A young man struggles with his very real demons after losing the life of his life in a tragic car accident. He coasts through life looking for salvation and waiting for Angels to fall.
Now in paperback, the definitive anthology from a writer who set the standard for newspaper pop-music criticism (The Philadelphia Inquirer), the New York Times first chief pop music critic and Rolling Stone contributor Robert Palmer.Robert Palmers extraordinary knowledge and boundless love of music were evident in all his writing. He was an authority on rock & roll, blues, jazz, punk, avant-garde, and world musicoften discovering new artists and trends years (even decades) before they hit the mainstream. Noted music writer Anthony DeCurtis has compiled the best pieces from Palmers oeuvre and presents them here, in one compelling volume.A member of the elite group of the defining rock critics who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, Palmer possessed a vision so complete that, as DeCurtis writes, its almost as if, if you read Bob, you didnt need to read anyone else. Blues & Chaos features some of his most memorable pieces about John Lennon, Led Zeppelin, Moroccan trance music, Miles Davis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Philip Glass, and Muddy Waters. Wonderfully entertaining, infused with passion, and deeply inspiring, Blues & Chaos is a must for music fans everywhere.
En dietética proliferan las ideas y las teorías; todos los años se publican estudios nuevos que rebaten audazmente las «certidumbres», los dogmas alimentarios del año pasado. No siempre es fácil sacar algo en limpio. Los especialistas se contradicen, cuando no se tratan mutuamente de ignorantes. Algunos se declaran partidarios incondicionales del vegetarianismo, otros afirman que no se puede prescindir totalmente de las proteínas de origen animal. En cuanto a los suplementos alimentarios, tienen también sus defensores y sus detractores.
Do you think you know what your own mother might do? The Survivors is an up-close-and-personal mysterythe best suspense Ive read this year. It will haunt you. DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Timesbestselling author of the Outlander series Psychologist Cal Henderson has a successful practice in Washington, DC, and big plans for the future. But he cant escape a terrible secret. When he was a boy, his mother murdered his father and two brothers and severely wounded Cals best friend, Scottie Glass. Desperate to keep the nightmare at bay, Cal has turned his back on everything that happened that night. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the killings, Scottie shows up at Cals officeedgy, paranoid, but somehow still the loveable kid he once was. Though their lives have taken very different paths, they both believe Cals mother couldnt have been a murderer. She loved them too much, no matter what dark place she found herself in. They set off to dig up the real story. Cal uncovers one shocking secret after another about his family. The trail leads to a shady defense contractor, a scheming US Attorney, and, ultimately a billionaire with the kind of power and connections that can only be found in Washington. But Cal is paying a price. The memories he has avoided for so long have come flooding back, sending him into a tailspin from which he may never recover. From the Trade Paperback edition.