Beautiful Dreamer

Author : Melissa Brayden
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN 13 : 1635553067
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Dreamer written by Melissa Brayden and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who says you can’t go home again? Philadelphia real estate broker Devyn Winters is at the peak of her career, closing multimillion-dollar deals and relishing it. She’s pretty much blocked out her formative years in Dreamer’s Bay, where the most exciting thing to happen was the twice a year bake sale. Unfortunately, a distress call hauls her back home and away from the life she’s constructed. Now the question is just how long until she can leave again? And when did boring Elizabeth Draper get so beautiful? Elizabeth Draper loves people, free time, and a good cup of coffee in the warm sunlight. In the quaint town of Dreamer’s Bay, she’s the only employee of On the Spot, an odd jobs company. She remembers Devyn Winters as shallow in high school, but now everything about Devyn makes her lose focus. Though her brain knows Devyn is only home temporarily, her heart didn’t seem to get the memo.

Author : Philip Watson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571361706
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer written by Philip Watson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of guitar icon and Grammy Award-winning artist Bill Frisell. FEATURING EXCLUSIVE LISTENING SESSIONS WITH: Paul Simon; Justin Vernon of Bon Iver; Gus Van Sant; Rhiannon Giddens; The Bad Plus; Gavin Bryars; Van Dyke Parks; Sam Amidon; Hal Willner; Jim Woodring; Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill 'A beautiful and long overdue portrait of one of America's true living cultural treasures.' JOHN ZORN 'The perfect companion-piece to the music of its subject.' MOJO 'Outlines the subject's life in a series of scrupulous strokes and intimate interviews that are rare in such undertakings . . . a cool, casual victory.' IRISH TIMES Over a period of forty-five years, Bill Frisell has established himself as one of the most innovative and influential musicians at work today. A quietly revolutionary guitar hero for our genre-blurring times, he connects to a diverse range of artists and admirers, including Paul Simon, Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens, Gus Van Sant and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, all of whom feature in this book. A vital addition to any music lover's book collection, Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer tells the legendary guitarist's story for the first time. 'Stuffed with musical encounters, so many that every couple of pages there's an unheard Frisell recording for the reader to chase down.' NEW YORKER ' Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer is the definitive biography.' BILL MILKOWSKI, DOWNBEAT 'Superb . . . the book races along like Sonny Rollins in full sail. Like subject, like writer: this is super-articulate, adventurous prose.' PERSPECTIVE '[Watson's] writing balances unbridled passion and dispassionate research nearly as deftly as Mr. Frisell's playing does sound and silence . . . compelling.' WALL STREET JOURNAL

Author : Elizabeth Lowell
Publisher : Avon
ISBN 13 : 9780380818761
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Dreamer written by Elizabeth Lowell and published by Avon. This book was released on 2001-10-02 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nevada's rugged, majestic beauty is a balm for the aches of Hope Gardener's heart. But the ranch she loves is dying of thirst, thanks to the worst drought the area has ever seen, Hope needs a miracle -- and one day it comes to the Valley of the Sun. A man out of time, Rio is an anachronism in the modern-day West, bringing with him a reputation for finding water in any desert. Hope has no choice but to trust this dark stranger who claims to make dreams real. And Rio, who has never had a dream of his own to follow, has found something in this extraordinary lady whose passion tempts him to defy his own rules.In the midst of adversity, two free spirits must now explore the most closely guarded corners of their hearts...as they search for a beautiful dream big enough to hold them both.

Author : Robert Byrd
Publisher : Dutton Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leonardo, the Beautiful Dreamer written by Robert Byrd and published by Dutton Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2003-07-28 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned author-illustrator celebrates Leonardo da Vinci's passionate, playful genius in this glowing picture book replete with the richness and imagination of Leonardo's own notebooks. Full color.

Author : Joan Naper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781439226247
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Dreamer written by Joan Naper and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-year-old Kitty Coakley is a young woman ahead of her time. While her sister Margaret and the other girls in their neighborhood are content to settle into lives as mothers and housewives, spirited Kitty has bigger plans. The youngest of seven children born to Irish-Catholic immigrants, she's determined to carve out a place for herself in bustling turn-of-the-century Chicago. When her music teacher douses her hopes of a career as a professional singer and pianist, Kitty sets her sights on becoming a kindergarten teacher. However, complications arise when she finds herself pursued by not one, but two young beaus—steady, Catholic Brian and ambitious, Protestant Henry. Ultimately, Kitty must choose between living a safe but predictable life or following her heart into the unknown. With its vivid portrayal of early twentieth-century America, Beautiful Dreamer is a heartwarming coming-of-age story about a thoroughly modern woman.

Author : Stephen Collins Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Dreamer written by Stephen Collins Foster and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eileen M. Bolsover
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475934963
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Dreamer written by Eileen M. Bolsover and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1943, and World War II is raging thousands of miles away from twelve-year-old Nancy Killeen tomboy, singer, and sister to six siblings. As food is rationed and frightening air drills pierce through the sky, Nancy is just trying to survive sixth grade at Saint Mary Magdalene School. Constantly accompanied by her sister, Patsy, and Ernie her best friend who lives at the end of the street Nancy climbs trees, writes in her diary, and secretly wishes she could fly. But when she realizes her neighbor, old lady Crowell, is harboring a nasty vendetta against her family, Nancy knows she must do something and quick. With her parents acting strangely and Ernie suspecting they are Nazis, Nancy has her work cut out for her. But just as the lazy days of summer begin, Nancy is about to discover the secret to making old lady Crowell smile. In this tale set against the backdrop of America during the early 1940s, a young girl embarks on a coming-of-age journey where she must make some tough decisions and soon discovers the meaning of unconditional love.

