Venus In Blue Jeans

Author : Meg Benjamin
Publisher : Entangled: Select Contemporary
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781640633193

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Venus in Blue Jeans by Meg Benjamin Pdf

When did my life start resembling a Hallmark movie? I suppose it all started when my charming fiancé turned out to be anything but, and I decided I wanted to push the reset button on my life. So, I packed up my business and moved to a small town in the Texas Hill Country, complete with the cast of small-town characters you’d expect and the ridiculously sexy new veterinarian. Being the new kids in town, Cal and I kept finding ourselves thrown togetherand even though men were the absolute last thing on my mind... one thing led to another. Now someone’s threatening my business, but I’m not the same woman I was when I arrived. And I’m ready to fight for what’s mine. Each book in the Konigsburg series is STANDALONE: * Venus in Blue Jeans * Wedding Bell Blues * Be My Baby * Long Time Gone * Brand New Me * Don’t Forget Me * Fearless Love * Hungry Heart

Author : Susan Abel Lieberman,Nathalie Bartle
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780544108660

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Venus In Blue Jeans by Susan Abel Lieberman,Nathalie Bartle Pdf

For generations, mothers and daughters have struggled to say the right thing -- or have said nothing at all -- when the time has come to discuss sex. VENUS IN BLUE JEANS brings refreshing hope and guidance for every mother who has been undone by such questions as "Mom, what’s French kissing" or "What’s oral sex?" or who has agonized over her teenage daughter’s newfound interest in boys. In this wise and radiant book, Nathalie Bartle tackles some of the toughest topics of sexual education: What do girls know about sex? When is the right time to begin talking with them about sex? How can mothers get the conversation right? Today’s teenagers face enormous pressures to become sexually active; by age nineteen more than 50 percent of American girls have had intercourse. From billboards to cyberspace, society is awash in sexual images. Parents assume that teens possess abundant sexual knowledge, but information gleaned from the media or the teenage grapevine can be woefully inaccurate: many teens list AIDS as the only sexually transmitted disease; others assume they can’t get pregnant "the first time." We need a new dialogue for this generation of young women, Bartle argues. Combining her own stories of raising a daughter with the generously honest voices of mothers and daughters who have struggled firsthand with this topic, she illuminates the invaluable role that mothers can play in their daughters’ sexual education -- without encouraging them to be sexually active. Adolescent girls crave information, but they may be too afraid or embarrassed to ask for it, worried that their moms will think less of them or assume they are preparing for sex. The rich stories here help dispel common myths, encourage candid conversation, and reveal the importance of placing sexual information within the broader context of relationships and a moral framework. Filled with strategies, keen understanding, and a warm sense of humor, VENUS IN BLUE JEANS will inspire mothers and others to persevere with these vital conversations and will empower girls to think of their sexuality as a natural part of adolescence rather than something they need be defiant about or shamed by. This is an indispensable book for anyone concerned with guiding today’s young women safely through the upsets, infatuations, and intimacies of adolescence.

Author : Bob Leszczak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442230682

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Who Did It First? by Bob Leszczak Pdf

“Everybody has to start somewhere. Businessmen start on the ground floor and try to work their way up the corporate ladder. Baseball players bide their time in the minor leagues wishing for an opportunity to move up and play in the majors. Musical compositions aren’t very different—some songs just don’t climb the charts the first time they’re recorded. However, with perseverance, the ideal singer, the right chemistry, impeccable timing, vigorous promotion, and a little luck, these songs can become very famous.” So writes Bob Leszczak in the opening pages of Who Did It First? Great Pop Cover Songs and Their Original Artists. In this second volume in the Who Did It First?series, Leszczak explores the hidden history of the most famous, indeed legendary, pop songs and standards. As he points out, the version you purchased, swayed to, sang to, and grew up with is often not the first version recorded. Like wine and cheese, some tunes do get better with age, and behind each there is a story. Included are little-known facts and amusing anecdotes, often gathered through Leszczak’s vast archive of personal interviews with the singers and songwriters, record producers and label owners, who wrote, sang, recorded, and distributed either the original first cut or one of its classic covers. The second in a series of titles devoted to the story of great songs and their revival as great covers, Who Did It First?Great Pop Cover Songs and Their Original Artists is the perfect playlist builder. So whether quizzing friends at a party, answering a radio station contest, or just satisfying an insatiable curiosity to know who really did do it first, this work is a must-have.

