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Hoops, Walter Dean Myers
October 09, 2008: Lonnie Jackson is a young man from Harlem. Basketball is a big part of his life and he always stands up for what he believes in. During this book the main character grows up and learns to act more like a man than a kid. Along with the subplots and characters, the dialect is authentic to the mid 70s. Young adults will enjoy this book because they can relate to some of the things Lonnie goes through. Walter Dean Myers showed his background when writing this book. The...
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Personnel: Dean Evenson (flute, keyboards); Gina Sala (vocals); Scott Huckabay (guitar); Phil Heaven (viola); Jonathan Kramer (cello); Dudley Evenson (harp); Walter Makichen (singing bowls).Centered on the theme of dreams, this silky song-cycle by Dean Evenson and Scott Huckabay flows like a beautiful night vision. At once grand and comforting, the music relaxes, inspires, and set the tones for healing, with Evenson and Huckabay accompanied by wordless vocals, harp, and singing bowls. Like all of...
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Dean James picked up the saxophone at the age of 15 after a knee injury kept him off the football field, and was soon practicing eight hours per day. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, then returned to San Francisco to play jazz with the David Eshelmans Big Band and gospel with artists like Ben Tankard, Daryl Coley and Dannie Belle Hall. By the mid-'80s, James had moved to Los Angeles and become a regarded session player and sideman, with Rob Mullins, Edwin & Walter Hawkins, Gary Taylor...
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October 09, 2008: Lonnie Jackson is a young man from Harlem. Basketball is a big part of his life and he always stands up for what he believes in. During this book the main character grows up and learns to act more like a man than a kid. Along with the subplots and characters, the dialect is authentic to the mid 70s. Young adults will enjoy this book because they can relate to some of the things Lonnie goes through. Walter Dean Myers showed his background when writing this book. The...
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All eyes are on seventeen-year-old Lonnie Jackson while he practices with his team for a city-wide basketball Tournament of Champions. His coach, Cal, knows Lonnie has what it takes to be a pro-basketball player, but warns him about giving in to the pressure. Cal knows because he, too, once had the chance--but sold out.
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Biography: Walter Dean Myers's mother died when he was young, leaving his father to raise eight children alone. When he was three, Walter was taken in by a nearby couple, Herbert and Florence Dean, who moved with him to Harlem, New York. A speech impediment contributed to his unhappy time in school, although he did love to read and write. When he was 16 he won a prize in an essay contest, which encouraged him to continue his writing although he eventually dropped out of school and joined the Army...
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This volume presents 31 duets from 27 classic to contemporary shows, for various voice combinations. Songs from Aida, Cabaret, Chicago, Guys and Dolls, Hairspray, The Last Five Years, The Phantom of the Opera, The Producers, Show Boat, Spamalot, Wicked, and other shows.
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Harmonic Waves. Bell Bliss Joy. Infinite Ocean. Sound Is Love. Stretch Your Soul. Deeper Compassion. Mystic Spirals. Walk on Water. No Boundaries. Golden Moment.
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A teenage basketball player from Harlem is befriended by a former professional player who, after being forced to quit because of a point shaving scandal, hopes to prevent other young athletes from repeating his mistake.
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Frank Sinatra: The Golden Years
Five-disc set includes "The Man with the Golden Arm," "The Tender Trap," "Some Came Running," "None But the Brave," and "Marriage on the Rocks."
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The Outside Shot, Walter Dean Myers
December 04, 2007: Chris Donabedian Tuesday, September 18, 2007 Period 4 Hoops By Walter Dean Myers This book is mainly about how seventeen year old Lonnie Jackson of Harlem believed in himself and came out a champion. Lonnie Jackson, a 17 year old black guy, isn't that well educated so he uses a lot of slang and cursing words. The word he uses the most is ain?t. He makes people feel awful about themselves because he didn?t have a very good childhood. He also doesn?t...
