![]() ![]() ![]() And Sam Phillips was the man who brought it all about. Sam Phillips The author of the critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biography Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius. ![]() Elvis's success, and the subsequent triumph of rock 'n' roll, was initially propelled to an almost astonishing degree by a limited number of releases by Carl 'Blue Suede Shoes' Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis - all from this tiny, one-man label.Īn engaging mix of biography and anecdote, Peter Guralnick's book brilliantly recreates one shining moment in the history of popular culture. Just two years later a shy eighteen-year-old kid with sideburns, fresh out of high school, wandered into his recording studio to make a record 'for his mother', secretly hoping that it might somehow get him noticed. And yet from these unprepossessing origins, in 1951 Phillips made what is widely considered to be the first rock 'n' roll record, Ike Turner and Jackie Brenston's 'Rocket 88'. His mother picked guitar and showed the kind of forbearance that allowed her to name her son after the doctor who delivered him drunk and then had to be put to bed himself. His father had a gift for farming, which was brought to an end by the Depression. Rock 'n' roll was born in rural Alabama, 1923, in the form of Sam Phillips, the youngest son of a large family living in a remote colony called the Lovelace Community. Print Sam Phillips - The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll ![]()
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![]() ![]() Take One With You is a unique crime thriller/millennial love story that poses the question: If you knew you were going to die tomorrow, would you kill someone tonight? Someone who had done something terrible. Just as they find hope of happiness together, Charlie and Sarah must deal with the monster they’ve created, a global epidemic of murder-suicide that threatens the very core of their humanity. As they develop romantic feelings for each other, their worldwide followers begin to enact a very different version of the idea, perverting its original intent and threatening the thin line between civil society and criminal anarchy. ![]() The idea goes viral and things rapidly spiral out of control. ![]() ![]() Anyone dead set on committing suicide is urged to first kill someone who “got away with it” before taking their own life. They meet in an online chatroom dealing with depression and soon hatch a plan to bring meaning to their lives by encouraging other despondent individuals to help eradicate the “scum of society”, such as pedophiles and rapists who have escaped justice. After stealing minutes here and there over the last few years, he eventually completed his first fiction novel, Take One With You. His imagination has taken him to places he couldn’t help but note down, eventually crafting his ideas into a thought provoking story. Oak Anderson is an author, artist, and marketing strategist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He has made several television appearances, and acted as a consultant and animator for a video programme about dinosaurs. Along these lines his most notable books are After Man: a zoology of the future in which he explained the workings of evolution by postulating the types of animals that may evolve in times to come (optioned by Spielberg’s Dreamworks company) The New Dinosaurs, in which he described the zoogeography of the world by describing what life might be like today had the dinosaurs not become extinct Man After Man, in which the physical changes to the earth’s environment over the next few million years are described through the eyes of people who have been genetically engineered to cope with them, and Time Exposure (aka The Age of Dinosaurs) in collaboration with wildlife photographer Jane Burton, in which extinct animals are dramatically portrayed in lifelike photographs. ![]() He his acquired a reputation for putting over the concepts in a totally novel way. Dougal Dixon, Scottish scientist/artist and founder of the speculative zoology genre, is a full-time writer and book editor specializing in the earth sciences, and has many children’s books and encyclopaedias to his name. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of Paullina's novels have reached international bestseller lists.Īpart from her novels, Paullina has also written a cookbook, Tatiana's Table, which is a collection of recipes, short stories and recollections from her best selling trilogy of novels, The Bronze Horseman, The Bridge to Holy Cross, (also known as Tatiana and Alexander) and The Summer Garden. She continued with more novels, including Red Leaves, Eleven Hours, The Bronze Horseman, The Bridge to Holy Cross (also known as Tatiana and Alexander), The Summer Garden and The Girl in Times Square (also known as Lily). Through word of mouth that book was welcomed by readers all over the world. Her dream was put on hold as she learned English and overcame the shock of a new culture.Īfter graduating from university and after various jobs including working as a financial journalist and as a translator Paullina wrote her first novel Tully. ![]() Growing up in Russia Paullina dreamt of someday becoming a writer. At the age of ten her family immigrated to the United States. Paullina Simons was born in Leningrad, USSR, in 1963. ![]() ![]() ![]() And while we know more about the revenants it is hard at first to see how Abbey is going to resolve her feelings for Kristen, how she and Caspian will – or will not – find a way to be together and how her choices will all play out. How to find a way to have a happy ending? Where we left off, Vincent was after Abbey to keep Caspian from being completed, but we didn’t know why. Jessica Verday’s conclusion to the Hollow trilogy, the Hidden was a surprising and pleasant way to wrap things up. ![]() Thanks to S&S for the galley of this one. well, I won’t until this is published anyway! So, now I have a dilemma – do I put up a page that spoils it all? Hmmm…. This is a first – finishing a series while working on this little blog. 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Her speech grew languid to conceal its stumble she walked nowhere. ![]() “ On her nineteenth birthday, she exchanged birdsong for feathered fans, crickets in the long grass for a jacket dotted with beetle ’s wings she was bound by a whalebone, pierced with ivory, pinned by the hair with tortoiseshell. It was when I came across the passage below that I threw away my inhibitions and embraced it in its full beauty – I did not want to disappoint myself because of the hype that welcomed this book when it was released. I began reading The Essex Serpent with great caution even though I was spell bound by the stunning cover. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, Steele is painfully aware of how little effect this will actually have. Hersl's brutality is seen as an asset, and he wastes no time becoming as corrupt and greedy as Jenkins and the rest of the squad.īy the end of We Own This City, the GTTF is disbanded and its members arrested. When his reputation gets bad enough, the BPD decides to pull him out of the Eastern.and let him go citywide as the newest member of the GTTF. He has accumulated over 50 complaints during his time on the street, but because only one was sustained and he, like Jenkins, has strong arrest numbers, Hersl is protected from prosecution by the police union. A beat cop patrolling the Eastern District, Hersl is a bully and a sadist, casually racist and proud of the violence he inflicts. In "Part One," civil rights attorney Nicole Steele (Wunmi Mosaku) asks three different people which officer represents the worst of the Baltimore Police Department and gets the same name three times: Daniel Hersl (Josh Charles). Stunningly, Jenkins may not even be the worst member of the GTTF. ![]() ![]() ![]() If your item is being delivered with an oversize or white glove carrier, please thoroughly inspect your item before signing for the delivery. 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ORDERING: Orders may be placed online 24-hours a day, by calling toll free (888) 338-8111 between 9am - 6pm EST Monday through Friday or by sending an email to Please do not include your credit card information in any email. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When her desperate search for answers unexpectedly leads to her great-grandmother’s journals, Lara is swept into a story of a dark circus and ill-fated love. Virginia, 2004: Lara Barnes is on top of the world until her fiancé disappears on their wedding day. Bound to her family's circus, it's the only world Cecile Cabot knows until she meets a charismatic young painter and embarks on a passionate affair that could cost her everything. Paris, 1925: To enter the Secret Circus is to enter a world of wonder-a world where women weave illusions of magnificent beasts, carousels take you back in time, and trapeze artists float across the sky. From the author of A Witch in Time comes a magical story spanning from Jazz Age Paris to modern-day America of family secrets, sacrifice, and lost love set against the backdrop of a mysterious circus. ![]() |