Acclaimed writer Charles Shaar Murray's Boogie Man is the authorized and authoritative biography of an extraordinary musician. Murray was given unparalleled access to Hooker, and he lets the man from Clarksdale, Mississippi, tell his own story. "Everything you read on album covers is not true, and every album reads different," he told Murray. Murray helps Hooker set the record straight, disentangling the myths and legends from truths so rock-ribbed that we understand, as if for the first time, why they have provided the source for a lifetime of unforgettable sound. Murray weaves together Hooker's life and music to reveal their indissoluble bonds. Yet Boogie Man is far more than merely an accomplished and brilliant biography of one man; it gives an account of an entire art form. Grounded in a time and place in American culture, the blues are universal, and in the hands of the greatest practitioners its power resides in the miracle of using despair to transcend it. "The preacher's mantle," Murray tells us, "passes to the bluesman." This bluesman traveled a hard road out of the American South, from obscurity to adulation and back-and back again. John Lee Hooker has seen it all and sung it all, and his music is both a living legacy and an American treasure. Here is the book that does him and his music full justice.

"How to keep your children safe in a 24-7 always connected digital society"--Cover.

"In the summer of 1988, the mutilated bodies of several missing girls begin to turn up in a small Maryland town. The grisly evidence leads police to the terrifying assumption that a serial killer is on the loose in the quiet suburb. But soon a rumor begins to spread that the evil stalking local teens is not entirely human. Law enforcement, as well as members of the FBI are certain that the killer is a living, breathing madman--and he's playing games with them. For a once peaceful community trapped in the depths of paranoia and suspicion, it feels like a nightmare that will never end"--

This is a story of a make believe creature to capture the attention of a young audience. The story is made to be full of suspense to keep them reading and their imagination open. This book is fun for all ages to enjoy a great scare. Should you dare to read, the Boogieman might just get you.

Based on some of the best-loved VeggieTales videos, this clever collection of bedtime fun shares important, reassuring lessons that every child should know. Filled with fun, colorful, engaging art that all children will love, God is Bigger Than the Boogie Man teaches kids about trust, thankfulness, truth, courage, selflessness, and more. What better way for a child to end the day than with a prayer and a VeggieTales’ bedtime story?

A quick-read bedtime storybook. A young girl finds the courage to face her fears, and comes up with a plan to scare the Boogie Man! Includes a child's bedtime prayer.

Klepsch's poems are wild, experiential, but stick with the themes that wriggle and writhe through all the chambers of the human heart -- loss, God, fear, death -- on their way to slamming against the good, the bad and the stupid of technology and modernity in forms that will keep you delighted for the whole ride.Gratitude, gut gratitude. Poet Nancy Klepsch knows it because grief still scrapes the/ soft palate [her] mouth / sews raw skin onto [her] teeth. From injury arises a poetic voice full of zing and verve. Klepsch's rants are a rush of full generosity: I am stir-frying joy / How much pleasure can a mouth/ bring to someone ordinary as a dinner. Her humor pokes fun at personal pronouns and big data: I am still incomplete a recovery agent's small scale discovery that this machine my poor body is a prototype a meme more beautiful and alive than I ever was. But her gut is just. Her blues damn racial violence; her musicality offers an equality: all of us can stretch arc / kowtow to the catechism / of this river-scape / bob in its tidal / name waves / call the clouds cousin / round light snatch sunset. In a Collar City within the Rust Belt of this Queer Nation, Klepsch creates bright glimpses of how We fight for everyone. Experimental page-poets and spoken word bards will agree: god must be a boogie man is an invigorating read that demands a stage. -- Lori Anderson MosemanRead these poems when you're hungry, starving, famished - Nancy Klepsch's kitchen is always warm and noisy, always full of fresh basil, pita, sweet potatoes, and spices. Read these poems when you think all might be lost, or you might be going crazy - these poems are full of tender rage and wild sanity. Shaman, musician, passionate warrior, a brave hard mount/in a hard brave world, the voice in this collection of poems will not be contained, speaks in chants and charts and recipes, documents the history of her city and our times, and the depth and urgency of these revelations, their s