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Captain Dead Man: Sweetfern Harbor Mystery, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 234min
Sweetfern Harbor bed and breakfast cozy mysteries can be listened to in one to two hours. It is perfect for those moments when you are waiting at an appointment or want to enjoy a quick listen.Excitement races through Sweetfern Harbor as the famous July boat races near. Brenda Sheffield finds herself busier than ever at Sheffield bed and breakfast. Her place is booked solid, and calls come daily from potential and hopeful customers that have to be turned down. Brenda has never been as happy as she is now. Detective Mac Rivers asks her to marry him, and she accepts. Her disappointment comes when he wants her to wait to announce the news until after the long weekend is over. She reluctantly agrees.In the meantime, he suggests they go to Morning Sun coffee shop where the famous three captains are hanging out. They are close friends and fierce competitors and the stars of the race. Scully proves to be boisterous and reigns with bragging rights of winning this race. He jabs his friends in friendly banter, and Captain Pratt joins in. They entertain the crowd that moves closer to their table. Captain Eddy joins in but speaks less words than the other two. He is affable and draws a group of fans, too, but he allows the other two to have their good fun. Brenda and Mac are invited to tour the new boats crafted by local boat builder Wally Doyle before the races the next day. Brenda is excited to see the inside of a racing boat for the first time in her life.The next morning, when the captains tell them to go on and take tours by themselves, Mac and Brenda first enter Captain Eddy’s boat. They presume he is inside since he wasn’t with the other two down on Main Street. Shock sets in when they discover Captain Eddy is dead in his cabin. After calling for back-up, they discover signs around the boat that indicate this was not a natural death. A visiting detective and long-time friend of Mac, Bryce Jones, suddenly becomes the cap ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kasey Logan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/175819/bk_acx0_175819_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Reckoning (The Blue Blood Returns Series, #5) (eBook, ePUB)
The doors of the Mistresses compound weren't supposed to be open for one full year, but they opened early. A war like they have never fought before is about to ensue, and the lives of the breed are dangerously close to extinction. Kristin is stronger than she has ever been, and now that Zander is officially at her side, she's more of a force to be reckoned with. Will the two of them be able to take back their world, and start living their life together? Angelina is more powerful than she could have imagined after a surprise mating, but will that power be her undoing? With human-turned on the front line, thousands of breed across the country, and Kristin's arch-nemesis, Joseph Portage, working together, they are about to fight a war they might not win. It's all or nothing for them now. From backstabs to front-jabs, the breed is about to fight for what is theirs. Join Kristin and Angelina and the rest of the Blue Blood gang for the Reckoning, Blue Blood Finale, where the epic battle will occur, and you never know who will double-cross who next. The Blue Blood Returns Series is an adult paranormal romance with dark sexual situations, violence, language, and does contain cliffhangers between books. The My Blood Runs Blue Series: My Blood Runs Blue, Book 1 The Pulse of Blue Blood, Book 2 Blue Blood for Life, Book 3 Mixing the Blue Blood, Book 4 Blue Bloods Final Destiny, Book 5 The Return of Blue Blood Series: Kristin: Blue Blood Returns, Book 1 Hugh: Blue Blood Compelled, Book 2 Zander: Blue Blood Reborn, Book 3 Lena: Blue Blood Desired, Book 4 Reckoning: Blue Blood Finale, Book 5- Shop: buecher
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Metaverse and NFT Investing 2022 and Beyond: A Beginners Guide On Making Money In Virtual Lands, Blockchain Gaming, Non-Fungible Tokens, Crypto Art, DeFi Projects, Smart Contracts, Web 3.0 (eBook, ePUB)
Everybody wants to get on the train as soon as it arrives, so they're scrambling to buy a ticket as soon as possible. Technology, finance, politics, and the social and economic margins of the digital world have not ceased to deliver surprising packages that provide value and novelty, as well as the promise of a future utopian society. The term "cryptocurrency" is no longer a mysterious, esoteric term. A decentralized, autonomous financial system is quickly becoming the norm in almost every part of the world because of the widespread adoption of the idea of a decentralized autonomous financial system. The number of active cryptocurrency transactions and users has grown exponentially over the past few years, and the year 2021/22 was chosen as a significant part of this analysis. Bitcoin's introduction in 2009 has sparked a slew of negative headlines about crypto, ranging from heavy criticism of its working principle to random government jabs to knock it off its feet and out of the global economy to massive crypto meltdowns. Although it has stood the test of time, it continues to grow, and now even children are familiar with the term "cryptocurrency." Cryptocurrency is constantly evolving new ways to use its underlying technology-the blockchain-originally designed for crypto trading. Still, the innovation of NFTs has changed all of that. All these talks about NFTs have you scratching your head and wondering what all the fuss is all about. Astonishing sums of money are being paid for these NFTs in the six-figures and even the eight-figure range! This is not a fairy tale, my dear friends. I'm confident that after reading this e-book, the scales will fall from your eyes, and you will begin to see all the crazy good opportunities that are just out there in the digital world waiting for you to make a move.- Shop: buecher