Author : Peter Dunbavan
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781524633455

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An Avid's Guide to Sixties Songwriters by Peter Dunbavan Pdf

An essential reference book for sixties music lovers, this encyclopedic overview includes detailed chart statistics and biographical information for eighty songwriters and covers around two thousand songs, some of which are among the greatest ever written.

Author : Darrell B. Lockhart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313061554

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Latin American Science Fiction Writers by Darrell B. Lockhart Pdf

Many readers are unaware of the vast universe of Latin American science fiction, which has its roots in the 18th century and has flourished to the present day. Because science fiction is part of Latin American popular culture, it reflects cultural and social concerns and comments on contemporary society. While there is a growing body of criticism on Latin American science fiction, most studies treat only a single author or work. This reference offers a broad overview of Latin American science fiction. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 70 Latin American science fiction writers. While some of these are canonical figures, others have been largely neglected. Since much of science fiction has been written by women, many women writers are profiled. Each entry is prepared by an expert contributor and includes a short biography, a discussion of the writer's works, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume closes with a general bibliography of anthologies and criticism.

Author : Mallory Angstadt
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781794776135

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Theme Operator by Mallory Angstadt Pdf

This book is a collection of playlists for any occasion. The music is from many genres, including pop, rock, punk, jazz, hip hop, Western art music, classic country, swing, dance, doo wop, alternative, and many more. It also includes songs from many times periods and many levels of fame. Rather than separated by type of music, they're separated by common themes! Favorites include School, Man-Made Outdoor Lighting, The Deadly Sins, Songs Banned From Radio, and Rodentia! There are 138 themes that range from as broad as Water to as narrow as Bubble Gum, so there is a theme for anyone!

Author : Jennifer Rosner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317256113

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Messy Self by Jennifer Rosner Pdf

The Messy Self challenges the idea -- and the ideal -- of a coherent, harmonious self. Taken together, the essays illustrate how a flourishing self is inevitably divided, ambivalent, fractured, messy -- and how the self triumphs through disorder. Written in accessible language by award-winning writers and scholars, the book offers a diversity of perspectives on the complexities of the self. With chapters on creativity, love, self-understanding, self-deception, identity, responsibility, and well-being, The Messy Self gives a range of voices to the ordinary and extraordinary divisions, fragmentations, and uncertainties that mark our everyday experience.

Author : Larry Shue
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822208113

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The Nerd by Larry Shue Pdf

THE STORY: Now an aspiring young architect in Terre Haute, Indiana, Willum Cubbert has often told his friends about the debt he owes to Rick Steadman, a fellow ex-GI whom he has never met but who saved his life after he was seriously wounded in Vie

Author : Meg Benjamin
Publisher : Margaret Batschelet
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780997790863

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So Happy Together by Meg Benjamin Pdf

So Happy Together: Two novellas from Meg Benjamin’s beloved Konigsburg, Texas, series. In Shelter From the Storm, Chico Burnside and his beloved Andy Wells are being driven slowly crazy by Chico’s wedding-mad mom. Andy’s ready to call off the marriage, but then she’s trapped in a low-water crossing during a flash flood, and it’s up to Chico to rescue her. Can the two of them find a way back to Konigsburg and a way out of the Wedding From Hell? Maybe— with the help of some backcountry neighbors. In Going Up In Flames, Jorge Delgado can cook anything, and now he’s running the Barbecue King’s food truck for the Sapphire Falls Town Festival. But his new assistant has him feeling some heat that doesn’t come from the firebox. And as if that weren’t enough, someone’s trying to sabotage his smoker and keep the people of Sapphire Falls from discovering the delights of Texas barbecue. Can a couple of cooks beat the odds and stir up something sweet together? We’ll see. For now, they’ve got a vandal to catch—and barbecue to cook.

