Sunset Swing

Author : Ray Celestin
Publisher : Pan Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781509838981
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sunset Swing written by Ray Celestin and published by Pan Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following The Mobster's Lament, this is the fourth and final book in Ray Celestin's critically acclaimed City Blues quartet.

Author : Ray Celestin
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509838996
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sunset Swing written by Ray Celestin and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Here ends one of the finest achievements of recent crime fiction' - Sunday Telegraph 'Outstanding' - The Times *Winner of the 2022 CWA Historical Dagger and Gold Dagger* Los Angeles. Christmas, 1967. A devil is loose in the City of Angels . . . A young nurse, Kerry Gaudet, travels to the City of Angels desperate to find her missing brother, fearing that something terrible has happened to him: a serial killer is terrorising the city, picking victims at random, and Kerry has precious few leads. Ida Young, recently retired Private Investigator, is dragged into helping the police when a young woman is discovered murdered in her motel room. Ida has never met the victim but her name has been found at the crime scene and the LAPD wants to know why . . . Meanwhile mob fixer Dante Sanfelippo has put his life savings into purchasing a winery in Napa Valley but first he must do one final favour for the Mob before leaving town: find a bail jumper before the bond money falls due, and time is fast running out. Ida’s friend, Louis Armstrong, flies into the city just as her investigations uncover mysterious clues to the killer’s identity. And Dante must tread a dangerous path to pay his dues, a path which will throw him headlong into a terrifying conspiracy and a secret that the conspirators will do anything to protect . . . Completing his American crime quartet, Ray Celestin's Sunset Swing is a stunning novel of conspiracy, murder and madness, an unforgettable portrait of a city on the edge.

Author : Dottie Dodgion
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052471
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lady Swings written by Dottie Dodgion and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dottie Dodgion is a jazz drummer who played with the best. A survivor, she lived an entire lifetime before she was seventeen. Undeterred by hardships she defied the odds and earned a seat as a woman in the exclusive men’s club of jazz. Her dues-paying path as a musician took her from early work with Charles Mingus to being hired by Benny Goodman at Basin Street East on her first day in New York. From there she broke new ground as a woman who played a “man’s instrument” in first-string, all-male New York City jazz bands. Her inspiring memoir talks frankly about her music and the challenges she faced, and shines a light into the jazz world of the 1960s and 1970s. Vivid and always entertaining, The Lady Swings tells Dottie Dodgion's story with the same verve and straight-ahead honesty that powered her playing. A Variety Best Music Book of 2021

Author : Walter Lewin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439123543
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For the Love of Physics written by Walter Lewin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “YOU HAVE CHANGED MY LIFE” is a common refrain in the emails Walter Lewin receives daily from fans who have been enthralled by his world-famous video lectures about the wonders of physics. “I walk with a new spring in my step and I look at life through physics-colored eyes,” wrote one such fan. When Lewin’s lectures were made available online, he became an instant YouTube celebrity, and The New York Times declared, “Walter Lewin delivers his lectures with the panache of Julia Child bringing French cooking to amateurs and the zany theatricality of YouTube’s greatest hits.” For more than thirty years as a beloved professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lewin honed his singular craft of making physics not only accessible but truly fun, whether putting his head in the path of a wrecking ball, supercharging himself with three hundred thousand volts of electricity, or demonstrating why the sky is blue and why clouds are white. Now, as Carl Sagan did for astronomy and Brian Green did for cosmology, Lewin takes readers on a marvelous journey in For the Love of Physics, opening our eyes as never before to the amazing beauty and power with which physics can reveal the hidden workings of the world all around us. “I introduce people to their own world,” writes Lewin, “the world they live in and are familiar with but don’t approach like a physicist—yet.” Could it be true that we are shorter standing up than lying down? Why can we snorkel no deeper than about one foot below the surface? Why are the colors of a rainbow always in the same order, and would it be possible to put our hand out and touch one? Whether introducing why the air smells so fresh after a lightning storm, why we briefly lose (and gain) weight when we ride in an elevator, or what the big bang would have sounded like had anyone existed to hear it, Lewin never ceases to surprise and delight with the extraordinary ability of physics to answer even the most elusive questions. Recounting his own exciting discoveries as a pioneer in the field of X-ray astronomy—arriving at MIT right at the start of an astonishing revolution in astronomy—he also brings to life the power of physics to reach into the vastness of space and unveil exotic uncharted territories, from the marvels of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud to the unseeable depths of black holes. “For me,” Lewin writes, “physics is a way of seeing—the spectacular and the mundane, the immense and the minute—as a beautiful, thrillingly interwoven whole.” His wonderfully inventive and vivid ways of introducing us to the revelations of physics impart to us a new appreciation of the remarkable beauty and intricate harmonies of the forces that govern our lives.

