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2 X Intro: On the Road With Patti Smithby Michael StipeISBN 0316815721 (0-316-81572-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: '2 X Intro: On the Road With Patti Smith'Book summary:When singer Patti Smith toured in 1995, for the first time in almost 20 years, R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe tagged along as tour photographer. Two Times Intro is the resulting photo diary--as Stipe calls it--and it's filled with his moody black-and-white prints and Polaroids (taken with an ancient camera by Smith guitarist Oliver Ray) that capture a specific mood of Smith's as she moves through the shifting, impersonal spaces--taxis, concrete backstage areas, empty theaters--of life on tour. Stipe is a long-time Smith fan, as he recalls in an essay in the book: he "bought her first album the day it came out. It was mind-blowing--emotional and imperfect, swirling, B&W." His photographs of Smith and her band mates display the same emotional intensity and incongruity that her music originally stirred in him. The layout, executed completely in black and white with echoes of imperfections like torn Scotch tape, creases, and torn edges seemingly photocopied onto the page, gives readers a sense of watching an ancient black-and-white television--scratchy, static-filled, impenetrable, and mysterious, but also somehow comforting. All of this is evocative of both Smith's music and her lyrics, and in that it is a strange but fitting homage to her. Stipe intersperses throughout the images musings about Smith by the likes of William S. Burroughs, who calls her "a shaman--that is someone in touch with other levels of reality," Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, and long-time friend and fellow musician Lenny Kaye. Ultimately, the book is not a photographic triumph but it should be very compelling to Smith and Stipe fans alike. [via]
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20Th-Century Microtonal Notationby Gardner ReadISBN 0313273987 (0-313-27398-7)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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The Album Cover Art of Soundtracksby Stephen Kassel, Frank Jastfelder, Saul BassISBN 0316482404 (0-316-48240-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Album Cover Art of Soundtracks'Book summary:Thunderball. Breakfast at Tiffany's. Barbarella. The soundtrack albums of these and other classic movies are among the most prized LP collectibles today -- recordings that summon up the secret agents, starlets, glamour, and exotica of the past and set the mood for the "cool modern" lounge scene of today.
This unique book pictures nearly 300 of the greatest soundtrack album covers of all time, including hits by Henry Mancini, John Barry, and other retrocool composers. For record collectors, graphic designers, and anyone into the new easy-listening scene, The Album Cover Art of Soundtracks captures the essence of a style that has excited people for forty years. [via]
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The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopediaby Thomas S. HischakISBN 0313294070 (0-313-29407-0)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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The Archivistby Martha CooleyISBN 0316158461 (0-316-15846-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Archivist'Book summary:Matthias Lane is the proud gatekeeper to countless objects of desire, the greatest among them being T.S. Eliot's letters to Emily Hale. Now in his late 60s and archivist at an unnamed East Coast university, Matthias is--as one of his colleagues tells him--"exceptionally well defended." He's intent on keeping the Hale collection equally remote, and when a young poet first seeks access, Matthias rebuffs her with little difficulty. Still, Roberta Spire does remind him of his wife, Judith, who had also written poetry but had committed suicide 20 years earlier. And he is much taken with the student's self-possession: "Pleading never works with me," he concedes, "but authentic and angry self-interest does."
Betrayal figures heavily in The Archivist. For starters, Roberta feels betrayed by her parents, German Jews who had spent World War II in hiding and emigrated to the U.S. soon afterward, re-creating themselves as Christians. She has only recently discovered her Jewish background. The irony is that Matthias's wife had also been an Eliot adept and had felt violated by a false version of her own past and destroyed when confronted with the realities of the Holocaust. No wonder Roberta sees the Hale letters as a Holy Grail, the key to her questions about religious conversion and identity.
