crops are destroyed, there are "accidents" and injuries on both sides. As the Europeans impose ever-stricter rules and regulations in order to keep the peace, Bobby's Elders decide they must respond in kind, and Bobby is forced to take sides, inexorably drawn into a series of events that will forever change the future of his country. That Deadman Dance is inevitably tragic, as most stories of European and native contact are. But through Bobby's life, Kim Scott exuberantly explores a moment in time when things could have been different, when black and white lived together in amazement rather than fear of the other, and when the world seemed suddenly twice as large and twice as promising. At once celebratory and heartbreaking, this novel is a unique and important contribution to the literature of native experience.
Author: Drac Von Stoller Publisher: Drac Von Stoller ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 7
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The Wilson mansion loomed against the autumn sky like a dying thing, its Victorian turrets piercing the low-hanging clouds. Located miles from the nearest town, the estate's wrought-iron gates were perpetually rusted half-open, as if eternally inviting – or warning away – visitors. Local teenagers whispered stories about the place, about the screams that sometimes echoed across the overgrown grounds on moonless nights. But Dr. Clive Wilson paid no attention to such tales. In his basement laboratory, surrounded by humming machines and walls of mysterious equipment, he was on the verge of something unprecedented. The doctor's hands, once steady enough to perform the most delicate surgeries, now trembled with excitement as he reviewed his notes for the thousandth time. The formulas, the calculations, the precise measurements of electrical current needed to bridge the gap between life and death – it was all there, waiting to be proven. His daughter Maria watched him from the doorway of his study, her dark eyes filled with concern. At twenty-four, she had inherited her late mother's ethereal beauty – pale skin, raven hair, and features that seemed almost too perfect to be real. But lately, living alone in this massive house with only her increasingly obsessed father for company had taken its toll. Dark circles had formed under her eyes, and her once-vibrant smile had faded to something more haunted. "Father," she said softly, "you need to rest. You've been at this for days." Dr. Wilson barely looked up from his notes. "Just a little longer, dear. The alignment of the electromagnetic fields must be perfect. One miscalculation and..." He trailed off, lost again in his work. Maria sighed and retreated to her room, where she spent hours staring out the window at the family cemetery that dotted the far corner of the property. The marble mausoleum stood like a sentinel among the weathered headstones, holding generations of Wilsons in its cold embrace. She often wondered if her mother's spirit wandered those grounds, and if so, what she would think of what her husband had become. When Derrick Stevens answered the advertisement in the newspaper, it seemed like fate. He appeared at their door one crisp morning, his blonde hair catching the autumn sun like a halo. Maria felt her heart stop when their eyes met – his were the color of a summer sky, bright and clear and full of life. But there was something else there too, a shadow of desperation that made her want to reach out and comfort him. Dr. Wilson's eyes lit up for entirely different reasons when he saw Derrick. Here was his perfect subject – young, healthy, and most importantly, alone in the world. The doctor's questions during the interview were precise, calculated: No living relatives? No close friends in the area? Perfect. What Dr. Wilson didn't count on was the way Derrick and Maria gravitated toward each other. During the preliminary tests, they would steal glances across the laboratory. When Dr. Wilson was absorbed in his work, they would meet in the garden, walking among the dying roses and sharing pieces of their lives. Derrick told her about the car crash that took his parents, about bouncing between foster homes, about his failed modeling career and mounting debts. Maria shared her own loneliness, her mother's death, her father's growing obsession with his work. The mansion seemed less oppressive with Derrick there. For the first time in years, laughter echoed through its halls. But Dr. Wilson noticed the change in his daughter, saw the way she looked at Derrick, and something dark began to grow in his heart. The thought of losing his only child to this penniless drifter, of being truly alone in his great house of shadows, was unbearable. When Dr. Wilson's old colleague, Dr. Steve Timmons, arrived to witness the experiment, the tension in the mansion was palpable. Timmons was a cautious man, his years of medical practice having taught him that playing God always came with a price. He watched with growing unease as Dr. Wilson explained the procedure – how Derrick would be technically dead for precisely three minutes before being brought back through a specific sequence of electromagnetic pulses, activated by a series of taps on the control panel. "Three taps, pause, two taps," Dr. Wilson demonstrated, his fingers drumming on his desk with practiced precision. "The sequence must be exact." Derrick had done this before, multiple times, each successful resurrection building Dr. Wilson's confidence. But this time was different. Just before the experiment began, Maria burst into the laboratory, her face glowing with joy, an engagement ring sparkling on her finger. "Derrick and I are getting married!" she announced. The look that crossed Dr. Wilson's face in that moment was something Dr. Timmons would never forget – a flash of such primal rage and fear that it transformed his features
Author: Steve Couch
Author: Steve Couch
Author: Bruce Jackson
Author: Helen Prejean
Author: William Gibson
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