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The music practically pours out of the pages of Denny S. Bryce s historical novel, set among the artists and dreamers of the 1920s. Honoree Dalcour is making her way in Chicago s Jazz Age, where she brushes elbows with Louis Armstrong and other aspiring chorus girls. In 2015, a film student has the chance to get to know Honoree then 110! and hear her story.
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amazon.com Most castles are defended by powerful men. This one, by women. So Stephanie Dray s riveting tale of a place where the past still echoes in the stones begins. The saga links multiple women who live in the French castle over the years, from the French Revolution to WWI and WWII. In addition to sharing an address, all three share inconvenient brushes with history. We can learn from Adrienne, Beatrice, and Marthe s stories, even as we re swept away.
Audrey Lane, the headstrong young heroine of Wedderburn’s high-powered follow-up to
The Milk Chicken Bomb is obsessed with everything about the open road. At 20, Audrey gets her dream job driving a truck around the oil fields not far from Calgary, Alberta. Shortly after, she impulsively runs away from the job and the camp where she’s been staying, and ends up in a gritty Edmonton bar. She talks her way into a job as the driver for a bar band called the Lever Men, with none of them sober enough to drive to their next gig. Along the way, Audrey furthers her cross-country education: lonesome highways, dive bars with names like the Crash Palace (and the unique characters who frequent them), and camaraderie with the four Lever Men, to whom she is both den mother and little sister. Wedderburn then jumps nearly a decade to find Audrey a single mother with a young daughter. After reading about the death of Crash Palace owner Alex Main in a Calgary paper, Audrey reels back into memories