What holds this exceptionally ambitious and layered first novel together is the love all three main characters have for the pleasures of the text and the knowledge they share that time is, as Eliot writes, both preserver and destroyer. Eliot, after all, had wanted Emily Hale to destroy his letters (and in reality they are sealed until 2020, safe at Princeton University). Martha Cooley is deeply concerned, as are her characters, with questions of conscience, privacy, action and inaction, and security--personal and scholarly. If there is one parallel too many in this impressive work, perhaps that is more like life than some of us care to admit. --Kerry Fried [via]
Arthur, It's Only Rock 'N' Rollby Marc Tolon BrownISBN 0316118540 (0-316-11854-0)
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Bathtub Bluesby Kate McMullan, Janie BynumISBN 0316609013 (0-316-60901-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bathtub Blues'Book summary:he adorable rockin' babies from Rock-a-Baby Band are back with a new song. This time the babies have messy adventures outside and need to come in for a bath. In the tub they have fun playing with a rubber duck, making soapsud beards, and singing the bathtub blues! [via]
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The Best of Smash Hits: The 80sby Mark Frith, Mark BlakeISBN 031602709X (0-316-02709-X)
Hardcover, Little Brown Uk
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Big Boy Did It and Ran Awayby C. BrookmyreISBN 0316857432 (0-316-85743-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Big Boy Did It and Ran Away'Book summary:His books are surrealistic, deeply irreverent and bitingly satirical. His characters may be larger than life, but are always rendered with total plausibility, however outrageous their actions. And the body count of his books is high--the world of Christopher Brookmyre's fiction is as dangerous as it is blackly comic. But is he a crime writer? A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away is another massive phantasmagoria, written with the author's customary caustic wit--and there's a character in it (a fast-living, highly successful assassin) who could have strayed in from a thriller. But such impressions never last for long--Brookmyre belongs to no genre, and this book is as uncategorisable as such previous epics as Boiling a Frog and the splendidly biting Quite Ugly One Morning.
In A Big Boy Did It... , his beleaguered hero Raymond Ash is struggling with the banal reality of his life as an English teacher and lamenting the evaporation of his student dreams. Responsibility isn't pleasant, Raymond has found. He takes refuge in a sad virtual existence, his online doodling substituting for real life. And then he encounters an old friend, whom he thought dead. Simon has achieved success in rock star-like terms: massive financial rewards, global travel, even notoriety. But his route has been that of the professional killer, and at that trade he's top of the tree. Raymond is seduced by the excitement of time spent with his old pal, even though he's reluctant to get involved with him again. But get involved he does, and soon every aspect of his life is under threat, with Ray yearning for the pretend violence of a computer game over the messy reality he's catapulted himself into.
Brookmyre sees terrorists and killers such as Simon as being self-deluded; whatever reasons they think they're performing their ruthless activities for (religion, a cause, money), they're really on a sad power trip, sublimating their craving for mass acclaim into violence. But he's never solemn--no diatribes here, unlike the organised religion he has so much distaste for. Brookmyre is adept at pulling the rug from beneath the reader's feet (Simon is attractive, until we get to know him better). The writing is always sharp, always funny, always innovative.--Barry Forshaw [via]
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Billy and the Boingers Bootleg/Includes Recordby Berke BreathedISBN 0316107298 (0-316-10729-8)
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Bing Crosby : A Bio-Bibliographyby J. Roger OsterholmISBN 0313277265 (0-313-27726-5)
Hardcover, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bing Crosby : A Bio-Bibliography'Book summary:Bing Crosby recorded nearly 2,000 songs, appeared in more than 100 films, starred in radio shows for nearly 30 years, and remained a hit on television for 25 years. He produced the best-selling record of all time, was the nation's leading film star for a record five years, and was voted one of the most influential Americans of the century by LIFE magazine. This book is a detailed guide to Crosby's fascinating life and career.
A biography that overviews and discusses the most important events, influences, and achievements in Crosby's life. The chapters that follow present a full record of his work in film, radio, and the recording industry. Each chapter is devoted to his work in a particular medium, and individual entries for each of his performances describe his work and comment upon it. An extensive bibliography lists books and articles about Crosby, and many entries assess the value of these works.
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The Blue Note Label: A Discographyby Michel Ruppli, Michael CuscunaISBN 0313318263 (0-313-31826-3)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blue Note Label: A Discography'Book summary:The Blue Note label is one of the most widely known and respected producers of jazz music in the world. This reference book, by noted discographer Michel Ruppli and Blue Note producer Michael Cuscuna, expands upon the previous edition and includes comprehensive documentation of personnel, recording locations and dates, and master and issue numbers for every recording made or issued by the label from its inception through the present day.
An introduction provides a synopsis of the label's genesis, history, and output. Nine sections detail each stage in the label's history, from the sessions produced by the label's founders, through Blue Note's adoption by the Liberty Label and then by the EMI conglomerate, to its 1985 revival as its own entity, the jazz label of record in the United States.
