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2022 Bronze Medal winner- Readers Favorite International Book Contest. After a polarizing election, America breaks into a civil war, followed by a failed foreign invasion. Winning is not the end New America divides into projects based on race and religion. Citizens who protest or break the laws are labeled an "enemy of peace." An enemy of peace quickly loses their head to the guillotine. Colt Jenkins resides in the New Bethlehem Project, where New American youth must navigate between Country, God, Survival, Love, Family, and Friends. Surviving daily attacks from Broken Mecca is not the only challenge. Katherine Shay, New Bethlehem's keeper of the law, terrorizes citizens using the red phone, turning them into the government as enemies of peace. In a world with intermittent electricity, the President makes decrees from the television. The government controls the news and all information. The rising tension in the country and the Project puts Colt in Katherine's and the government's crosshairs. After being publicly humiliated by Katherine, Colt discovers the government is not what it appears. Colt will have to decide what kind of man he will be and what he will choose to leave behind in his race to save his family and his love. "New America Awakenings is a powerful new release that goes for the jugular. This book has the makings of a dystopian classic." San Francisco Book Review "Davis gives us a possible future we really don't want. Even if we can't stop ourselves from reading it." Portland Book Review

The Music Theory Cheat Sheet was created primarily to help everyday musicians, songwriters, and composers quickly and efficiently learn the relationship between the modes of the major, natural minor, jazz minor (melodic minor), and harmonic minor scales, as well as have a readily-accessible view of all the modes of these scales in one place. When I was first introduced to modes they were shown to me based on the key of C major. While this was a helpful first step, I found it to be a very limited representation of how the modes interact. Without seeing them all in relationship to each other, and without reference material that placed them side-by-side in every key, it was hard to begin applying them to my compositions and performances.Enter... The Music Theory Cheat SheetIn the first section of TMTCS readers will find individual pages each with a chart dedicated to the major, natural minor, jazz minor and harmonic minor scales. Contained in each chart are the seven modes of the scale in every key -- beginning with C and ordered chromatically. Each mode contains the chord of each scale degree with the first extension (or seventh), as well as the notes contained within each chord. This section concludes with a chart containing every mode of the Major Scale in every key ordered by the Circle of Fifths.The second section of TMTCS contains a series of pages each with an individual chord progression with the chords listed in order in every key -- beginning with C and ordered chromatically. This section begins with simple, common chord progressions found in popular music and gradually gets more advanced, with chord progressions commonly found in jazz. Each chord listed includes the name of the chord, as well as the notes contained in the chord up to the seventh. Finally, there is a chart at the very end of the book containing all the Secondary Dominant and Secondary Diminished Seventh Resolutions in every key. It is my hope that this quick-reference guide will serve as a helpful tool for musicians of all skill levels, allowing them to incorporate a working knowledge of the modes and chord progressions contained in this book into their own work.

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