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Scenes
One of the delightful mysteries of music is the power it possesses to stimulate visual impressions in the minds of listeners. Certain works-even small musical fragments-can fire the imagination with images from our world. A chevron of birds in flight, a serene mountain lake, the morning after a snowstorm, a starry sky, a cityscape, all from melody, harmony, and rhythm. Certain musical strains can release floods of memories that instantly connect us with the poignancy of times and places that we long to glimpse again. Like many before me, pursued a lifelong quest to find and capture the notes that may move others to feel such things. The guitar has been an excellent musical companion in this pursuit. The range of musical styles into which it's voice fits has enabled me (in different seasons of my life) to delve into folk, rock, jazz, and sacred music in addition to the classical repertoire. Consequently, the pieces I've written for this album have been shaped by my passage through diverse stylistic territories. The suite Four Scenes From a New England Calendar offers pastoral impressions of the part of the country where I've spent most of my years. The individual movements bear the subtitles "January", "April", "August", and "October" and attempt to convey feelings about the seasons as experienced in America's Northeast. As well, each movement explores different guitar textures and techniques and harmonies. "January" employs block chords struck vigorously in an eighth note pulse throughout. "April" is an atmospheric but melodic waltz at a medium tempo. In my mind, the rolling triplet arpeggio texture of "August" suggests ocean waves. "October" is dark and introspective with a lyrical melody. It brings the suite to a close with a coda that's as warm and peaceful as glowing embers on a chilly night. Descent to a Dream explores the moments of waning consciousness as we drift into sleep. The piece opens with a serene melody that becomes more rhythmically animated as it develops. Whole-tone scale motives, suggestive of the dream state, appear periodically for transitions. Fragments of the main theme emerge again in the coda above a bass line and hypnotic arpeggios. Four long chords signal the final break with the waking world. In the blues Mississippi Revisited, astute listeners might detect inspiration drawn from various blues guitar stylists blended with harmonies slightly reminiscent of George Gershwin's music. The middle section with it's walking bass line and chord jabs gives a nod to jazzmen Joe Pass and Lenny Breau. Three Hymn Tunes is a group of settings of popular hymn melodies: "Where Can I Turn for Peace?" "Abide With Me," and "Come, Come Ye Saints." My first serious exposure to hymn tunes began in 1984 when my wife MaryAnn and I joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and felt the uplifting power of hymns through singing them. The canon of American hymn tunes includes original melodies and adaptations of folk songs that have enjoyed long lives in both Europe and America. When I began making guitar settings of hymns in 1993, my approach was to take them out of the vocal domain and into the instrumental world and attempt to illustrate aspects and images inspired by the titles and lyrics. Joleen G. Meredith (1924-2004) wrote the melody to "Where Can I Turn for Peace" in 1971. Of the three hymns in this grouping, this melody has the shortest history, but has touched millions with a buoying message about turning to Christ for peace amid life's tumult. "Abide With Me" is considered a masterpiece of the Christian hymnody. British organist and composer William H. Monk (1823-1889) wrote this melody, which he titled "Eventide," and joined it with lyrics penned by Reverend Henry F. Lyte as the latter was succumbing to tuberculosis in 1847. The line "the darkness deepens, Lord abide with me" builds on a metaphor relating the inevitability of the close of the day to the end of life. "Come, Come, Ye Saints" is the best known of all Mormon hymn tunes. The melody is from an English folk song with lyrics written by William Clayton (1814-1879) after he and thousands of other Mormons were unlawfully ejected from their homes in Nauvoo, Illinois in the winter of 1846. This setting opens with the single-line melody accompanied by a snare drum effect (produced by plucking the fifth and sixth strings after crossing and fretting them at the midpoint of the guitar neck), alluding