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Bluesette "Blue" Stills, a magazine editor from Washington, DC, arrives at her sassy jazz singer friend Nareen Anderson's apartment in Paris, France, ready to start her vacation. But shock and disappointment grip her when Nareen acts strange and suddenly vanishes! Blue enlists the help of another friend, Eddie Proctor, a tour guide. Eddie sticks with Blue through a police investigation into Nareen's disappearance.   Between that drama and the adventures of Eddie's tour groups, Blue and Eddie are caught up in tension, romance, crime, and passion on both sides of the Seine.

 Mocha-hued beauty Rosa Johnson Stills evolves into a jazz singer in 1930s-'50s Washington, DC, and New York City, in spite of her grandmother Lilly's color prejudice; and her own illicit love affairs with racketeer Jackson Parker and attorney Alan Covington.  

 A riveting family saga and murder mystery, The Jazz Flower moves at a nice pace and comes to a conclusion in Paris.

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THE BIOGRAPHY   

A professional drummer from the age of 17, Robert M. Garcia attended Florida A&M University (FAMU) in Tallahassee, Florida, and later studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He became widely known as a master drummer. Late in his career, he switched to the grand harp as his preferred instrument. The reasons he switched, and why it was unusual and difficult, are in this book with other highlights from his life.  Photos plus quotes from musicians and music educators are included.

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It's 1925 and Nora Johnson, a Howard University instructor, travels to Paris to study art for a year.       In Paris she be- comes friends with Douglas Stills, a hotel doorman; Dianne Essex, an Afro English student, and Vernon Cooper, a trumpet player who is full of secrets and lies. Will Nora's "friends" destroy her?   

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SUSPENSE ON A FLORIDA ISLAND

 Former journalist Carleena Treadwell travels to San Pluma Island in southern Florida to write a mystery novel against a deadline. But on the island she meets gorgeous Omar Henderson, a vacationing doctor; and Gerald, her island landlady's repulsive handy-man.  She then spirals into romance; and later, with her landlady, is gripped in the clutches of danger.

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