Being Billie
Being Billie

Author: Oswald Eakins

Publisher: UB Tech

Published:

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13:

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Billie Eilish, the 18-year-old teenager wrote history by winning five trophies at the 2020 Grammys. Depressing, grim, sullen, death-haunted, are some of the adjectives used to describe her music. From tarantulas crawling out of her mouth, black tears rolling down her cheeks, staining her face and white shirt alike, to needles injected into her shirtless back and cigarettes snuffed out on her flawless cheeks one after the other, Billie Eilish’s videos are sure to give you the creeps, but her music is not grim or creepy. If anything, it is therapeutic. Sporting her quintessential “Billie Eilish look”, she came like an oddity amidst the bedizened reigning celebrities and swept all major categories away in her kitty during the 2020 Grammy Awards. Revolutionizing the pop music industry, Billie Eilish and her brother and songwriter-collaborator Finneas O’Connell has taken the music industry by storm. Sporting oversized baseball shorts and slime green hair, Billie audaciously stands apart, unimpressed with the traditional norms, she flouts every rule in the book with a charming nonchalance. Naturally heterogeneous, the 19-year-old Billie refuses to conform to standards. Apart from the ground-shattering records and hits and the soaring success story of her singing career, Billie Eilish is just another teenager for whom Rihanna is “God” and has a bedroom with Justin Bieber pictures galore. Buy the book to know more about Billie Eilish, the first artist born in the 21st century to top the Billboard 200. This book is the story of two siblings who strived to find their place in this huge cosmos. In these hard times, here is a book to inspire you. I just wanna make u feel ok but all u do is look the other way?

Becoming Billie Holiday
Becoming Billie Holiday

Author: Carole Boston Weatherford

Publisher: Boyds Mills Press

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 1629791733

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Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award The stunning voice and hard life of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday is revealed through evocative, accessible poetry. In 1915, Sadie Fagan gave birth to a daughter she named Eleanora. The world, however, would know her as Billie Holiday, possibly the greatest jazz singer of all time. Eleanora's journey to become a legend took her through pain, poverty, and run-ins with the law. By the time she was fifteen, she knew she possessed something that could possibly change her life--a voice. Eleanora could sing. Her remarkable voice led her to a place in the spotlight with some of the era's hottest big bands. Through a sequence of raw and poignant poems, New York Times best-selling and award-winning poet Carole Boston Weatherford chronicles the singer's young life, her fight for survival, and the dream she pursued with passion.

Being Billy
Being Billy

Author: Phil Earle

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2011-01-06

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0141331356

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Fifteen-year-old Billy's spent eight years in a care home and it's made him angry: with the system, with the social workers and the mother who gave him away. All he has to keep him going are his little brother and sister, but will they be enough? First person recount. Suggested level: secondary.

Heroic
Heroic

Author: Phil Earle

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2013-04-25

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0141346280

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'For the past five weeks I'd prayed that I'd never see my brother's name spelt out in poppies. In the weeks that followed I often wished I had.' Jammy and Sonny McGann are brothers, but that's where the similarities end. One is calm when the other is angry; one has a plan while the other lives purely in the moment. When Jammy returns from Afghanistan a very different man to the one who left, it's Sonny who is left to hold things together. But just how far will he go to save the brother who always put him first? Inspired by S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders and by the battles facing young soldiers all over the world, this is a devastating novel about brotherhood and sacrifice, from the award-winning author of Being Billy and Saving Daisy. ** Being Billy won the 2012 weRead Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and Branford Boase Award. ** Visit Phil Earle's author website at www.philearle.com. Phil Earle was born, raised and schooled in Hull. His first job was as a care worker in a children's home, an experience that influenced the ideas behind Being Billy and Saving Daisy. He then trained as a drama therapist and worked in a therapeutic community in south London, caring for traumatized and abused adolescents. After a couple of years in the care sector, Phil chose the more sedate lifestyle of a bookseller, and now works in children's publishing. Phil lives in south-east London with his wife and children, but Hull will always be home.

