Bøker av Sarah Taylor

A woman finds comfort in Yoko Ono's 1964 series of instructions, Grapefruit, after being confronted with her estranged mother's imminent death. This heavy, difficult to read, impossible to look away story is written with the frame of 100 letters addressed to Ono. As a whole, the project turns itself into an emotional spiral that sticks to the skin. Its language is poetically manipulated to both soothe and overstimulate the more hungry parts of our intellect.

This collection of short stories, poetry, and genre-bending content was written with the intention to make you both turn a page as quickly as you can while forcing you to stop everything you were doing. The poems are sexy. The stories are hopeful, or sad. The language is lyrical, feminine, and kind to our more curious self. This book is not meant for those who want plot that builds comprehensively, but instead it's a treat for those wanting to become emotionally entangled while still in body.

This is a collection of stories told by members of the Taylor, Meadors, Mulhall, and Osborne families about their parents, grandparents, and adventures growing up.

In 1851, Stephen C. Foster purchased a blank notebook, in which he wrote original manuscripts for both famous songs such as "My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!" and "Old Folks at Home," as well as lesser-known songs such as "The Little Ballad Girl," "Ellen Bayne," and "Jenny's Coming O'er the Green." Never published in its entirety, this first edition of Stephen C. Foster's manuscript book preserves his original notes and marginalia while offering valuable insights into the creative process of America's first professional composer.

"This is an interesting biography of the great songwriter Stephen Foster...The reader will learn much about Foster's life, family, and times in which he was living. Through stories from his Uncle Struthers, we learn about the Revolutionary War and the songs that were played then. During Stephen's life, we learn about the prohibition, and the unrest leading up to and after the beginning of the Civil War. We watch as Stephen, rejected by West Point, goes instead to Cincinnati to begin his dreams of publishing music." - Reedsy"Before I read this book, I was of the opinion that biographies are often boring. Well, I have tried some before but quit them midway. But let me tell you, Beautiful Dreamer is unlike them all!It deals with strong themes, which are sure to string up deep emotions in the reader." - Book And BrookQuiet and dreamy-eyed, Stephen Foster wants nothing more than to be a musician in a world where boys are supposed to grow up and go into business, like the family hero, his older brother William. Even though he can play the flute perfectly from the age of six, his family's expectations of a traditional profession drive him to Cincinnati, where he works at his older brother Dunning's warehouse. While in Cincinnati, he publishes his first great hit at the age of twenty-one, "Oh! Susanna." With Firth, Pond and Company, the best New York publisher, to sell his songs and E.P. Christy, among the greatest of minstrel performers, to sing them, Stephen is sure he can make songwriting his business. He turns out hits like "Old Folks at Home" and "My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night," songs that Frederick Douglass said "awaken the sympathies for the slave," as if his life depends on it. With the Civil War approaching and personal tragedies striking, it does.

Written with painful honesty, For the Love of Nadia is an inspirational tale of unparalleled spirit nd the fierce courage of a devoted mohter, whose love for her daughter knowns no bounds.