Author: James Evers
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3753459402
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
It was the 30th of December. Parker was awake in his dream and he was a wizard. If he had had more talent he thought he would write about muggles and wizards in the USA. There must be some there too. Parker was at the Abraham Lincoln school of Wizardry tucked away deep in the Blue Mountains in the Carolinas. There he was learning all the rules of Wizardry like Harry Potter in his time. Parker had been the middle child in a family of 7 Kids. His mother had always said there was something magic about him. And one day he woke up in his dream and found that the wizards had noticed his abilities and had taken him to that school. The school was named after Lincoln because he had also been a Wizard. But Lincoln had chosen to live among the muggles and help to save the country. The American wizards had found that too be very honourable and they founded a school for wizards and talented muggles in his name. At this school muggle with special talents learned along side of young wizards. The schools motto was integration of muggles and wizards because all wizards and muggles belonged to the same human family.
The Magical Wonderful World of Parker
Author: James Evers
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3753459402
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
It was the 30th of December. Parker was awake in his dream and he was a wizard. If he had had more talent he thought he would write about muggles and wizards in the USA. There must be some there too. Parker was at the Abraham Lincoln school of Wizardry tucked away deep in the Blue Mountains in the Carolinas. There he was learning all the rules of Wizardry like Harry Potter in his time. Parker had been the middle child in a family of 7 Kids. His mother had always said there was something magic about him. And one day he woke up in his dream and found that the wizards had noticed his abilities and had taken him to that school. The school was named after Lincoln because he had also been a Wizard. But Lincoln had chosen to live among the muggles and help to save the country. The American wizards had found that too be very honourable and they founded a school for wizards and talented muggles in his name. At this school muggle with special talents learned along side of young wizards. The schools motto was integration of muggles and wizards because all wizards and muggles belonged to the same human family.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3753459402
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
It was the 30th of December. Parker was awake in his dream and he was a wizard. If he had had more talent he thought he would write about muggles and wizards in the USA. There must be some there too. Parker was at the Abraham Lincoln school of Wizardry tucked away deep in the Blue Mountains in the Carolinas. There he was learning all the rules of Wizardry like Harry Potter in his time. Parker had been the middle child in a family of 7 Kids. His mother had always said there was something magic about him. And one day he woke up in his dream and found that the wizards had noticed his abilities and had taken him to that school. The school was named after Lincoln because he had also been a Wizard. But Lincoln had chosen to live among the muggles and help to save the country. The American wizards had found that too be very honourable and they founded a school for wizards and talented muggles in his name. At this school muggle with special talents learned along side of young wizards. The schools motto was integration of muggles and wizards because all wizards and muggles belonged to the same human family.
Magical Negro
Author: Morgan Parker
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1947793195
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
A National Book Critics Circle Poetry Award Winner! From the breakout author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé comes a profound and deceptively funny exploration of Black American womanhood. "Morgan Parker's latest collection is a riveting testimony to everyday blackness . . . It is wry and atmospheric, an epic work of aural pleasures and personifications that demands to be read—both as an account of a private life and as searing political protest." —TIME Magazine A Best Book of 2019 at TIME, Elle, BuzzFeed, the Star Tribune, AVClub, and more. A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at Vogue, O: the Oprah Magazine, NYLON, BuzzFeed, Publishers Weekly, and more. Magical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self-conception. They connect themes of loneliness, displacement, grief, ancestral trauma, and objectification, while exploring and troubling tropes and stereotypes of Black Americans. Focused primarily on depictions of black womanhood alongside personal narratives, the collection tackles interior and exterior politics—of both the body and society, of both the individual and the collective experience. In Magical Negro, Parker creates a space of witness, of airing grievances, of pointing out patterns. In these poems are living documents, pleas, latent traumas, inside jokes, and unspoken anxieties situated as firmly in the past as in the present—timeless black melancholies and triumphs.
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1947793195
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
A National Book Critics Circle Poetry Award Winner! From the breakout author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé comes a profound and deceptively funny exploration of Black American womanhood. "Morgan Parker's latest collection is a riveting testimony to everyday blackness . . . It is wry and atmospheric, an epic work of aural pleasures and personifications that demands to be read—both as an account of a private life and as searing political protest." —TIME Magazine A Best Book of 2019 at TIME, Elle, BuzzFeed, the Star Tribune, AVClub, and more. A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at Vogue, O: the Oprah Magazine, NYLON, BuzzFeed, Publishers Weekly, and more. Magical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self-conception. They connect themes of loneliness, displacement, grief, ancestral trauma, and objectification, while exploring and troubling tropes and stereotypes of Black Americans. Focused primarily on depictions of black womanhood alongside personal narratives, the collection tackles interior and exterior politics—of both the body and society, of both the individual and the collective experience. In Magical Negro, Parker creates a space of witness, of airing grievances, of pointing out patterns. In these poems are living documents, pleas, latent traumas, inside jokes, and unspoken anxieties situated as firmly in the past as in the present—timeless black melancholies and triumphs.