With Powder on My Nose
With Powder on My Nose

Author: Billie Burke

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2016-10-27

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 178720197X

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Following on from her successful 1949 memoir “With a Feather on My Nose,” here we have a further biography, first published in 1959, from famous Broadway and early silent film actress Billie Burke, best known as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in The Wizard of Oz and widow of Broadway producer Florenz Ziegfeld of Ziegfeld Follies fame. Co-author Cameron Shipp, a ghost writer who had also worked with Mack Sennett and Lionel Barrymore, assisted in assembling Miss Burke’s copious notes and transcribed her enthusiastic monologues into this wonderful biography filled with good-humoured advice on marriage, career, exercise, food (included are some delicious recipes!), and even perfecting the art of lying about your age! A most enjoyable trip down a career film star’s memory lane.

I am Billie Jean King
I am Billie Jean King

Author: Brad Meltzer

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2019-02-05

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 0735228744

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Billie Jean King is one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Read about this amazing woman athlete in the seventeenth picture book in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies about heroes. (Cover may vary) This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of one of America's icons in a lively, conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfiction readers and that always includes the hero's childhood influences. At the back are an excellent timeline and photos. This volume features Billie Jean King, the world champion tennis player who fought successfully for women’s rights. From a young age, Billie Jean King loved sports—especially tennis! But as she got older, she realized that plenty of people, even respected male athletes, didn't take women athletes seriously. She set to prove them wrong and show girls everywhere that sports are for everyone, regardless of gender. This friendly, fun biography series inspired the PBS Kids TV show Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum. One great role model at a time, these books encourage kids to dream big. Included in each book are: • A timeline of key events in the hero’s history • Photos that bring the story more fully to life • Comic-book-style illustrations that are irresistibly adorable • Childhood moments that influenced the hero • Facts that make great conversation-starters • A virtue this person embodies: Billie Jean King's determination opened the door for countless other atheletes. You’ll want to collect each book in this dynamic, informative series!

Be the Change
Be the Change

Author: Dr. Duanita G. Eleniak

Publisher: BalboaPress

Published: 2012-05-11

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1452547491

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What happens when a forty-five-year old therapist goes to acting school with a group of young actors? While testing her theory that the arts are the pathway to higher consciousness and a spiritual worldview, the author encounters unexpected drama. Art and life blur as she faces daily conflicts, a brush with death, life-altering neurological changes, and a classmates suicide. Through acting, she gains powerful insights about artistic endeavor and heightened consciousness; above all, she realizes that shifting the worldview requires following Gandhis wisdom: Be the change that you want to see in the world. Throughout her adventures, Dr. Duanita shows the reader how to co-create reality, enhance creativity, and deepen their spiritual connection. So powerful is the intention of her true story that few who read it will fail to experience a transformation of mind, heart, and spirit.

Billie Eilish, The Unofficial Biography
Billie Eilish, The Unofficial Biography

Author: Adrian Besley

Publisher: Zest Books ™

Published: 2021-02-02

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 172842755X

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With number one albums in multiple countries and five Grammys under her belt, Billie Eilish has become a pop sensation. Billie was a promising young dancer until musical success came literally overnight in 2015. A song she uploaded to SoundCloud received a thousand plays in twenty-four hours. The thirteen-year-old's voice intoxicated listeners and the track went viral. Billie and her brother, Finneas, produced a series of eclectic but equally bewitching tracks, which drew fans from around the world. Follow her journey from singing in her bedroom to performing at huge arenas, and find out what makes Billie Eilish the most extraordinary teenage star in the world.

If You Can't be Free, be a Mystery
If You Can't be Free, be a Mystery

Author: Farah Jasmine Griffin

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0684868083

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The threads of Billie Holiday's mystique are unraveled in this study of a woman who needed to create art at any cost. Griffin liberates Holiday from stereotypes of black women and pries her away from the male tradition of jazz criticism while presenting Holiday's independent spirit. of photos.