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Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones

Product Description(Amazon)
Musician, composer, producer, arranger, and pioneering entrepreneur Quincy Jones has lived large and worked for five decades alongside the superstars of music and entertainment -- including Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Ray Charles, Will Smith, and dozens of others. Q is his glittering and moving life story, told with the style, passion, and no-holds-barred honesty that are his trademarks.
Quincy Jones grew up poor on the mean streets of Chicago’s South Side, brushing against the law and feeling the pain of his mother’s descent into madness. But when his father moved the family west to Seattle, he took up the trumpet and was literally saved by music. A prodigy, he played backup for Billie Holiday and toured the world with the Lionel Hampton Band before leaving his teens. Soon, though, he found his true calling, inaugurating a career whose highlights have included arranging albums for Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, and Count Basie; composing the scores of such films as The Pawnbroker, In Cold Blood, In the Heat of the Night, and The Color Purple, and the theme songs for the television shows Ironside, Sanford and Son, and The Cosby Show; producing the bestselling album of all time, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and the bestselling single “We Are the World”; and producing and arranging his own highly praised albums, including the Grammy Award—winning Back on the Block, a striking blend of jazz, African, urban, gospel, and hip-hop. His musical achievements, in a career that spans every style of American popular music, have yielded an incredible seventy-seven Grammy nominations, and are matched by his record as a pioneering music executive, film and television producer, tireless social activist, and business entrepreneur–one of the most successful black business figures in America. This string of unbroken triumphs in the entertainment industry has been shadowed by a turbulent personal life, a story he shares with eloquence and candor.
Q is an impressive self-portrait by one of the master makers of American culture, a complex, many-faceted man with far more than his share of talents and an unparalleled vision, as well as some entirely human flaws. It also features vivid testimony from key witnesses to his journey–family, friends, and musical and business associates. His life encompasses an astonishing cast of show business giants, and provides the raw material for one of the great African American success stories of this century. 
Hardcover: 416 pages 
Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (October 9, 2001) 
Language: English 
ISBN-10: 0385488963 
ISBN-13: 978-0385488969

MY THOUGHTS:  Very interesting book.  I haven't heard any of his music, but I'll be finding some on YouTube.  Quincy has had an interesting life.  Has lots of friends and has traveled the world.   If you want to know anything about Quincy Jone, read this book.  I give this book 5......

This book is for 3 of my reading challenges....
Alphabet Soup Challenge(Finished-read 26 books)
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge

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Hillbilly Elegy - J. D. Vance

Product Description(Amazon)
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history.
A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country. 
Paperback: 288 pages 
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition (May 1, 2018) 
Language: English 
ISBN-10: 0062300555 
ISBN-13: 978-0062300553

MY THOUGHTS:  This is my book club book for August.  Do you believe Hillbilly's is a cultural thing?  Well, I was married to a hillbilly for 48 years.  My hubby was a Kentuckian.  He moved to Indiana, got a job, and had friends.  According to this book.  The working class of America is in crisis.  My husband were among that class of people.  And believe me, it is a fact that the middle class families have a hard time making a living.....not because they don't work, it's because the money they make is so low you live from pay check to pay check.  You can't get ahead of the game.  This author takes you into the middle of this crisis.  Really awesome book.  I give this book 5......

This book is for 2 of my reading challenges......
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challnege

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2nd Chance - James Patterson

Product Description(Amazon)
A brutal madman sprays bullets into a crowd of children leaving a San Francisco church. Miraculously-or was it intentionally?-only one person dies. Then an elderly black woman is hung. Police homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer senses a connection and together with medical examiner Claire, assistant D. A. Jill, and Chronicle reporter Cindy, finds a link that sends a chill through the entire nation. This killer's motives are unspeakable. 
Series: Women's Murder Club (Book 2) 
Hardcover: 416 pages 
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition (March 4, 2002) 
Language: English 
ISBN-10: 0316693200 
ISBN-13: 978-0316693202

MY THOUGHTS:  This is the 2nd installment of the Women's Murder Club.  This time Lindsay is up against someone who is randomly shooting people.  So it seems at first, but Lindsay finally connects all the murders,  but she has to find out why.  The girls put their heads together to come up with a plan.  Will it work?  Do they catch the guy?  I give this book 5......

