Hello Paris

The host of a late night, call-in radio show, Paris Gibson joins with police psychologist Dean Malloy to identify a mysterious caller known only as "Valentino" before he kills a woman whom he feels has wronged him

For Olivier Messiaen, music was a way of expressing his faith. He considered it his good fortune to have been born a Catholic and declared that 'the illumination of the theological truths of the Catholic faith is the first aspect of my work, the noblest and no doubt the most useful'. Messiaen is one of the most widely performed and recorded composers of the twentieth-century and his popularity is increasing, but the theological component of his music has so far largely been neglected, or dealt with superficially, and continues to provide a serious impediment to understanding and appreciating his music for some of his audience. Messiaen the Theologian makes a significant contribution to Messiaen studies by providing cultural and historical context to Messiaen's theology. An international array of Messiaen scholars cover a wide variety of topics including Messiaen's personal spirituality, the context of Catholicism in France in the twentieth century, and comparisons between Messiaen and other artists such as Dante and T.S. Eliot. Interdisciplinary methodologies such as exegesis, theological studies and analysis are used to contribute to the understanding of several major works including ?lairs sur l'au-del?., Sept Ha??nd Saint Fran?s d'Assise. By approaching Messiaen and his music from such important and original perspectives, this book will be of interest not only to musicians and theologians, but also to readers interested in the connection between spirituality and the arts.

The Harlem Renaissance is the best known and most widely studied cultural movement in African American history. Now, in Harlem Renaissance Lives, esteemed scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham have selected 300 key biographical entries culled from the eight-volume African American National Biography, providing an authoritative who's who of this seminal period. Here readers will find engagingly written and authoritative articles on notable African Americans who made significant contributions to literature, drama, music, visual art, or dance, including such central figures as poet Langston Hughes, novelist Zora Neale Hurston, aviator Bessie Coleman, blues singer Ma Rainey, artist Romare Bearden, dancer Josephine Baker, jazzman Louis Armstrong, and the intellectual giant W. E. B. Du Bois. Also included are biographies of people like the Scottsboro Boys, who were not active within the movement but who nonetheless profoundly affected the artistic and political statements that came from Harlem Renaissance figures. The volume will also feature a preface by the editors, an introductory essay by historian Cary D. Wintz, and 75 illustrations.

Die-cut pages and pop-out map for a first tour of Paris.

This comprehensive reference book provides succinct information on almost thirteen hundred musical stage works written and produced from the 1870s to the 1990s involving contributions by black librettists, lyricists, composers, musicians, producers, or performers or containing thematic materials relevant to the black experience. Organized alphabetically, they include tent and outdoor shows, vaudeville, operas and operettas, comedies, farces, spectacles, revues, cabaret and nightclub shows, children's musicals, skits, one-act musicals, one-person shows, and even a musical without songs. In addition to the hundreds of shows independently created, produced, and performed by black writers and theatrical artists, it presents hundreds more representing a collaboration of black and white talents. An appendix organizes the shows chronologically and highlights those that were most significant in the history of the black American musical stage. An extensive bibliography and indexes of names, songs, and subjects complete the work.

Classicists and non-classicists alike should enjoy this light-hearted retake on the story of how the Trojan War began. While sticking closely to the ancient texts for its events, its gods with the morals of five-year-old hooligans, and its heroes constantly worried about keeping up with the Atreidae and where the next payment on the new special use chariot is going to come from should strike a chord with modern readers.

This Love Thang, the first poetry novel to be written about eleven friends on the path to accepting, finding, and forgiving love in each other’s eyes. Each poem, chapter, signifies their voice, feeling, and emotions, expressing what love is. Will the path they’ve chosen be too much for even them to handle? She’s a poet, he’s a momma’s boy, she is on the path of self-destruction, will curiosity kill the cat? He needs to grow up, he doesn’t listen, he is a nightmare waiting to expel, she is mischievous, and of course, is she the best kept secret? Where there is a path, lessons are learned, and in each situation, inside their sister circle and the man’s club, can all be forgiven, or should they just let sleeping dogs lie?

The news travel fast around Washington D.C. and the score has not been settled between Braxton DePaul and his music producer. Braxton is a main character in the book series, God, Is This My Man. Although his behavior has not change, he think he can get whatever he wants and whatever pleases him, including a certain young lady. The plot thickens and Braxton finds himself, alone, confused and out of a job. Just when things seems to be going his, he find out, the young lady he loves is not willing to give up anything, but they continue down a deep dark secret path, that no one know how it will end. Braxton is ready to risk it all, but there is someone standing in his way. This mysterious person holds the key to Braxton’s future and the odds is not in Braxton’s favor. It is a showdown to the bitter end. How far is Braxton willing to go to get what he thinks he deserves.