Nothing Compares 2 U: An Oral History of Prince
By: Touré
3.91
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The real Prince in the words of those who knew him best—from award-winning author Touré. “...one o…
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1. The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince
By: Mayte Garcia
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER At the one-year anniversary of his death, legendary musician Princ… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
2. Picturing Prince: An Intimate Portrait
By: Steve Parke
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Featuring a mix of never-seen-before and rare photographs of Prince, alongside written vignettes ab… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
3. No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon
By: Ken Abraham , Buzz Aldrin
4.14
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
Beloved American hero Buzz Aldrin reflects on the wisdom, guiding principles, and irreverent anecdo… read more
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4. The Beat of My Own Drum: A Memoir
By: Taylor Holden , Sheila E.
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the Grammy-nominated singer, drummer, and percussionist who is world renowned for her contribu… read more
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5. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
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6. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
By: Adam Hochschild
4.18
Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europe…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be …"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europ…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
7. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
8. A Matter of Life and Death (Robin Lockwood #4)
By: Phillip Margolin
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Joe Lattimore, homeless and trying desperately to provide for his young family, agrees to fight in … read more
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- audiobook
9. Murder at Black Oaks (Robin Lockwood, #6)
By: Phillip Margolin
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Phillip Margolin's Murder at Black Oaks, Attorney Robin Lockwood finds herself at an isolated re… read more
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- audiobook
10. 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
- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
"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
11. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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- audiobook
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
12. This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
By: Susan Rogers
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secret… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me
By: Ralph Macchio
4.02
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
Since The Karate Kid first crane-kicked its way into the pop culture stratosphere in June 1984, the… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
14. Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
By: Maggie Smith
3.89
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
Marie Claire’s The 2020 Books You Should Pre-Order Now The Washington Post’s What to Read in 2020 B… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
"Do not be ashamed of the intensity of your emotion. That's your humanity. Grief can be feral, wild, frightening. Give it a safe place to live."-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
"Everything is temporary. You can't keep a white-knuckled hold on what you love or on what has hurt you. Loosen your grip on your grief today, if only a bit."-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
"It is not your job to make other people comfortable with who you are. Be wary of those who don't want you to change or grow. Grow anyway--there is no alternative."-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
"Stop calling your heart broken; your heart works just fine. If you are feeling--love, anger, gratitude, grief--it is because your heart is doing its work. Let it."-Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
15. Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, and Optimizing Your Microbiome
By: Will Bulsiewicz
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The instant New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher's Weekly bestseller A bold new plant-based… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Rememberings
By: Sinéad O'Connor
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings
17. The Beautiful Ones
By: Prince
3.78
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the gre… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
"Still, my soul is cast iron and not to be dented."-Prince, The Beautiful Ones
"A lot of people have the idea that I'm a wild sexual person...I've lectured quite a few people out there. I'll say, 'Think about what you're saying. How would you react if you were me?' I ask that qu…"-Prince, The Beautiful Ones
18. The Darkest Place (Robin Lockwood, #5)
By: Phillip Margolin
3.85
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Defense attorney Robin Lockwood faces an unimaginable personal disaster and her greatest profession… read more
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19. This Thing Called Life: Prince's Odyssey, On and Off the Record
By: Neal Karlen
3.57
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"A warm and surprisingly real-life biography, featuring never-before-seen photos, of one of rock’s … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
20. On Time: A Princely Life in Funk
By: Morris Day
3.98
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
A memoir by Morris Day of The Time centering around his lifelong relationship and association with … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
21. Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions: 1983 and 1984 (Prince Studio Sessions)
By: Duane Tudahl
4.57
Format: 553 pages, Kindle Edition
Featuring groundbreaking, never-before-heard stories, Duane Tudahl pulls back the paisley curtain t… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
22. Prince: All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track
By: Benoît Clerc
4.51
Format: 648 pages, Hardcover
" All the Songs is a major achievement...[It] may be the definitive single-volume book about Prince… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
23. Prince and the Parade and Sign O' the Times Era Studio Sessions: 1985 and 1986
By: Duane Tudahl
4.72
Format: 620 pages, ebook
From Prince's superstardom to studio seclusion, this second book in the award-winning Prince Studio… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
24. My Name Is Prince
By: Randee St. Nicholas
4.55
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The ultimate collection of stunning photographs documenting the career of one of the world’s greate… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
25. Prince: A Private View
By: Afshin Shahidi
4.34
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Featuring a foreword by Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. Afshin Shahidi met Prince in 1993 and soon becam… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
26. My Life in the Purple Kingdom
By: BrownMark
3.67
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From the young Black teenager who built a bass guitar in woodshop to the musician building a solo c… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
27. Prince: A Portrait of the Artist
By: Paul Sexton
4.33
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Explore the seductive story of the unique artist that was Prince through this stunning collection o… read more
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- music
28. Prince: Before The Rain
By: Allen Beaulieu
4.49
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Photographer Allen Beaulieu worked with Prince from the late 1970s into the early '80s, capturing t… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
29. Nothing Compares 2 U: An Oral History of Prince
By: Touré
3.91
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The real Prince in the words of those who knew him best—from award-winning author Touré. “...one o… read more
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- audiobook
30. Prince: Guitar & Bass
By: Andrea Swensson
4.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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31. The Death of Prince Rogers Nelson: An Investigation
By: Jay Corn
4.44
Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition
Follow law enforcement's two-year inquest into Prince's death, from the first 911 call through pres… read more
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