Unprepared To Die

2015-11-01 Music

Author : Paul Slade
Release : 2015-11-01
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 07X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Unprepared To Die written by Paul Slade. This book was released on 2015-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gory Stories Behind The Murder Ballads Cheerfully vulgar, revelling in gore, and always with an eye on the main chance, murder ballads are tabloid newspapers set to music, carrying word of the latest ‘orrible murders to an insatiable public. Victims are bludgeoned, stabbed or shot in every verse and killers often hanged, but the songs themselves never die. Instead, they mutate – morphing to suit local place names as they criss cross the Atlantic and continue to fascinate each generation’s biggest musical stars. Paul Slade traces this fascinating genre’s history through eight of its greatest songs. Stagger Lee’s “biographers” alone include Duke Ellington, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Dr John, The Clash and Nick Cave. No two tell his story in quite the same way. Covering eight classic murder ballads, including “Knoxville Girl”, “Tom Dooley” and “Frankie & Johnny”, Slade investigates the real-life murder which inspired each song and traces its musical development down the decades. Billy Bragg, The Bad Seeds’ Mick Harvey, Laura Cantrell, Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family and a host of other leading musicians add their own insights.

We Are Unprepared

2016-08-30 Fiction

Author : Meg Little Reilly
Release : 2016-08-30
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 883/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book We Are Unprepared written by Meg Little Reilly. This book was released on 2016-08-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meg Little Reilly places a young couple in harm’s way—both literally and emotionally—as they face a cataclysmic storm that threatens to decimate their Vermont town, and the Eastern Seaboard in her penetrating debut novel, WE ARE UNPREPARED. Ash and Pia move from hipster Brooklyn to rustic Vermont in search of a more authentic life. But just months after settling in, the forecast of a superstorm disrupts their dream. Fear of an impending disaster splits their tight-knit community and exposes the cracks in their marriage. Where Isole was once a place of old farm families, rednecks and transplants, it now divides into paranoid preppers, religious fanatics and government tools, each at odds about what course to take. WE ARE UNPREPARED is an emotional journey, a terrifying glimpse into the human costs of our changing earth and, ultimately, a cautionary tale of survival and the human

Final Acts

2010 Family & Relationships

Author : Nan Bauer Maglin
Release : 2010
Genre : Family & Relationships
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 281/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Final Acts written by Nan Bauer Maglin. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those who yearn for some measure of control over deathFinal Acts, offers insight and hope. Writing in a style free of technical jargon, the contributors discuss documents that should be prepared (health proxy, do-not-resuscitate order, living will, power of attorney); decision-making (over medical interventions, life support, hospice and palliative care, aid-in-dying, treatment location, speaking for those who can no longer express their will); and the roles played by religion, custom, family, friends, caretakers, money, the medical establishment, and the government.

Over the Edge

2012 Accidents

Author : Michael Patrick Ghiglieri
Release : 2012
Genre : Accidents
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Book Rating : 803/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Over the Edge written by Michael Patrick Ghiglieri. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gripping accounts of all known fatal mishaps in the most famous of the World's Natural Wonders.

Not a Good Day to Die

2005-03-01 History

Author : Sean Naylor
Release : 2005-03-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 613/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Not a Good Day to Die written by Sean Naylor. This book was released on 2005-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning combat journalist Sean Naylor reveals a firsthand account of the largest battle fought by American military forces in Afghanistan in an attempt to destroy al-Qaeda and Taliban forces. At dawn on March 2, 2002, America's first major battle of the 21st century began. Over 200 soldiers of the 101st Airborne and 10th Mountain Division flew into Afghanistan's Shah-i-Kot Valley—and into the mouth of a buzz saw. They were about to pay a bloody price for strategic, high-level miscalculations that underestimated the enemy's strength and willingness to fight. Naylor, an eyewitness to the battle, details the failures of military intelligence and planning, while vividly portraying the astonishing heroism of these young, untested US soldiers. Denied the extra support with which they trained, these troops nevertheless proved their worth in brutal combat and prevented an American military disaster.

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