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45by Bill DrummondISBN 0349112894 (0-349-11289-4)
Softcover, Little Brown Uk
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Almost Grown: The Rise of Rockby Jim MillerISBN 0434007919 (0-434-00791-9)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Almost Grown: The Rise of Rock'Book summary:A social and cultural history of rock music, from the earliest days with Elvis, through the Beatles, Stones, Dylan and the Doors, to glam and punk in the latter half of the 1970s. [via]
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Assembling Californiaby John McPheeISBN 0374523932 (0-374-52393-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Assembling California'Book summary:At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersectin the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentiethand always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, Assembling California is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands.[via] -
Babelby Patti SmithISBN 0425042308 (0-425-04230-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Babel'Book summary:Contains Smith's poems along with her prose, lyrics, pictures and drawings. [via]
Babes in Toyland: The Making and Selling of a Rock and Roll Bandby Neal KarlenISBN 0380726025 (0-380-72602-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Ballad of John and Yokoby Christine Doudna, Jonathan CottISBN 038517733X (0-385-17733-X)
Softcover, Dolphin Books
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Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness, or My Life as a Fabulous Ronetteby Ronnie Spector, Vince Waldron, Billy Joel, CherISBN 0451411536 (0-451-41153-6)
Softcover, Onyx Books
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The Beatlesby Hunter DaviesISBN 0393315711 (0-393-31571-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Beatles Illustrated Lyricsby Alan AldridgeISBN 039559426X (0-395-59426-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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The Beatles Illustrated Lyricsby Beatles, Alan AldridgeISBN 0356029247 (0-356-02924-7)
Hardcover, Macdonald
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics'Book summary:First published in 1969, this reissued collection of illustrated lyrics for 200 Beatles songs will be a treasure for any fan of the Fab Four. Editor and Beatle-buddy Alan Aldridge states in his introduction to the original edition: "What I have tried to do is present a book [that] is as entertaining to the eye and the imagination as a Beatles album is to the ear." Indeed, he more than succeeds, creating a lavish pageant of art and music that embraces not only the Beatles but also the psychedelic spirit of the entire era.
In 320 photos and illustrations, renowned artists offer their interpretations of various songs. "Help" is visualized by Ronald Searle; "Fixing a Hole," by Tomi Ungerer; "Glass Onion," by Peter Max; "I'm So Tired," by David Hockney; and "Oh, Darling," by Ralph Steadman. Aldridge also contributes his own trippy illustrations, which reflect the bold, bulbous, cartoons-on-acid style of 1960s poster art. This rich compilation also has brief quotes from the Beatles explaining the origins of the themes and lyrics of certain songs. For example, despite the buzz that "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is about LSD, according to Paul, "What happened was that John's son Julian did a drawing at school and brought it home, and he has a schoolmate named Lucy, and John said, 'What's that?' and he said 'Lucy in the sky with diamonds.'" Band members also share their thoughts on superstardom, including this now weighty comment from John: "I don't intend to be a performing flea anymore. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40." It can't bring them back, but The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics can take you on a long and winding road of nostalgia. --Brangien Davis [via]
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The Beatles: The Authorised Biographyby Hunter DaviesISBN 0434176044 (0-434-17604-4)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beatles: The Authorised Biography'Book summary:Theres only one book that ever truly got inside the Beatles and this is it. The landmark, worldwide bestseller that has grown with the Beatles ever since. During 1967 and 1968 Hunter Davies spent eighteen months with the Beatles at the peak of their powers as they defined a generation and rewrote popular music. As their only ever authorised biographer he had unparalleled access not just to John, Paul, George and Ringo but to friends, family and colleagues. There when it mattered, he collected a wealth of intimate and revealing material that still makes this the classic Beatles book the one all other biographers look to. Hunter Davies remained close with the band and as such has had access to more information over the years. This 40th anniversary edition contains new material which has never been revealed before, from the author's archives and from the Beatles themselves, that will bring new insights to their legend. [via]
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A Change Is Gonna Come : Music, Race and the Soul of Americaby Craig WernerISBN 0452280656 (0-452-28065-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Dana's Manual of Mineralogyby James Dwight Dana, Cornelius Searle HurlbutISBN 0471422258 (0-471-42225-8)
Hardcover, Wiley
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Dick Clark's First Twenty-Five Years of Rock and Rollby Michael UslanISBN 044051763X (0-440-51763-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckleyby David BrowneISBN 038080624X (0-380-80624-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley'Book summary:When Jeff Buckley drowned at the age of thirty in 1997, he not only left behind a legacy of brilliant music -- he brought back haunting memories of his father, '60s troubadour Tim Buckley, a gifted musician who barely knew his son and who himself died at twenty-eight. Both father and son made transcendent music that mixed rock, jazz, and folk; both amassed a cadre of obsessive, adoring fans.
