Ken Davies Favorite Things

Covering the entire 45-year history of the Blues, author Jeremy Rutherford has collected every essential piece of Blues knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them from 1 to 100. Most Blues fans have taken in a game or two at the Scottrade Center, have seen highlights of a young Brett Hull, and are aware that the team is named after the famous W. C. Handy song “Saint Louis Blues”. But only real fans know who scored the first goal in franchise history, can name all of the Blues players whose numbers are retired, or can tell you the best place to grab a bite in St. Louis before the game. 100 Things Blues Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the definitive resource guide for both seasoned and new fans of the St. Louis Blues.

Welcome back to idyllic Blue Lake Village, in the beautiful Adirondack Mountains. It’s summertime in Blue Lake. After previously solving a murder for the new acting sheriff, former NYPD forensics expert Celia Strong is looking forward to settling in to her new life quietly running Ye Old Ice Cream Shoppe in Blue Lake Village with the help of her teenage daughter Katie. But then murder returns to Blue Lake. Regatta Weekend arrives—a highlight of the Blue Lake summer season. Six finalists sail a course for the championship cup. One arrives dead at the finish line, murdered during the race. But how? As the racers’ dark secrets emerge, acting Sheriff Denny DeWalt turns back to Celia—with the help of her friends on ‘the block’—to help solve the case. Find out if Celia and her friends can catch the killer in the second book in the Blue Lake Cozy Murder Mystery series by author Hadley K. Knox.

A new edition of a classic title, presenting the glorious story of one of football's greatest teams.

Challenged by his son Kristian Davies, the award winning author of Laynfaroh's first book, The Orientalists , to write the story of a forty-year passion for collecting American paintings, Tom Davies quickly found himself not only recalling events surrounding their acquisition but also recounting how the 'art gene' was passed from his father to him and onto his two sons. This Collecting Stories is unlike any other book focusing on a family's lifelong pursuit of its passion. It is written entirely by the collector, not simply a hired art historian. It communicates, at a personal level, the great joy and pleasure derived from the people (artists, dealers, museum personnel, and other collectors) encountered along the way, the lessons learned (both good and bad), and the satisfaction gained from increased knowledge and insight. As the title states, there are 400 pieces of artwork, reflecting the ever-expanding interests of Mr. and Mrs. Davies, collected over forty years, ranging from 19th-century Hu