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Yoko’s life, independent of Lennon, was an amazing journey. Yoko spans from her birth to wealthy parents in pre-war Tokyo, her harrowing experience as a child during the war, her arrival in avant-garde art scene in London, Tokyo, and New York City. It delves into her groundbreaking art, music, feminism, and activism. We see how she coped under the most intense, relentless, and cynical microscope as she was falsely vilified for the most heinous cultural crime imaginable: breaking up the greatest rock-and-roll band in history.

He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper - with a 10-year-old son-who is hired to care for the professor. And every morning, as the professor and the housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them.

In 1972, Elliot Mintz installed a red light in his bedroom in Laurel Canyon. When it started flashing, it meant that either John Lennon or Yoko Ono—or sometimes both—were calling him. Which they did almost every day for nearly ten years, engaging Mintz in hours-long late-night phone conversations that all but consumed him for the better part of a decade. In We All Shine On, Mintz—a former radio and television host in Los Angeles—recounts the story of how their unlikely friendship began and where it led him over the years.

Drawing from Yoko’s personal letters, journals, films and videos and unpublished manuscripts, as well as access to her surviving family, closest friends, past collaborators and enemies, David Sheff covers the 90 years of Yoko’s rollercoaster life. Yoko is a harrowing, moving, propulsive and vastly entertaining biography of a woman whose story has never been accurately told. The book not only rehabilitates Yoko Ono’s reputation but elevates it to iconic status.

Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): "homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language."

On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses - until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards.

This lyrical biography explores the life and art of Yoko Ono, from her childhood haiku to her avant-garde visual art and experimental music. An outcast throughout most of her life, and misunderstood by every group she was supposed to belong to, Yoko always followed her own unique vision to create art that was ahead of its time and would later be celebrated. Her focus remained on being an artist, even when the rest of world saw her only as the wife of John Lennon. Yoko Ono's moving story will inspire any young adult who has ever felt like an outsider.

Jonathan Cott met John Lennon in 1968 and remained friends with him and Yoko Ono until John's death in 1980. He has kept in touch with Yoko since that time, and is one of the few writers who understands her profoundly positive influence on Lennon. This deeply personal book recounts the course of these friendships over the decades and provides an intimate look at two of the most astonishing cultural figures of our time. And what Jonathan Cott has to say will be found nowhere else.

Die faszinierende Geschichte einer Mörderin – hautnah und schonunglos erzählt Aichner von einer Frau, die selber nicht ahnt, wozu sie fähig ist. Yoko ist wie du und ich. Bis das Glück sie verlässt. Yoko ist Ende zwanzig, als sie die Metzgerei, die sie von ihrem Vater geerbt hat, in eine kleine Manufaktur umwandelt. Mit Hingabe verpackt sie fortan das Glück in Kekse, anstatt Schweinehälften zu zerlegen. Sie ist verliebt, ihr Leben ist erfüllt von Leichtigkeit, doch von einem Moment zum anderen zerbricht alles.

In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt’s family. Tomoko’s aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home—and handsome foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company—are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens and even an old zoo where the family’s pygmy hippopotamus resides.

An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. Desire meets with impulse and erupts, attracting the attention of the surgeon's neighbor - who is drawn to a decaying residence that is now home to instruments of human torture.

Old Bird had little to say other than to mention the upgrade specs, show all pertinent maps and plan her ship’s orbital insertion path, and the update itself, as Samus grudgingly expected, was a total downgrade. She lost much, leaving her with a bare-bones kit completely invisible to Mother Brain, who by then could survey her planet from crust to ionosphere and send out all form of countermeasure as an immune response to anything foreign. A tear squeezed from the corner of Samus’s eye as she realized just how trapped she was by her morality, her circumstances, and her suit. Going to ...

Inspired by Asimov, Burroughs and others, here is Mega Man in prose, for the generation that helped him dominate Wily in the '80s. This novel is rated T. Loosely based on Mega Man Megamix by Hitoshi Ariga. "And as if that were not enough, Proto's personality software failed a standard reverse-engineering profile administered by the Department of Psychorobotics at RIT. In short, the reports concluded that though he was "indistinguishable from the control in group and interpersonal affect simulation, unit DLN-000 [Proto Man] scored low in interviews intended to evaluate system conformity to ...

En sus exitosas conferencias, Yokoi Kenji Díaz transmite un poderoso mensaje de optimismo y de fe en el ser humano. Hijo de padre japonés y madre colombiana, sus vivencias en ambos países lo enfrentaron rápidamente con situaciones en las que el liderazgo, la motivación y el amor le sirvieron de tabla de salvación para ver con otros ojos el mundo.

El Viaje Ininterrumpido sigue a un viajero enigmático que recorre los paisajes ásperos de los desiertos de la Tierra, una figura solitaria que se mueve entre las sombras de dos mundos. Desde las arenas rojas interminables de Nuevo México hasta los confines lejanos del espacio, la historia abarca un universo moldeado por poderes ocultos, antiguas ambiciones y un choque entre lo conocido y lo desconocido. En una narrativa que mezcla intriga cósmica y exploración intemporal, esta épica de ciencia ficción invita a los lectores a viajar junto a un visitante de más allá de las estrellas...

Después de casarse con su amor de infancia, Riko se encuentra atrapada en una relación amargada por la infidelidad. Un día, por casualidad, se encuentra con un viejo amigo, el señor Takaoka, que le ofrece amistad, amor y una extraña evasión: vivir una vida paralela en sus sueños. Así, cada noche vive otra vida: primero, como una cortesana de alto rango del siglo XVII, y, después, como la sirvienta de una princesa en la Edad Media tardía.

SHELVED explores the history and drama behind albums that were deemed too controversial, too far from the beaten path, or too ahead of their time for public consumption. Through interviews with musicians, producers, record executives, and journalists, as well as archival audio, key music and personal storytelling, each episode examines the “shelved” album’s place in musical history, and the spectacles behind each missed or nearly missed release.

Hat, ribbon, bird rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed. When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by the Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him. For some reason, he doesn't forget, and it's becoming increasingly difficult for him to hide his memories. Who knows what will vanish next?

An in-depth look at Yoko Ono the person with insights from author Madeline Bocero ("In Your Mind: The Infinite Universe of Yoko Ono") plus a revealing interview with Yoko Ono herself done in October, 1987, in which she talks candidly about meeting John Lennon, the Beatles' breakup (and chances of a reunion), making the "Double Fantasy" album and the plans John and Yoko had made after "Double Fantasy" which didn't happen. We'll also review the movie "Midas Man." Please subscribe to us and give us a (hopefully) good review. We also love hearing your thoughts at beatlesnewsbriefs@gmail.com. ...

From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico in a region where “my ancestors lived for centuries,” the places Sandra Cisneros has lived have provided inspiration for her now-classic works of fiction and poetry. But a house of her own, where she could truly take root, has eluded her. With this collection—spanning three decades, and including never-before-published work—Cisneros has come home at last.