Amira was tall, vivid, a Roman princess, but close up her mouth and eyes were too large for her olive face, her eyebrows too black, cheekbones too sharp. “She's a knockout—from the balcony,” my father would say. And Amira.
The image of them all on the plane made her feel almost optimistic: Bonnie Tyler and Bryan Adams and Billy Joel, Cher and Steve Perry all piled into economy class like a summer school glee club trip. Bryan Adams had an acoustic guitar ...
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FOOD NETWORK “I wanted to write this book because for the first time in my fifty-two years, everyone on the planet was going through the same thing at the same time.
In Berlin, two very different people--Walter Baum, a fading actor nearing forty, living alone, and adrift, and Hope, a young American woman dealing with her painful memories and loneliness--find solace in their unlikely, growing friendship, ...
A top-ten bestseller, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE by Maggie O'Farrell crosses time zones and continents to reveal an extraordinary portrait of a marriage. 'A complex, riveting novel of love...
Culture critic David Bowman tells the fascinating story of how this brain trust of talented musicians turned pop music on its head.
Or maybe the stories the box tells and the truths it brings to life will teach everyone about love—how deeply it runs, how strong it makes us, and how even when all seems lost, how tightly it brings us together.
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This Must be the Place: Memoirs of Montparnasse
From music halls and Vaudeville in the 1800s, via the seminal clubs and theatres of the 20th century, to the large-scale multi-million-dollar arena concerts of today, this book explores the impact that the use of private and public space ...
Even Jesus said, “Foxes have dens and the birds in the sky have nests, but the Human One has no place to lay his head” (Luke 9:58, CEB). The story of faith, as I came to understand it, was as rootless as I was. bell hooks says the ...
There was one of those little shrines that you see all over Ireland, recessed into the wall and painted white, with a rain-blurred image of the Virgin, ... “So,” I hailed them as I got out of my car, “this must be the place.
Conceived as a visual reader with newly sourced and existing testimonies, This Must Be the Place is the first book of its kind to highlight this generation of artists in interviews and primary source material.
Culture critic David Bowman tells the fascinating story of how this brain trust of talented musicians turned pop music on its head.
Shot through with humor and wisdom, This Must Be the Place is an irresistible love story that crisscrosses continents and time zones as it captures an extraordinary marriage, and an unforgettable family, with wit and deep affection.
Even Jesus said, “Foxes have dens and the birds in the sky have nests, but the Human One has no place to lay his head” (Luke 9:58, CEB). The story of faith, as I came to understand it, was as rootless as I was. bell hooks says the ...
From music halls and Vaudeville in the 1800s, via the seminal clubs and theatres of the 20th century, to the large-scale multi-million-dollar arena concerts of today, this book explores the impact that the use of private and public space ...
It's the summer of 1983.
Music, Community and Vanished Spaces in New York City Jesse Rifkin. Praise. for. This. Must. Be. the. Place. “Jesse Rifkin pulls the reader along with him on this wild and deeply researched nostalgia trip through New York's vanished music ...
This Must Be the Place explores how music can make cities better. This Must Be the Place introduces and examines music’s relationship to cities.