A Lovely Way to Burn

Author: Louise Welsh
Publisher: Quercus
ISBN: 1681444615
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301

Book Description
A pandemic called 'The Sweats' is sweeping the globe. London is a city in crisis. Hospitals begin to fill with the dead and dying, but Stevie Flint is convinced that the sudden death of her boyfriend Dr Simon Sharkey was not from natural causes. As roads out of London become gridlocked with people fleeing infection, Stevie's search for Simon's killers takes her in the opposite direction, into the depths of the dying city and a race with death. A Lovely Way to Burn is the first outbreak in the Plague Times trilogy. Chilling, tense and completely compelling, it's Louise Welsh writing at the height of her powers.

It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues

Author: Charles Bevel
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573627996
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 62

Book Description
This sizzling revue of the blues and blues infused songs that changed the way the world hears the human heartbeat took New York by storm. Ravishing songs trace the evolution of the blues from Africa to Mississippi to Memphis to Chicago.

Guitar Chord Songbook White Pages

Author: Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher: Hal Leonard
ISBN: 1476818193
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 960

Book Description
(Guitar Chord Songbook). This fantastic collection features lyrics, chord symbols, and guitar chord diagrams for 400 hits across decades and genres, such as: All Along the Watchtower * Back to December * Band on the Run * Bennie and the Jets * Brick House * California Girls * Couldn't Stand the Weather * Daydream * Evil Woman * Footloose * The Gambler * Good Lovin' * Hey Jude * Hollywood Nights * I Love Rock 'N Roll * Jump * King of the Road * Livin' on a Prayer * Man in the Mirror * Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da * The Rainbow Connection * Smoke on the Water * That'll Be the Day * Walkin' After Midnight * Wild Thing * Your Mama Don't Dance * and many more.

River Teeth

Author: Joe Mackall
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826361390
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
To celebrate twenty years of introducing talented new writers to readers and publishing great nonfiction, the founding editors, Joe Mackall and Daniel W. Lehman, have selected their all-time favorite essays published in River Teeth in this stunning collection.

The Limits of Control

Author: Ryan Diduck
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 1913462293
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
Ryan Diduck turns his attention to control societies and their protocols in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic. What are the political implications of government measures to combat Coronavirus? The end of the world as we know it is no longer imaginary. Severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 (also known as SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19) is a potent virus that is upturning nearly every aspect of life on earth. But the novel Coronavirus is more than just a virus. It is a marketplace and media event, too, broadcasting at speed, oscillating against the transmission of its mediations. Ultimately, COVID-19 is the pretext upon which nations around the world have enacted social controls of varying severity, strictly limiting the communication, movement, and daily activities of billions of people. This could be a moment of overwhelming consolidation of capital. Or it could further reveal the cracks in a system which has exacerbated the coronavirus pandemic. We are rapidly approaching the limits of control. In the tradition of William S. Burroughs, Naomi Klein, Mark Fisher, and other key theorists of discipline and jurisdiction, The Limits of Control offers a timely new analysis of control societies, and a sibylline roadmap for living together in a hypervirulent world. What we imagine from now on has never mattered more.

Songs of the 1950s

Author: Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1540048446
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 704

Book Description
(Easy Piano Songbook). Almost 100 songs from the birth of the rock and roll era in the 1950s are included in this easy piano collection: All I Have to Do Is Dream * Bye Bye Love * Chantilly Lace * Don't Be Cruel * Earth Angel * Fever * Great Balls of Fire * Hound Dog * I Walk the Line * It's So Easy * Kansas City * Lonely Teardrops * Mister Sandman * Only You (And You Alone) * Peter Gunn * Rock Around the Clock * Sh-Boom * Shout * Sixteen Tons * Tequila * Tutti Frutti * Unchained Melody * Volare * Why Do Fools Fall in Love * Yakety Yak * Your Cheatin' Heart * and more.

Death is a Welcome Guest

Author: Louise Welsh
Publisher: Quercus
ISBN: 1681444534
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
Magnus McFall was a comic on the brink of his big break when the world came to an end. Now, like other survivors of "the Sweats," the mysterious plague that has decimated the planet, he is a man on the run. Thrown into unwilling partnership with an escaped convict named Jeb, Magnus flees the eerie desolation of de-populated London to make the long journey north, clinging to hope that the sickness has not reached his family in Scotland. Traveling through a familiar landscape now fraught with danger, Magnus finds himself a stranger in a world ruled by men like Jeb--hard-hearted, practical men quick to make life-or-death decisions. In a world re-written with a harsh code of justice, and a new set of rules where people barter for their existence with food and weapons, survival is the bottom line. But when Magnus and Jeb stumble across a murder during their journey, they will have to decide whether finding the truth about a single death can weigh in the balance against the need to survive.

Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths

Author: Shimon Edelman
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262360101
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
An expert on happiness presents an engaging and inspiring guide to making sense of the human condition via brief essays on concepts from action, to love, to thought, to youth. This book offers a guide to human nature and human experience--a reference book for making sense of life. In thirty-eight short, interconnected essays, Shimon Edelman considers the parameters of the human condition, addressing them in alphabetical order, from action (good except when it's not) to love (only makes sense to the lovers) to thinking (should not be so depressing) to youth (a treasure). In a style that is by turns personal and philosophical, at once informative and entertaining, Edelman offers a series of illuminating takes on the most important aspects of living in the world.

Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course: Pop Song Book 2

Author: Willard A. Palmer
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 9781457422935
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Well-known popular songs arranged in precise order to provide technical advancement and a sense of accomplishment while reinforcing the principles introduced in the Lesson Books. Included are such standard favorites as "For Once in My Life," "Over the Rainbow," "You Light Up My Life" and many others.

Shadow Bender

Author: Fay E. Simon
Publisher: Rogue Phoenix Press
ISBN: 1624201911
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
Thomas Franklin is involved in an experiment to control the darkness and command shadows, but far within his soul, he harbors a deeper darkness that may consume him. This secret is tearing him apart from Francie DeWitt, the woman he loves. As Franklin gains control of the darkness and shadows, he begins a physical change where he evolves into an unstoppable creature. Will he be able to adjust to this change and use it for good? Will he ever have the woman he loves or will Lewis Avery take everything away from him as his forefather had many years ago?