2017 Christmas Coda


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From internationally best selling author, Lucy Monroe, comes a series of vignettes in the lives of reader favorites from her Harlequin Presents. What you won't find...a typical book with a beginning, middle, story climax and ending. What you will find...sometimes sexy, sometimes deeply emotional, and other times light and short, glimpses into the lives of the main characters from each of Lucy Monroe's Greek tycoon books written for Harlequin Presents. Some vignettes are a mere breath as she peeks in and answers the question, "What are they doing now?" Others in the collection are close to full on novella length. Some are sexy, some are not. All answer that question readers have asked her so often, "What happened after the HEA?" This is *not* an anthology of novellas, or even short stories. It is a gift to the readers who get so caught up in the characters' lives, they can't help wondering, "Did they have a boy or a girl? Are they still happy ten years, fifteen years, twenty years on?"




Popular Christmas Sheet Music - 1980-2017


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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 40 recent seasonal favorites arranged for piano, voice and guitar, including: All I Want for Christmas Is You * Because It's Christmas (For All the Children) * Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song) * Christmas Lights * The Christmas Shoes * The Gift * Grown-Up Christmas List * Last Christmas * Mary, Did You Know? * Santa Tell Me * Snowman * Underneath the Tree * Where Are You Christmas? * Wrapped in Red * and more.




Christmas Songs - Super Easy Songbook


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(Super Easy Songbook). It's super easy! This series features accessible arrangements for piano, with simple right-hand melody, letter names inside each note, and basic left-hand chord diagrams. This edition includes 60 holiday favorites: All I Want for Christmas Is You * Blue Christmas * The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) * Do You Hear What I Hear * Frosty the Snow Man * Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer * Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas * I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Hippo the Hero) * Jingle Bell Rock * Little Saint Nick * Mary, Did You Know? * Pretty Paper * Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer * Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town * Silver Bells * White Christmas * Winter Wonderland * and more.




Simple Christmas Songs


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(Guitar Collection). 50 yuletide classics in the easiest of guitar arrangements to help developing guitarists strum their favorite songs this holiday season. Includes: All I Want for Christmas Is You * Baby, It's Cold Outside * The Chipmunk Song * Do You Hear What I Hear * Frosty the Snow Man * Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas * I Wonder As I Wander * Last Christmas * Mary, Did You Know? * Please Come Home for Christmas * Run Rudolph Run * Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town * White Christmas * Wonderful Christmastime * and more.




The Christmas Classics Book


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(Easy Guitar). The absolute best easy guitar Christmas collection, now in an updated 2nd edition! Includes: As Long As There's Christmas * Blue Christmas * The Chipmunk Song * The Christmas Waltz * Do You Want to Build a Snowman? * Frosty the Snow Man * Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer * Grown-Up Christmas List * A Holly Jolly Christmas * (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays * I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus * It's Beginning to Look like Christmas * Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! * Mary, Did You Know? * My Favorite Things * Please Come Home for Christmas * Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer * Silver and Gold * Sleigh Ride * This Christmas * White Christmas * Winter Wonderland * and more.




Really Easy Keyboard: Bumper Christmas Book


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The Really Easy series returns to put some musical presents in your stocking. The Bumper Christmas Book contains easy keyboard arrangements of 45 Christmas favourites, from carols to contemporary anthems, from Slade to Silent Night, from Paul McCartney to O Christmas Tree. Each piece is accompanied by background notes alongside performance hints and tips, making this the perfect title for beginners hoping to improve their keyboard playing and impress their folks over the holidays, as well as simply for those looking to extend their repertoire with some festive favourites. An integrated Spotify playlist within the digital edition also allows you to hear each of the songs before you begin, allowing anyone to jump right in and become a master. The songs included are: - A Spaceman Came Travelling [Chris de Burgh] - A Winter’s Tale [David Essex] - All I Want For Christmas Is You [Mariah Carey] - Angels From The Realms Of Glory [Traditional] - Away In A Manger [Traditional] - Blue Christmas [Elvis Presley] - The Coventry Carol [Traditional] - Deck The Halls [Traditional] - Ding Dong! Merrily On High [Traditional] - Fairytale Of New York [The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl] - The First Nowell [Traditional] - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen [Traditional] - Good King Wenceslas [Traditional] - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) [John & Yoko and The Plastic Ono Band] - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing [Traditional] - The Holly And The Ivy [Traditional] - I Believe In Father Christmas [Greg Lake] - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus [Jimmy Boyd] - I Saw Three Ships [Traditional] - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day [Wizzard] - In The Bleak Midwinter [Traditional] - Jingle Bell Rock [Bobby Helms] - Jingle Bells [Traditional]- - Joy To The World [Traditional] - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! [Frank Sinatra] - Lonely This Christmas [Mud] - Merry Xmas Everybody [Slade] - O Christmas Tree (O Tannenbaum) [Traditional] - O Come, All Ye Faithful [Traditional] - O Little Town Of Bethlehem [Traditional] - Once In Royal David’s City [Traditional] - Please Come Home For Christmas [The Eagles] - Santa Baby [Eartha Kitt] - Silent Night [Traditional] - Step Into Christmas [Elton John] - Stop The Cavalry [Jona Lewie] - The Twelve Days Of Christmas [Traditional] - (There’s No Place Like) Home For The Holidays [Perry Como] - Unto Us A Boy Is Born [Traditional] - We Three Kings Of Orient Are [Traditional] - We Wish You A Merry Christmas [Traditional] - While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks [Traditional] - White Christmas [Bing Crosby] - Winter Wonderland [Perry Como] - Wonderful Christmastime [Paul McCartney]




