Author : Polly Faber
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 2021
Category : City and town life
ISBN : 9781839943355
A beautifully illustrated picture book exploration of the jobs that keep a city running all through the night, and make it ready for the new day.
Author : Alison Mack
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 9780792483625
A step-by-step program for curing bedwetting, with separate sections for parent and child.
Author : Marni Nixon
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 11,30 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780823083657
The most celebrated "voice" in Hollywood speaks for herself! Everyone knows Marni Nixon...even if they think they don’t. One of the best-known and best-loved singing voices in the world, Nixon dubbed songs for Natalie Wood inWest Side Story, Audrey Hepburn inMy Fair Lady, and Deborah Kerr inThe King and I. She was the voice of Hollywood’s leading ladies, arriving in filmland after a debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at 17 and continuing her career with Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, Stephen Sondheim, Rogers and Hammerstein, and many others. Her inspiring autobiography reveals Nixon as a singer, an actress, and a woman fighting for artistic recognition. Today, a survivor of breast cancer, she works on Broadway and television’sLaw & Order SVU, tours with her own stage show, and teaches master classes in voice.I Could Have Sung All Nightreveals the woman behind the screen in a frank, funny biography that is as remarkable as the woman whose story it tells. • Beloved show-biz icon Nixon dubbed the singing of Natalie Wood inWest Side Story, Deborah Karr inThe King and I, and Audrey Hepburn inMy Fair Lady—she now tells her story for the first time • Entertaining behind-the-scenes celebrity stories from six decades of performing • Nostalgia appeal, plus insider's account of the music and film worlds of the 20th century • Breast cancer survivor Nixon is an inspiration to millions of women
Author : Jamie Anderson
Publisher : Bella Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 20,38 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1594938210
“A piece of lesbian history from the ‘girl with a guitar’ who truly sang for her supper. Jamie brings the road to you in color and out loud.” —Suzanne Westenhoefer She’s opened for Holly Near, closed a church coffeehouse by saying “uterus” and danced with a tornado. From taking her shirt off for Amy Ray to housing with a pig, she’s always looking for the perfect gig. With a delightful mix of horror road stories, fan girl name dropping and commentary on the people and times, Anderson describes the joys and travails of the touring circuit as she creates the music and stories of our lives. “An extraordinary glimpse into the life of a touring musician.” —Nancy Manahan “Jamie’s as endlessly funny an entertainer on the page as on the stage.” —Lee Lynch “She leads with her sense of humor and heart…” —Lisa Koch
Author : David Diop
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374720479
*WINNER OF THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE* *ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021* Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction Shortlisted for the 2022 DUBLIN Literary Award "Astonishingly good." —Lily Meyer, NPR "So incantatory and visceral I don’t think I’ll ever forget it." —Ali Smith, The Guardian | Best Books of 2020 One of The Wall Street Journal's 11 best books of the fall | One of The A.V. Club's fifteen best books of 2020 |A Sunday Times best book of the year Selected by students across France to win the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, David Diop’s English-language, historical fiction debut At Night All Blood is Black is a “powerful, hypnotic, and dark novel” (Livres Hebdo) of terror and transformation in the trenches of the First World War. Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting as a so-called “Chocolat” soldier with the French army during World War I. When his friend Mademba Diop, in the same regiment, is seriously injured in battle, Diop begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long and agonizing death in No Man’s Land. Unable to commit this mercy killing, madness creeps into Alfa’s mind as he comes to see this refusal as a cruel moment of cowardice. Anxious to avenge the death of his friend and find forgiveness for himself, he begins a macabre ritual: every night he sneaks across enemy lines to find and murder a blue-eyed German soldier, and every night he returns to base, unharmed, with the German’s severed hand. At first his comrades look at Alfa’s deeds with admiration, but soon rumors begin to circulate that this super soldier isn’t a hero, but a sorcerer, a soul-eater. Plans are hatched to get Alfa away from the front, and to separate him from his growing collection of hands, but how does one reason with a demon, and how far will Alfa go to make amends to his dead friend? Peppered with bullets and black magic, this remarkable novel fills in a forgotten chapter in the history of World War I. Blending oral storytelling traditions with the gritty, day-to-day, journalistic horror of life in the trenches, David Diop's At Night All Blood is Black is a dazzling tale of a man’s descent into madness.
