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  Look At The Monkeys

  Kim Mitzo Thompson, Karen Mitzo...

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  Kids will love this sweet story/song combination as they listen to “Look at The Monkeys” and follow along word-for-word in this adorably illustrated eBook. Learning how to count backwards from five is a blast for little ones, as they count down with a group of silly monkeys. Pictures of happy monkeys to go along with fun and repetitive lyrics as children are introduced to important early literacy skills.

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  Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope

  Ayanna Dozier

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  The question of control for Black women is a costly one. From 1986 onwards, the trajectory of Janet Jackson’s career can be summed up in her desire for control. Control for Janet was never simply just about her desire for economic and creative control over her career but was, rather, an existential question about the desire to control and be in control over her bodily integrity as a Black woman. This book examines Janet’s continuation of her quest for control as heard in her sixth album, The Velvet Rope. Engaging with the album, the promotion, the tour, and its accompanying music videos, this study unpacks how Janet uses Black cultural production as an emancipatory act of self-creation that allows her to reconcile with and, potentially, heal from trauma, pain, and feelings of alienation. The Velvet Rope’s arc moves audiences to imagine the possibility of what emancipation from oppression--from sexual, to internal, to societal--could look like for the singer and for others. The sexually charged content and themes of abuse, including self-harm and domestic violence, were dismissed as “selling points” for Janet at the time of its release. The album stands out as a revelatory expression of emotional vulnerability by the singer, one that many other artists have followed in the 20-plus years since its release.

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  Murder of an Artist

  George Callaghan

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  Truth described as fiction. Art where did it all go wrong?This book lays bare the facts that have led to the demise of art in Tasmania, the island state of Australia.Disguised a murder mystery....

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  Achieving Authentic Australian...

  Stephanie Lam

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  This guide enables you to create an authentic Australian accent. The course starts by discussing the oral posture necessary to develop an Australian accent including various exercises to help apply the knowledge areas that are discussed. Then the course includes additional exercises to rehearse and refine your Australian accent as you listen to native speakers and then repeat key words and phrases in a structured setting, giving you quick feedback to improve and refine you accent. In addition, there are further tools and exercises to continue to develop your Australian accent once the course is complete. This is an ideal way to jump-start your progress to an Australian accent, given you the tools you need to succeed as taught by professional linguists. You can return to the course and practice the exercises as often as you like and achieve the level of proficiency you desire. This focused and immersive course with a range of Australian narration throughout and all the material delivered in native Australian accents is the ideal way to create that authentically Australian character for your next audition, casting or other creative project. Or simply to build your range of expertise as an actor for future engagements.

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  Lessons From A Terrible...

  Patrick Fore

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  You already know the technical stuff isn’t the hard part. 
  The hard part is the 2 AM spiral — scrolling through someone else’s work, wondering if you’ll ever find your own voice in the noise. It’s the creeping suspicion that everyone else got a manual you somehow missed. It’s looking at your catalog and seeing a graveyard of maybe-good shots and definitely-bad decisions. 
  The war isn’t technical. It’s internal. 
  Lessons From a Terrible Photographer isn’t a how-to. It’s an honest, unvarnished look at what it actually takes to stop making work that looks like everyone else’s and start making work that could only come from you. 
  For the ones who delete more than they share. Who’ve wondered if they’re fooling themselves. Who haven’t quit — even on the days they wanted to. 
  This book was written for you.

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  Fire Flurries - Confessions of a...

  Sandi MarLisa

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  Sandi MarLisa is your favorite small town rockstar. She also happens to be a newly divorced ex-minister, mother of two children, and published author in her hometown of Panama City, Florida. After surviving category five Hurricane Michael and the Covid-19 pandemic, she enters the dating scene in her hometown while also making it as a professional musician with big dreams and fiery Floridian spirit. Fire Flurries takes you through the gut-wrenching ups-and-downs of Sandi MarLisa's wild year as she navigates her feelings on love, friendship, motherhood, dating and other modern events in this rollercoaster stream of consciousness novel. Deeply reflective thinkers will appreciate the insightfulness of her deepest ruminations, but her writing has a passion and rawness that will appeal to the masses. Her story ebbs and flows through time just like the rhythmic currents of her beloved Floridian coastal waters. From storms, to lapping tides, to gentle rain... they are all moments that shape us and simultaneously act as a heartbeat calling us to LIVE... really LIVE!

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