![]() ![]() Author by: Mikey Walsh Language: en Publisher by: Hachette UK Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 74 Total Download: 120 File Size: 49,9 Mb Description: Mikey was born into a Romany Gypsy family. They live in a closeted community, and little is known about their way of life. After centuries of persecution Gypsies are wary of outsiders and if you choose to leave you can never come back. This is something Mikey knows only too well. Growing up, he didn’t go to school, he seldom mixed with non-Gypsies and the caravan became his world. It was a rich and unusual upbringing and Mikey grew up surrounded by a memorable cast of eccentrics, including his three-foot tall grandmother- a fierce matriarch who didn’t let her diminutive stature get in her way, and his flame-haired mother with a penchant for Dynasty, Angel Delight and electric blue mascara. But although Mikey inherited a vibrant and loyal culture his family’s legacy was bittersweet with a hidden history of violence and grief. Eventually Mikey was forced to make an agonising decision – to stay and keep secrets, or escape and find somewhere to belong. Author by: Mikey Walsh Language: en Publisher by: Hachette UK Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 88 Total Download: 497 File Size: 42,9 Mb Description: This is the incredible story of a boy who escaped from a secret world. Mikey is a Romany Gypsy and grew up living in a caravan on sites across the UK. He adored his family and the rich and vibrant Romany culture he'd inherited. Eventually though he was forced to make a heartbreaking decision - to stay and keep secrets, or escape and find somewhere to finally belong. But Mikey quickly discovers that life in the outside world isn't all he expected. After learning his father had put a contract out on him and that he was being hunted down by gangs of thugs determined to claim their reward, Mikey realises that life will never be the same again. Brimming with unforgettable characters, this extraordinary coming-of-age story will remind you that sometimes it takes courage (and the odd Disney song) to be the person you were meant to be. Author by: Brina Brady Language: en Publisher by: Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 34 Total Download: 983 File Size: 48,8 Mb Description: Twenty-year-old Daniel Serban loses his dancing job and threats of being outed to his family force him to flee Limerick, Ireland. Daniel fears his father and the other gypsy men will force him to marry his betrothed, or bring bodily harm to him for being gay. As chance would have it, he ends up in Cleary's Pub, a gay leather bar in Galway where he meets the grouchy, ginger-bear Ronan O'Riley. Daniel had no idea how much meeting the Dom would transform his life. Ronan O'Riley has been unable to move on since the death of his sub a year ago, that is until a troubled gypsy boy steps into Cleary's. Gypsy Boy on the Run. By Mikey Walsh. Thanks for Sharing! You submitted the following rating and review. We'll publish them on our site once we've reviewed them. Gypsy Boy: My Life in the Secret World of the Romany Gypsies eBook: Mikey Walsh: Amazon.com.au: Kindle Store. Gypsy Boy on the Run eBook: Mikey Walsh. To get the free app. It is best if one reads 'Gypsy Boy' by the same author first but if you do then the first. The International BestsellerMikey Walsh didn't know what life was like beyond his Gypsy community. But after fleeing home at age fifteen, he had no choice bu. FMKJSZE2IRJN ^ eBook ~ Gypsy Boy on the Run: My Escape from a Life Among the. Gypsy Boy on the Run: My Escape from a Life Among the Romany Gypsies. ![]() Ronan's lonely existence is about to change. Can Ronan convince Daniel to trust him or will Daniel's fears of his past ruin any chance of a relationship? Unexpected heated attraction in the barn ignites their relationship to move forward. Though the two men have many of the same dreams, Daniel's secrets and Ronan's need to gain Daniel's trust are just a few of the many challenges they must overcome if they are to be together. ![]() Author by: Sam Skye Lee Language: en Publisher by: Random House Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 73 Total Download: 701 File Size: 49,5 Mb Description: 'I felt like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and all the other fairy-tale princesses, and Pat was my Prince Charming.' Sam Skye Lee had often thought about getting married, but never imagined that her dress would be bright pink with flashing lights and weigh a staggering 20-stone. But then she didn't count on having a gypsy wedding. It's rare for a 'gorger', or non-traveller, to marry into the gypsy community. But after a shocking childhood tragedy, Sam found the comfort she needed from an unxpected source - Patrick and his family of travellers. Gypsy Bride is the heartwarming true story of how an ordinary girl finds herself discovering an extraordinary world. A place where 'grabbing' is a sign a boy fancies you, six-year-olds get spray tans, and christenings, weddings and funerals are jaw-droppingly flamboyant. This love story is more than boy meets girl. It's about a girl who falls in love with a whole race of people and their wonderful ways. Author by: David Palladino Language: en Publisher by: Dorrance Publishing Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 59 Total Download: 940 File Size: 40,9 Mb Description: During the Cold War the world revolved around the conflict between the theologies of communism and democracy. The two main protagonists in this conflict were the United States in the West and the Soviet Union in the East. During the Second World War, British and American political leaders kept an uncomfortable