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This book is designed to educate the youth on wealth and financial literacy. It is for the younger generation to enhance their understanding of money, how to earn it, keep it, and multiply it. It is full of definitions and activities that will increase...

From Afro Sheen to Theaster Gates and from Soul Train to Chance the Rapper, Black Chicago draws sustenance from a culture rooted in self-determination, aspiration, and hustle. In Energy Never Dies, Ayana Contreras embarks on a journey to share the implausible success stories and...

For over two decades, the art of the interview was very nearly the sole province of Rex Reed, the Master of the Celebrity Profile. While still in his twenties Rex Reed became a widely-syndicated film critic for The New York Daily News and from...

Available once again, the definitive biography of the pioneering Black performer--the first nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award--who broke new ground in Hollywood and helped transform American society in the years before Civil Rights movement--a remarkable woman of her time who also transcended...

Join Hunter Thompson, Annie Leibovitz, Tom Wolfe, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, Kendrick Lamar, and Taylor Swift on a decade-by-decade exploration of music and history with this one-of-a-kind gift book. For over fifty years, Rolling Stone magazine has been a leading voice in...

It's nearing midnight in Wyoming, where four young conservatives have gathered at a backyard after-party. They've returned home to toast their mentor Gina, newly inducted as president of a tiny Catholic college. But as their reunion spirals into spiritual chaos and clashing generational politics,...

A Funny Office Gag Coloring Books with Mandalas and Flower. The 30 hilarious gags in this coloring book will provide hours of entertainment!. Get ready for the most fun you will ever have with a sarcasm quote that you want to say at work....

Fun for all ages awaits in this collection of brainteasing word scrambles. For more than 40 years, millions of newspaper readers have delighted in solving Jumble(R), which appears in hundreds of national papers and in these puzzle books that offer hours of challenging wordplay...

An estranged bi-racial couple must confront their feelings about race and bias after their son is detained by the local police following a traffic stop incident. Their disparate histories and backgrounds inform their assumptions as they try to find out what happened to their...

A passionate story of ambition versus the universal desire to be loved, A young aspiring ballerina from a sleepy town in the Pacific Northwest and an elegant dance master with a secret past, come together in post-WWII Europe. This well-researched historical fiction takes the...

(Music Sales America). A unique collection of 44 piano solos from the popular French pianist including: Feelings * Lady Di * Ballade Pour Adeline * and more.Author: Richard ClaydermanISBN-10: 0825610559ISBN-13: 9780825610554Publisher: Music SalesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1992Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 11.90h x 8.90w x 0.60d

As lines between characters and actors - as well as observers and observed - blur, a dizzying series of vignettes builds to a climactic moment in which performance and reality collide, highlighting the absurdity of anti-Blackness in our society. Through facilitation and dialogue we...

In 1978, Chum fled Cambodia and narrowly escaped the murderous Khmer Rouge regime. Thirty years later he returns in search of his wayward daughter, Neary. Jumping back and forth in time, thrilling mystery meets rock concert as both father and daughter are forced to...

(Music Sales America). Learn from the music of Bill Monroe, Bobby Osbourne, Jesse McReynolds, Frank Wakefield, John Duffey and others. This instruction book and collections of bluegrass mandolin music covers in detail everything from simple basics to fancy fingerwork. Songs include: Arkansas Traveller *...

The theater known today as the Detroit Opera House has been an integral part of the city's culture and history as well as the live entertainment industry. Its existence has been threatened in the past, but it has survived wars, the Great Depression, civil...

Solve chess problems and improve your chess tactical skills. This book of chess problems will certainly be of great benefit to beginners and children. By practicing day after day, they will progress, in a certain way, using the best tactical schemes. In chess, tactical...

Here is Jake LaMotta discussing his career as a hoodlum; Floyd Patterson on growing up in the ghetto; Gunboat Smith on the Jack Johnson era; Jack Dempsey on the Willard fight and the Tunney "long count"; Rocky Graziano on showbiz; and dozens of others--including...

Author: Lajos EgriISBN-10: 160796130XISBN-13: 9781607961307Publisher: www.bnpublishing.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/19/2009Pages: 138Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.38d

(Instructional). This book assumes no prior knowledge and begins with elementary rhythmic notation. It provides a comprehensive understanding of basic rhythm and its components: the beat, pulse, time signatures, notes, rests, syncopation. For general music classes and private instruction. Assures better, quicker sight-reading, ear-training,...

Author: Nadine DuBoisISBN-10: 0615140092ISBN-13: 9780615140094Publisher: Nadine DubooisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/21/2007Pages: 294Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d

An adult coloring book, for those interested in coloring cannabis themed pictures.Author: Cj BrowardISBN-10: 0368330575ISBN-13: 9780368330575Publisher: BlurbLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/20/2019Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.16lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.05d

This book is beautifully printed and jam packed with photo examples and values of all your favorite and rare Evel Knievel toys from the 1970's. A must have book for toy collectors, Evel fans and for anyone who wants to revisit their childhood and...

Long before the internet communities we know today, The Bruce Lee Society was the source of information in the United Kingdom for all things Bruce Lee. Established to address the demand for information and a sense of community from Bruce Lee fans, The Bruce...

Isabel's got pains. Anne's got slugs. And Genevieve doesn't want to talk about hers. She just wants you to eat the damn hummus (she made it ). Let's talk about family nightmares. We mean, uh, memories.Author: Will ArberyISBN-10: 057370838XISBN-13: 9780573708381Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished:...

Formed in Athens, Georgia in 1980, R.E.M. released their first single, Radio Free Europe, in 1981. By the time the band broke up they had recorded fifteen studio albums, 63 singles, sold more than 85 million records, signed the biggest recording contract in music...

