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Author: Tim Seeley
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Published: 2015-09-08
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 1630083275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen the Sundowners are on the run from the Chicago police, a stopover in Detroit uncovers the motor city's supervillain underbelly! Meet Mr. Christmas and his little helpers--he knows when you're sleeping, and he's not too happy that the Sundowners are coming to town . . .
Author: Lesley Lokko
Publisher: Orion
Published: 2009-04-16
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 1409106225
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'A very 21st Century blockbuster, this has all the classic elements - nailbiting narrative, absorbing relationships, glamorous locations - with an extra shot of intelligence' COSMOPOLITAN 'Best described as a sort of Blockbuster Plus - in this case plus a little bit more intelligence and social and political grip than is normal . . . Agreeably glamorous and pageturning' DAILY MAIL Take four friends... Rianne: beautiful, wealthy and thoroughly spoilt, she has the world at her feet but is about to risk everything. Gabrielle: intelligent, loyal and always worrying about everyone else, now it's time for her to start looking after No.1. Nathalie: petite, pretty and with a shrewd eye for business, she uses her work to help her forget the one man she can't have. Charmaine: flirty and outrageous, she knows all about the good life. She just needs someone to pay for it... Then a chance encounter changes everything - and for Rianne and her friends, nothing is going to be the same again...
Author: James W. Loewen
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2018-07-17
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 1620974541
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Powerful and important . . . an instant classic." —The Washington Post Book World The award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, reissued with a new preface by the author In this groundbreaking work, sociologist James W. Loewen, author of the classic bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, brings to light decades of hidden racial exclusion in America. In a provocative, sweeping analysis of American residential patterns, Loewen uncovers the thousands of "sundown towns"—almost exclusively white towns where it was an unspoken rule that blacks weren't welcome—that cropped up throughout the twentieth century, most of them located outside of the South. Written with Loewen's trademark honesty and thoroughness, Sundown Towns won the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Booklist, and launched a nationwide online effort to track down and catalog sundown towns across America. In a new preface, Loewen puts this history in the context of current controversies around white supremacy and the Black Lives Matter movement. He revisits sundown towns and finds the number way down, but with notable exceptions in exclusive all-white suburbs such as Kenilworth, Illinois, which as of 2010 had not a single black household. And, although many former sundown towns are now integrated, they often face "second-generation sundown town issues," such as in Ferguson, Missouri, a former sundown town that is now majority black, but with a majority-white police force.
Author: Mary Garden
Publisher: New Holland Publishers
Published: 2022-07-04
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781760793838
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Oscar Garden was a pioneering pilot who embodied the daredevil spirit of the golden age of aviation when he successfully flew from London to Sydney in 1930 with only 39 hours of previous flying experience. This largely forgotten feat forms the centrepiece of Mary Garden's powerful biography, which situates Oscar's public exploits in his unhappy private life, and her own troubled memories of a distant father."--backcover.
Author: Brian Wright-McLeod
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2018-01-30
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 0816538646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWant the word on Buffy Sainte-Marie? Looking for the best powwow recordings? Wondering what else Jim Pepper cut besides “Witchi Tai To”? This book will answer those questions and more as it opens up the world of Native American music. In addition to the widely heard sounds of Carlos Nakai’s flute, Native music embraces a wide range of forms: country and folk, jazz and swing, reggae and rap. Brian Wright-McLeod, producer/host of Canada’s longest-running Native radio program, has gathered the musicians and their music into this comprehensive reference, an authoritative source for biographies and discographies of hundreds of Native artists. The Encyclopedia of Native Music recognizes the multifaceted contributions made by Native recording artists by tracing the history of their commercially released music. It provides an overview of the surprising abundance of recorded Native music while underlining its historical value. With almost 1,800 entries spanning more than 100 years, this book leads readers from early performers of traditional songs like William Horncloud to artists of the new millennium such as Zotigh. Along the way, it includes entries for jazz and blues artists never widely acknowledged for their Native roots—Oscar Pettiford, Mildred Bailey, and Keely Smith—and traces the recording histories of contemporary performers like Rita Coolidge and Jimmy Carl Black, “the Indian of the group” in the original Mothers of Invention. It also includes film soundtracks and compilation albums that have been instrumental in bringing many artists to popular attention. In addition to music, it lists spoken-word recordings, including audio books, comedy, interviews, poetry, and more. With this unprecedented breadth of coverage and extensively cross-referenced, The Encyclopedia of Native Music is an essential guide for enthusiasts and collectors. More than that, it is a gateway to the authentic music of North America—music of the people who have known this land from time immemorial and continue to celebrate it in sound.
