The Girl Who Couldnt Sing

Author : Heidi Garrett
Publisher : Half-Faerie Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girl Who Couldn't Sing written by Heidi Garrett and published by Half-Faerie Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman cherishes her dreams of becoming a singer/songwriter. As she remains true to her heart and perseveres, her life transforms around her. Once Upon a Time Today is a collection of contemporary fairy tale retellings for those who have already left home. The Girl Who Believed in Fairy Tales is a prelude to the collection and includes the three short stories: "The Girl Who Watched for Elves" "The Girl Who Dreamed of Red Shoes" "The Girl Who Couldn't Sing" Novellas in the collection: Beautiful Beautiful Dreaming of the Sea The Tree Hugger I Am Lily Dane

Author : Ari Honarvar
Publisher : Forest Avenue Press
ISBN 13 : 1942436475
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Girl Called Rumi written by Ari Honarvar and published by Forest Avenue Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Girl Called Rumi, Ari Honarvar’s debut novel, weaves a captivating tale of survival, redemption, and the power of storytelling. Kimia, a successful spiritual advisor whose Iranian childhood continues to haunt her, collides with a mysterious giant bird in her mother’s California garage. She begins reliving her experience as a nine-year-old girl in war-torn Iran, including her friendship with a mystical storyteller who led her through the mythic Seven Valleys of Love. Grappling with her unresolved past, Kimia agrees to accompany her ailing mother back to Iran, only to arrive in the midst of the Green Uprising in the streets. Against the backdrop of the election protests, Kimia begins to unravel the secrets of the night that broke her mother and produced a dangerous enemy. As past and present collide, she must choose between running away again or completing her unfinished journey through the Valley of Death to save her brother.

Author : Nicholas Martin
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250115965
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Florence Foster Jenkins written by Nicholas Martin and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florence Foster Jenkins was the most famous, though untalented, soprano in twentieth century America. Her extraordinary story is now a film directed by Stephen Frears starring Meryl Streep as the indomitable Florence Foster Jenkins and Hugh Grant as her husband/manager, St. Clair Bayfield. In this full-length biography tie-in to the film, Nicholas Martin, the scriptwriter, and Jasper Rees take a deeper look at her life and times. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1868, Florence adored music, but her wealthy father refused to allow her to study in Europe. In 1909, she inherited a considerable sum of money when her father died. It was then that she began to take singing lessons, vowed to become a great soprano and met St Clair Bayfield. At seventy six, after a lifetime supporting classical music societies and giving self-financed recitals, she gave a solo concert at Carnegie Hall that drew Cole Porter, Gypsy Rose Lee and other luminaries to the sold-out hall. It was a night to remember. Florence felt she had triumphed, but the crowd roared with laughter. After a lifetime of singing to entertain others, she didn’t know the one thing that everyone else did and that St. Clair Bayfield kept from her: she had a terrible voice and couldn’t sing a note. Florence Foster Jenkins is the book everyone will be reading after Meryl Streep brings this unintentionally funny and ultimately heartbreaking American woman to life.

Author : Rosemary Clooney
Publisher : Crown Archetype
ISBN 13 : 0767910834
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girl Singer written by Rosemary Clooney and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2002-04-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the top of her form and topping the charts, Rosemary Clooney looks back at a life of triumph and tragedy more dramatic than any work of fiction. Rosemary Clooney made her first public appearance at the age of three, on the stage of the Russell Theater in her hometown of Maysville, Kentucky, singing, "When Your Hair Has Turned to Silver," an odd but perhaps prophetic choice for one so young. She has been singing ever since: on local radio; with Tony Pastor's orchestra; in big-box-office Hollywood films; at the Hollywood Bowl, the London Palladium, and Carnegie Hall ; on her own television series; and at venues large and small across the country and around the world. The list of Clooney's friends and intimates reads like a who's who of show business royalty: Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Tony Bennett, Janet Leigh, Humphrey Bogart, and Billie Holiday, to name just a few. She's known enormous professional triumphs and deep personal tragedies. At the age of twenty-five, Clooney married the erudite and respected actor Jose Ferrer, sixteen years her senior and light-years more sophisticated. Trouble started almost immediately when, on her honeymoon, she discovered that he had already been unfaithful. Finally, after having five children while she almost single-handedly supported the entire family and endured Ferrer's numerous, unrepentant infidelities, she filed for divorce. From there her life spiraled downward into depression, addiction to various prescription drugs, and then, in 1968, a breakdown and hospitalization. After years spent fighting her way back to the top, Clooney is married to one of her first and long-lost loves- a true fairy tale with a happy ending. She's been nominated for four Grammys in six years and has two albums at the top of the Billboard charts. In the words of one of Stephen Sondheim's Follies showgirls, she could well be singing, triumphantly, "I'm still here!"