The Assignment


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The Assignment Detective Nicholas Valenti, tall, dark and stoic, has been best friends with his partner, Sean O'Brian for six years. The two men have seen each other through divorce, disaster, and danger, and saved each other's asses more times than Valenti can count. Exactly when he started seeing his blond, intense partner in another light, Valenti isn't really sure. He only knows that he wants O'Brian in a way that had nothing to do with friendship and everything to do with possession. It is a desire he will have to hide forever because O'Brian is undeniably straight. Just as Valenti is coming to grips with his new, unacceptable feelings for his partner their police captain puts them on a new case that could blow Valenti's cover once and for all. He and O'Brian are going undercover at the country's largest and most infamous gay resort to bust a notorious drug lord and stop the shipments of poison cocaine that are flooding the gay bars all over the city. Now Valenti will have to make a choice between friendship and desire. He and O'Brian will play the roles of gay men that will push the limits of their relationship to the breaking point. Will their time at the RamJack forge a new bond between them or destroy their partnership forever? I'll Be Hot for Christmas, a Loose Id Stocking Stuffer featuring Valenti and O'Brian, heroes from The Assignment It's a year after their assignment at the RamJack where they first confessed their feelings for each other. Valenti and O'Brian have been sharing an exclusive and white-hot relationship when Valenti suddenly pulls away. Understandably upset, O'Brian is determined to find out why his partner/lover is giving himthe cold shoulder on Christmas, even if it means handcuffing Valenti to the bed to get the truth out of him! Publisher's Note: The Assignment and I'll Be Hot for Christmas are male-male love stories and contains homoerotic sex acts that may be offensive to some readers.




Christmas Favorites


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(Instrumental Play-Along). 14 holiday songs for solo instrumentalists in one accessible collection! The price of this book includes access to online audio demonstration and backing tracks that allow players to slow down the audio without changing pitch, loop for challenging parts, and more. Includes: Blue Christmas * The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) * Christmas Time Is Here * Feliz Navidad * Happy Xmas (War Is Over) * Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas * Here Comes Santa Claus * Home for the Holidays * It's Beginning to Look like Christmas * Mele Kalikimaka * Merry Christmas, Darling * Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree * Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer * Silver and Gold.




The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel


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The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British Novel offers a new literary history of the Second World War and its aftermath by focusing on wartime visions of rebuilding Britain. Shifting attention from the "People's War" to the "People's Peace," this book shows that literature returns to the historic transition from warfare to welfare to narrate its transformative social potential and darker failures. The welfare state envisioned that managing individuals' private lives would result in a more coherent and equitable community, a promise encapsulated in the 1942 Beveridge Report's promise of care from the "cradle to the grave." The postwar novel reveals the intimate effects that follow when infrastructures of collective living seek to organize social interaction, tracing these effects through quasi-administrated home spaces such as girls' hostels, makeshift sanatoria, and experimental schools. Mid-century writers including Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, and Samuel Selvon used the militarized Home Front to present postwar Britain as a zone of lost privacy and new collective logics. As the century progressed, and as the unrealized dreams of welfare came to be dismantled, authors including Alan Hollinghurst, Michael Ondaatje, and Kazuo Ishiguro registered an unfulfilled nostalgia for a Britain that never was, situating British domestic policies within trajectories of historic and social violence. Contemporary fiction continues to reanimate the transition from a warfare state to a welfare state, preserving its transformative potential while redefining its possible futures. With this long view of postwar fiction, this volume demonstrates the holding power of welfare's promises of repair and Britain's mid-century on the British cultural imagination.




Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2018


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The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2018, including movie icon Burt Reynolds, "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin, celebrity chef and food critic Anthony Bourdain, bestselling novelist Anita Shreve and influential Chicago blues artist Otis Rush. Obituaries of actors, filmmakers, musicians, producers, dancers, composers, writers, animals and others associated with the performing arts who died in 2018 are included. Date, place and cause of death are provided for each, along with a career recap and a photograph. Filmographies are given for film and television performers.