This absorbing dual biography -- based on interviews with more than one hundred friends, family members, and business associates as well as access to journals and unreleased recordings -- tells for the first time the intriguing, often heartbreaking story of these two musicians. It offers a new understanding of the Buckleys' parallel lives -- and tragedies -- while exploring the changing music business between the '60s and the '90s. Finally, it tells the story of a father and son, two complex, enigmatic men who died searching for themselves and each other.
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Duplicate Keysby Jane SmileyISBN 0449908798 (0-449-90879-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Elvis - Top Secret : The Untold Story of Elvis Presley's Secret FBI Filesby Earl Greenwood, Kathleen TracyISBN 0451173112 (0-451-17311-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Elvis : What Happened?by Steve DunleavyISBN 034530635X (0-345-30635-X)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Facing the Music: Pantheon Guide to Popular Cultureby Simon FrithISBN 039475185X (0-394-75185-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Fleetwood: My Life and Adventures in Fleetwood Macby Mick FleetwoodISBN 038071616X (0-380-71616-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Glimpsesby Lewis ShinerISBN 0380723646 (0-380-72364-6)
Softcover, Avon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Glimpses'Book summary:Ray Shackleford, a disillusioned, former 1960s youth, discovers that he has the special talent to tap into the spiritual energies of such music legends as Morrison, Hendrix, and Lennon to access songs that had never been written. Reprint. [via]
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The Golden Gateby Vikram SethISBN 0394750632 (0-394-75063-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Gate'Book summary:Can 690 sonnets, rhyming a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d-e-f-f-e-g-g, be a novel? Definitely! First published in 1986 and still fresh (the sole sign of its publication date being the frequent use of the word yuppie), Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate will turn the verse-fearing into admiring acolytes. Janet Hayakawa, a yet-to-be-discovered sculptor and drummer in the Liquid Sheep, secretly places a personal ad for her friend John, even though she too is single. "Only her cats provide distraction,/Twin paradigms of lazy action." The seventh letter does the trick. Lawyer Liz Donati's submission is two sonnets in toto and disarms John into meeting her. Soon they fall into brief bliss, as do her brother, Ed, and John's old college roommate, Phil. Unfortunately, the first couple's love is too soon destroyed, partly by a pet, partly by politics; and the second is rent by religion. Ed pulls away thanks to the Bible: "I have to trust my faith's decisions, / Not batten on my own volitions."
