Heart and Soul: "A Celebration of Black Music Style in America, 1930-1975"

Heart and Soul: "A Celebration of Black Music Style in America, 1930-1975" Review

Heart & Soul celebrates the vibrant, flamboyant, and extravagant flowering in African American culture that occurred between 1930 and 1975. From Cab Calloway to Ray Charles, the Four Tops to the Delfonics, this informative and hugely entertaining book chronicles this musical history told in legends, facts, and rumors every bit as colorful as the images that illustrate the book. The story is filled with characters such as O. V. Wright, a singer deemed "too ugly to tour"; Frankie Lymon, who received a hot dog as full payment for some of the greatest R&B songs of all time; Billie Holiday shooting dice with the boys on the bus; and soul ghoul Screamin' Jay Hawkins locked in his coffin by the Drifters. Featuring 400 original photographs, publicity shots, posters, programs, advertisements, album sleeves, and more, here is a story of hot music and high style, of pencil-thin mustaches and zoot suits, and of audacious people who made the world a richer, wilder, and definitely cooler place for the rest of us.

Black Heart (Revenge Trilogy)

Black Heart (Revenge Trilogy) Review

The third instalment in Nicol's Revenge Trilogy. Mace Bishop has become obsessed with tracking down Sheemina February who he believes contracted his wife’s murder when his and his business partner Pylon’s security company is contracted to provide security to a local arms systems designer – Magnus Oosthuizen – who has created weapons for South African navy frigates. Oosthuizen is tendering against alternative First World-designed weapons systems. But Oosthuizen’s life is threatened and Mace learns that the government’s arms buyers want to acquire the First World weapons system for the frigates to benefit from financial kickbacks. Enter the National Intelligence Agency that puts pressure on Mace and Pylon to steal the Oosthuizen weapons system. Gradually, Mace recognises the hidden hand of Sheemina February and realises that he is being manipulated.

The Anti-Inflammation Diet and Recipe Book: Protect Yourself and Your Family from Heart Disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Allergies - and More

The Anti-Inflammation Diet and Recipe Book: Protect Yourself and Your Family from Heart Disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Allergies - and More Review

The connection between inflammation and heart disease, arthritis, and other chronic ailments has become increasingly clear. Many food allergies and poor dietary choices over stimulate the immune system and cause inflammatory responses that erode the body’s wellness and pave the path for ill health. Based on her naturopathic practice, Jessica Black has devised a complete program for how to eat and cook to minimize and even prevent inflammation and its consequences. The first part of the book explains the benefits of the anti-inflammatory diet with an accessible discussion of the science behind it. The second half contains 108 recipes. The author offers many substitution suggestions and includes a healthy ingredient tip with each recipe. Most of the dishes can be prepared quickly and easily by even novice cooks. A week of sample menus for summer months and another for winter are included, as well as a substitutions chart, allowing readers to modify their favorite recipes to increase their healing potential.

Black Heart and White Heart (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

Black Heart and White Heart (Fantasy and Horror Classics) Review

Many of the earliest action and adventure stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Sir Dalton and the Shadow Heart (The Knights of Arrethtrae)

Sir Dalton and the Shadow Heart (The Knights of Arrethtrae) Review

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Sir Dalton, a knight in training, seems to have everything going for him. Young, well-liked, and a natural leader, he has earned the respect and admiration of his fellow knights, and especially the beautiful Lady Brynn.

But something is amiss at the training camp. Their new trainer is popular but lacks the passion to inspire them to true service to the King and the Prince. Besides this, the knights are too busy enjoying a season of good times to be concerned with a disturbing report that many of their fellow Knights have mysteriously vanished.

When Sir Dalton is sent on a mission, he encounters strange attacks, especially when he is alone. As his commitment wanes, the attacks grow in intensity until he is captured by Lord Drox, a massive Shadow Warrior. Bruised and beaten, Dalton refuses to submit to evil and initiates a daring escape with only one of two outcomes–life or death. But what will become of the hundreds of knights he’ll leave behind? In a kingdom of peril, Dalton thinks he is on his own, but two faithful friends have not abandoned him, and neither has a strange old hermit who seems to know much about the Prince. But can Dalton face the evil Shadow Warrior again and survive?