to the forced exodus and historic Mormon pioneer trek across America's plains. The ebb and flow of rhythmic and harmonic activity are meant to conjure up images of the energy and vibrancy of the pioneers who built a new city in the Salt Lake Valley. Malenky Etude is a short arpeggio study created to help master the right-hand fingering pattern found in "Etude 1" by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa Lobos. Virtually all classical guitarists have grappled with the unusual demands of that piece. "Malenky" is a Russian word for small, and the piece is dedicated to my Russian-born former teacher Dmitry Goryachev. Beneath the Lowering Sky seeks to portray the reaction to the sight of angry clouds overtaking a formerly clear sky. It's based on angular question-and-answer phrases built from the arrangement of nine tones. I worked this curious little melody through several permutations, presenting it in a number of harmonic and textural guises to fit a range of shifting moods. Metheny is a tribute to the great jazz composer and guitarist Pat Metheny. Over the years he has named several tunes for people. Two musicians whose work has moved him-songwriter James Taylor and bassist Jaco Pastorius-inspired the tunes "James" and "Jaco." I'm not aware of any musician returning the favor, so I named this piece for Pat. While it doesn't directly quote any of his music, it does contain allusions to aspects of his style in the articulations of certain melodies, unusual chord voicings and progressions, Latin rhythms, vigorous strumming, and a button ending. It's a tribute to an artist whose music has been a recurring theme in the soundtrack of my life since 1976. Farewell is the only piece I didn't write or arrange for this project. John Doan, best known for playing the 20-string harp guitar and for his Celtic-influenced compositions, came up with this gem. It's tinged with a bit of Irish dolor that affected me deeply the first time I heard it. Who hasn't experienced bittersweet resignation when the time for parting arrives and we desperately wish it could be postponed? John's simple but eloquent tune captures that sentiment perfectly, making it an ideal choice to close this album. -Mark Small.- Shop: odax
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Music of Russian Composers
Piano Synergy Duo. Husband-and-wife team Ruslan Sviridov and Irina Khovanskaya created the Piano Synergy Duo in 1996. Using their unique musical potential, the duo designs concert programs in which they perform together as well as individually. The results have been a constantly heavy demand and continuing success. For the past 14 years, the duo has toured extensively throughout Russia, Europe, and the Unites States. Now, for the first time, listeners have an opportunity to hear them on a CD. Irina Khovanskaya was born to a musician's family in Russia's Moscow Region in 1972. She began piano lessons at age 4 and gave her first recital about two years later in Kiev. Ten years of formal musical training followed at the Moscow Central Special Music College, during which time she also concertized extensively as a recitalist and with orchestras. Several of these events took place at the Moscow Conservatory's Small Hall, but she also played as far afield as the Russian Space Center (Moscow Region) and on USSR TV. Receiving a Bachelor's Degree in 1990, Khovanskaya's studies and performing career continued as she entered the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where her teacher was Victor Merzhanov. Now her performances become international. Besides appearances with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and in many Russian cities, she performed in Zurich, Munich, Brussels, and Warsaw. Contests in Russia, Germany, and Belgium were capped by Khovanskaya's winning First Prize in the Texas Steinway Society Piano Competition in Dallas, Texas in 1999. With her Conservatory Diploma (1996) and post-graduate work behind her, Dr. Khovanskaya now resides in San Antonio, Texas. In addition to performance engagements, she teaches piano at the University of the Incarnate Word and adjudicates in piano competitions. Ruslan Sviridov was born in 1973 in Tambov, Russia. He began to study music at age 7 and gave his first public performance at the age of 8. His years of study at the Tambov Music School and later at the Rachmaninov Music College in Tambov were marked by many competition triumphs and literally hundreds of concerts and recitals throughout Russia's Central Region. First prizes came from the Tchaikovsky Regional Piano Contest (1989), the Bartok Regional Contest (1989), and the Kabalevsky Regional Competition for Young Pianists (1990), to name only a few. Sviridov went on to enter the Moscow State Conservatory, studying with Victor Merzhanov. Concerts and competitions continued, now at a higher level. He played with symphony orchestras in several Russian cities, including Moscow, Ulyanovsk, and Tambov, and at the Glinka Music Festival in Smolensk. During 1994-96, he took Grand Prize or First Prize (or both) or a Special Jury Prize at competitions in Italy at Tortona, Alassio, San Bartolomeo al Mare, and Caltanissetta, Sicily. His first U.S. triumph was a Special Jury Prize in Kingsville, Texas (1995). In addition to an international list of recitals, Sviridov's career is distinguished by a substantial body of television tapes and live appearances, starting in Russia and extending through Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, and the United States (NBC). During his studies in Moscow, culminating in a Doctoral Degree (1998), he taught piano and music theory. Leaving Russia in 1998, Dr. Sviridov again picked up his teaching activity in San Antonio, Texas, also his base for concertizing and contest adjudication. