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Sound Man
A memoir of a remarkable rock-and-roll career from Glyn Johns, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame producer and sound engineer whose resumé includes work with the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the …
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Rental Person Who Does Nothing
Need a rental person who does nothing?
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Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lonely and socially anxious. After an old boss told him that he contributed nothing and that it made no diffe… -
Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music
An intimate look at the life and music of modern pop’s most legendary figure, Taylor Swift, from leading music journalist Rob Sheffield.
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As Taylor Swift’s preferred and most trusted music journalist, R… -
The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.
An electrifying cultural biography of the greatest American rock band of the millennium, whose music ignited a generation-and reasserted the power of rock and roll - by the New York Times bestselling …
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Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre.
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Hey girlfriend I got a proposition goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want
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On the Calculation of Volume I
Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd Novembe…
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Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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New York Times bestselling author Alan Paul's in-depth narrative look at the Allman Brothers' most successful album, and a portrait of an era in rock and roll and … -
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Faith, Hope and Carnage
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life.
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Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O’Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploratio… -
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The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
A sweeping history of the Mississippi River―and the centuries of human meddling that have transformed both it and America. Over thousands of years, the Mississippi watershed was home to millions of In…
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The Details
An acclaimed Swedish author makes her English language debut with this intoxicating novel in the vein of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, about a woman in the throes of a fever remembering the important p…
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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic world of drug use in the Third Reich. There have been other books on Dr Morell's cocktail of treatme…
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he’d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such ra…
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Parade
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defines the novel.
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Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints hi… -
Wild Houses
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and small-town secrets that won’t stay buried
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As Ballina in the west of Ireland prepares for its biggest week… -
Coal Black Mornings
Brett Anderson came from a world impossibly distant from rock star success, and in Coal Black Mornings he traces the journey that took him from a childhood as 'a snotty, sniffy, slightly maudlin sort …
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