Join Windy Flute, Spitz Trumpet and their friends as they travel to a legendary place where music is joyous, creative and free.
My Thoughts:
Journey to Jazzland is a delightful picture book. I think it would be a great story for parents and children together for a entertaining way for children to learn about music and musical instruments. It is well written, entertaining and includes vibrant amazing illustrations This book is one children are sure to cherish! Highly recommended!
5/5
I received the ebook version for my honest review.
Read an Excerpt:
One day during an orchestra rehearsal, Windy Flute was playing a piece of music and her mind started to wander. Over and over, she had practiced this piece and played this piece. Feeling bored, she felt that she wanted to be a little different.
Then something special happened. She began to hear notes that weren’t on the page of sheet music on her stand! When she started playing what she heard, Windy realized these new notes made her feel better. The harmonies and the melodies were the same, but the music moved differently. Before she could figure things out, she was interrupted by a stern voice.
“Excuse me, Ms. Flute, do you mind playing with the rest of us? Where do you think you are — Jazzland?” said Mr. Conductor, scowling down at her.
After the rehearsal, Mr. Conductor gave Windy a severe look and stomped off the stage.
Windy turned to her friends in the woodwind section. “What’s Jazzland?” she asked. She was still thinking about the good feelings she got from playing different notes.
“It’s a myth,” said Mr. Bassoon.
“That’s right,” said Mr. Oboe, “It’s a legend. It doesn’t really exist.”
“I think it exists,” said Spitz Trumpet.
About the Author:
Born and raised in Fairhaven, Massachusetts and attended University of Lowell (now University of Massachusetts, Lowell). It was there that I learned to love jazz. I have been performing jazz and other kinds of music for over 20 years, throughout the New England area. I live in North Reading, Massachusetts with my husband Richard, and my son Charlie.
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It is my pleasure to kick off The Thunderbird Conspiracy by R.K.Price Tour!
Book Description:
Publisher: Quiet Owl Books (June 29, 2012) Category/Genre: Historical Fiction ISBN: 978-0615658353 Tour Date: October 21/November, 2013 Available in: Print & ebook, 338 Pages
Just in time for the 50th anniversary of JFK’s death!
The Thunderbird Conspiracy is the remarkable tale of Robert Kaye, a Hungarian freedom fighter who claimed he knew and collaborated with JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. R. K. Price’s second novel is also a tale of a Nebraska farm boy who was a great admirer of President Kennedy and a true patriot who desperately wanted to believe his government’s hurried conclusion that Oswald had no accomplice. Yet his own harrowing experience at the hands of his government created profound doubt in his mind, and it haunted him to his death.
These two men, one willfully acting, the other a true victim, became entangled in the most notorious crime of the 20th century. This saga of intrigue and murder was revealed to the author on a wintry Colorado day about three weeks before the farm boy’s ravaged heart gave out.
That man was R. K. Price’s uncle. His name was Bud Carlson. Price stashed away Bud’s account of Robert Kaye, letting it lay dormant for nearly forty years until he could corroborate his uncle’s story with the release of previously secret FBI files from the National Archives.
Now nearing the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination Price has brought Robert Kaye and Bud Carlson back to life. Their incredible story will leave you questioning just how and why JFK was taken from America far too early.
My Thoughts:
The Thunderbird Conspiracy weaves fact and fiction about the JFK assassination. Years ago Bud Carlson, R.K.’s uncle, told him about an an employee of his that may have been involved in a conspiracy to kill JFK. R.K. sat on what Bud told him because there was no hard proof. However, about 20 years ago, more information was becoming opened up to the public. Since then, every so many years more information has been release. Using what Bud told him, the release information, and his imagination, R.K. Price has pieced together a compelling story.
Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone or was there a conspiracy? We may never know for sure. However, that fateful day has captured our imagination and theories still, 50 years later.
Brimming with believable characters, exciting twists and turns, and a well developed plot, R.K. Price weaves together a possible theory. I only have one slight complaint, that I think it could have been edited down just a little bit. Some of the dream sequences seemed a bit repetitive. However, I highly recommend The Thunderbird Conspiracy! It is a highly charged exciting read!
4.5/5
I received an ebook copy for my honest review.
About R.K. Price:
R.K. Price is a Colorado native. He lived in Pueblo for a number of years, earning his way through college as a radio/television and newspaper reporter. He moved north to Denver in the mid 70s, joining a major advertising/public relations firm as a writer, producer and press agent. Later, he formed his own media relations and political consulting firm. He spent the early 1980s in Washington D.C. actively involved in national politics, and returned to Denver in the mid 80s to become an investment and mortgage banker — a profession he remains in today. He now lives in the Washington D.C. area with his wife Janet and daughter Sara in Alexandria, Va.
Thanks to Quiet Owl Books, I am giving away one copy of The Thunderbird Conspiracy. This giveaway is international. If the winner resides in the U.S., there is the choice of print or ebook. An international winner will receive ebook. This giveaway ends on November 14, 2013. Please use Rafflecopter to enter.
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Today, I am kicking off the book tour of Ghost of Lost Eagle by Dean Sault with my review and a book giveaway. The tour goes through November 7th.
