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Why Can't We Just Play?

Author : Pam Lobley
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781942934967

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Facing summer with her two boys, ages ten and seven, Pam Lobley was sifting through signups for swim team, rec camp, night camp, scout camp, and enrichment classes. Overwhelmed at the choices, she asked her sons what they wanted to do during summer: “Soccer? Zoo School? Little Prodigy’s Art Club?” “Why can’t we just play?” they asked. A summer with no scheduled activities at all . . . The thought was tempting, but was it possible? It would be like something out of the 1950s. Could they really have a summer like that? Juggling the expectations of her husband (“Are you going to wear garters?”), her son, Sam (“I’m bored!”), and her son, Jack (“Can I just stay in my pajamas?”), Pam sets out to give her kids an old-fashioned summer. During the shapeless days, she studies up on the myths and realities of the 1950s. With her trademark wit and candor, she reveals what we can learn from those long-ago families, why raising kids has changed so drastically, and most importantly, how to stop time once in a while and just play.

Banjo Roots and Branches

Author : Robert B Winans
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252050640

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The story of the banjo's journey from Africa to the western hemisphere blends music, history, and a union of cultures. In Banjo Roots and Branches, Robert B. Winans presents cutting-edge scholarship that covers the instrument's West African origins and its adaptations and circulation in the Caribbean and United States. The contributors provide detailed ethnographic and technical research on gourd lutes and ekonting in Africa and the banza in Haiti while also investigating tuning practices and regional playing styles. Other essays place the instrument within the context of slavery, tell the stories of black banjoists, and shed light on the banjo's introduction into the African- and Anglo-American folk milieus. Wide-ranging and illustrated with twenty color images, Banjo Roots and Branches offers a wealth of new information to scholars of African American and folk musics as well as the worldwide community of banjo aficionados. Contributors: Greg C. Adams, Nick Bamber, Jim Dalton, George R. Gibson, Chuck Levy, Shlomo Pestcoe, Pete Ross, Tony Thomas, Saskia Willaert, and Robert B. Winans.

Just Let the Kids Play

Author : Bob Bigelow,Tom Moroney,Linda Hall
Publisher : HCI
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1558749276

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Just Let the Kids Play by Bob Bigelow,Tom Moroney,Linda Hall Pdf

"Bob's message is a must for all parents and coaches. He challenges adults to understand their effect on youngsters, and that kids' needs have to be met first." Bob Trupin, Westport, CT This is not just another book touting improved sportsmanship and better coaching to remedy the violence in youth sports today. Just Let the Kids Play is the first book to identify the youth sports systems as the cause of the problem, and offers practical ways to rebuild them so they better serve the physical and emotional needs of children. First-round NBA draft pick, part-time NBA scout and youth coach Bob Bigelow joins journalists Tom Moroney and Linda Hall to put youth sports under harsh review. They explain the controversial belief that elite traveling teams at young ages should be abolished and replaced with equal playing time, team parity and shortened seasons, among others. Focusing on soccer, basketball, baseball and hockey, they highlight ten programs nationwide where these principles are working, and offer ways to integrate them into existing programs without sacrificing a child's chances for success. Soccer moms and hockey dads will discover that it really is possible to sleep in on Saturdays without sacrificing their child's future!

The Novels of Madeleine L'Engle Volume One

Author : Madeleine L'Engle
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 863 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504052047

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The Novels of Madeleine L'Engle Volume One by Madeleine L'Engle Pdf

From the National Book Award–winning author of A Wrinkle in Time, three poignant novels exploring the power of love, family, and secrets. The Other Side of the Sun: In this atmospheric novel of suspense set in the turn-of-the-century South, a nineteen-year-old British newlywed must stay with her American husband’s family on their South Carolina estate when he is called away on a diplomatic mission. She soon discovers her in-laws are not who they appear to be—as she stirs up dark secrets that were meant to remain buried. A Live Coal in the Sea: After her teenage granddaughter poses a troubling question, Dr. Camilla Dickinson must confront the painful history she’s long kept hidden as she relates a complex saga involving her beautiful, adulterous mother; her troubled son; and the difficult choices that have affected three generations. “[A] haunting domestic drama.” —Publishers Weekly A Winter’s Love: Emily Bowen’s marriage is hanging by a thread after hardships befall her family. During their sabbatical in Switzerland, a man from her past returns, offering the affection she craves, and Emily must decide if she’s willing to sacrifice the life she’s built for an unseen future. “A convincing story of mixed loyalties and divided affections.” —Kirkus Reviews

On Record

Author : Beverley Diamond
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780228007234

