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Book Synopsis Luck’s In My Corner by : Todd Bryant Weeks
Download or read book Luck’s In My Corner written by Todd Bryant Weeks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luck’s in My Corner is a comprehensive biography of one of the most compelling jazz musicians of the Swing Era, Oran "Hot Lips’ Page. Page was the greatest of the Kansas City trumpeters, whose crackling, growling solos made him the go-to man during Count Basie’s earliest days as a bandleader. Page went on to be a featured trumpeter with Artie Shaw, a star of New York’s 52nd street, and a pioneer of the R & B scene of the 1950s. This book presents an in-depth chronology of Page’s career, with special attention paid to the development of his trumpet style. Luck’s in My Corner examines the life and music of a forgotten figure of the Swing Era and returns him to his rightful place as a leading light in the world of jazz. Todd Bryant Weeks has combined genealogical, musicological, discographical and historical research, resulting in a revealing and entertaining examination of a life that spanned major changes in American popular music. This book includes a new and complete discography by the author and dozens of unpublished photos.
Book Synopsis Luck in the Shadows by : Lynn Flewelling
Download or read book Luck in the Shadows written by Lynn Flewelling and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A new star is rising in the fantasy firmament...teems with magic and spine-chilling amounts of skullduggery."–Dave Duncan, author of The Great Game When young Alec of Kerry is taken prisoner for a crime he didn’t commit, he is certain that his life is at an end. But one thing he never expected was his cellmate. Spy, rogue, thief, and noble, Seregil of Rhiminee is many things–none of them predictable. And when he offers to take on Alec as his apprentice, things may never be the same for either of them. Soon Alec is traveling roads he never knew existed, toward a war he never suspected was brewing. Before long he and Seregil are embroiled in a sinister plot that runs deeper than either can imagine, and that may cost them far more than their lives if they fail. But fortune is as unpredictable as Alec’s new mentor, and this time there just might be…Luck in the Shadows.
Book Synopsis The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay by : Nicola May
Download or read book The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay written by Nicola May and published by Eye Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rosa Larkin is down on her luck in London, so when she inherits a near-derelict corner shop in a quaint Devon village, her first thought is to sell it for cash and sort out her life. But nothing is straightforward about this legacy. While the identity of her benefactor remains a mystery, he - or she - has left one important legal proviso: that the shop cannot be sold, only passed on to somebody who really deserves it. Rosa makes up her mind to give it a go: to put everything she has into getting the shop up and running again in the small seaside community of Cockleberry Bay. But can she do it all on her own? And if not, who will help her succeed - and who among the following will work secretly to see her fail? There is a handsome rugby player, a sexy plumber, a charlatan reporter and a selection of meddling locals. Add in a hit and run incident and the disappearance of a valuable engraved necklace - and what you get is a journey of self-discovery and unpredictable events. With surprising and heartfelt results, Rosa, accompanied at all times by her little sausage dog Hot, will slowly unravel the shadowy secrets of the inheritance, and also bring her own, long-hidden heritage into the light."--Publisher description.
Book Synopsis The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Tales by : Bret Harte
Download or read book The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Tales written by Bret Harte and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Stories by : Bret Harte
Download or read book The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Stories written by Bret Harte and published by Boston : Houghton, Mifflin. This book was released on 1882 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Writings of Bret Harte: The luck of Roaring Camp and other tales by : Bret Harte
Download or read book The Writings of Bret Harte: The luck of Roaring Camp and other tales written by Bret Harte and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Stories. Including Earlier Papers, Spanish and American Legends, Tales of the Argonauts, etc. by : Bret Harte
Download or read book The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Stories. Including Earlier Papers, Spanish and American Legends, Tales of the Argonauts, etc. written by Bret Harte and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Download or read book Hard Luck written by Steve Springer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of boxing legend Jerry Quarry has it all: rags to riches, thrilling fights against the giants of the Golden Age of Heavyweights (Ali—twice, Frazier—twice, Patterson, Norton), a racially and politically electric sports era, the thrills and excesses of fame, celebrities, love, hate, joy, and pain. And tragedy. Like the man he fought during two highly controversial fight cards in 1970 and ’72—Muhammad Ali—boxing great Jerry Quarry was to suffer gravely. He died at age fifty-three, mind and body ravaged by Dementia Pugilistica. In Hard Luck, “Irish” Jerry Quarry comes to life—from his Grapes of Wrath days as the child of an abusive father in the California migrant camps to those as the undersized heavyweight slaying giants on his way to multiple title bouts and the honor of being the World’s Most Popular Fighter in ’68, ’69, ’70, and ’71. The story of Jerry Quarry is one of the richest in the annals of boxing, and through painstaking research and exclusive access to the Quarry family and its archives, Steve Springer and Blake Chavez have captured it all.