The rest of the novel leads less to the traditional comic ending--rapprochement and marriage all around--than to surprising sadness. But in between there is wit, wordplay, abounding allusion, and some marvelous animals, among them the iguana Schwarzenegger. The author even steps onto the stage on occasion: at a frou-frou publishing party a powerful editor accosts him, curious to hear about his new novel. When Seth tells him it's in verse, the temperature plummets. "'How marvelously quaint,' he said, / And subsequently cut me dead." Luckily, Seth's real editor did anything but. [via]
Handbook of Rocks, Minerals, and Gemstonesby Walter Schumann, R. Bradshaw, K.A.G. MillsISBN 0395511372 (0-395-51137-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Hendrix: Setting the Record Straightby John McDermott, Mark Lewisohn, Eddie KramerISBN 0446394319 (0-446-39431-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Hotel California: The True-life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friendsby Barney HoskynsISBN 0471732737 (0-471-73273-7)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Is That It?by Bob Geldof, Paul VallelyISBN 0345351975 (0-345-35197-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The King Is Deadby Paul SammonISBN 0385312539 (0-385-31253-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The King Is Dead'Book summary:A collection of stories featuring the late Elvis Presley includes Joyce Carol Oates's ""Elvis is Dead: Why are You Still Alive?,"" Harlan Ellison and Chet Williamson's tales of Elvis's dead-at-birth twin, and works by Clive Barker, Lawrence Block, and David Morrell. [via]
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Lillian Roxon's Rock Encyclopediaby Ed Naha, Lillian RoxonISBN 0448145723 (0-448-14572-3)
Hardcover, Grosset & Grosset & Dunlap
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Lillian Roxon's Rock Encyclopediaby Lillian Roxon, NahaISBN 0448145715 (0-448-14571-5)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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Lyrics, 1962-1985by Bob DylanISBN 0394542789 (0-394-54278-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Manual of Mineralogy: After James D. Danaby Cornelis Klein, James Dwight Dana, Cornelius Searle HurlbutISBN 0471422266 (0-471-42226-6)
Hardcover, Wiley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Manual of Mineralogy: (after James D. Dana)'Book summary:Comprehensive and up-to-date, this revised introductory text presents a balanced treatment of basic concepts in mineralogy and descriptive discussions of about 200 of the most common minerals. New in this 20th Edition are a more simplified approach to crystal morphology, a chapter on internal order and structure, a new chapter on gem minerals with four color plates, and revisions throughout the text which reflect a more quantitative approach. [via]
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Metal Angelby Nancy SpringerISBN 0451453301 (0-451-45330-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Minerologyby John SinkankasISBN 0442276249 (0-442-27624-9)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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Moonby Tony FletcherISBN 0380788276 (0-380-78827-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Music for Pleasure: Essays in the Sociology of Popby Simon FrithISBN 0415900522 (0-415-90052-2)
Softcover, Routledge
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Mineralsby Charles Wesley ChestermanISBN 0394502698 (0-394-50269-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals'Book summary:Perfect for mountain climbers and hikers this valuable reference covers more rocks and minerals in North America than any other available guide. 794 full-color photographs depict all the important rocks gems and minerals - in many variations of color and crystal form - and the natural environments in which they occur; written descriptions provide information on field marks similar rocks and minerals environment areas of occurrence and derivation of names. Includes a guide to mineral collecting and a list of rock-forming minerals. Author: National Audubon Society. [via]
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Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlistby David Levithan, Rachel CohnISBN 0375835318 (0-375-83531-8)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist'Book summary:It all starts when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes. He only needs five minutes to avoid his ex-girlfriend, whos just walked in to his bands show. With a new guy. And then, with one kiss, Nick and Norah are off on an adventure set against the backdrop of New York Cityand smack in the middle of all the joy, anxiety, confusion, and excitement of a first date.
This he said/she said romance told by YA stars Rachel Cohn and David Levithan is a sexy, funny roller coaster of a story about one date over one very long night, with two teenagers, both recovering from broken hearts, who are just trying to figure out who they want to beand where the next great band is playing.
Told in alternating chapters, teeming with music references, humor, angst, and endearing side characters, this is a love story youll wish were your very own. Working together for the first time, Rachel Cohn and David Levithan have combined forces to create a book that is sure to grab readers of all ages and never let them go.
