Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

Ritz, David

Ray, Charles

Humor & Entertainment

Da Capo Press

Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he tells his story in an inimitable and unsparing voice, from the chronicle of his musical development to his heroin addiction to his tangled romantic life. Overcoming poverty, blindness, the loss of his parents, and the pervasive racism of the era, Ray Charles was acclaimed worldwide as a genius by the age of thirty-two. By combining the influences of gospel, jazz, blues, and country music, he invented, almost single-handedly, what became known as soul. And throughout a career spanning more than a half century, Ray Charles remained in complete control of his life and his music, allowing nobody to tell him what he could and couldn't do.As the Chicago Sun-Times put it, Brother Ray is "candid, explicit, sometimes embarrassing, often hilarious, always warm, touching and deeply human-just like his music."

Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story (Raven)

Arts & Photography

David Ritz

Music

Macdonald & J

Tracing Robert Bechtle's career from his earliest paintings of the 1960s to the present day, this is the definitive book on one of the founders and foremost practitioners of American Photorealism. Created in close collaboration with the artist, Robert Bechtle will accompany the distinguished painter's first retrospective exhibition. Lavish plates feature reproductions of approximately ninety of Bechtle's most significant artworks, from large-scale oil paintings to intimate watercolors and drawings. These magnificent illustrations portray the range of the San Francisco-based painter's iconic imagery of California—the rows of palm trees, stucco houses, and the ubiquitous automobiles that spurred suburban expansion—as well as his lesser-known but equally compelling family scenes and stark interiors. Bechtle's preference for wide, empty spaces; his flat, sun-bleached palette; and his detached mode of recording random details impart a singular sense of alienation to his subjects. His deadpan paintings capture the essence of the postwar American experience, in which California often serves as the testing ground for the realization of national dreams.

Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective

Weinberg, Jonathan

Bishop, Janet

Auping, Michæl

History & Criticism

University of California Press

Number 16 in the Al Pennyback mystery series. Al and Sandra go to Hawaii to attend the wedding of one of Quincy's cousins. The festivities are interrupted by a sniper who plans for death to part the couple before they can even say 'I do.'

Deadly Paradise: An Al Pennyback Mystery (Al Pennyback Mysteries)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Uhuru Press

Fifth in the Buffalo Soldier series, Ben Carter is assigned a dangerous mission and has to take untried soldiers along with him as he tracks down a dangerous band of renegade Apaches.

Buffalo Soldier: Renegade

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Ben Carter is ordered to escort a survey party from Fort Union in New Mexico to Yosemite Valley in central California. The mission of the survey is to encourage the U.S. Congress to expand the national parks system. What should be a routine duty for the men of the Ninth Cavalry’s Buffalo Soldiers is complicated beyond Ben’s imaginings. In the first place, one of his men is seriously injured coming back from a scouting mission and faces a long period of convalescence. He is replaced by a new trooper who comes with a checkered background and the taint of cowardice under fire. Ben worries about the man’s reliability on a mission that is being watched not just by the regimental commander, but the President of the United States. Ben learns a lot about the new man, and the people he is assigned to protect, during the long journey to California, and that his routine mission is anything but, as he discovers that the natural beauty of Yosemite covers greed and danger that rival anything he has had to face before.

Buffalo Soldier: Yosemite

In 1875, Indian Territory, in what is now the state of Oklahoma, was a haven for thieves, swindlers, and murderers, all trying to escape the reach of the law. When President U.S. Grant appointed Judge Isaac Parker judge of the Western District of Arkansas, which included the territory, Parker was intent upon bringing fugitives to justice. He authorized U.S. Marshal James Fagan to hire 200 deputy marshals to help police the 4,500 square mile lawless territory. Among those deputies was Bass Reeves. Born a slave in 1838, Reeves had spent the Civil War as a runaway in Indian Territory, and spoke five tribal languages. He was an expert tracker and an accomplished marksman, and at 6’2” and 180 pounds in an era when the average male height was 5’6”, was an imposing figure. During his 32 year tenure as a deputy marshal, Reeves brought in over 3,000 fugitives. Unable to either read or write, he had someone read warrants to him and memorized every detail – never making a mistake. In this fictional account of his first two years, ride along with one of the most famous U.S. Deputy Marshals in American history.

Frontier Justice: Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal

After one of his men is killed in an attack by hostile Apache Indians, Ninth Cavalry First Sergeant Ben Cooper has begun to doubt his ability lead men in battle. Returning from a routine work detail, he and his men encounter a young Apache who has fled the reservation in pursuit of a band of outlaw Comanchero who kidnapped his younger brother. Ben knows that if he lets the young Indian continue his quest, he’s likely to be killed, and it could lead to war with his tribe which has been traditionally peaceful. Despite his orders to proceed directly back to Fort Union after completion of the work detail, Ben decides to rescue the boy himself. His skill as a commander, and his self-confidence are all sorely tested as he embarks on this unsanctioned mission – and, at the end, there’s more danger waiting for him than a group of outlaws.

Buffalo Soldier: Comanchero

Sergeant Ben Carter and his men find themselves caught between factions as the cattlemen and sheep ranchers near Coultrie, in New Mexico Territory fight over access to grazing lands for their stock. The cattlemen, led by rancher Harlan Bledsoe, have hired a gang of professional gunfighters under the leadership of Lank Cantrell, a man who has no fear of death and no hesitation about dealing it out. When incident upon incident builds to the point where all-out war is threatened, Ben finds himself challenged to make peace or see the streets of Coultrie run red with the blood of not just the fighters, but innocent bystanders as well.

Buffalo Soldier: Range War

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Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story (Raven)

Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective

Deadly Paradise: An Al Pennyback Mystery (Al Pennyback Mysteries)

Buffalo Soldier: Renegade

Buffalo Soldier: Yosemite

Frontier Justice: Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal

Buffalo Soldier: Comanchero

Buffalo Soldier: Range War