The Jazz State of Indiana, in its play on words, is truly a story of one state's experience in the development of jazz and dance music. It is, as it turned out, a book that readers across the world have read and accepted as history that might have occurred in the greater midwestern United States.

Looks at the history of rock music, its different styles, and its impact on a generation.

"Does your soul life in song when you hear the first few bars of a favorite hymn? Robert Morgan's lifelong interest in hymns led him to discover the richness of the stories behind many of the best-loved hymns. Many of the stories also reflect the impact hymns have had on ordinary people as they read, heard, and sang the great hymns of faith. One of the author's goals in writing these stories is to help people reacquaint themselves with these wonderful,...

Enslaved African Americans longed for freedom, and that longing took many forms including music. Drawing on biblical imagery, slave songs both expressed the sorrow of life in bondage and offered a rallying cry for the spirit. Like a Bird brings together text, music, and illustrations by Coretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator Michele Wood to convey the rich meaning behind thirteen of these powerful songs.

"A biography of the Beatles, the world's most famous rock band"--Provided by publisher.

The renowned British novelist’s “casual and wittily acute guidance” on reading—and writing—great fiction (Harper’s Magazine).
 
Renowned for such classics as A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India, E. M. Forster was one of Britain’s—and the world’s—most distinguished fiction writers, a frequent nominee for the Nobel...

From his unique perspective as the great, great grandnephew of "America the Beautiful" writer Katharine Lee Bates, Chris Gall transforms this beloved patriotic song into monumental works of art--from purple mountain majesties to gleaming alabaster cities. Honoring his ancestry and national pride, Gall pairs the beautiful lyrics with striking illustrations of notable American images such as Pike's Peak, the Tuskegee Airmen, and firefighters raising...

Presents an examination of the prayer of Jabez and discusses the changes that occurred in the author's his life after he decided to follow Jabez's example and ask God to bless him.