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Night Beat: A Shadow History of Rock & Rollby Mikal GilmoreISBN 0385484364 (0-385-48436-4)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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Object-Oriented Programming With the X Window System Toolkitsby Jerry D. SmithISBN 0471532606 (0-471-53260-6)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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On Record: Rock, Pop, and the Written Wordby Simon Frith, Andrew GoodwinISBN 0415053064 (0-415-05306-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Passionate Eye: The Collected Writing of Suzanne Vegaby Suzanne VegaISBN 0380788829 (0-380-78882-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Passionate Eye : The Collected Writing of Suzanne Vega'Book summary:Suzanne Vega is a luminous writer in whatever medium she chooses. She is a poet of the urban street whose eye catches the motion and vibrant color of the life that surrounds us all. The Passionate Eye is a collection of her poems and stories, remembrances of times past and far-away countries, interviews and song lyrics, and conversations overheard and imagined. Here, new and old fans alike will discover Vega's complex inner worlds, realized in simple yet breathtaking strokes. [via]
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Patti Smith Complete : Lyrics, Reflections and Notes for the Futureby Patti SmithISBN 0385490801 (0-385-49080-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farinaby David HajduISBN 0374281998 (0-374-28199-8)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina'Book summary:David Hajdu (pronounced HAY-doo), the prizewinning author of the magisterial jazz biography Lush Life, now steam-cleans the legend of the lost folk generation in Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña. What a ripping read! It's like an invitation to the wildest party Greenwich Village ever saw. You feel swept up in the coffeehouse culture that transformed ordinary suburban kids into ragged, radiant avatars of a traditional yet bewilderingly new music. Hajdu's sociomusical analysis is as scholarly as (though less arty than) Greil Marcus's work; he deftly sketches the sources and evolving styles of his ambitious, rather calculating subjects, proving in the process that genius is not individual--it's rooted in a time and place. Hajdu says Dylan heisted many early tunes (e.g., "Maggie's Farm" from Pete Seeger's "Down on Penny's Farm"): "Dylan [told] a radio interviewer that he felt as if his music had always existed and he just wrote it down ... [in fact], much of his early work had existed as other writers' melodies, chord structures, or thematic ideas." But Dylan and company made it all their own, and Hajdu vividly evokes the scenes they made.
Positively 4th Street is very much a group portrait. When something amazing happens, Hajdu puts you right there. The unknown Baez barefoot in the rain, bedazzling the Newport Jazz Festival and becoming immortal overnight. The irresistibly irresponsible Fariña talking his folk-star wife out of shooting him dead with his own pistol. The "little spastic gnome" Dylan transmogrified into greatness onstage, bashing Joan with the searing lyrics of "She Belongs to Me." A stoned Fariña advising Dylan to cynically hitch his wagon to Joan's rising star and "start a whole new genre. Poetry set to music, but not chamber music or beatnik jazz, man... poetry you can dance to."
The book is as delectably gossipy as Vanity Fair (one of Hajdu's employers). Richard married the exceedingly young beauty Mimi and helmed their career, but he might have dumped her for big sister Joan, whose madcap humor and verbal wit harmonized with his--except that he ineptly killed himself on a motorcycle first. Bob mumblingly courted both sisters, but when he cruelly taunted the insecure Joan, Mimi yanked his hair back until he cried. The account of Bob and Joan's musical-erotic passion is first-rate music history and uproarious soap opera. Hajdu's research is prodigious--even Fariña's close chum Thomas Pynchon granted interviews--and his anecdotes are often off-the-cuff funny: "[Rock manager Albert Grossman] was easy to deal with.... It wasn't till maybe two days after you would see Albert that you'd realize your underwear had been stolen." Full disclosure: Hajdu was one of my long-ago bosses at Entertainment Weekly, but that's certainly not why I heartily endorse this book. It's scholarship with a human face, akin to "poetry you can dance to." --Tim Appelo [via]
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Pump Up the Volumeby J.S. FelicianoISBN 0440209153 (0-440-20915-3)
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Punk Rock: So What?by Roger SabinISBN 0415170303 (0-415-17030-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Queen of the Damnedby Anne RiceISBN 0345351525 (0-345-35152-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Queen of the Damned'Book summary:Did you ever wonder where all those mischievous vampires roaming the globe in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles came from? In this, the third book in the series, we find out. That raucous rock-star vampire Lestat interrupts the 6,000-year slumber of the mama of all bloodsuckers, Akasha, Queen of the Damned.
Akasha was once the queen of the Nile (she has a bit in common with the Egyptian goddess Isis), and it's unwise to rile her now that she's had 60 centuries of practice being undead. She is so peeved about male violence that she might just have to kill most of them. And she has her eye on handsome Lestat with other ideas as well.