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Musical media and the audio recording industry have an important and complex history in Newfoundland and Labrador: professional musicians, community songwriters, local institutions, and even politicians have gone on record. The result is a widespread body of work that undercuts the idea of recorded music as a cultural commodity and deepens the province's tradition of cultural activism. Drawing on contemporary testimony and over fifty years of interviews, On Record explores how recording projects have served as sonic signatures, forms of protest, homage, or parody of the foibles of those in power. Beverley Diamond examines how audio recording in Newfoundland and Labrador has been shaped not merely by creative individuals, but by such events as resettlement, residential schools, the cod moratorium, technological change, and disasters that have befallen those who live and work on the North Atlantic. A chapter by ethnomusicologist and musician Mathias Kom examines the widespread response to a unique annual "challenge" to make an audio recording. Spanning both commercial and community-oriented initiatives, this book reflects the vibrant, socially engaged, and resilient nature of communities that value simultaneously and equally the highest professional standards and the creative potential of every citizen. Encompassing music from both settler and Indigenous communities, On Record redefines the culture of a province that has most often been associated with traditional music, demonstrating that recording goes beyond the creation of a commodity: it responds to the present and to constructs of public memory.

An Invitation to Sociology of Religion

Author : Phil Zuckerman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135948177

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Written in lively prose this second edition introduces students to the major themes, problems and goals of the sociological study of religions.

Blues Power

Author : Mike Wayne Hester
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781452084565

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In the early 1900's Rufus Epps, a son of an ex-slave, acquires land in the Deep South from a dying man. On the land he builds a gigantic barn, which every year on his wedding anniversary becomes the site for a celebration called the night of the blues. Bluesmen come from across the south to compete for the prize money. After Rufus Epps' death, the barn becomes deserted and the night of the blues is forgotten. Years after Rufus Epps' death, two bluesmen return to the barn. Cyril Dutty, who is dying, comes to search for his soul, which was taken from him by his father, a voodoo priest. John Leaks, an heroin addict, comes to find redemption from a life of hate and violence. Blues Power is a fast paced novel that chronicles the power and magic of the blues.

Devastation

Author : Gloria Skurzynski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442416802

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Earth's population has been decimated by disease, and fourteen-year-old Corgan, genetically engineered to be the perfect warrior, plays an important part in the impending virtual war alongside his partner, the beautiful Sharla.

A File of a Life

Author : Christina McKinney
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781546266082

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Jill navigates her way through life creating her own stories to explain unspoken tragedies and difficult situations that no one will give her explanations for. She lives in her own world, trapped inside a story that cuts her off not only from everyone else, but also from the wall that separates her feelings and thoughts from herself. Her Mother’s life is interwoven with Jill’s at times when they did not know each other yet overlapped briefly until tragedy separated them. Jill find’s something that changes everything, a suitcase in the rafters of her Grandmother’s garage, covered in layers of dust. In it, she finds the answers to everything, sitting there all along. Suddenly the gap that was missing all those years is filled in and Jill doesn’t know if it’s too late. All the lies, the stories that her childhood was based on to help her make sense and that provided the foundation for her life are uprooted and dried to dust. She feels like a chunk of her life has been handed back to her. It all makes sense. What no one would tell her before suddenly she knows more about than anyone else.

Demons are the Hottest

Author : Larry V. Sharer
Publisher : Larry V. Sharer
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Demons are the Hottest by Larry V. Sharer Pdf

Cyrus was having a perfectly great day up until he met the literal antichrist himself. With his entire world thrown on its head, Cyrus was left to wonder; what on earth made him the unlucky soul to find a demon? And why on earth was he so sexy? Theo was not having a good day when he decided to come to the realm of the living. After an argument with his father, Lucifer, Theo found himself leaving Hell and meeting a quite interesting and handsome human.

A More Perfect Union

Author : Hana Schank
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781416522935

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Hana Schank had never given much thought to her wedding, or even really imagined herself married, so when she found herself suddenly sporting a brand-new engagement ring she assumed planning a small, low-key wedding would be no big deal. But soon she finds herself adrift in Wedding Land, a world where all brides are expected to want to look like Cinderella, where women plan weddings with fantasy butterfly themes, where a woman's wedding is, without question, the Happiest Day of Her Life. Despite her best efforts not to become a Bridezilla, Hana finds herself transformed from a thirty-year-old woman with a 401(k) into a nearly unrecognizable version of herself as she spends weeks crafting save-the-date cards, worries about matching her cocktails to her wedding colors, and obsessively reads Martha Stewart Weddings magazine. She decides that, if she is going to follow traditions like wearing white and walking down the aisle with flowers, she at least wants to understand why. In her search she turns up interesting wedding facts: bridesmaids, for instance, were originally recruited to confuse evil spirits. Ultimately, she casts a critical eye on the $72 billion wedding industry, from the women at wedding websites who cackle over the etiquette missteps of others to wedding magazines that provide checklists of 187 tasks to plan the perfect wedding, suggesting that to have anything less is to fail as a bride, as a woman, as a wife. Part confessional memoir, part social critique, A More Perfect Union chronicles a year in Wedding Land, capturing as it does not only the stresses but the undoubted joys of becoming a bride.

