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Tinman
A Life Explored
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2008
Offering insight into the creative processes of a contemporary composer, Tinman presents 150 vignettes from author David Cope's life. Some of the notable individuals discussed in this innovative biography are John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Aaron Copland, Warren Zevon, Carl Sagan,...
Tinman Tre
A Life Explored
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Offering insight into the creative processes of music composition, writing and visual art, Tinman Tre presents 150 vignettes from Author David Copes life. Some of the individuals discussed in this innovative autobiography include Orson Welles, Ernie Kovacs, Evelyn Wood, Hieronymus Bosch, Salvador...
Living in Poetry—Poetry in Living
Poetic Expressions in Everyday Life Experiences of Ordinary People
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Life is a journey and not always an easy one. Poet Mamie Harvin Black found triumph over difficulty through the written word, not only via its ability to heal but also by its ability to describe the world and, in so doing, understand the world better. Her poetry collection is one of empowerment, strength,...
Provisional Conclusions
Poems About Adhd, Grief, and Some of Life’S Other Little Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
A diagnosis of ADHD at age fifty-five can make you stop and think. So can losing your daughter to a drunk driver two days after her eighth birthdayor looking up at the majesty of the Big Buddha in Phuket after getting lost in the mountains on the way there. Spanning a period from high school in the...
My America
The Culture of Giving
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
This book is a true love story, told by the son of a humble Norwegian fisherman who became an international and successful businessman. It is a love storyvery personal, very dedicated, very positive and optimistic in the love of America, music, and life itself. It is also a love song to the most important...
Hollywoodaholic
Confessions of a Screenwriter
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2002
Everyone who has ever thought about writing or working in Hollywood will want to read this book. These are the personal and often outrageous adventures of a veteran screenwriter who has worked extensively for the major studios, as well as with major directors such as Richard Donner and James Cameron....
Beyond Reason
Lessons from the Loss of a Gifted Child
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
Sometimes people enter our lives and change us forever. Author Gregg Korbons son, Brian, was such a person. In Beyond Reason, Gregg shares the story of his nine-year-old son, a sweet and brilliant child. Though healthy, Brian told his parents he was going to die before he turned ten. Six months later,...
by Matt Lavelle
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Jazz Musician Matt Lavelle started writing in the year 2000.What at first was personal eventually reached the Internet in 2005,as he developed a dedicated audience online at the Blog:Chris Rich Brilliant Corners,a Boston Jazz Blog.Lavelle had three blogs at one point:about music,about the street,and...
by Amanda Eppley
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
There is a perversion of the American Dream that says greed is good, and that we should live, love, work, and advance inside the fences drawn by politics, religion, and laws. It is wrong. Through senseless inner-city death, the My Lai massacre, the taking of the Pueblo, a drug-addled return from Vietnam,...
by Marshall Rowland
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Despite the hard knocks of life, Marshall Rowland, a true country boy from Georgia, somehow managed to find fame and a little bit of fortune through hard work, gambles with fate, and a love of country music.
In his autobiography, Rowland begins with stories from his childhood during 1930s Georgia...
by George M. Cummins III
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
In 2010, the composer Gustav Mahler celebrates his one hundred fiftieth birthday. In Mahler Re-Composed, linguist George Cummins shares a collection of six interrelated essays that provide a fresh perspective on difficult questions familiar to Mahler lovers. Cummins, a teacher of Russian and Czech...
A Poet’S Guide to Outdoor Exercise
Reflections on 30 Years of Outdoor Exercise, Nature Appreciation and an Unconventional Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In A Poets Guide to Outdoor Exercise, author John Famulary shares some remarkable outdoor exercise adventures set in such exotic locales as Williamsburg, Brooklyn; Central Park; the Catskill Mountains and a football field in New Jersey.
John discusses the advantages of outdoor exercise and,...
by Tommy Housworth
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The men and women who inhabit Tommy Housworths stories are all chasing down redemption. As in life, some of them find it while others tumble into karmic detours that lead to harrowing - and at times, darkly humorous - results.
An art critic becomes obsessed with an exhibit by a provocative...
A Girl Named Maria
The Story of an Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2008
She was found abandoned in the lavatory of a cafeteria in Bogota, Colombia. The police who picked her up named her Maria Consuelo. From a stack of would-be parents, Colombias welfare agency chose Valerie Kreutzers application, and the toddler quickly bonded with her new mom in Washington, DC. At school...