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
Author: Morgan Parker
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1941040543
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
A TIME Magazine Best Paperback of 2017 One of Oprah Magazine's "Ten Best Books of 2017" "This singular poetry collection is a dynamic meditation on the experience of, and societal narratives surrounding, contemporary black womanhood. . . . These exquisite poems defy categorization." —The New Yorker The only thing more beautiful than Beyoncé is God, and God is a black woman sipping rosé and drawing a lavender bath, texting her mom, belly-laughing in the therapist’s office, feeling unloved, being on display, daring to survive. Morgan Parker stands at the intersections of vulnerability and performance, of desire and disgust, of tragedy and excellence. Unrelentingly feminist, tender, ruthless, and sequined, these poems are an altar to the complexities of black American womanhood in an age of non-indictments and deja vu, and a time of wars over bodies and power. These poems celebrate and mourn. They are a chorus chanting: You’re gonna give us the love we need.
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1941040543
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
A TIME Magazine Best Paperback of 2017 One of Oprah Magazine's "Ten Best Books of 2017" "This singular poetry collection is a dynamic meditation on the experience of, and societal narratives surrounding, contemporary black womanhood. . . . These exquisite poems defy categorization." —The New Yorker The only thing more beautiful than Beyoncé is God, and God is a black woman sipping rosé and drawing a lavender bath, texting her mom, belly-laughing in the therapist’s office, feeling unloved, being on display, daring to survive. Morgan Parker stands at the intersections of vulnerability and performance, of desire and disgust, of tragedy and excellence. Unrelentingly feminist, tender, ruthless, and sequined, these poems are an altar to the complexities of black American womanhood in an age of non-indictments and deja vu, and a time of wars over bodies and power. These poems celebrate and mourn. They are a chorus chanting: You’re gonna give us the love we need.
What a Wonderful World
Author: Ricky Riccardi
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030737923X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
In this richly detailed and prodigiously researched book, jazz scholar and musician Ricky Riccardi reveals for the first time the genius and remarkable achievements of the last 25 years of Louis Armstrong’s life, providing along the way a comprehensive study of one of the best-known and most accomplished jazz stars of our time. Much has been written about Armstrong, but the majority of it focuses on the early and middle stages of his career. During the last third of his career, Armstrong was often dismissed as a buffoonish if popular entertainer. Riccardi shows us instead the inventiveness and depth of his music during this time. These are the years of his highest-charting hits, including “Mack the Knife” and “Hello, Dolly"; the famed collaborations with Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington; and his legendary recordings with the All Stars. An eminently readable and insightful book, What a Wonderful World completes and enlarges our understanding of one of America’s greatest and most beloved musical icons.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030737923X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
In this richly detailed and prodigiously researched book, jazz scholar and musician Ricky Riccardi reveals for the first time the genius and remarkable achievements of the last 25 years of Louis Armstrong’s life, providing along the way a comprehensive study of one of the best-known and most accomplished jazz stars of our time. Much has been written about Armstrong, but the majority of it focuses on the early and middle stages of his career. During the last third of his career, Armstrong was often dismissed as a buffoonish if popular entertainer. Riccardi shows us instead the inventiveness and depth of his music during this time. These are the years of his highest-charting hits, including “Mack the Knife” and “Hello, Dolly"; the famed collaborations with Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington; and his legendary recordings with the All Stars. An eminently readable and insightful book, What a Wonderful World completes and enlarges our understanding of one of America’s greatest and most beloved musical icons.
Mulligan's Magical Marvelous
Author: Barry Oliver
Publisher: AB Discovery
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Finding the perfect marketing gimmick is as old as business itself. To convince your customer they need your product is desirable; to convince them they can’t live without it is priceless. The food, clothing, and automobile industries have figured out the latter with remarkable effect. But what about children’s toys? Traditionally, toys are marketed to children who then nag their parents to death until they relent. So how do you motivate adults to crave a toy as much as their kids? Mulligan’s Magical Marvelous has figured out the secret. They simply transform adults into the children for which a toy is intended, then switch them back at the checkout counter. They might as well be printing their own money. In this way, Mulligan’s toy store has thrived in the most expensive real estate in the world—Manhattan, New York. So, be sure to make your way to Mulligan’s Magical Marvelous where you can spend an enchanted day as a child playing with toys that will capture your childish mind. You are guaranteed to walk away with a toy you don’t need but can’t live without. And remember their slogan: if it’s Magical; if it’s Marvelous; then it has to be Mulligan’s toys. But beware which toys you pick up at Mulligan’s. You might just find yourself spending a day in diapers if you’re not careful. Harry Potter showed us that a world of magic could be hidden from view. Mulligan's Magical Marvelous shows us that another hidden world of magic that can transform anyone into a baby, toddler or young child is also possible. Can you find it?
