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The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband (eBook, ePUB)
RETURN TO THE WORLD OF THE BRIDGERTONS . . . ________________________________________Go back to where it all began with the second book in Sunday Times bestselling author Julia Quinn's dazzlingly witty Bridgerton prequel series. A generation before the Bridgertons, there were the Rokesbys . . .While you were sleeping . . .With her brother Thomas injured on the battlefront in the Colonies, orphaned Cecilia Harcourt has two unbearable choices: move in with a maiden aunt or marry a scheming cousin. Instead, she chooses option three and travels across the Atlantic, determined to nurse her brother back to health. But after a week of searching, she finds not her brother but his best friend, the handsome officer Edward Rokesby. He's unconscious and in desperate need of her care, and Cecilia vows that she will save this soldier's life, even if staying by his side means telling one little lie . . .I told everyone I was your wifeWhen Edward comes to, he's more than a little confused. The blow to his head knocked out six months of his memory, but surely he would recall getting married. He knows who Cecilia Harcourt is - even if he does not recall her face - and with everyone calling her his wife, he decides it must be true, even though he'd always assumed he'd marry his neighbor back in England.If only it were true . . .Cecilia risks her entire future by giving herself - completely - to the man she loves. But when the truth comes out, Edward may have a few surprises of his own for the new Mrs Rokesby.Return to the world of the Bridgertons with The Rokesbys, featuring the ancestors of the Bridgerton characters we know and love . . ._______________Find out why readers love Julia Quinn . . ."Quinn writes delightfully fast-paced, funny, sparkling and bright romance' Romantic Times'The next best thing to Georgette Heyer' Gloss'A smart, funny touch. . . reminiscent of Helen Fielding' Time Magazine'Julia Quinn's Bridgerton books take all of the classic tropes we know and love... and gives them a thoroughly modern twist...they're hot, crazy, and full of feisty women relishing in the carnal delights that come from bedding rakish aristocrats... I can't focus on anything else.' - Stylist'Powered by a surfeit of dazzling wit and graced with a cast of unforgettable characters' Booklist'Quinn is incomparable! The latest addition to her beloved Bridgerton series is funny, charming, witty and wildly romantic' RT Book Reviews'Like an episode of Downtown Abbey mixed with a great rom-com' iBooks Best Books of March'Julia Quinn is one of the best historical romance novelists of our time' Heroes and Heartbreakers'Quinn excels in writing stories full of joy and delight, where laughter trembles on the edges' Happy Ever After'Quinn is a master of historical romance' Entertainment Weekly'Full of wit, charm and smouldering attraction . . . an unputdownable story that I think romance fans will treasure' Harlequin Junkie'This book was an utter delight . . . I just loved it' Love in a time of Feminism- Shop: buecher
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A Surfeit of Lampreys (The Ngaio Marsh Collection)
A Surfeit of Lampreys (The Ngaio Marsh Collection): ab 7.79 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 4: A Surfeit of Lampreys Death and the Dancing Footman Colour Scheme
Inspector Alleyn 3-Book Collection 4: A Surfeit of Lampreys Death and the Dancing Footman Colour Scheme: ab 11.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Love These Songs
LOVE THESE SONGS --Jonathan Francis 1) YOU MAKE ME FEEL SO YOUNG (1946) Mack Gordon - Josef Myrow --One of those songs that really lives up to it's title. I always feel a bounce in my step when and after I sing it. Mack Gordon was one of those lyricists of the l940s who found steady employment in Hollywood writing songs for the stars on the studios' payroll. Many of the movies of that era may have been terrible, but a lot of good songs were written for them. Gordon teamed with Harry Warren at 20th Century Fox during the war years. Later he wrote this song with the lesser known Josef Myrow and it has since become an American Song Book classic. 2) THE GIRLS OF SUMMER (The Girls of Summer 1956) Stephen Sondheim With it's lilting bluesy swing melody and accompaniment, this song perfectly evokes the romantic atmosphere of a summer at the beach. The story is an old one and it ends with "I've got nothin' but blues." 3) (Love Is) THE TENDER TRAP (1955) Sammy Cahn - James Van Huesen Made famous in the movie "The Tender Trap" (1956) with Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds, it was sung three separate times and left a memorable impression. Cahn and Van Heusen were Sinatra's mainstay song writers who gave him a solid lyric of the heart. Cahn wrote words that people would really say and not so much about moonbeams and dreams. 4) MY SHIP (1941) Ira Gershwin - Kurt Weill Beautiful imagery and a haunting melody are the hallmarks of a great song. Composed for the musical "Lady in the Dark" (1941) the protagonist is trying to recall, in a psychodrama of 3 sequential dreams, this very song from her childhood. Fragments of the melody drift in and out of the score until, at last, in the finale, it is remembered and sung. 5 ) SKYLARK (1941) Johnny Mercer - Hoagy Carmichael --Vintage Johnny Mercer with a particularly strong evocation of the natural surroundings of his childhood in and around Savannah, Georgia. The melody by Hoagy Carmichael with it's complex bridge making two key changes in eight bars is wonderfully fresh and surprising. A Los Angeles area news reporter recounted how he had an appointment to interview Mercer at his home. He arrived by car and was parking in the street when he saw Mercer in the yard feeding some birds. "Well" he thought, "it's comforting to know that Johnny Mercer really does like birds!" 