![]() Grew up in the Bronx Lifelong Yankee fan and Roadduck for life. Jon Buder - Keyboards, Vocals played 10 years in the band played keys on both albums Syracuse and Horace Mann alum. Tim went to William and Mary with Jay and Bob. Tim ‘Turtle’ Tomlinson 11/50 – 7/13 – We mourn the recent passing of our old friend and early sound engineer Tim Tomlinson. Scott ‘Imo” Whitney - Stage Security-CrewĮddie Loose - Stage, Security, Band BartenderĮdward ‘When r we gonna eat” Barnes - Drum Tech- Crew Ronnie ‘Lanky’ Patterson - Drum Tech Crew ![]() Was with us for our first 2 years never would have made any progress without him. Mike Murphy - Tour Manager, Banker, from Williamsburg. Great guy, great player, fabulous bandmate and friend. ![]() He finished ten fabulous years with the Wilson Sisters and Heart, moved to Nashville, where he has become the ‘go to guy’ for major country acts. Billy is currently the Tour Manager for Chris Young and has been in that position for Vince Gill Toni Braxton, Brian Wilson, Blondie and Deana Carter, Foghat, Better Than Ezra. William Henry ‘Billy’ Cracknell – Billy, grew up in Mt Vernon,Va., joined The Ducks in 1982 and played bass for 3 years before retiring from the touring band. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() While I am fairly new to the historical fiction genre I am really beginning to enjoy it. The Pull of the Stars is another engaging book by Emma Donoghue. In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue once again finds the light in the darkness in this new classic of hope and survival against all odds. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. ![]() They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other’s lives in unexpected ways. Into Julia’s regimented world step two outsiders-Doctor Kathleen Lynn, a rumoured Rebel on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. ![]() ![]() ![]() Will Bruce be able to find out Nelson's killer while his own life is at risk? Though 'Camino Winds' is the second book in the Camino Island series, it can also be read as a standalone novel. When Bruce comes across Nelson's unfinished new novel, he starts reading between the lines and what he comes across is far too dangerous. Nelson was known for his timely political thrillers and as Bruce starts investigating, he begins to question if there was more to Nelson's fictional characters. Bruce takes the matter in his hands and begins to search for the real killer. But since the local police is overwhelmed with the disaster management tasks, they are unable to investigate into Nelson's murder. A report suggests that Nelson was killed due to blows on his head and not the Hurricane. While Bruce survives, his writer friend Nelson Kerr dies. The Hurricane was devastating to say the least- many people are killed and properties are ruined. While the Governor had issued an order to evacuate the island residents, some of them decided to stay back including Bruce Cable of Bay Books. The Camino Island in Florida is struck with deadly Hurricane Leo. Grisham's new book ' Camino Winds' released in April 2020 and it is the second book in the Camino Island series. ![]() But in 2017, he wrote 'Camino Island'- a thriller set on a fictitious resort island in Florida with one of the greatest bookstores, a community of writers and vacationers- which was a bestseller. John Grisham is known for writing legal thrillers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Will they survive? Will they prove their innocence? Will life ever be the same again? We demand the answers to these questions because, as strange and contrived as situations in a thriller can get, the protagonists closely resemble most of the people in the audience, who don’t seek out danger and worry about what would happen if it befell us anyway. They are typical stories of seemingly normal people, suddenly thrust by circumstance or their own sins into perilous situations. That doesn’t mean they all have life-or-death situations, serial killers, and kidnappings in them.īut those are the types of intense, suspenseful situations we come to expect from films with the “thriller” label. ![]() After all, a lot of movies want to thrill you. But “thrillers” can be tougher to nail down. Family movies are intended for all audiences. Werewolf movies are movies with werewolves in them. Some genres are easier to define than others. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through elementary and high school, she continued to publish poems in magazines for children and young people. Park published her first poem when she was nine years old for Trailblazer magazine. Park has been writing poetry and stories since the age of four. Linda Sue Park's parents immigrated to the United States in the 1950s, for their education. ![]() Linda Sue Park was born on March 25, 1960, in Urbana, Illinois, and was raised outside Chicago. She has written the ninth book in The 39 Clues, Storm Warning, published on May 25, 2010. Park's work achieved prominence when she received the prestigious 2002 Newbery Medal for her novel A Single Shard. She has written six children's novels and five picture books. Linda Sue Park (born March 25, 1960) is a Korean-American author who published her first novel, Seesaw Girl, in 1999. Linda Sue Park at the 2014 Texas Book Festival. