Confessions of a Serial Songwriter is an amusing and poignant memoir about songwriter Shelly Peikens journey from young girl falling under the spell of magical songs to working professional songwriter writing hits of her own. Its about growing up, the creative process-the highs and the lows, the conflicts that arise between motherhood and ......
From the 1950s to the 1970s, from Bar Harbor to Boca Raton, the raging crew known as the K&A Gang robbed wealthy suburban residences with assembly line skills of breaking, entering, and bagging the loot-be it rare coin collections or priceless paintings. Confessions of a Second Story Man follows the gang as they move in and out of homes, ......
How to Survive the Scams and Shams of the Music Business
For more than 15 years, Confessions of a Record Producer has exposed the inner workings of the music business and empowered artists to protect their interests. With inside knowledge and hard numbers, Moses Avalon reveals the truth of how the industry functions (or dysfunctions), showing what artists actually make from their hits and how ......
This is how it feels to be a Cold War front-line fighter pilot. Fly in the Phantom with the author and follow him into the bar for some epic nights of drinking. The triumphs and the disasters are all laid out here in a completely open and honest way as the author looks back with a certain sense of nostalgia and mild embarrassment. What a blast!
Bean Stew, Blisters, Blockades and Benders: The True Story of a Peace Activist in Thatcher'sBritain
...Insights into how individual action can play a role in avoiding Armageddon.' Billy Bragg
Terrific thoroughly engaging and a real page-turner wonderfully evocative, thought-provoking and a fascinating window into a world which until recently seemed almost old-fashioned, but now has a particular resonance in our ......
After flying fighter aircraft, Tug Wilson became an instructor/mentor/coach and father-figure at the RAF's fighter pilot school at RAF Valley in the 1990s. This book offers a personal and honest look behind the scenes at the RAF, documenting the exciting and intense journey to become a fighter pilot.
The memoirs of Sister Ying Mulan (born in 1933), a Catholic nun from Beijing, candidly describes her life in several labor camps, the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, and the revival of religious life in Beijing since the 1980s. Sister Ying offers unique historical insider information and adds a spiritual view of the events.
This book concerns the archetypal quality of Wordsworth's The Prelude, specifically the ways in which it develops and defines concepts of language, time, and narrative that influenced writers who came after Wordsworth. Frank D. McConnell sees the philosopher and theologian St. Augustine as the most suggestive analogue for the ......
Examines the role of confession in American culture. Argues that the genre of confession has profoundly shaped (and been shaped by) six of America’s most intractable cultural issues: sexuality, class, race, violence, religion, and democracy.