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The Caine Mutinyby Herman WoukISBN 0316955108 (0-316-95510-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Caine Mutiny'Book summary:The Novel that Inspired the Now-Classic Film The Caine Mutiny and the Hit Broadway Play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life-and mutiny-on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater was immediately embraced, upon its original publication in 1951, as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of World War II. In the intervening half century, The Caine Mutiny has become a perennial favorite of readers young and old, has sold millions of copies throughout the world, and has achieved the status of a modern classic. [via]
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Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Watersby Robert Gordon, Keith RichardsISBN 0316328499 (0-316-32849-9)
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The Clash: Before & after Photographsby Pennie SmithISBN 0316801690 (0-316-80169-0)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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The Farmer in the Dellby Diane ZuromskisISBN 0316988898 (0-316-98889-8)
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Garciaby Rolling Stone EditorsISBN 0316754455 (0-316-75445-5)
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The Girl Who Trod on a Loafby Kathryn DavisISBN 0316735035 (0-316-73503-5)
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A Glenn Gould Catalogby Nancy CanningISBN 0313274126 (0-313-27412-6)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Graph Theoretical Models of Abstract Musical Transformation: An Introduction and Compendium for Composers and Theoristsby Jeffrey JohnsonISBN 0313301581 (0-313-30158-1)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Greenmantleby Charles De LintISBN 0330311115 (0-330-31111-5)
Softcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Greenmantle'Book summary:Not far from the modern city lies an ancient wood, forgotten by the rest of the world, where mystery walks in the moonlight. In the wood he wears the shape of a stag, a goat, a horned man wearing a cloak of leaves. He is summonded by the music of the pipes or a fire of bones on midsummer. [via]
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Guns N' Roses: The Photographic Historyby Robert JohnISBN 0316466956 (0-316-46695-6)
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Hans Rosbaud: A Bio-Bibliographyby Joan EvansISBN 0313274134 (0-313-27413-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hans Rosbaud: A Bio-Bibliography'Book summary:Austrian conductor Hans Rosbaud was a leading figure in European musical life from the late 1920s until his death in 1962. Internationally respected as a conductor of Mozart and Haydn, Bruckner and Mahler, his posthumous reputation rests primarily on his standard-setting performances of modern music. In this complete research tool, musicologist Joan Evans brings together all the materials vital for a full assessment of his career. The eminent composer and conductor Pierre Boulez presents his personal recollections of Rosbaud in a foreword.
Because Rosbaud's primary sphere of activity was radio, he made relatively few commercial recordings, but his broadcast recordings number in the hundreds. Evans carefully documents all commercial and private recordings, also providing a biography of the conductor, a section of first performances and an annotated bibliography comprising books, articles, record and concert reviews, radio interviews, and documentary broadcasts. A career chronology appears as an appendix, and a description of his musical compositions and other papers, as well as a list of the works he conducted at the annual Donaueschingen Festival, comprise further appendixes. All sections are fully cross referenced and indexed, thereby providing ready access to this wealth of data.
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Hard Revolutionby George PelecanosISBN 0316608971 (0-316-60897-1)
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Holidays on Iceby David SedarisISBN 0316779237 (0-316-77923-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Holidays on Ice'Book summary:Holidays on Ice is a collection of three previously published stories matched with three newer ones, all, of course, on a Christmas theme. David Sedaris's darkly playful humor is another common thread through the book, worming its way through "Seasons Greetings to Our Friends and Family!!!" a chipper suburban Christmas letter that spirals dizzily out of control, and "Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol," a vicious theatrical review of children's Christmas pageants. As always, Sedaris's best work is his sharply observed nonfiction, notably in "Dinah, the Christmas Whore," the tale of a memorable Christmas during which the young Sedaris learns to see his family in a new light. Worth the price of the book alone is the hilarious "SantaLand Diaries," Sedaris's chronicle of his time working as an elf at Macy's, covering everything from the preliminary group lectures ("You are not a dancer. If you were a real dancer you wouldn't be here. You're an elf and you're going to wear panties like an elf.") to the perils of inter-elf flirtation. Along the way, he paints a funny and sad portrait of the way the countless parents who pass through SantaLand are too busy creating an Experience to really pay attention to their children. In a sly way, it carries a holiday message all its own. Read it aloud to the adults after the kids have gone to bed. --Ali Davis [via]
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Flyby Nadine Bernard WestcottISBN 0316931276 (0-316-93127-6)
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Inside Outby Elizabeth SwadosISBN 0316824666 (0-316-82466-6)
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The iTunes 4 for Windows Bookby Scott KelbyISBN 0321267443 (0-321-26744-3)
Softcover, Pearson Technology Group Canada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The iTunes 4 for Windows Book'Book summary:iTunes and the iPod are making music history, and now you can be a part of this amazing digital revolution by unlocking the amazingly cool power of iTunes for Windows.
