This book, My Life as Elvis, came about while I was in Key West, Florida. I never considered myself a writer. I wrote this and ran into a woman in Key West that could help me get things going. That’s where I realized that I could write. She liked it and agreed with the title. I feel that the title tells the whole story in it. I have had so many nice experiences because of imitating Elvis, and I would not trade it for anything. I have met many ni ...
This is a brief description of my life, which in the beginning I just tried to live a life like everyone tries to do. However, being locked out of my home for so many years, it made me do things just to survive; and with that, it made me into the person I had become in the waste-management industry, and throughout the rest of life, I had always tried to make it work even without all the family interference. I kept it together most of my life wit ...
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Скольким же красавицам, не схожим и внешне, и характерами, дарил своё внимание Александр Сергеевич! Не все из воспетых Пушкиным достигли преклонных лет, – увы, слишком быстротечной оказалась судьба. Так и остались они в отечественной поэзии вечно юными… Другим же, намного пережившим поэта, посчастливилось стать очевидицами его посмертной славы, великого триумфа. И до конца дней, как самое великое богатство, хранили они пушкинские посвящения, пис ...
«Это начинается внезапно. Раз за разом переслушивая треки своих любимых групп, ты вдруг ловишь себя на мысли, что тебе просто необходимо „вот прям сейчас“ взять в руки инструмент, и сыграть что-нибудь такое, если не лучше, то и не хуже, чем те хиты, что играют твои кумиры. Тогда ты достаёшь из кладовки дедушкину гитару шиховского производства и пытаешь заняться звукоизвлечением. Но трудно извлечь звук из того, что, собственно, звук не извлекает ...
The generation that matured in the thirties of the last century fell on unprecedented ups and upheavals. All of them passed through the heart of Ivan Nikiforovich Medyanik. New cities are associated with his name: Ozersk in the Urals and Lermontov in the Caucasus. Whoever he has not been in his life: a blacksmith, tinker, driver, tractor driver, tankman, pilot, battalion commander, and senior manager who performed important tasks of the governme ...
A shocking account of the lives of abused children born to addicted parents. You will read about the abuse, neglect, starvation and abandonment of three little ones while their parents concentrate on their next fix. The children, who are ages six and under, have no voice; they just try to survive. Hospital emergency visits, broken bones, bruises, and the children continue to suffer. Let the author, Rebecca McMahon, take you on a journey. See wha ...
The Eagles are the bestselling, and arguably the tightest-lipped, American group ever. Now band member and guitarist Don Felder finally breaks the Eagles' years of public silence to take fans behind the scenes. He shares every part of the band's wild ride, from the pressure-packed recording studios and trashed hotel rooms to the tension-filled courtrooms and from the joy of writing powerful new songs to the magic of performing in huge ...
Shelby Scates�s thirty-five-year career as a prize-winning journalist and columnist for International News Service, United Press International, the Associated Press, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has taken him to centers of action across this country and to wars and conflicts in many of the world�s danger zones.Born in the rural South in the 1930s, Scates rejected the racism he saw there and in his late teens set out a ...
