This is where it all started! The first classic Phryne Fisher mystery, featuring our delectable heroine, cocaine, communism and adventure. Phryne leaves the tedium of English high society for Melbourne, Australia, and never looks back. The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, but the Honorable Phryne Fisher.
Editor/writer/musician Slattery's chaotic debut takes readers on a headlong trip to the end of the world. Manuel González, a legendary New York City party animal, has disappeared and his apartment has exploded, leaving behind only the memories of his thousands of friends and enemies. His lover, Wendell Apogee, is determined to find out what happened. So are police inspectors Herman Trout and Lenny Salmon, who uncover a web of bizarre characters, from Lucas Henderson, former Lunar Temple cult member, and Arturo El Flaco Domínguez, González's worst enemy....
Gwendolyn Brooks: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide (Bloom's Major Poets)
Gwendolyn Brooks lived a long, distinguished life marked by her continuous devotion to writing the poetry of her people. Later in life she became a poet of social protest, joining in the principal currents of African-American poetry in the last third of the 20th century. Studied works include "The Mother," "The Bean Eaters," "We Real Cool," "Riot," "Queen of the Blues," and "Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat."
The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music'The Camb. Companion to Blues and Gospel Music will find its place in serious collections of a musical nature.' Reference Reviews '... stimulating and informative book ...'. British Journal of Music Education
"...an important addition to literature devoted to the discussion of the blues." Notes
"... [part of] new essentials for public, academic, and musical libraries, and they would enhance high school libraries as well." Against the Grain
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Ray Charles - America The Beautiful
Videoclip from the movie "Piano blues" directed by Clint Eastwood as the seventh installment of the documentary film series "The Blues" produced by Martin Scorsese.