The ingenious format of this book makes learning iTunes incredibly easy--you just turn to the page has the feature you want to learn, and that page tells you just what you need to know. Nothing more. There's no long winded rambling discussions about online encoding or jargon-filled explanations about every little detail. Instead, it just shows you, step-by-step how do all the cool things you want to do using iTunes, including:
- How to automatically make a playlist of only your favorite songs (iTunes can do it for you, if you know how)
- How to create a custom E.Q. for any song
- How to keep your songs organized on your computer (and your library)
- How to add Album artwork, where it get it, what to do with it
- How to crossfade from track to track (and control the fade)
- Hidden tricks for controlling those pyschedellic visuals
- Sizing tricks to give you maximum on-screen real estate
- How to kill long boring intros to songs forever
- The secrets of sorting (learn this and it changes everything!
- The trick to making your own Music Store Wish lists
- The easy way to mix and burn your own CDs
- Plus every slick little inside tip, trick, and cool workaround
If you're ready to start ripping, mixing, burning, and jammin' today (and we mean today), there's no faster, easier, or more fun way than with this book. You're gonna love it!
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Jimi Hendrix Sessions: The Complete Studio Recording Sessions, 1963-1970by John McDermott, Eddie Kramer, Billy CoxISBN 0316555460 (0-316-55546-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jimi Hendrix: Sessions The Complete Studio Recording Sessions 1963-1970'Book summary:Jimi Hendrix is universally recognized as the greatest rock 'n' roll guitar player of all time. But until now, the story of how he made his amazing music has never been told. Jimi Hendrix: Sessions is the first book to take us inside the studio and reveal, album by album and track by track, how his songs were born and shaped into the classics they would become. Hendrix biographer John McDermott, working with Hendrix's producer Eddie Kramer and bass player Billy Cox, recreates in extraordinary day-by-day detail the making of every one of Hendrix's songs. Based on firsthand accounts by people who were there and on hundreds of hours of unreleased tapes, this book reveals what went into the creation of "Purple Haze", "Foxey Lady", "All Along the Watchtower", and Hendrix's many other masterpieces. It explains how Hendrix manipulated the primitive studio technology of his time to achieve his unprecedented sounds, and it shows the new heights toward which he was reaching at the time of his death. Beginning with Hendrix's legendary journeyman sessions for the Isley Brothers and other soul greats, and continuing through his last work, this is the authoritative treatment of Hendrix as musician that admirers have long awaited. Illustrated with over one hundred photographs, handwritten lyrics, and studio memorabilia, Jimi Hendrix: Sessions is a loving and timeless tribute to the electric guitar's greatest master. [via]
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Jump Up!by Dan Zanes, Donald SaafISBN 0316167967 (0-316-16796-7)
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The Lady With the Alligator Purseby Nadine Bernard WestcottISBN 0316931365 (0-316-93136-5)
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Last Masterby John SuchetISBN 0316882550 (0-316-88255-0)
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The Last Master: Passion and Painby John SucketISBN 0316688983 (0-316-68898-3)
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Lefty Frizzell: The Honky-Tonk Life of Country Music's Greatest Singerby Daniel CooperISBN 0316156205 (0-316-15620-5)
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Liszt:the Artist as Romantic Hero: The Artist as Romantic Heroby Eleanor Spencer Stone PerenyiISBN 0316699101 (0-316-69910-1)
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Make Mine Musicby Tom WaltherISBN 0316921122 (0-316-92112-2)
Softcover, Little, Brown
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Merry Christmas, Baby: Holiday Music From Bing To Stingby Dave Marsh, Steve PropesISBN 0316547336 (0-316-54733-6)
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Miss Mary Mackby Mary Ann Hoberman, Nadine Bernard WestcottISBN 0316076147 (0-316-07614-7)
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Moonheartby Charles De LintISBN 0317633112 (0-317-63311-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Mozartby BakerISBN 0316641332 (0-316-64133-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Music of the Repressed Russian Avant-Garde, 1900-1929by Larry SitskyISBN 031326709X (0-313-26709-X)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Mythology As Metaphor : Romantic Irony, Critical Theory and Wagner's Ringby Mary A. CicoraISBN 0313305285 (0-313-30528-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt Education
