Hurricane Blues


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Hurricane Blues is a unique artifact of American history: an anthology of original poems about the two most infamous hurricanes of 2005. Many of these poems are eyewitness accounts--written by both distinguished and emerging poets, all of whom were moved by the destruction of a legendary American city and the roughly 300-mile radius within Katrina's wrath. This collection not only records history but serves in some way as a balm, a relief effort toward the inevitable reconstruction of the region. Accordingly, all proceeds from Hurricane Blues will go toward the relief effort. This is poetry as bread, cast upon the surface of the waters.




Hurricane Blues


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In the title story, Hurricane Blues, meet a Louisiana blues piano player who protects her home-alone son by averting hurricanes with a whiskey shot glass and a mother's love. In The Reader, a dreamy bookworm stumbles into manhood. In Soul Most In Need, the friendship of two southern widows is the one truth at a tent revival. Nahualli presents a sharp-tongued Mexican recluse and her shape-shifting lover. Meet a good-hearted deacon doing reconnaissance on a philandering preacher from a classic car in T-Bird Recon. A cruel medieval father, a frontier lawyer's silent child scrivener, and an aspiring teacher caught in the 1918 influenza epidemic also populate this eclectic collection of previously published and new short fiction. Marcia Calhoun Forecki lives and writes in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Her first book, Speak To Me, from Gallaudet University Press, won a book award from the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped in 1986. She published Better Than Magic, a novel for middle grade readers, in 2000.




The Blues Encyclopedia


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The Blues Encyclopedia is the first full-length authoritative Encyclopedia on the Blues as a musical form. While other books have collected biographies of blues performers, none have taken a scholarly approach. A to Z in format, this Encyclopedia covers not only the performers, but also musical styles, regions, record labels and cultural aspects of the blues, including race and gender issues. Special attention is paid to discographies and bibliographies.




Encyclopedia of the Blues: K-Z, index


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First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.




Hurricane Blues


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More than just a war veteran with a body covered with tattoos and a past still haunted by death, Jack Connor is a young man who treads carefully over the human minefields of greed, murder, treachery, and deceit as he scratches the underbelly of Charleston's power elite.




Federal Register


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A Teacher for All Generations


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This collection of essays honors James C. VanderKam on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday and twentieth year on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame. An international group of scholars including peers specializing in Second Temple Judaism and Biblical Studies, colleagues past and present, and former students offers essays that interact in various ways with ideas and themes important in VanderKam's own work. The collection is divided into five sections spanning two volumes. The first volume includes essays on the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near East along with studies on Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Essays in the second volume address topics in early Judaism, Enoch traditions and Jubilees, and the New Testament and early Christianity.




Unfurling the Heart


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McGearhart weaves a tale of a woman enchanted with love, a man obsessed with adventure, and how love's persuasion makes dreams come true.




All Music Guide to the Blues


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Reviews and rates the best recordings of 8,900 blues artists in all styles.