The Best of Dispatch
Title | The Best of Dispatch PDF eBook |
Author | Dispatch (Musical group) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Guitar music, Arranged |
ISBN | 9781575606514 |
(Play It Like It Is). This talented Boston trio combines funk, rap, metal, rock and even reggae to create their own unique sound. This songbook features note-for-note guitar transcriptions with tab for 17 stellar songs: Bang Bang * Bats in the Belfry * Bullet Holes * Cover This * Elias * Even * Flying Horses * The General * Here We Go * Lightning * Mission * Open Up * Prince of Spades * Time Served * Two Coins * Walk with You * and Whirlwind, with detailed notes on the background of each.
Dispatch
Title | Dispatch PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | S.l. : s.n. |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Journalism |
ISBN |
Answering 911
Title | Answering 911 PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Burau |
Publisher | Minnesota Historical Society |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2007-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780873516020 |
"At a pace matching the flashing lights on a 911 console, Caroline Burau puts us in the hot seat and shows us the madness, the sadness, and the gallows humor of a profession that serves and protects in ways we never dream. And by telling us what goes on when the microphone is silent, she has taken the voice on the radio and given it heart." Michael Perry, author of Population 485 and Truck: A Love Story "A witty, gritty look at life on the receiving end of our cries for help." Reader's Digest (Editor's Choice) You answer a call from a fourteen-year-old boy asking for someone to arrest his mother, who is smoking crack in their bathroom. You talk with him until the cops arrive, making sure there are no weapons around and learning that his favorite subject in school is lunch. Five minutes later, you have to deal with someone complaining about his neighbor's clarinet practice. What is it like to be on the receiving end of desperate calls for help . . . every day? Caroline Burau, a former newspaper reporter and nursing student who couldn't stand the sight of blood, takes a job as an emergency dispatcher because she likes helping people. But on-the-job training at the comm center proves to be more than she bargained for. As she adjusts to a daily life of catastrophe and comedy, domestics and drunks, cops and robbers, junk food and sarcasm, lost cats and suicides, she discovers that crisis can become routine, that coworkers can be mean--that she must continue to care and, at times, learn how to let go. "The day may come when I have to dial 911. I hope to God that the person who answers is Caroline Burau or someone like her. Funny, honest, and elegantly simple, this book left me with a sense of grace and hope."--Alison McGhee, author of Shadow Baby, Rainlight, Was It Beautiful? and Falling Boy Caroline Burau is a 911 dispatch operator for the police and fire departments in White Bear Lake, Minnesota.
The Wes Anderson Collection: The French Dispatch
Title | The Wes Anderson Collection: The French Dispatch PDF eBook |
Author | Matt Zoller Seitz |
Publisher | Abrams |
Pages | 632 |
Release | 2023-08-22 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 164700117X |
The official behind-the-scenes companion to The French Dispatch and the latest volume in the bestselling Wes Anderson Collection series The French Dispatch—the tenth feature film from writer-director Wes Anderson—is a love letter to journalists set at the titular American newspaper in the fictional 20th-century French city of Ennui-sur-Blasé. The film stars a number of Anderson's frequent collaborators, including Bill Murray as the newspaper's editor in chief; Owen Wilson, Tilda Swinton, and Frances McDormand, as well as new players Jeffrey Wright, Benicio del Toro, Elisabeth Moss, and Timothée Chalamet, who bring to life a collection of stories published in The French Dispatch magazine. In this latest one-volume entry in The Wes Anderson Collection series—the only book to take readers behind the scenes of The French Dispatch—everything that goes into bringing Anderson's trademark style, meticulous compositions, and exacting production design to the screen is revealed in detail. Written by film and television critic and New York Times bestselling author Matt Zoller Seitz, The Wes Anderson Collection: The French Dispatch presents the complete story behind the film’s conception, anecdotes about the making of the film, and behind-the-scenes photos, production materials, and artwork.
Dispatches
Title | Dispatches PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Herr |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2011-11-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307814165 |
"The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time. Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature.
Zinnia and the Bees
Title | Zinnia and the Bees PDF eBook |
Author | Danielle Davis |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2017-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 149654661X |
Seventh-grader Zinnia's last-day-of-school got off to a bad start when she ended up in the vice principal's office for yarn-bombing a statue of the school mascot, but it is about to get a whole lot worse--because, thanks to the incompetence of Bee 641, a colony of commercial, migratory bees escaping from a truck has settled their colony in her hair.
Paradise News
Title | Paradise News PDF eBook |
Author | David Lodge |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2012-02-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1446496740 |
Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than paradise. Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospital after an unfortunate accident, Bernard is beginning to regret ever coming to Haiwaii. Until, that is, he stumbles on something he had given up hope of finding: the astonishing possibility of love.