Saddled with the weight of old ghosts, August Cooper is cast into the often unwelcoming French Quarter world of New Orleans. Approaching Hurricane Katrina, August discovers an even larger storm inside himself and he looks to the city that wishes to destroy him to give him the rescue he needs.
From the author of The Art of Scandal comes a small town romance about the visibility of Black women's voices in country music, for readers of The Final Revival of Opal & Nev. Every Thursday night, former country music heartthrob Luke Randall has to sing "Another Love Song." God, he hates that song. But performing his lone hit at an interstate motel lounge is the only regular money he still has. Following another lackluster performance at the rock bottom of his career, Luke receives the opportunity of his dreams, opening for his childhood idol--90's era Black country music star, JoJo Lane, who's being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. But the concert is in Arcadia, Arkansas, the small hometown he swore he'd never see again. Going back means facing a painful past of abuse and neglect. It also means facing JoJo's daughter, August Lane--the woman who wrote the lyrics he's always claimed as his own. August also hates that song. But she hates Luke Randall even more. When he shows up ten years too late to apologize for his betrayal, she isn't interested in making amends. Instead, she threatens to expose his lies unless he co-writes a new song with her and performs it at the concert, something she hopes will launch her out of her mother's shadow and into a songwriting career of her own. Desperate to keep his secret, Luke agrees to put on the rogue performance, despite the risk of losing his shot at a new record deal. When Luke's guitar reunites with August's soulful alto, neither can deny that the passionate bond they formed as teenagers is still there. As the concert nears, August will have to choose between an overdue public reckoning with the boy who betrayed her, or trusting the man he's become to write a different love song.
The Story of a Special Day: August 8 The special occasion gift they'll never throw away - a whole book for the price of a premium card The story of a special day......What happened in history?...Who was born?...Who died?What happened on *your* special day?From celebrations around the world to significant moments in history, birthdays, zodiac signs, and all-month events, this book makes a perfect birthday present or anniversary gift - one that will be kept and remembered long after an ordinary birthday card has been forgotten On August 8, the Spanish Armada was finally defeated Also on August 8......the Great Train Robbery took place...Gandhi demanded an end to British rule in India...and the cover photograph for The Beatles' Abbey Road was taken.On August 8, revolutionary Emiliano Zapata was born, along with AA co-founder Bob Smith, country singer Mel Tillis, actor Dustin Hoffman, and swimming star Esther Williams. Actresses Fay Wray, Patricia Neal, and Louise Brooks died.There's plenty to celebrate on August 8. It's Ba Ba Day in Mongolia and Taiwan, Nane Nane Day in Tanzania, and International Cat Day everywhere (And if you've got a bit of a sweet tooth, it's also National Frozen Custard Day.)Each volume is packed with rare historical photos and fascinating facts. Plus, holidays around the world; birthday gems, flowers, and other symbols; horoscope signs; sayings and superstitions; and much, much more With 82 pages packed with over 39 historic photographs and illustrations, this book is a feast for the eyes as well as for the brain. A perfect birthday present or anniversary gift, "The Story of a Special Day" will make anyone feel special on his or her very special occasion. Look for upcoming titles covering each and every day of the year...because every day is a special day for someone you know
AUGUST 12, 30 BCE - CLEOPATRA IS BITTEN BY AN ASP The Story of a Special DayOn August 12, 30 BCE, Cleopatra committed suicide after her lover Mark Antony lost his war with the future Caesar Augustus. But that's not all August 12 is packed with exciting events, famous people, and an assortment of holidays around the world Welcome to The Story of a Special Day - the special occasion gift they'll never throw away. It's a whole book for the price of a premium card The story of a special day......What happened in history?...Who was born?...Who died?What happened on *your* special day?From celebrations around the world to significant moments in history, birthdays, zodiac signs, and all-month events, this book makes a perfect birthday present or anniversary gift - one that will be kept and remembered long after an ordinary birthday card has been forgotten On August 12, 1851, Isaac Singer patented the first practical sewing machine. In other August 12 news, Hawaii was annexed by the United States, the last quagga died in captivity, and IBM released its first personal computer.August 12 is the birthday of country singers Buck Owens and Porter Wagoner, tennis star Pete Sampras, comic actor Cantinflas, and director Cecil B. De Mille. James Bond creator Ian Fleming died on August 12, as did actress Lauren Bacall, poet William Blake, "father of railways" George Stephenson, and actor Henry Fonda.There's plenty to celebrate on August 12 In England, it's "Glorious Twelfth," beginning of the grouse hunting season. Russia honors its air force, Thailand celebrates Mother's Day, and if you're looking for an excuse to clean out the attic, it's National Garage Sale Day.Don't forget the whole month of August Did you know it was originally known as Sextilis? Or that its astrological signs are both Leo and Cancer? Plus, there's information on August birthstones, flowers, and much more.Each volume of The Story of a Special Day is packed with rare historical photos and fascinating facts. With 86 pages packed with 44 rare historic photographs and illustrations, The Story of a Special Day is a feast for the eyes as well as for the brain. A perfect birthday present or anniversary gift, August 12: The Story of a Special Day will make anyone feel special on his or her very special occasion. Look for upcoming titles covering each and every day of the year...because every day is a special day for someone you know PS - Can't find your day? Drop us a note through our Timespinner Press website, and we'll get right on it