Publisher: AB Discovery
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Finding the perfect marketing gimmick is as old as business itself. To convince your customer they need your product is desirable; to convince them they can’t live without it is priceless. The food, clothing, and automobile industries have figured out the latter with remarkable effect. But what about children’s toys? Traditionally, toys are marketed to children who then nag their parents to death until they relent. So how do you motivate adults to crave a toy as much as their kids? Mulligan’s Magical Marvelous has figured out the secret. They simply transform adults into the children for which a toy is intended, then switch them back at the checkout counter. They might as well be printing their own money. In this way, Mulligan’s toy store has thrived in the most expensive real estate in the world—Manhattan, New York. So, be sure to make your way to Mulligan’s Magical Marvelous where you can spend an enchanted day as a child playing with toys that will capture your childish mind. You are guaranteed to walk away with a toy you don’t need but can’t live without. And remember their slogan: if it’s Magical; if it’s Marvelous; then it has to be Mulligan’s toys. But beware which toys you pick up at Mulligan’s. You might just find yourself spending a day in diapers if you’re not careful. Harry Potter showed us that a world of magic could be hidden from view. Mulligan's Magical Marvelous shows us that another hidden world of magic that can transform anyone into a baby, toddler or young child is also possible. Can you find it?
Mulligan's Magical Marvelous (Nappy Version)
Author: Barry Oliver
Publisher: AB Discovery
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Finding the perfect marketing gimmick is as old as business itself. To convince your customer they need your product is desirable; to convince them they can’t live without it is priceless. The food, clothing, and automobile industries have figured out the latter with remarkable effect. But what about children’s toys? Traditionally, toys are marketed to children who then nag their parents to death until they relent. So how do you motivate adults to crave a toy as much as their kids? Mulligan’s Magical Marvelous has figured out the secret. They simply transform adults into the children for which a toy is intended, then switch them back at the checkout counter. They might as well be printing their own money. In this way, Mulligan’s toy store has thrived in the most expensive real estate in the world—Manhattan, New York. So, be sure to make your way to Mulligan’s Magical Marvelous where you can spend an enchanted day as a child playing with toys that will capture your childish mind. You are guaranteed to walk away with a toy you don’t need but can’t live without. And remember their slogan: if it’s Magical; if it’s Marvelous; then it has to be Mulligan’s toys. But beware which toys you pick up at Mulligan’s. You might just find yourself spending a day in nappies if you’re not careful. Harry Potter showed us that a world of magic could be hidden from view. Mulligan's Magical Marvelous shows us that another hidden world of magic that can transform anyone into a baby, toddler or young child is also possible. Can you find it?
Publisher: AB Discovery
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Finding the perfect marketing gimmick is as old as business itself. To convince your customer they need your product is desirable; to convince them they can’t live without it is priceless. The food, clothing, and automobile industries have figured out the latter with remarkable effect. But what about children’s toys? Traditionally, toys are marketed to children who then nag their parents to death until they relent. So how do you motivate adults to crave a toy as much as their kids? Mulligan’s Magical Marvelous has figured out the secret. They simply transform adults into the children for which a toy is intended, then switch them back at the checkout counter. They might as well be printing their own money. In this way, Mulligan’s toy store has thrived in the most expensive real estate in the world—Manhattan, New York. So, be sure to make your way to Mulligan’s Magical Marvelous where you can spend an enchanted day as a child playing with toys that will capture your childish mind. You are guaranteed to walk away with a toy you don’t need but can’t live without. And remember their slogan: if it’s Magical; if it’s Marvelous; then it has to be Mulligan’s toys. But beware which toys you pick up at Mulligan’s. You might just find yourself spending a day in nappies if you’re not careful. Harry Potter showed us that a world of magic could be hidden from view. Mulligan's Magical Marvelous shows us that another hidden world of magic that can transform anyone into a baby, toddler or young child is also possible. Can you find it?
The Magic Kingdom
Author: Steven Watts
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826273009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
The Magic Kingdom sheds new light on the cultural icon of "Uncle Walt." Watts digs deeply into Disney's private life, investigating his roles as husband, father, and brother and providing fresh insight into his peculiar psyche-his genuine folksiness and warmth, his domineering treatment of colleagues and friends, his deepest prejudices and passions. Full of colorful sketches of daily life at the Disney Studio and tales about the creation of Disneyland and Disney World, The Magic Kingdom offers a definitive view of one of the most influential Americans of the twentieth century.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826273009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
The Magic Kingdom sheds new light on the cultural icon of "Uncle Walt." Watts digs deeply into Disney's private life, investigating his roles as husband, father, and brother and providing fresh insight into his peculiar psyche-his genuine folksiness and warmth, his domineering treatment of colleagues and friends, his deepest prejudices and passions. Full of colorful sketches of daily life at the Disney Studio and tales about the creation of Disneyland and Disney World, The Magic Kingdom offers a definitive view of one of the most influential Americans of the twentieth century.
