Life Could be a Dream

Life Could be a Dream
Author: Scott Curtis
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2008-05
Genre: Teenagers
ISBN: 1606471600

After blending a heartwarming tale of friendship with a hint of suspense in his first novel titled Mommy's Choice, Scott Curtis returns with a refreshing novel that combines inspirational romance with a small dash of time travel. At the sight of his abusive father lying wounded in the driveway; 16 year-old Sean finds himself at his mother's side being urged to flee. He doesn't recall what happened, but he reluctantly obeys. Later at a friend's house, Sean is presented with a place to hide out where no one could ever come searching for him - a safe-house within his own neighborhood, yet fifty years in the past. 1958 welcomes Sean with its trusting neighbors, rock and roll records, chromed cars with flashy fins, and even a spot on the high school football team. Best of all, 1958 welcomes him with a beautiful girl named Clara. Sean is captured by all that his heart could ever desire in this life. As far as he's concerned, nothing could ever make him return to the life he abandoned. unfortunately, a decision like that may not be his alone to make. Scott Curtis is the pen name of the author of Mommy's Choice - a powerful novel that shed a new light on the impact of even our smallest choices. After receiving an honorable discharge from the US Navy, Scott spent five years working in retail management. He left the busy world of retail to pursue a career in finance with Matco Tools and has worked at the corporate office since 1998. He is currently a Sunday school teacher at Bethel Church of Tallmadge. The best moments of his life are spent with his wife of thirteen years and two young sons in Munroe Falls, Ohio. Scott can be contacted directly at [email protected]

Sh-Boom!

Sh-Boom!
Author: Clay Cole
Publisher: Wordclay
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2009-10
Genre: Music
ISBN: 160037638X

There was a time between Be-Bop and Hip-Hop, when a new generation of teenagers created rock 'n' roll. Cole was one of those teenagers and was host of his own Saturday night, pop music TV show. "Sh-Boom!"! is the pop-culture chronicle of that exciting time when teenagers created their own music.

Poems & Songs

Poems & Songs
Author: Thomas McCavour
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2020-09-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1525584804

Poems & Songs Old & New is a collection of 120 songs and 55 poems by a writer that clearly adores them. There is a lot of love in the reproduction of so many songs and poems that people remember and appreciate, including such classic songs as, "Bohemian Rhapsody," "Hey Jude," "Hotel California," "November Rain," Let It Be," "Beer Barrel Polka." "Sounds of Silence," "You Are My Sunshine," "Mama Mia," "Ramblin Rose," " Yellow Bird," "Goodnight Irene," "You Are My Sunshine" and "Satisfaction." A brief biography of some of the famous singers , who sang the songs, such as Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald is also included. The collection of poems includes "In Flanders Fields" by John McRae, "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe, "A Girl" by Ezra Pound and "Daffodils" by William Wordsworth. McCavour also includes some of his own poems, including "A Friend of Ours," which was first published when he was only fourteen years old.

Sh-Boom! Life Could Be A Dream

Sh-Boom! Life Could Be A Dream
Author: Roger Bean
Publisher: Steele Spring Stage Rights
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2020-03-20
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781647230098

Full-Length Jukebox Musical | Meet Denny and the Dreamers, a fledgling doo-wop singing group preparing to enter the Big Whopper Radio contest to realize their dreams of making it to the big time! Trouble comes in the form of Lois, who arrives to put some polish on the boys. Denny falls in love, Wally falls in line, Eugene falls apart, and along comes handsome heartthrob Duke to send the whole situation spinning. The '60s hits say it all: "Fools Fall in Love," "Tears on my Pillow," "Runaround Sue," "Earth Angel," "Stay," "Unchained Melody," "Lonely Teardrops," and "The Glory of Love." Winner of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Best Musical Award, Life Could Be a Dream will leave you laughing, singing, and cheering-let's hear it for the boys! (1F, 4M)

Life Could be a Dream

Life Could be a Dream
Author: Henry Rex Greene
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2022-08-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1682356914