Author : Delia Owens
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593540484
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the Crawdads Sing (Movie Tie-In) written by Delia Owens and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The #1 New York Times bestselling worldwide sensation with more than 15 million copies sold, “a painfully beautiful first novel that is at once a murder mystery, a coming-of-age narrative and a celebration of nature” (The New York Times Book Review). For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life—until the unthinkable happens. Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Delia Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.

Author : Bob Reed
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451605307
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Choir that Couldn't Sing written by Bob Reed and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in Bob Reed's delightful book are surefire spirit lifters that celebrate life and enrich the soul. Reed's seven tales not only come alive with hilarity and warmth, they show how God works through even the most bumbling and misdirected human efforts. Reed's humor is laced with insight, his descriptions with inspiration, and his characters with God's own love. In the lead story, "The Choir That Couldn't Sing," Reed's description of a hopelessly off-key church choir assembled from eccentrics and misfits will trigger gales of laughter. But tears are sure to flow when readers feel the impact of the choir's humble but grand, accomplishment. The book's other stories come equally alive with humor, insight, and inspiration that demonstrate how the least in the kingdom of heaven can touch the heart of God.

Author : AARIS
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1496986539
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girl Who Made Me Sing written by AARIS and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does true love, love at first sight really exist, or just a figment of our imagination, a fairy tale? The Girl Who Made Me Sing, tells the story of a naive young man who had an obsession to find true love, as described in fairy tales and to be able to sing a song that uplifts those around him. He embarks on a spontaneous love affair that allows him to believe again and fulfill his long term obsession. Author AARIS' first take at writing takes you on an emotional roller coaster ride and highlights the missed chances we all had and possible regrets. It allows you to remember that special moment when you first found true love and the devastation of a heartbreak. But most importantly, gives you the Hollywood ending we all dream of.

Author : John Harding
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007562101
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girl Who Couldn’t Read written by John Harding and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of Usher

Author : Kate Constable
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 9781741145328
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Singer of All Songs written by Kate Constable and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calwyn has never been beyond the high ice-wall that guards the sisters of Antaris from the world of Tremaris. She knows only the rounds of her life as a novice ice priestess, tending her bees, singing her ice chantments, and dreaming. But then Calwyn befriends Darrow, a mysterious Outlander who appears inside the Wall and warns of an approaching danger. To help Darrow, to see the world, and perhaps to save it, Calwyn will leave the safety of the Wall for a journey with a man she barely knows--and an adventure as beautiful and dangerous as the music of chantment itself.

Author : Abi Daré
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524746096
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girl with the Louding Voice written by Abi Daré and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK! “Brave, fresh . . . unforgettable.”—The New York Times Book Review “A celebration of girls who dare to dream.”—Imbolo Mbue, author of Behold the Dreamers (Oprah’s Book Club pick) Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and recommended by The New York Times, Marie Claire, Vogue, Essence, PopSugar, Daily Mail, Electric Literature, Red, Stylist, Daily Kos, Library Journal, The Everygirl, and Read It Forward! The unforgettable, inspiring story of a teenage girl growing up in a rural Nigerian village who longs to get an education so that she can find her “louding voice” and speak up for herself, The Girl with the Louding Voice is a simultaneously heartbreaking and triumphant tale about the power of fighting for your dreams. Despite the seemingly insurmountable obstacles in her path, Adunni never loses sight of her goal of escaping the life of poverty she was born into so that she can build the future she chooses for herself – and help other girls like her do the same. Her spirited determination to find joy and hope in even the most difficult circumstances imaginable will “break your heart and then put it back together again” (Jenna Bush Hager on The Today Show) even as Adunni shows us how one courageous young girl can inspire us all to reach for our dreams…and maybe even change the world.