Fleet Walker's Divided Heart: The Life of Baseball's First Black Major Leaguer

Fleet Walker's Divided Heart: The Life of Baseball's First Black Major Leaguer Review

Moses Fleetwood Walker was the first black American to play baseball in a major league. He achieved college baseball stardom at Oberlin College in the 1880s. Teammates as well as opponents harassed him; Cap Anson, the Chicago White Stockings star, is blamed for driving Walker and the few other blacks in the major leagues out of the game, but he could not have done so alone.

 

A gifted athlete, inventor, civil rights activist, author, and entrepreneur, Walker lived precariously along America’s racial fault lines. He died in 1924, thwarted in ambition and talent and frustrated by both the American dream and the national pastime.

Black Heart, Ivory Bones

Black Heart, Ivory Bones Review

Hair bright as gold...Lips red as blood...Heart black as sin...Truth sharp as bone...

As in their previous critically acclaimed volumes of reconsidered fairy tales, award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have gathered together remarkable stories that illuminate the more sinister, sensual, and sophisticated aspects of the tales we cherished in childhood; the fables of witches and princes and lost children that we once imagined we knew. Black Heart, Ivory Bones showcases twenty beguiling tales for the child-that-was and the adult-that-is, penned by twenty of the most creative artists in contemporary American literature. Here dissected are the darker anatomies of the timeless, seemingly simple stories we have long loved. Here wonder and truth have serious bite.

A lovelorn prince seeking his father's blessing concocts a fantastic tale of a witch, a tower, and lustrous long hair...A pair of accursed red boots punishes a beautiful dancer for her pride...A troll-killing, princess-rescuing warrior is compelled to consider events from his adversaries' point of view...In a blistering tell-all memoir, Goldilocks reveals the sordid truth about her brutal foster parent, Papa Bear...

Rich, surprising, funny, erotic, and unsettling, these twenty new yarns and poems offer exceptional anew treasures--as they brilliantly reveal lusts and jealousies, foibles, hatreds and dangerous obsessions, the things that slyly lurk in the midnight interior of oft-told tales.As in their previous critically acclaimed volumes of reconsidered fairy tales, award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have gathered together remarkable stories that illuminate the more sinister, sensual, and sophisticated aspects of the tales we cherished in childhood; the fables of witches and princes and lost children that we once imagined we knew.BLACK HEART, IVORY BONES showcases twenty beguiling tales for the child-that-was and the adult-that-is, penned by twenty of the most creative artists in contemporary American literature. Here dissected are the darker anatomies of the timeless, seemingly simple stories we have long loved. Here wonder and truth have serious bite.

A lovelorn prince seeking his father's blessing concocts a fantastic tale of a witch, a tower, and lustrous long hair...A pair of accursed red boots punishes a beautiful dancer for her pride...A troll-killing, princess-rescuing warrior is compelled to consider events from his adversaries' point of view...In a blistering tell-all memoir, Goldilocks reveals the sordid truth about her brutal foster parent, Papa Bear...

Rich, surprising, funny, erotic, and unsettling, these twenty new yarns and poems offer exceptional new treasures---as they brilliantly reveal lusts and jealousies, foibles, hatreds, and dangerous obsessions, the things that slyly lurk in the midnight interior of oft-told tales.As in their previous critically acclaimed volumes of reconsidered fairy tales, award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have gathered together remarkable stories that illuminate the more sinister, sensual, and sophisticated aspects of the tales we cherished in childhood; the fables of witches and princes and lost children that we once imagined we knew. BLACK HEART, IVORY BONES showcases twenty beguiling tales for the child-that-was and the adult-that-is, penned by twenty of the most creative artists in contemporary American literature. Here dissected are the darker anatomies of the timeless, seemingly simple stories we have long loved. Here wonder and truth have serious bite.