If you felt that the previous books in the series weren't gory and erotic enough, this one should quench your thirst (though it may cause you to omit organ meats from your diet). It also boasts God's plenty of absorbing lore that enriches the tale that went before, including the back-story of the boy in Interview with the Vampire and the ancient fellowship of the Talamasca, which snoops on paranormal phenomena. Mostly, the book spins the complex yarn of Akasha's eerie, brooding brood and her nemeses, the terrifying sisters Maharet and Mekare. In one sense, Queen of the Damned is the ultimate multigenerational saga. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Ready, Steady, Go! : The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging Londonby Shawn LevyISBN 0385498578 (0-385-49857-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ready, Steady, Go! : The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London'Book summary:Its the summer of 1966... The fundamental old ways: chastity, rationality, harmony, sobriety, even democracy: blasted to nothing or crumbling under siege. The city glows. It echoes. It pulses. It bleeds pastel and fuzzy, spicy, paisley and soft. This is how it's always going to be: smashing clothes, brilliant music, easy sex, eternal youth, the eyes of everybody, everyone's first thought, the top of the world, right here, right now: Swinging London.
Shawn Levy has a genius for unearthing the secret history of popular culture. The Los Angeles Times called King of Comedy, his biography of Jerry Lewis, "a model of what a celebrity bio ought to besmart, knowing, insightful, often funny, full of fascinating insiders' stories," and the Boston Globe declared that Rat Pack Confidential "evokes the time in question with the power of a novel, as well as James Ellroy's American Tabloid and better by far than Don DeLillo's Underworld."
In Ready, Steady, Go! Levy captures the spirit of the sixties in all its exuberance. A portrait of London from roughly 1961 to 1969, it chronicles the explosion of creativityin art, music and fashionand the revolutionssexual, social and politicalthat reshaped the world. Levy deftly blends the enthusiasm of a fan, the discerning eye of a social critic and a historian's objectivity as he re-creates the hectic pace and daring experimentation of the timesfrom the utter transformation of rock 'n' roll by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to the new aesthetics introduced by fashion designers like Mary Quant, haircutters like Vidal Sassoon, photographers like David Bailey, actors like Michael Caine and Terence Stamp and filmmakers like Richard Lester and Nicolas Roeg to the wild clothing shops and cutting-edge clubs that made Carnaby Street and King's Road the hippest thoroughfares in the world.
Spiced with the reminiscences of some of the leading icons of that period, their fans and followers, and featuring a photographic gallery of well-known faces and far-out fashions, Ready, Steady, Go! is an irresistible re-creation of a time and place that seemed almost impossibly fun. [via]More editions of Ready, Steady, Go! : The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London:
Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay: An Anthologyby William McKeen, Peter GuralnickISBN 0393047008 (0-393-04700-8)
Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Rock Encyclopedia.by Lillian RoxonISBN 0448002558 (0-448-00255-8)
Softcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Rock Odyssey: A Musician's Chronicle of the Sixtiesby Ian WhitcombISBN 0385157053 (0-385-15705-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Pop, and Rapby Evelyn McDonnell, Ann PowersISBN 0385312504 (0-385-31250-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Rock'n'roll Babylon: 50 Years of Sex, Drugs and Rock'n'rollby Gary HermanISBN 0399506411 (0-399-50641-1)
Softcover, Smithmark Pub
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The Rolling Stone Record Guide: Reviews and Ratings of Almost 10,000 Currently Available Rock, Pop, Soul, Country, Blues, Jazz, and Gospel Albumsby Dave MarshISBN 0394735358 (0-394-73535-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Rolling Stone's Alt-Rock-A-Rama: An Outrageous Compendium of Facts, Fiction, Trivia, and Critiques on Alternative Rockby Scott Schinder, Rolling StoneISBN 0385313608 (0-385-31360-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Rolling Stones: The First Twenty Yearsby David DaltonISBN 0394708121 (0-394-70812-1)
Softcover, Smithmark Pub
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Sedimentary Rocks in the Fieldby Maurice E. TuckerISBN 0470851236 (0-470-85123-6)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Sexby Glenn O'Brien, Steven Meisel, MadonnaISBN 0446517321 (0-446-51732-1)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheadsby David Shenk, Steve SilbermanISBN 0385474024 (0-385-47402-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Songs of Bob Dylan from 1966 Through 1975by Bob DylanISBN 0394735234 (0-394-73523-4)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Islandby Greil MarcusISBN 0394738276 (0-394-73827-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Strange Days : My Life with and Without Jim Morrisonby Patricia KennealyISBN 0452269814 (0-452-26981-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Studio A: The Bob Dylan Readerby Benjamin HedinISBN 0393058441 (0-393-05844-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Symphony for the Devilby Philip NormanISBN 0440184290 (0-440-18429-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Teen Angst?: Naaah...by Ned VizziniISBN 044023767X (0-440-23767-X)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf
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Tell Me Why : A Beatles Commentaryby Tim RileyISBN 0394550617 (0-394-55061-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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-- Cleveland Plain Dealer
Album by album, song by song, Tim Riley gives us a new, deeper understanding of the Beatles. Outdistancing the countless tell-all biographies that have been written, Riley's study of the Beatles' music is as rigorous as it is soulful. He explores the entire Beatles catalogue, making clear that the legendary four were not simply teen idols -- that they were, in fact, brilliant musical innovators who created timeless songs and virtually invented the album-as-art.
