One Last Song

Author : Mike Ayers
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781683358046

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One Last Song by Mike Ayers Pdf

An ironically upbeat book that asks some of today’s most inimitable musicians which song they would choose to be the last one they ever hear Variety Best Music Book of 2020 TIME Best Book of Fall 2020 Selection If you could choose the last song you’d hear before you died, what would it be and why? Your favorite song of all time? Perhaps the one you danced to at your wedding? The song from that time you got super stoned and just let the chords speak to you? It’s a hard question that Mike Ayers has thought about for years. In One Last Song, Ayers invites 30 musicians to consider what song they would each want to accompany them to those pearly white gates. Weaving together their explanations with evocative illustrations and poignant interludes—what your song to die to says about you, what songs famous people have died to, and more. The book offers insight into the minds of famous artists and provides an entry point for considering how integral music is to our own personal narratives. Artists Featured: Jim James of My Morning Jacket, André 3000, Killer Mike, Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, Phoebe Bridgers, Richard Reed Parry of Arcade Fire, Sam Beam of Iron & Wine, Colin Meloy of the Decemberists, Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips, Lauren Mayberry of CHVRCHES, A.C. Newman of The New Pornographers, Courtney Barrett, Bobb Bruno of Best Coast, Angel Olsen, Regina Spektor, Kevin Morby, Will Oldham, Julia Holter, Margo Price, Sonny Rollins, Ryley Walker, Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs, Yannis Phillippakis of Foals, Bettye Lavette, M.C. Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger, Wanda Jackson, Roseanne Cash, Lucinda Williams, and Beth Orton.

Author : Patrick Galbraith
Publisher : William Collins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Birds
ISBN : 0008420505

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In Search of One Last Song by Patrick Galbraith Pdf

'Wonderful and enriching' Adam Nicolson 'The best book on conservation and the countryside I have read in years' John Lewis-Stempel 'A modern pastoral written with intelligence, wit and lyricism' Cal Flyn Our wild places and wildlife are disappearing at a terrifying rate. This is a story about going in search of the people who are trying to save our birds, as well as confronting the enormity of what losing them would really mean. In this beautiful and thought-provoking blend of nature and travel writing Patrick Galbraith sets off across Britain on a journey that may well be his last chance to see some of our disappearing birds. Along the way, from Orkney to West Wales, from the wildest places to post-industrial towns, he meets a fascinatingly eclectic group of people who in very different ways are on the front line of conservation, tirelessly doing everything they can to save ten species teetering dangerously close to extinction. In Search of One Last Song mixes conservation, folklore, history, and art. Through talking to musicians, writers and poets, whose work is inspired by the birds he manages to see, such as the nightingale and the capercaillie, Galbraith creates a picture of the immense cultural void that would be left behind if these birds were gone. Among those he meets, there are feelings of great frustration. There are reed cutters and coppicers whose ancient crafts have long sustained vital habitats for some of our rarest birds but whose voices often go unheard. There are ornithologists who think their warnings are being ignored, and there are gamekeepers and animal rights activists who both feel they are on the right side of an increasingly ugly battle. Ultimately, it emerges that many of the birds Galbraith encounters could thrive, but it would require much better cooperation between those who are caught up in the struggle for their future. It also becomes clear that while losing birds like the turtle dove and black grouse will result in a paler country for all of us, for some of those who live alongside them, it will mean the bitterly painful end of so much more.

Author : J.R.R. Tolkien
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780385752961

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Bilbo's Last Song by J.R.R. Tolkien Pdf

Bilbo’s Last Song is considered by many to be Tolkien’s epilogue to his classic work The Lord of the Rings. As Bilbo Baggins takes his final voyage to the Undying Lands, he must say goodbye to Middle-earth. Poignant and lyrical, the song is both a longing to set forth on his ultimate journey and a tender farewell to friends left behind. Pauline Baynes’s jewel-like illustrations lushly depict both this final voyage and scenes from The Hobbit, as Bilbo remembers his first journey while he prepares for his last.

