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63) Electric blue
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Some days are just weird city.
Take today. Jane Kelly, thirtysomething ex-bartender, current process server, and owner of The Binkster, a pug, is dutifully putting in slave-labor hours working for Dwayne Durbin, local "information specialist" (i.e., private investigator), and on the road to becoming a P.I. herself. Next thing she knows she's socializing with the Purcells, a rich, eccentric rich family with a penchant for going crazy and/or dying...
65) The Blues
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All prior histories on the blues have alleged it originated on plantations in the Mississippi Delta. Not true, says author Chris Thomas King. In The Blues, King presents facts to disprove such myths. For example, as early as 1900, the sound of the blues was ubiquitous in New Orleans. The Mississippi Delta, meanwhile, was an unpopulated sportsman's paradise—the frontier was still in the process of being cleared and drained for cultivation. Moreover,...
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Named one of the world's great blues-rock guitarists by Rolling Stone, Mike Bloomfield (1943-1981) remains beloved by fans nearly forty years after his untimely death. Taking readers backstage, onstage, and into the recording studio with this legendary virtuoso, David Dann tells the riveting stories behind Bloomfield's work in the seminal Paul Butterfield Blues Band and the mesmerizing Electric Flag, as well as on the Super Session album with Al Kooper...
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In the Amish community of Blue Sky, Pennsylvania, kapp maker Kathryn King looks into the suspicious death of her neighbor, Ruth Peachey, as Ruth's daughter and shunned former Amish woman Edie tries to clear her mentally challenged brother of suspicion.
In the Amish community of Blue Sky, Pennsylvania, Kathryn "Kappy" King is skilled at making the special kapps local women need to cover their hair. When her neighbor, Ruth Peachey, turns up dead in...
71) Beale Street
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2016.
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From the early days of black and white reel-to-reel video...Beale Street is where W.C.Handy wrote the blues, where Boss Crump abused his power, and where Martin Luther King, Jr. marched days before his death in 1968. Beale Street has been the victim of Urban Renewal, and we went to the original Beale Streeters who knew and loved it best in the making of our oral history, including B.B. King, the Hooks Brothers, Bobby Blue Bland, Prince Gabe, Maurice...
74) Blue Collar
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Catford brickie, Terry Prior, wakes up in a strange room in a strange house and next to a strange girl. He cannot remember how he got there and neither can she. But one thing is clear. They are very different people. Terry is a typical full English breakfast with builder's tea type of guy whereas Charley is more Eggs Benedict and Bloody Mary. She is posh, she is well-off and she is gorgeous. Which means she is way out of Terry's usual league – or...
75) Blue Norther
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"Blue Norther" is a fictionalized account of the life of Quanah Parker, a key figure in the history of the American Far West.
Quanah has mixed parentage – Comanche war chief father and white hostage mother. Just as he reaches adulthood, two life-changing events occur. On his return from a hunting trip, he discovers his village burned, the wives, babies, and old people butchered and, most significantly, his mother and baby sister missing. Subsequently,...
76) Dressed Blues
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Dressed Blues is the third book in the Little Boy's Blues Series. Faced with the dilemma of leaving home at eighteen Little Boy joins his best friend as they take a trip downtown to meet a man who has the plan that will solve Little Boy's problem. It is the beginning of a journey that will lead both boys to an island where boys will become men.
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Late in her life, acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Delamere makes a request of her therapist, Doctor Newman: she asks him to oversee the publication of her last book after she dies. It is a memoir in which she reveals that she is Evelyn Dick, the notorious "torso murderer" acquitted on appeal of dismembering her husband, and convicted of killing her infant son. In 1958 she was paroled, and disappeared into the mists of history. In Blue Moon, James King...
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Elizabeth 'Izzy' James is an up and coming stylist that took the music and movie industry by storm. Her fresh eye with a twist of old school flavor has everyone wanting more. One day, a favor for a friend leads Izzy down unchartered territory that causes her to wonder if age ain't nothing but a number.
Kingdom 'King' McDaniel is a twenty-two-year-old that is looking forward to graduating college and getting far away from his mother as possible. Her...
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Izzy's pregnant, and Sam is desperate to keep it a secret from everyone until the paternity of the baby is determined. With King out of town and Cash sniffing around Izzy like a dog in heat, there's no way he can hide Izzy's pregnancy for long, but Izzy doesn't feel the same way about the situation as Pops, and she won't be able to hide things from King for long, especially when she goes to visit him in New York.
King is determined to find...
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A romantic getaway for Izzy's birthday introduces her to a charming, intelligent, and thoughtful man. She decides to give King an opportunity to prove his intentions and not use his age as a way to deny him a fair shake at a relationship.
However, everyone is not on board with Izzy and King being together.
Chelsea sends Duchess the video because she feels scorned by King. She thinks she has a genuine chance at being his girlfriend once she shows him...
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