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  Fearless Flourishing - A...

  Alissa Chojnacki

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  Take your lettering to the next level with beautiful, stylish flourishes. You’ve mastered every letter, from capital A to lowercase z. Now you want your hand-drawn projects to have the ornate and extravagant look that is only achieved through flourishing. Whether you go for a delicate, stately, whimsical, bold, funky, or elegant look, flourishing is a wonderful way to develop a personal style and make your hand-lettering stand out. From basic theories and helpful practices to beautiful examples and complex compositions, this step-by-step workbook provides all the tools you need to flourish with confidence!• Elegant Letter Embellishments • Fanciful Flourishes & Filigree • Decorative Borders & Frames• Stylish Artistic Elements

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  Last Year's Man: Leonard Cohen

  Jason Schneider

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  "Last Year's Man" is excerpted from Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music ... From Hank Snow to The Band, available as a print or ebook.Canadian songwriters have always struggled to create work that reflects the environment in which they were raised, while simultaneously connecting with a mass audience. While nearly every songwriter who successfully crossed this divide did so by immersing themselves in the American and British forms of blues, folk, country, and their bastard offspring, rock and roll, traces of Canadian sensibilities were never far beneath the surface of the eventual end product.What were these sensibilities, and why did they transfer so well outside Canada? With each passing decade, a clear picture eventually emerged of what Canadian songwriters were contributing to popular music, and subsequently passing on to fellow artists, both within Canada and around the world. Just as Hank Snow became a giant in country music, Ian & Sylvia and Gordon Lightfoot became crucial components of the folk revival. In the folk-rock boom that followed in the late '60s, songs by The Band and Leonard Cohen were instant standards, while during the '70s singer/songwriter movement few artists were more revered than Neil Young and Joni Mitchell.This is the first thorough exploration of how these, along with other lesser-known but no less significant, artists came to establish a distinct Canadian musical identity from the 1930s to the end of the 1970s. Anecdotes explaining the personal and creative connections that many of the artists shared comprise a large aspect of the storytelling, along with first-person interviews and extensive research. The emphasis is on the essential music - how and where it originated, and what impact it eventually had on both the artists' subsequent work, and the wider musical world.

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  Beneath the Dragonwood Trees -...

  Margot Elaine Jones

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  Entertain the whole family with this original, orchestrated, magical adventure!Imagine meeting up with some of your favorite fairy tale characters in an enchanted forest that casts a spell of mayhem, mischief, magic and fun.A musical fairy tale, Beneath the Dragonwood Trees: In the Beginning — the first in the Beneath the Dragonwood Trees trilogy — takes us into the woods on a journey reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, Hansel and Gretel, Peter and the Wolf, and even a hint of Jaberwocky by Lewis Carroll.What lies ahead in this enchanted forest of wacky witches and a lost boy and stalwart furry and feathered friends? Original songs, score, and a wild-haired storyteller guide us on our way — in this Broadway style escapade of a boy's quest — with his talking animal pals, to catch the dreaded Wolf and win a badge of honor.  In the end, Peter learns a great lesson  that the love between family and friends is far greater than a badge of honor.Nationally-acclaimed Director, Composer, Choreographer, Independent Filmmaker and thirty year veteran of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) and The Screen Actors Guild (SAG), Margot Elaine Jones brings us this Broadway style musical comedy in an audiobook.The audiobook includes a bonus interview with author/creator/performer Margot Elaine Jones.

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  Havana Before Castro - When Cuba...

  Peter Moruzzi

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  Take a trip to the golden age of Havana in this gorgeously illustrated volume of vintage photographs, postcards, brochures, and other ephemera.   Featuring hundreds of historic images and cultural artifacts, Havana Before Castro documents how the Cuban capital evolved from a Prohibition Era getaway destination to a heady blend of glittering nightclubs, outrageous cabarets, all-night bars, and backstreet brothels. Here, captured in one amazing book, is the drama, passion, intrigue, and opulence of a legendary city during its heyday—before the Castro regime took over and Americans were banned from travel to this tropical paradise.   In chapters covering such topics as Cuban rum and cigars, the world-famous Tropicana Club, and Havana’s association with the mob, author Peter Moruzzi provides essential historical context for the many fascinating and evocative images.

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  JMW Turner: Standing in the Sun

  Anthony Bailey

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  Joseph Mallord William Turner is arguably Britain's greatest and most mysterious painter, whose range of work encompasses seascape and landscape, immensely powerful oil paintings and intimate watercolours. His friend and colleague C.R. Leslie remembered him thus: 'Turner was short and stout, and had a sturdy, sailor-like walk. He might be taken for the captain of a river steamboat at first glance; but a second would find more in his face than belongs in any ordinary mind. There was that peculiar keenness of expression in his eye that is only seen in men of constant habits of observation'. The son of a Covent garden barber and a woman who died in Bethlehem Hospital, Turner achieved fame and fortune during his lifetime. Although he possessed a wide-ranging imagination, he was an often incoherent speaker and writer, and his muddled will produced much discord - it is a wonder that, despite avaricious relatives and incompetent lawyers, so many of his works are now in the hands of the nation, and publicly proclaim his genius. In this previously unavailable biography, Anthony Bailey has drawn upon archival material, scholarly literature and research, as well as studying many of Turner's sketchbooks, paintings and watercolours. Uncovering fresh material, as well as pulling together previously known facts, Bailey sheds new light on this complicated and secretive artistic figure.

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  Out Of This Universe

  Martin K. Ettington

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  Follow the life of Steven and his friends as he proceeds through innumerable ages of existence fighting forces which not even the Gods totally understand. 
  It’s a story of physical immortality, love, and evolution which transcends our Universe. 
  A journey through the ages of mankind and the Universe which leads to some startling decisions which affect all of creation and beyond. 
  Many spiritual powers are developed and used in confrontations as part of the evolution of the characters in this story. 
  A thoroughly enjoyable romp which will expand your mind and leaving you asking. How much more is there to existence? And what is beyond existence?

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