6) THERE WON'T BE TRUMPETS (cut from Anyone Can Whistle, 1964) Stephen Sondheim -A wonderful arrangement of pure Sondheim genius has trumpets sounding from every corner belying the song's title. The gradual build up in tempo and intensity is punctuated by a waltz-like segment just before the final denial of the necessity for trumpets. How could they have "cut" this one? 7) LUSH LIFE (1949) Billy Strayhorn -One of the most atmospheric songs ever written. Whether singing or listening you will breathe Strayhorn's air and find yourself transported to his world. 8) MOUNTAIN GREENERY (1926) Rodgers and Hart This is one of four songs by R & H that I chose for this recording. The rhythm is totally infectious and the repeated jumps up and down a seventh (musical interval) is wonderfully evocative. I can just feel myself driving up one side of the mountain and down the other to get to my "mountain greenery home." 9) YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS (1941) Don Raye - Gene DePaul - A song that seems to defy any further comment. It expresses sorrow as only music and words combined, can. 10) I WISH IT SO (1959) Marc Blitzstein There is a saying about artists that "All painting is self portraiture." And for composers, music is often their form of self portraiture. When I sing this song, it seems as though Blitzstein is coming alive and revealing himself to me in a very intimate way. 11) MY FUNNY VALENTINE (1937) Rodgers and Hart This is a favorite of mine. I love the poignant irreverent humor, the internal rhymes and repetitions, the pleading "Stay little valentine, stay!" and the elegant descending base line that supports the entire song. Some say that the reason Lorenz Hart was able to write such poignantly beautiful lyrics is that his own love relationships were so strained and difficult. 12) DON'T GET AROUND MUCH ANYMORE (1942) Duke Ellington - Bob Russel -A song from the World War II era, that promoted the idea that women left at home were remaining faithful to their men overseas. The opening verse to this song reads: When I'm not playing solitaire I take a book down from the shelf, And what with programs on the air I keep pretty much to myself. 13) I'LL TELL THE MAN IN THE STREET ( I Married an Angel 1938) Rodgers and Hart - A rarely performed number with a great arching melody. Originally it was done as a jaunty fox-trot but like many R & H songs it works equally well as a ballad. I particularly like it with the verse setting up a nice contrast to the expansive chorus. 14) I COULD WRITE A BOOK (Pal Joey 1940) Rodgers and Hart I usually tear up when I get to the part--- "And the simple secret of the plot---is just to tell them that I love you---a lot." I still don't know why. THREE SCOTTISH BALLADS The following three songs have been on my list of favorites for many years. It was Ewan MacColl, the Scottish balladeer, who first let me hear the pure emotional intensity of an unadorned human voice. He sang in a steady, rhythmic, musical line without accompaniment. His reedy tremolo coloration was the perfect compliment to these ancient narrative tales. 15)THE BATTLE OF HARLAW The battle of Harlaw took place on July 24, 1411, when an army of Highlanders led by Donald of the Isles was beaten by the Earl of Mar's Lowland forces. Child published 2 versions. This version is from Jeannie Robertson of Dundee and Ewan MacColl. 16)SIR PATRICK SPENS I particularly like this one with it's bagpipe-like ornaments. I can almost hear the low drones underneath during it's seventeen verses. Motherwell has suggested that this fine ballad my be based upon the events following the marriage of Margaret, daughter of Alexander III of Scotland to Eric, King of Norway in 1281. Many of the nobles who conducted the young queen to Norway were drowned on the return voyage. Child publishes 18 versions of this ballad. Ewan MacColl's father taught it to him. 17) LORD RANDALL Known throughout Europe and America in substantially the same form, Randall is a perfect example of the question and answer ballad. The name of the hero varies a good deal from version to version. Henry I of England (fourth son of William the Conqueror) died Dec 1, 1135 after a "surfeit of Lampreys" (eels - of which he was excessively fond) in Normandy. Child publishes 15 texts. Ewan MacColl's mother taught it to him. Musical direction, piano arrangements and accompaniment by Jason Martineau Produced by Jason Martineau Recorded and mixed December, 2009 at Fantasy Recording Studio, Berkeley, Calif. Engineered by Alberto Hernandez.- Shop: odax
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Jumpin' on the Bandwagon
