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Author: Lanie Robertson
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9780573681844
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Deals with one of the last appearances of Billie Holiday." -- p.7 | May include musicians.
Author: Lanie Robertson
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780573622274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrian's older brother thinks he's too small to play ball with them, but he shows them he's not.
Author: John Szwed
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2015-03-31
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1101614706
DOWNLOAD EBOOK• Kirkus Best Books of 2015 selection for Biography • Published in celebration of Holiday’s centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer’s extraordinary musical talent When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia’s studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and influential career in twentieth-century popular music. Her voice weathered countless shifts in public taste, and new reincarnations of her continue to arrive, most recently in the form of singers like Amy Winehouse and Adele. Most of the writing on Holiday has focused on the tragic details of her life—her prostitution at the age of fourteen, her heroin addiction and alcoholism, her series of abusive relationships—or tried to correct the many fabrications of her autobiography. But now, Billie Holiday stays close to the music, to her performance style, and to the self she created and put into print, on record and on stage. Drawing on a vast amount of new material that has surfaced in the last decade, critically acclaimed jazz writer John Szwed considers how her life inflected her art, her influences, her uncanny voice and rhythmic genius, a number of her signature songs, and her legacy.
Author: Robertson. Lanie
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark St. Germain
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Published: 2014-06-04
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 0822231182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEveryone knows Dr. Ruth Westheimer from her career as a pioneering radio and television sex therapist. Few, however, know the incredible journey that preceded it. From fleeing the Nazis in the Kindertransport and joining the Haganah in Jerusalem as a sniper, to her struggle to succeed as a single mother newly-arrived in America, Mark St. Germain deftly illuminates this remarkable woman's untold story. BECOMING DR. RUTH is filled with the humor, honesty, and life-affirming spirit of Karola Ruth Siegel, the girl who became "Dr. Ruth," America’s most famous sex therapist.
Author: John Robert Allman
Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Published: 2023-10-03
Total Pages: 43
ISBN-13: 0593377877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBroadway babies, it's never too early to learn about the great women of American musical theater! From Audra McDonald to Liza with a "Z," this is a showstopping alphabet board book featuring your favorite leading ladies of the Broadway stage. Step into the spotlight and celebrate a cavalcade of Broadway's legendary leading ladies. Start with "A" for six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald, then sing and dance your way through the alphabet with beloved entertainers like Carol Channing, Angela Lansbury, Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, Chita Rivera, Lea Salonga, and Liza Minnelli! With their signature voices and iconic roles, these talented women have created some of the greatest moments in musical theater history. Broadway fans and theater lovers everywhere will give a standing ovation to this one-of-a-kind tribute full of toe-tapping rhymes, with illustrations as bright and beautiful as the shining lights on any marquee.
Author: David Williamson
Publisher: Sarah Jayne Masters
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA cutting play about the real business of modern Aussie Rules back-room boys. The plot concerns a once successful club that hasn't won a premiership for eighteen years, its wheeler-dealer president, its problems with an expensive imported star and a loyal long-time coach.
Author: Adrienne Kennedy
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 41
ISBN-13: 0573662355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn intriguing, unusual and chilling look at the destructiveness of racism in the U.S.
Author: Edward Kleban
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9780739429785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Billie Holiday
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2006-07-25
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0767923863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerfect for fans of The United States vs. Billie Holiday, this is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred memoir of the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation—a fiftieth-anniversary edition updated with stunning new photos, a revised discography, and an insightful foreword by music writer David Ritz Taking the reader on a fast-moving journey from Billie Holiday’s rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood (where she ran errands at a whorehouse in exchange for the chance to listen to Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith albums), to her emergence on Harlem’s club scene, to sold-out performances with the Count Basie Orchestra and with Artie Shaw and his band, this revelatory memoir is notable for its trenchant observations on the racism that darkened Billie’s life and the heroin addiction that ended it too soon. We are with her during the mesmerizing debut of “Strange Fruit”; with her as she rubs shoulders with the biggest movie stars and musicians of the day (Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Clark Gable, Benny Goodman, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and more); and with her through the scrapes with Jim Crow, spats with Sarah Vaughan, ignominious jailings, and tragic decline. All of this is told in Holiday’s tart, streetwise style and hip patois that makes it read as if it were written yesterday.