The Story of a Special Day for August 18AMERICAN WOMEN GET THE RIGHT TO VOTE On August 18, the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote. Also on August 18......helium was discovered...the Pendle Witches were put on trial...and the "Hardest Day" of the Battle of Britain took place.The Story of a Special Day is a special occasion gift they'll never throw away - a whole book for the price of a premium card The story of a special day......What happened in history?...Who was born?...Who died?What happened on *your* special day?From celebrations around the world to significant moments in history, birthdays, zodiac signs, and all-month events, this book makes a perfect birthday present or anniversary gift - one that will be kept and remembered long after an ordinary birthday card has been forgotten On August 18, department store magnate Marshall Field, crime writer Vincent Bugliosi, Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, actors Patrick Swayze and Robert Redford, and sports legend Roberto Clemente were born. Business leaders Walter Chrysler and Joseph Seagram died, along with Genghis Khan, Don Pardo, and B. F. Skinner.There's plenty to celebrate on August 18. Pakistan celebrates Arbor Day, Thailand observes National Science Day, and Australia commemorates Long Tan Day. Don't forget that it's also National Ice Cream Pie Day and National Fajita Day Each volume is packed with rare historical photos and fascinating facts. Plus, birthday gems, flowers, and other symbols; horoscope signs; sayings and superstitions; and much, much more With 72 pages packed with over 42 historic photographs and illustrations, this book is a feast for the eyes as well as for the brain. A perfect birthday present or anniversary gift, "The Story of a Special Day" will make anyone feel special on his or her very special occasion. Look for upcoming titles covering each and every day of the year...because every day is a special day for someone you know
From its first poem, “String,” with its mythic overtones to the final “The Movement of Ice,” August Evening with Trumpet deals with the varieties of surprise and mystery, pain and wonder in the human experience. In constant motion, this collection ranges across a broad landscape, one in which trout swim through a house, where a coal miner father on vacation digs clams, where an old mother refuses help as she walks a narrow plank across a brook, and where in the quietly moving “Late November,” the speaker releases a raccoon from a leg-hold steel trap.Uncluttered, clear, and direct, the poems move effortlessly and seamlessly into one another, gathering an overall pleasing unity and narrative energy. And if there is a vein of quiet sorrow and darkness running through the collection, it is balanced against courage, grace, and good humor. At the book’s center is a deep reverence for childhood, for parents, for children, for language, and for landscape, all of which Humes admirably holds up for us. Harry Humes’s work brings to mind William Blake’s “To see a World in a Grain of Sand / And a Heaven in a Wild Flower.”
Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2008 Tony Award for Best New Play. Now a major motion picture "A tremendous achievement in American playwriting: a tragicomic populist portrait of a tough land and a tougher people." --TimeOut New York "Tracy Letts' August: Osage County is what O'Neill would be writing in 2007. Letts has recaptured the nobility of American drama's mid-century heyday while still creating something entirely original." --New York magazine "I don't care if August: Osage County is three-and-a-half hours long. I wanted more." -Howard Shapiro, Philadelphia Inquirer "This original and corrosive black comedy deserves a seat at the table with the great American family plays."--Time One of the most bracing and critically acclaimed plays in recent history, August: Osage County is a portrait of the dysfunctional American family at its finest--and absolute worst. When the patriarch of the Weston clan disappears one hot summer night, the family reunites at the Oklahoma homestead, where long-held secrets are unflinchingly and uproariously revealed. The three-act, three-and-a-half-hour mammoth of a play combines epic tragedy with black comedy, dramatizing three generations of unfulfilled dreams and leaving not one of its thirteen characters unscathed.August: Osage County has been produced in more than twenty countries worldwide and is now a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper, Dermot Mulroney, Sam Shepard, Juliette Lewis, and Ewan McGregor. Tracy Letts is the author of Killer Joe, Bug, and Man from Nebraska, which was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His plays have been performed throughout the country and internationally. A performer as well as a playwright, Letts is a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where August: Osage County premiered.
