Now you can sing in the style of Nina Simone. Published in the popular You're The Voice" series this book features arrangements of classic Nina Simone songs for piano voice & guitar & a short artist biography. The accompanying CD contains full backing tracks for each song professionally arranged & recorded to recreate the sounds of the original recording." ...

Of all the major singers of the late 20th century Nina Simone was one of the hardest to label. She recorded extensively in soul jazz & pop & was also comfortable with blues gospel & Broadway. She has subsequently been labelled as a 'soul' singer in terms of emotion rather than form. Her repertoire included jazz standards gospel & spirituals classical music folk songs of diverse origin blues pop songs from musicals & opera African chants as well as her own compositions. ...

Of all the major singers of the late 20th century Nina Simone was one of the hardest to label. She recorded extensively in soul jazz & pop & was also comfortable with blues gospel & Broadway. She has subsequently been labeled as a 'soul' singer in terms of emotion rather than form. Her repertoire included jazz standards gospel & spirituals classical music folk songs of diverse origin blues pop & songs from musicals & opera African chants as well as her own compositions. This songbook is a second volume of classic songs authentically transcribed for piano voice & guitar. ...

All of Kirstys friends & family have come to her birthday party
- but her cake has disappeared! Jack Frost has stolen Kirstys birthday
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The shooting of a Chinese liquor store owner in LA brings Harry Bosch back to the Rodney King riots & the moment a stranger gave a young cop sanctuary. Now the debt must be repaid & Harry soon discovers the old man's death was no ordinary hold-up. Homing in on clues disregarded by the cops on the scene Harry builds a picture of corruption & intimidation with the local Triads at the heart of it. But as he tries to build a case & breach the impenetrable wall of silence in the local community he finds he is taking a dragon by the tail
- a dragon whose talons reach well beyond LA & even the States. Suddenly the most precious thing in Harry's life is under threat & he will need to leave the familiarity of his home turf alone & without backup if he is going to stop his worst nightmare from happening.
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Dan Starkey the ducking & diving hapless investigator takes centre stage again in this brilliant new novel by the master of comic crime. Radio shock-jock & self-styled peoples champion Jack Caramac is used to courting controversy
- but when his four-year-old son is kidnapped for just one hour & then sent back with a warning note he knows he may have finally gone too far. Jack has no choice but to turn to Dan Starkey for help. Recently chucked by his long-suffering wife Patricia Dan has finally given up on journalism & is now providing a boutique bespoke service for important people with difficult problems. Dan resolves to catch whoever kidnapped Jacks son
- & very soon finds himself in the middle of a violent feud between rival drug gangs pursued by jealous husbands unscrupulous property developers & vicious killers as the case spirals ever more out of his control...

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Nine lives is a tale of this magnetic figures progression from hunter to filmmaker to conservationist. It is also the remarkable story of a lifelong affair with nature. In Nine lives Varty narrates the adventures trials mishaps & triumphs of his extraordinary life from hunting lions at the age of twelve & teaching the orphaned lion cub Shingalana how to hunt for food to spending last moments with the badly mauled Mother Leopard
- whom he had been following & filming for years
- before she crawled into a termite mound to die. He reveals the secrets behind his close relationships with certain big cats & invokes the terror of his own narrow escapes from death including a dangerous encounter with crocodiles & a near-fatal helicopter crash. Captivating often humorous & deeply moving Nine Lives is a passionate account of a life lived to the full by a man driven by an intense love of the wild.

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A cats nine lives are full of adventure & excitement & none more so than Montezuma the farmyard cat. From a young kitten to a grand old cat he is cunning & proud while establishing his kingdom but to Matthew hes always loving & adorable. ...

Youll want to decorate & gift these unique nine patch projects! Great for gifts fund raising or to keep all for yourself this variety of designs will allow you to customize each project using your personal color palette. Make a table topper set for your next party or get together with your quilting group & create a bed quilt to give as a fund raiser to your favorite charity. Quilters of all experience levels will love this book. Nine Patch Panache takes the traditional nine patch block & gives it a twist a turn & shakes it up to create table toppers bed quilts wall quilts & lap quilts in a variety of styles from folk art to modern. The 176 pages are filled with projects step-by-step instructions full color photos & drawings. The quilter can select their favorite fabric combine it with a nine patch design follow the easy to read instructions & will complete a unique project suitable for display or gifting. ...

When his sexton finds a corpse in the wrong grave the rector of Fenchurch St Paul asks Lord Peter Wimsey to find out who the dead man was & how he came to be there. The lore of bell-ringing & a brilliantly-evoked village in the remote fens of East Anglia are the unforgettable background to a story of an old unsolved crime & its violent unravelling twenty years later. I admire her novels.. .she has great fertility of invention ingenuity & a wonderful eye for detail Ruth Rendell ...