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The Schraft Street Historical Preservation Society
Still Blue Collar Boston Cool
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
The dust has settled after the murders of two local gangstersneither officially solved, but both settled as far as the street is concerned. Nonetheless, Schraft Street remains as lively, unruly, and occasionally dangerous as ever. Boss Jim Herlihy still owns his marginally successful gym and sports...
Funny Conversations with God
An Uncalled-For Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
What would your life be like if God lived next door? What would you talk about? What questions would you ask? In Funny Conversations with God, author Dunn Neugebauer shares his fictionalized discussions with God.
In a noncontroversial, casual, humorous style, Funny Conversations with God shares...
American History in Song
Lyrics from 1900 to 1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Songwriters dramatically captured the details of how Americans lived, thought and changed in the first half of the twentieth century. This book examines 1033 songs about WWI and WWII wars, presidents, Womens Suffrage, Prohibition, the Great Depression, immigration, minority stereotypes, new modes...
Urgent Care
One Iowan's Desperate Search for Anything Entertaining
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Sometimes, life can get boring and you have to look a little harder to be entertained. Perhaps working in a candy-filled dungeon-like wharehouse, attending a NASCAR race in the pouring rain or even melting action figures and setting fire to a public park is where you might find some sought after fun....
Jazz Historiography
The Story of Jazz History Writing
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Jazz has been around for over a hundred years but how much do we know about its history, and how much of what think we know is true? Beginning in the so called Jazz Age of the 1920s jazz history was recounted and interpreted by admiring authors and record collectors both in the United States and elsewhere....
The Making of a Jamaican Don
Spanner’S Views on Dons, Corrupt Politicians, and Public Officials
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Jamaican dons see themselves as leaders, protectors, and nearly God-like figures. They see themselves as bigger than even the Prime Minister; with the resources they have, they are not afraid of anyone. In The Making of a Jamaican Don, author Clifton Cameron tells the story of these Jamaican donstheir...
by Michael L. Odden
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Jennings Kavenaugh, a thirty-year-old bachelor who likes flashy suits and shoes, is a pit boss at the Royal Flush Casino in Detroit. It has taken him thirteen years to make the climb up the casino ladder to his current role of accounting for the winners and losers. But Jennings has just one problemhe...
by Timothy M. Zuverink
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
For Glenn Ruisdael, life isnt turning out quite the way he expected. At thirty-three, hes alone once more, living in the small town in Michigan where he was raised, chronically depressed and working a job thats below his abilities. He spends his days merely drifting along, drinking too much, and feeling...
by Emma Lou Warner Thayne
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
An intriguing spiritual memoir from an unusual woman.
Centered on Thaynes near-death experience following a car accident when she was in her 60s, this autobiography
contains thematic chapters that explore her changing beliefs about mortality through meditations on family, language and
other...
10 Truths of Songwriting
A Survival Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Writing good songs is not easymany talented musicians dont know how to do it. No matter what the obstacle might be, constructing a solid song can be an arduous process that frequently causes many musicians to give up.
If you are interested in writing songs, making money from them, and ultimately...
by Scott Ludwig
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
In my fourth book, In it for the Long Run, one of the most popular chapters with the readers was You can call me Al. It was all about my good friend Al Barker, the only person Ive ever met who brakes with his left foot. Wanting to capitalize on the popularity of using titles of Paul Simon songs, I...
Blues to Blood
Doing It the Hard Way: Music, Addiction & Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
In this compelling memoir that spans a musicians incredible ride through fifty-four years of life, Donald Darcy provides a glimpse into his journey through a world of music, drugs, and alcoholism, ultimately illustrating that recovery is possible for anyone with a desire to change.
A professional...
From Van to Toronto: a Life in Two Worlds
Oksen Teghtsoonian
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
This memoir describes a long and unusual life that started in eastern Turkey in 1896 in a house with an earthen floor, and ended in middle-class comfort in suburban Toronto nearly a century later. The author was an eyewitness to the first genocide of the 20th century, a horror in which most of his...
One More Step the 638 Best Quotes for the Runner
Motivation for the Next Step!
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Check these quotes out:
1.) The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.
John Bingham
68.) There are clubs you can't belong to, neighborhoods you can't live in, schools you can't get into, but the roads are always open.
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224.) No matter...