New Releases by Jill Parker

IS BILLIE EILISH OVERRATED? If we're looking at how a singer is rated, I think we ought to see how good Billie is at making music that connects to her intended audience. I'm personally not a Billie fan, but I'm in my early 50s. Pop music isn't meant for people as old as me. That doesn't mean I'm not allowed to like it, but it does mean my personal opinion of Billie is unimportant compared to my adolescent niece's opinion of Billie. Based on my niece's enthusiasm for Billie, it seems like she's very good at making pop songs younger people enjoy. There are people judging Billie based on her technical ability. To them, the perceived difficulty of singing a Billie song is a mark against her. Frankly, I think that's a piss-poor way to evaluate music. Billie isn't trying and failing to show off her chops the way a singer like Mariah Carey would. Whether or not Billie is as technically able as Carey is irrelevant. Billie's songs are easy enough to play that fans can and will cover them. Here's a 19-minute compilation of Billie's fans covering her songs while Billie herself reacts to the covers. Billie herself is wise enough to appreciate that fans want to cover her songs. The fact that so many people want to cover Billie's songs suggests that she and her brother Finneas are a great songwriting team. This amazing book contains all you need to know about your favorite American Singer/songwriter....Above all, Lessons from her personality

"Billie stood still as Ocean Eyes played on the FM radio in the vegan ice cream shop called Paradis. It was a funny spelling for the real thing because, at that moment, while Billie didn't know what to do, she knew how she felt. She felt like she was in paradise. She planted her feet and looked at the tall man behind the counter, Ernie, her vegan ice cream jockey. Her vocal cords felt frozen.Ernie knew Billie and he knew what she was thinking. "They've been playing it all day. People are calling in to the station. It's a mindblower, Billie. You are." She couldn't talk. She glanced at Finneas, who leaned on the counter and listened calmly. Mom listened. Dad listened. And then came a scream of joy. Hers.Jill Parker is a native of Los Angeles with a lifelong passion for movies, music, books, and cats. She won international praise for Tay: The Taylor Swift Story.

River and streams in the lower Susitna River basin were surveyed by plane to obtain information on nesting bald eagles in response to proposed timber leasing in those areas. The survey included the Susitna River and some of its tributaries as well as neighboring rivers outside that drainage basin: Chuitna River, Beluga River, Little Susitna River. Sighted locations are matched to those of surveys made 1980 to 1983.