Drums on the Night Air
Drums on the Night Air

Author: Veronica Cecil

Publisher: Constable & Robinson

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781849016414

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The powerful and moving account of one woman's flight from Africa's heart of darkness

The Painted Drum
The Painted Drum

Author: Louise Erdrich

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0061748870

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“Haunted and haunting. . . . With fearlessness and humility, in a narrative that flows more artfully than ever between destruction and rebirth, Erdrich has opened herself to possibilities beyond what we merely see—to the dead alive and busy, to the breath of trees and the souls of wolves—and inspires readers to open their hearts to these mysteries as well.”— Washington Post Book World From the author of the National Book Award Winner The Round House, Louise Erdrich's breathtaking, lyrical novel of a priceless Ojibwe artifact and the effect it has had on those who have come into contact with it over the years. While appraising the estate of a New Hampshire family descended from a North Dakota Indian agent, Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose skin and cedar drum fashioned long ago by an Ojibwe artisan. And so begins an illuminating journey both backward and forward in time, following the strange passage of a powerful yet delicate instrument, and revealing the extraordinary lives it has touched and defined. Compelling and unforgettable, Louise Erdrich's Painted Drum explores the often-fraught relationship between mothers and daughters, the strength of family, and the intricate rhythms of grief with all the grace, wit, and startling beauty that characterizes this acclaimed author's finest work.

The Drum Wars
The Drum Wars

Author: Carol Karasik

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Published: 2012-12-01

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 9781478147206

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The Drum Wars is a guide to the ancient Maya world as it collides with the 21st century. Past and present intersect at an offbeat hotel near the famed jungle ruins of Palenque, in Chiapas, Mexico. In this steamy landscape, American archaeologists, besieged Indians, and the dysfunctional hotel ownerss clash with spiritual seekers awaiting the apocalypse. While tribal drumming reaches out to the galaxies, feuds between the family patriarch and his heirs escalate into all-out battles gripping the entire community. Vying for space and time are a wild assortment of true believers: New Age gurus, fire dancers, Russian psychics, and Black Muslims. Add a few love stories and a few Maya ghosts to this dark comedy and the canvas is complete. The Drum Wars is a real-life adventure full of mysterious, unpredictable eventse that leave the characters breathless but unbowed on their elusive quest for paradise.

Kick it
Kick it

Author: Matt Brennan

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0190683864

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The drum kit has provided the pulse of popular music from before the dawn of jazz up to the present day pop charts. Kick It, a provocative social history of the instrument, looks closely at key innovators in the development of the drum kit: inventors and manufacturers like the Ludwig and Zildjian dynasties, jazz icons like Gene Krupa and Max Roach, rock stars from Ringo Starr to Keith Moon, and popular artists who haven't always got their dues as drummers, such as Karen Carpenter and J Dilla. Tackling the history of race relations, global migration, and the changing tension between high and low culture, author Matt Brennan makes the case for the drum kit's role as one of the most transformative musical inventions of the modern era. Kick It shows how the drum kit and drummers helped change modern music--and society as a whole--from the bottom up.

Drums of Darkness
Drums of Darkness

Author: Elizabeth Lane

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1497625033

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The beat of passion lures a widow into the arms of two brothers in this suspenseful romantic thriller set in the exotic jungles of nineteenth-century Panama. Claire Sagan had originally come to the wild lushness of Panama to join her husband. Now she is there and her husband is dead, his name disgraced. In a search to clear his good name, Claire finds herself among the wealthy yet wildly eccentric Jarnacs. Panama is a land of strange fauna and flora, of voodoo and plantations, a nexus of energy where two oceans and two continents collide. It is where the two Jarnac brothers, hot-blooded Andre and scheming Philippe, converge over the love of Claire. In this tropical, mystical Eden, nothing is simple—certainly not love, certainly not the bloody murders of several servants. The only one with answers might be the beautiful and mad Angelique. But how will Claire get the truth from this fair-haired jungle witch when it might be Angelique herself behind all the rhythmic midnight meetings and devilish debauchery? Claire need only follow the drums to find the truth in a jungle throbbing and pulsating with treachery and deceit.

The Drums of Chaos
The Drums of Chaos

Author: Richard L. Tierney

Publisher: Pickman's Press

Published: 2021-12-22

Total Pages: 525

ISBN-13: 1953215246

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CAN A HANDFUL OF HEROES STOP AN APOCALYPSE CENTURIES IN THE MAKING? Escaped gladiator-slave Simon of Gitta returns to Judea — during the ministry of Jesus of Nazareth — on a mission to avenge the deaths of his parents, seeking revenge in blood against the Roman officials who committed the murders and sold Simon into slavery. But as Simon travels the Holy Lands with his mentor Dositheus and their students Menander and llione, they gradually become entangled in a complex occult plot designed to call down a monstrous alien entity to herald a new aeon on Earth. The mysterious time traveler John Taggart (from Tierney's The Winds of Zarr) also becomes involved with Simon as their separate quests converge toward a common goal of saving all life on Earth from extinction. But can a handful of travelers really thwart a covert scheme backed by the power of the Roman Empire? As the apocalyptic supernatural events slowly unfold, Simon and his allies are in a race against time to prevent the devastation of the world. Using mystery cults and early Christian Gnosticism as his vehicle, with meticulously researched Roman history and Biblical scholarship, this is author Richard Tierney’s magnum opus: an epic Lovecraftian alternate history dark fantasy novel that features Tierney's most famous characters, Simon of Gitta and John Taggart. This novel will appeal to fans of historical fantasy and sword & sorcery fiction in the vein of Robert E. Howard, and the elements of cosmic horror and the Cthulhu Mythos will satisfy many fans of H.P. Lovecraft.