A lovelorn prince seeking his father's blessing concocts a fantastic tale of a witch, a tower, and lustrous long hair...A pair of accursed red boots punishes a beautiful dancer for her pride...A troll-killing, princess-rescuing warrior is compelled to consider events from his adversaries' point of view...In a blistering tell-all memoir, Goldilocks reveals the sordid truth about her brutal foster parent, Papa Bear...

Rich, surprising, funny, erotic, and unsettling, these twenty new yarns and poems offer exceptional new treasures---as they brilliantly reveal lusts and jealousies, foibles, hatreds, and dangerous obsessions, the things that slyly lurk in the midnight interior of oft-told tales.

Heart Smart for Black Women and Latinas: A 5-Week Program for Living a Heart-Healthy Lifestyle

Heart Smart for Black Women and Latinas: A 5-Week Program for Living a Heart-Healthy Lifestyle Review

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“A terrific, potentially life-saving book that’s a must read for all black and Latina women.” --Jane Chesnutt, Editor-in-Chief, Woman’s Day

This book is an important wake-up call for black women and Latinas to understand that small steps can make a difference in preventing heart disease.  Read this book for yourself and your sisters, but also for your families' good health." - Nancy Loving, Heart disease survivor and Co-Founder, WomenHeart

“ This book is a must have guide which covers all aspects of diet and lifestyle as well advice on how to partner with your doctor for a heart healthy life.” -- Rita F. Redberg, MD, MSc., FACC. Director, Women's Cardiovascular Services, UCSF School of Medicine.

“This book is filled with sound nutrition, fitness and stress management advice (the cornerstone of all heart-healthy lifestyle plans) and offers myriad practical solutions for the prevention of heart disease. Heart Smart should be on every black and Latina woman's nightstand!" -- Janet Bond Brill, PhD., R.D., author of Cholesterol DOWN: 10 Simple Steps to Lower Your Cholesterol in 4 Weeks-Without Prescription Drugs

This groundbreaking book is the first to take into consideration the heart health of women of color and provide an action plan to overcome the unique cultural and genetic challenges they face in staying heart healthy.  It doesn’t merely present generic information on diet, exercise and eliminating stress, but highlights the importance of community, culture, and lifestyle.

This complete five week program includes:

Ways to eat a heart healthy diet by learning what to eat and how much as well as how to modify traditional recipes so they still taste the same.

An easy-to-follow exercise program that uses walking to benefit health and well-being with suggestions for where to walk if the neighborhood is unsafe, and ways to get the whole family involved

Information on how women can work with their doctor to get the most out of their health

JENNIFER H MIERES, M.D.,F.A.C.C, F.A.H.A,  is a cardiologist at NYU School of Medicine, whose clinical research focuses on Heart disease in Women . She was an Emmy nominee in 2003 for her production of the PBS documentary “A Woman’s Heart”. TERRI ANN PARNELL, R.N, M.A., an award-winning cardiovascular nurse, is widely published in the medical literature on areas focused on patient education and heart disease.

THE BLACK HEART - Classic Strange Tales Including: the Complete Novel The Dark Other, Plus Proteus Island and Others (v. 4)

THE BLACK HEART - Classic Strange Tales Including: the Complete Novel The Dark Other, Plus Proteus Island and Others (v. 4) Review

This is a book of strange tales about strange people and sometimes stranger places. It includes Weinbaum's novel The Dark Other, in which Nicholas Devine and his girlfriend Pat are deeply in love, but before they can fulfil their dreams they must exorcise a demonic presence that threatens both their future together and their lives. Also included is another love story that takes place in a tranquil world of beauty and innocence that can only be seen through the lenses of "Pygmalion's Spectacles", and several other surprising tales.

Vampirates 4: Black Heart

Vampirates 4: Black Heart Review

There's a new ship of vampirates roaming the seas, leaving a trail of fear and devastation in its wake. When a high-profile pirate is slain, the Pirate Federation takes decisive action and begins training up a ship of dedicated vampire hunters. The team will be led by newly appointed Captain, Cheng Li and will include pirate prodigy Connor Tempest.

Meanwhile, Connor's twin sister Grace enjoys a bittersweet reunion with their mother. Sally Tempest has some important and shocking news that will leave the twins facing a very uncertain future.

