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Handpicked by Simon
December 2018
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Beastie Boys book by Mike D Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip hop superstardom. Here is their story, told for the first time in the words of the band. Adam "ADROCK" Horovitz and Michael "Mike D" Diamond offer revealing and very funny accounts of their transition from teenage punks to budding rappers; their early collaboration with Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin; the debut album that became the first hip hop record ever to hit #1, Licensed to Ill--and the album's messy fallout as the band broke with Def Jam; their move to Los Angeles and rebirth with the genre-defying masterpiece Paul's Boutique; their evolution as musicians and social activists over the course of the classic albums Check Your Head, Ill Communication, and Hello Nasty and the Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits conceived by the late Adam "MCA" Yauch; and more.
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Can't stop, won't stop : a history of the hip-hop generation by Jeff ChangA history of hip-hop cites its origins in the post-civil rights Bronx and Jamaica, drawing on interviews with performers, activists, gang members, DJs, and others to document how the movement has influenced politics and culture.
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The Runner : Four Years Living and Running in the Wilderness by Markus TorgebyMarkus Torgeby was just 20 years old when he headed off into the remote Swedish forest to live as a recluse and dedicate himself to his one true passion, running... He lived in a tent in the wilderness, braving the harsh Swedish winters - for four years. This is his story.
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The Library Book by Susan OrleanThe acclaimed best-selling author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution—our libraries.
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Leave No TraceA father and his thirteen year-old daughter are living in an ideal existence in a vast urban park in Portland, Oregon, when a small mistake derails their lives forever.
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Eighth grade Follows an awkward, anxious, and insecure teenage girl through the final week of her eighth grade before she moves on to high school.
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Sorry to bother you When telemarketer Cassius Green discovers the key to professional success, he finds his life at work becoming more and more bizarre.
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Suspiria / by Thom YorkeFor Luca Guadagnino's 2018 remake of Dario Argento's 1977 horror classic, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke took the reins to produce an updated soundtrack, adding familiar touches to an appropriately unsettling and tense experience. Yorke's Suspiria feels nostalgic yet strangely futuristic, with creeping synths ("The Jumps," "Klemperer Walks"), atmospherics ("The Inevitable Pull"), and discomforting choral backing ("Sabbath Incantation") amplifying suspense and occasional terror.
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Yolk In The Fur / by Wild PinkReminiscent of bands like Red House Painters, Codeine, and other slow and low bands from the 90's, Wild Pink brings a pop sensibility to their melancholy with subtle hooks and plaintive singing.
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Abbott by Saladin AhmedWhile investigating police brutality and corruption in 1970s Detroit, journalist Elena Abbott uncovers supernatural forces being controlled by a secret society of the city's elite. In the uncertain social and political climate of 1972 Detroit, hard-nosed, chain-smoking tabloid reporter Elena Abbott investigates a series of grisly crimes that the police have ignored. Crimes she knows to be the work of dark occult forces. Forces that took her husband from her. Forces she has sworn to destroy.
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The Antifa Comic Book : 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements Around the World by Gord HillThe shocking images of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the summer of 2017 linger, but so do those of the passionate anti-fascist protestors who risked their lives to do the right thing. With a perceptive eye and a powerful sense of resolve, Gord Hill, author of The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, looks at the history of fascism over the last 100 years, and the concurrent antifa movements that have worked fastidiously to topple it.
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Everything is flammable by Gabrielle BellWhen her mother's house is destroyed by a fire, the author travels to her childhood hometown in Northern California where she is faced with her tenuous relationship with her mother, financial hardships, anxiety, and memories of a feral childhood.
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Killing and dying by Adrian TomineCollects six graphic stories that create a portrait of contemporary life, exploring the pride and disappointment of family, the anxiety and hopefulness of being alive, and the weight of love and its absence.
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