Author : Meg Benjamin
Publisher : Margaret Batschelet
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780997790887

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Take That Ride by Meg Benjamin Pdf

They’ve only got a week. They need to make it count. Coy Blackburn is an up-and-coming country singer, but right now he feels more like he’s down-and-going. He’s at the end of a long tour, and his band is dragging. A week-long gig at the Faro tavern in Konigsburg, Texas, may get them back on their feet or it may be a disaster. For Coy, it feels like it could go either way. Lexi Markham is living life on auto-pilot at the moment. As the main driver at her family’s tour business, she spends her days taking tourists around the Texas wineries and trying to get over her breakup with her lying fiancé. Now her sister has booked her to drive a country band around town, and she’s definitely not feeling it. When Coy and Lexi meet, sparks fly—and not it a good way. Still, trust the power of music (and a back country cloudburst) to overcome a few bumps in the road. But can they even think about the future when they’ve only got a few days together?

Author : Ken Emerson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781101156926

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Always Magic in the Air by Ken Emerson Pdf

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, after the shock of Elvis Presley and before the Beatles spearheaded the British Invasion, fourteen gifted young songwriters huddled in midtown Manhattan's legendary Brill Building and a warren of offices a bit farther uptown and composed some of the most beguiling and enduring entries in the Great American Songbook. Always Magic in the Air is the first thorough history of these renowned songwriters-tunesmiths who melded black, white, and Latino sounds, integrated audiences before America desegregated its schools, and brought a new social consciousness to pop music.

Author : Marianthe Colakis,Mary Joan Masello
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780865165731

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Classical Mythology & More by Marianthe Colakis,Mary Joan Masello Pdf

Designed as an introduction to classical mythology for middle and high-school students, presents retellings of favorite myths, sidebar summaries, and review exercises with the answers at the back of the book.

Author : J. Kasper
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781460296721

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Waiting For Chester by J. Kasper Pdf

As an autobiography, “Waiting for Chester” relates the youthful adventures of the youngest member of an immigrant family. Arriving in Canada, from Europe in the early fifties and settling in an impoverished region of Hamilton Ontario, the author’s Family set forth to evolve a suitably comfortable lifestyle. The fateful coincidence of events that transpired through family, friends and fascinating acquaintances sends an innocently ignorant seven year old through an overwhelming journey toward maturity. This sometimes amusing cultivation toward adolescence proved ever more stimulating by his exposure to those magical high school years during the emergence of the Rock and Roll era. “Waiting for Chester” will remind us all of the chasteness of our youth and the morally wholesome side of our life.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1490 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Administrative procedure
ISBN : UCAL:B3603148

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Bob Leszczak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442240087

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Encyclopedia of Pop Music Aliases, 1950-2000 by Bob Leszczak Pdf

Recording Artists don't always enjoy success with their first release. A hit record relies on any number of factors: the right song, a memorable performance, a healthy promotional budget, great management, a spot of luck, and even some intangibles. Take choice of a name. For a single artist, duo, vocal group or band, the name can carry a lot of weight. Some recording artists changed their name to appeal to an entirely different demographic, like when country superstar Garth Brooks recorded as Chris Gaines to score on the pop charts. The Beefeaters became the Byrds—and they spelled the band name with a "y" in the wake of the meteoric success of the Beatles, whose letter "A" turned the image of a nasty bug into something intriguing. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel amassed a litany of aliases—Simon went by True Taylor, Jerry Landis, and Paul Kane; Art Garfunkel as Artie Garr; together they were Tom & Jerry before finally using their very ethnic-sounding given names. Bob Leszczak has amassed several hundred examples of musical pseudonyms in The Encyclopedia of Pop Music Aliases, 1950-2000, describing the history of these artists from their obscure origins under another name to their rise to prominence as a major musical act. Music trivia buffs, rock historians, and popular music fans will uncover nugget after nugget of eye-opening information about their favorite acts and perhaps learn a thing or two about a number of other acts. Leszczak goes the extra yard of gathering critical data directly from many of these famous recording artists through in-person interviews and archival research. Whether skipping around randomly or reading from cover-to-cover, readers will find The Encyclopedia of Pop Music Aliases, 1950-2000 a must-have for that music library.