The Grunt (The Lonely Heart Series)

The Grunt (The Lonely Heart Series) Review

Staff Sergeant Brett Black has a bad feeling that something is going to go terribly wrong. And as a Recon Marine, he pays attention to his gut. Only nothing can prepare him for what he encounters when he arrives at home from the base. His wife is leaving him, and there is nothing he can do about it.

Abandoned with a kid, the super alpha-male has to become domesticated quickly or find a willing substitute to help him with his son. Only the substitute he finds is no substitution.

Courtney Lawless is a true wild card. The budding librarian loves the classics and carries herself like a lady by day. But she also is full of life and surfs the waves of the Atlantic Ocean by night. Since her parents won’t pay for college because of bad decisions in her past, the reformed bad-girl takes a job as Brett’s live-in nanny to finish paying for school.

Brett has never seen a woman of such complex duality. Used to a wife who won’t clean, cook or even talk to him, when he starts to live with Courtney, he realizes what he’s been missing his entire life. Educated, amazing and refreshingly honest, the only thing that that this transparent beauty hides from her new boss is that she’s also the Lieutenant Colonel’s daughter.

Faced with another deployment to Afghanistan soon, the brooding Marine is forced to come out his shell to fight for what he loves, only this time, the war is at home.

Enjoy the interracial must-read romance of the summer, The Grunt, the third a longest book in Latrivia S. Nelson’s Lonely Heart Series and today.

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Special note from the author:

As a proud wife of a decorated, United States Marine, I’m happy to write this book about finding love while serving the Corps. I think you’ll find Brett to be a strong alpha male with endearing qualities, and you’ll find Courtney to be a strong, loving woman. The combination makes for a classic love story that sizzles with passion but warms you from the inside with sincerity.

This is also the longest book in The Lonely Heart Series. As a full-length novel, I think you’ll enjoy the extra pages and a few laughs.

Like so many others, my husband was wounded in Iraq. His road to recovery was hard not only on us but also on our two children. It took a lot. Words cannot explain the pain and worry of receiving “the call” that your husband has been severely injured. As a young couple, we relied on our families, our faith in God and the military for support.

A part of the proceeds from this book will be contributed to Soldier’s Angels (http://www.soldiersangels.org) for those who have served and have been injured. Check my official website for the date and amount of the contribution. We are aiming to present a check during the Christmas holiday. I would encourage you to consider them as your charity of choice as well.

Again, I hope that you enjoy.

Sincerely yours,

Latrivia S. Nelson

Black Heart Down

Black Heart Down Review

For Robbie Russo, only one man has ever owned his heart, Kyler Christenson. The years at each other's sides never diminished his love for him, but with the rise to fame in their rock band, Black Heart Down, more than a few challenges hindered their relationship. Now, he's reached a crossroads, either he'll have all of Kyler, or he'll walk away from everything they've built together. Kyler may be fearless on stage, but if there's one thing to send his heart crashing down, it's losing Robbie. When Robbie delivers his ultimatum, Kyler's willing to do what it takes for things work. But change doesn't happen quickly, and when he makes a terrible mistake, all their history together might not be enough to save their future.

The Raven's Heart: A Story of a Quest, a Castle and Mary Queen of Scots. by Jesse Blackadder

The Raven's Heart: A Story of a Quest, a Castle and Mary Queen of Scots. by Jesse Blackadder Review

'I am awaiting my castle and the Queen is waiting for love.' Scotland 1561. A ship carries Mary the young Queen of Scots home from the French court to wrest back control of her throne. Masquerading as a male crew member Alison Blackadder must find a way to gain the Queen's favour so she can win back her family's castle and lands cruelly stolen by a murderous clan a generation before. Surrounded by treachery and deep suspicion the Queen can trust nobody in the Scottish court until Alison with her flair for disguise becomes her most valued confidante and spy. But Alison's drive to reclaim the Blackadder birthright is relentless setting off events that threaten to bring down the monarchy. Alison discovers lies danger and betrayal at every turn. Then unexpectedly she finds love ...This sweeping and imaginative tale of political intrigue secret passion and implacable revenge is a breathtaking epic from a remarkable literary talent.

