"Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of the tiny Arctic town of Vardø must fend for themselves. Three years later, a stranger arrives on their shore. Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in...

"Louis Armstrong has been called the most important improviser in the history of jazz. Although his New Orleans neighborhood was poor in nearly everything else, it was rich in superb music. Young Louis took it all in, especially the cornet blowing of Joe "King" Oliver. But after a run in with the police, 11-year-old Louis was sent away to the Colored Waif s Home for Boys where he became a disciplined musician in the school s revered marching band....

After fourteen years, R&B star D'Angelo is back with a highly anticipated new album, which includes the single Sugah Daddy as well as the tracks The Charade; Another Life; and Betray My Heart. "9.4 out of 10... a slow-simmering gumbo finally boiled over."--Pitchfork. "4.5 out of 5. ..a warm, expansive masterpiece..."--Rolling Stone. "3 1/2 out of 4...finds grace amid chaos."--USA Today.