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  Billie Holiday and Etta James:...

  Charles River Editors

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  If Billie Holiday wanted to become a jazz singer, she chose the best of all eras in which to attempt it. A wave of great jazz and jazz/pop crossover artists swept over the United States from the 1920s through the 1950s, generating a golden age for the genre. This wondrous jazz era was well represented by both black and white master artists, men, women, vocalists, and instrumentalists, and Billie Holiday has stood the test of time as well as any, despite struggling with an environment that easily could have doomed such aspirations. Holiday “rewrote the rules” of jazz singing by using her voice not to imitate other singers, but by taking on the style of movement and sound common to jazz instruments. On top of that, she took the moderately employed practice of singing off the beat and brought it to the rhythmic forefront of virtually everything she sang. 
  Etta James, the legendary jazz, gospel, rhythm & blues, and soul singer, was perfectly positioned to reign as the supreme artist in the emerging soul genre of the ‘40s and ‘50s in America. No one ever doubted her talent, the highly distinctive and versatile nature of her voice, or her drive to succeed, and yet, she has been “woefully overlooked” in the history of indigenous rock and blues music in the United States. She is famous and recognized for several iconic hits with which she is eternally associated, such as “I’d Rather Go Blind” and “At Last,” but her place in the pantheon of great soul artists is unsteady and not always instantly recognizable by those outside of a knowledgeable group of devotees. For the rest of soul music’s listeners, mention of her name will result in a hasty inclusion into the inner circle of leading artists, as though James had been momentarily forgotten. Once the object of focus, however, she is revered as one of the titans of the genre, and those who had allowed her to slip from their minds are immediately reawakened to her powerful vocal and interpretive gifts.

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  Make Money from Home

  Alan Folden

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  As we all know, there is no magic trick that turns your time directly into money. However, there are ways to make money passively that do not require you to take on another "job". 
  You know the famous saying, "Don't work for your money. Make your money work for you". Many people often assume that this is easier said than done. 
  But, believe it or not, there are several easy ways to earn passive income which will make your money work for you! Yes, some of the ways may involve some work, time, and money up front, but once that's taken care of, you can sit back and watch your bank balance grow. 
  This sounds like exactly what you have been looking for right? But, how do you know which business is right for you? 
  Well, imagine having a concise and insightful information guide about different online businesses all under $1,000 available at your fingertips. Imagine knowing upfront which business isn't for you and in the process saving yourself a lot of stress, time, and wasted money. 
  That's exactly what this guide is here to do. 
  Make Money from Home will tell you about different businesses you can start today in order to grow passive income both online and offline. 
  The 101 passive income ideas include:CPA affiliate marketingPeer-to-peer (P2P) lendingDropshipping/ecommerceE-book publishingBloggingAnd many, many more! 
  To make things even easier, each of the ideas has been given their respective risk score, operating or launching costs, performance difficulty level, and profit potential, so you know exactly which business suits your needs best. 
  Don't wait, grab your copy of Make Money from Home, and change your life today.

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  Body Dump - Kendall Francois the...

  Fred Rosen

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  The inside story of an upstate New York serial killer who abducted, raped, and murdered women and hid their bodies in his home.  In the late 1990s in Poughkeepsie, New York, prostitutes began to go missing off the streets of the old Hudson River town. Due to the women’s nomadic lifestyles, which many people condemned, few in the town noticed they were gone besides their families and Lieutenant Bill Siegrist, who suspected that a serial killer was behind the disappearances. Local prostitutes described a strange man lurking around, leading Siegrist to Kendall Francois, an overweight, slovenly middle school hall monitor nicknamed Stinky. Police brought in Francois for a lie detector test, which he passed, and they were forced to release him. Area women continued to disappear.   In a shocking twist of fate, Francois was finally arrested when a woman he had raped managed to escape from his house and ran into a roadblock set up by Siegrist. She led the police back to Francois’s home, and the hall monitor soon gave a full confession and cut a deal with the prosecution. By then, cops in Tyvek suits had already found eight bodies concealed in the attic and crawl space of Francois’s house of horrors. To this day, one victim is still missing. From the author of numerous true crime books, including Lobster Boy and Deacon of Death, this is the frightening story of a brutal murderer whose neighbors never suspected what was going on behind his front door.  

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  Trotsky - Downfall of a...

  Bertrand M. Patenaude

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  In Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary, Stanford University lecturer Bertrand M. Patenaude tells the dramatic story of Leon Trotsky's final years in exile in Mexico. Shedding new light on Trotsky’s tumultuous friendship with painter Diego Rivera, his affair with Rivera’s wife Frida Kahlo, and his torment as his family and comrades become victims of the Great Terror, Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary brilliantly illuminates the fateful and dramatic life of one of history’s most famous yet elusive figures.

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  I Didn't Do It for You - How the...

  Michela Wrong

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  Scarred by decades of conflict and occupation, the craggy African nation of Eritrea has weathered the world's longest-running guerrilla war. The dogged determination that secured victory against Ethiopia, its giant neighbor, is woven into the national psyche, the product of cynical foreign interventions. Fascist Italy wanted Eritrea as the springboard for a new, racially pure Roman empire; Britain sold off its industry for scrap; the United States needed a base for its state-of-the-art spy station; and the Soviet Union used it as a pawn in a proxy war.In I Didn't Do It for You, Michela Wrong reveals the breathtaking abuses this tiny nation has suffered and, with a sharp eye for detail and a taste for the incongruous, tells the story of colonialism itself and how international power politics can play havoc with a country's destiny.

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  Rotten Evidence - Reading and...

  Ahmed Naji

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  A 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 
  In February 2016, Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in prison for "violating public modesty," after an 
  excerpt of his novel Using Life reportedly caused a reader to experience heart palpitations. Naji ultimately 
  served ten months of that sentence, in a group cell block in Cairo's Tora Prison. 
  Rotten Evidence is a chronicle of those months. Through Naji's writing, the world of Egyptian prison comes 
  into vivid focus, with its cigarette-based economy, home-made chess sets, and well-groomed fixers. Naji's 
  storytelling is lively and uncompromising, filled with rare insights into both the mundane and grand questions 
  he confronts. 
  How does one secure a steady supply of fresh vegetables without refrigeration? How does one write and revise 
  a novel in a single notebook? Fight boredom? Build a clothes hanger? Negotiate with the chief of intelligence? 
  And, most crucially, how does one make sense of a senseless oppression: finding oneself in prison for the act 
  of writing fiction. Genuine and defiant, this book stands as a testament to the power of the creative mind, in the 
  face of authoritarian censorship.

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