Limelight

Limelight

• Author : Amy Poeppel
• Publisher : Atria/Emily Bestler Books
• File Size : 10,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2019-05-14
• Genre: Fiction
• Pages : 416
• ISBN 10 : 9781501176388

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In a smart and funny novel by the author of the critically acclaimed “big-hearted, charming” (The Washington Post) Small Admissions, a family’s move to New York City brings surprises and humor. Allison Brinkley—wife, mother, and former unflappable optimist—discovers that her decision to pack up and move her family from suburban Dallas to the glittery chaos of Manhattan may have been more complicated than she and her husband initially thought. New York is more unruly and bewildering than she expected, defying the notions she developed from romantic movies and a memorable childhood visit. After a humiliating call from the principal’s office and the loss of the job she was counting on, Allison begins to accept that New York may not suit her after all. When she has a fender-bender, witnessed by a flock of mothers at her son’s new school, she is led to the penthouse apartment of a luxurious Central Park West building and encounters a spoiled, hungover, unsupervised teenager who looks familiar. It doesn’t take long to recognize him as Carter Reid—a famous pop star who has been cast in a new Broadway musical. Through this brush with stardom, Allison embraces a unique and unexpected opportunity that helps her find her way in the heart of Manhattan. “A tribute to Broadway, teen celebrity life, and a mother who has now seen it all, this work is tough love at its finest and a great read for those wanting a ride on the wild side” (Booklist, starred review).

Limelight

• Author : Solli Raphael
• Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
• File Size : 8,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2019-08-27
• Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
• Pages : 128
• ISBN 10 : 9781524852337

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Limelight is a unique collection of slam poetry paired with inspirational writing techniques. With over 30 original poems in different forms, Raphael's work tackles current social concerns for his generation, such as sustainability and social equality, all while amplifying his uplifting message of hope. Solli’s book also contains 5 chapters on how to write and read poetry, how to manage stage fright and writer’s block, and encouraging tips on how we can all make tomorrow better than today. As a voice of his generation, and at a time when youth movements worldwide hold much importance, Raphael is taking on the world...one word at a time. The future needs you and me to create equality across all levels of humanity -Solli

Stolen Limelight

• Author : Margaret E. Gray
• Publisher : University of Wales Press
• File Size : 12,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2022-05-15
• Genre: Literary Criticism
• Pages : 271
• ISBN 10 : 9781786838612

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Who has not, in a favored moment, ‘stolen the limelight’, whether inadvertently or by design? The implications of such an act of display – its illicitness, its verve, its vertiginous reversal of power, its subversiveness – are explored in this book. Narrative crafting and management of such scenarios are studied across canonical novels by Gide, Colette, Mauriac, and Duras, as well as by African Francophone writer Oyono and detective novelist Japrisot. As manipulated within narrative, acts of display position a viewer or reader from whom response (from veneration or desire to repugnance or horror) is solicited; but this study demonstrates that display can also work subversively, destabilising and displacing such a privileged spectator. As strategies of displacement, these scenarios ultimately neutralise and even occult the very subject they so energetically appear to solicit. Powered by gendered tensions, this dynamic of display as displacement works toward purposes of struggle, resistance or repression.

LimeLight

• Author : Melody Carlson
• Publisher : Multnomah
• File Size : 11,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2009-10-06
• Genre: Fiction
• Pages : 384
• ISBN 10 : 9781601422569

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Claudette Fioré used to turn heads and break hearts. She relished the glamorous Hollywood lifestyle because she had what it takes: money, youth, fame, and above all, beauty. But age has withered that beauty, and a crooked accountant has taken her wealth, leaving the proud widow penniless and alone. Armed with stubbornness and sarcasm, Claudette returns to her shabby little hometown and her estranged sister. Slowly, she makes friends. She begins to see her old life in a new light. For the first time, Claudette Fioré questions her own values and finds herself wondering if it's too late to change.

