Please Mister Postman
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Please Mister Postman
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Author : Alan Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-09-18
Please Mister Postman written by Alan Johnson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In July 1969, while the Rolling Stones played a free concert in Hyde Park, Alan Johnson and his young family left West London to start a new life. The Britwell Estate in Slough, apparently notorious among the locals, in fact came as a blessed relief after the tensions of Notting Hill, and the local community welcomed them with open arms. Alan had become a postman the previous year, and in order to support his growing family took on every bit of overtime he could, often working twelve-hour shifts six days a week. It was hard work, but not without its compensations – the crafty fag snatched in a country lane, the farmer’s wife offering a hearty breakfast and even the mysterious lady on Glebe Road who appeared daily, topless, at her window as the postman passed by... Please, Mister Postman paints a vivid picture of England in the 1970s, where no celebration was complete without a Party Seven of Watney’s Red Barrel, smoking was the norm rather than the exception, and Sunday lunchtime was about beer, bingo and cribbage. But as Alan’s life appears to be settling down and his career in the Union of Postal Workers begins to take off, his close-knit family is struck once again by tragedy... Moving, hilarious and unforgettable, Please, Mister Postman is another astonishing book from the award-winning author of This Boy.
This Boy
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Author : Alan Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-05-09
This Boy written by Alan Johnson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'The best memoir by a politician you will ever read' The Times School on the Kings Road, Chelsea in the Swinging 60s, the rock-and-roll years, the race riots; this boy has seen it all. Alan Johnson's childhood was not so much difficult as unusual - particularly for a man who was destined to become Home Secretary. Not in respect of the poverty, which was shared with many of those living in Britain's post-war slums, but in its transition from being part of a two-parent family to having a single mother and then to no parents at all... This is essentially the story of two incredible women: Alan's mother, Lily, who battled against poor health, poverty, domestic violence and loneliness to try to ensure a better life for her children; and his sister, Linda, who had to assume an enormous amount of responsibility at a very young age and who fought to keep the family together and out of care when she herself was still only a child. This Boy is one man's story, but it is also the story of England and the West London slums which are hard to imagine in the capital today. No matter how harsh the details, Alan Johnson writes with a spirit of generous acceptance, of humour and openness which makes his book anything but a grim catalogue of miseries. ________ PRAISE FOR THIS BOY: 'Moving and unforgettable' Sunday Times 'Poignant' Telegraph 'Eloquent' Guardian 'Wonderful' Spectator 'Tribute to two strong women' Daily Mail
Reading The Beatles
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Author : Kenneth Womack
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Reading The Beatles written by Kenneth Womack and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Social Science categories.
Despite the enormous amount of writing devoted to the Beatles during the last few decades, the band's abiding intellectual and cultural significance has received scant attention. Using various modes of literary, musicological, and cultural criticism, the essays in Reading the Beatles firmly establish the Beatles as a locus of serious academic and cultural study. Exploring the group's resounding impact on how we think about gender, popular culture, and the formal and poetic qualities of music, the contributors trace not only the literary and musicological qualities of selected Beatles songs but also the development of the Beatles' artistry in their films and the ways in which the band has functioned as a cultural, historical, and economic product. In a poignant afterword, Jane Tompkins offers an autobiographical account of the ways in which the Beatles afforded her with the self-actualizing means to become less alienated from popular culture, gender expectations, and even herself during the early 1960s.
