Peter Asher: A Life in Music
By: David Jacks
4.47
Format: 656 pages, Kindle Edition
Spanning more than fifty years of modern music history, Peter A Life in Music highlights every tur…
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1. Van Halen Rising: How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal
By: Greg Renoff
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
A vivid and energetic history of Van Halen's legendary early years After years of playing gigs ever… read more
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- music
2. They're Playing Our Song
By: Carole Bayer Sager
4.07
Format: None pages,
Grammy and Academy Award-winning songwriter Carole Bayer Sager shares the remarkably frank and dark… read more
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3. A Man in Full
By: Tom Wolfe
4.28
Format: None pages, Paperback
The setting is Atlanta, Georgia -- a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and… read more
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4. 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded
By: Jon Savage
3.50
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
The pop world accelerated and broke through the sound barrier in 1966. In America, in London, in Am… read more
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5. Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
By: Ed Zwick
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends … read more
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"One of Patsy Broderick's choicer comments was to describe my writing as ' limp as a penis ."-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
"I called Matthew Broderick. The radiophone was working again. 'Hi, Matthew, I hear you want to talk about the script. Over .' 'Yeah, well, I have a lot of notes…' He neglected to say “ over ."-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
"From the moment we met Patsy Broderick was contemptuous, demeaning, and volatile. As Matthew sat in opaque silence, I was forced to defend, in excruciating detail, my rationale for every line in ever…"-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
6. The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster
By: John Gleeson
4.25
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
“Riveting…an electrifying true crime story of the Mafia-smitten eighties and nineties. Suspenseful … read more
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7. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.71
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more
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8. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
9. Think Twice (Myron Bolitar, #12)
By: Harlan Coben
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
9 hours, 41 minutes Myron Bolitar and Windsor Horne Lockwood III reunite to find a dead man co… read more
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10. The Last Word
By: Elly Griffiths
3.92
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreha… read more
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11. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
By: Ben Macintyre
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more
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12. Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
By: Warren Zanes
4.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, rev… read more
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- music
"Nineteen eighty-two is as good a year as any to mark the threshold of a future we're still negotiating. It's been called the information age, the digital age, the new media age. It was the beginning …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
"Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
"Guitar Town was out, and it was doing okay," [Steve] Earle recalled. "But the label didn't want it to happen. Jimmy [Bowen] certainly didn't. He didn't like the record. He didn't like me. But it was …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
13. Sonic Life: A Memoir
By: Thurston Moore
3.81
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from… read more
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14. Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans
By: Kenneth Womack
4.16
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles’ beloved friend, confidant, and roadie. … read more
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15. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
By: Matt Singer
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more
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16. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
By: Sly Stone
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses … read more
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17. The House Guest
By: Hank Phillippi Ryan
3.29
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The House Guest is another diabolical cat-and-mouse thriller from Hank Phillippi Ryan—but which cha… read more
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18. Fair Warning (Jack McEvoy, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #34)
By: Michael Connelly
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
The hero of The Poet and The Scarecrow is back in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselli… read more
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19. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more
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"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
20. All You Need Is Love: An Oral History of The Beatles
By: Peter Brown
3.53
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
The Beatles in their own words: unpublished, unvarnished, and told by The Beatles and their inner c… read more
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21. George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle
By: Philip Norman
3.91
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the premiere Beatles biographer—author of the New York Times bestseller John The Life and the… read more
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22. Hollywood: The Oral History
By: Jeanine Basinger
4.04
Format: 768 pages, Paperback
The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine … read more
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23. Bogie & Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair
By: William J. Mann
3.89
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the noted Hollywood biographer and author of The Contender comes this celebration of the great… read more
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24. Turn It Up! My Time Making Hit Records in the Glory Days of Rock Music
By: Tom Werman
3.80
Format: 239 pages, Paperback
Growing up in the Boston suburbs, Tom Werman was deeply affected by pop music from a young age. He … read more
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25. Peter Asher: A Life in Music
By: David Jacks
4.47
Format: 656 pages, Kindle Edition
Spanning more than fifty years of modern music history, Peter A Life in Music highlights every tur… read more
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26. I Don't Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony
By: Nick Corasaniti
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A captivating oral history of the iconic music venue the Stone Pony and of the rise, fall, and rebi… read more
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27. Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers
By: Ian O'Connor
3.85
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Aaron Rodgers is regarded by some as the most talented player to ever hold the most important job i… read more
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28. Robert B. Parker's Buzz Kill (Sunny Randall Book 12)
By: Alison Gaylin
4.32
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
Boston PI Sunny Randall is back to investigate the disappearance of a hard-partying energy drink mo… read more
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29. Came the Lightening: Twenty Poems for George
By: Olivia Harrison
4.60
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
'Here on the shore, twenty years later, my message in a bottle has reached dry land. Words about ou… read more
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30. The Other Fab Four: The Remarkable True Story of the Liverbirds, Britain’s First Female Rock Band
By: Mary McGlory
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When John Lennon told the four members of The Liverbirds—Britain’s first female rock band—that gir… read more
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31. An American Story: Everyone’s Invited
By: Wilmer Valderrama
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The remarkable true story of a young immigrant from Venezuela who had a dream to change the world, … read more
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