Rejoice in hope, endure in affliction, persevere in prayer. --Romans 12:12 Consider it pure joy...whenever you face trials (James 1:2). Really? Now that's some strange advice and biblical babble, so it would seem. But as it were, the adversity becomes a seed when nurtured with perseverance in a womb fertile for birthing a harvest greater than the seed itself. A Song Is Born describes how persisting in prayer and listening to, reading, and doing the Word throughout the trials of life challenged faith to persevere. Read this book to learn how a seed of trials produced music like no other. Here, you can learn the story behind the music, read the lyrics, and, yes, even listen to the music. Get those questions answered about which came first, the music or the lyrics. Satisfy that curiosity as to how the composer thought of that song and developed such a repertoire. Appease any inquisitions about what was going on in the singer-songwriter's head or life that caused a particular lyric to be penned or sang. It's allegorical to a woman giving birth and forgetting all about the suffering endured once the child is born, as described in John 16:21. This book is about how a song was conceived and born from the womb of its author's soul. A song is born. What a beautiful baby!

Gottfried's capably researched and recounted biography offers a none too flattering glimpse into Kaye's well-guarded personal life, including his egotism, cruelty, his strained marriage and his flirtations and affairs. His career is treated in detail, from his obvious early talent to the creation of his acting personae and his sad professional and personal decline before his death in 1987. Lacks a bibliography. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A portrait of the renowned film director based on seven years of interviews: “I am very happy that this book exists.” —François Truffaut Howard Hawks is often credited as the most versatile of the great American directors, having worked with equal ease in screwball comedies, westerns, gangster movies, musicals, and adventure films. He directed an impressive number of Hollywood’s greatest stars—including Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Rosalind Russell, and Marilyn Monroe—and some of his most celebrated films include Scarface, Bringing Up Baby, The Big Sleep, Red River, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Rio Bravo. Hawks on Hawks draws on interviews that author Joseph McBride conducted with the director over the course of seven years, giving rare insight into Hawks’s artistic philosophy, his relationships with the stars, and his position in an industry that was rapidly changing. In its new edition, this classic book is both an account of the film legend’s life and work and a guidebook on how to make movies. “There are going to be many biographies of Howard Hawks, but they will all lean heavily on this book; the pioneer so honestly reveals himself and the people with whom he worked.” —Los Angeles Times

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