Keep 'Er Lit
Keep 'Er Lit

Author: Van Morrison

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2020-03-03

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0571353924

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'This mix of genuine humility and hard-won hubris, of mysticism and technical mastery ... makes Van Morrison quite simply, and quite indisputably, "The Bard of Belfast".' Paul Muldoon If I ventured in the slipstream Between the viaducts of your dreams Keep 'Er Lit is the second volume of Van Morrison's collected lyrics containing one hundred and twenty songs from across his storied career. It contains love songs, work songs, songs about the pains and anxieties of existence, songs of consolation, songs about various kinds of spiritual quest and the realms of the mystical, and songs which deal with healing and reconciliation, both with the self and with others. Then there are the songs of memory and of childhood; songs about the natural world and about the perspectives it can provide on time. Taken together with Lit Up Inside , this volume gives an overview of his fifty-year career, revealing why he is celebrated as one of the most innovative and enduring songwriters of our time.

Keep 'Er Lit
Keep 'Er Lit

Author: Leonard Nugent

Publisher:

Published: 2020-06-21

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13:

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As I sit here writing this book, in the Sunshine State of Florida, in the middle of a lockdown because of the Covid-19 pandemic, I can't help thinking about how the world has changed since I ran around the streets of Belfast as a kid all those years ago. And then I think about how I headed to the UK and survived as a groundworker before starting a one-man band construction business after many years of hard work. And about how this one-man humble start-up grew into a multi-million pound group of companies operating in the Southeast of England. Writing this book has not been easy, but I had a lot of encouragement from my friends and family, and having made many mistakes and learnt many lessons the hard way over the years, I wanted to show any young guys just starting off their business careers that anything is possible. If this guy can do it, so can you. I really hope you enjoy this book. I've spent many long days and nights these last few months labouring over a keyboard. The experience has been a great learning curve. If one person learns anything from my story, this book will have been a success.

The Tobacco Keeper
The Tobacco Keeper

Author: Ali Bader

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-03-15

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9992194502

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First published in Arabic in 2008, The Tobacco Keeper relates the investigation of the life of a celebrated Jewish Iraqi musician who was expelled to Israel in the 1950s. Having returned to Iraq, via Iran, the musician is thrown out as an Israeli spy. Returning for the third time under a forged passport, he is murdered in mysterious circumstances. Arriving in Baghdad's Green Zone during the US-led occupation, a journalist writing a story about the musician's life discovers an underworld of fake identities, mafias and militias. Even among the journalists, there is a secret world of identity games, fake names and ulterior motives.

The Book Keeper
The Book Keeper

Author: Julia McKenzie Munemo

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2020-01-14

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0804041067

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In a memoir that’s equal parts love story, investigation, and racial reckoning, Munemo unravels and interrogates her whiteness, a shocking secret, and her family’s history. When interracial romance novels written by her long-dead father landed on Julia McKenzie Munemo’s kitchen table, she—a white woman—had been married to a black man for six years and their first son was a toddler. Out of shame about her father’s secret career as a writer of “slavery porn,” she hid the books from herself, and from her growing mixed-race family, for more than a decade. But then, with police shootings of African American men more and more in the public eye, she realized that understanding her own legacy was the only way to begin to understand her country.

Maryam
Maryam

Author: ʻAlawīyah Ṣubḥ

Publisher: Arab List

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780857423252

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Alawia Sobh's acclaimed Arabic novel of the Lebanese Civil War is a rare depiction of women's experience across class, sect, and generation in this region-defining conflict. Rich with everyday detail, uncovering the collusions of ordinary and extraordinary violence, and mixing female voices of different ages and beliefs, Sobh's work is not only an illumination of an important historical period at a new scale. It is also a unique meditation on the nature of storytelling. In The Keeper of Stories, stories struggle to survive the erasures of war and to rescue the sweetness of living, and connect the tellers and their audience in sometimes welcome, sometimes maddening ways. The transformation of pain and love into art is both the subject and substance of this necessary new book, sensitively brought into English by a translator who shares aspects of Sobh's background and worked with the author on the translation.

