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English
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"A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered on a disused railway line near his home. He has 5,000 euros in his pocket, yet in the four years since his dismissal has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence. There are many suspects, mostly at the college where he used to teach, but Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, much to the chagrin of his boss, soon becomes fixated on Lady Veronica Chalmers, who appears to have links with...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A vinyl collector, journalist, and music buff examines the tinkering, experimentation, and technological developments that allowed humans to both record and reproduce sound, from the earliest attempts in the 1850s to the present day resurgence of vinyl records.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"The Art of Digital Audio Recording teaches readers what they really need to know in order to make great sound recordings with computers - both the practical and the technical information."--from publisher description.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
You’ve heard it said – in video and film, AUDIO is 70% of what you see! Through detailed explanation, hands-on demonstration, and tongue-in-cheek cinematic illustrations, Emmy-award winning producer Barry Green (creator of the HVX BootCamp series) and professional sound man Matt Gettemeier (History Channel's Modern Marvels) guide you through the fundamentals for getting great sound in your film or television project, from the bedrock of sound...
6) Summerlong
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Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"It is a dark and stormy Puget Sound winter--until the arrival of Lioness Lazos. Even the weather takes notice when Lioness appears, as if out of nowhere, waiting tables in a diner. As though compelled, a complicated family brings the young woman into their lives. Energetic Joanna, academic Abe, and lovelorn Lily each fall under Lioness's spell, and she in turn awakens their long-hidden dreams and desires. As an impossibly beautiful spring leads into...
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Series
Amgash novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she confesses, has always been a mystery to me. Another mystery is why the two have remained connected after all these years. They just are. So Lucy is both surprised and not surprised when William asks her to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secret--one of those secrets that rearrange everything we think we know about the people...
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Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Oliver is a sea otter determined to prove that he's not a momma otter's boy. In an effort to show his bravery, he swims into Puget Sound where all the ships and humans are. That's when disaster strikes: An oil spill threatens the local wildlife and it traps Oliver in the harbor! Franklin, an excitable dachshund puppy, is also lost. He's been separated from his owner, Lucy, and he has no idea how to get back to her. Now Oliver and Franklin must journey...
10) My sound parade
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Language
English
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"All the Sound Box characters join together for a parade that features the letters of the alphabet."--
12) Light and sound
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Series
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Presents an introduction to light and sound, discussing their identifying characteristics, color, darkness, shadows, electricity, sound waves, and human hearing.
13) The stone angel
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Language
English
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While trying to escape with her family from the Nazis, a young Jewish French girl feels protected by angels.
14) White tears
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
White Tears is a ghost story, a terrifying murder mystery, a timely meditation on race, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music and Delta Mississippi Blues.
"An incisive meditation on race, privilege and music. Spanning decades, this novel brings alive the history of old-time blues and America’s racial conscience."—Rabeea Saleem, Chicago Review of Books
Two...
"An incisive meditation on race, privilege and music. Spanning decades, this novel brings alive the history of old-time blues and America’s racial conscience."—Rabeea Saleem, Chicago Review of Books
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"In 1971, a property speculator named Harley Mann begins recording his life story onto a reel-to-reel machine. Reflecting on his childhood in the early 20th century, Harley recounts that after his father's sudden death, his family migrated down to Florida-mere miles away from what would become Disney World-to join a community of Shakers. Led by Elder John, a generous man with a mysterious past, the colony devoted itself to labor, faith, and charity,...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This enhanced e-book includes 49 of the greatest songs Ralph Peer was involved with, from groundbreaking numbers that changed the history of recorded music to revelatory obscurities, all linked to the text so that the reader can hear the music while reading about it. This is the first biography of Ralph Peer, the adventurous-even revolutionary-A&R man and music publisher who saw the universal power locked in regional roots music and tapped it, changing...
17) My "u" sound box
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Language
English
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Description
"Little u has an adventure with items beginning with her letter's sound, such as umbrellas, an ugly duckling, and her uncle the umpire."--Provided by publisher.
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Language
English
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Description
"One of the most powerful forces in the universe is hope--the happy and confident anticipation that something good is going to happen. Regardless of where one is in life, it is impossible to live successfully and to the fullest without hope. With [this book], Joyce will help readers achieve a lasting sense of hope, built on their faith in God"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Girl Friday Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1978, Seattle writer Janet Yoder took a Lushootseed class at the University of Washington. She was expecting to learn a little about this Salish language, and while Yoder did begin her Lushootseed lessons, what followed was lifelong learning and lots of adventures with Skagit tribal elder Vi Hilbert. Drawn from thirty years of friendship and interviews, Where the Language Lives is a tribute to Vi Hilbert's life, work, and her quest to preserve...
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