Saints in the Limelight

• Author : Siglind Bruhn
• Publisher : Pendragon Press
• File Size : 16,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2003
• Genre: Opera
• Pages : 668
• ISBN 10 : 1576470962

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Limulus in the Limelight

• Author : John T. Tanacredi
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• File Size : 15,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2007-05-08
• Genre: Science
• Pages : 175
• ISBN 10 : 9780306475900

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Limulus in the Limelight: A Species 350 Million Years in the Making and in Peril? contains 14 chapters covering the horseshoe crab's biology, ecology and evolutionary development. The book is a result of three mini-conferences held between 1996 and 2000 celebrating the populations in NY harbor. This book exposes the impacts of over fishing on this species; clarifies the future research agenda for the species worldwide and emphasizes the need for conservation of this fascinating creature's estuaries/ocean habitats. Biologists, ecologists, science educators, and conservationists will welcome this book because it is aimed at the preservation of Limulus, not only for its pharmacological interest but for the mystery related to its longevity. Limulus is a unique animal which has provided numerous uses for man over the years, from fertilizer to bait to medical research. However, if this species is not protected soon, it will be lost for the future.

Limelight

• Author : David Neth
• Publisher : DN Publishing
• File Size : 20,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2016-05-07
• Genre: Fiction
• Pages : 14
• ISBN 10 : 9780990517764

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For Jay Owens, being a celebrity was exactly what he wanted. Access to the clubs with the best parties. Devoted fans who would give anything for a picture with him. First-class travel around the world. But as the luster of his fame began to fade, he became desperate to find a way to retain his stardom. Jay was once again prime tabloid fodder when he married actress Heather Garrison, catapulting him back to the top of the charts. Wedded bliss wasn’t Jay’s plan, though. Publicity was. When his estranged wife delivers some unexpected news, Jay and Heather’s fragile charade threatens to crumble, putting his career at risk yet again.

Outside the Limelight

• Author : Kathy Orton
• Publisher : Rutgers University Press
• File Size : 16,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2009-09-11
• Genre: Sports & Recreation
• Pages : 232
• ISBN 10 : 9780813548364

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The Ivy League is a place where basketball is neither a pastime nor a profession. Instead, it is a true passion among players, coaches, and committed sports enthusiasts who share in its every success and setback. Outside the Limelight is the first book to look inside Ivy League basketball and at the boundless enthusiasm that defines it. With painstaking reportage, Kathy Orton vividly captures the internal fervor of the personalities who champion their gameùall the triumphs and disappointments of an Ivy hoop season. Scholarships for student athletes? None, and this is the only Division I conference that does not offer them. The TV spotlight? It barely shines, despite the passion, talent, and commitment of the players. Megadollar contracts from the NBA? Rarely does a player receive an offer. These age-old institutions are better known for turning out presidents, not point guards, and CEOs and captains of industry, not centers on the court. Orton weaves together the stories of coaches and players as they move from fall practice through an entire season and ahead to the NCAA tournament. From Harvard to Penn, Princeton to Cornell and beyond, playersùperhaps more accustomed to pomp and circumstanceùface leaky gyms, endure long bus rides, rigorous courseloads, and unbearable exam schedules. Why? Just to prove they can hang with the big boys despite juggling multiple non-athletic responsibilities? Maybe. But more importantly, for the sincere love of the game. Outside the Limelight provides frontcourt vision for college basketball fans everywhere to achieve an appreciation of this captivating conference and for diehard enthusiasts to gain greater insight into what brings Ivy League basketball to center circle.

Limelight

• Author : Katja Lee
• Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
• File Size : 13,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2020-02-20
• Genre: Biography & Autobiography
• Pages : null
• ISBN 10 : 9781771124317

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At the heart of fame is the tricky business of image management. Over the last 115 years, the celebrity autobiography has emerged as a popular and useful tool for that project. In Limelight, Katja Lee examines the memoirs of famous Canadian women like L. M. Montgomery, Nellie McClung, the Dionne Quintuplets, Margaret Trudeau, and Shania Twain to trace the rise of celebrity autobiography in Canada and the role gender has played in the rise to fame and in writing about that experience. Arguing that the celebrity autobiography is always negotiating historically specific conditions, Lee charts a history of celebrity in English Canada and the conditions that shape the way women access and experience fame. These contexts shed light on the stories women tell about their lives and the public images they cultivate in their autobiographies. As strategies of self-representation change and the pressure to represent the private life escalates, the celebrity autobiography undergoes distinct shifts—in form, function, and content—during the period examined in this study. Limelight: Canadian Women and the Rise of Celebrity Autobiography is the first book to explore the history and development of the celebrity autobiography and offers compelling evidence of the critical role of gender and nation in the way fame is experienced and represented.