Author : Kristi Cramer
Publisher : Kristi Cramer Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Author : Arun Ange Veettil
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798885031813

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One Last Song by Arun Ange Veettil Pdf

The entry of the beautiful six-year-old Pari into the lives of Dev and his family in New York unfolds a series of situations related to the life of Dev's loving brother Aryan, a musical prodigy who is no longer alive. A performance by two amazingly gifted young children on America's Musical Prodigy Show, helmed by the most celebrated musician in the world, Tim Moody, raises questions about whether Aryan is still alive. While the world awaits the crowning of the next Global Music Icon, the most loved musical duo Guru-Karan achieve fame and love worldwide. The crowning of the winner of the Global Music Icon Award reveals a heart-rending tale of selfless love and sacrifice through the lives of extraordinary characters you will fall in love with. Read about the lives of angels unfurling in One Last Song.

Author : S. K. Falls
Publisher : Forever Yours
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781455560585

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One Last Song by S. K. Falls Pdf

I was seven when I swallowed my first needle. My mom freaked out and rushed me to the emergency room. She stayed by my side all night. I never wanted it to end. When you spend your whole life feeling invisible-when your parents care more about deals and deadlines than they do about you-you find ways of making people take notice. Little things at first. Then bigger. It's scary how fast it grows. Then one day something happens that makes you want to stop. To get better. To be better. And for the first time, you understand what it's like to feel whole, happy . . . loved. For the first time, you love someone back. For me, that someone was Drew. (85,000 words) Previously published as IPPY award-winning novel, Secret for a Song.

Author : Ilana C. Myer
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466861039

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Last Song Before Night by Ilana C. Myer Pdf

A high fantasy following a young woman's defiance of her culture as she undertakes a dangerous quest to restore her world's lost magic in Ilana C. Myer's Last Song Before Night. Her name was Kimbralin Amaristoth: sister to a cruel brother, daughter of a hateful family. But that name she has forsworn, and now she is simply Lin, a musician and lyricist of uncommon ability in a land where women are forbidden to answer such callings-a fugitive who must conceal her identity or risk imprisonment and even death. On the eve of a great festival, Lin learns that an ancient scourge has returned to the land of Eivar, a pandemic both deadly and unnatural. Its resurgence brings with it the memory of an apocalypse that transformed half a continent. Long ago, magic was everywhere, rising from artistic expression-from song, from verse, from stories. But in Eivar, where poets once wove enchantments from their words and harps, the power was lost. Forbidden experiments in blood divination unleashed the plague that is remembered as the Red Death, killing thousands before it was stopped, and Eivar's connection to the Otherworld from which all enchantment flowed, broken. The Red Death's return can mean only one thing: someone is spilling innocent blood in order to master dark magic. Now poets who thought only to gain fame for their songs face a challenge much greater: galvanized by Valanir Ocune, greatest Seer of the age, Lin and several others set out to reclaim their legacy and reopen the way to the Otherworld-a quest that will test their deepest desires, imperil their lives, and decide the future. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Nicholas Sparks
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781455588589

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The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks Pdf

NOVEL LEARNING SERIES(TM) THE LAST SONG by Nicholas Sparks STUDENT EDITION Seventeen-year-old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father . . . until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in North Carolina with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story of love on many levels--first love, love between parents and children-that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that love can break our hearts . . . and heal them. With a NOVEL LEARNING SERIES(TM) Student Guide · Questions about the text after every few chapters check your comprehension · Quizzes throughout help you prepare for standardized tests with SAT- and ACT-style questions using vocabulary and grammar from the book · Sample writing prompts and essays at the end guide you through the elements of an above-average, average, and below-average essay-and explain why!