Book Description:
Publisher: American Writers Publishing Company (July 8, 2013) Category/Genre: Western Romance Sub Category: Paranormal elements ASIN: B00DUEQJYY Tour Date: October/November, 2013 Available in: Kindle/Mobi and PDF, 336
Mason “Tuck” Tucker meets Sass Thornton when she lassos him and drags him from certain death in a flashflood. She dubs him “dumbass” for entering a box canyon during a rainstorm. This label he will hear many times as she struggles against her unwanted attraction to him.
Sass’s father, Phil, owns the cattle ranch that she runs with an iron fist. Her father has been keeping two important secrets from her; one about her mother’s murderer, the other about a killer in his bunkhouse who has romantic interests in the attractive young woman.
Phil hires Tuck, over his daughter’s strong objections, to run the bunkhouse and control growing racial tension between white cowhands and Mexican vaqueros. The young man surprises Phil with his easy, yet tough and effective, management style. The ranch owner takes Tuck into his confidence, revealing the truth about a deadly gunman terrorizing the bunkhouse. He insists that Tuck deal with the threat without letting Sass know of the danger.
Throughout the book, Tuck is haunted by howls of a lone wolf, but only one other person can hear it. The wolf often accompanies life-like dreams of an old Indian ghost named Lost Eagle. The spirit medicine-man repeatedly warns him about a strange destiny he must soon face. When Tuck reveals the dreams to Sass, she cautions him to avoid the cave where the ghost of Lost Eagle is thought to haunt. Despite her distrust of the Native American phantom, the apparition saves Tuck by waking him when an assassin approaches. Lost Eagle prepares Tuck for his fate, foretelling that the young man will soon have to choose life or death between friends. His choice will result in the death of one.
Read what happens when Lost Eagle’s ghost, the lone-wolf spirit-guide and Tuck’s new found love, Sass, come together in a life and death struggle. How does the murderer in the bunkhouse seek revenge against Sass and her father? What happens when Phil’s secrets are revealed to his daughter? Will Tuck leave the woman he comes to love to save his aunt who raised him as the only mother he’s ever known? Find the answers by reading the Ghost of Lost Eagle.
About Dean Sault:
Author Dean Sault lives in Northern California with his wife and her menagerie of pets. Every day for the past thirty-five years, he could not wait to shut down his insurance office, so he could spend time with his family, go fishing, or retreat into his private world of writing fictional places and people.
In 2007, severe vertigo took away Sault’s beloved avocation of bass fishing and writing for Inside Line magazine. Sault refused to let vertigo stand in the way of his love of writing. He decided to dust off his stories and share his literary creations with the world. He began by publishing his science fiction space opera, The Last Human War.
After twenty years of writing in the dark, Sault was ready to step out and share his work with the world! He says, “2013 will be the year my readers experience a diversity of genres I’ve kept hidden from the world. From sci-fi to western romance, some with paranormal elements, this will be an exciting year.”
Sault brings his unique writing style to every story he creates. With crisp, fast-paced prose, he employs Hemingway-like simplicity as he weaves complex characters into fascinating worlds. Readers often comment that once begun, they cannot put his books down. “I learned this skill, believe it or not, from writing bass fishing articles and columns for Inside Line magazine during the time when I chased professional fishing and guiding,” Sault says. “In fact, many of the stories we are making available to readers today, found their beginnings in dusty motel rooms, late at night, while at distant bass tournaments.”
This breakout author shows promise to be one of the great writers of our time. From action-adventure to terror in his thrillers, his masterful handling of fast-paced prose compares with great writers like Tom Clancy and HG Wells. His western-romances share the strong pacing, but they slow at just the right moments to build touching love connections that tug at the readers’ heartstrings.
When Mason “Tuck” Tucker and his horse get caught in a flash flood in Sweetwater Canyon, Sass Thornton saves him. Sass is a strong woman rancher who lives and works with her father on a nearby ranch.
Tuck lost his sattle bags with all of his possessions including his money in the flood. He is trying to make his way to his aunts ranch. Her husband dies and the rnach hands all quit because the refuse to work for a woman.
With little alternative, Tuck agrees to work for Sass’s father, Phil Thornton for the rest of the cattle season. Phil tells his troubling secrets and puts him in charge of protecting Sass and well as trying to cut the racial tensions between the white cowhands and Mexican vaqueros.
I don’t read romance novels very often, unless something else to offer besides the romance part. Ghost of Lost Eagle fit the bill for me. It is part romance, part western, part historical fiction, with just a dash or supernatural It has something for just about everyone. The characters are well drawn out, including Sass, a free spirited strong female character. Dean Sault captures the sense of time and space wonderfully. I felt like I was right there in the rugged, yet beautiful landscape. I was drawn in from page one. This is the first book in the Sweetwater Canyon Series. I can hardly wait to read the next! Highly recommended!
5/5
I received this ebook for my honest review.
Dean Sault has a special offer, just for you, my readers. Here is how to get your very own autographed print edition or ebook of Ghost of Lost Eagle:
Thanks to the author, Dean Sault, I am giving away one ebook copy of Ghost of Lost Eagle. This giveaway is open internationally and ends on November 7, 2013. Please use Rafflecopter to enter.
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