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Popular Culture March 2017
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| In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett by Tony FletcherDynamic soul singer "Wicked" Wilson Pickett was raised singing in the church, an experience that can likely be at least partially credited with his musical success, but didn't seem to influence his troubled life offstage. Providing plenty of details with regards to both Pickett's family and the labels he worked with, author Tony Fletcher provides not just a biography of a talented singer, but a history of the music Pickett helped create. "Pickett's energy, creativity, and genius shine" (Library Journal) in this well-researched, compassionate biography of a legendary man. |
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| George Lucas: A Life by Brian Jay JonesStar Wars. Indiana Jones. American Graffiti. Howard the Duck. Well, they can't all be winners, but filmmaker George Lucas has had such astounding success that the live-action fowl is barely a blip on the radar. In this exacting and engaging biography, well-known writer Brian Jay Jones (Jim Henson) addresses Lucas' entry into film-making, his many triumphs, his professional and personal relationships, his vision, and his business acumen. Offering insight into Lucas' creative process and his legacy, Jones proves that Lucas' popularity is well deserved. |
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| Year of the Dunk: A Modest Defiance of Gravity by Asher PriceAs author Asher Price approached his mid-thirties, he gave himself one year to learn how to dunk a basketball. At 6'2" with self-described "orangutan arms," you'd think it would be, well, a slam dunk (sorry), but Price felt that a strict diet, plentiful exercise, and specific training were called for. He narrates his efforts to lose his love handles and dunk that ball with humor -- and in conjunction with investigations into the history of fitness and physical education in the U.S. The resulting memoir is "by turns informative, entertaining, and endearing" (Publishers Weekly). |
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| Year of No Sugar: A Memoir by Eve O. SchaubAfter learning the role that sugar can play in one's health (and the near-ubiquity of sugar in processed foods), author Eve Schaub challenged her family (herself, her husband, and two young daughters) to go a year without sugar (with small exceptions). It...did not go smoothly at first, especially as they began to tire of sweetening everything with bananas or dates. But by the end of the year, Schaub had noticed distinct changes in their health and well-being. Their experimental year is outlined with levity; for more life-improvement experiments from Schaub, keep an eye out for her new book, Year of No Clutter. |
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Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
by Shonda Rhimes
You've likely seen far more of Shonda Rhimes' work on TV than you have of the woman herself; she's the creator of hit shows like Grey's Anatomy and Scandal. But this book is about her own self-discovery -- rather than dishing on her work (though there's some of that too), she describes what happened when she embarked on a one-year experiment to say "yes" to invitations she would otherwise have declined. Conversational and quite cheerful, this book is chock-full of lessons in the benefit of saying taking chances and being open to new experiences.
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A year in the life of Downton Abbey
by Jessica Fellowes
An official companion to the hit series shares insights into daily and seasonal life for upstairs and downstairs residents at the early 20th-century estate, incorporating exclusive photos from Season 5.
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The year of learning dangerously : adventures in homeschooling
by Quinn Cummings
Citing a rising number of homeschooled children in America, a blogger and Oscar-nominated child actor recounts her misadventures in first-time homeschooling, an endeavor marked by her own math aversion, experiments with current trends and a chaperone venture at a home-school prom.
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Buzz : a year of paying attention
by Katherine Ellison
A Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Mommy Brain recounts her journey to understand and reconnect with her high-spirited preteen son—a story bound to beguile parents grappling with their children’s bewildering behavior.
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Living Oprah : my one-year experiment to walk the walk of the queen of talk
by Robyn Okrant
A month-by-month account chronicles the author's efforts to live for a year as Oprah advises on her TV show, in her magazine and on her website, with each month's entry including a running tally of the financial and time costs required to do each assignment, reflections on the results and revelations the author experienced. 150,000 first printing.
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Working in the shadows : a year of doing the jobs (most) Americans won't do
by Gabriel Thompson
An award-winning journalist and the author of There's No José Here relates the story of his efforts to live life for a year as an undocumented immigrant laborer, a time during which he worked in scorching-hot lettuce fields, the graveyard shift at a chicken slaughterhouse and as a bicycle delivery boy in Manhattan.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Central Mississippi Regional Library System
100 Tamberline Street
Brandon, Mississippi 39042
601-825-0100
http://www.cmrls.lib.ms.us
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