Fleeing his dead-end life in Albany to seek fame and fortune in Brooklyn, recent college graduate and aspiring rock star Gary Benchley chronicles his adventures and misadventures in the big city, including his efforts to find a roommate, a girlfriend, and a band to join. A first novel. Original.

Gary Benchley, Rock Star

Literature & Fiction

Ford, Paul

Humor & Satire

Plume

Lord Knows, At Least I Was There: Working with Stephen Sondheim

When the Atlanta-born Paul Ford first fell in love with the American musical theatre at the age of five, after seeing the movie version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific, he never imagined that his future skills as a "piano thumper" would lead him to a career on Broadway playing rehearsals or in the "pit" for such classic Stephen Sondheim musicals as Sunday in the Park with George, Follies in Concert, Into the Woods, Assassins (both off-Broadway and the Broadway revival), Passion, the 2005 production of Pacific Overtures, Wiseguys, Stephen Sondheim at Carnegie Hall, and numerous concerts, birthday tributes, and television spectaculars. In two of his Tony award acceptance speeches, Sondheim publicly declared Paul Ford the "indefatigable master of the musical theatre" and "the world's most tireless rehearsal pianist and a walking memory bank of every song that has ever been written for any musical on any continent."\nFor more than 25 years, Paul Ford was also Mandy Patinkin's exclusive accompanist and musical collaborator on a series of recordings and live concerts that took the duo from Broadway to London to Australia and beyond. Patinkin offers a heartfelt tribute to his former associate in the book's Foreword.\nNow retired, the candid (and admittedly opinionated) author looks back on the performances and personalities that defined the American musical theatre in the waning years of the Twentieth Century. Patti LuPone, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Donna Murphy, Elaine Stritch, Victor Garber, Bob Fosse, Gwen Verdon, Stockard Channing, Donna McKechnie, Lauren Bacall, Chita Rivera, Liza Minnelli, Martin Charnin, Liv Ullman, Teresa Stratas, Charles Strouse, Harve Presnell, Nancy Walker, James Lapine, Madonna, Mario Cantone, Warren Beatty, Julie Harris, Michael Cerveris, Debra Monk, Leonard Bernstein and, of course, Stephen Sondheim, are just a few of the legendary Broadway and Hollywood performers and creators who are lovingly (and sometimes not so lovingly) recalled in Paul Ford's honest and vivid account of his life and work both on and off-Broadway. He also provides a portrait of his conflicted childhood in Atlanta, Georgia as a "sissy piano player," followed by a self-destructive period of alcoholism. Miraculously, a haunting encounter in a Hell's Kitchen saloon in May of 1995 with the leading lady of one of his favorite childhood movies, gave Ford the incentive to clean up his life.

Humor & Entertainment

Moreclacke Publishing

Paul Ford recalls his decades long professional relationship with Broadway’s masterful songwriter Stephen Sondheim, who has publicly declared Ford the “indefatigable master of the musical theatre” and “the world’s most tireless rehearsal pianist and a walking memory bank of every song that has ever been written for any musical on any continent.” Ford worked on the original productions of Sunday in the Park with George, Follies in Concert, Into the Woods, Assassins (both off-Broadway and the Broadway revival), Passion, Wiseguys, Stephen Sondheim at Carnegie Hall, and numerous concerts, birthday tributes, and television spectaculars. For more than a quarter of a century, Paul Ford was also Mandy Patinkin’s exclusive accompanist and musical collaborator on a series of recordings and live concerts that took the duo from Broadway to London to Australia and beyond. Ford also provides a vivid portrait of a conflicted childhood in Atlanta, Georgia as a “sissy piano player,” followed by a self-destructive period of alcoholism. Miraculously, a haunting encounter in a Hell’s Kitchen saloon in May of 1995 with the leading lady of one of his favorite childhood movies, gave Ford the incentive to clean up his life.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Tracking your scores in one book is a great way for recording your scores during playing Spades Game Nights and Tournaments. The book will help you easily organize your scores in each matches and keep all of them together, so you can see details of the last games and start new games with more fun. Specifications: <ul> <li>Layout: blank Spades score sheet</li> <li>Size: 6 x 9 inches</li> <li>Page count: 100 pages</li> <li>Paper color: White</li> <li>Paperback cover: Matte</li> </ul>

Spades Scorebook: 100 Spades Score Sheets

Puzzles & Games

Independently published

Buster: The Farm Dog

Children's Books

Animals

Liferich

beloved waters is about the unforgettable where fantasy is transformed by magic to reality. It is of tidal water and rivers, fish and fishers. You will wade a small tidal flow in foggy silence where chinook and coho of incredible strength come to the fly. You will see a lithe, silver ballerina dance white-capped Stilliaguamish riffle water, and ferocious Dean River steelhead destroy a fisher's bragged-on new fly reel. You will smile as an angler on Isla Holbox off the Yucatan hooks a giant tarpon without so much as a cast. You will encounter the charge of a giant trevally and hear the guide intone, "Better he take bonefish than come eat us." And always within beloved waters, as with life itself, you will be touched by the uncertainty of certainty.

Beloved Waters: For Steelhead and Salmon, Bonefish and Tarpon

Sports & Outdoors

Hunting & Fishing

Frank Amato Pubns

Here is an in-depth guide on the management of patients with COPD. It examines the impact of COPD on a patient as well as how healthcare professionals can intervene and educate the patient at an early stage and thereby slow the onset of severe symptoms.

Managing COPD

Health, Fitness & Dieting

RUSSELL, Richard

Barnes, Peter

Addiction & Recovery

Springer Healthcare

Cormac McCarthy: A Descriptive Bibliography

Pastore, Stephen R.

Literary

Grand Mal Press

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