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The Upside of Digital Devices : How to Make Your Child More Screen Smart, Literate, and Emotionally Intelligent
by Nicole Dreiske
Trying to police and protect a child from screen time is unquestionably one of the most confusing and frustrating responsibilities of good parenting. It's a tough job being a 'media monitor' all the time. Technology is at the center of everything we do―TVs, smart phones, computers, and tablets are no longer luxuries, they are necessities for navigating life today. But technology can also be detrimental to growing minds, and parents must master the necessary skills to help their children not only survive in this digital world, but to actually thrive.
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Meghan : A Hollywood Princess
by Andrew Morton
Women who smash the royal mold have always fascinated the public, from Grace Kelly to Princess Diana. Now acclaimed royal biographer Andrew Morton, the New York Times bestselling author of Diana: Her True Story, brings us a revealing, juicy, and inspiring look at Meghan Markle, the confident and charismatic duchess-to-be whose warm and affectionate engagement interview won the hearts of the world.
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The space barons : Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and the quest to colonize the cosmos
by Christian Davenport
Traces the historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space as navigated by today's leading billionaire entrepreneurs, sharing insights into how professional rivalry and Silicon Valley innovations are dramatically lowering the cost of space travel and exceeding the achievements of NASA. 30,000 first printing.
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27 Club: Musicians Who Died at 27
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| Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain by Charles R. CrossWhat it is: a concise and fast-paced analysis of the Nirvana frontman's influence on American culture -- from rock and hip-hop music to high-end fashion and addiction studies -- written to coincide with the 20th anniversary of his death in 2014.
Further reading: Music journalist Charles R. Cross utilizes Cobain's own diary entries in the revealing biography Heavier Than Heaven. |
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Room full of mirrors : a biography of Jimi Hendrix
by Charles R. Cross
A definitive portrait of rock legend Jimi Hendrix, honoring the thirty-fifth anniversary of the musician's death, captures the full span of Hendrix's life, from his troubled childhood and battles against racial prejudice to his rapid rise to the height of the music world and tragic death, drawing on more than three hundred interviews to chronicle a life of sex, drugs, and extraordinary talent. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.
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Pearl : the obsessions and passions of Janis Joplin : a biography
by Ellis Amburn
Out of the Texas-Louisiana swamps she wailed the blues like no one, black or white, has ever dared. She was Janis Joplin--the first rock star of the 1960s counterculture, a fashion trendsetter in San Francisco's back-to-the-roots movement that overtook the world, a prisoner of an ultimately doomed search for happiness in sex and drugs, money and fame.
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Nirvana : the biography
by Everett True
Traces the history of the influential band Nirvana, discussing the band's creation, successes, controversies, downfall after Kurt Cobain's suicide, and impact on modern American culture
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