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| Author | : Nancy Rooks |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 149 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781413454765 |
If you wanted a picture of the life of Elvis Presley, who better to paint it for you than someone who worked as his trusted cook and maid at Graceland? Someone whose daily tasks centered around keeping the ́King of Rock & Roll ́ happy, whose every move was designed to please the greatest music legend the entertainment world has ever known. Here is that picture, as painted by Nancy Rooks. Nancy worked for Elvis from 1967 until his untimely death in 1977. Read her stories of what those years were like, of what the routines were at Graceland, and what it meant to be close to Elvis and his family on a daily basis. Read the sad account of her rushing upstairs, after a frantic call from Ginger Alden, and finding him on the bathroom floor. This book presents that picture, one that every Elvis fan will want to see.
| Author | : Megan M. Murphy |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 108 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9788791975073 |
| Author | : Karal Ann Marling |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780674358898 |
Describes what Graceland, the home Elvis Presley built in Memphis, tells about the late singer's life and personality.
| Author | : Gary Vikan |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2012-10-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1442276797 |
Graceland is much more than a wildly popular historic house and tourist destination associated with a famous entertainer, and Elvis Presley is much more than the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. As former Walters Art Museum director and medievalist Gary Vikan shows us in his fascinating new book, Graceland, the second-most visited historic house in the U.S., is a locus sanctus —a holy place—and Elvis is its resident saint, while the hordes of fans that crowd Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis are modern-day pilgrims, connected in spirit and practice to their early Christian counterparts, sharing a fascination for icons and iconography, relics, souvenirs, votives, and even a belief in miracles. Vikan reveals the emergence of contemporary holy places—Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the Grassy Knoll in Dallas, Place de l’Alma in Paris—and shows us that the saints of our day are our “martyred” secular charismatics, from Elvis to John F. Kennedy, Princess Diana, Michael Jackson, and others.
| Author | : Robert K. Elder |
| Publisher | : Running Press Adult |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2021-10-05 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0762469773 |
Celebrate Christmas with the King of Rock n' Roll! For Elvis, Christmas at Graceland was a time for family and friends, a respite from the road and the recording studio. It was a time to sing gospel songs around the piano and give out extravagant gifts. In this spirit, Christmas with Elvis is designed like a Christmas party Elvis himself would have liked. It’s a behind-the-scenes look at the iconic music and songs Elvis sang and recorded for his bestselling holiday albums, alongside favorite stories, trivia, and Yuletide cocktails and munchies—all wrapped up with a merry Christmas twist fit for the King of Rock ’n’ Roll. ELVIS™ and ELVIS PRESLEY™ are trademarks of ABG EPE IP LLC Rights of Publicity and Persona Rights: Elvis Presley Enterprises, LLC © 2021 ABG EPE IP LLC elvis.com
| Author | : Shirley Connell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2012-01-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781467541244 |
| Author | : Chris Abani |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2005-01-26 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1429929820 |
A teenage Elvis impersonator navigates the Lagos ghetto in this “searing chronicle of a young man’s coming of age in Nigeria during the late 1970s” (Publishers Weekly). Elvis Oke dreams of escaping the sprawling, swampy, cacophonous city of Lagos, Nigeria. Beset by poverty, floods, and beatings by his alcoholic father, he ekes out a living by impersonating his famous namesake. But soon he is tempted by a life of crime. Thus begins his odyssey into the dangerous underworld of Lagos, guided by his friend Redemption and accompanied by a restless hybrid of voices including The King of Beggars, Sunday, Innocent and Comfort. Ultimately, young Elvis, drenched in reggae and jazz, and besotted with American film heroes and images, must find his way to a GraceLand of his own. In this lyrical and nuanced debut novel, Nigerian poet Chris Abani shares a remarkable story of a son and his father, and an examination of postcolonial Nigeria where the trappings of American culture reign supreme. “A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new.” —T. Coraghessan Boyle
| Author | : Chuck Murphy |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Pop-up books |
| ISBN | : 9781594741319 |
More than 600,000 people visit Graceland every year, making it one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. The number of Canadians who make the rock 'n' roll pilgrimage is staggering. This ultimate keepsake takes Elvis fans everywhere behind the velvet ropes for an all-access tour of the King's estate. In an elaborate pop-up format that suitably embraces the sanctity and poignancy of Graceland, eight full-colour spreads feature all of the mansion's most memorable destinations.
| Author | : Ellen Rolfes |
| Publisher | : Thomas Nelson |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2005-07-27 |
| Genre | : Cooking |
| ISBN | : 1418554006 |
Graceland's Table is the first cookbook written with the full cooperation of Elvis Presley Enterprises. In addition to recipes from fans for Elvis, the book includes photographs of Elvis at home and full-color food photos taken in Graceland for the book. The 175 recipes in Graceland's Table come from two sources: EPE's archives of Elvis's favorite recipes and Elvis's fans. The recipes from the fans were solicited through EPE's electronic newsletter, its catalog, and the more than 400 fan clubs. Fans submitted a recipe they would have liked to cook for Elvis should they have been invited to Graceland for a meal and explained the reason for their choice. Fans were asked to submit recipes linked to a particular song or movie title or person in Elvis's life (e.g. Love Me Chicken Tenders, Colonel Parkerhouse Rolls, Blue Suede Berry Pie). Twelve recipes came from EPE and over 150 from the fans. The book also has 35 B&W photos of Elvis and Graceland and 20 full-color food photos, trivia, and stories by those who knew Elvis such as Joe Esposito, Elvis's road manager, Patty Perry, the only female member of the Memphis Mafia, and Marian Cocke, Elvis's nurse.
| Author | : Ellen Byron |
| Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service Inc |
| Total Pages | : 52 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : American drama |
| ISBN | : 9780822204695 |
THE STORIES: GRACELAND. The place is the front entrance of Graceland, the late Elvis Presley's Memphis mansion, the time, five o'clock in the morning, three days before the estate is to be opened to the public. Two ardent Presley fans, Bev and Rootie, are