The first detailed study of a prolific and influential early twentieth-century composer, critic, educator-a true sage of music. In the early 1900s, August Halm was widely acknowledged to be one of the most insightful and influential authors of his day on a wide range of musical topics. Yet, in the eighty years since his untimely death at age 59 (in 1929),Halm -- the author of six widely read books and over 100 essays -- has received much less attention than such contemporaries as Hugo Riemann, Heinrich Schenker, Ernst Kurth, and Arnold Schoenberg. Lee Rothfarb's engaging and deeply researched study provides the missing images that comprise the multifaceted life of this astute musical sage. August Halm: A Critical and Creative Life in Music begins by setting the cultural stage and examining Halm's life with rich details from unpublished personal letters, diaries, notebooks, and lecture notes. Further chapters explore Halm's notion of musical logic and his proposal that the evolution of compositional technique had, by hisday, culminated in three successive musical "cultures" epitomized in Bach (fugue), Beethoven (sonata), and Bruckner (symphony). Another chapter examines, for the first time anywhere, Halm's own compositions, their motivating aesthetic premises, and their connection with late twentieth-century postmodernism. The volume closes with an assessment of Halm's significance for present-day music theory, including its branches that deal with narrativity, plot theory, embodiment, and semiotics. Halm's subject matter and creative activities ranged widely, and he aimed at maintaining a style that would be accessible and intriguing to music amateurs and music educators at all levels. LeeRothfarb's book -- written in the same spirit -- will interest not only music theorists and musicologists but also composers and classroom and private music teachers. Lee Rothfarb is Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His previous publications include Ernst Kurth as Theorist and Analyst and Ernst Kurth: Selected Writings.
Just prior to his death in 2005, August Wilson, arguably the most important American playwright of the last quarter-century, completed an ambitious cycle of ten plays, each set in a different decade of the twentieth century. Known as the Twentieth-Century Cycle or the Pittsburgh Cycle, the plays, which portrayed the struggles of African Americans, won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, a Tony Award for Best Play, and seven New York Drama Critics Circle Awards. ""August Wilson: Completing the Twentieth-Century Cycle"" is the first volume devoted to the last five plays of the cycle individually - Jitney, Seven Guitars, King Hedley II, Gem of the Ocean, and Radio Golf - and in the context of Wilson's entire body of work. Editor Alan Nadel's ""May All Your Fences Have Gates: Essays on the Drama of August Wilson"", a work Henry Louis Gates called definitive, focused on the first five plays of Wilson's cycle. This new collection examines from myriad perspectives the way Wilson's final works give shape and focus to his complete dramatic opus. It contains an outstanding and diverse array of discussions from leading Wilson scholars and literary critics. Together, the essays in Nadel's two volumes give Wilson's work the breadth of analysis and understanding that this major figure of American drama merits.
A landmark in the history of modern art, People of the 20th Century presents the fullest expression of the German photographer August Sander’s lifelong work: a monumental endeavor to amass an archive of twentieth-century humanity through a cross section of German culture. Sander photographed subjects from all walks of life, capturing bankers and boxers, soldiers and circus performers, farmers and families, to create a catalog of the German people, arranged by their profession, gender, and social status. First imagined in the 1920s, he pursued the project for more than fifty years during a politically charged and rapidly changing time, fraught by two world wars and the devastating repercussions of Nazism. Sander never finished the seven-volume, forty-nine portfolio magnum opus, continually refining and shaping it to convey an understanding of the world in which he lived. The photographs, remarkable for their unflinching realism and deft analysis of character, provide a powerful social mirror of Germany between the wars and form one of the most influential achievements of the twentieth century. Now made available again, People of the 20th Century brings together the exquisite reproductions and principal texts of the long out-of-print, seven-volume edition, as well as the main scholarship from the accompanying study edition. This all-in-one edition, with 619 photographs, offers the most comprehensive iteration of Sander’s still-essential vision.