The summer of 1954 begins a pivotal year in nine-year-old Robby Barnaby’s life. On the last day of school, he breaks his arm sliding into home plate while playing for the fifth graders in an all-star game against the sixth graders. Baseball is his passion, and Robby excels at it, though he is younger than his classmates. He lives in a new suburb of Los Angeles called Watertown, an idyllic childhood spot with open fields and well-equipped schoolyards. He and his older brother Cyrus are entrepreneurs, trading coins and selling newspapers. In addition, he works for his teacher, Miss Oliver. He has two younger brothers, six-year-old Stanley, who is frail and sickly, and Glyndon, who turns four in December. On their annual vacation on Balboa Island, he learns his family is moving to a city across L.A. that offers little for kids to do. Before the move, his mother dies from surgery, leaving him in the care of his abusive father. Everything in life has become so unreal that Robby dreams of his dead mother. Miss Oliver offers to adopt him, but his father refuses. His new home is a chicken ranch in Orcutt Park, a town with no baseball and a brutal junior high. Robby and Cyrus are miserable, and their younger brothers are lost without their mom. What will happen to these boys?

New York City Blues

New York City Blues
Author: Larry Simon
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2021-07-29
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1496834747

A first-ever book on the subject, New York City Blues: Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond offers a deep dive into the blues venues and performers in the city from the 1940s through the 1990s. Interviews in this volume bring the reader behind the scenes of the daily and performing lives of working musicians, songwriters, and producers. The interviewers capture their voices — many sadly deceased — and reveal the changes in styles, the connections between performers, and the evolution of New York blues. New York City Blues is an oral history conveyed through the words of the performers themselves and through the photographs of Robert Schaffer, supplemented by the input of Val Wilmer, Paul Harris, and Richard Tapp. The book also features the work of award-winning author and blues scholar John Broven. Along with writing a history of New York blues for the introduction, Broven contributes interviews with Rose Marie McCoy, “Doc” Pomus, Billy Butler, and Billy Bland. Some of the artists interviewed by Larry Simon include Paul Oscher, John Hammond Jr., Rosco Gordon, Larry Dale, Bob Gaddy, “Wild” Jimmy Spruill, and Bobby Robinson. Also featured are over 160 photographs, including those by respected photographers Anton Mikofsky, Wilmer, and Harris, that provide a vivid visual history of the music and the times from Harlem to Greenwich Village and neighboring areas. New York City Blues delivers a strong sense of the major personalities and places such as Harlem’s Apollo Theatre, the history, and an in-depth introduction to the rich variety, sounds, and styles that made up the often-overlooked New York City blues scene.

Rock Song Index

Rock Song Index
Author: Bruce Pollock
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 698
Release: 2014-03-18
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135462968

The Rock Song Index, Second Edition, is a new version of a well-received index to the classic songs of the rock canon, from the late '40s through the end of the 20th century. The study of the history of rock music has exploded over the last decade; all college music departments offer a basic rock-history course, covering the classic artists and their songs.

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Author: Colin Larkin
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Total Pages: 4183
Release: 2011-05-27
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0857125958

This text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on popular music, from the early 20th century to the present day.

Montreal Stories

Montreal Stories
Author: Clark Blaise
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780889842700

`I grew up without a home -- what was it, the south, Pittsburgh? -- and by my mid-twenties the anxiety had grown palpable. My most potent memories were southern, but the inherited memories were of my parents' Canada, especially Montreal, where they had met and life had taken an improbable turn for both of them. But by 1966, when I moved my family to Montreal, my parents had divorced, my father was in Mexico, my mother had returned to Winnipeg, I had married a woman from India, and I didn't know where I'd come from or where I was going. Montreal provided the answer. `I re-entered a world I had never made, Montreal, and determined I would become the son I might have been, and would assert authority over an experience I could and should have had, but never did. Confusion remained, but at least I would be the French and English son of befuddlement, the crown prince of Canadian identity.' - Clark Blaise