Author : Christopher Bigsby
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466851597
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Dreamer written by Christopher Bigsby and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a small Southern town, a white man tries to prevent a lynching and finds himself branded by the mob --- and worse, finds himself sheltering the dead man's son. When the killers come around to finish the job, the two victims are forced to flee across the country in the hopes of escaping men with nothing but vengeance on their minds. Just one step behind the vigilantes a solitary lawman tracks the men as he wrestles with the choice to either turn the customary blind eye or to put a stop to the intolerable logic of racial hatred. As the point of view moves seamlessly between characters, Christopher Bigsby crafts what Booklist calls a "taut, poetic narrative that has all the hypnotic power of an incantation." Dark and gritty, Beautiful Dreamer traces the struggle between reluctant good and dedicated evil, where morality is a matter of life or death and the choices made have consequences as lasting as they are unexpected.

Author : John Bramley
Publisher : Bonnier Zaffre
ISBN 13 : 178606846X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marc Bolan - Beautiful Dreamer written by John Bramley and published by Bonnier Zaffre. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years after his tragic death, this homage to Marc Bolan pays tribute to one of the pioneers of the glam rock movement. Marc Bolan was the wizard who brought magic to rock music - his heart beat to the rhythm of rock. Moving from early folk influences and songs on the mythology of Tolkien, he transformed himself into a unique, sparkling and effervescent glam-rock icon. His boogie roots combined with Marc's own natural glitter dust, and propelled him forward on an adventure, with fortunes that were to ebb and flow over a decade. His diamond-studded halo was extinguished on 16 September 1977, at a time when his music was in the ascendancy. The annals of history are strewn with stories of artists who passed away in shocking circumstances of those that died too young, from substance abuse, mysterious illnesses or even murder. Sometimes, the shock of their passing immediately elevates their standing in cultural memory and cements their work in a favourable light. Marc Bolan died at twenty-nine years of age, in a tragic car crash - an accident that could have been avoided. However, it took many years for people to start appreciating what Marc Bolan brought to a rock music scene in the early seventies which had stagnated in some corners after the explosion of creativity in the sixties. Yet, gradually, acclaim has grown for how he enriched the period, bringing colour and humour to an increasingly leaden genre. Much like Hendrix before him, and Cobain after him, his natural charisma and striking beauty have underpinned his status as a dreamlike bard, an enigmatic pin-up whom boys wished they looked like and girls wished they were with. Yet it was his scorching talent as a performer and songwriter which have formed the bedrock for longevity as a legend. Including rare and unpublished photographs, and works of Marc's own poetry, this book is put together by a true, original fan - one who followed Marc Bolan on tour, who bought every piece of vinyl he released and who was fortunate enough to have made Marc's acquaintance during the peak of his career. Published forty years on from Bolan's death, Beautiful Dreamer is unashamedly a book of love, a book that every Marc Bolan fan will identify with, because it paints a picture of the man that the fans idolised, worshipped and continue to cherish to this day.

Author : JoAnne O'Connell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442253878
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster written by JoAnne O'Connell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster offers an engaging reassessment of the life, politics, and legacy of the misunderstood father of American music. Once revered the world over, Foster’s plantation songs, like “Old Folks at Home” and “My Old Kentucky Home,” fell from grace in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement due to their controversial lyrics. Foster embraced the minstrel tradition for a brief time, refining it and infusing his songs with sympathy for slaves, before abandoning the genre for respectable parlor music. The youngest child in a large family, he grew up in the shadows of a successful older brother and his president brother-in-law, James Buchanan, and walked a fine line between the family’s conservative politics and his own pro-Lincoln sentiments. Foster lived most of his life just outside of industrial, smoke-filled Pittsburgh and wrote songs set in a pastoral South—unsullied by the grime of industry but tarnished by the injustice of slavery. Rather than defining Foster by his now-controversial minstrel songs, JoAnne O’Connell reveals a prolific composer who concealed his true feelings in his lyrics and wrote in diverse styles to satisfy the changing tastes of his generation. In a trenchant reevaluation of his NewYork Bowery years, O’Connell illustrates how Foster purposely abandoned the style for which he was famous to write lighthearted songs for newly popular variety stages and music halls. In the last years of his life, Foster’s new direction in songwriting stood in the vanguard of vaudeville and musical comedy to pave the way for the future of American popular music. His stylistic flexibility in the face of evolving audience preferences not only proves his versatility as a composer but also reveals important changes in the American music and publishing industries. An intimate biography of a complex, controversial, and now neglected composer, The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster is an important story about the father of American music. This invaluable portrait of the political, economic, social, racial, and gender issues of antebellum and Civil War America will appeal to history and music lovers of all generations.