The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race

The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race Review

At a time when slavery was spreading and the country was steeped in racism, two white men and two black men overcame social barriers and mistrust to form a unique alliance that sought nothing less than the end of all evil. Drawing on the largest extant bi-racial correspondence in the Civil War era, John Stauffer braids together these men's struggles to reconcile ideals of justice with the reality of slavery and oppression. Who could imagine that Gerrit Smith, one of the richest men in the country, would give away his wealth to the poor and ally himself with Frederick Douglass, an ex-slave? And why would James McCune Smith, the most educated black man in the country, link arms with John Brown, a bankrupt entrepreneur, along with the others? Distinguished by their interracial bonds, they shared a millennialist vision of a new world where everyone was free and equal.

As the nation headed toward armed conflict, these men waged their own war by establishing model interracial communities, forming a new political party, and embracing violence. Their revolutionary ethos bridged the divide between the sacred and the profane, black and white, masculine and feminine, and civilization and savagery that had long girded western culture. In so doing, it embraced a malleable and "black-hearted" self that was capable of violent revolt against a slaveholding nation, in order to usher in a kingdom of God on earth. In tracing the rise and fall of their prophetic vision and alliance, Stauffer reveals how radical reform helped propel the nation toward war even as it strove to vanquish slavery and preserve the peace.

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Black Hearts and Slow Dancing: The First Mac Fontana Mystery

Black Hearts and Slow Dancing: The First Mac Fontana Mystery Review

Fire Chief Mac Fontana has agreed to temporarily assume the role of acting Deputy Sheriff of Staircase, Washington. But his investigation into the torture-slaying of a lone-wolf Seattle firefighter is dragging him into a deadly inferno of lies, corruption and murder that could reduce Mac's carefully protected world to smoldering embers.

Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death

Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death Review

This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division’s fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment—a unit known as “the Black Heart Brigade.” Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq’s so-called Triangle of Death, a veritable meat grinder just south of Baghdad, the Black Hearts found themselves in arguably the country’s most dangerous location at its most dangerous time.

Hit by near-daily mortars, gunfire, and roadside bomb attacks, suffering from a particularly heavy death toll, and enduring a chronic breakdown in leadership, members of one Black Heart platoon—1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion—descended, over their year-long tour of duty, into a tailspin of poor discipline, substance abuse, and brutality.

Four 1st Platoon soldiers would perpetrate one of the most heinous war crimes U.S. forces have committed during the Iraq War—the rape of a fourteen-year-old Iraqi girl and the cold-blooded execution of her and her family. Three other 1st Platoon soldiers would be overrun at a remote outpost—one killed immediately and two taken from the scene, their mutilated corpses found days later booby-trapped with explosives.

Black Hearts is an unflinching account of the epic, tragic deployment of 1st Platoon. Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with Black Heart soldiers and first-hand reporting from the Triangle of Death, Black Hearts is a timeless story about men in combat and the fragility of character in the savage crucible of warfare. But it is also a timely warning of new dangers emerging in the way American soldiers are led on the battlefields of the twenty-first century.


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Hearts Aflame

Hearts Aflame Review

A poignant, erotic romance packed with adventure and set in the harsh beauty of the Arizona countryside.

Real estate guru Krista Wyler is soon at the mercy of the Arizona desert when she learns she has inherited her family's business, Wyler Ranch. Her aunt is dying and her uncle is no longer capable of making decisions. Krista reluctantly moves in, but her plan is to sell the ranch as soon as possible.

Rae Jarrett, the strong, stubborn vet who has cared for the ranch as well as the horses, objects to her selling and offers her aid. Krista resists the help as well as her attraction to the mysterious vet, but decides instead to turn the ranch into a dude ranch. Soon city folk are knocking at the door ready to pay good money to get a chance to herd the Wyler cattle across Arizona. The plan seems full proof until Krista herself, along with Rae, has to set out on the trail with them.

The journey leads to a life changing adventure neither woman could have foreseen and will never forget.