This is a delicious murder mystery in which we are introduced to Jeremy Wadlington-Smythe, a newcomer to the wonderful world of the whodunnit. In this novel, the first of the series, Jeremy, an accomplished orchestral conductor with a unique view of his mission, accepts an engagement to lead a major American symphony orchestra only to find himself in the midst of murder and mayhem. Jeremy is recruited by the president of the board of a major American symphony orchestra because of his unorthodox approach to the business of orchestral music making. He is simultaneously a very successful conductor with a much larger than typical following, and mistrusted by the administrators of the orchestras he conducts because his approach is in direct contradiction to the by now century old paradigm in which they are floundering. The mystery evolves seamlessly from this background, and the musical polemic and evolution of the story are intertwined. In the end, Jeremy solves the mystery in a manner which will leave the reader as surprised as those to whom Jeremy addresses his summary. This is a book that will delight mystery lovers with a complex plot and an entertaining cast of characters, many of whom will return in further mystery novels in the Jeremy Smythe series. Jeremy is a foodie and he's funny. Detective Lieutenant Max Mollery Plays Inspector Jaap to Jeremy's Poirot, but is smarter. Joely Tresser is the female lead, a woman of keen intelligence and exceptional beauty. The background of the story is the financially crumbling world of the symphony orchestra in the USA, though it is relevant to the plight of orchestras the world over.

Murder in the House of the Muse

Literature & Fiction

Bogat, Leni

United States

Books & Books Pr

17 stories about the varieties of the Christmas experience by 17 of our finest storytellers, and not one borrows feelings or seasonal stereotypes. They offer the gifts of honesty, suspense, and transport. They'll carry you away to a world more intriguing and compelling than the one you spend your days in.

Blue Christmas: The Holidays for the Rest of Us

Dispatches From Paradise leaps onto the family battlefield of three generations of women living together in Miami - where DD cups abound, octogenarians recite erotic poetry and an S&amp;M Fitness class is not for the faint-hearted. On Liz's 39th birthday she kicks out her cheating husband, ditches her soul-sucking job and declares her life a do-over. Then her mother and daughter move in with her and all hell breaks loose. But as the women tear through the city's racy clubs and wild art scene, Liz, Claudette and Darcy change, grow and reconnect on new terms, letting go of past betrayals, misunderstandings and disappointments.

Dispatches from Paradise

Gitlow, Shelly

Erotica

This collection of photographs is a cultural documentation of this complex and majestic animal, with its intelligence, intricate social hierarchy, and highly evolved communication skills, and is caught in a changing world between the past and the future. The images guide us through villages, temples, logging camps and circuses where elephants labor, delight and inspire worshipers and tourists to the final image of the Lord Ganesh, a spiritual culmination of a cycle between man and beast.

India's Elephants

Arts & Photography

Bonnier, Annette

Photography & Video

This collection of photographs is a cultural documentation of this complex and majestic animal, with its intelligence, intricate social hierarchy, and highly evolved communication skills, and is caught in a changing world between the past and the future. The images guide us through villages, temples, logging camps and circuses where elephants labor, delight and inspire worshipers and tourists to the final image of the Lord Ganesh, a spiritual culmination of a cycle between man and beast.

In this rare view of six projects, award-winning architect and artist Kenneth Treister expresses the importance of uniting architecture and art to create sacred spaces. His poetic sensibility combines with the vast wingspan of his creative vision to produce exceptional works for those interested in Judaism, architecture and art.The impressive photographic skills of architectural photographer Laszlo Regos allow us to share in the beauty of these rich spaces. There is also a compelling Foreword by the world-renowned scholar and author Rabbi Yitz Greenberg. This book includes: Temple Israel’s award wining Gumenick Chapel; the restoration of Temple Emanu-El; the hand-carved murals at Beth David Congregation: the Synagogue at Miami’s Jewish Home; the University of Florida’s Judaica Suite at the Smathers Libraries; and his most important work, Miami Beach’s Holocaust Memorial.

The Fusion of Architecture & Art: The Judaic Work of Kenneth Treister

Treister, Kenneth

Architecture

Written on the eve of America’s entry into World War II, this remarkable Letter From a Young Poet discloses a young Jewish American man’s spiritual and literary odyssey through rural Connecticut and urban Brooklyn during the turbulent 1930s. In a finely wrought first-person narrative, young Plutzik tells his mentor, what it means for a poet to live an authentic life in the modern world. Like Joyce and Rilke before him, Plutzik ultimately strikes out on a path that can be blessed both by his literary muses and by his ancestral voices. Letter From a Young Poet can be described as an early example of Holocaust literature for the way Plutzik challenges the growing menace of Nazism that he views looming from afar.

Letter from a Young Poet

Plutzik, Hyam

Poetry

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Murder in the House of the Muse

Blue Christmas: The Holidays for the Rest of Us

Dispatches from Paradise

India's Elephants

India's Elephants

The Fusion of Architecture & Art: The Judaic Work of Kenneth Treister

Letter from a Young Poet