Winner of the Hammett Prize From the wealthy suburbs to the remains of Detroit's bankrupt factory districts, August Snow is a fast-paced tale of murder, greed, sex, economic cyber-terrorism, race and urban decay. Tough, smart, and struggling to stay alive, August Snow is the embodiment of Detroit. The son of an African-American father and a Mexican-American mother, August grew up in the city's Mexicantown and joined the police force only to be drummed out by a conspiracy of corrupt cops and politicians. But August fought back; he took on the city and got himself a $12 million wrongful dismissal settlement that left him low on friends. He has just returned to the house he grew up in after a year away, and quickly learns he has many scores to settle. It's not long before he's summoned to the palatial Grosse Pointe Estates home of business magnate Eleanore Paget. Powerful and manipulative, Paget wants August to investigate the increasingly unusual happenings at her private wealth management bank. But detective work is no longer August's beat, and he declines. A day later, Paget is dead of an apparent suicide--which August isn't buying for a minute. What begins as an inquiry into Eleanore Paget's death soon drags August into a rat's nest of Detroit's most dangerous criminals, from corporate embezzlers to tattooed mercenaries.
August is a tiger, that's for sure, because Mom always says he's wild. And tigers are wild, so August must be a tiger. But what if he becomes a real tiger? A funny and imaginative picture book about an energetic boy for wild tigers ages four and up.
August Wilhelm Schlegel was a German poet, critic, and translator born in Hanover. His extremely diverse writings and interests have left a vast intellectual legacy. He was a foundational figure in various branches of knowledge. Some of the notable works of Schlegel are Rom Elegie, Poetische Werke, Opuscula Latine scripta, and Observations sur la langue et la litt ratures Proven ale. He was also interested in Italian, French, Portuguese, and Spanish literature apart from Greek and Latin classics. He worked as a Sanskrit professor in Continental Europe and translated the Bhagwada Gita in Latin. Schlegel edited the avant-garde Romantic periodical Athenaeum with his brother Friedrich. He also produced a translation of Shakespeare, the first metrical version into any foreign language with his wife Caroline. This book is a comprehensive account of August Wilhelm Schlegel's life, work and influence. It is written in the most comprehensible and easy to understand language. The book is appropriate for students seeking detailed information on this topic as well as for experts.
August Wilhelm Schlegel was a German poet, critic, and translator born in Hanover. His extremely diverse writings and interests have left a vast intellectual legacy. He was a foundational figure in various branches of knowledge. Some of the notable works of Schlegel are Rom Elegie, Poetische Werke, Opuscula Latine scripta, and Observations sur la langue et la litt ratures Proven ale. He was also interested in Italian, French, Portuguese, and Spanish literature apart from Greek and Latin classics. He worked as a Sanskrit professor in Continental Europe and translated the Bhagwada Gita in Latin. Schlegel edited the avant-garde Romantic periodical Athenaeum with his brother Friedrich. He also produced a translation of Shakespeare, the first metrical version into any foreign language with his wife Caroline. This book is a comprehensive account of August Wilhelm Schlegel's life, work and influence. It is written in the most comprehensible and easy to understand language. The book is appropriate for students seeking detailed information on this topic as well as for experts.
The dust bit at Juniper's eyes, sucking the moisture right out. Figured that the biggest auction of summer would happen on the hottest, driest day of August. If her son Aster weren't so fascinated by the offered junk, she'd be cool in the shadow of the Johnson's barn.Well away from Aster's best friend Rory's mother. Sourest woman the world ever did see, and the person Juniper hated the most, right after Aster's no-good mother.Didn't matter none. Juniper could handle her sniping and gossiping for Aster and Rory.At least until the auction heated up, all because of that woman's unreasonable hate for all things Juniper.
"What a beautiful novel about sisterhood, about art, about hearts broken and hearts mended. August or Forever will forever chime inside my own heart." —Gayle Brandeis, author of My Life with the LincolnsTen-year-old Molly has always loved having a sister, but sisters are supposed to live together, right? Molly certainly thinks so. Unfortunately, her older half-sister Alison lives on a whole other continent. Their video chats are great, and Molly is thrilled when Alison’s hand-written letters arrive in the mail like surprise gifts. Still, it’s not enough, not compared to what other siblings have. That’s why when Molly finds out that Alison is finally coming to visit over the summer, she devises a plan she’s sure will get her sister to stay. But then Alison arrives with plans of her own, a fragile heart gets broken, and Molly stumbles upon a painful piece of her sister’s past. Molly has always loved having a sister, but this is the August when she’ll learn what it really means to be one.