eye on their eastern ally, the Soviet Union. It hadn’t taken long after the conflict for the shaky alliance to fall apart and the Cold War began. During the late 1940s, the West formed a system of alliances designed to prevent any perceived threat to their power structure. By 1959 the battle lines of the Cold War had been drawn. As the Soviet Union watched, the United States suffered a substantial defeat with the fall of Indochina to communists in 1975. By the late 1970s it seemed that the United States was losing the Cold War. As Eastern Bloc leaders began to tighten restrictions in the lives of their people, commensurate with their increase in power, there began to emerge, in the East, a group of young people, hard and idealistic, adventurous and courageous. These would become the heroes of the movement of their time. These were the brave young souls who, with inspiration from the new American president, inflicted the first substantial cracks in the wall commonly known as the Iron Curtain. This is the story of one of those brave young spirits. This is the story of Adriana Corderu. Author by: Yaron Matras Language: en Publisher by: Edinburgh University Press Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 81 Total Download: 486 File Size: 54,9 Mb Description: Romani is one of Britain's oldest and most established minority languages. Brought to the country by Romani immigrants from continental Europe in the sixteenth century or even earlier, it was spoken in its old, inflected form as a family and community language until the second half of the nineteenth century, when it yielded to English. But even after its decline as the everyday language of English and Welsh Gypsies, Romani continues to survive in the form of a vocabulary that is used to express an 'emotive mode' of communication among group members. This book examines British Romani in its historical context and in its present-day form, drawing on recordings and interviews with speakers. It documents the Romani vocabulary and its usage patterns in conversation, offering insight into the processes of language death and language revitalization. The volume includes an extensive lexicon of Angloromani as a helpful reference. Author by: Josh McMullen Language: en Publisher by: Oxford University Press Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 46 Total Download: 651 File Size: 42,6 Mb Description: Under the Big Top examines the immensely popular big tent revivals of turn-of-the-twentieth-century America and develops a new framework for understanding Protestantism in this transformative period of the nation's history. Contemporary critics of the revivalists often depicted them as anxious and outdated religious opponents of a modern, urban nation. Early historical accounts likewise portrayed tent revivalists as Victorian hold-outs, bent on re-establishing nineteenth-century values and religion in a new America. In this revisionist work, Josh McMullen argues that, contrary to these stereotypes, big tent revivalists actually participated in the shift away from Victorianism and helped in the construction of a new consumer culture in the United States. How did the United States became the most consumer-driven and yet one of the most religious societies in the western world? McMullen shows that revivalists and their audiences reconciled the Protestant ethic of salvation with the emerging consumer ethos by cautiously unlinking Christianity from Victorianism and joining it to the new, emerging consumer culture. Under the Big Top helps to explain the continued appeal of both the therapeutic and the salvific worldview to many Americans as well as the ambivalence that accompanies this combination. Author by: Michael Dregni Language: en Publisher by: Oxford University Press Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 61 Total Download: 736 File Size: 44,7 Mb Description: Of all the styles of jazz to emerge in the twentieth century, none is more passionate, more exhilaratingly up-tempo, or more steeped in an outsider tradition than Gypsy Jazz. And there is no one more qualified to write about Gypsy Jazz than Michael Dregni, author of the acclaimed biography, Django. A vagabond music, Gypsy Jazz is played today in French Gypsy bars, Romany encampments, on religious pilgrimages--and increasingly on the world's greatest concert stages. Yet its story has never been told, in part because much of its history is undocumented, either in written form or often even in recorded music. Beginning with Django Reinhardt, whose dazzling Gypsy Jazz became the toast of 1930s Paris in the heady days of Josephine Baker, Picasso, and Hemingway, Dregni follows the music as it courses through caravans on the edge of Paris, where today's young French Gypsies learn Gypsy Jazz as a rite of passage, along the Gypsy pilgrimage route to Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer where the Romany play around their campfires, and finally to the new era of international Gypsy stars such as Bireli Lagrene, Boulou Ferre, Dorado Schmitt, and Django's own grandchildren, David Reinhardt and Dallas Baumgartner. Interspersed with Dregni's vivid narrative are the words of the musicians themselves, many of whom have never been interviewed for the American press before, as they describe what the music means to them. Gypsy Jazz also includes a chapter devoted entirely to American Gypsy musicians who remain largely unknown outside their hidden community. Blending travelogue, detective story, and personal narrative, Gypsy Jazz is music history at its best, capturing the history and culture of this elusive music--and the soul that makes it swing.
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