Download or read book The Stolen Luck written by Shawna Reppert and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fantasy romance, a man must venture into a magical land, guided by an elven slave who may also hold the key to his wounded heart. Lord James Dupree must recover his family’s stolen Luck, the elven talisman that has protected the Dupree family and vineyards for generations. Since the talisman was lost, James lost his wife and the vineyards have begun to fail. He will do anything to save his family, but to enter the Lands Between and retrieve the Luck, he will need an elf to guide him. Despite his abhorrence of slavery, James wins an elven slave named Loren in a game of cards. Though he is James’s only chance at entering the Lands Between, Loren does not trust his new master. Yet something draws these two wounded souls together. As James finds himself falling in love with Loren, a hidden enemy will force him to choose between his family and his heart.
Book Synopsis Tough Luck L.A. by : Murray Sinclair
Download or read book Tough Luck L.A. written by Murray Sinclair and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Award Finalist: Ben Crandel came to Hollywood to strike it big as a writer—not become the prime suspect in a prostitute’s murder. L.A. seemed like a good idea at the time. Having published two novels, Ben Crandel left a sweet teaching job back east and moved to Hollywood to write a screenplay. Now languishing in development limbo, he pays the rent on his seedy bungalow by cranking out porn novels. And his girlfriend, Ellen, has decided she needs some time apart. The only bright spots in his life are being a Big Brother to an eleven-year-old orphan named Petey and walking his drooling but lovable basset hound, Stanley. But Ben’s crappy California life is about to get a whole lot worse. Ben’s friend Vicky, a former prostitute, is beaten and murdered in her apartment—shot execution-style in the back of the head. The Beverly Hills police grab Ben at the crime scene and charge him with first-degree murder. Freed on bail, Ben is determined to track down Vicky’s real killer. At first it seems like her death may be connected to the adult film industry. But as Ben digs deeper, he becomes entangled in a multimillion-dollar game of survivor-take-all . . . Praise for the Ben Crandel Mysteries “Sinclair has the unique ability to dish out hard-edged realism with—believe it or not—a touch of humor. Goodbye L.A. is a fine piece.” —Gerald Petievich, author of To Live and Die in L.A.
Book Synopsis 1770-1920, from Good Luck to Gloucester, the Book of the Pilgrimage by : Frederick Adelbert Bisbee
Download or read book 1770-1920, from Good Luck to Gloucester, the Book of the Pilgrimage written by Frederick Adelbert Bisbee and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The luck of Roaring Camp, In the Carquinez Woods, and other stories and sketches by : Bret Harte
Download or read book The luck of Roaring Camp, In the Carquinez Woods, and other stories and sketches written by Bret Harte and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis What's Luck Got to Do with Emma Lenford? by : Kari Lynn M.