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Golden Spa Tones is the first release in the Healing Spa Series, produced for use by healthcare professionals working in spas, day spas & retreats – specifically, for use by massage therapists in the treatment room. The long slow alto and silver flute tones are a beautiful complement to the deep harmonics of the Tibetan bowls. ·
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As a coach and mentor, Walter Gretzky was instrumental in nurturing the talent of his son, hockey great Wayne Gretzky. So it came as an ironic tragedy when in 1991, just days after his 53rd birthday, Walter suffered a debilitating stroke that left him with no memory of his son's hockey career or his own role in Wayne's achievements. Based on the memoir WALTER GRETZKY: ON FAMILY, HOCKEY AND HEALING, the Canadian film WAKING UP WALLY dramatizes Walter's (Tom McManus) struggle to reconnect with Wayne...
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Ethereal tones of Tibetan singing bowls gently soothe the soul like a massage for the spirit. These magical sounds create a sense of relaxation by dissolving patterns of stress and worry. Flute and bowls effortlessly take you to a divine inner place of acceptance, balance and peace. Gentle ocean waves and the Earth Resonance Frequency deepen the experience to a contemplative Alpha state. Created specifically for Spa Treatment Rooms, Healing, Yoga, & Meditation.
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* Provides academic and educational leadership to the faculty members, students and campus colleagues and for developing an active teaching/learning community among students and faculty on campus. * Serves as the liaison between the nursing program and the larger college system and between the nursing program and the community. * Provides leadership in planning and administration of the nursing program, including assessment, evaluation, development and revision of courses and overall curricula...
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An exceptionally talented junkyard dog gets his due in Myers's (Monster; Harlem) picture-book tribute to the blues. Though Flats would love to just...
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Uncorrected proof. Features Bill Moyers, Phil Donahue, Ted Koppel, Diane Sawyer, Mike Wallace, Barbara Walters, among others. Fine in glossy wrappers.
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As a coach and mentor, Walter Gretzky was instrumental in nurturing the talent of his son, hockey great Wayne Gretzky. So it came as an ironic tragedy when in 1991, just days after his 53rd birthday, Walter suffered a debilitating stroke that left him with no memory of his son's hockey career or his own role in Wayne's achievements. Based on the memoir WALTER GRETZKY: ON FAMILY, HOCKEY AND HEALING, the Canadian film WAKING UP WALLY dramatizes Walter's (Tom McManus) struggle to reconnect with Wayne...
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DEAN CORNWELL and EARL SANDE. TLS: " Dean Cornwell , 1p, 8½x11. New York City, 1936 December 31 . On letterhead of Gainsborough Studios to Earl Sande, Coral Gables, Florida. Cornwell's letter, in full: " As part of the decorative scheme for the Sir Walter Raleigh Room , a new restaurant-bar I am now working on for the Warwick Hotel, there is an heraldic frieze incorporating about sixty coats of arms. Sir Walter Raleigh was a man who had visions and the courage to realize his dreams. I feel...
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THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF WALTER FARQUHAR HOOK, by W.R.W. Stephens/ London: Richard Bentley & Son:1885. Hard cover. 626pp with index. Ex Lib. Light spine and edgewear. Good condition. Satisfaction guaranteed.
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Front Cover Sticker: The music helps our patients focus on their healing and not the chronic pain they endure constantly. Chaplain Major John Kallerson, Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Journey to a wild river in the Pacific Northwest near the home of Dean & Dudley Evenson, founders of Soundings of the Planet. Experience stunning visuals of eagles, from their passage across a tranquil mountain valley to the annual rite of feasting on spawning salmon, recorded through the lens of visionary and...
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The Outside Shot, Walter Dean Myers, Item
December 04, 2007: Chris Donabedian Tuesday, September 18, 2007 Period 4 Hoops By Walter Dean Myers This book is mainly about how seventeen year old Lonnie Jackson of Harlem believed in himself and came out a champion. Lonnie Jackson, a 17 year old black guy, isn't that well educated so he uses a lot of slang and cursing words. The word he uses the most is ain?t. He makes people feel awful about themselves because he didn?t have a very good childhood. He also doesn?t...
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Dean O'Donnell
Walter must train Ernie in the fine art of bill collecting. What starts as a simple lesson becomes a battle of wills, where the student becomes the teacher. Fraught with twists and turns, this dark satire exposes the nasty underbelly of corporate America, where no one's credit rating is ever safe.
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