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A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888-1889by Frederic MortonISBN 0316585327 (0-316-58532-7)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888-1889'Book summary:On January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed hight of the Viennese Carnival, the handsome and charming Crown Prince Rudolf fired a revolver at his teenaged mistress and then himself. The two shots that rang out at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods echo still.[via]Frederic Morton, author of the bestselling Rothschilds, deftly tells the haunting story of the Prince and his city, where, in the span of only ten months, "the Western dream started to go wrong." In Rudolf's Vienna moved other young men with striking intellectual and artistic talentsand all as frustrated as the Prince. Among them were: young Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, Theodor Herzl, Gustav Klimt, and the playwright Arthur Schnitzler, whose La Ronde was the great erotic drama of the fin de siecle. Morton studies these and other gifted young men, interweaving their fates with that of the doomed Prince and the entire city through to the eve of Easter, just after Rudolf's body is lowered into its permanent sarcophagus and a son named Adolf Hitler is born to Frau Klara Hitler.
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Nighthawk Blues: A Novelby Peter GuralnickISBN 0316735728 (0-316-73572-8)
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Paint it Black: A Novelby Janet FitchISBN 031601771X (0-316-01771-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paint it Black: A Novel'Book summary:Following the huge success of White Oleander, where Janet Fitch portrayed the coming-of-age of Astrid, a young girl placed in foster care after her mother murders a former lover and goes to prison for life, she has once again created an indelible portrait of a young woman in Paint it Black. Josie Tyrell is a teenage runaway, an artist's model, and an habitué of the '80s LA punk rock scene. She is a white trash escapee from Bakersfield, having left a going nowhere life there. Now, sex, drugs and rock n' roll inform her days and nights. Paint it Black is the perfect title choice because Josie's lover is never coming back, as the song says.
Josie meets Michael Faraday, son of concert pianist Meredith Loewy and writer Calvin Faraday, long divorced. He is everything that she is not: refined, wealthy, well-traveled, brilliant by fits and starts. He is also a Harvard dropout, leaving school so he can paint; his new obsession. He refuses help from his mother, who is furious about his decision to leave school, but it doesn't bother him to have Josie working three jobs to support them. He is given to black moods, frozen in amber by his perfectionism, contemptuous of those who do not agree with him about art and life. Josie adores him. One day much like any other, he leaves their house, saying that he is going to his mother's so that he can paint in solitude. Instead, he goes to a motel in 29 Palms and shoots himself in the head.
What follows is days of watching Josie in a near fugue state from grief, drugs, booze, and going over and over her love for Michael, trying to grasp how he could do what he did. After all, didn't they share the "true world," Michael's characterization of their cocoon of love and exclusivity?
Meredith calls her and says, "Why are you alive? What is the excuse for Josie Tyrell? I ask you." Ultimately, they form a tenuous relationship, because all that is left of Michael lives in the two women. Josie even lives with Meredith for a while. When Meredith is ready to go on tour again, she asks Josie to go to Europe with her. Before she can do that, she must go to 29 Palms and try to understand, finally, why Michael's depression pushed him over the edge. That puzzle is not solved, nor can it be, but the end of the story is a hopeful, upbeat, new beginning. Janet Fitch has beaten the curse of the sophomore slump with this dynamite second novel. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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Parsifal on Record: A Discography of Complete Recordings, Selections, and Excerpts of Wagner's Music Dramaby Jonathan BrownISBN 0313285411 (0-313-28541-1)
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Written in Australia where Parsifal has never been fully staged, the discography was researched in major libraries and archives of Europe and the United States as well as old record shops in New York, London, Paris, and Sydney. The result is an important resource for the discographer and record collector, the student of opera and vocal art, and all lovers of Wagner in performance.