'...We're not trying to push back any frontiers...' - part of the lyrics from 'Jumpin' on the Bandwagon' which express the band's intentions for this album. '...we try to use the familiarity and durability of past classics as a springboard to express our own feelings about life in the new millennium', says bandleader Kit Packham in his sleeve notes. He goes on to say a few words about each track which draw on a wide variety of musical genres within a broad jazz and blues spectrum. You may hear Louis Jordan, Ian Dury, Willie Dixon, Charles Mingus, Chuck Berry, Viv Stanshall, Louis Prima, Noel Coward, Mose Allison... or none of these! What you will hear is some great songs played by a great band. R E V I E W S Humorous blues lyrics don't come any better - cleverer or funnier - nowadays than those from Kit Packham's pen, and there are two or three new examples here which are as good as anything I've heard from him before. 'We Don't Normally Work This Cheap' in particular is exceptionally witty, and actually had me laughing out loud the first time I heard it. 'Cleaning Up My Act' too, is as amusing a piece of 1920s-style-jazz-vaudeville as you'll hear this side of the Bonzos. Anyone expecting this surfeit of good humour to equate with a lack of musical seriousness would be wildly mistaken, since Packham's comedy sits upon a bedrock of real jump'n'jive know-how and instrumental earnestness - this is a band, after all, which even gives a 'beats-per-minute' reading beside each track title. Personnel-wise, the band is not greatly changed from that which appeared on 1999's From Top to Toe, with Billy Jenkins again displaying the subtler side of his guitar range and tastefully producing throughout. Also worthy of mention here are the keyboard skills of Perry White, Simon Da Silva's trumpet work, and the fine rhythm backline of Chris Rodel (double bass) and Kenrick Rowe (drums). Sax duties are shared between Tracey Mendham and Kit himself. The songs, all originals this time, display a wide range of influences, not just the blues, jazz and jive tunes Packham praises in his amusingly honest sleeve note, but also Caribbean and Latin American music. The band switch styles and tempos with ease, and although Kit is not the greatest singer on the block, he plays the "personality vocalist" card with some aplomb. All things considered it's a very impressive set. Rating: 8 - Paul Lewis (copyright 2001 Blueprint magazine) S S S S S S S S S S S S I confess that I haven't checked, but with this CD, I'm pretty sure I now have the first reference to David Beckham's haircut in my collection! Singer and saxophonist Kit Packham inhabits a nightmare world where clouds follow him around just to rain on him, his cat disappears under mountains of junk mail, maniac truckers rule the roads and only leave the cab "for diesel, the toilet or a doner kebab", his mobile phone never works and, when he does get to play a gig, he finds that "a big screen above us plays an old cup final, the dressing room doubles as the men's urinal" - welcome to the third millennium! As you may have guessed then, all the material is original - very original at times - if occasionally just a little too wordy (but these songs do stay in your head long after the album has ended). Much of the music is jump or jive, owing a lot to the likes of Louis (take your pick - Jordan, Prima, even a snatch of Satch) but often with it's own little musical twists, most often provided by guitarist Billy Jenkins, a well-known innovator on the UK jazz and blues scenes, whose solos and fills are kind of, er, Jimi Hendrix plays Tiny Grimes as imagined by Vernon Reid of Living Color. Drummer Kenrick Rowe also deserves a mention for being totally on the ball, though there are no slackers here. There are a couple of Caribbean styled pieces in "Fried Bananas" (cod Louis Jordan plays cod calypso) and the mellow "Simple Things In Life", "Junk Mail" is almost Little Richard style, "Rough and Ready Blues" is virtually that, and the final number is a lyrically very clever and up to the minute song with a twenties jazz accompaniment and delivery. Oh, and "Big Swinging Dick" is about "a long-legged sleuth with a sideline in syncopation" - why, what did you think it was? Yeah, this is nice. If you like your jump-jivers note for note from old 78s, avoid this like the plague, otherwise, if what you have read here has piqued your interest, check it out by all means.... And by the way, don't take the title too literally. Kit has been purveying this brand of music around South London and environs for well over twenty years now. Norman Darwen (copyright 2001 Blues & Rhythm) S S S S S S S S S S S S This is Packham's best album to date. All originals from the leader with help from guitarist Billy Jenkins and arranged within a framework of jump, jive and boogie. The band (One Jump Ahead) play like a well-oiled machine but not like clockwork. There's loose rhythmic feel and the vibrant happy sound of people enjoying themselves. Packham and Jenkins supply some quality tunes including a number that will strike a chord with many bands (We Don't Normally Work This Cheap). The lyrics cover all the deflating experiences of a struggling band and even established ones no doubt. The Big Swinging Dick is obviously about a private eye with rhythm and is a good rousing number to boot! A good mixture of serious blues and tongue-in-cheek numbers that could make a party swing. David Lands (copyright 2001 Jazz Journal International) S S S S S S S S S S S S ........Once again Kit Packham and One Jump Ahead have come up with a highly entertaining album..... As always, the music from this big swinging outfit is superb and such is the range - everything from Chicago blues to boogie-woogie, jumpin' jive and and good time singalong - that this CD is a complete show in itself....... Chris Woodford (copyright 2001 Now Dig This)- Shop: odax
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