Author: Simone St. James
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2020-02-18
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0440000181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Something hasn’t been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls. Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. But something isnʼt right at the motel, something haunting and scary. Upstate New York, 2017. Carly Kirk has never been able to let go of the story of her aunt Viv, who mysteriously disappeared from the Sun Down before she was born. She decides to move to Fell and visit the motel, where she quickly learns that nothing has changed since 1982. And she soon finds herself ensnared in the same mysteries that claimed her aunt.
Author: Tim Seeley
Publisher: DC Comics
Published: 2016-01-26
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1401266487
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe next thrilling chapter of Dick Grayson’s life, and the mysterious underside of the DC Universe! Former acrobat. Former Robin. Former Nightwing. Spy. Dick Grayson, now entrenched in the international spy organization known as Spyral, is on the hunt for the Paragon Protocol-metahuman biological organs that grant normal humans supernatural abilities. But the secret lifestyle of a spy isn’t easy. Dick must survive a desert with a brutal man known as Midnighter, while protecting the life of an infant. Then there is the fatalistic rock band and the brain damaged Irish bomber. And what exactly is Mr. Minos, director of Spyral, up to? Collects GRAYSON #5-8 and GRAYSON ANNUAL #1.
Author: Robert E. Zucker
Publisher: BZB Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2015-08-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1939050073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second of four volumes that cover the Tucson entertainment scene during the second half of the 20th century. Volume 2 features hundreds of local musicians and actors between the years 1986 through 1989. Compiled from articles, interviews and original photographs published in the Entertainment Magazine during those years.
Author: Greg Gombert
Publisher: Book Publishing Company (TN)
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reference work listing the majority of Native American recordings currently in print and available for purchase from U. S. and Canadian sources. Includes 1,300 audio recordings, 90 record companies, and 30 music distributors listed in a thorough and easy-to-use format with a comprehensive index. The book is divided into three major categories: Traditional Tribal Music, vocal and flute music; Intertribal Music, pow wow and peyote songs; Crossover Music Styles, adult acoustic alternative, blues, country, new age, rock, and rap.
Author: Ernest Weekley
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-07-18
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 0486122867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe compiler of this dictionary of word and phrase origins and history was not only a linguist and a philologist but also a man of culture and wit. When he turned his attention, therefore, to the creation of an etymological dictionary for both specialists and non-specialists, the result was easily the finest such work ever prepared. Weekley's Dictionary is a work of thorough scholarship. It contains one of the largest lists of words and phrases to be found in any singly etymological dictionary — and considerably more material than in the standard concise edition, with fuller quotes and historical discussions. Included are most of the more common words used in English as well as slang, archaic words, such formulas as "I. O. U.," made-up words (such as Carroll's "Jabberwock"), words coined from proper nouns, and so on. In each case, roots in Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, Greek or Latin, Old and modern French, Anglo-Indian, etc., are identified; in hundreds of cases, especially odd or amusing listings, earliest known usage is mentioned and sense is indicated in quotations from Dickens, Shakespeare, Chaucer, "Piers Plowman," Defoe, O. Henry, Spenser, Byron, Kipling, and so on, and from contemporary newspapers, translations of the Bible, and dozens of foreign-language authors.
