Author: Patricia Roberts Publisher: Scarecrow Press ISBN: 9780810828230 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 282
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Planned activities are suggested for over 200 alphabet books and include objective(s), materials, and suggested grade level. Recommended for school librarians, teachers, and parents.
Author: Bobby Rush Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 0306874792 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 327
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Experience music history with this memoir by one of the last of the genuine old school Blues and R&B legends, the Grammy-winning dynamic showman Bobby Rush. This memoir charts the extraordinary rise to fame of living blues legend, Bobby Rush. Born Emmett Ellis, Jr. in Homer, Louisiana, he adopted the stage name Bobby Rush out of respect for his father, a pastor. As a teenager, Rush acquired his first real guitar and started playing in juke joints in Little Rock, Arkansas, donning a fake mustache to trick club owners into thinking he was old enough to gain entry. He led his first band in Arkansas between Little Rock and Pine Bluff in the 1950s. It was there he first had Elmore James play in his band. Rush later relocated to Chicago to pursue his musical career and started to work with Earl Hooker, Luther Allison, and Freddie King, and sat in with many of his musical heroes, such as Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed and Little Walter. Rush eventually began leading his own band in the 1960s, crafting his own distinct style of funky blues, and recording a succession of singles for various labels. It wasn't until the early 1970s that Rush finally scored a hit with "Chicken Heads." More recordings followed, including an album which went on to be listed in the Top 10 blues albums of the 1970s by Rolling Stone and a handful of regional jukebox favorites including "Sue" and "I Ain't Studdin' Ya." And Rush's career shows no signs of slowing down now. The man once beloved for performing in local jukejoints is now headlining major music/blues festivals, clubs, and theaters across the U.S. and as far as Japan and Australia. At age eighty-six, he is still on the road for over 200 days a year. His lifelong hectic tour schedule has earned him the affectionate title "King of the Chitlin' Circuit," from Rolling Stone. In 2007, he earned the distinction of being the first blues artist to play at the Great Wall of China. His renowned stage act features his famed shake dancers, who personify his funky blues and his ribald sense of humor. He was featured in Martin Scorcese's The Blues docuseries on PBS, a documentary film called Take Me to the River, performed with Dan Aykroyd on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and most recently had a cameo in the Golden Globe nominated Netflix film, Dolemite Is My Name, starring Eddie Murphy. He was recently given the highest Blues Music Award honor of B.B. King Entertainer of the Year. His songs have also been featured in TV shows and films including HBO's Ballers and major motion pictures like Black Snake Moan, starring Samuel L. Jackson. Considered by many to be the greatest bluesman currently performing, this book will give readers unparalleled access into the man, the myth, the legend: Bobby Rush.
Author: Wilecia Appleton-Starks Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1304909735 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 43
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I wrote this book to help, mentally, physically, and sexually abused children. I'm finally telling my story, after years of self- hatred and abuse. I am a survivor and I wanted to share my testimony. If I just reach one individual with my story, then I have served my purpo
Author: Michael Barr Publisher: Texas A&M University Press ISBN: 1623495768 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 234
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Cloyce Box was an American original. He was handsome, athletic, intelligent, and ambitious, and his life was the stuff of which dreams and miniseries are made. Starting out as a dirt-poor farm boy from the Texas backcountry, he used his great talents to become a star in the National Football League, a corporate CEO, and a very wealthy man. He was fearless, flamboyant, and controversial. His story is an epic Texas tale of football, cattle, horses, oil, money, power, incredible success, and spectacular failure. The ranch he owned near Frisco, Texas, became famous as the fictional Southfork Ranch on the hit television show Dallas. Financial over-reaching eventually cost him his fortune, just before his death in 1993. With access to Cloyce Box’s personal files and photographs as well as the assistance of his subject’s family and friends, Michael Barr has crafted a biography that is at once clear-eyed and sensitive, allowing the complex character of Cloyce Box to engage and challenge the reader.
Author: Virginia M. Axline Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN: 0307814521 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 401
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"The most brilliant and intuitive, as well as the clearest written, work in this field. It is unpretentious yet clearly the most authoritative work that has been published." NORMAN CAMERON, Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry Yale University School of Medicine Here is an intensely practical book that gives specific illustrations of how therapy can be implemented in play contacts, and tells how the toys of the playroom can be vivid performers and aids in growth. As she did with DIBS IN SEARCH OF SELF, Dr. Axline has taken true case histories from the rich mine of verbatim case material of children referred for play therapy, choosing children ranging in age, problem, and personality. It's all here in an important and rewarding book for parents, teachers, and anyone who comes in contact with children.
Author: Andy Gregory Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9781857431612 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 666
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TheInternational Who's Who in Popular Music 2002offers comprehensive biographical information covering the leading names on all aspects of popular music. It brings together the prominent names in pop music as well as the many emerging personalities in the industry, providing full biographical details on pop, rock, folk, jazz, dance, world and country artists. Over 5,000 biographical entries include major career details, concerts, recordings and compositions, honors and contact addresses. Wherever possible, information is obtained directly from the entrants to ensure accuracy and reliability. Appendices include details of record companies, management companies, agents and promoters. The reference also details publishers, festivals and events and other organizations involved with music.
Author: Geri Krotow Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 1488064458 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 925
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Looking for heart-racing romance and breathless suspense? Want stories filled with life-and-death situations that cause sparks to fly between adventurous, strong women and brave, powerful men? Harlequin® Romantic Suspense brings you all that and more with four new full-length titles in one collection! COLTON 911: IN HOT PURSUIT (A Colton 911: Grand Rapids novel) by Geri Krotow Army paralegal Vikki Colton returns to Grand Rapids to investigate a suspicious death and must work with the suspect’s half brother, MP sergeant Flynn Cruz-Street. When attraction flares and they’re both in a killer’s sights, can she trust that Flynn isn’t protecting his mad-scientist sibling? COLTON CHRISTMAS CONSPIRACY (A Coltons of Kansas novel) by Lisa Childs Neil Colton and Elise Willis were once partners in everything: a law practice and a marriage. Now Elise is the mayor of Braxville—and a one-night stand has left her pregnant with Neil’s child. When someone targets both of them in an explosion, it’s up the them to narrow down the long list of suspects to protect their reunited family. THE COWBOY’S TARGETED BRIDE (A Cowboys of Holiday Ranch novel) by New York Times bestselling author Carla Cassidy They both had ulterior motives to marry. Jerod Steen wanted a family and Lily Kidwell struggled to save her ranch. When they agree to a marriage of convenience, neither expects to find love. But after their walk down the aisle, betrayal lurks at the Holiday Ranch and it’s about to turn deadly… AGENT’S MOUNTAIN RESCUE (A Wyoming Nights novel) by Jennifer D. Bokal When a lead points security agency Rocky Mountain Justice in the direction of a posh resort in the hunt for a serial killer, operative and single dad Liam Alexander and child psychologist Holly Jacobs work together to hunt the huntress, eventually posing as a family to trap their prey. But as their plan backfires, Liam will do anything to save his child—and the woman he loves.
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