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  Screen Directors Playhouse - The...

  Paul Gallico, Ethel Lina White

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  In Hollywood’s Golden Age stars were everywhere.  As well as entertaining us in the local movie theatre many of them came to our home, our very own living room. Here they would perform radio versions of big-name films. Screen Directors Playhouse was famous for the lavish use of stars in their productions. Listen now and find out why it really was just like having your very own film studio in your living room.

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  I Know It's Wrong

  Diana Gould

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  Dana Gould takes on the absurdities of modern life through a pop-culture obsessed lens. Unapologetic and off-the-wall funny, there's no middle ground in this comedy special filmed at the Neptune Theater in Seattle, WA.

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  When Variety Was King - Memoir...

  Frank Peppiatt

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  A television producer’s “fascinating” memoir of the golden age of the variety show (Kirkus Reviews).   A humble Canadian boy who grew up to create iconic American TV shows featuring the Hollywood celebrities of the day, Frank Peppiatt made his breakthrough by developing the rock TV show Hullabuloo with his partner, John Aylesworth. That led to a writing gig for Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé—and then to the long-running smash hit Hee Haw.   In this autobiography, he recounts a career that spanned from the 1950s to the 1980s, writing comedy and turning entertainers into household names on variety shows hosted by Jackie Gleason, Andy Williams, Judy Garland, Julie Andrews, Sonny and Cher, and Perry Como. This anecdote-filled memoir of a bygone era will enthrall anyone interested in the early decades of television.   “Full of behind-the-scenes stories . . . For fans of TV history, there’s a gold mine here.” —Booklist

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  Walking the Labyrinth - A Place...

  Travis Scholl

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  One day Travis Scholl discovered a labyrinth in his neighborhood. As he began to walk it, he found this ancient practice offered a much-needed path away from life's demands, allowing him to encounter God in quiet solitude.
  In this meditative guide, Travis Scholl takes readers on a journey:
  "The path is always new, because, as a spiritual discipline, the labyrinth is a tool for contemplation, for reflection, for prayer. Underneath the surface, walking the labyrinth is a profound exercise in listening, in active silence, in finding movement and rhythm in the stillnesses underneath and in between every day's noise. Walking the labyrinth is an exercise in finding the voice speaking in whispers underneath the whirlwind of sound."
  With no end, but only a center, labyrinths become a physical symbol of prayer and our journey with God. Each step unites faith and action as travelers take one step at a time, living each moment in trust and willingness to follow the course set before them.
  Providing a historical and modern context for this unique spiritual discipline, Scholl weaves his own journey through a labyrinth with the Gospel of Mark's telling of the twists and turns of Jesus' life, providing 40 reflections ideal for daily reading during Lent or any time of the year.

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  You Are the Music - How Music...

  Victoria Williamson

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  'You are the music / While the music lasts' T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets
  
  Do babies remember music from the womb? Can classical music increase your child's IQ? Is music good for productivity? Can it aid recovery from illness and injury? And what is going on in your brain when Ultravox's 'Vienna', Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht or Dizzee Rascal's 'Bonkers' transports you back to teenage years?
  
  In a brilliant new work that will delight music lovers of every persuasion, music psychologist Victoria Williamson examines our relationship with music across the whole of a lifetime.
  
  Along the way she reveals the amazing ways in which music can physically reshape our brains, explores how 'smart music listening' can improve cognitive performance, and considers the perennial puzzle of what causes 'earworms'.
  
  Requiring no specialist musical or scientific knowledge, this upbeat, eye-opening book reveals as never before the extent of the universal language of music that lives deep inside us all.

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  Stargazing - Photographs of the...

  Nirmala Nataraj

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  A compendium of images of the night sky, the perfect gift for stargazers, space lovers, science geeks, photography lovers, and NASA fans.   This collection of photographs illuminates the darkness of space in a whole new way. Images from the archives of NASA reveal the night sky’s most extraordinary phenomena, from the radiant aurora borealis to awe-inspiring lunar eclipses. Each breathtaking photo is paired with an informative caption about the scientific phenomena it reveals and the technology used to capture it. Featuring a preface by author and Emmy award-nominated TV host Bill Nye, this ebook will rekindle the wonder of looking up at the stars.   “[A] gorgeous photographic tour of space . . . Remarkable.”—Publishers Weekly on The Planets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA by Nirmala Nataraj

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