We Had Fun and Nobody Died

We Had Fun and Nobody Died
Author: Amy T. Waldman
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2024-05-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1976600316

The entertaining and inspiring story of a stubbornly independent promoter and club owner This irreverent biography provides a rare window into the music industry from a promoter’s perspective. From a young age, Peter Jest was determined to make a career in live music, and despite naysayers and obstacles, he did just that, bringing national acts to his college campus at UW–Milwaukee, booking thousands of concerts across Wisconsin and the Midwest, and opening Shank Hall, the beloved Milwaukee venue named after a club in the cult film This Is Spinal Tap. This funny, nostalgia-inducing book details the lasting friendships Jest established over the years with John Prine, Arlo Guthrie, and Milwaukee’s own Violent Femmes, among others. It also shines a light into the seldom-seen world of music promotion, as Jest attempts to manage a turbulent band on the road, negotiates with agents, deals with fires (both real and metaphorical), struggles through a pandemic, and takes pleasure in presenting music of all kinds—from world-famous acts to up-and-coming local bands. In addition to photos of celebrated musicians, the book includes concert posters, tickets, and backstage passes documenting decades of rock, folk, and alternative shows that helped put Milwaukee on the live music map. As the music industry has become dominated by profit-driven corporations, We Had Fun and Nobody Died chronicles the career of a one-of-a-kind independent promoter whose hardheadedness and love of music have helped him keep it real and make it in the music business for more than forty years.

The Opposite of Loneliness

The Opposite of Loneliness
Author: Marina Keegan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2014-04-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1476753628

The instant New York Times bestseller and publishing phenomenon: Marina Keegan’s posthumous collection of award-winning essays and stories “sparkles with talent, humanity, and youth” (O, The Oprah Magazine). Marina Keegan’s star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at The New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash. Marina left behind a rich, deeply expansive trove of writing that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty, and possibility of her generation. Her short story “Cold Pastoral” was published on NewYorker.com. Her essay “Even Artichokes Have Doubts” was excerpted in the Financial Times, and her book was the focus of a Nicholas Kristof column in The New York Times. Millions of her contemporaries have responded to her work on social media. As Marina wrote: “We can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over…We’re so young. We can’t, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it’s all we have.” The Opposite of Loneliness is an unforgettable collection of Marina’s essays and stories that articulates the universal struggle all of us face as we figure out what we aspire to be and how we can harness our talents to impact the world. “How do you mourn the loss of a fiery talent that was barely a tendril before it was snuffed out? Answer: Read this book. A clear-eyed observer of human nature, Keegan could take a clever idea...and make it something beautiful” (People).

Death on the Canal

Death on the Canal
Author: Anja de Jager
Publisher: Constable
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2017-11-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1472126246

'. . . a novel brilliantly evoking the isolation of a woman with an unbearable weight on her conscience' Sunday Times Where do your loyalties lie? With the truth or with your colleagues? Drinking outside a canal-side bar on a perfect summer's evening, Lotte is witness to the fatal stabbing of Piotr Mazur, a Polish security guard working in one of the city's department stores. As Lotte starts to investigate Mazur's death, all the facts point to him being a small-time drug dealer, and his murder is treated as a minor complication in another team's larger narcotics case. Yet Lotte remains unconvinced; having viewed the man's ordered, unchaotic flat and spoken to his colleagues, she can't help but believe he was being set up. And in the bar, moments before Piotr was killed, Lotte saw a woman pass him a photo of a child. Shebecomes convinced that his death wasn't a revenge-killing over drugs at all, and has to now think carefully about what to do for the best, especially as key evidence in Mazur's murder comes from someone she knows she cannot trust. Praise for Anja de Jager 'An absorbing read with the smack of reality' Daily Mail 'The book succeeds as a portrait of both a city and, in its heroine, a delightfully dysfunctional personality' Sunday Express 'Impressive . . . De Jager is as good on dodgy family relations as she is on police procedure' The Times 'Detective Lotte Meerman is damaged by her past and tortured by the dreadful mistake she's made at work . . . Amsterdam is the other star here, beautiful and deadly' Cath Staincliffe

Nobody's Home

Nobody's Home
Author: Thomas Gass
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780801442438

Gass has applied his psychology degree in a variety of settings, including a three-and-a-half-year period working in a for-profit long- term-care facility in the Midwest, first as a nursing aide and then as a director of social services. He draws on that experience to take readers into the world of a nursing home, in an account that is intimate, stark, funny, and poignant--and a wake-up call to Americans of the need to act now to make nursing homes a better place to live and work. No subject index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

The Right Genes For Robbery

The Right Genes For Robbery
Author: Tami Veldura
Publisher: Story Prism Studios
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2024-12-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

They may have escaped from a prison planet, but Maj and her new outlaw friends are on the run and need answers. Maj's sister Oyana was implanted with mods from head to toe. What do they do and where can the team get more information? The crew might be ragtag, but they have a goal and space station security won't be enough stop them.