Download or read book What's Luck Got to Do with Emma Lenford? written by Kari Lynn M. and published by Kari Lynn M.. This book was released on 2024-06-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some people just don’t know how lucky they are. Including Emma Lenford, who’s just lucky enough to vomit on international television, win a trip to Wisconsin’s worst-kept vacation hotspot, and even find out that she’s related to some very infamous faces. Despite her newfound “luck”, Emma struggles to find a way to gain control of her life. She’s fully convinced that she’s been somehow cursed, and she has to figure out how stop the tragedies that keep befalling her before they get a little too out of control. Although, once you’ve been trapped and tortured via the ultimate atomic wedgie in a goat barn decorated with severed human body parts, maybe things have already gotten too far out of your control. Emma Lenford is truly the unluckiest 17-year-old on the planet. She keeps her sense of humor, though, through this series of seriously ill-fated situations. Her life is basically a sit-com where one traumatic thing after another befalls her, and it's all out of her control. She's constantly kidnapped, held at gunpoint, and even arrested for things she honestly didn't even do. Follow her as every supposedly lucky adventure turns south in the fourth book of the series that makes us all wonder, “what’s luck got to do with Emma Lenford?”
Book Synopsis Conservation of Luck by : Lesley L. Smith
Download or read book Conservation of Luck written by Lesley L. Smith and published by Quarky Media. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a brilliant young computer scientist working on her master's degree, Ella Hote doesn't believe in luck. But when bizarre accidents, insane coincidences, and weird encounters with improbably handsome strangers start to happen all around her, even hardheaded Ella has to change her mind. She comes to realize she's inadvertently created a luck generating computer that can make even the longest of long shots pay off. Unfortunately, for every stroke of good luck, someone else pays the price in bad luck. Ultimately, when lives are on the line, how far will she go?
Book Synopsis The Myth of Luck by : Steven D. Hales
Download or read book The Myth of Luck written by Steven D. Hales and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity has thrown everything we have at implacable luck-novel theologies, entire philosophical movements, fresh branches of mathematics-and yet we seem to have gained only the smallest edge on the power of fortune. The Myth of Luck tells us why we have been fighting an unconquerable foe. Taking us on a guided tour of one of our oldest concepts, we begin in ancient Greece and Rome, considering how Plato, Plutarch, and the Stoics understood luck, before entering the theoretical world of probability and exploring how luck relates to theology, sports, ethics, gambling, knowledge, and present-day psychology. As we travel across traditions, times and cultures, we come to realize that it's not that as soon as we solve one philosophical problem with luck that two more appear, like heads on a hydra, but rather that the monster is altogether mythological. We cannot master luck because there is nothing to defeat: luck is no more than a persistent and troubling illusion. By introducing us to compelling arguments and convincing reasons that explain why there is no such thing as luck, we finally see why in a very real sense we make our own luck, that luck is our own doing. The Myth of Luck helps us to regain our own agency in the world - telling the entertaining story of the philosophy and history of luck along the way.
Book Synopsis Alaska Man's Luck by : Hjalmar Rutzebeck
Download or read book Alaska Man's Luck written by Hjalmar Rutzebeck and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tough Luck written by Jason Starr and published by Bedford Square Publishers. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ...one of the new voices of noir fiction, a writer capable of taking noir from what it has always been toward whatever it can become. He's got his own slant, his own slashing style, and the moral honesty true noir requires' - Daniel Woodrell Mickey Prada is a nice kid. Perhaps too nice. He works in a neighbourhood seafood market in Brooklyn putting fish on ice. He's got a nice girlfriend. He even delayed college a year, to look after his sick dad who's gradually losing his marbles and has a tendency to go walkabout. But Mickey's got a little problem. A customer at the fish store, Angelo Santoro, keeps asking Mickey to place bets for him and Angelo keeps losing. As Angelo gets further in the hole, his bad luck is turning out to be Mickey's too. Now Mickey's got his bookie after him and Angelo's showing him the butt of his pistol rather than paying him back. So when his best friend, Chris, asks Mickey to join him on a can't-lose caper, Mickey decides to go along. But, sure-fire schemes often have a way of backfiring, and this one is sending Mickey into an uncharted part of Brooklyn, where fish like Chris and Mickey have trouble...