Author : Derek Milman
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0062665677
A darkly hilarious contemporary realistic young adult novel about growing up and finding your place in the world, perfect for fans of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and Running with Scissors. Goodreads Hottest YA Books of Summer * B&N Teen Blog Most Anticipated YA Debuts of 2018 * Buzzfeed 27 YA Books You’ll Want to Devour by the Pool This Summer DARIO HEYWARD KNOWS ONE THING: He’s never going back to Moldavia Studios, the iconic castle that served as the set, studio, and home to the cast and crew of dozens of cult classic B-horror movies. It’s been three years since Dario’s even seen the place, after getting legally emancipated from his father, the infamous director of Moldavia’s creature features. But then Dario’s brother invites him home to a mysterious ceremony involving his father and a tribute to his first film—The Curse of the Mummy’s Tongue. Dario swears his homecoming will be a one-time visit. A way for him to get closure on his past—and reunite with Hayley, his first love and costar of Zombie Children of the Harvest Sun, a production fraught with real-life tragedy—and say good-bye for good. But the unthinkable happens—Dario gets sucked back into the twisted world of Moldavia and the horrors, both real and imagined, he’s left there. With only months to rescue the sinking studio and everyone who has built their lives there, Dario must confront the demons of his past—and the uncertainties of his future. But can he escape the place that’s haunted him his whole life?
Author : Suzanne Lang
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,67 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Bedtime
ISBN : 9781761126505
"Why is it a sleepover when evreyone is UP ALL NIGHT? Jim Panzee is in a good mood for once! He is going to a sleepover at his parents' house, and Norman is coming, too. Jim couldn't be more excited about the fun activities his family has planned. They will go termite fishing, bob for mangoes, and tell scary stories. Jim can't wait to stay up all night! But what happens when his "little" brother shows up?" -- Back cover.
Author : Mieko Kawakami
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 36,33 MB
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1509898271
From literary sensation and International Booker Prize-shortlisted author Mieko Kawakami, the bestelling author of Breasts and Eggs and Heaven comes All the Lovers in the Night, an extraordinary, deeply moving and insightful story set in contemporary Tokyo. 'A brief, compelling study of alienation and friendship; I binge-read it in one sitting.' - Rebecca F Kuang, bestselling author of Babel Fuyuko Irie is a freelance proofreader in her thirties. Living alone in an overwhelming city and unable to form meaningful relationships, she has little contact with anyone other than her colleague, Hijiri. But a chance encounter with a man named Mitsutsuka awakens something new in her. Through their weekly meetings, Fuyuko starts to see the world in a different light and still, painful memories from her past begin to resurface. As Fuyuko realizes she exists in a small world of her own making she begins to push at her own boundaries. But will she find the strength to bring down the walls that surround her? Pulsing and poetic, modern and shocking, this is an unforgettable novel from Japan’s most exciting writer. ‘Mieko Kawakami is a genius’ - Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times All the Lovers in the Night is translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd.
Author : Arthur A. Levine
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Brothers
ISBN : 9780688101077
Moses and his little brother Benjamin find a way to celebrate Hanukkah during their dangerous emigration to Palestine.
Author : Rhonda Shear
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781684015016
Slip on your satin pajamas, pull back the covers, and slide into bed with everyone's favorite late-night bedtime buddy, Rhonda Shear! You know her as the smart-sexy hostess of USA: Up All Night, but did you know Rhonda was a New Orleans beauty queen? A candidate for office? A standup comic? An award-winning "bimbopreneur"? A rule-breaking feminist? She's been all that and more, and in this funny, naughty, candid book, Rhonda finally shares the unforgettable story of a woman who was always "too something"too pretty, too funny, too ethnic, too blondeto achieve anything, but who ended up achieving everything. Packed with vivid characters, hilarious stories, and wisdom for women of all ages, Up All Night proves that when it comes to achieving your dreams, the only voice that matters is your own.
