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  Enchanting Tales

  Disney

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  "أكثر ما أحبه في العالم هو كتبي." - حسناء. ادخل إلى العالم السحري لأميرات ديزني مع مجموعة القصص الكلاسيكية هذه. مع 12 حكاية للاستمتاع بها ، شارك في المغامرة وتجربة وقت قصة ساحر.

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  Music For All Creatures

  Paul Winter

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  A conversation with a pioneering musician about his music and his motivation. Here Winter describes the unique thrust of the music he has created in harmony with whales, wolves, dolphins and other creatures of the planet. Insights on how music shapes consciousness abound in this conversation.

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  Radio Records Dramatized...

  Charles Dickens, Adaptation by:...

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  We take great pride to invite you to walk back into the min-nineteenth century and live as never before the life and times of Ebeneezer Scrooge and "A Christmas Carol".  Come with us to the streets of London to hear and feel the horses and carriages going over the cobble stone streets.  Come and imagine in vivid color, sight and sound "The Christmas Carol" bringing to life 36 characters that will push you imagination to the brink of reality.  Come and envision Old jacob Marley appearing before his sinister old partner Scrooge to fortell of the things to happen which fate has set fortold.  Feel the presents of the ghosts as they take Scrooge one by one from the past to the future.  Feel the warmth and the laughter and even the sorrow of Tiny Tim and the Crachit Family.  Come listen and envision as the towns people laugh with out sorrow of the passing of Old Scrooge and the barter with the pawnbroker over the simplest things he left behind.  Envision what happened to Scrooge as the last phantom shows him the things of yet to come and the transformation of London's Coldest Old Miser.Truely this is "A Christmas Carol" with no parts left out.  We feel you will enjoy this story for it lives today as much as it did back then.

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  The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman

  Niko Stratis

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  A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us. 
   
   
   
  When Wilco's 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was infamously criticized as "dad rock," Niko Stratis was a twenty-five-year-old closeted trans woman working in her dad's glass shop in the Yukon Territory. As she sought escape from her hypermasculine environment, Stratis found an unlikely lifeline amid dad rock's emotionally open and honest music. Listening to dad rock, Stratis could access worlds beyond her own and imagine a path forward. 
   
   
   
  In taut, searing essays rendered in propulsive and unguarded prose, Stratis delves into the emotional core of bands like Wilco and The National, telling her story through the dad rock that accompanied her along the way. She found footing in Michael Stipe's allusions to queer longing, Radiohead's embrace of unknowability, and Bruce Springsteen's very trans desire to "change my clothes my hair my face"—and she found in artists like Neko Case and Sharon Van Etten that the label transcends gender. A love letter to the music that saves us and a tribute to dads like Stratis's own who embody the tenderness at the genre's heart, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman rejoices in music unafraid to bare its soul.

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  Elton John's Blue Moves

  Matthew Restall

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  By 1976, Elton John was the best-selling recording artist and the highest-grossing touring act in the world. With seven #1 albums in a row and a reputation as a riveting piano-pounding performer, the former Reggie Dwight had gone with dazzling speed from the London suburbs to the pinnacles of rock stardom, his songs never leaving the charts, his sold-out shows packed with adoring fans. Then he released Blue Moves, and it all came crashing down.Was the commercially disappointing and poorly reviewed double album to blame? Can one album shoot down a star? No, argues Matthew Restall; Blue Moves is a four-sided masterpiece, as fantastic as Captain Fantastic, as colorful as Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, a showcase for the three elements--piano-playing troubadour, full orchestra, rock band--with which Elton John and his collaborators redirected the evolution of popular music. Instead, both album and career were derailed by a perfect storm of circumstances: Elton’s decisions to stop touring and start his own label; the turbulent shiftings of popular culture in the punk era; the minefield of attitudes toward celebrity and sexuality. The closer we get to Blue Moves, the better we understand the world into which it was born--and vice versa. Might that be true of all albums?

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  Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark...

  Kirk Walker Graves

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  In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Kanye West created the most compelling body of pop music by an American artist during the period. Having risen from obscurity as a precocious producer through the ranks of Jay Z's Roc-A-Fella records, by the time he released My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (MBDTF) in late 2010, West had evolved into a master collagist, an alchemist capable of transfiguring semi-obscure soul samples and indelible beats into a brash and vulnerable new art form.A look at the arc of his career, from the heady chipmunk soul exuberance of The College Dropout (2004) to the operatic narcissism of MBDTF, tells us about the march of pop music into the digital age and, by extension, the contradictions that define our cultural epoch. In a cloud-based and on-demand culture – a place of increasing virtualization, loneliness, and hyper-connectivity – West straddles this critical moment as what David Samuels of The Atlantic calls ""the first true genius of the iPhone era, the Mozart of contemporary American music."" In the land of taking a selfie, honing a personal brand, and publicly melting down online, Kanye West is the undisputed king. Swallowing the chaos wrought by his public persona and digesting it as a grandiose allegory of self-redemption, Kanye sublimates his narcissism to paint masterstroke after masterstroke on MBDTF, a 69-minute hymn to egotistical excess. Sampling and ventriloquizing the pop music past to tell the story of its future – very much a tale of our culture's wish for unfettered digital ubiquity – MBDTF is the album of its era, an aesthetic self-acquittal and spiritual autobiography of our era’s most dynamic artist.

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