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LOU REED: A Life by Anthony DeCurtis The essential biography of one of music's most influential icons: Lou Reed As ...
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When Chickenheads Come Home To Roost: A Hip Hop Feminist Breaks It Down by Joan Morgan with a foreword by ...
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Shake It Up
Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay-Z edited by Jonathan Lethem and Kevin ...
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I’m Just Dead, I’m Not Gone
I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone by Jim Dickinson (University of Mississippi Press) I’m Just Dead, I’m Not Gone chronicles Jim ...
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Good Booty
Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music by Ann Powers Dey Street Books ...
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There’s Always Room for Chocolate
The pure fun of classic American chocolate treats. The Chocolate Room has become a place of pilgrimage for chocolate lovers ...
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Snatched: From Drug-Queen to Informer to Hostage–A Harrowing True Story
Raised an aristocrat in Colombia and educated in European schools, Pilar transfixes everyone with her charm and her guile. She ...
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Blondie: Parallel Lines (33 1/3)
Blondie's Parallel Lines mixed punk, disco and radio-friendly FM rock with nostalgic influences from 1960s pop and girl group hits. This 1978 ...
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The American Slave Coast
WINNER OF A 2016 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD The American Slave Coast tells the horrific, far-reaching story of how the slavery ...
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Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One
A REFINERY29 BEST BOOK OF 2016 ON THE J.P. MORGAN #NEXTLIST2017 Careers are not linear, predictable ladders any longer; they ...
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Lion Songs: Thomas Mapfumo and the Music that Made Zimbabwe
Like Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, singer, composer, and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo and his music came to represent his native ...
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What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography
What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography by Alan Light (Crown/Archetype, 2016) Inspired by the critically acclaimed Netflix documentary What Happened, ...
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The Cannabis Manifesto by Steve DeAngelo (North Atlantic Books 2015)
The Cannabis Manifesto by Steve DeAngelo (North Atlantic Books 2015) With medical marijuana now being recognized as a major healthcare issue, ...
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Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
Unique portraits of legendary characters along South America’s mountain spine, from Charles Darwin to the present day, told by a ...
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Dylan Goes Electric!
Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties by Elijah Wald (Dey Street/ HarperCollins, July 2015) ...
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The Lost Treasures of R&B: A D Hunter Mystery by Nelson George
The Lost Treasures of R&B: A D Hunter Mystery by Nelson George (Akashic Books 2015) With gentrifying Brooklyn as the backdrop, ...
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Another Little Piece of My Heart
Another Little Piece of My Heart by Richard Goldstein (Bloomsbury 2015) In 1966, at the age of twenty-two, Richard Goldstein ...
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Going into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man
Going into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man by Robert Christgau (Dey Street/HarperCollins 2015) One of ...
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Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth
Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth by John Szwed (Viking 2015) Published in celebration of Holiday’s centenary, the first ...
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Let’s Go Crazy
Let's Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain (Atria Books 2015) 2014 marks the 30th anniversary of the ...
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