Down The Crooked Road

Author : Mary Black
Publisher : Random House
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473508828

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Down the Crooked Road by Mary Black Pdf

For the last thirty years, singer Mary Black has been a dominant presence on the Irish music scene, an award-winning artist with many bestselling albums to her name. Now, in this long-awaited memoir, Mary takes us back to the roots of her musical heritage and to the influences that helped to shape her as an artist and a woman. Born into a musical family, Mary Black – a feisty tomboy who could hold her own when it came to sparring with her brothers and anyone else brave enough to take her on – began singing folk songs from the age of ten. Music played an important role in the family home and, performing with her brothers and her sister Frances, Mary built her highly successful career on the bedrock of these early years. From the pubs and clubs of her hometown, Dublin, she went on to perform in some of the most prestigious venues across the world. Always committed to exploring new material from the best writers, her unique talent attracted acclaim from critics, fellow artists and the public alike. It also led to a host of bestselling albums, including the multi-platinum No Frontiers, which spent more than a year in the Irish Top 30. Mary’s love of singing was matched only by the love she had for her family. As she recalls the inevitable tensions that arose when trying to juggle family life and a high-profile career, she tells of her struggle to combine the two contrasting aspects of her life. It was only through gritty determination, hard work and a fair amount of laughter that Mary was able to enjoy major success as an artist and, at the same time, raise a close and loving family with her husband Joe. Refreshingly honest, and written with warmth and humour, Down the Crooked Road offers a unique insight into the life and career of one of our most gifted singers – an artist who, during the course of her long career, has captured the hearts of millions around the world.

Author : MORRIS L. WEST
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE CROOKED ROAD by MORRIS L. WEST Pdf

Author : James Enge
Publisher : Pyr
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781615924875

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This Crooked Way by James Enge Pdf

Travelling alone in the depths of winter, Morlock Ambrosius (bitterly dry drunk, master of all magical makers, wandering swordsman, and son of Merlin Ambrosius and Nimue Viviana) is attacked by an unknown enemy. To unmask his enemy and end the attacks he must travel a long crooked way through the world: past the soul-eating Boneless One, past a subtle and treacherous master of golems, past the dragon-taming Khroi, past the predatory cities of Sarkunden and Aflraun, past the demons and dark gnomes of the northern woods. Soon he will find that his enemy wears a familiar face, and that the duel he has stumbled into will threaten more lives than his own, leaving nations shattered in its chaotic wake. And at the end of his long road waits the death of a legend.

Author : Tina A. Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 097996590X

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Crooked Road Straight by Tina A. Brown Pdf

Written with the immediacy of a novel, this groundbreaking work of creative nonfiction traces the awakening of AIDS activist Linda Jordan, a woman whose life was a struggle to survive, and who became a messenger of hope for families coping with AIDS. From her unlikely beginnings as a second-generation welfare recipient, rape victim, and heroin addict to her eventual status as a local hero, this inspirational true story follows Linda through all five harrowing decades of her life in Hartford, Connecticut.

Author : Alexandra Christo
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250318381

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Into the Crooked Place by Alexandra Christo Pdf

Into the Crooked Place begins a gritty two-book YA fantasy series from Alexandra Christo, the author of To Kill a Kingdom. The streets of Creije are for the deadly and the dreamers, and four crooks in particular know just how much magic they need up their sleeve to survive. Tavia, a busker ready to pack up her dark-magic wares and turn her back on Creije for good. She’ll do anything to put her crimes behind her. Wesley, the closest thing Creije has to a gangster. After growing up on streets hungry enough to swallow the weak whole, he won’t stop until he has brought the entire realm to kneel before him. Karam, a warrior who spends her days watching over the city’s worst criminals and her nights in the fighting rings, making a deadly name for herself. And Saxony, a resistance fighter hiding from the very people who destroyed her family, and willing to do whatever it takes to get her revenge. Everything in their lives is going to plan, until Tavia makes a crucial mistake: she delivers a vial of dark magic—a weapon she didn’t know she had—to someone she cares about, sparking the greatest conflict in decades. Now these four magical outsiders must come together to save their home and the world, before it’s too late. But with enemies at all sides, they can trust nobody. Least of all each other.