Author : Ray Celestin
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509838953
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mobster's Lament written by Ray Celestin and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Axeman's Jazz, Ray Celestin's gripping third book, The Mobster's Lament, follows a gangster's last chance to escape the clutches of New York's mafia families, but as a blizzard descends on NYC, a ruthless serial killer is tracking his every move. New York, 1947. Mob fixer Gabriel Leveson’s plans to flee the city are put on hold when he is tasked with tracking down stolen mob money by ‘the boss of all bosses’, Frank Costello. But while he's busy looking, he doesn't notice who's watching him . . . Meanwhile, Private Investigator Ida Young and her old partner, Michael Talbot, must prove the innocence of Talbot’s son Tom, who has been accused of the brutal murders of four people in a Harlem flophouse. With all the evidence pointing towards him, their only chance of exoneration is to find the killer themselves. Whilst across town, Ida’s childhood friend, Louis Armstrong, is on the brink of bankruptcy, when a promoter approaches him with a strange offer to reignite his career . . . Both a gripping neo-noir crime novel and a vivid, panoramic portrait of New York, The Mobster's Lament takes you to the heart of a city where the Mob has risen to the height of its powers. Complete the City Blues Quartet with Sunset Swing.

Author : Ernest Jones
Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media
ISBN 13 : 9781635617412
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swing the Clubhead written by Ernest Jones and published by Echo Point Books & Media. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest Jones, one of the greatest teachers in golf history, presents his simple yet effective method for improving your swing. With easy to follow exercises, helpful illustrations, and his own proven techniques, Jones will help you swing your way to a lower score in no time.

Author : Ray Celestin
Publisher : Alianza Editorial
ISBN 13 : 8411481336
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sunset Swing written by Ray Celestin and published by Alianza Editorial. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Ángeles. Navidad de 1967. Un demonio anda suelto en la Ciudad de los Ángeles... Una joven enfermera, Kerry Gaudet, viaja a la Ciudad de los Ángeles desesperada por encontrar a su hermano desaparecido, temiendo que algo terrible le haya sucedido: un asesino en serie está aterrorizando la ciudad, eligiendo víctimas al azar, y Kerry tiene muy pocas pistas. Ida Young, investigadora privada recién jubilada, se ve obligada a ayudar a la policía cuando una joven aparece asesinada en su habitación de motel. Ida nunca ha conocido a la víctima, pero su nombre aparece en la escena del crimen y la policía de Los Ángeles quiere saber por qué... Mientras tanto, el mafioso Dante Sanfelippo ha invertido los ahorros de toda su vida en la compra de una bodega en el Valle de Napa, pero primero debe hacer un último favor antes de abandonar la ciudad. El amigo de Ida, Louis Armstrong, aterriza en la ciudad justo cuando sus investigaciones descubren misteriosas pistas sobre la identidad del asesino. Y Dante debe recorrer un camino peligroso para pagar sus deudas, un camino que lo lanzará de cabeza a una conspiración aterradora y a un secreto que los cabecillas harán cualquier cosa para proteger... Sunset Swing, de Ray Celestin, es una impresionante novela de intriga, asesinatos y locura, un retrato inolvidable de una ciudad al límite.

Author : Louise Jordan Miln
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quaint Korea written by Louise Jordan Miln and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Neil Powell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781579582777
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of Jazz written by Neil Powell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word "jazz" did not appear in print until around 1915 and was only grudgingly admitted into polite discourse.The Language of Jazzexplores the vocabulary that has grown up around it. It includes words unique to jazz (bebop, Dixieland, ragtime); ordinary words with specific jazz meanings (cool, jam, stride); musical terms adopted by jazz (bar, rhythm, swing); instruments associated with jazz (alto, clarinet, trombone); nicknames of outstanding musicians (Bird, Duke, Satchmo); place-names linked to movements in jazz (Chicago, Harlem, Storyville); record labels (Dial, Okeh, Savoy); and notable venues (Birdland, Cotton Club, Blue Note, Minton's). Neil Powell's book is for jazz lovers and provides for the unconverted, too, a witty, informative tour of the subject.

Author : Mark Wayne Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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