Secrets Never Die

Secrets Never Die
Author: David Bradwell
Publisher: Pure Fiction
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2020-12-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Would you confess to a murder you didn't commit? A celebrity cold case gets solved when a convicted gangster, confesses to a headline-grabbing murder. But DSI Joe Leyland is not convinced. With the assistance of rogue former investigative journalist Clare Woodbrook, he begins to unravel a decade-old conspiracy that reaches right into the heart of the police. And as they start to delve deeper, they begin to discover secrets that very powerful people would kill again to hide. Secrets Never Die is a gripping British conspiracy thriller, full of twists and with dashes of dark humour. It's book 2 in the Clare Woodbrook series. Download to be thrilled today!

One Good Thing

One Good Thing
Author: Rebecca Hendry
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2018-04-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 192736678X

A novel set in Yellowknife's historic Old Town in the 70s that explores both abandonment and belonging in the life of a young woman. In the spring of 1977, Annie, a flighty artist, and her twelve-year-old daughter, Delilah, trade the cherry blossom trees and beaches of Vancouver for rugged and remote Old Town in Yellowknife, surprising Delilah’s father by showing up on his doorstep. As she adapts to her new surroundings, Delilah befriends Will, a local Dene man and her father’s business partner. But Annie’s capricious nature undermines Delilah’s elusive sense of belonging when Annie leaves Old Town for an artists’ colony without saying goodbye. While coping with her family’s instability and changes within herself, Delilah becomes attached to Will as she grows alienated from her increasingly aloof father. When Will vanishes in a blizzard one night, Delilah is devastated and suspects her father is to blame. What happened to Will? Is there anyone she can trust? Where—and with whom—does she belong?

Extreme Balance

Extreme Balance
Author: Joe De Sena
Publisher: Entrepreneur Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2024-09-03
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1613084870

Think Like a Champion In the world of elite sports, victory is often attributed to physical and athletic prowess alone. But what if the key to unlocking your full potential lies not in your physical abilities, but in your mindset? In Extreme Balance, three renowned experts on performance, motivation, and competition dive into the unexplored territory of the mind, paradoxically revealing the one mindset that can truly elevate your game: the ability to embrace an unfixed mindset. Through a series of gripping stories, perceptive interviews with champions, scientific insights, and expert analysis, you will be challenged to reconsider your entire approach to success. Discover how embracing an unfixed mindset can revolutionize your approach to sports performance. Learn from world-class athletes and experts as they unveil the paradoxical principles essential for champion success. Gain insights into the mental tug-of-wars athletes face and how to leverage them for your benefit. Transform your thinking, transform your game, and embrace the path to championship performance with Extreme Balance.

The Secret Footballer: What Goes on Tour

The Secret Footballer: What Goes on Tour
Author: The Secret Footballer
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2017-05-04
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1473543398

Since his first book was published in 2012, The Secret Footballer has been able to take the reader behind the scenes of footballers' lives like no other player has been able, or will ever be able, to do. Anonymity has been a potent weapon in revealing the real world of football stars, and five years on, he has now penned the work that all his fellow professionals have been urging him to do from the start, The Secret Footballer: What Goes on Tour. And it isn't going to stay on tour any more... From Marbella and Ibiza to Dubai and Las Vegas, The Secret Footballer lays bare the worst, most embarrassing and most hilarious excesses of these fit and mostly fickle young men whose million-pound salaries, to use his own words, 'open up a host of recreational opportunities'. Fuelled by rampaging desires for sex, drugs, booze and rock'n'roll, these footballers think up ever more extreme ways of splashing the cash, and needless to say, it doesn't always end well...

Rx for a Funeral

Rx for a Funeral
Author: Anne Mulroony
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2009-03-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1465321195

Judy Malone, a young visiting nurse, notices that her elderly, wealthy patients are dying at a higher rate than her poor patients. When her wealthy grandfather seems to be the next target, she and her police officer husband investigate a local funeral home. They are propelled into a world of violence. One of her aides is missing and Judy is in danger of losing her job at the visiting nurse agency. When Vince discovers evidence implicating the funeral home, he & his partner investigate. It is up to Judy and some street toughs she has befriended to rescue them when they are kidnapped.