Play the Way You Feel
Author: Kevin Whitehead
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019084759X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Jazz stories have been entwined with cinema since the inception of jazz film genre in the 1920s, giving us origin tales and biopics, spectacles and low-budget quickies, comedies, musicals, and dramas, and stories of improvisers and composers at work. And the jazz film has seen a resurgence in recent years--from biopics like Miles Ahead and HBO's Bessie, to dramas Whiplash and La La Land. In Play the Way You Feel, author and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead offers a comprehensive guide to these films and other media from the perspective of the music itself. Spanning 93 years of film history, the book looks closely at movies, cartoons, and a few TV shows that tell jazz stories, from early talkies to modern times, with an eye to narrative conventions and common story points. Examining the ways historical films have painted a clear picture of the past or overtly distorted history, Play the Way You Feel serves up capsule discussions of sundry topics including Duke Ellington's social life at the Cotton Club, avant-garde musical practices in 1930s vaudeville, and Martin Scorsese's improvisatory method on the set of New York, New York. Throughout the book, Whitehead brings the same analytical bent and concise, witty language listeners know from his jazz segments on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. He investigates well-known songs, traces the development of the stock jazz film ending, and offers fresh, often revisionist takes on works by such directors as Howard Hawks, John Cassavetes, Shirley Clarke, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Spike Lee, Robert Altman, Woody Allen and Damien Chazelle. In all, Play the Way You Feel is a feast for film-genre fanatics and movie-watching jazz enthusiasts.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019084759X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Jazz stories have been entwined with cinema since the inception of jazz film genre in the 1920s, giving us origin tales and biopics, spectacles and low-budget quickies, comedies, musicals, and dramas, and stories of improvisers and composers at work. And the jazz film has seen a resurgence in recent years--from biopics like Miles Ahead and HBO's Bessie, to dramas Whiplash and La La Land. In Play the Way You Feel, author and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead offers a comprehensive guide to these films and other media from the perspective of the music itself. Spanning 93 years of film history, the book looks closely at movies, cartoons, and a few TV shows that tell jazz stories, from early talkies to modern times, with an eye to narrative conventions and common story points. Examining the ways historical films have painted a clear picture of the past or overtly distorted history, Play the Way You Feel serves up capsule discussions of sundry topics including Duke Ellington's social life at the Cotton Club, avant-garde musical practices in 1930s vaudeville, and Martin Scorsese's improvisatory method on the set of New York, New York. Throughout the book, Whitehead brings the same analytical bent and concise, witty language listeners know from his jazz segments on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. He investigates well-known songs, traces the development of the stock jazz film ending, and offers fresh, often revisionist takes on works by such directors as Howard Hawks, John Cassavetes, Shirley Clarke, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Spike Lee, Robert Altman, Woody Allen and Damien Chazelle. In all, Play the Way You Feel is a feast for film-genre fanatics and movie-watching jazz enthusiasts.
Bayou Magic
Author: Jewell Parker Rhodes
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316224863
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A magical coming-of-age story from Coretta Scott King honor author Jewell Parker Rhodes, rich with Southern folklore, friendship, family, fireflies and mermaids, plus an environmental twist. It's city-girl Maddy's first summer in the bayou, and she just falls in love with her new surroundings - the glimmering fireflies, the glorious landscape, and something else, deep within the water, that only she can see. Could it be a mermaid? As her grandmother shares wisdom about sayings and signs, Maddy realizes she may be the only sibling to carry on her family's magical legacy. And when a disastrous oil leak threatens the bayou, she knows she may also be the only one who can help. Does she have what it takes to be a hero? Jewell Parker Rhodes weaves a rich tale celebrating the magic within.
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316224863
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A magical coming-of-age story from Coretta Scott King honor author Jewell Parker Rhodes, rich with Southern folklore, friendship, family, fireflies and mermaids, plus an environmental twist. It's city-girl Maddy's first summer in the bayou, and she just falls in love with her new surroundings - the glimmering fireflies, the glorious landscape, and something else, deep within the water, that only she can see. Could it be a mermaid? As her grandmother shares wisdom about sayings and signs, Maddy realizes she may be the only sibling to carry on her family's magical legacy. And when a disastrous oil leak threatens the bayou, she knows she may also be the only one who can help. Does she have what it takes to be a hero? Jewell Parker Rhodes weaves a rich tale celebrating the magic within.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)