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you've ever read the Moomintroll books, this book has the same breezy disarming sense of humor. This girl Sophia and her grandmother do not do much, but spend lots of time together doing normal things on normal summer days that happen in no particular order, and I don't even think all the same year. So, this girl Sophia and her grandmother, and by the way, her dad is there too but in Sophia's world he's just a background force, like the weather, and not a character. It's like a watercolor of only four or five easy strokes, that you can't help but stare at for hours. It's a wisp of a book - brief, with no plot to speak of and only two real characters, no compelling crisis to drive the action, no suspense. This is the quietest great book I've ever read.Įvery once in a while I read a book that makes me jealous, that makes me wish I could write and do what the book did. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Inhabiting a beautiful natural world removed from society and its constraints, Ludwik and Janusz fall deeply in love. After their camp duties are fulfilled, the pair spend a dreamlike few weeks camping in the countryside, bonding over an illicit copy of James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room. But a chance meeting by the river soon becomes an intense, exhilarating, and all-consuming affair. When university student Ludwik meets Janusz at a summer agricultural camp, he is fascinated yet wary of this handsome, carefree stranger. Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story of first love between two young men who eventually find themselves on opposite sides of the political divide - a stunningly poetic and heartrending literary debut for fans of Andre Aciman, Garth Greenwell, and Alan Hollinghurst. ![]() ![]() Lorna Doone's fictional shooting during her wedding ceremony was inspired by the very real case of a 17th-century bride in Chagford, Devon, who was fatally shot on her wedding day. The novel has a happy ending, for Lorna survived, and John Ridd got his revenge on Carver Doone. ![]() At the time Blackmore wrote his novel there was no tower, only a west window. I was blocked entirely from going to see Lorna whereas we should have fixed it so that I as well might have the power. It is also likely that it would have been unglazed, making Carver Doone's shot easier.Īn alternative theory is that the shot was fired through a window at the west end of the nave, where the tower door is now. In the 17th century the church was much smaller, and the window would have looked onto the high altar. During the couple's wedding ceremony at Oare Church, Lorna's half-brother Carver Doone shot her through a small lancet window in the south wall. In Blackmore's enduring romance, set at the time of Monmouth's Rebellion in the late 17th century, a local farmer named John Ridd falls in love with Lorna, the adopted daughter of the outlaw Doone family. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, the content: Most of the book rests on building a "definition" of the game. ![]() and then to Suits for bringing them back to our times. ![]() ![]() So, kudos to two of the wisest philosophers ever lived, Socrates and Plato. In this age of monologues, hard convictions, and in which everyone has urgent needs to talk but feels no need to listen -hence no one is really listening- I feel that the Socratic dialogue is a gem to be rediscovered. The dialogue -and the implied way of doing "communicative/collective philosophy"- may be the only tool available that takes ideas to their logical conclusion and fulfillment (always temporary that fulfillment may be). In the absence of people to converse and challenge me, I often find myself in an internal, imagined dialogue: Without answering to potential objections from others -imagined, written on in actual conversation- the mind cannot "stretch" and withdraws to a rigid, defensive state. I find that this is a really great tool for me to test one's own convictions. It is not only great as a method of presentation, I find, but as a method of doing "philosophy" in general, and not only for Socrates and Plato, but even for humble beings like myself. First, I love the Socratic dialogue as a tool for opening and widening ideas. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The banter between the musicians and the dialect they used had a really authentic feel to it. It was a little hard to pick up on the dialogue in the beginning, but I caught on to it. I listened to this as an audiobook, and I liked the narrator and the way that added to the experience. Throughout the rest of the book, I was hooked. The only part that I thought fell a little flat was the ending. Half-Blood Blues is a story about music and race, love and loyalty, and the sacrifices we ask of ourselves, and demand of others, in the name of art. When they are invited to attend the film’s premier, Sid’s role in Falk’s fate will be questioned and the two old musicians set off on a surprising and strange journey.įrom the smoky bars of pre-war Berlin to the salons of Paris, Sid leads the listener through a fascinating, little-known world as he describes the friendships, love affairs, and treacheries that led to Falk’s incarceration in Sachsenhausen. Hot Time Swingers band members Sid Griffiths and Chip Jones, both African Americans from Baltimore, have appeared in a documentary about Falk. Their young trumpet-player, Hieronymus Falk, declared a musical genius by none other than Louis Armstrong, is arrested in a Paris café. The Hot Time Swingers, a popular jazz band, has been forbidden to play by the Nazis. ![]() |