Author : Dan Petruccio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1684701465

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Living the Dream by Dan Petruccio Pdf

Are you on the path that you are supposed to be? Is your life's journey going in the wrong direction? I hope that my story will inspire you to make the necessary changes to get back on the road you're supposed to be on. Any good journey requires: directions and a good travel partner that you trust with your life, if need be.

Author : Irma Joubert
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780718098186

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The Crooked Path by Irma Joubert Pdf

From the bestselling author of The Girl From the Train, comes another compelling coming of age story of delayed love, loss, and reconciliation in WWII-era South Africa. Lettie has always felt different from and overshadowed by the women around her– this friend is richer, that friend is more beautiful, those friends are closer. Still, she doesn’t let this hold her back. She works hard to apply her mind, trying to compensate for her perceived lack of beauty with diligent academic work and a successful career as a doctor. She learns to treasure her friendships, but she still wonders if any man will ever return her interest. Marco’s experience in the second world war have robbed him of love and health. When winters in his native Italy prove dangerous to his health even after the war has ended, he moves to South Africa to be with his brother, husband to one of Lettie’s best friends. Marco is Lettie’s first patient, and their relationship grows as she aids him on the road back to restored health. In the company of beloved characters from The Child of the River, Marco and Lettie find a happiness that neither of them thought possible. With that joy comes pain and loss, but Lettie learns that life—while perhaps a crooked path—is always a journey worth taking.

Author : Cathryn Jakobson Ramin
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062641809

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Crooked by Cathryn Jakobson Ramin Pdf

The acclaimed author of Carved in Sand—a veteran investigative journalist who endured persistent back pain for decades—delivers the definitive book on the subject: an essential examination of all facets of the back pain industry, exploring what works, what doesn't, what may cause harm, and how to get on the road to recovery. In her effort to manage her chronic back pain, investigative reporter Cathryn Jakobson Ramin spent years and a small fortune on a panoply of treatments. But her discomfort only intensified, leaving her feeling frustrated and perplexed. As she searched for better solutions, she exposed a much bigger problem. Costing roughly $100 billion a year, spine medicine—often ineffective and sometimes harmful —exemplified the worst aspects of the U.S. health care system. The result of six years of intensive investigation, Crooked offers a startling look at the poorly identified risks of spine medicine, and provides practical advice and solutions. Ramin interviewed scores of spine surgeons, pain management doctors, physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians, exercise physiologists, physical therapists, chiropractors, specialized bodywork practitioners. She met with many patients whose pain and desperation led them to make life-altering decisions, and with others who triumphed over their limitations. The result is a brilliant and comprehensive book that is not only important but essential to millions of back pain sufferers, and all types of health care professionals. Ramin shatters assumptions about surgery, chiropractic methods, physical therapy, spinal injections and painkillers, and addresses evidence-based rehabilitation options—showing, in detail, how to avoid therapeutic dead ends, while saving money, time, and considerable anguish. With Crooked, she reveals what it takes to outwit the back pain industry and get on the road to recovery.

Author : Barry Raebeck
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781475990775

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Tyger on the Crooked Road by Barry Raebeck Pdf

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement are the roads of Genius. --William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell One of the world's most brilliant, visionary artists, William Blake was a painter, engraver, illustrator, and poet as well as a mystic of extraordinary proportion. But he was also a political radical, a Dissenter, and a friend and supporter of Thomas Paine, the English common man, and the early stages of the French Revolution. This remarkable personality is reimagined in Tyger on the Crooked Road, a bold historical novel that delves into both the man and the legend. In the late-eighteenth century, Blake struggles to make ends meet. He is harassed by repressive authorities, denied professional membership in the Royal Academy of Art, and considered by major artistic and literary figures of the day to be little but a willful eccentric. Not a few of them think him mad. But beyond his art and politics, Blake is a loyal friend and a passionate and devoted husband. His life comprises an amalgam of conflict and compassion, adventure and failure, violence and political intrigue, frustration and inspiration. This Blake is a man of profound appetite and exquisite skill--one who offers an enduring voice of strength, justice, promise, and capacity. Tyger on the Crooked Road brings Blake vividly to life, a genius underestimated in his own time but known and beloved today.