Author : Eva Wiseman
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781770495173

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The Last Song by Eva Wiseman Pdf

Living in Toledo, Spain, and raised a devout Catholic, Isabel cannot know her privileged life is about to unravel. The tolerant society she is used to has been turned upside down by the Spanish Inquisition and the Grand Inquisitor, Torquemada. Now even the walls have ears, and no one is immune to rumor, suspicion, a resentful servant, or a neighbor bearing a grudge. Still, Isabel feels safe from the burnings and torture. After all, her father is a respected physician in the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Then Isabel is betrothed to an abusive man she thoroughly dislikes, and for the first time, her doting parents are united against her. The reason becomes all too clear when they reveal to her their family's Jewish roots. By marrying their only child into a respected old Catholic family, they hope to protect her and dispel any suspicion that they have not always been devout Christians. Despite their efforts, Isabel's father is arrested and tortured by the Inquisition, and it's up to Isabel to concoct a desperate plan to save his life - and her own.

Author : Geoff Ryman
Publisher : Small Beer Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Archaeological thefts
ISBN : 9781931520560

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The King's Last Song, Or, Kraing Meas by Geoff Ryman Pdf

Can a twelfth-century Cambodian king's sense of compassion and justice translate to the present?

Author : Michaelangelo Matos
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780306903359

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Can't Slow Down by Michaelangelo Matos Pdf

A Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020 The definitive account of pop music in the mid-eighties, from Prince and Madonna to the underground hip-hop, indie rock, and club scenes Everybody knows the hits of 1984 - pop music's greatest year. From "Thriller" to "Purple Rain," "Hello" to "Against All Odds," "What's Love Got to Do with It" to "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," these iconic songs continue to dominate advertising, karaoke nights, and the soundtracks for film classics (Boogie Nights) and TV hits (Stranger Things). But the story of that thrilling, turbulent time, an era when Top 40 radio was both the leading edge of popular culture and a moral battleground, has never been told with the full detail it deserves - until now. Can't Slow Down is the definitive portrait of the exploding world of mid-eighties pop and the time it defined, from Cold War anxiety to the home-computer revolution. Big acts like Michael Jackson (Thriller), Prince (Purple Rain), Madonna (Like a Virgin), Bruce Springsteen (Born in the U.S.A.), and George Michael (Wham!'s Make It Big) rubbed shoulders with the stars of the fermenting scenes of hip-hop, indie rock, and club music. Rigorously researched, mapping the entire terrain of American pop, with crucial side trips to the UK and Jamaica, from the biz to the stars to the upstarts and beyond, Can't Slow Down is a vivid journey to the very moment when pop was remaking itself, and the culture at large - one hit at a time.

Author : Ariel Dorfman
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015041167860

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The Last Song of Manuel Sendero by Ariel Dorfman Pdf

Denying the future until government leaders end repression, revolutionary fetuses refusing to be born begin to argue amongst themselves and one by one choose to be born until only the son of Manuel Sendero is left.

Author : Lurlene McDaniel
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307776303

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Mourning Song by Lurlene McDaniel Pdf

You don't know me, but I know about you.... I can't make you live longer, I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me. It's been months since Dani Vanoy's older sister Cassie has been diagnosed as having a brain tumor. And now the treatments aren't helping. Dani is furious that she is powerless to help her sister, and she can't even convince her mother to take the girls on the trip to Florida that Cassie has always longed for. Then Cassie receives an anonymous letter and check. Dani knows she can never make Cassie well, but against all odds she dares to make Cassie's dream come true.

Author : David A. Poulsen
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459739871

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Last Song Sung by David A. Poulsen Pdf

Cullen and Cobb are back to investigate the 1965 disappearance of a folk singer. Kidnapped from the alley behind a folk club, her bandmates shot and killed, Ellie Foster’s whereabouts have remained a mystery for fifty years. Hired by Ellie’s granddaughter, Cullen and Cobb travel into the past to unearth long-buried secrets.

Author : Four Arrows
Publisher : Savant Books and Publications
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780984555253

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Last Song of the Whales by Four Arrows Pdf

A humpback whale mysteriously takes a mixed-blood American Indian professor to sea. While struggling to survive, the man begins to reclaim his indigenous roots, and in the process discovers thousands of whales on a suicide mission in the North Pacific. When he theorizes the dire effects the whale's action could have for all of life on earth, he and a sympathetic woman marine biologist, influenced by a Hawaiian shaman's dream, against all odds, try to warn the world in time.