Shadows Beyond - The Maestro's Enigma

Shadows Beyond - The Maestro's Enigma
Title Shadows Beyond - The Maestro's Enigma PDF eBook
Author Naman Dwivedi
Publisher Pencil
Pages 31
Release 2024-02-21
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9358834668

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Shadows Beyond: The Maestro's Enigma" beckons readers into a clandestine odyssey where shadows conceal secrets, and The Maestro orchestrates an enigma. Naman Dwivedi's debut work is a riveting journey through suspense, mystery, and psychological intrigue. As the narrative unfolds, the protagonist navigates an intricate web, unraveling the complexities of justice and morality. The enigmatic Maestro's influence permeates every page, creating a rich tapestry of emotions and revelations. This is a compelling exploration of the covert world, promising readers an immersive experience that lingers beyond the shadows.

Freak Out

Freak Out
Title Freak Out PDF eBook
Author Pauline Butcher
Publisher Plexus Publishing
Pages 551
Release 2023-09-11
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0859657159

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This new, completely revised and updated edition contains a wealth of new material, excerpts from the author's diaries and private letters home about life in Hollywood. In 1967, 21-year-old Pauline Butcher was working for a London secretarial agency when a call came through from a Mr Frank Zappa asking for a typist.The assignment would change her life forever. For three years, Pauline served as Zappa's PA, moving with him, his family and the Mothers of Invention, to a log cabin in Laurel Canyon in the Hollywood Hills, where the 'straight' young English girl mixed with Oscar winners and rock royalty. Freak Out! is the captivating story of a naive young English girl thrust into the mad world of a musical legend as well as the most intimate portrait of Frank Zappa ever written.

Under Magnolia

Under Magnolia
Title Under Magnolia PDF eBook
Author Frances Mayes
Publisher Crown
Pages 354
Release 2015-03-31
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0307885925

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A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region’s powerful influence on her life. The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes revisits the turning points that defined her early years in Fitzgerald, Georgia. With her signature style and grace, Mayes explores the power of landscape, the idea of home, and the lasting force of a chaotic and loving family. From her years as a spirited, secretive child, through her university studies—a period of exquisite freedom that imbued her with a profound appreciation of friendship and a love of travel—to her escape to a new life in California, Mayes exuberantly recreates the intense relationships of her past, recounting the bitter and sweet stories of her complicated family: her beautiful yet fragile mother, Frankye; her unpredictable father, Garbert; Daddy Jack, whose life Garbert saved; grandmother Mother Mayes; and the family maid, Frances’s confidant Willie Bell. Under Magnolia is a searingly honest, humorous, and moving ode to family and place, and a thoughtful meditation on the ways they define us, or cause us to define ourselves. With acute sensory language, Mayes relishes the sweetness of the South, the smells and tastes at her family table, the fragrance of her hometown trees, and writes an unforgettable story of a girl whose perspicacity and dawning self-knowledge lead her out of the South and into the rest of the world, and then to a profound return home.

Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell
Title Joni Mitchell PDF eBook
Author Malka Marom
Publisher ECW Press
Pages 330
Release 2014-09-01
Genre Music
ISBN 1770905812

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A lush exploration of Joni Mitchell's career and art. When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect with the performer she'd first met late one night in 1966 at a Yorkville coffeehouse. More conversations followed over the next four decades of friendship, and it was only after Joni and Malka completed their most recent recorded interview, in 2012, that Malka discovered the heart of their discussions: the creative process. In Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words, Joni and Malka follow this thread through seven decades of life and art, discussing the influence of Joni's childhood, love and loss, playing dives and huge festivals, acclaim and criticism, poverty and affluence, glamorous triumphs and tragic mistakes . . . This riveting narrative, told in interviews, lyrics, paintings, and photographs, is shared in the hope of illuminating a timeless body of work and inspiring others.

Maestro of Solitude

Maestro of Solitude
Title Maestro of Solitude PDF eBook
Author Robert Bonazzi
Publisher Wings Press
Pages 130
Release 2007-09
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1609400844

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Highlighting work from the 1990s into the new millennium, Robert Bonazzi's fifth book of poems--his first in 20 years--draws upon the slow-gathering wisdom of late middle age. These poems are dialogues between the clockwork of ego and timeless solitude and between earthly intimacy and the death of loved ones; lucid discourses on global politics and besieged communities; and witty takes on poetics and the arts. Often considered one of the unsung heroes of modern American poetry, Bonazzi has elicited praise from such contemporaries as Mark Van Doren, Thomas Merton, Guy Davenport, Robert Peters, and Naomi Shihab Nye.

Shreveport Chronicles

Shreveport Chronicles
Title Shreveport Chronicles PDF eBook
Author Eric J. Brock
Publisher Arcadia Publishing
Pages 174
Release 2009-08-01
Genre History
ISBN 1625843046

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Here are heroes and scoundrels, businessmen and religious leaders, artists and soldiers, pioneers and plantersas well as a number of stories that are ironic, bizarre or simply curious. In this newest collection of his popular columns, Eric J. Brock portrays Shreveports historical pageant through the lives of a cross section of truly fascinating characters. From the enigmatic mayor Robert Nathaniel Wood to forgotten beauty queen Janet Currie, Brock sketches the men and womenboth ordinary and extraordinarywho shaped the course of Shreveport history. These biographical vignettes, originally printed in the Shreveport Times and the Forum News Magazine, are a must-read for any native or resident of northwest Louisiana.

Alan Turing: The Enigma

Alan Turing: The Enigma
Title Alan Turing: The Enigma PDF eBook
Author Andrew Hodges
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 777
Release 2014-11-10
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1400865123

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912–1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades—all before his suicide at age forty-one. This New York Times bestselling biography of the founder of computer science, with a new preface by the author that addresses Turing’s royal pardon in 2013, is the definitive account of an extraordinary mind and life. Capturing both the inner and outer drama of Turing’s life, Andrew Hodges tells how Turing’s revolutionary idea of 1936—the concept of a universal machine—laid the foundation for the modern computer and how Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic design. The book also tells how this work was directly related to Turing’s leading role in breaking the German Enigma ciphers during World War II, a scientific triumph that was critical to Allied victory in the Atlantic. At the same time, this is the tragic account of a man who, despite his wartime service, was eventually arrested, stripped of his security clearance, and forced to undergo a humiliating treatment program—all for trying to live honestly in a society that defined homosexuality as a crime. The inspiration for a major motion picture starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, Alan Turing: The Enigma is a gripping story of mathematics, computers, cryptography, and homosexual persecution.