Lit Up Inside
Lit Up Inside

Author: Van Morrison

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0571316212

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Lit Up Inside contains the lyrics of about one third of the songs that Van Morrison has written over his 50 year career. In this representative selection from the work of one of the most innovative and enduring songwriters of the last century, the reader will find examples of all the features of the world that Van has created through his work: the back streets and mystic avenues; memories of childhood wonder and of adult work; the chime of church bells and the playing of the radio; the generous naming of other artists and the joy of solitude; love and sharp dealing; consolation and grace.

The Places of Van Morrison’s Songwriting
The Places of Van Morrison’s Songwriting

Author: Geoff Munns

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-12-21

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1000810232

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What can we learn about Van Morrison’s life and work as a songwriter through his songs? This book looks closely at the lyrics and music from a selection of his songs. Some are very well-known - ‘Brown Eyed Girl’, ‘Cleaning Windows’ and ‘The Healing Game’. Others are less familiar. Through these songs the book offers insights into some of the most important ideas that the songwriter has explored across his five-decade plus career, starting from the Them period and extending through his solo albums. These readings show how thinking about Morrison’s use of place provides a specific lens that contributes to a greater understanding of his art. The songs are organized into chapters that reflect many of the important places in Morrison’s work as he ventured professionally and imaginatively away from the places of his upbringing towards a wider musical world. These places are in city streetscapes and country landscapes – in home places of streets and ditches, in the enclosed spaces of rooms, in the expansive reaches of the natural world, in indeterminate and specific foreign lands. A picture emerges of the journey that Van Morrison details through his songs, one that sees him first wandering as a boy through his East Belfast haunts, and then venturing out to a wider world away from this local place.

Sinker
Sinker

Author: Jason Johnson

Publisher: Liberties Press

Published: 2014-06-09

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1909718556

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This game is no indulgence - it's endurance.' Baker Forley wants romance, respect, a career . . . but his only talent is sinking whiskey. Luckily the world's most reviled sport - professional drinking - badly needs new blood. When Baker's washed-up coach, Ratface, swings him an invite to the notorious 'Bullfight' boozing competition in Mallorca, he can feel the big time coming.But, mid-play, his eye wanders to a mysterious Arabian beauty - and he gets decked by a bodyguard. That is, until Baker and Ratface are lured to hear an apology and an offer they can't refuse: 'Teach a billionaire Sheikh to drink like a pro at his strange mansion and he'll make you rich.' Later, as illicit passion flares at the Gaudí-designed labyrinth, Forley discovers the disturbing truth about why he's there - but is he too far gone to escape? An absorbing, irreverent and blackly-comic tale from a unique talent, this story is unlike anything you've read in years.

The Keeper's Six
The Keeper's Six

Author: Kate Elliott

Publisher: Tordotcom

Published: 2023-01-17

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 125076906X

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You never stop worrying about your kids, even when they're adults. Kate Elliott's action-packed The Keeper's Six features a world-hopping, bad-ass, spell-slinging mother who sets out to rescue her kidnapped adult son from a dragon lord with everything to lose. It’s been a year since Esther set foot in the Beyond, the alien landscape stretching between worlds, crossing boundaries of space and time. She and her magical traveling party—her Hex—haven’t spoken since the Concilium banned them from the Beyond for a decade. But when she wakes in the middle of the night to her grown son’s cry for help, the members of her Hex are the only ones she can trust to help her bring him back from wherever he has been taken. Esther will have to risk everything to find him. Undercover and hidden from the Concilium, she and her Hex will be tested by false dragon lords, a darkness so dense it can suffocate, and the bones of an old crime come back to haunt her. There are terrors that dwell in the space between worlds. Also Available by Kate Elliott: The Crossroads Series 1. Spirit Gate 2. Shadow Gate 3. Traitors' Gate Unconquerable Sun Servant Mage Furious Heaven At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.