Are you looking for a practical guide to learn everything you need (and more) to make superb smoky cocktails?If yes, this book is for you, keep reading...Although not new to the world of mixology, the smoking technique is gaining more and more ground and...

Volume 37 in the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series William S. Yellow Robe, Jr., a leading Assiniboine playwright, began his career in the theater as an actor. Although his acting skills were respected, there were few roles for Native Americans. As a...

Soul music remains the biggest 'underground' music scene in the world with each weekend, pre-Covid19, seeing countless soul nights and weekenders fill the diaries. Records, on often obscure labels, change hands regularly for four figure sums, while many artists come to Britain countless years...

In this series of books, based on the hit podcast A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs, Andrew Hickey analyses the history of rock and roll music, from its origins in swing, Western swing, boogie woogie, and gospel, through to the 1990s, grunge,...

Rediscover Halloween - the way it was meant to be This one of a kind anthology of vintage Halloween history, superstition, facts and fun brings together two complete classic volumes - The Book of Halloween (1919) and Games For Halloween (1912) - along with...

"A highly entertaining, well-written look at a city that played a major role in the history of rock and roll music. Kudos to Marty Jourard on a book of historical importance."-Kudzoo Magazine "Jourard tells the story so that you feel you are there in...

When Jeff Buckley drowned at the age of thirty in 1997, he not only left behind a legacy of brilliant music -- he brought back haunting memories of his father, '60s troubadour Tim Buckley, a gifted musician who barely knew his son and who...

NOT YOUR WIKIPEDIA LISTINGS, NOR IS THIS FOR A GAME This will be the very same book listed in GHOSTBUSTERS 3 Since its first publication over 100 years ago, Tobin's Spirit Guide has remained the authoritative source of information about the Denizens of the...

This collection features plays written between 1935 and 1996. This revised and expanded Black Theatre USA broadens its collection to fifty-one outstanding plays, enhancing its status as the most authoritative anthology of African American drama with twenty-two new selectionsAuthor: James V. Hatch, Ted ShineISBN-10:...

In her first-ever (sort of) memoir, the beloved actor and YouTube sensation gets personal about everything from mental health to drunken debaucheries with this "brave, behind-the-webcam look at self-discovery" (Kirkus Reviews). As an only child raised in a town of less than 8,000 people...

(Music Sales America). A complete guide to the 3-finger bluegrass styles. Basic right-hand patterns through many advanced techniques are covered. Includes 45 tablature arrangements from elementary to advanced, plus information on how to buy a banjo, playing in groups, and an annotated discography. The...

(Music Sales America). Every chord you'll ever need to play shown clearly in diagrams and notation. Special selection on inversions, substitutions, chord voicings and progressions.Author: Leonard VoglerISBN-10: 0825611326ISBN-13: 9780825611322Publisher: Music SalesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1992Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 11.88h x 9.02w x 0.46d

Note that the file is only 80 pages long, which means there will be some blank pages in the POD version.Author: Hugh VickersISBN-10: 0312346344ISBN-13: 9780312346348Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PLLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/1985Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 8.52h x 5.51w x 0.28d

Solve chess problems and improve your chess tactical skills. This book of chess problems will certainly be of great benefit to regular players. By practicing day after day, they will progress, in a certain way, using the best tactical schemes. In chess, tactical play...

London. Early 1600's during the plague. The theaters have all been closed. Six of Shakespeare's most iconic characters are out of sorts (and out of work) because of the plague. They meet up at The Boar's Head Tavern to ruminate, commiserate, and celebrate life,...

Patrushkha takes you from the first work call to the final wrap, explaining the order of the work and the details that her decades of experience provides, so you can avoid mistakes that might sabotage your career before it's even started. This book describes...

When Bella Baird, an isolated creative writing professor at Yale, begins to mentor a brilliant but enigmatic student named Christopher, the two form an unexpectedly intense bond. As their lives and the stories they tell about themselves become intertwined in unpredictable ways, Bella makes...

"Alternative" may have taken over the rock world in the 1990s, but at least one band proved you could still do real rock and do it with showmanship and style: Bon Jovi, arena rockers who have seen a million faces and rocked them all....

Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... a] joyous romp of a book.' Guardian'A fascinating, rollicking book in search of why, where and how fame strikes. Sit back and enjoy the ride.' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads' An] engaging and well-researched book......

Brought to you by the subscription club of the same name, Vinyl Me, Please: 100 Albums You Need In Your Collection is a vibrant visual guide to curating must-have records for any music lover's shelf. Celebrating artists as varied and influential as Bikini Kill,...

The third volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt."You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."--D. Kern Holoman, New York Review of...

Charlie Haden (1937-2014) was the rare sort of musician who transcended easy categorizationother than to say that his uniquely elegant and eloquent bass playing, with its readily recognizable sound, defined a certain pinnacle of musical communication in beau- tiful, spontaneous, and intensely emotional ways....

THE DYBBUK (BETWEEN TWO WORLDS) YIDDISH-ENGLISH EDITION x, 192 pp. Yiddish and English on facing pages. The Dybbuk, by S. An-sky (1863-1920) is the crown jewel of the Jewish theatre, the most renowned, most beloved, most translated, and most performed of all Jewish plays....

Pete Battistini released "American Top 40 with Casey Kasem (The 1970's)" in 2005. Now comes the follow-up, "American Top 40 with Casey Kasem (The 1980's)." Battistini painstakingly documented approximately 425 weekly, Casey Kasem-hosted countdown programs from the 80s, and compiled individual program summaries for...

This book explores why leadership skills taught through the arts are what young people need most to be successful in life. Competition for jobs is fierce and global and the current state of the world requires an ability to constantly adapt to change. Is...