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker Suite As charming and entertaining as The Nutcracker ballet turned out, one would hardly imagine that Peter I. Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) did not care much for the score himself. The composer had been a little reluctant to compose this music on a subject that was prescribed for him and for which the choreographer had given him an over-detailed scenario. He completed the score in 1891, and some months before the premiere of the full ballet the following year he extracted a concert suite. The scenario of The Nutcracker ballet was taken from a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann as adapted by Alexander Dumas, Sr. It has to do with Clara, a young girl who receives a grotesque looking nutcracker for Christmas, only to have it magically transformed into a prince who carries her off on fantastic adventures. The movements of the Suite do not follow the progress of the story exactly, but are ordered to form a good musical sequence. The "March" has a toy quality, reminding us that the only military operations that Clara witnesses are imaginary ones between mice and gingerbread soldiers. The "Dance of the Sugar- Plum Fairy " was composed originally for the celesta, a bell-like keyboard instrument that personifies this character perfectly. This was the first time a composer had written for the instrument. In the second act of The Nutcracker, Clara and her Nutcracker are treated to an international divertissement of dances at the court of the Sugar-Plum Fairy. One part of this is the "Trepak," a wild Russian dance and one of the nationalistic elements in the ballet. More exotic is the Chinese "Dance of the Reed Flutes," originally featuring shrill flutes and piccolos and mumbling bassoons. When we think of waltzes, we usually think of Johann Strauss. But Tchaikovsky was also one of the great waltz composers of his century. Waltzes from Eugene Onegin and the Serenade for Strings bear witness. The "Waltz of the Flowers" is the finale to The Nutcracker Suite and one of the most graceful movements ever penned by Tchaikovsky. Stravinsky, Five Easy Pieces for Piano Duet The years of World War I (1914-1918) were years of small pieces for Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971). Self-sequestered in Switzerland for most of the duration, the composer found few opportunities for performances or publication. Stravinsky occupied himself chiefly with small- scale stage works, songs, and short instrumental pieces. At that time, his oldest children, Theodore and Mika, had become good enough pianists for him to write music for each of them to play with their father. So originated the series of Five Easy Pieces for piano duet. The child's part was usually a melody played in octaves, while the father's part filled out the texture and contained any complicated passage work. Stravinsky later orchestrated four of the duets to produce his Suite No. 1 for small orchestra. Stravinsky's musical sense of humor is, of course, famous. In these miniature character pieces, we can hear the same wry satire that charms us in much of his other music from this period. The Five Easy Pieces touch on various "national" musical characteristics. Following a relatively serious "Andante" comes an "Española" composed after a trip to Spain in 1916. The "Balalaika" celebrates the Russian folk instrument. "Napolitana" was another travel souvenir, this time to Naples in 1917. The concluding "Galop" is a spoof on the archetypical endings of French ballets of the 19th century. It's high spirits and satirical jabs sum up the flavor of the Five Easy Pieces. Rachmaninov, Six Pieces for Piano Duet, Op. 11 Like his mentor Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) did not enjoy teaching. He did so only when he needed money. Rachmaninov found himself in that financial position in 1893, the year Tchaikovsky died. Taking on more private lessons, he also taught music theory at a girls' academy. Rachmaninov's publisher, knowing his need and also knowing the market for his piano music, convinced him to write something for piano four-hands. The result was the Six Pieces for Piano Duet published in 1894, which turned out to be the longest work Rachmaninov ever created for piano duet. The movements are "character" pieces in the best romantic salon tradition, and they contrast with one another effectively. The opening "Barcarolle" floats along on the undulating lilt of a gondola song, yet Rachmaninov infuses it with his own characteristic melancholy. Cas- Shop: odax
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Knucklebonz - Scorpions - Matthias Jabs Rock Iconz
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