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The Picador Book of Blues and Jazzby James CampbellISBN 0330344455 (0-330-34445-5)
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Porcupiningby Lisa Wheeler, Janie BynumISBN 0316989126 (0-316-98912-6)
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Ragtime Tumpieby Alan Schroeder, Bernie FuchsISBN 0316775045 (0-316-77504-5)
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Richard Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier: Comedy for Music in Three Actsby Anthony Burgess, Richard Strauss, George Richard MarekISBN 0316568368 (0-316-56836-8)
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Rock 'N' Roll Confidentialby P. StallingsISBN 0316809985 (0-316-80998-5)
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A Salty Piece of Landby Jimmy BuffettISBN 031601429X (0-316-01429-X)
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Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern: A Companion to the Second Viennese Schoolby Bryan R. SimmsISBN 0313296049 (0-313-29604-9)
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Secrets of the Ipodby Christopher BreenISBN 0321223713 (0-321-22371-3)
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Set Your Voice Freeby Donna Frazier, Roger LoveISBN 0316441791 (0-316-44179-1)
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The Seventies: A Tumultuous Decade Reconsideredby Holly George-Warren, Ashley Kahn, Shawn Dahl, Rolling StoneISBN 0316815470 (0-316-81547-0)
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A Short Guide to Writing About Musicby Jonathan BellmanISBN 0321015770 (0-321-01577-0)
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The Sixtiesby AndersonISBN 0321156374 (0-321-15637-4)
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Always appreciated for its brevity, wit and captivating style, The Sixties enters its third edition with expanded coverage of the most interesting and important events, people and movements of the Sixties.
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Skip to My Louby Mary Ann Hoberman, Nadine Bernard WestcottISBN 0316734055 (0-316-73405-5)
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Skip to My Louby Nadine Bernard WestcottISBN 0316930911 (0-316-93091-1)
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Songs of Chanukahby Jeanne ModesittISBN 0316577391 (0-316-57739-1)
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Soul Cityby ToureISBN 0316741582 (0-316-74158-2)
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Stevie Ray Vaughan: Caught in the Crossfireby Bill Crawford, Joe Nick PatoskiISBN 0316160695 (0-316-16069-5)
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The Story Behind the Song: 150 Songs That Chronicle the 20th Centuryby Richard D. Barnet, Bruce Nemerov, Mayo R. TaylorISBN 0313319766 (0-313-31976-6)
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Streisand: A Biographyby Anne EdwardsISBN 0316211389 (0-316-21138-9)
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Summer of Love: The Making of Sgt. Pepperby George Martin, William PearsonISBN 033034210X (0-330-34210-X)
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The Sunday Philosophy Clubby Alexander McCall SmithISBN 0316728179 (0-316-72817-9)
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The Swing Bookby Degen PenerISBN 0316698024 (0-316-69802-4)
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Talking about Music: Symphonies, Concertos and Sonatasby Antony HopkinsISBN 0330248243 (0-330-24824-3)
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Tantalizing Tingles: A Discography of Early Ragtime, Jazz, and Novelty Syncopated Piano Recordings, 1889-1934by Ross LairdISBN 031329240X (0-313-29240-X)
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Toot & Puddleby Holly HobbieISBN 0316366234 (0-316-36623-4)
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Hobbie's marvelous illustrations are filled with telling details and subtle wit: Toot caroling his heart out in an Edinburgh blizzard with a few sheep buddies; Puddle curled up in an armchair with crayons and holiday cards (signed with a blank space before "and Puddle," in anticipation of Toot's signature). The devotion the pigs share for each other is sweet, never sickly, and young readers with best friends will know exactly how they feel, being apart at a most important time. Several more Toot and Puddle titles will also enchant, including A Present for Toot and You Are My Sunshine. (Ages 3 to 7) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Tristan and Isolde on Record: A Comprehensive Discography of Wagner's Music Drama With a Critical Introduction to the Recordingsby Jonathan BrownISBN 0313314896 (0-313-31489-6)
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Waiting for the Manby Jeremy ReedISBN 0330325493 (0-330-32549-3)
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The Wheels on the Busby Maryann KovalskiISBN 0316502596 (0-316-50259-6)
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Yankee Doodleby Mary Ann Hoberman, Nadine Bernard WestcottISBN 0316145513 (0-316-14551-3)
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