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A Twist of Lennonby Cynthia LennonISBN 0380454505 (0-380-45450-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Underground: The London Alternative Press, 1966-74by Nigel FountainISBN 0415007283 (0-415-00728-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmithby Aerosmith, Stephen DavisISBN 0380795310 (0-380-79531-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Prefaced with the now familiar rock-star "intervention," when Steven Tyler's loved ones cornered him in his manager's office in 1986, the autobiography traces Aerosmith's twisted road, from their New Hampshire roots to their success in Boston to the worldwide fame that they long craved and currently enjoy. Tyler kicks off this rock & roll exposé, briefly recounting the history of his ancestors in Italy and sharing incidents from his own Northeast childhood. The book is written in interview style, with all five band members talking candidly about the good times--and the bad. We also hear from girlfriends, wives, friends, and various hangers-on.
The story of Aerosmith and their constant ups, downs, and detours never fails to grab you and force you to read another page--if only to see what train wreck awaits around the next corner. Walk This Way is a must-read for devoted fans of Aerosmith as well as anybody who wants to live the full-on '70s rock-star life--without having to go through rehab. --Paul DeBruler [via]
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Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmithby Stephen Davis, Aerosmith, Aerosmith DavisISBN 0380975947 (0-380-97594-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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War for the Oaksby Emma BullISBN 0441870732 (0-441-87073-2)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Eddi McCandry has just left her boyfriend and their band when she finds herself running through the Minneapolis night, pursued by a sinister man and a huge, terrifying dog. The two creatures are one and the same: a phouka, a faerie being who has chosen Eddi to be a mortal pawn in the age-old war between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts. Eddi isn't interested--but she doesn't have a choice. Now she struggles to build a new life and new band when she might not even survive till the first rehearsal.
War for the Oaks won the Locus Magazine award for Best First Novel and was a finalist for the Mythopoeic Society Award. Other books by Emma Bull include the novels Falcon, Bone Dance (second honors, Philip K. Dick Award), Finder (a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award), and (with Stephen Brust) Freedom and Necessity; the collection Double Feature (with Will Shetterly); and the picture book The Princess and the Lord of Night. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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What's That Sound: The Contemporary Music Scene from the Pages of Rolling Stoneby Ben Fong-TorresISBN 0385114826 (0-385-11482-6)
Hardcover, Anchor Press
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The Wishbonesby Tom PerrottaISBN 0425163148 (0-425-16314-8)
Softcover, Berkley Signature
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Everybody knows someone like Dave, but a real-life puer aeternus is rarely as entertaining as Perrotta's fictional one. Perrotta wisely surrounds his sad-sack protagonist with an array of entertaining supporting characters, from a joint-smoking priest to one of Dave's band-mates whose life work is a musical based on Kennedy's assassination. By the time The Wishbones winds down to its well-deserved end, readers will be wishing for a second novel from Tom Perrotta soon. [via]
Women and Popular Music: Sexuality, Identity and Subjectivityby Sheila WhiteleyISBN 0415211905 (0-415-21190-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excessby Danny SugermanISBN 0349101752 (0-349-10175-2)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wonderland Avenue : Tales of Glamour and Excess'Book summary:[via]This is the autobiography of Danny Sugerman, Jim Morrison's protege and one-time manager of The Doors and then Iggy Pop. It is also an account of heroin addiction and the madness of life in the LA rock 'n' roll scene.More editions of Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess:
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