Limelight

• Author : Jim Sells
• Publisher : eBook Partnership
• File Size : 20,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2014-06-16
• Genre: Juvenile Fiction
• Pages : 236
• ISBN 10 : 9781618564566

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H.W. GRADY is a tough, slightly sarcastic Private Investigator in Atlanta, GA. He served in the Army at 17 to avoid a one-year jail sentence. Those experiences straightened out any adolescent behavior.Grady went on to a college degree and began a promising career with the Atlanta Police Department. However, a falling out with a supervisor caused him to leave the force.Eventually he married the daughter of a rich man and took a job in corporate security. When they divorced, Grady became a PI.In Limelight, Grady has been hired by a promoter to find Beth Anne, a missing singer who has the talent to become a star. However, motives by the promoter and some shady business associate puts Grady and Beth Anne in danger. Grady needs all of his instincts and the help of Detective Thor to find the truth before it is too late for Beth Anne.

Sunlight and Limelight

• Author : Francis Henry Gribble
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 19,8 Mb
• Release Date : 1898
• Genre: Circus
• Pages : 360
• ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105019490155

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The Limelight

• Author : Bryan Wilson
• Publisher : Lulu Press, Inc
• File Size : 15,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2013-03-13
• Genre: Fiction
• Pages : null
• ISBN 10 : 9781257692262

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A musical play about a group of theater students at a performing arts high school. An excellent way to showcase students in a high school setting.

Chaplin s Limelight and the Music Hall Tradition

• Author : Frank Scheide
• Publisher : McFarland
• File Size : 16,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2006-09-28
• Genre: Performing Arts
• Pages : 229
• ISBN 10 : 9780786424252

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Charles Spencer Chaplin was a stage performer before he was a filmmaker, and it was in English music hall that he learned the rudiments of his art. The last film he made in the United States, Limelight, was a tribute to the music hall days of his youth. As a parallel to Chaplin's past, the film was set in 1914, the year he left the stage for a Hollywood career. This collection of essays examines Limelight and the history of English music hall. Featuring contributions from the world's top Chaplin and music hall historians, as well as previously unpublished interviews with collaborators who worked on Limelight, the book offers new insight into one of Chaplin's most important pictures and the British form of entertainment that inspired it. Essays consider how and why Chaplin made Limelight, other artists who came out of English music hall, and the film's international appeal, among other topics. The book is filled with rare photographs, many published for the first time, sourced from the Chaplin archives and the private collections of other performers and co-stars.

Limelight Rush in the 80s

• Author : Martin Popoff
• Publisher : ECW Press
• File Size : 14,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2020-10-13
• Genre: Music
• Pages : 375
• ISBN 10 : 9781773055855

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Part two of the definitive biography of the rock ’n’ roll kings of the North — covering Rush’s most iconic and popular albums, Moving Pictures and Power Windows Includes two full-color photo inserts, with 16 pages of the band on tour and in the studio In the follow-up to Anthem: Rush in the ’70s, Martin Popoff brings together canon analysis, cultural context, and extensive firsthand interviews to celebrate Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart at the peak of their persuasive power. Rush was one of the most celebrated hard rock acts of the ’80s, and the second book of Popoff’s staggeringly comprehensive three-part series takes readers from Permanent Waves to Presto, while bringing new insight to Moving Pictures, their crowning glory. Limelight: Rush in the ’80s is a celebration of fame, of the pushback against that fame, of fortunes made — and spent … In the latter half of the decade, as Rush adopts keyboard technology and gets pert and poppy, there’s an uproar amongst diehards, but the band finds a whole new crop of listeners. Limelight charts a dizzying period in the band’s career, built of explosive excitement but also exhaustion, a state that would lead, as the ’90s dawned, to the band questioning everything they previously believed, and each member eying the oncoming decade with trepidation and suspicion.

Love in the Limelight

• Author : Ann Christopher
• Publisher : Kimani Press
• File Size : 8,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2014-10-28
• Genre: Fiction
• Pages : 392
• ISBN 10 : 9780373091645

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"Four unstoppable women embark upon a quest in Hollywood to find fame, fortune and ultimately ? true love" --Amazon.com.