Just Play Along

Author : Megan Daymond
Publisher : FRACTURE Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780648237709

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When your date turns into a snuff film, surviving is only the beginning​ … 'Excellent thriller! Very disturbing and suspenseful! … Highly recommend!' 5 stars, NetGalley reviewer. A gripping Australian crime thriller filled with mystery, suspense, and a touch of romance ... When Andy and Mel’s double date turns into a snuff film, Andy fights back, killing one of her attackers, leading to an unwanted aftermath of attention and threats. Detective Daniel Connor links the attack to the recent discovery of six female bodies found buried in bushland on Sydney’s Northern Beaches – three double homicides now thought to be part of an organised snuff-film ring. When video of the attack is leaked online, the threats against the women escalate. Determined to find answers, Andy is caught in the middle of a deadly investigation. Connor vows to protect Andy and Mel, but as more suspects are uncovered, the more he fears for their lives. Book 1, Andy Knight Series THIS BOOK CAN BE READ AS A STANDALONE OR PART OF SERIES Australian English Spelling Books in the Andy Knight Series: Just Play Along Bones of Deception Hidden Lies OPTIONAL EXTRA READS – The books in the Valerie Dawson Novella Series are designed to be read alongside the full-length novels in the Andy Knight Series (but if preferred, they can be read on their own). It is optional to read these two series together. But if you do choose to read both series, the following reading order is recommended: FIRST READ either ‘Just Play Along’ OR ‘Valerie: Trapped’. Then, to avoid spoilers, the following reading order is recommended: 1. Just Play Along (Book 1, Andy Knight Series) 2. Valerie: Trapped (Part 1, Valerie Dawson Novella Series) 3. Valerie: Isolated (Part 2, Valerie Dawson Novella Series) 4. Bones of Deception (Book 2, Andy Knight Series) 5. Valerie: Bound (Part 3, Valerie Dawson Novella Series) 6. Valerie: Desperate (Part 4, Valerie Dawson Novella Series) 7. Hidden Lies (Book 3, Andy Knight Series) The reading order of the combined two series is flexible and most books can be read in your preferred order with only minor spoilers, but it is highly recommended to read Bones of Deception (Book 2, Andy Knight Series) before reading Valerie: Desperate (Part 4, Valerie Dawson Novella Series) as it contains major spoilers and should be read in the correct order.

To Be, Or Not-- to Bop

Author : Dizzy Gillespie
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780816665471

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Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 1979.

Readings in the Shed

Author : Nikhil Katara,Himali Kothari
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781543707953

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Readings in the shed completed three years of performing stories on 23rd April 2021. Under normal circumstances the celebrations would involve theatrical performances of birthday stories. Actors would perform, and audiences would fill the seats. The pandemic and the restrictions that accompany it, stopped the stories from making it to the stage. But stories travel, in one form or another. Thus, they took the form of a book that might quietly travel and reach the stage of the reader’s mind where the performances may continue. The stories in this anthology are varied in theme, setting and concept. Nikhil Katara’s Pride, set in the wild narrates the story of an aging lion. While his O2 explores the implication of choices especially in difficult times. Himali Kothari’s Coming of Age is the story of Pushpa who has lived her life in the hope that her birth may have been of value. The Birthday Stories is a story of friendship and acceptance.

Curse of Atlantis

Author : Christopher David Petersen
Publisher : christopher david petersen
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Curse of Atlantis: There are 5 books in the Atlantis series: Hidden Courage; Tomb of Atlantis; Curse of Atlantis; Tomb of Zeus and Weapons of Atlantis. Please see recommended order of reading below. Hidden Courage: is the back story of the main character in the Atlantis series (Interesting, but not essential) Tomb of Atlantis: is book 1 Curse of Atlantis: is book 2 Tomb of Zeus: is book 3 Weapons of Atlantis: is book 4 Curse of Atlantis: In Tomb of Atlantis, Jack Roberts, an adventurer, discovered an artifact that may have belonged to a pyramid contained within the lost city of Atlantis. In Curse of Atlantis, the search for the pyramids continues. Jack and his archaeologist friends, Serena and Javier Arista, plan to take the artifact to Greece in order to find its connection to the lost pyramids of Atlantis. However, prior to leaving on the trip, Serena and the artifact are taken hostage by unscrupulous thieves who only want the riches contained within the pyramids. For Jack and Javier, it is a race against time to discover where the pyramid is, that contains the key to the lost civilization in order to save Serena and the ancient secrets of Atlantis. 79,000 words