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2) Maurice
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English
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Maurice loved to share his music with everyone, and the crowds loved him, but times changed, his audience drifted away, and without anyone to share with Maurice became sad and lonely--until one day, his heart remembered and he found a new audience
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"With her arrival on the music scene in the early 1980s, Madonna generated nothing short of an explosion-as great as that of Elvis or the Beatles-taking the nation by storm with her liberated politics and breathtaking talent. Within two years of her 1983 debut album, a flagship Macy's store in Manhattan held a Madonna look-a-like contest featuring Andy Warhol as a judge, and opened a department called "Madonna-land." But Madonna was more than just...
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Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
An exploration of the life and work of the television pioneer, Lucille Ball. With stories illuminating the many different facets of the woman, this book details how Ball transformed the face of comedy and the entertainment industry. --
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Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business-from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV-Dancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase holds two contradictory meanings regarding Davis's cultural politics: did he dance the barricades down, as he liked to think, or did he simply dance down them, as his more radical critics would have it? Sammy Davis Jr....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
"Još-Louis Bocquet y Catel Muller cuentan en Josephine Baker la historia de una mujer que se convirt̤i en un icono de los locos ąos veinte por su aleg̕ra de vivir y su rabiosa modernidad. Bocquet y Catel rinden homenaje a una artista que deslumb̤r al {250}pblico, pero que tambǐn demost̤r sus elevados valores y su compromiso, y romp̤i todos los ta{250}bes a pesar de su ǧnero, color de piel y origen humilde. Josephine Baker cuenta la vida de...
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English
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"In this tongue-in-cheek memoir-cum-life manual-cum-cookbook, complete with all of Ginger's Southern-inspired favorite recipes, fans will learn about some of Ginger's most vulnerable and celebratory moments. Each chapter will be organized around a theme or lesson from Ginger's life, from her grandmother's brand of Southern resilience to fighting for what you're worth, how a big girl can look good on a motorcycle, finding love, and making damn good...
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