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Folk music : a Bob Dylan biography in seven songs
by Greil Marcus
The acclaimed cultural critic presents the life of Bob Dylan as told through seven of his most transformative songs over the last 70 years, as well as his continuing presence and relevance today.
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Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
by Lucy Worsley
"Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? She was born in 1890 into a world that had its own rules about what women could and couldn't do. Lucy Worsley's biography is not justof a massively, internationally successful writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley's biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realize what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was--truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century"
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The extraordinary life of an ordinary man : a memoir
by Paul Newman
"Culled from thousands of pages of transcripts, this raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of the greatest movie star of the past 75 years, told with searing honesty, covers everything: his traumatic childhood, his career, his drinking, his intimate life with Joanne Woodward and his innermost fears and passions and joys"
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Nightfly : The Life of Steely Dan's Donald Fagen
by Peter Jones
Nightfly cracks open the door to reveal the life behind the lyrics and traces Fagen's story from early family life in suburban New Jersey, to his first encounter with Walter Becker at Bard College, their long struggle for recognition as songwriters, and the formation of Steely Dan. The band's break-up in 1981, re-formation in 1993, and Fagen's parallel solo career are covered in detail."
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Our man in Tokyo : an American ambassador and the countdown to Pearl Harbor
by Steve Kemper
Drawing on the diary of the ambassador to Japan in 1932, as well as U.S. embassy correspondence, diplomatic dispatches and firsthand Japanese accounts, this gripping book recounts his time in Tokyo during the volatile decade that led to World War IIand how he risked everything to avert another world war.
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My travels with Mrs. Kennedy
by Clint Hill
Opening an old steamer trunk for the first time in 50 years, retired Secret Service agent Clint Hill finds forgotten photos, handwritten notes, personal gifts and treasured memories that capture the experience of traveling with Jacqueline Kennedy as the entire world was falling in love with her. Illustrations.
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The revolutionary Samuel Adams
by Stacy Schiff
A Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns her attention to Samuel Adams, an intensely disciplined manand arguably the most essential Founding Father who supplied the moral backbone of the American Revolution, becoming the most wanted man in America.
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Baggage : Tales from a Fully Packed Life
by Alan Cumming
There is absolutely no logical reason why I am here. The life trajectory my nationality and class and circumstances portended for me was not even remotely close to the one I now navigate. But logic is a science and living is an art. The release I felt in writing my first memoir, Not My Father's Son, was matched only by how my speaking out empowered so many to engage with their own trauma. I was reminded of the power of my words and the absolute duty of authenticity. But. No one ever fully recovers from their past.
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The lives of Brian : a memoir
by Brian Johnson
Brian Johnsons memoir from growing up in a small town to starting his own band to ultimately replacing Bon Scott, the lead singer of one of the world biggest rock acts, AC/DC.
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Mirror in the sky : the life and music of Stevie Nicks
by Simon Alexander Morrison
"Diva, heroine, icon, and-to the most devoted-a goddess. Stevie Nicks sings of spell casters and dream smiths, stars of the silver screen, her grandmother Alice and Alice in Wonderland, Joan of Arc, the power of sibyls and sylphs. This book tells her story, from the bleached Arizona landscape of her childhood to the strobe-lit Night of a Thousand Stevies celebrations, highlighting throughout her strengths as singer, songwriter, and performer"
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The women of Rothschild : the untold story of the world's most famous dynasty
by Natalie Livingstone
Follows the extraordinary lives of the Rothschild women from the dawn of the 19th century to the early years of the 21st as they forged their own dynasty in a deeply patriarchal family, giving voice to these complicated, privileged and gifted women whose vision and tenacity shaped history.
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Surrender : 40 songs, one story
by Bono
One of the music worlds most iconic artists writes about his remarkable life for the first time, from his early days growing up in Dublin, to U2s meteoric rise to fame, to his more than 20 years of activism dedicated to the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty.
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Bibi : my story
by Binyamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Bibi Netanyahu tells the story of his family, his path to leadership and his commitment to defending Israel and securing its future.
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