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Author : 祁文慧
language : en
Publisher: 清华大学出版社有限公司
Release Date : 2006
written by 祁文慧 and has been published by 清华大学出版社有限公司 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
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Sailing Close To The Wind
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Author : Dennis Skinner
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-09-18
Sailing Close To The Wind written by Dennis Skinner and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Dennis Skinner, the famed Beast of Bolsover, is adored by legions of supporters and respected as well as feared by admiring enemies. Fiery and forthright, with a prodigious recall, Skinner is one of the best-known politicians in Britain. He remains as passionate and committed to the causes he champions as on the first day he entered the House of Commons back in 1970. In an age of growing cynicism about politicians, the witty and astute Skinner is renowned as a brightly burning beacon of principle. He has watched Prime Ministers come and go - Heath, Wilson, Callaghan, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown - and yet remains uncorrupted by patronage and compromise. Cameron discovered Skinner's popularity when a public backlash forced the current PM to apologise in Parliament for calling Skinner a dinosaur who should be in a museum. Skinner at eighty has a unique take on post-war Britain. A combatant in the great social, industrial and political upheavals of the last half century, he's resisted telling his extraordinary story. Until now.
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Author : 祁文慧
language : en
Publisher: 清华大学出版社有限公司
Release Date : 2006
written by 祁文慧 and has been published by 清华大学出版社有限公司 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
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Step 2 3 4
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Author : Amy Dalessandro
language : en
Publisher: Jmj Press
Release Date : 2015-08-09
Step 2 3 4 written by Amy Dalessandro and has been published by Jmj Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-09 with categories.
It begins as another ordinary day at the Peters' house. Maggie, a college student, lives with her widowed father, Vaughn, in a small Pennsylvania town. When Maggie presents him with ballroom dance lessons as a birthday gift, Vaughn is reminded of his past with his wife Sheila and their days of performing in ballroom competitions throughout their marriage. Not thoroughly convinced he should go back to the ballroom, Vaughn goes on a whim which leads to an unexpected chain of events he never dreamed would happen to him.
The Postman
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Author : David Brin
language : en
Publisher: Spectra
Release Date : 2011-04-06
The Postman written by David Brin and has been published by Spectra this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-06 with Fiction categories.
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • “A moving experience . . . a powerful cautionary tale.”—Whitley Strieber He was a survivor—a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war. Fate touches him one chill winter’s day when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself from the cold. The old, worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope, and with it he begins to weave his greatest tale, of a nation on the road to recovery. This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth. A timeless novel as urgently compelling as War Day or Alas, Babylon, David Brin’s The Postman is the dramatically moving saga of a man who rekindled the spirit of America through the power of a dream, from a modern master of science fiction. “The Postman will keep you engrossed until you’ve finished the last page.”—Chicago Tribune
American Singing Groups
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Author : Jay Warner
language : en
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Release Date : 2006
American Singing Groups written by Jay Warner and has been published by Hal Leonard Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Music categories.
Offers a decade-by-decade history of American singing groups, from the Ames and Mills Brothers, to the Platters and the Beach Boys, to Destiny's Child, the Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync, and many others, covering more than 380 artists and furnishing information on each group's career, key members, influences, photos, and discographies. Original.
The Beatles In Canada The Origins Of Beatlemania
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Author : Piers Hemmingsen
language : en
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Release Date : 2016-04-11
The Beatles In Canada The Origins Of Beatlemania written by Piers Hemmingsen and has been published by Omnibus Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
By the spring of 1964, Toronto had the largest and most organized Beatles fan base in North America. The Beatles in Canada: The Origins of Beatlemania! finally tells the true story of how The Beatles’ music and popularity began in Canada a full year before they landed in the U.S.A. Piers Hemmingsen provides a concise look at how radio stations, newspapers and television networks in Canada covered the phenomenon that was Beatlemania, and this digital edition is packed with full-colour images of the band, their travels, those they inspired, and an immense hoard of memorabilia gathered along the way. ’After all these years, I still cannot comprehend where Piers gets his energy supply from. He has written four previous books about The Beatles and discovered an appreciative readership for all of them. However, to me this book, the one you are holding, is his breakthrough. Where it could have been an easy exercise with new information about the Fab Four, Piers has taken one large step forward. He is also able to incorporate the beginnings of the Canadian music industry. Through mainly focusing on one record company he has been able to capture the excitement of a young industry finding its way, competing with the giants in the United States. – Paul White, Capitol Records of Canada, 1957-1978