Devil Sent the Rain

2011-08-23 Literary Collections

Author : Tom Piazza
Release : 2011-08-23
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 920/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Devil Sent the Rain written by Tom Piazza. This book was released on 2011-08-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “WhateverTom Piazza writes is touched with magic." —Douglas Brinkley Acclaimed author Tom Piazza follows hisprize-winning novel City of Refuge and the post-Katrinaclassic Why New Orleans Matters with a dynamic collection ofessays and journalism about American music and American character, in DevilSent the Rain. “TomPiazza’s writing is filled with energy, and with tender, insightful words forthe brilliant and irascible, from Jimmy Martin to Norman Mailer. Time and timeagain, Piazza identifies the unlikely, precious connections between recentevents, art, letters, and music; through his words, these byways of popularculture provide an unexpected measure of the times.” —Elvis Costello

Devil Sent the Rain

2016-09-27 Fiction

Author : Lisa Turner
Release : 2016-09-27
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 224/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Devil Sent the Rain written by Lisa Turner. This book was released on 2016-09-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Nominee and Bestselling author Lisa Turner’s hard-boiled Detective Billy Able returns in this dark southern mystery about the murder of a dazzling Memphis socialite—and the scandals revealed in the wake of her death. The heart can be an assassin. Homicide Detective Billy Able knows that from experience. Fresh from solving Memphis’s most sensational murder case, Billy and his ambitious new partner, Frankie Malone, are called to a bizarre crime scene on the outskirts of town. A high-society attorney has been murdered while dressed in a wedding gown. Billy is shocked to discover he has a very personal connection to the victim. When the attorney’s death exposes illegal practices at her family’s prestigious law firm, the scandal is enough to rock the southern city’s social world. In a tale about the remnants of Old South aristocracy and entitlement twisted by greed and vengeance, Billy must confront the secrets of his own past to have any chance at solving the murder of the girl he once knew. But as he seeks the truth, he’s drawn closer to an embittered killer bent on revenge—and eliminating the threat Billy poses.

Devil Sent the Rain

2015-01-31 Fiction

Author : D.J. Butler
Release : 2015-01-31
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 591/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Devil Sent the Rain written by D.J. Butler. This book was released on 2015-01-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this urban fantasy, rock and roll musicians with supernatural powers gets trapped in an alternate universe—inside one of their band member’s minds. A trap set for the band goes from bad to worse as organist and resident sorcerer Adrian badly bungles his escape spell. Trapped inside Adrian’s shadow, the band struggles to orient themselves and escape not only from their pursuing enemies, but from the darker manifestations of Adrian’s soul. And once they do get out from inside their own wizard’s tortured mind, they'll still have to deal with the fallen angels that trapped them in the first place.

Sunbathing in the Rain

2006-11-15 Psychology

Author : Gwyneth Lewis
Release : 2006-11-15
Genre : Psychology
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Book Rating : 499/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Sunbathing in the Rain written by Gwyneth Lewis. This book was released on 2006-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunbathing in the Rain is undoubtedly the best book I have ever read about one person's experience of depression.' - Dorothy Rowe, author of Breaking the Bonds 'This upbeat, very readable and engaging view of depression as a temporary retrenchment, a breathing space in which to adjust better to life, makes encouraging reading.' - Spectator 'Gwyneth Lewis writes with clarity, beauty and metaphorical precision. She conveys the darkness, the silence, the selfishness, the mental clutter of depression brilliantly.' - Simon Hattenstone, Guardian 'Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis shares her personal story of wrestling with clinical depression and describes what she learned along the way about coping with the disease. The text is aimed primarily at those who are currently depressed and are struggling to recover. The emphasis throughout is on the healing power of self-acceptance and truth-telling. This is a reprint of a book first published in London by Flamingo in 2002.' - www.booknews.com This might well be the Age of Depression. More people than ever now experience the disease directly or see a friend or relative succumb to it. Among their number is Gwyneth Lewis. And she set about writing this book simply because she wished something like it had existed for her when she was in the middle of her depression. Depression is assassination. The depressive is both victim and detective - charged with tracking down the perpetrator of his or her own murder. By drawing on her own experience of struggling with the affliction, by highlighting ways of coping, ways of truth-telling, and ways of thriving, in a straightforward, robust fashion full of casual wisdom and easy wit, Gwyneth re-embarks on a journey that nearly killed her first time round and returns with this, perhaps the first truly undogmatic, undemanding, downright useful book about depression.

Go Ahead in the Rain

2019-02-01 Music

Author : Hanif Abdurraqib
Release : 2019-02-01
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 445/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Go Ahead in the Rain written by Hanif Abdurraqib. This book was released on 2019-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Best Seller A February IndieNext Pick Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Buzzfeed, Nylon, The A. V. Club, CBC Books, and The Rumpus. And a Winter's Most Anticipated Book by Vanity Fair and The Week Starred Reviews: Kirkus and Booklist "Warm, immediate and intensely personal."—New York Times How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves with an intense, socially conscious record, We Got It from Here . . . Thank You 4 Your Service, which arrived when fans needed it most, in the aftermath of the 2016 election. Poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib digs into the group’s history and draws from his own experience to reflect on how its distinctive sound resonated among fans like himself. The result is as ambitious and genre-bending as the rap group itself. Abdurraqib traces the Tribe's creative career, from their early days as part of the Afrocentric rap collective known as the Native Tongues, through their first three classic albums, to their eventual breakup and long hiatus. Their work is placed in the context of the broader rap landscape of the 1990s, one upended by sampling laws that forced a reinvention in production methods, the East Coast–West Coast rivalry that threatened to destroy the genre, and some record labels’ shift from focusing on groups to individual MCs. Throughout the narrative Abdurraqib connects the music and cultural history to their street-level impact. Whether he’s remembering The Source magazine cover announcing the Tribe’s 1998 breakup or writing personal letters to the group after bandmate Phife Dawg’s death, Abdurraqib seeks the deeper truths of A Tribe Called Quest; truths that—like the low end, the bass—are not simply heard in the head, but felt in the chest.

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