 




This book is for 2 of my reading challenges.......
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge

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The Enoch Effect - Rick Acker

Product Description(Amazon)

Insurance litigator Leigh Collins has a knack for turning up that missing e-mail that wins the day or breaking down complex facts to sway a jury. So she’s hoping to make partner with her latest case: cancer researcher Dr. Elijah Rhodes and his life’s work are lost in a lab fire, and Biosolutions looks to cash in on a $100 million policy. Unfortunately, she’s up against Daniel Rubinelli, assistant general counsel for the biotech giant, who has a personal vendetta against cancer. In court, Leigh and Daniel clash from the beginning, ensuring a grueling case.
But soon greater concerns emerge. The late doctor might have found a “kill switch” for cancer cells—potentially wiping the disease off the face of the earth. While most of his findings were lost in the fire, he likely backed up his data, though encrypted beyond recovery.
Now, in this edge-of-your-seat thriller, two contentious lawyers must set aside their differences to locate the research before the doctor’s greatest discovery falls into the wrong hands…and the secret to life ends in death. 
Paperback: 396 pages 
Publisher: Waterfall Press (May 23, 2017) 
Language: English 
ISBN-10: 1503942929 
ISBN-13: 978-1503942929

MY THOUGHTS:   I must not have been in the mood to read when I started this book.  It's a slow going book for me.  I'm not real fond of reading legal mysteries.  But once I got into the book it was really interesting.  If you could wipe Cancer from the face of the world, would you??  Starts out as in insurance case, turns into an arson/murder cast.  I give this book 4......

This book is for 3 of my reading challenges......
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge

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Jackaby - William Ritter

Product Description(Amazon)
Newly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1892, and in need of a job,Abigail Rook meets R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with a keen eye for the extraordinary--including the ability to see supernatural beings. Abigail has a gift for noticing ordinary but important details, which makes her perfect for the position of Jackaby’s assistant. On her first day, Abigail finds herself in the midst of a thrilling case: A serial killer is on the loose. The police are convinced it’s an ordinary villain, but Jackaby is certain it’s a nonhuman creature, whose existence the police--with the exception of a handsome young detective named Charlie Cane--deny. 
Series: Jackaby (Book 1) 
Hardcover: 304 pages 
Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers (September 16, 2014) 
Language: English 
ISBN-10: 1616203536 
ISBN-13: 978-1616203535

MY THOUGHTS:  New series and author for me.  Really liked this book.  The setting, is the kind of books I like to read.  I have some history and a murder, plus lots of unexplained beings.  Abigail is looking for a job, and comes across a posting.  The goes to check it out and meets R. F. Jacaby.  An investigator of the unexplained.  Does Abby believe all this?  Will she stay at the job?  Read the book it's really good.  I give this book 5.....

This book is for 3 of my reading challenges......
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge

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Things Fall Apart - Kenneth McIntosh

Product Description(Amazon)
Maeve Murphy, who saw a horrible roller coaster accident as a little girl, believes she has seen a ghost and that someone is trying to kill her, and must use the skills of forensic engineering to investigate a cold case. 
Series: The Crime Scene Club (Book 10) 
Library Binding: 144 pages 
Publisher: Mason Crest (December 15, 2008) 
Language: English 
ISBN-10: 1422202569 
ISBN-13: 978-1422202562

MY THOUGHTS:   Ever have questions about Forensic?  Want to know more about it?  This is the book that explains lots of that.  There is also a story all about The Crime Scene Club.  At the end of the story they give you all the Forensic's they used to solve the case.  Really good book.  I give this book 4.......

This book is for 3 of my reading challenges........
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge