Pilgrims, Pickers and Honky-Tonk Heroes

Pilgrims, Pickers and Honky-Tonk Heroes

Author: Tim Ghianni

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-03-15

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 1493072161

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He didn’t know it at the time, but Tim Ghianni’s love affair with Nashville and its musical artists began on a steamy night in 1972, when the twenty-year-old author had unsolicited help from honky-tonkin’ legends Bobby Bare and Shel Silverstein during an after-midnight “salvation” of the city. It was the beginning of a lifelong urban romance that Ghianni would pursue during a career as a journalist in Middle Tennessee, interviewing Nashville’s biggest stars and developing friendships with musicians of all kinds. With a preface by Bobby Bare and a foreword by Peter Cooper, Pilgrims, Pickers and Honky-Tonk Heroes is Tim Ghianni’s love letter and nostalgic swan song, recounting the storied musical history of Nashville as well as the dramatic changes the city has seen over the course of fifty years. The Nashville of today—with one hundred newcomers a day from places like Los Angeles and New York and fresh waves of musicians making up a new modern soundtrack—is not the same city he made his home in 1972, for better and for worse. Time changes everything, even a beloved American city, but this briskly told and warmly remembered book recounts the countless friends, adventures, and anecdotes that capture the essence of Music City across a half-century.


Monkeys Don't Wear Silver Suits

Monkeys Don't Wear Silver Suits

Author: Tim Ghianni

Publisher: Ideas Into Books Westview

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9781628800203

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Two of America's most highly-regarded independent journalists - Rob Dollar and Tim Ghianni, also known as "The News Brothers" - look into their crystal ball while exploring the legendary UFO case that helped shape the narrative for sightings of Little Green Men. It was a hot, clear summer night - Sunday, August 21, 1955 - when a flying saucer supposedly landed in Kelly, Kentucky, near a farmhouse occupied by eight adults and three children. A night of terror followed as the farm family battled what they described as little gremlin-like space creatures that floated and were immune to bullets. At the invasion scene, investigators found no evidence of a spaceship or a Close Encounter of the Third Kind - only a group of people who had been nearly frightened to death. In the more than half-century since the Kelly incident, no one has been able to prove, or disprove, the fantastic tale told by the occupants of the farmhouse. Something happened that night, but what? In the irony of ironies, the 62nd anniversary of the invasion of the little men falls on the same day as a rare total eclipse of the sun that will turn the daytime sky dark in Western Kentucky - including the Kelly community - for about 2 minutes and 40 seconds. The perfect timing of the two events can't be a coincidence. Are the little men coming back?


The Chief’S Revenge

The Chief’S Revenge

Author: Gift Ruremesha

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2017-03-27

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1524677469

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abhla feels trapped. All that she wants is freedom, but they, her brother and her adopted mother, wont let her have it. That is, until one day, she escapes! Shes free! She can have the adventure she dreamed of! Oh, so she thought. It turns out that in the real world and in her world, nothing is as it seems, no one is as they seem, not even her.


Angels of Vengeance

Angels of Vengeance

Author: John Birmingham

Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 0345502930

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Three women in three corners of a world plunged into electrifying chaos. Nation-states struggling for their survival. Immigrants struggling for new lives. Birmingham's astounding new novel is an intense adventure.


Animals Property & The Law

Animals Property & The Law

Author: Gary Francione

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 2012-06-20

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 143990510X

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"Pain is pain, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the victim," states William Kunstler in his foreword. This moral concern for the suffering of animals and their legal status is the basis for Gary L. Francione's profound book, which asks, Why has the law failed to protect animals from exploitation? Francione argues that the current legal standard of animal welfare does not and cannot establish fights for animals. As long as they are viewed as property, animals will be subject to suffering for the social and economic benefit of human beings. Exploring every facet of this heated issue, Francione discusses the history of the treatment of animals, anticruelty statutes, vivisection, the Federal Animal Welfare Act, and specific cases such as the controversial injury of anaesthetized baboons at the University of Pennsylvania. He thoroughly documents the paradoxical gap between our professed concern with humane treatment of animals and the overriding practice of abuse permitted by U.S. law.


Tripmaster Monkey

Tripmaster Monkey

Author: Maxine Hong Kingston

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1990-06-10

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0679727892

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Driven by his dream to write and stage an epic stage production of interwoven Chinese novelsWittman Ah Sing, a Chinese-American hippie in the late '60s.


Brothers of Darkness Collector's Edition

Brothers of Darkness Collector's Edition

Author: Joleene Naylor

Publisher: Joleene Naylor

Published: 2016-11-02

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 1539837769

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Not a love story…a dark spiral into blackness.” “If you’ve read Shades of Gray, you know how this has to end.” The prequel to Shades of Gray tells the story of Patrick and Michael, how they got tangled into Claudius’ web, and their valiant fight to escape. When Patrick’s missing brother Michael returns, he brings with him a world of darkness. Turned into a vampire against his will, Michael is the coven’s whipping boy. When Patrick tries to help, he’s claimed as a slave who spends his weekends preparing victims, scooping ashes, and falling prey to the vampire’s twisted desires. There’s only so much hell he can take, and when vampires from a warring coven offer sanctuary in exchange for cooperation, Patrick quickly agrees. What he expected to be a few months drags out into a long smear of nightmares, and though he fights for hope and freedom, the cost of victory may be more than he bargained for. Collector's Edition features two short stories, Road to Darkness and Arowenia, and retro cover.


Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre

Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre

Author: Siyuan Liu

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-05

Total Pages: 603

ISBN-13: 1317278860

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Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre is an advanced level reference guide which surveys the rich and diverse traditions of classical and contemporary performing arts in Asia, showcasing significant scholarship in recent years. An international team of over 50 contributors provide authoritative overviews on a variety of topics across Asia, including dance, music, puppetry, make-up and costume, architecture, colonialism, modernity, gender, musicals, and intercultural Shakespeare. This volume is divided into four sections covering: Representative Theatrical Traditions in Asia. Cross-Regional Aspects of Classical and Folk Theatres. Modern and Contemporary Theatres in Asian Countries. Modernity, Gender Performance, Intercultural and Musical Theatre in Asia. Offering a cutting edge overview of Asian theatre and performance, the Handbook is an invaluable resource for academics, researchers and students studying this ever-evolving field.


Say It: Poems 2013

Say It: Poems 2013

Author: Don Brandis

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-09-23

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 1304472469

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the author's 4th volume of poems continues themes of relations with others and with nature, explorations of consciousness and spirituality