A life's wave - and how music affected it. Life is a Story - story.one
A life's wave - and how music affected it. Life is a Story - story.one

Author: Me(n)tal Misfit

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-08-30

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 3711550061

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A Life's wave - and how music affected it. Get on a journey through highs and lows of a young life and some inspirational songs. it shows that life is not always straight, that there are also very dark chapters. This book wants to inspire, help, but also break taboos. of a young life, it shows that life is not always straight, that there are also very dark chapters. This book wants to inspire, help, but also break taboos, which are still felt in society today. But maybe it's time to heal, maybe it's time to try Maybe it's time to deal with all the pieces in my life. (from Sixx A.M. - Maybe it's time)

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Publisher: Shaman Sounds

Published:

Total Pages: 44

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The Wave
The Wave

Author: Jane Seymour

Publisher:

Published: 2014-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781630640002

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The fourth-book in her popular "Open Hearts" series, " The Wave: Inspiration for Navigating Life's Changes & Challenges "features Jane Seymour's colorful and original artwork and uplifting, insightful quotes and stories to illustrates how both the exhilarating crests and unexpected crashes we all experience can be weathered with grace, humor, and an open heart. With philosophical and inspiring messages from the Bible, great minds, famous works of literature, and stories from her own personal experience, Seymour shows how to let go of what you don't need, regroup with what you have left, and soar to new heights. "The Wave" is a book that will resonate with anyone who is currently enduring financial, health, spiritual, or family challenges, has already come has come through the other side of a painful experience, or seeks to support and inspire a loved-one or friend as they find themselves riding one of life's many waves

Why Karen Carpenter Matters
Why Karen Carpenter Matters

Author: Karen Tongson

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2019-06-01

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1477318860

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In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. At the same time, the uplifting harmonies and sunny lyrics that propelled Karen Carpenter and her brother, Richard, to international fame belied a different sort of tragedy—the underconsumption that led to Karen's death at age thirty-two from the effects of an eating disorder. In Why Karen Carpenter Matters, Karen Tongson (whose Filipino musician parents named her after the pop icon) interweaves the story of the singer’s rise to fame with her own trans-Pacific journey between the Philippines—where imitations of American pop styles flourished—and Karen Carpenter’s home ground of Southern California. Tongson reveals why the Carpenters' chart-topping, seemingly whitewashed musical fantasies of "normal love" can now have profound significance for her—as well as for other people of color, LGBT+ communities, and anyone outside the mainstream culture usually associated with Karen Carpenter’s legacy. This hybrid of memoir and biography excavates the destructive perfectionism at the root of the Carpenters’ sound, while finding the beauty in the singer's all too brief life.

Trilogy
Trilogy

Author: Jon Fosse

Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing

Published: 2023-01-31

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1628974214

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 Trilogy is Jon Fosse’s critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they expect. Through a rich web of historical, cultural, and theological allusions, Fosse constructs a modern parable of injustice, resistance, crime, and redemption. Consisting of three novellas (Wakefulness, Olav’s Dreams, and Weariness), Trilogy is a haunting, mysterious, and poignant evocation of love, for which Fosse received The Nordic Council’s Prize for Literature in 2015.

The Sense of an Ending
The Sense of an Ending

Author: Julian Barnes

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-10-05

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 0307957330

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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Wave
Wave

Author: Sonali Deraniyagala

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Published: 2013-03-05

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0771025386

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A brave, intimate, beautifully crafted memoir by a survivor of the tsunami that struck the Sri Lankan coast in 2004 and took her entire family. On December 26, Boxing Day, Sonali Deraniyagala, her English husband, her parents, her two young sons, and a close friend were ending Christmas vacation at the seaside resort of Yala on the south coast of Sri Lanka when a wave suddenly overtook them. She was only to learn later that this was a tsunami that devastated coastlines through Southeast Asia. When the water began to encroach closer to their hotel, they began to run, but in an instant, water engulfed them, Sonali was separated from her family, and all was lost. Sonali Deraniyagala has written an extraordinarily honest, utterly engrossing account of the surreal tragedy of a devastating event that all at once ended her life as she knew it and her journey since in search of understanding and redemption. It is also a remarkable portrait of a young family's life and what came before, with all the small moments and larger dreams that suddenly and irrevocably ended.