Author : Marilyn Cram Donahue
Publisher : Walker & Company
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 0802765858

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Straight Along a Crooked Road by Marilyn Cram Donahue Pdf

As her family travels from Vermont to settle in California, in the early 1850's fourteen-year-old Luanna learns to accept life for what it is, no matter where.

Author : Sean Williams
Publisher : Pyr
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781591028086

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The Crooked Letter by Sean Williams Pdf

When mirror twins Seth and Hadrian Castillo travel to Europe on holidays, they don’t expect the end of the world to follow them. Seth’s murder, however, puts exactly that into motion. From opposite sides of death, the Castillo twins grapple with a reality neither of them suspected, although it has been encoded in myths and legends for millennia. The Earth we know is just one of many "realms", three of which are inhabited by humans during various stages of their lives. And their afterlives... In the tradition of Philip Pullman and Ursula K. Le Guin and inspired by numerous arcane sources, the Books of the Cataclysm begin in the present world but soon propel the reader to a landscape that is simultaneously familiar and fantastic.

Author : John Balaban
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781556592386

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Path, Crooked Path by John Balaban Pdf

A collection of poems focus on the mix of cultures within America, juxtaposing the author's experiences in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia against contemporary life in the United States.

Author : Leland J. Hanchett
Publisher : Pine Rim Publishing LLC
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1992-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780963778505

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The Crooked Trail to Holbrook by Leland J. Hanchett Pdf

This is the story of a cattle trail which ran from south of Globe, Arizona north to Holbrook. The trail proved to be a microcosm of the Wild West including cattle drives bar room fights, shootouts, rustling, lawmen who acted like crooks and ranchers who would give the shirt off their backs when needed. In 1993 this book won the prestigious "Best of the Southwest" award.

Author : Francena H. Arnold
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1959-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802490889

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Straight Down a Crooked Lane by Francena H. Arnold Pdf

A love-at-first-sight meeting between Mary Jo and Jack leads to a rash, young marriage. Reality soon hits the excited newlyweds. Yet from their despair and despondency come the desire and ability to learn how to follow God’s path instead of their own.

Author : James Oakes
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781324005865

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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution by James Oakes Pdf

Finalist for the 2022 Lincoln Prize An award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies. The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s brilliant history of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies reveals a striking consistency and commitment extending over many years. The linchpin of antislavery for Lincoln was the Constitution of the United States. Lincoln adopted the antislavery view that the Constitution made freedom the rule in the United States, slavery the exception. Where federal power prevailed, so did freedom. Where state power prevailed, that state determined the status of slavery, and the federal government could not interfere. It would take state action to achieve the final abolition of American slavery. With this understanding, Lincoln and his antislavery allies used every tool available to undermine the institution. Wherever the Constitution empowered direct federal action—in the western territories, in the District of Columbia, over the slave trade—they intervened. As a congressman in 1849 Lincoln sponsored a bill to abolish slavery in Washington, DC. He reentered politics in 1854 to oppose what he considered the unconstitutional opening of the territories to slavery by the Kansas–Nebraska Act. He attempted to persuade states to abolish slavery by supporting gradual abolition with compensation for slaveholders and the colonization of free Blacks abroad. President Lincoln took full advantage of the antislavery options opened by the Civil War. Enslaved people who escaped to Union lines were declared free. The Emancipation Proclamation, a military order of the president, undermined slavery across the South. It led to abolition by six slave states, which then joined the coalition to affect what Lincoln called the "King’s cure": state ratification of the constitutional amendment that in 1865 finally abolished slavery.