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Author: Tony Turner
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStop in the name of love ... and of Motown, and read Tony Turner's dazzling insider's story -- updated with new material for the blockbuster 2000 Supremes tour!
Author: Timothy L. Alborn
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0190603518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wide ranging work that brings together the intellectual, cultural, political and economic history of gold in modern British history and its interaction with the world.
Author: Ethan Mordden
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2015-04-07
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 146689329X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the late 1920s to late 1950s, the Broadway theatre was America's cultural epicenter. Television didn't exist and movies were novelties. Entertainment took the form of literature, music, and theatre. During this golden age of Broadway, actors and actresses became legends and starred in now classic plays. Laurence Olivier, Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontaine were names to remember, etching plays into memory as they brought the words of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill to life. Joseph Cotton romanced Katherine Hepburn in Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story while Laurette Taylor became The Glass Menagerie's Amanda Wingfield. Frederic March, Florence Eldridge, Jason Robards Jr. and Bradford Dillman showed us life among the ruins in Long Day's Journey Into Night. In All That Glittered, Ethan Mordden, long one of Broadway's best chroniclers, recreates the fascinating lost world of its golden age.
Author: Gita Trelease
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Published: 2019-02-26
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 1760785105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKParis in 1789 is a labyrinth of twisted streets, filled with beggars, thieves, revolutionaries – and magicians . . . When smallpox kills her parents, seventeen-year-old Camille is left to provide for her frail sister and her volatile brother. In desperation, she survives by using the petty magic she learnt from her mother. But when her brother disappears Camille decides to pursue a richer, more dangerous mark: the glittering court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Using dark magic Camille transforms herself into the ‘Baroness de la Fontaine‘ and presents herself at the court of Versaille, where she soon finds herself swept up in a dizzying life of riches, finery and suitors. But Camille’s resentment of the rich is at odds with the allure of their glamour and excess, and she soon discovers that she’s not the only one leading a double life . . . Enchantée is a compelling historical fantasy and is Gita Trelease's debut novel.
Author: K.A. Linde
Publisher: EverAfter Romance
Published: 2017-01-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781682308684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBryna feels his eyes on her. Hot, seductive, enticing. He’s at least ten years older than her seventeen years, and he knows exactly what he’s doing to her with that look. Walking away would be the smart thing to do... But she can’t. Not that first night when he takes her home and claims her body. Not when he shows up in her life again with expensive gifts to win her trust. Not even when she’s falling for him, and everything else is falling apart... Find out how Bryna goes from golden girl to gold digger in this tantalizingly scandalous first book to USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde’s All That Glitters series.
Author: Jill Santopolo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-02-11
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1442473819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSisters Aly and Brooke launch a nail service for kids at their overworked mother's salon only to discover that their brilliant idea needs a bit of polish.
Author: Brian C. Janes
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780764339981
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"What is burlesque? Who better to ask than burlesque performers themselves? With this question in mind, the author traveled over 14,000 miles across the United States visiting today's burlesque performers, photographing them in their homes, and asking them: "What does burlesque mean to you?" Their answers and 104 accompanying portraits may surprise you. For these performers, burlesque is so many things, including fun and empowerment onstage, an escape from life's doldrums, a fantasy, a career. This book also presents a study in contrasts between the public persona of each performer and that performer's private life."--book jacket.
Author: John Gapper
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2011-12-01
Total Pages: 599
ISBN-13: 1101572752
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive, classic account of the fall of the House of Baring, the oldest merchant bank in London, in 1995 and the ultimate rogue trader, Nick Leeson, who brought down the venerable institution with speculative investing. John Gapper, associate editor of the Financial Times, and his coauthor Nicholas Denton, now founder of Gawker Media, interviewed all the major players involved in the collapse of one of England's oldest banks. All That Glitters reveals the Faustian deal struck between the whizz-kid derivatives traders who seemed to be bringing in huge profits and the old guard who were happy to pocket them without asking too many questions. Gapper and Denton present a thrilling, in-depth account of Nick Leeson's motives and methods for hiding the unauthorized speculative trading as well as the final days of Barings and the last-ditch attempts by politicians and bankers to save the bank.
Author: Sasha Geffen
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2020-04-07
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 147731878X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy has music so often served as an accomplice to transcendent expressions of gender? Why did the query "is he musical?" become code, in the twentieth century, for "is he gay?" Why is music so inherently queer? For Sasha Geffen, the answers lie, in part, in music’s intrinsic quality of subliminal expression, which, through paradox and contradiction, allows rigid gender roles to fall away in a sensual and ambiguous exchange between performer and listener. Glitter Up the Dark traces the history of this gender fluidity in pop music from the early twentieth century to the present day. Starting with early blues and the Beatles and continuing with performers such as David Bowie, Prince, Missy Elliot, and Frank Ocean, Geffen explores how artists have used music, fashion, language, and technology to break out of the confines mandated by gender essentialism and establish the voice as the primary expression of gender transgression. From glam rock and punk to disco, techno, and hip-hop, music helped set the stage for today’s conversations about trans rights and recognition of nonbinary and third-gender identities. Glitter Up the Dark takes a long look back at the path that led here.
Author: Thomas Tryon
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
Published: 1987-10
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining the stories of five extraordinary women and the larger-than-life man who touched their lives, author Thomas Tryon has created a rich, unforgettable novel that carries the reader from the Golden Age of Hollywood right up to today.
